Mafia Queen [paused]

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ғᴏᴜʀ

Matthew: Baby are you free next week?

Clara: Yes, wanna take me out on a date? ;)

Matthew: Yes princess, also hoping to get lucky afterward.

Looking at the message with disdain, I suddenly felt sorry for his wife. But if I do murder him, I'm doing her a favor. A big favor.

People like him deserved to be wiped off this earth. Women beaters, rapists and child molesters deserve to rot and burn in hell for all I care. I'm just doing the world a favor by setting the appointment up. Dealing with those kind of people is pleasing. It continues to feed the monster I keep caged inside me. Stroking the flames and the darkness that cries out for vengeance. One I have been hunting down for decades.

Names have been crossed and added to my list over the past decade, people who no longer deserve to breathe. I am their crime and punishment. The judge and the executioner and my verdict is always death.

"What do you think?" Vera asks and I shift my attention back to where I was.

"What?" I ask and Vera rolls her eyes.

"Look at you drifting off again." she sighs, sitting on the desk my leg was on. "What's up?"

"Nothing," I reply, yawning. "what were you saying?"

"We got another clip." she states and I sit up, tucking my phone away.

"Still untraceable?" Adrian asks from my right, playing with a bullet.

"Yes," Vera responds, hopping off the table, her hair bouncing and swaying as she moves. "I keep trying to track it, but my efforts proved to be wasted. It keeps bypassing my codes and when I think I got a lead, it just ends up being fake."

"What do you think, Arianna?" Salvatore asks. "This is getting out of hand."

"I have no fucking idea," I sigh, running my fingers through my cropped hair. "Let's be alert though, anything can happen. What about that the guy we caught?"

"Still doesn't want to talk." Reid groans, cracking his neck and I sigh.

I've been doing a lot of that these days. Everything just isn't working my way.

I turn towards Salvatore. "What about the detective dude? Did he get my note?"

Salvatore smiles, giving me a nod before frowning. "Oh yeah I forgot to tell you, he got fired."

"Oh that sounds interesting, what did he do?" I ask, intrigued by someone I have no idea about.

"Leaked confidential information to a criminal for money."