Mafia Kingpin: A Dark, Thrilling Organized Crime Romance

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She took a deep breath in... And now, I couldn't stop my anger from boiling to the surface. I started screaming. I screamed and I screamed and I screamed... so loud, to the point my throat went dry. But she didn't look afraid of me anymore... All she could do was sob.

"THIS WHOLE TIME, I WAS DATING A FUCKING COPPER?!" I roared. "I can't believe I didn't realise sooner!

"No wonder you were always being so damn secretive!

"Why did you have to come into my life and get me attached?!

"I fucking loved you, Aliyah, and you played me for a fucking fool!

"It wasn't me that was bad for you, you were bad for me!"

I screamed again, punching the wall so hard, I could hear one of my bones snap.

"Steve is my right-hand man!" I bellowed. "He's done so much for me! And you want me to betray him to be with you?!" I punched the wall again, repeatedly, screaming and screaming.

"I ought to put a bullet in your skull right now for this bullshit!" I roared, and drew my gun out of my pocket, holding it against her head, my hand trembling.

I was about to shoot the only woman that I'd ever loved.

She screamed, her chest heaving upwards and downwards, as her life flashed before her eyes. "No, no, don't shoot me Abid, please!" she sobbed, terrified. "I kept your name out of it, if you turn in Steve, we can be together!"

I screamed again, not knowing what to fucking do. I held the gun firmly against her head, still shaking. Even if she kept my name out of it... she'd betrayed me. She'd betrayed me in the worst fucking way possible, and I knew that I could never forgive her for this.

I was damned if I do, damned if I don't. If I shot her, I would spend my whole life living with the regret and torture, replaying it to myself in my head over and over again, and I would never be able to move on from her. The only woman I'd ever had romantic feelings for...

But if I didn't shoot her, she would walk free. She would probably turn in Steve's criminal organization, and the man who taught me everything I knew, the man who taught me the game... He would be rotting behind bars. She'd move on with her life... But I'd never be able to move on with mine.

"FUCKKKKK!" I screamed. "GET OUT OF MY SIGHT! FUCKKKKKK!"

Aliyah broke into fresh sobs...

And then suddenly, she stopped sobbing.

She fell into my arms, clutching my face. Her t-shirt was drenched with blood, from the bullet in her chest where she'd just been shot.

And as I slowly moved my eyes upwards to see who did it...

I saw Trex standing there, with a gun in his hands, and a bitter expression written all over his face.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"