ALORA

FORTY-THREE

THIRD PERSON'S POV

"Rome, tell your men to round up as many guards as they can capture from Vincenzo's hideout" Alora instructed and Rome did just that.

"Tiffany, call Emiliano and tell him to take my father to Vincenzo's old hide out." Alora instructed and Tiffany nodded and went straight to it, while Alora went ahead to call Pablo

He answered on the first ring, "hello!" He replied, "we've found my father." She was greeted with silence, "I'm sending you the GPS to Vincenzo's old location, meet me there. Please." She said and hung up

ALORA'S POV

"Are you sure you can do this?" Pablo asked me for the hundredth time, I sighed "Pablo, he's my father and don't know why you seem so worried, it's not like you've been saving me from him." And I felt his expression turn to somewhat hurt but it was wiped out of his face faster than you can say "fast".

"I'm just worried. He doesn't have to hit you physically to hurt you." Pablo Said, and I just smiled. Tell me something I don't know, I thought.

Turns out he was just unconscious, Emiliano made sure to search him and he even went as far as scanning him for and tracking device or anything that Vincenzo could have used to set us up. But nothing, and to be honest, finding something was way way better that finding nothing, this was the way Vincenzo played, killing people with Paranoia was his best game, and he was the best gamer.

Immediately I walked in my father looked up at me and smiled, "funny how time flies, not so long ago I had you chained to the ceiling for killing your husband, and now you have me chained to the ceiling for killing your unborn baby." He said and laughed and I knew I had to keep it together

I stood in front of him and just stared, I wanted to see what I didn't understand, I wanted to see why he hated me so much, I wanted to see why he couldn't come to console me even after I lost my mother, I wanted to see why he thought that loosing my mother wasn't enough punishment for me.

I wanted to understand, "why?" Was all I could ask, maybe why wasn't the best thing to say, but what do you say to your father that killed your child? Exactly! Nobody knows, so don't judge me.

"Alora stop this drama and let me go, we both know you can't hurt me." He said and damn was he right, till this day I always thought he'd change, and yet nothing, I always prayed to the heavens for change, but I guess the gods don't answer prayers of sinners like me.

"I can't." I said and Pablo walked up to us "but I can." Pablo said and I saw my father swallow hard, "I would advice you to start talking, because I am not one to take it lightly on those who steal from me, and my my Xavier, you stole from me."

"Pablo boy, you should know by now that you have to do more than threaten a mafia man to get him to talk." My father said with a hard laugh. "Do you really want to take this route?" Pablo asked "is there any other route?" My father replied with a smirk.

THIRD PERSON'S POV

Who is a psychopath?

To most people it means alot of things, but in this context psychopaths are manipulators, they would always use your weakness against you.

And who do you think that might be? Yeah you got it right, Pablo!

Remember when he used Alora's mother against her to prove a point, Exactly!

Psychopaths also hate showing weaknesses, remember when he lost his father? Exactly!

Remember when he lost his child? Exactly!

Now, the question is what was he going to use against Xavier, because as far as we know Xavier had nothing to lose. Or did he?

Removing his suit jacket and dropping it to the floor, he was left in his turtle neck shirt that hugged all his abs at the right spot. Alora couldn't help but stare.

"What would you do to me Pablo?" Xavier asked humorously, "kill me?" He asked, "the you won't find Vincenzo." And Pablo replied with a smirk "you're too easy to kill, this whole thing sounds too good to be true, now if I were you I'd start talking," Pablo said as he removed to pocket knife to from his pocket and stabbed Xavier's hand to the arm rest of the chair he was tied to.

Xavier screamed in agony as Alora looked at him with both pity and pain, "As I speak to you, I have situated some of my men to intersect your next shipping, which arrives in-" Pablo looked at his wrist watch and continued "- in two hours, we both know you can't afford to lose that shipping, because no mafia wants to forge an alliance with you and given the fact that you're here and not on the run with Vincenzo, he doesn't want to forge and alliance with you either" Pablo said looking straight into Xavier's eyes and Xavier looked scared shitless

"I am still one step ahead of you Pablo, I still know where Vincenzo is and you don't" Xavier grunted out, "we could still find Vincenzo on our own, but we both know you won't be able to recover from such a loss quickly."

"Where the fuck is Vincenzo, you sun of bitch!!!" Alora yelled having had  enough of his stupid grin, and she was more than pissed that he had the upper hand in this situation.

"The real question should be, where are your siblings Pablo?"

Fuck!

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