Aurora Costello.

Chapter 18.

Tw: violence, blood and gore

I woke up this morning at 8am.

After my nightmare and then break down I was exhausted. When I woke up my t-shirt had ridden up and all my scars and bruises where visible.

I know my parents and brothers saw everything, their faces where filled with horror. I simply don't want to tell them about my past but I have a funny feeling that when I get home they're going to bombard me with questions.

I silently showered and put on some jeans with a corset top and a blazer on top, finishing it off with some heels, I put some foundation on with some blush and lipstick, grabbed my Porsche keys and left without a word.

I had to check on my mafia.

Since I've been here I've been neglecting my empire. And after that memory I had last night, I remembered why I'm so dead set on reaching my goal. No one will ever EVER treat me how mark, Simone and he treated me.

When I was on the flight to LA from London, I bought a warehouse, it's massive and its kind of in the middle of nowhere, nowhere being in the forest, that way it can't be traced.

I have to check on my guards, my fighters, hackers and my inner circle. I'm also going to see some of my trainees today to make sure their learning at the pace I expect. But first I want a coffee.

I stop off at the drive in Starbucks just before I hit the motorway, I don't actually like coffee but I like saying I'm drinking coffee, so I ordered a iced caramel frappe with one pump of coffee.

That was $10. I might be a millionaire but no coffee should cost that much.

I took a sip and forgot to stir it, I cringed so quickly at the realisation that I just drank a mouthful of coffee.

After stirring it quickly I parked up for a second and checked my phone, it's been blowing up since I left. It's just all my brothers bombarding my phone with messages and phone calls.

What stood out to me was a message from Leo

Leo 💋 - call me
It's urgent.

Sighing I put on my sunglasses that Arlo picked up for me when we went shopping, called Leo on hands free and began to drive.

Leo - hey Rory
Me - hey Leo, what's up?
Leo - we have a bit of a problem but I don't want you to freak out.
Me - well when you say it like that, I think we both know I'm going to freak the fuck out. 

Silence.

Lucas - hey Aurora
Me - loo tell me what the hell is going on
Lucas - the Spanish Italian mafia have called for a meeting with you boss. Apparently Alexandre tried to make them accept just him but they're demanding the boss.
Me - okay set up a meeting for two weeks time then.

Silence

Me - is there anything else?
Leo - Urm well. Haha how do I say this Urmm
Me - spit it out you little wanker
Leo - okay okay don't get your knickers in a twist, it's actually quite funny when I think about it -
Lucas - the Mexicans bombed our main LA warehouse.

More silence. 

What part of that is funny

Me - excuse me?
Lucas - 120 of our soldiers are dead, all our weapons where burnt and slovoski is pissed.

Shit. I've been gone a week and this shit starts.

Me - okay. I'll call you back later once I've planned what to do.
Bye.

Leo - I love -

I ended the call. My blood is boiling, I knew becoming the Russian mafia Donna I'd have the same enemies as the ex don if not more, he was a nasty nasty man and collected many enemies over his 19 year ruling. What I didn't expect was for the Mexicans to declare war. They don't start wars normally they finish them.