Beautiful Assassin (5 page)

"Where does it end Arianna?"

"What do you mean?"

"When will you have killed all your enemies, how many others
are there?"

"That's not fair."

"It's a legitimate question, obviously you don't care how I
feel about it so I'd like to know if this is going to be a lifetime thing, or
will you get tired of it soon?"

"Shane why are you talking this way, I thought you'd
understand... I thought..."

"What's the point of me going legit if you're going around
being a killing machine? Maybe we should both just say fuck it and carry on as
before.

We'd kill everyone who opposes us, take over the whole Western
faction and parts of the Midwest, why stop now..."

"Shane stop it, that's not what I'm doing..." 

"Let me ask you something, what do you think love is?"

"What...what do you mean?"

"If you love someone do you want the best for them or the
worst?"

"The best of course."

"Do you think it's best that you be a part of this, something
that you admit chips away at your very soul? I know how that feels Arianna, I
live it, do you honestly think I could want that for you?"

Do you think I object to you doing this because you're a woman? No
baby, I didn't want this for my little brother after I got into the life
either, for all that he's a fuck up.

I always thought I wanted to be in the life, I wanted to be like
Poppy, I thought it made me tough, a real man, but that's not true. I could be
a janitor and still be a real man. 

I had two extremes in my life as examples, my dad would lay down
his life to save another, he believes strongly in preserving life, Poppy, Poppy
was from another time, another belief.

It wasn't always killings and gang wars; it used to be about
family, that's long gone now.

"Regardless of all that, I've come to a decision."

I felt her stiffen against me, she probably expected me to give
her an ultimatum, but I was beyond that, this was way more serious than I'd
ever imagined.

The woman I had given my heart to was more than just the mouthy
baggage I'd come to know, there was a whole lot more to her than that, but what
I knew was that she did not choose this life, it had been forced on her by
necessity, she was still carrying this torch because she thought she had to.

I was about to make a play that could blow up in my face, but
there was no way we could go on like this, I couldn't live with it, it just
wasn't in me.

"You're done..."

"What?"

I pushed her head back down on my chest.

"You're done, I'll take over whatever you have to finish in
Chicago, I know your strength, I've seen it, I know you're not weak, I respect
your strength, be strong enough to stand down Arianna, this became my fight
when you became mine, my woman, my responsibility. 

Don't make me have to waste time fighting you and our enemies at
the same time, you won’t win, you've come to the end of the road.

You've been testing me all this time and I didn't even see it, you
wanted to see if I could take care of you, that might not be your exact
thinking, but you can't deny you've been testing me, your father and uncle
missed that step, they didn't see the little girl who just wanted normal, they
applauded your achievements without realizing that you were just doing what you
thought was expected, well now I'm telling you, you don't have to do that shit
anymore because I've got you.

It's my place to protect you and whatever children we might have,
don't get me wrong, I'm proud as fuck that you can handle yourself, but I don't
ever want you to have to, so I'm asking you, pass the torch Arianna, let me
finish this fight, you’re free."

She didn't say anything for so long that I thought she had gone to
sleep, I wouldn't put it past her, but then I felt the wetness against my
chest.

"Mouth?"

I tried raising her head to see if she was actually crying but she
held on tighter until I felt the slight tremors in her body.

I wrapped both arms around her drawing her in tighter, turning to
my side with her held tightly in my arms, I let her cry it out.

"You can't tell dad and uncle Al." She laid with her
head on my chest.

"Never." I rubbed my hands soothingly over her, kissing
her hair, my poor baby.

"They'll feel guilty and I don't want that."

"It's okay baby." I dried her tears with my fingertips.

"I love all of you always, everything you are baby."

She was through crying thank heaven, I can't stand that shit, it
drives me crazy.

 She'd just revealed herself to me, told me all her secrets
and in doing so she'd shown me so much more. She'd shown me that she needed as
far away from this shit as possible, which meant I had to step up my game.

Her whole youth had been taken up with this bullshit; she should
never have felt like she had to be a killing machine in order to survive. 

I can't imagine Anna or Sophie living that way, I wanted her to
have what the women in my family had, pampering and frivolity, days of shopping
and long lunches with friends not a care in the fucking world other than where
was the next big sale.

Getting her hair and nails done just because, all the things the
girls and ma took for granted, I would see that she got that, all of it.

That was for later though, right now I needed her, needed to feel
her warmth wrapped around me, to reassure myself that she was here and whole
and mine.

We started with slow kisses and soft touches as I murmured words
of love and admiration in her ear; I felt the need to show her just how much
she was loved, how much she touched me, what she meant to me.

With her ring hand clasped in mine, our eyes connected, I eased
into her until she had all of me.

"My sweet, sexy, little warrior princess."

She liked that, if the tightening around my cock was any indication. 

"Kiss me...." I teased her with small strokes as she
fought to pull me all the way in again.

She raised her head until her lips touched mine, divine.

