Alyssa

2. The Cliff

Vincent POV

I felt myself being relaxed watching the sunrise. Sunrise. That word reminds me of someone, someone very special. Alyssa Dorothea. My little sister specifically long lost sister. It's been 7 years since she went missing. We all miss her so much. We all I mean my parents my dad Giovanni and my mom Anna and my 6 brothers. I am 2 nd oldest. 1st is Alessandro 2nd is me (Vincent) , 3rd is Adriano, 4th is Marco 5 th is gerrett, 6th is lazzaro and 7h is Lucian... Lazzaro and Luciano are twins.

We lost her on her 5th birthday. She loves going to cliff and watching the sunrise. We all went there for picnic without any guards. That's the worst mistake we ever did. Rival mafia attacked us and we were outnumbered but that didn't stop us. We went in different directions to kill people. Mom took Alyssa behind her and started shooting. She got shoot in the chest and told Alyssa to run from their and hide some where till she finds her (in a good way like hiding near the bushes).

Little 5 year old Alyssa ran away and didn't come back. We searched everywhere for her but there is no clue of her being alive since the whole place caught on fire but still there is hope in us that she is alive safe and sound and oneday she will come back to us, her family. One day. Every year there is a ball celebrated on her birthday which is today September 27. Today is her 12th birthday, as usual mom and dad would have brought her many birthday presents and kept it in her room.

"LEO WHERE ARE YOU?" A voice in distant yelled. It's a little girl but what is a girl doing in a cliff at freaking 4:30am all alone maybe not alone since there this particular person 'leo'.

The voice continued to scream for a while now and I am losing my patience I came here to find some peace but she is spoiling it. I am so close to kill her.

"Ahhhhh" She must have fallen down. Clumsy much.

Something didn't felt right. I felt my heart ache at thought of the mysterious girl getting hurt which by the way only aches for my family. Following my heart I made my way towards the noise. There sat a little girl on the ground with crop top, black jeans and black sneakers trying to remove the tiny stones on her palm and elbows with a husky dog by her side.

The dog tried to lick her face but she pushed him away and glared at him. Cute!!! .......okay something is seriously wrong with me......I never I repeat I never say cute.

I moved towards the girl, kneeling beside her I moved my hand towards her hand only to be pushed aside by the dog. He stood between her and I in a attacking stance.

"Leo stop don't do that he is no harm" she said while ruffling the dog I mean Leo's hair. He just sat down in his previous place. "Sorry about his behaviour sir he doesn't like it when people try to touch me" she said with a smile. A smile I am so familiar with. she seems familiar way too familiar for my liking.

"It's okay" I was shocked at my own voice, it sounds so soft. I took her small tiny hands in mine 'damn that's so small' and helped her in removing those stones some were bleeding whereas the others were just tiny scratch. I moved to looked at her face when I noticed a tattoo on her wrist the inner wrist. A dog's paw with the word 'black' written under it. My eyes widened this can't be. Alyssa has the same tattoo. Well yeah a tattoo on a 5 year old. I looked at her face and noticed that she looks like a mix of dad and mom.

"Alyssa" I whispered.

"What's your name" I asked in a tone I use with enemies I can't just trust her just bcz of the tattoo. Rivals would have sent some girl to steal information. When your in a mafia you can't trust anybody.

She looks at me weirdly. She tried to take her hand away from my grasp but I am not letting her go specially after seeing the tattoo.

"Don't make me repeat myself" I said through gritted teeth. She looked at me with fearful eyes and parted lips with her bands falling on her face covering her eyes.

"R.rhythm" she shuttered. I pulled her forward and removed the hair covering her ear. Alyssa has a small mole (birthmark) behind her ear. And sure there is a mole. I smiled to myself. I looked at her with a smile and she looked at me scared. A sign of relief escaped me as I looked at her mole I looked down at her wrist wanting to see the tattoo only to see her hands red with another hand print on it. Shit, I did that. Realisation hit me hard and I felt guilty. For years this is second time I am feeling guilty the first time was when we lost her 7 years ago.

"How old are you?"

"I can't tell a stranger my age" she has a lot of guts. I punched the tree beside her leaving a hole. She flinched and looked at the tree wide eyed muttering a "Wow" Now it's my turn to look at shocked. Like who says that in a situation like this.

"12"

"When is your birthday?"

"Why?" I looked at leo since he is next victim to be punched. She followed my gaze and looked at leo. He titled his head and looked at us, confusion written all over his face. She understood what I meant and immediately answered what I want. Smart.

"Today" I smiled and helped her stand on her feet. She is so tiny. She reached till my stomach. She is 4.10 feet and too skinny. I pressed the pressure point on her neck making her lose conscious. Her body went limp, I caught her before she could make contact with the ground.

Leo growled at me showing his teeth, I slowly placed rhythm on the ground with her back against the tree and slowly took few steps back.

He immediately went to her licking her face and neck, it was clear he was trying to wake her up. I slowly pulled out the chloroform spray and on instance he turned to me barking. I raised my hand in defence showing him my left hand with my right hand in the back with the chloroform spray in it. he turned to rhythm again and I took this chance to spray it on him making him lose conscious.

I carried rhythm to my car and laid her down in the back seat buckling her up. I need to perform a DNA test to confirm.

Now the worst part, should I take leo or leave him here?

Ugh!!!! I have to take him because rhythm likes him. If it wasn't for her I would have killed him for the way he acted towards me. Yeah I know I am a heartless beast I have been told by many. Picking him up I placed him in the car next to rhythm incase she wakes up and gets panicked.

I drove to the warehouse a couple of miles away from here and reached there at 6 am. Guards bowed down when they saw me near the gate and opened it. I went near the entrance and parked my car another guard opened my door I stepped out opening the back seat door and picked up rhythm and asked the guard to pick leo. We made our way where the prisoners are kept and stopped at empty room that has a chair connected with chains and torture equipments. Every room has torture equipments but that can't be reached by the prisoner since it has codes which all of my members know, so that they can use on the prisoners.

I made her sit on the chair and tied her with rope since ropes are less painful then chains and she is just a little girl. The guard carrying leo soon came inside the room, I signalled him put him in the corner. I took a deep breath imagining how things will be if she is really Alyssa. Our little angel. I went out of the room and came back with syringe and the things I need to take blood. I can do it by myself since I am a doctor.

I took two tubes of blood and bandaged her arms. I took her hand and cleaned the stones and applied cream and left the room and went to my medicine bay. I told the guards to remove her ropes and let her be free and no one is to touch her.

Let this begin.

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