The True Mafia Heir

Chapter 39

2 days later

Anna POV

I had spent all day getting ready for this ball. I knew that Marcus was still hurting, but in true mafia form he got his suit on and put on a brave face.

I was concerned that something was going to happen this evening, and made Marcus promise to bring extra security for our son's sake. I was not going to let anything happen to him on my watch.

Sitting in between Marcus and Marcus Jnr in the back of the limo was surprisingly nerve-wracking.

I started tapping my finger against my leg. Both of them noticed.

"I'll be fine mother, please stopping worrying."

"I will never stop worrying about you my son, it is a mother's duty to worry," I answer him.

"Kitten it will be fine," assures Marcus, "there is going to be a minimum of unfriendly people, and they will be very much outnumbered. They will be very unwise to start anything."

"Yes Marcus, because that makes me feel better," I reply, rolling my eyes. I heard him chuckle.

"Alex, how is security looking?"

"No problems Marcus, multiple sweeps have been and will be done all evening, we have Tylor monitoring cameras all evening, we have a safe room set up as well as our members are carrying. We will also be keeping the driver with the car all evening, just in case we need to leave in a hurry."

Marcus takes hold of my hand, "See kitten, nothing to worry about.

The limo pulls up out the front of the large ballroom and I take a deep breath as we all get out.

*

"Andrew!" I exclaim smiling. I take hold of Marcus Jnr's hand and walk him over to my brother, father, and uncles. I could see Marcus following us.

"Anna!" they exclaimed in unison.

I stopped right in front of them, "I would like you to all meet my son, Marcus. Marcus, this is my brother Andrew, my father Peter, and my uncles Sebastian, Ricardo, Indigo and James."

Marcus Jnr holds out his hand towards them, starting with my brother, "it is a pleasure to meet you all. My mother has told me many stories about how you've protected her and things you all used to do when you were younger. I do hope we get a chance to spend more time together."

"It's nice to finally meet you too my nephew," remarks Andrew, as he shakes his hand before rounding on to Marcus. "I do believe congratulations are in order Marcus. You finally decided to do the right thing by my sister."

Marcus smiled at him, "Yes Andrew, I took far too long to make it official, but she will always be the only queen for me," he smiled, placing his hand on my back. "Please excuse me, I have a few things I must organize." Marcus and I left my son with Alexander and my family and began making some of the rounds.

"Nicholai, it's good to see you again," smiled Marcus

"Good to see you as well Marcus. Rumor has it you are making two announcements tonight?" he probed.

"One officially and one unofficially. Do you remember Anna?" Marcus asked

"Yes, of course, who could forget such a fiery woman?"

"Be careful with what you say there," joked Marcus, "we're now engaged."

"Well, congratulations. I can't seem to find my date right now, but she's in here somewhere, I'm sure she would like to pass on her congratulations as well."

Marcus nodded, "we will have to speak to her when you locate her, it is a large place, she could be multiple places, come and find us when you have located her."

"Of course."

*

"Attention everyone!" began Marcus, "firstly, my beautiful fiancé, Anna and myself would like to thank you all for coming this evening to celebrate our wonderful news. We have someone we would like you to all meet, which is the purpose of tonight's festivities. We would like to introduce you all to our son, Marcus." Marcus finished speaking and Marcus Jnr walked out onto the stage for everyone to see. I heard people start to clap while I scanned the room. It was over soon enough, and the evening went back to everyone enjoying themselves, I could finally breathe again. The dance floor began to fill, and I noticed Marcus and our son speaking to several people in front of where the band was. I began to walk over to them when something caught my eye. I turned towards the entrance and felt my anger instantly begin to rise. Standing on Nicholai's arm was his date, Scarlett.

Mafia switch time "Aw, hell no," I whisper to myself. I walk forward a little so that I'm standing directly in between her sight of vision of Marcus and Marcus Jnr. I pull out my knife and throw it at her, it gets her in her right leg and she screams. Everyone looked around and saw me standing there as I pull out my gun and aim it at her. She pulled a gun out of her purse and aimed it back at me, I could sense her fear, she was not a shooter. The room fell to silence and all eyes were on us.

"I told you bitch that the next time I saw you, you wouldn't be walking."

She sneered, "and I told you bitch, that I would be back. Did you honestly think you could just take my Marcus?"

"Ok bitch, your Marcus is a little bit of a stretch don't you think?"

"You forget Anna, that I was engaged to him first. That's my Familia behind you."

"Well, I have to beg to differ there. Yes, you were engaged to him first, but only as a symbol. You were never going to be his actual wife, and as for the Familia? Well, they will always be mine bitch. You had nothing to do with them except making them run away from you, they wouldn't defend you any more than they would an ice cream that was melting. Myself on the other hand, well, let's see, shall we?" I look around at the Familia members that I know, "Marcus baby, can I please have your assurance that there will be no retribution given to any member based on their response to the following questions? I don't want any of our members feeling that they need to agree with this statement."

"Yes Anna, of course," replied Marcus.

"All members here tonight that are in the compound on a daily basis, take a step forward please." 50 members stepped forward, "now, without fear of retribution, all of those who would be willing to take a bullet to save my life, take another step forward." All of them stepped forward. I smiled at Scarlett, "now, of all those members, whoever would be willing to shoot this dumb bitch for me please raise your gun." All of them raised their guns towards her. "I do believe that you are outnumbered here," I said, smirking at her.

She scowled at me. "You think you're untouchable, but you're not. You have a major weakness and he's standing behind you."

This shit just got real. I take a step towards her, "bitch you did not just threaten my son." I take another step towards her, "nobody threatens my son." She is starting to shake, she shoots at me, grazing my shoulder, I can hear the bullet lodge in the wall behind me. "My turn," I say, grinning at her. I aim for in between her eyes and shoot. Direct hit. She falls down dead.