That shit went right through me, proving to me once more just how
completely I was gone, so gone that she could own me with a kiss.

Her soft hands clutched at my back as I rocked into her, somehow
the sight of that ring, my seal of ownership on her finger, made this so much
more, like everything was intensified.

I wanted to give her soft and sweet, she needed that, but my body
begged me for more. 

Animal.

I gritted my teeth to hold back the demands of my wayward libido,
even as I pulled out of her and clamped my mouth over her heated sex.

She lifted her hips, taking more of my tongue into her as her fingers
tugged my hair. My dick was oozing pre cum all over the sheets as I rubbed
myself against them. I needed to calm the fuck down before I hurt her.

Where this wildness came from out of nowhere was a mystery, but it
was here and it won't be denied.

I needed to fuck, to claim, to overpower, it was like a beating in
my blood.

I forced her to orgasm with my tongue before getting to my knees
and turning her none too gently onto her hands and knees.

I pounded into her making her whole body shake, she screamed and
looked back at me, eyes wide in surprise.

I'd never quite fucked Mouth like a wild animal before; she'd
brought this out of me, this need to take my place as man, to own her in all
ways. I needed to conquer.

"Take it..." 

She grabbed ahold of the rumpled sheets as I battered her pussy
from behind, with my hand on her neck keeping her head down in the mattress,
her ass in the air, her pussy stuffed full of my cock she was exactly where I
wanted her. In submission.

"Shane...what...oh merciful..."

I used more force in my thrusts as her hips pushed back against
me, she was wet and hot and so fucking good.

"Cum...." I commanded her.

Moving my hand, I bit into her neck as I flooded her insides with
cum, causing a chain reaction in her.

We came calling for each other.

My life was one of peace for all of two hours, maybe, what made me
think this shit would be any different was beyond me.

No sooner had I left the apartment to go get started on what the
fuck I had to do than the twins were calling me to tell me what she was up to.

What part of stay your little ass in the house until we catch this
finger fuck guy she didn't understand I don't know.

I picked up the phone to call her.

"Where were you off to sneak?"

"My apartment, I need to get some of my things, in case you
haven't noticed since you dragged me off to your cave I haven't been back to
get my necessities."

"You had a chance to do that and you used it to sneak out and
go work at the club, or did you forget that?"

"That was then, this is now...

I hung up the phone, she'd argue me to death otherwise, I was
satisfied that the men could keep her in check while I saw to things, they'd
assured me that they knew her fighting style now and that they'd just been
surprised when they'd seen her in action, but they were satisfied that they
could handle their shit.

I'm having a meeting with the three murdering bastards, as I'd
grown fond of calling them, it was time to put this shit to bed. 

I'm giving mouth one more week before dragging her ass to the doctor
to confirm her pregnancy, I hope to heaven that she is and that it keeps her
little ass out of trouble.

Why couldn't I have fallen for a sweet little even-tempered girl
whose only thought in life was pleasing me? 

Even I had to laugh at that shit, I'd shoot myself in the fucking
head within a week. With my mouthy one there was sure to be enough excitement
to keep me going for at least the next sixty years.

If she let me live that long, she was going to be pissed when she
found out what I had planned.

Too fucking bad, I wasn't playing when I said she was done, I knew
her game now, if she needed me to prove to her that I was man enough to protect
her then I'll just have to show her.

She was going to be a pampered spoilt wife if it killed me.

I watched them as they walked into my office, three middle-aged
men, well one a little older than that.

From their carriage and demeanor you'd swear they were the CEOs of
some fortune 500 company, no one would ever guess that they built their empires
on sweat and blood, literally. 

You couldn't see the steel that held their backs up, just what
they wanted the world to see. Men of means, men with purpose.

I have a lot of admiration and respect for each of these men, for
what they've achieved by fair means or foul.

I'm the expected heir to their achievements, me and my soon to be
wife and children.

It was good that they'd instigated change or else there would've
been a rift as I was now at that place where I too wanted change.

I wanted to run an empire that I could be proud of, that my
children could inherit without fear. 

I'm not turning pussy, don't get that shit twisted, but I do want
to spend the rest of my days as more of a businessman and less of a
criminal. 

I wanted that for Ari more than I wanted anything else, wanted her
free of all this shit; I'll make that happen even if I have to knock some heads
together.

"Come in and sit down gentlemen."

"Flanagan." Alphonso was the first one in.

"Hey boy." I wish her father would stop calling me that
shit but it wasn't serious enough to warrant a confrontation.

 "Junior." Poppy had a smarmy smile on his face as usual;
I wonder how many times he wore that same look even as he pulled the trigger?

"Gentlemen."

 I looked at each of them in turn.

"First things first, before we do anything else I have a bone
to pick with you two."

Larry and Moe pointed back and forth between each other before
turning to me.

Shit, now she had me thinking in TV speak.

"What can we do for you young'un?"

Rossi sat forward and clasped his hands between his knees.

