Athena

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Buckle up guys. This is a long one.

Silas:

"How many is that now?" I ask my eldest son. "We are up four." I sigh. This cannot be happening. We have had four shipments tampered with. 

Four!

We are bleeding money and I know we are not the only ones. The Chinese, Russians, Hungarians and French as far as I know are also being fucked around. Not to mention the now two mafian princesses that have gone missing.

The princesses were the most guarded of all the family. They didn't just run away they are being hunted. Marcus sits on his laptop looking through paperwork. "I can't find anything. There is not one we have bad blood with as of right now." He shakes his head.

"We didn't exactly have bad blood with the Germans when they took Athena." The whole car falls silent. We don't talk about that often. "Well it's a good thing we wiped them all out." Elijah says with a stone look.

I nod my head agreeing with him.

Not too long after Athena was taken Gabriel disappeared also. We went through every lead. We all were going crazy another one of my children had gone missing. One day a credible lead came through.

It was from a young child. Later I learned it was the daughter of the American Mafia leader. She was only twelve at the time. 

I remember that day so clearly, the joy when we found Gabriel. The devastation when we didn't find Athena. 

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"I want to come Papa!" I was too busy for this. "Elijah, you are still too young. I cannot be worrying about you when I need to be focused on your siblings. Please just stay with your brothers. No more arguing." 

I step around my oldest with his little brothers trailing closely behind. "Ready?" I ask my wife as she comes out of the bedroom and into the hallway. Wearing all black, her hair is pulled back. 

She gives me an uncertain nod. I now she doesn't want to believe that our babies are so near but so out of reach. Taking a bullet proof vest that I laid out for her I walk closer and start putting it on her.

"We need to have hope my love." My men move around the house getting prepared. "Time for bed my babies." Luna takes Kaden and Finn by the hands to walk them into their rooms. 

"I wanna stay with Lijah." Finn starts to whine. I give Elijah a look then to Marcus. "Come on you can all sleep in my bed tonight." Elijah says lifting Finn off the ground. 

Marcus take Kaden by the hand and they all leave down the hallway to Elijah's room. 

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"Everyone knows the plan?" I ask as we pull up to our destination. We have been driving for an hour, it's hard to believe that if they are here they were so close. "Yes Don." I get through my earpiece. 

Luna and I get our guns out, making sure one more time that we are ready. I give her a kiss and then we breach. 

They were defiantly surprised. Since we hit in the middle of the night not that many people were on stand by. We took out the guards outside firsts and then went inside. Things started to kick off when we entered the premises. 

One by one we cleared the house. 

"Anything?" I ask as I make my way back down the stairs. "No. They're not here!" Luna starts to tear up. "Don!" Quickly we go to the source of the yell. 

We end up at a door that leads into a basement. "Stay behind me." I tell Luna. Taking a flash light I slowly walk down the stairs. Getting to the bottom I see the American Mafia leader with a knife to Gabriel's throat.