Aurora Costello.

Chapter 30.

Aurora's PoV.

I died sixth months ago now.

"Died"

Obviously I didn't actually die, it's going to take much more than a bullet to kill me. But to the world?

Aurora Costello was dead. She had to be.

Because the only way to do what I did, was to do it in silence. No one knew about my plan not even my six and Leo and Lucas.

Because as much as I love my people, my plan wouldn't have worked had anyone other than me knew about it.

6 months ago

I'm laying in the hospital bed wide awake, I paid the doctors a hefty sum to go out their and tell my family I hadn't made it. I could hear smashing and punching, sobbing and screaming all from outside. Then it quietened.

I knew Pietro was going to shoot me, I could see that all happening, but this part? This is all new.

"It's done, your friends and family think you're dead" the doctor told me. A stray tear fell down my eyes.

Step one? Check.

It didn't take long for my death to take off, the whole underworld knew of my death, they somehow found out that Aurora Costello wasn't only shadow but she was also Reina de La noche. And it circulated quicker than HIV in a strip club.

Aurora Costello wasn't the only person that died that day.

I set up base in a small cabin on the outskirts of Michigan. Far away from the family but close enough I could stay in the loop.

Then step 2 began.

I had to gain the trust of the polish mafia, it didn't take much persuading, except the few soldiers I had to get rid of - I raised their salaries and promised them each a week of holiday once every two years.

Men are too easy to please.

After I gained their control, I joined the Russian and polish mafia together. That took the world by storm.

Step 2? Complete.

I decided that two mafias gave me power, but by the law of the underground if I took hold of 4 mafia's I would become the queen of the underworld. So that's what I did.

I chose the Irish mafia next, the old Don was corrupt, he was a rapist, narcissist, women beater and sex trafficker, basically he was the scum of the earth.

It didn't take much to kill him either, all I really had to do was sneak into his hotel room in New York, once I had snuck in, I put the silencer on my gun and shot him in his head.

Then I was the head of the Irish mafia. After getting rid of some soldiers who shared the views of their old boss, I joined the Irish in with my mafia.

We became one.

By this point my mafia was the biggest and most powerful in the world. I named it the Russian mafia because that's where it all started.

The next step was the Serbian mafia. They where huge but their don?

He was old and frail, he was also an asshole.

I called a meeting with him, I told him simply putting it, I wanted to start business with him.

When I got there I brought him the finest brandy in the world, in that brandy however was a poison. One that would cause him to have a heart attack an hour after I left. From natural causes of course.