My hardest fall - a short mafia romance

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"I'M GOING TO KILL HER!" I shouted staring down at my phone. My brother, Elio walked in, a smirk plastered to his face. 
"I'd never thought I'd hear you say those 5 words in your entire life. Who do you want to kill and is it worth it?" My brother laughed. 
"This lady tortured her baby and let her starve. Luckily, the baby's grandmother found her and immediately called police. But this cunt has been let out without any charges due to 'lack of evidence' when there's clearly a video of her laughing in front of the camera whilst she tortures the child." 
"Has the mother now got custody of the child?" Elio asked. 
"No, the investigation is still ongoing but the grandmother is too old to take care of the baby so she's gone to child services." A tear falls from my eye. 
"Let's see the video." My brother said, all humour from before gone. 

I passed him the phone and watched him as anger filled his face. "Italian." Was all he said, he bared his teeth, referring to the woman in the video. 
"I'm serious Elio, I want to kill that woman." I said. He quickly left the room and came back with his laptop and typed fast into his keyboard. I knew exactly what he was doing, he was finding this woman. There are perks to being part of a mafia family, this was one of them, finding people. We could find anyone in less than 2 minutes and this is why Elio is so important to the family. 

My brother quickly made a phone call "South of Italy, we need the jet ready within the next hour." A few mumbles were on the phone. "I don't care if it's his wedding, get the pilot on that aircraft or he loses his hands and his fiancé, to my dick." My brother quickly hung up. "Are you 100% sure Mila?" My brother asked and I nodded. "Good. Pack a small overnight bag." 

I rushed upstairs, suddenly being stopped. "Mila?" My father called. I walked into his study and saw him sitting in his chair, cigar in hand and his underboss, Leo, sitting opposite him. "Why has Elio called the jet?" He asked. 
"I-I uh..."
"Mila is stepping up in the family pop. She is going to make her first kill." My fathers face went from curious to angry. 
"You know Mila is not part of this family to be a killer Elio." My father said sternly. 
"But pop we all have to kill someone eventually. This woman will deserve it, she has hurt a child... a baby to be more specific." Anger clouded my thoughts. 

After a few minutes of bickering my father finally gave up. "Fine but Mila, don't say I didn't warn you." 
"I know. I love you daddy." I walk over to him and give him a quick kiss on the cheek. "Bye Leo." 
"Have fun sweet pea." I gave him a quick hug. Leo was like my second dad growing up. Whenever my father was out Leo would take care of me. My mother was sick and died of cancer when I was only 5. My father loved her so much and his protectiveness, to keep me alive and safe only grew. 

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"Mila." My brother nudged me. I blinked my eyes open at the darkness outside my window. "The plane is landing in less than 10 minutes. I need to make you aware of some things before we land." I nodded. "First, the likeliness of us encountering someone from the Italian mafia is extremely high. We have an ok relationship with them, however, their don is stubborn as fuck and rude, so if we do encounter them let me do the talking." I nod. "And finally, once you've killed her, we leave. No sulking, no throwing up, and no fucking regrets. If you change your mind last minute then I will do it for you. Frank will take care of the body." 
"What about the baby?" I asked. 
"What about the baby?" He asked back. 
"Well we can't just leave her here." I tell him. 
"She'll be fine. We can't exactly take a baby back to the US with us. And you can't take care of her you're only 19." 
"I can take care of her. I took care of our neighbours kid Marcus." 
"Mila, Marcus was 15, he wasn't a baby." My brother said. I huffed knowing I won't win this battle. "Right it's 3am, her house is about an hour away. How long do you want to spend doing it?" My brother asked. 
"I'll make it quick." 
"You don't want her to die in pain?" He asked. 
"Oh I want her to die in pain, I just want her dead quickly so we can have this awful human being off the planet."