The Mafia's Daughter

Chapter 11

Sorry if the chapters keep getting shorter! I'm trying to prolong the ending a little bit. I've also been having a little's writer's block problem but I will try hard to make the chapters awesome!!!

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Chapter 11

The nightmares were back. This time I saw myself sitting in front of a mirror, tied and gagged. I was in the room I stayed in at Kat's house. I watched Anne walk into the room with a pistol and a sardonic grin. Her mouth was moving but I couldn't hear anything. Then she raised the gun to my head and was seconds from pulling the trigger when I woke up.

Now I sat in the kitchen at 6 am going through some of the stuff Gina had found. One thing's for certain: Anne is a genius. All these documents, no matter how hard I try, would lead me to dead ends. Nothing connects to Anne. Frustrated, I threw the papers down and went to take a hot shower.

It's been weeks since I started developing a plan to get Anne. She hasn't been in touch recently either. That didn't matter though because in the past several weeks I've been formulating ideas and studying Anne in dept.

Now that it's November, the temperatures have dropped a lot. No more beach breaks with Caden or early morning walks. He and I have become a lot closer in the last month. My father has been out of the house a lot more than usual only to come back home really early in the morning. Gina and Hunter have been spending a lot more time together. Even Kat and Michael have been a bit cozy lately.

I came out the shower and threw on some yoga pants and one of Caden's shirts. I twisted my wet hair into a messy bun and went back into the kitchen. I saw Luke coming in the kitchen door trembling and gave him a warm smile.

"Don't you think it's a bit cold to be taking morning walks?" I plucked a few grapes from the fruit bowl on the table and sat back down in front of my papers.

"It's never too cold to want to stay fit," Luke replied. He ruffled my hair and moved to get some water.

"When did you even leave? I've been up for a while."

"I've been out for a while. Is everything okay?" he asked concerned as he took a seat next to me.

"Yeah. Yeah I just had a bad dream. Nothing really serious." I ate another grape and patted his shoulder.

"Wanna talk about it?" he leaned closer as if I were about to tell him a secret.

Just then Caden came in the kitchen, freshly showered, and stared at Luke and I. Luke moved back slowly when Caden started to frown.

"Good morning," I got up and gave him a hug, taking in the smell of his scent: forest and mint.

He hugged me back and murmured a 'good morning' but I could tell he had questions. I gave him a swift kiss and took his hand in mine.

"I had another nightmare."

That caught his attention and I saw concern written all over his face. I shook my head before he could ask.

"No I don't want to talk about it. It was stupid and not even that bad."

"Oh really? What happened?" Caden asked.

I let out a small laugh. "Oh you know... Anne had a gun to my head and I couldn't move because she had me tied to a chair and gagged." I said nonchalantly.

I caught Luke's slightly incredulous look. Caden nodded and began to massage my palm with his thumb.

"You've had worse." said Caden.