Chasing Gravity ( BOOK 1)

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The scene that Gravity just experienced had a deep impact on her, she didn't want to lose her brother to someone who had hurt him earlier, but she could see that it was all a big misunderstanding, she knew that Antonio loved fabian as much as fabian loved him, she could see them happy together in future, she knew that Antonio was the perfect protector for her brother, but when is it ever easy for a guardian to let down her guard. She had been protecting and caring for fabian so long that letting him go suddenly felt like a drastic change to Gravity.In her train of thoughts, gravity didn't notice that she had come running to an unfamiliar part of the Righello estate. It looked like some sort of back gate from where the dump of the entire estate was taken to be thrown in the dumpyards, there were multiple garbage trucks there, realising that she came in a wrong place instead of going to her room, gravity turned around only to sense the presence of someone behind her, she walked a few steps trying to conform her senses only to listen a few steps behind her, she was totally unarmed but very confident in her martial art skills, silently standing there she judged the number of men by their slight movements, they were about 4 of them, one of them had a chain in hand, 2 had base ball bats, the one in centre was with a gun, pointing it at her while waiting for her to turn, all of them looked like those bulky gym goers who lifted 150 kgs weights in one hand and a protien shake in another, but no matter how bulky or strong a man is, they cannot bear the pain in their main points, thus positioning herself well, gravity back kicked the guy with the gun then turned to see him whimpering in pain while the others charged at her, she gave a strong jab in the neck of the guy with a chain, leaving him choking on the ground before snatching his chain and hitting the other guy with a base ball bat with it right on his face, only to see him chocking his teeth out, then she turned towards the guy left, for some reason he was running away from her, she chased him but all of a sudden felt an unbearable pain in her right shoulder, she had been shot with a dart, there were suddent palipitations in her heart, it felt as if she was gonna get a heart attack and then she fainted.Meanwhile the new couple of Antonio and fabian were sitting on the dining table, lovingly having breakfast, while Leo was trying his best to mask his shock, he had only seen his friend look serious, boast around his dark humor, kill, practice killing, giving amazing suggestions, and doing all commendable tasks needed in their profession, but seeing him talk so romantically, sweetly, cutely to fabian almost made Leo barf! He was amazed by this 180-degree turn that fabian brought on Antonio, looking at them no one could say that they were the most wanted con artist and consigliere of the biggest mafia family in the world. They looked so happy and so content together, something similar to what his parents were, something he was always afraid of having because these sort of feelings are double-ended swords, they are your biggest power as well as your biggest weakness, he saw his father break completely after his mother's death, thus he wanted to keep himself away from these kinds of pleasures, but for some reason, he felt that only and only if gravity was in such a relation with him, maybe it will not be a weakness! A woman like gravity can never be anyone's weakness, she is the pure form of power for everyone. This thought brought a smile to Leo's face and automatically his eyes searched for gravity, only to remember that she ran away after fabian acted up. He was so shocked at that time to focus on her, but now he wanted to comfort her. Thinking that she went to her room, Leo let the new couple enjoy their privacy and headed towards gravity's room, only to find an empty room, thinking maybe she went for a stroll, he went to every stroll worthy stop on his estate. After 2 whole hours of futile searching, Leo headed towards the control room to check the CCTV footage of where Gravity went. He noticed she went towards the back gate which was used for the garbage trucks, then checking the closer view he noticed 5 men in that area were not his men, one of them stood at a distance while 4 attacked her, she was pretty smooth and perfect in her actions while she hit those men, but missed the 5th guy, he shot her with some dart which made her collapse on the ground within seconds, then one of the men whom she hit put her roughly on his shoulder and walked out of the gate crossing Leo's dead guards, while the guy who shot her with the dart, looked straight into the CCTV and waved before following the other men out. Leo recognized the face, it was the right hand of Leo's arch-rival, the clan which killed his mother, poisoning her in her room, The Esposito clan! Aldo Esposito to be exact, the clan's new mafia angered by the fact that we killed his father, we had to for what he did to my mother, but it seems that Aldo doesn't understand the concept of an eye for an eye, he will pay for whatever he does to Gravity. Controlling his boIling anger, Leo took control of the common estate mike and announced " we are on war! your about to be Mafia queen had been kidnapped by the Esposito clan, its time to punish those morons for eyeing on what is precious to us." Thus he dashed out of the control room towards the main estate hall where Gravity was once questioned and began forming a foolproof plan to rescue gravity along with his most trusted men. Listening to the news fabian and Antonio rushed to Leo, Fabian couldn't stop panicking, he was agitated by the fact that his sister was suffering because of him, he was cursing himself, on the other hand, Antonio was trying to use his brain to help Leo while trying to calm fabian down simultaneously.While the whole Righello clan was in a state of panic and planning, Gravity's drowsiness was slowly fading away, she was slowly coming back to her senses. Without opening her eyes, she could undeniably tell that they were in a drug factory because of the medical smell that hit her nose, followed by a smell of cigarettes, and the constant noise of a lighter cap, some idiot was smoking in the factory, then she tried sensing the number of men around her, there were about 15-20 of them with just one of them seated on a chair, maybe he was the leader, also probably he was the one smoking. Slowly gravity tried to get a hold of her position, she was on a chair, with hands and legs cuffed to the arms and legs of the chair, and on the right side was a table, probably filled with torture instruments and poisons. Grasping the situation Gravity took a deep breath and opened her eyes. In front of her stood