The glare in his eyes reminded you that he was a dangerous animal
not to be fucked with, though the casual easiness of his body fooled you into
thinking otherwise.

I didn't give a fuck.

"I know what you're up to, my guys uncovered your little
scheme, now I've already told your little killing machine now I'm telling you,
she's out, you fucks try going around me with this shit and you're
fucked."

"Watch it junior, you don't want to be talking to grown men
like that."

"Stuff it Poppy, I want you two to know I mean business, now
I know you're afraid of her...."

"What, that's bullshit...."

"I watched you Alphonso, you too Rossi, I don't mean scared
like a little bitch scared, but you're afraid of her retribution, I must admit
she's a scary little nut but she's done, if you think you're afraid of her try
me, Poppy you know I'll do it."

"Okay everybody calm down." Poppy tried to play peacemaker.

"What is it you think you know Flanagan?"

"I know that you plan to have your daughter go to Chicago to
finish what you started, that there're specifically two families there that
need terminating, they're being dealt with as we speak, you see, as much as I
like to get my hands dirty I'm trying to show her by example, if she can't,
then neither can I."

"She wanted to do it, it means something to her."

"I understand that but she's not doing it, for fuck's sake
she's already iced two people in the last week, that I know of I should say, I
shudder to think what the fuck she could get up to in Chicago, so no, like I
said I've got men on it already." 

"She ain't gonna be happy." 

"Fuck Alphonso she'll get over it, what is it with you two
and this kid, she's fucking nineteen years old, you're supposed to be hard
asses and yet she runs you."

"It's not that boy, there are things going on here that you
don't know about."

"I know, she told me everything and that's why I'm telling
you, she's out, she's my responsibility now and I choose for her not to be
involved in this shit any farther. You had your chance, you did things your way
now I'll do them mine."

"You finding fault with the way I raised my kid?"

"Yes." The fuck! I don't back down for anyone, well
maybe except for Mouth once in a while.

No one said anything for the longest time, and then the crazy
fucks started laughing. What the fuck?

"Flanagan you called it, fucking a old man, the boy's just
the right one to get our girl in line."

Rossi slapped Poppy on the back while the three of them started
congratulating one another like they'd single-handedly mastermind mine and
Ari's relationship.

I wonder what they would've done if her mouth had caused me to pop
her ass in the beginning?

   
"Moving right along, how's it going with those conniving fucks on
the force?"

"That's not for you to worry about junior, we've already got
some irons in the fire there, we just wanted to touch bases with you, let you
know things are coming along, but I think you've thrown my friends here for a
loop, didn't he boys?"

"Uh, you could say that."  Rossi fixed his collar
as he looked away from me. What now?

"What?"

"Well, you have to remember this is before you made your
little announcement just now, we can't be held responsible for anything that
happened before..."

"Spit it out old man."

"Well.... Ari was supposed to skip out and head back home to
take care of things, we were kinda helping her with her escape."

I cleared my throat to give myself some time, it wouldn't do to
choke the fuck out of my future father in law and 'Ari' would probably try to
scalp me, but he sure was pushing it.

"Lucky for you and her my men would never let that
happen."

Just then the phone rang.

The Assassin

"Shane you've got to get the Black knight and Eagle eyed
Shaman off my ass." 

"Deal with it." He hung up. 

Did he just...oh hell no, I'm gonna go straight up honey boo boo
on his ass. 

"Shane said I could go." 

I stared at my two new pains in the ass. Of course they didn't
budge, didn't even bat a lash, shit. 

I didn't exactly lie to Shane before, but I had to go, if I didn't
it would be like an itch under my skin, something I had to get at until I was
satisfied and the itching had abated. 

I can't just turn off who I am just like that, he's acting as
though I wanted to go around slaughtering innocent people or some shit, these
guys tried to fuck my dad, It's not in me to let that shit slide, but this one
had a burr up his butt and wanted to curtail my activities. 

I bet he's off doing shit right now while I'm supposed to stay
home like a good little lady and knit or some shit. 

"Well didn't you hear me, he said it was fine." 

The dark Knight unclipped some kind of phone from his belt and put
it to his ear; I say some kind of phone because it didn't look like any phone
I'd ever seen before. 

"Yeah boss, Ms. Rossi says you said it was okay for her to
go." 

I rolled my eyes at him, tattletale. 

He passed the device over to me, shit.

"Hello." 

"Go." Click. 

I looked at the phone, then at the two men standing in front of me
and back again. 

What just happened there? With one word, two letter's, he'd made
me feel.... chastened.  

What was I supposed to do with that? 

"He said go." Was that my voice, it sounded hollow? 

I almost broke when the two men stepped aside for me to pass, what
did it mean? 

I went over everything he'd said to me that morning and that night
after I'd done Stacco. 

I tried to realign my thinking with what he said but all I kept
hearing was his dis-interested voice saying 'go'. 

That hurt, why should it though, he was giving me what I asked
for, what I wanted, wasn't he? Or was he playing me?