The Mafia Don| Editing

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-Elana Aphelion-

I stood in the distance as I saw little kids run around on the play ground.

Alia and Matteo stood closer to the play scape, watching their little boy run around.

Liam was playing with Juni, they were older now.

I saw a little girl who looked an awful lot like Alessio. The silver eyes were big and her lashes beautiful. The kinky curls on her head were almost identical to mine.

She looked to be about 4 years old.

Her small body came running toward me. I smiled and went down in a crouch.

Her body came closer to me, her arms held out.

But she passed my body. I stood up a bit confused and looked behind me. Alessio stood and picked up the little girl.

He kissed her face, making her giggle. Then a woman came up behind him. Her skin was sun kissed like mine, but her curls were short and the color of a red rose.

She came closer to Alessio and kissed him. Her hand was resting on her round belly. She waddled over to the park bench and sat. Alessio followed and sat next to her.

He let the little girl go and she ran back to the playground. Alessio smiled and leaned down to kiss the woman's belly, she laughed at something he said.

"Elana!" A voice broke through to me. "Elana I need you to wake up for me!"

The faint beeping of machines broke through my dream. I felt fantom touches on the skin of my face.

I slowly opened my eyes to the rapid pace of the ceiling above me. I felt the stretcher wobble a bit as it moved.

Alessio was holding my cheek, "There's those beautiful eyes." He smiled.

Winter was walking in front of us. She spoke to someone quickly, telling them my vitals.

I lifted my head to see what was happening. The blood was all over my dress, the pain was indescribable.

I shut my eyes tightly and groaned.

We stopped in a small room, doctors moving all around me. Winter held back Alessio as he tried to enter the room with us.

Someone shone a light in my eyes. I felt my dress being cut up. My body shivered from the cold air.

"I'm still here amore." I heard Alessio say. I looked over at him and saw Alia and Matteo stood next to him, peering in the room.

A mask was put over my face and I suddenly felt sleepy again.

-Alessio Romano-

"I want every guard from the cellars checked and interrogated. There is no way she should've gotten out unless someone helped her." I spoke into the phone.

Ricky hummed on the other side, "We're working on it now, just make sure she's good."

"We got everything covered over here boss!" Lorenzo spoke.

I hummed and hung up the phone. And back to pacing I went.

It's been almost 2 hours since I've seen her. Alia and Matteo left. They canceled their flight to Italy for their honey moon, deciding that it'd be best to go until after everything was dealt with.

I've gone 2 hours with out hearing her voice. Seeing her. 2 hours of not being in her presence, and it was breaking me.

My hair was messy from running my hands through it so many times. I had undid my tie, letting it hang around my neck. The first few buttons of my dress shirt undone too.