about 20 men and a guy just about Leo's age was seated right in the center waiting for her wakeup. On scanning him Gravity wanted to whistle, she was amazed by the looks of all these Italian men, but in comparison, Leo was still on number one on the hotlist. Still clearing her thoughts she asked" Do you guys have a waffle or something? I am famished, you see I haven't had anything since the morning except some family drama and cocaine dipped darts" The seated man chucked and said " how did you guess the drug right?", at this Gravity shrugged and said" duh! basic business knowledge!" At this, the seated hot man got up and came dangerously close to gravity and said" well before the waffles and some other exciting things how about an introduction? I will begin, we are the Esposito clan, and me being the mafia! the name is Aldo Esposito, and we are.." " the arch-rivals of Righello Clan, killed Leo's mother, in pursuit of power, in return they killed your father, and now you are in a quite degraded position looking for means to gain back your power, so you kidnapped me because Leo was gonna marry me, so now you are gonna either ask me to marry you if I say yes, I stay alive or else you kill me. I have done my homework you see, your mafia wars are popular in our industry moreover what's your guys' obsession to act so mysteriously? You guys aren't so complicated to understand!" At this Gravity's face was met with a punch from Aldo, leaving the shapes of his ring on her left cheek and her lip bleeding. This shut up Gravity, licking her lip she looked at Aldo for an explanation, at this Aldo smirked and said " you speak a lot bitch!" then he held Gravity's hair with force and said " I am not among those stupid italian families who think that women play a role in success, i prefer keeping my women on their knees in front of me and changing women every week, moreover why will I take Leo's already used bitch, I brought you here for negotiation and torture you slut! You see this place, this is the only thing left in my estate! That Righello family destroyed my wealth completely, made me powerless, I want my status and estate back! And seeing how you are his first ever favourite toy, I will torture you with all my might, use you for negotiations, then break you and send your pieces to him in installments."Now while Aldo was holding Gravity's head back by her hair, she got a full view of that factory, it was indeed a small one just of the size of the room she was staying in the Righello estate but one thing caught her eyes Large barrels named Acetone and lubricants, this was enough to frame a plan in Gravity's brain. While Aldo was busy pouring his anger on her while bending on her, his pocket was pretty close to gravity's hands, thus her swift hands smoothly took out the lighter he was initially clicking throwing it towards her thighs, under which she hid the lighter waiting for her chance to come. After obtaining what she wanted Gravity understood that Aldo was looking for signs of fear or submission, thus she rolled down tears and whimpered a bit in the pain to satisfy him, which worked since Aldo let go of his grip on her hair and went towards his chair. As soon as he got there, they all heard a stomach rumble, it was Gravity's, and at this, they got a miraculous idea of torture, instead of using the amazing torture instruments placed on the table near Gravity, they decided to have a feast in front of her while throwing and spitting food on her face, targetting her face like a dartboard. Gravity was not able to understand at which level of stupidity they were on, or were they misunderstanding her to be a normal girl who will be affected by this behavior of their's, or they simply fooled enough to not know her history before kidnapping her. Just at that moment, they heard the sound of some drones, it looked as if an army of drones had come outside the factory. Listening to sound Aldo ordered all his men to go outside and shoot those drones down, while he and Gravity stayed alone indoors. When the men began shooting the drones, the loud noises were enough to distract Aldo and give gravity a chance to escape! She jumped with all her might landing on the floor with a broken chair, seeing that Aldo charged towards her but she grabbed the chair part that had nails sticking out of it and inserted the nails in both his eyes. Aldo screamed at the top of his voice but no one heard due to the gunshot sounds, then Gravity pushed him on the floor and jumped on Aldo's face completely immersing the nails in his skull giving Aldo an instant death. Then she rushed towards the barrels and spread the lubricants and acetone all around the factory floor, before bathing the dead Aldo in the same, Now all that was left was to burn the place after she was on a safe distance, thus she went and lashed the huge factory door and placed the lit lighter right on the reach of the door's corner before breaking the window in the very end of the warehouse and escaping. After Aldo's men won their game against the drones they decided to head in the factory only to find the door locked, thus being the strong men they were they did just as grav predicted, they all pushed the huge door together, only to see a dead Aldo seated on his chair while the door making its way towards the lit lighter and the next scene was boom. Gravity stood at a safer distance admiring her hard work. The fire was much bigger and prettier than what Grav expected it to be, it was a huge event to watch, the smoke was visible from miles away, and seeing the factory burst into flames shocked Leo, Fabian, and Antonio to no extent. They thought Grav was in there. Leo was the one who sent those drones so that he could distract Aldo and his men, and gain themselves some time to reach the factory before Aldo began torturing Gravity, he was not able to understand what led to the fire, but was agitated by the fact that it happened! He was sure Gravity was inside, thus he raced his car towards the arson scene, only to find a barefoot Gravity walking on the road with a handcuff on her each arm and leg, the left side of the face a bit swollen and red, and disheveled hair. The whole fleet of cars stopped in her view, from the first car Leo, Antonio, and Fabian jumped out, while from the 12 xuvs behind the sedan about 70 men came out. Leo marched towards Grav and hugged her as if his life depended on her and said "I thought I lost you", Gravity was shocked by his sudden actions, she stood there frozen instead of hugging him back. It was a new feeling for Gravity once again, this man was thankful that she was alive, he didn't scold her for the dangerous thing she did, nor did he judge her for the arson she just caused, he loved the way she was, rather he was equally bad! Maybe marrying him will not be that bad of an option!!