Lost Heir

ch. 11

"Kill him."

"Excuse me?" She chocked out.

Roman ignored her and signalled Pablo to take the mask off the man. She stepped back a bit when his face came into site. Roman grabbed her hand to stop her from taking another step.

"Roman......."

"He's our only option." Russo said. "This can't be our only option." She replied.

"There's the option of death." Came Dante with all seriousness. He was usually the carefree one amongst them but this was not one of those days and honestly this was the only immediate option.

Nikki's heart was beating too loud. She could barely kill a bird how much more a living breathing person. They were crazy if they thought she was just going to go with the flow.

She at Roman straight in the eyes and said. "I'm not killing an innocent man Romanov." She looked towards the rest. "We are not thinking hard enough there most definitely has to be......"

"This is our only option." Roman said cutting her off. He faced her. "I swear I never wanted you to get involved with this part of my life. I swear if there was another option this would not even come up. You have to help me out here......"

Nikki was now crying silently. "I don't wanna kill anybody." She sobbed, shaking her head as she spoke. He used his thumbs to to clean the tears on her cheeks and grabbed her face lightly.

"This is our only option. He's not so innocent. He stole from the family. I'll be here for you." He promised. He let go off her and reached for the gun he had behind.

They took their place in the circle again. Roman put the gun in Nikki's shaky hand.

Nikki still didn't want to do this. She was scared but it appeared she didn't have any other option. The looked at her. "Please. You don't want to do this." The man pleaded.

Roman put his hand on hers and raised both with his index finger on hers, on the trigger.

"Roman......"

Pow!!

She was cut off by the loud noise made by the gun. Her stomach tightened at the sight before her. The man in the centre was lying in his own pool of blood. She stood there unable to form any words. The men around her on the other hand were unfazed.

Roman slowly brought down her hand and engulfed her in a hug. He took the gun from her and handed it to Santino.

"Let the elders know we took care of the problem. Tell them Nikki handled it." He said to Pablo. "Yes Don."

Roman stretched forth his left arm, showing the omertà tattoo
behind his left palm. The rest knew what he meant. No one else was to know about anything relating to the situation. It stayed only with them.

After a second they all had their tattoos out in the same manner. Roman looked at all of them. He knew he could count on them for anything he needed.

"Vivi do omertà. (Live by omertà.)" He incurred.

"Sopravvivere per omertà. (Survive by omertà.)". They responded in sync.
They put down their hands.

" We have meeting in the evening. Inform Dolan." He said to no one in exact. With that he walked out with a still stunned Nikki in his hands. He put her in the front seat and entered the driver's side.

He looked at her and saw her looking at her shaky hands. "Cara...."

Her head shot up to him. "Don't say anything." She cut him off. She wiped away a stray tear. "Please just take me to my parents."