Nikolai POV.
“Is she okay?” Devil asks me, we both agreed on not wanting to let her go home, not without us, but she begged for us to stay while she went back home.
“She’ll be fine, but you won’t be if you don’t pull that dress down” I threaten her for the tenth time this night, she’s trying her luck with me.
“Hey, it’s my birthday, and like Elle said I have every right to have fun” she says rubbing against me, she was drunk, I did allow her to drink as much as she wants.
“I don’t remember her saying so” I say keeping her up on our floor and off the dance floor for now, I checked my phone again, waiting for a reply from Elle or her bodyguards, they should have made it home now but they didn’t answer me yet, which is driving me even more crazy.
“Come on daddy Nikolai, I’m not drunk enough to stay here, let’s go home, it’s where the real party is” she says dragging me with her, she’s right, I’d prefer a pajama party right now over this. When did we got this old, preferring to be home than at my club, well I agree on being old any time, any day.
We got back in the car, this time I drove us toward home, Devil was trying to call Elle, but she won’t answer her, I was worried now, I was going faster than it’s allowed to make it back home, to make sure she’s safe. I was almost home, but that’s when I saw the ambulance, the police cars, we slowed down now, the road was closed on our way, I was about to turn the other way, we have to get home to Elle.
“There’s a crash Nikolai” Devil says fully sober now, the fear got her to sit up and look at the car that have crashed.
“Can you see the car? Or who that is?” I ask, finally parking the car, looking at the crash, but I couldn’t see much in the darkness.
“It’s one of ours” Devil says, her voice was filled with worried, it felt like a bucket of cold water was thrown over her head and mine, we both got out of the car and moved to the accident.
“Sir, you can’t get close” the police officer tries to tell us off, but we just ignore him, until we made it to the ambulance, there was sitting Helena unconscious.
“Where’s Elle, there was a girl in the car, she got brown hair, wearing a blue dress” Devil says worried, looking around, for her but she wasn’t anywhere to be seen.
“No sir, it was only this and the other guy” the medic says getting ready to take Helena off in the ambulance, she wasn’t with them, but she can’t not be with them!
I got my phone and called Elle, I waited until she finally answered, where is she! For god’s sake, I’m going crazy with worry.
“Ni…Nikolai…” she says her voice shaking.
“Elle! Elle where are you?” I ask her right away.
“You got to come, bring Devil…he…he got a gun” she says crying now, her voice broke halfway with tears.
“Who got a gun! Elle talk to me!” I say trying to get her to answer me, but there was no answer, instead the call ended, leaving me all worried about her.
“Someone have her… Someone kidnapped my girl!” I yell angry the war is over but my enemies haven’t given up, they still trying to hurt me, the pure blood died with Angelo, the Irish have a truce with us, things have went silent.
“Our girl Nikolai, let’s go get her back” she says, taking the phone from my hand, I was going insane, this can’t be happening, not again.
“I got a location, let’s go!” she says dragging me with her, how she find her location, what did she do? What kind of kidnappers are these, we got in the car and waited for her to give me the location to where she is.
“How did you find her?” I ask her driving off not even thinking about calling anyone in, or get any kind of weapon but the thing that are on us in the car.
“I added a tracking application on all of our phones” she says with a smile, when did she do that.
“When?” I ask her, I’m the one who should have done that after she took off without us.
“I had to do it, what if she got lost!” she says, I was just grateful for her overprotectiveness right now.
“Let’s go get her back” I say hitting the accelerator again, I wasn’t thinking of where I’m taking us, I didn’t notice the road I’m driving on but I knew it, I knew this place, we’re going to our own land, it’s a warehouse I own, one of the old ones, we stopped using this place after the war, but only our people know about this place, only us have the keys to get in, this isn’t some enemy who got her, it’s one of us.
“This isn’t good Devil” I say parking the car, getting the guns from the trunk, if we ever got pulled at the side, I’d have to use my power and strings to get us out, but I’ll never go without any protection, anything could happen.
I hand Devil her share of the guns, and get inside, the door was open, whoever did this didn’t even bother locking it properly behind him or maybe her, we got inside our guns pulled up, I could hear crying, Elle’s crying!
We moved toward her, she was tied down to a chair, she had tears going down her face, she had some bruising, but nothing else, she’s safe, we’re getting her back, she had a gag on her mouth, when she saw us, she began to shake her head no, trying to say something but she couldn’t say it.
“We’re gonna get you Elle, don’t worry princess, we’re here” Devil says but Elle keeps shaking her head no, she’s trying to tell us something.
“Devil…hold” I say, although I want to get to her, I want to save her but not like this, there’s something wrong.
“She’s right here Nikolai! Let me save her” she yells at me, I want to save her too but I need to make sure she’s safe.
“Don’t bother, we’re all gonna die here tonight” a voice says, a voice I knew too well, someone I’d never think he’d betray me, not ever.
“Pop?” I say turning back, the old man who took the position of my father, the one who helped me, the one who guided me through.
“Don’t you dare call me that name!” he yells at me, what the hell is wrong with him.
“What are you talking about? What happened?” I ask him actually worried about him.
“You happened! The shame my daughter brought to the family! You should have never taken the charge!” he says.
“Pop, you’re the one who trained me to get this far, you’re the one who got me in charge” I say back, feeling betrayed, stabbed in the back!
“You were supposed to die! You were supposed to not make it! A Russian as the head of the Italian mafia! It’s the biggest joke I’ve ever heard” he says to me.
“I’m not Russian pop, but I’m Italian, I was raised by you! you’re the one who brought me back home!” I yell at him, this isn’t happening.
“Angelo was supposed to be in charge all along, he tried, but the idiot was too weak, I’ll end the job that he had to do” he says, he’s the one behind the true blood all along.
“When I asked you about, when I came to you!” I ask him, not believing what he’s talking about.
“You were supposed to DIE!” he says getting a gun up in my face, he’s serious about this.
I heard a gunshot, everything went dark afterward, I couldn’t believe the betrayal I just went through, he didn’t just hate me, he wanted to kill me, he wanted to kill what’s mine, he wanted all of us dead….