The Mafia's Secret [EDITING]

The Secret

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"The target is in position." I heard a sudden voice coming through my earpiece. "Do not engage with the target." The voice came again but I was tempted.

I sucked in a deep breath and walked out of the small cafe, I heard a loud shot behind me and the dropping of a body. Armando Morales. I kept walking when I heard people's screams all around me. I'm ashamed of such cowardice.

This has to be the worst part of my job. I lure strangers out into the open, knowing that they would die within less than an hour of meeting me. And for what? I don't even know why they have to die.

All these men seemed to hold something valuable of Louis Valentino and nobody knew what it was. It was his secret and nobody else's. All of the information I found, I knew nothing about it. I wasn't allowed to know. I just brought the packages back to him. Untouched and unseen.

I climbed into the van parked around the corner and broke down into tears. I sobbed loudly as I tried to catch my breath.

"Breathe, Joan." I heard Parker say from beside me. I struggled to remember how to breathe so I panicked. "Breathe," Parker said once more and I finally got the hang of it again.

I looked at him with blurry eyes and he hugged me to his side.

"Just one more job then you're done." He whispered into my ear and I sobbed again. After every murder I've witnessed, I'm still not used to this. A familiar feeling of nausea settled in the pit of my stomach but I tried to keep it together as much as I could.

I wiped the tears out of my face and focussed on breathing. Parker passed me a bottle of water which I gulped down within a few seconds.

"Take me to the park," I said softly and Parker nodded. After a few minutes of driving, he dropped me off at the park. I told him that I wanted to be alone so he left me there.

I sat on a bench and silently watched the people around me. They seemed so perfectly comfortable with being alone, it was something that I dreaded.

I spotted an old man sitting by himself, he had headphones on and he seemed to have lost himself in the music that filled his ears. A lady to his left was petting her dog, she was smiling for some reason. Then suddenly her facial expression turned sad as if she remembered the way her husband left her to raise her son by herself. My eyes fell on the blind boy who was walking around the park with a stick in his hand he seemed adamant on getting somewhere, anywhere. Perhaps he was just looking for a reason to keep going. I'm the girl who lost her little sister at the hands of their abusive father. The park was mostly empty during the weekdays that's why I came here often. I know these people and I know their struggles, I know their names and they know mine, and yet none of us seemed to ever judge one another. We just lived, and breathed the same air. I looked down at my hands, wondering how I lost myself. Up to a point where I'm too far gone...

I felt my phone vibrating in my pocket so I fished it out. It's a message from Mr. Martinez, he's invited me to have dinner with his family later in the evening.

I agreed and placed my phone back into my pocket. Everything in my life seemed to be so calm, like the silence before the storm. I wonder.

I stood up from my seat and walked all the way home. When I finally arrived at my doorstep my feet were aching like crazy.

The entire way home I kept wondering why these three jobs had been expanded so much, it had been an entire month since the first time I met Mr Martinez.

I couldn't ask Mr Valentino about it because he's the most secretive man I know. Knowing this I decided to wait it out, but I honestly can't do this anymore.

I've had the chance to get to know Blake better, it turns out that he's a doctor and I also met his brother Horan, he's sweet. We come from two different worlds and I was too ashamed to tell him what I did for a living so I made him believe that I work in HR.

I kicked my shoes off after I entered the living room, I tiredly plopped onto the couch and heard Dom calling me from upstairs. With a heavy heart, I stood up and went upstairs and found him crying in his hands.

I immediately ran over to him to throw my arms around his shoulders. I held his chin in my hand and he looked at me with red eyes.

"What's wrong honey?" I asked softly and Dom let out a shaky breath.

"Matt and I broke up." He answered quietly and I frowned at him.

"What? Why?" I asked.

"Because he claims that he's fallen out of love with me," Dom replied tiredly and I hugged him tightly.

"That's not possible. Dom-"

"He left me, Joan! It is possible! The fact that he could just leave me like that truly shows how much he cares about me."

"So what? You're just gonna accept this? You're not gonna fight for him?" I asked in confusion.

"Look Joan, I'm not gonna lie and tell you that I'm not hurt, I haven't felt like this in a long time. But I won't beg for his love, as strange as it may sound I just have to accept it. I just need a friend right now." He said and my eyes welled up with tears.

"I'm here," I said before hugging him tightly. After Dom calmed down he pulled back to look at me.

"How did it go?" He asked.

"Okay... Everything went according to plan." I lied through my teeth everything was not okay. "Are you okay now?" I asked and he nodded in reply.

As it started to get late I told Dom that I had to get ready for my date with Blake but I was actually just going to have dinner with Mr Martinez and his family.

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