The room was quiet, too quiet.
Isabella sat alone in her office, swirling whiskey into her coffee like she always did when the night got too heavy. Gigi was out handling Balkan affairs. William had gone to bed. Enry was upstairs with the dogs. And the villa — her fortress — felt suddenly too large.
Her phone buzzed once.
An old encrypted message opened without a name — only a timestamp from five years ago.
Mission: Blackout 42
Status: Failed
Agent Daniel — KIA
Her breath hitched.
She hadn’t looked at it in years.
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Flashback: The Academy – Age 16
He was the first one who didn’t flinch at her name.
Didn’t look at her like a Ferrari. Or like a weapon.
Just like Isabella.
Daniel had this crooked grin, British sarcasm, and a way of making hell feel survivable.
He used to call her “Bulletproof.”
She’d roll her eyes. “I’m not bulletproof, I just don’t miss.”
He’d smirk. “Same thing, love.”
They trained together. Bled together.
She once stitched his side after a botched drill.
He told her:
"If I die before you, promise you’ll forget me."
She punched him in the arm. “Not funny.”
He grinned again. “I wasn’t joking.”
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Flashback: The Mission – Field. Age 17.
They were sent in as a duo.
Extraction.
Simple. Clean. Tactical.
But nothing in her life ever stayed simple.
They got separated. Shots fired.
She reached the building just as it exploded.
No body.
No scream.
Just silence.
And smoke.
They told her he died instantly. That he never felt it.
But she did.
She felt it in her ribs, like her lungs collapsed with him.
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Now – Villa. Present.
She opened a hidden drawer in her desk.
There it was.
A silver chain.
His dog tags.
All that was left.
She clutched it in her hand, whispered so low no one could hear:
"I didn’t forget you, Daniel. But I became exactly what you feared I’d be."
Then, silence.
Whiskey. Ice. Her dogs asleep by the door.
And the ghost of Daniel still watching her from the shadow of her past.
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Short StoryAfter the 3 sentries she is born, the only girl in the family. But they are not the ordinary people they are famous Italian Mafia. THE FERRARI FAMILY But they lost her because of the work they are in and because of their reputation. ************...
