Fearless

♕ three ♕

♕ three: parleys and preparation ♕

And so Antonina became the current lover of the most feared gangster in the world.

Marco Dragotti is as desirable as one gets, with women literally throwing themselves at him for a chance to swim in his unimaginable sea of wealth. To no one's surprise, he prefers to be the unattainable bachelor, never fully committing to one girl at a time because when you're as wanted as Marco, girls will accept being the second or even third name on your list of arm candy for the night.

The thing about the many lovers of the top Dragotti is that they have a very specific image. Antonina requires an entirely new wardrobe, but money is no obstacle for him.

He buys Antonina dresses upon dresses, new luxury high heels and bags, her whole arm's length of untouched jewelry, and of course, the very best lingerie a girl could ever wish for. Just in case.

Although, Antonina swore to herself that he would never see her in those. She isn't exactly sworn to celibacy, but the men she sleeps with most of the time either have no idea that she's the world's most wanted assassin or they're the people she's been hired to kill.

After all, it's hard to hear rumors about the sexual prowesses of the mysterious figure known only as Fearless when all of the men who have spent the night with her end up dead the next morning.

Antonina likes it that way. She likes the fact that it's like the common one night stand, but there's no chance of it ever happening again because only one of the two involved will live through the night.

She kept reminding Marco that she already had a few pieces of these fancy garments, albeit not as vast as a collection as the one he gifted, but he insisted.

Not because Marco Dragotti has a caring heart, no. If Antonina isn't wearing a new outfit everyday during her assignment, someone will surely become suspicious. The men who work with him know his patterns after years of working side-by-side, so if anything isn't believable, someone will know and their entire plan will be foiled before it begins.

They spent a few hours together going over every minute detail of what Antonina would be doing, and after they finished, Antonina felt something she's never experienced in any of her previous hits.

That she may be in way over her head.

Hell, she needs to take out five of the most prominent gangsters in the country and make it look like an outsider is killing them.

Plus, she has to be in the same room as the man her father despised and trained her to kill all those years ago.

Not that she cares about her father anymore.

That man is long dead, and if she could, Antonina would take a private jet to his grave everyday just to spit on it.

After taking a few days off to perfect their plan, Marco and Antonina feel ready to undergo this huge task.

Those days off won't be suspicious to Marco's associates. He takes time off from his criminal doings to have frequent weekend escapades with some of the most beautiful women in the world.

Once that weekend is over, Marco usually ends up with his newest accessory for a few days until he's onto the next one. The girls don't mind. They don't have any delusion that they're special or that they'll be the one to change his cold heart.

The girls picked by him are paid a hefty sum to never speak of what they experienced together.

When Marco enters a club, girls line up to vetted through his security detail and sent to his private suite for a chance to make more money than they would in months of any other job they could've been doing.