Checkmate

The Raid

"Thank you for showing me this" Alessandro says helping me out of the tunnel and back through the door behind the kitchen.

My body fit perfectly through the small door making me miss the way my waist changed when I was pregnant.

I smile "don't go cheating during hide and seek, I'll never find you in there"

Alessandro laughs "I would never hide from you"

I open the cabinet and take the icecream out of the freezer. "What should we do now?"

He shrugs "take a nap?"

I laugh and sit on the couch, icecream and spoons in one hand and napkins in the other, "I actually wouldn't mind"

Alessandro's arm wraps around my shoulder pulling me to his side, kisses my forehead "You're right"

I lick my spoon and put the ice-cream on the table "Sleep my love, you look horrible"

He chuckles closing his eyes and laying down, pulling me on top of him. "Shh Madeline"

I smile and kiss his lips slowly before laying my head down on his strong chest and letting his warmth deep into my skin. I feel my eyes start to close but remember the ice cream on the table.

I sigh and get up, covering Alessandro with a small blanket. I grab the ice cream and walk back towards the kitchen.

I open the freezer and put the ice cream away. "Alessandro" I call out when I hear footsteps.

I shake my head and smile "probably in my head" wait did I just think that?

I feel the urge to turn around but do it slowly. I turn and find the end of a gun pointed at my head, a young boy with his hands shaking.

I roll my eyes and sigh "just put it down so I don't have to hurt you"

Surprisingly he lowers his weapon and hands it to me. He was young so I let him slip past me and out the back door.

"Madeline!" Alessandro. "Run!"

I think about it and suddenly feel guilty for it. If the mafia lost its king then it would ultimately lose its queen too.

I slowly walk out of the kitchen and lower the gun to the ground. "I'm coming out!" I call before walking back into the living room.

"The queen herself" a young man says as four others try to hold Alessandro down. One of them kicks him in the right leg and he suddenly cripples.

"Madeline...you need..to go!" He yells at me through pained breathes but I couldn't leave him there, my husband.

"Let him go! Or I'll rip your head off and send it to Rizzo in a fruit basket." I sneer, weary of the multiple guns trained on me.

The man with the brown eyes and dark hair laughs, still in control of the situation with his gun pointed at me.
"You think I, Piedro, would be afraid of you!"

He laughs hard trying to breathe through his chuckles "I don't work for Rizzo or for you"

Anarchists.

"Take the queen" he says and suddenly a swarm of men come towards me.

I fight them and most of them fall at my hand but suddenly a needle digs into the side of my arm giving them an advantage.

Arms grab me as a scream echos throughout the room.
"There are rumors of a weak king! With nerve damage!" Piedro says slamming his foot down on the inside of Alessandro's leg. He presses down harder until a large pop sounds through the air followed by a larger scream.