𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗲

48- 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗲

"N-no, it can't be. This is...impossible," Enzo stuttered, a number of emotions rushing through his body at the present moment- the most prominent one being disbelief.

"Not really. All I had to do was make you think I was dead and everything else was just a piece of cake," Ezra replied, a faded English accent now being detectable.

"Why would you do this? Why would you do this to Natalia?" Enzo asked, remembering the cold, shadow of herself Natalia was. All because of him. His father.

All Ezra did was laugh, shaking his head whilst rubbing his chin. It was obvious the gun in Enzo's hand wasn't scaring him one bit, the main reason being he knew Enzo would never have the courage to pull the trigger.

"Did your dear Mother never tell you?" Ezra asked, looking directly towards Enzo before dropping a truth-bomb.

"We were happy. For fuck's sake, I was head over heels in love with her. We had three children and a happy family, until I found out that I wasn't Natalia's father," He started to explain, the endearing words feeling bitter on his tongue, poisoned with his past happiness.

"Your mother cheated on me with the heir of the Russian Mafia, and that fucking abomination of theirs made me sick-" Ezra started and Elias gritted his teeth, wanting to either say something or rip his damn head off, but he bit his tongue.

"But then she did something much worse- she sold me out. She told Dmitri that she couldn't leave me, not unless I was dead. Aurelia ordered me to be assassinated, and she almost succeeded," Ezra stopped, unbuttoning his shirt to show the bullet wound near his heart.

"She fucking told me she loved me the same day she was trying to take my life from me, do you know how that feels? To have your heart fucking shattered by the one person you thought you could trust? The only way I could escape was to fake my own death. Aurelia, Estela, Natalia and you were all supposed to be leaving on a weekend trip, but Natalia ended up staying."

Elias remembered what Natalia had told him of the night her father had died. The man she had always spoke so highly of, who is now responsible for ruining her life and tearing her apart at the same time.

"I'd already assembled a group of exiled Mafia members to enact my revenge, and this was the first chapter. They stormed through the house with guns, wrecked the place. I told Natalia to go under the bed and spewed some other meaningful shit, then we just shot this guy dead. We searched the world for someone who looked as similar to me, but turned his head away from the bed. Natalia was a mess, so the back of his head would make her think that it was me," He recalled the events and Enzo shook his head.

"So, you just killed an innocent person just for your own agenda?" Enzo asked, not even recognising the man he used to call his dad.

"Yes, and I'm not ashamed. I did it for us Enzo. You, me and Estela-" Ezra started, but Enzo cut him off.

"Yeah? Well, now she's dead. And you weren't fucking there. You were too busy making all of our lives a fucking misery!" Enzo yelled, his emotion now overcoming him.

"Spare me the fucking pity party, son. I didn't want her to die, it was Leonardo who failed his mission. I wish I'd had a chance to torture the shit out of him," Ezra responded, folding his arms.

"Anyways, I started to build my group even further, making it the biggest and most deadliest. The only thing I didn't have was the resources, so I befriended Dmitri. I made him think he could trust me whilst I manipulated every single one of his men to be on my side. I sent an assassin to kill Aurelia and Natalia by planting a machine to make the car blow up, but Natalia just wouldn't die."

Elias so desperately wanted to say something, but he kept hold of Natalia, begging for her to wake up.

"That was the moment I decided that Natalia was going to suffer for her mother's mistake. I didn't want her to die, but I wanted her to inflict it onto people. Everyone who met Aurelia is six feet under, just like she is."