alessandra [#1]

love and lost.

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"Are we working today?" Rocco asked pulling a t-shirt over his head. Not listening, I admired the tattoos splayed across his back before the fully put his shirt on. "Amore, hello?" I snapped my head to Roman's face which had a smirk on it and smiled.

"I'm working today, but from home." I swung my legs over to the side of our bed and stood up. Rocco walked over to me and placed a chaste kiss on my lips. I hummed against Roman's lips in approval beginning to walk to my closet.

Before reaching my closet Rocco grabbed my hand pulling me back to him. I giggled put my hands on his chest. Rocco stared in my eyes deeply before kissing my forehead.

"Alessandra, I lo-" Before Rocco could finish the windows shattered and rubble-filled the room.

My ears were ringing profusely as my eyes shot open. On top of my lied a barely conscious Roman. I carefully rolled him off of me and held his face in my hands.

"You idiot! You put yourself in front of me." Rocco let out a dry cough followed with a pained groan. "Okay stay awake baby, please stay awake. Think about the babies, our babies, please stay awake."

"I'm okay Alessandra, nothing serious. We have polycarbonate windows, they took most of the blast." I nodded when Roman's hand came up and wiped the tears I didn't know were falling off my face. "I'm here amore it's okay. But we need to get to the safe, help me up." Helping Rocco up, we went to the closet where our safe was.

Rocco pulled out two Glock nine millimeters along with a satellite phone. He handed me the phone and I called back-up along with our parents. As I talked the sound of voices and footsteps were heard from downstairs.

I looked up at Rocco who handed me a gun after taking the phone out of my hands and placing it back in the safe.

"You know what to do, they know we're alive and they've come to finish the job. Shoot to kill amore. We have to split up." Rocco cupped my cheeks and kissed my forehead. "Be safe, I love you." I nodded and left the closet with Roman.

In the blast, our door flew off the hinges so Rocco simply looked out to make sure the coast was clear and we went our separate ways.

Before we went we shared a look, we didn't need words we both knew what it meant.

I walked down the hall cautiously knowing an assailant could be at any corner. As I cleared the hallway I looked in every room to make sure it was free of anybody.

I could hear gunfire from the other side of the house knowing that I couldn't go even if that meant leaving Rocco behind.

As I rounded into my last room, the library, I could feel that there would be somebody in the room. Which there was, the man wasn't facing me but he was looking at my books.

"What a wonderful collection you have here Ms. Trevino, very impressive as well." I kept my gun trained on the strange man who had invaded my house as he turned around.

"Who are you?" I asked in a hardened tone waiting for this man to say one wrong thing so I could blow his head off.

"Me? Oh, I'm the man that will be collecting the bounty on your head. A very important and dangerous man wants your head on a stick and I plan on delivering that to him." I let out a dry laugh before sticking my gun in the back of my pants.

"I am very aware that my head would look wonderful as someone's centerpiece but I like my life a lot. Now, who is this, someone I feel like I should know who wants my head on a stick." Taking a seat in one of the leather chairs in my library I gestured for the mysterious man to do the same. He sat across from me and crossed his legs.

"He is no secret so his name would be one Lyon Kilorov." Not wanting to show any kind of weakness or tell to this man I stayed still and shrugged my shoulders. "Doesn't ring any bells? Didn't you kill one of his brothers then injure the other." Loose ends. Fuck, I never took care of Ivank I forgot about him. I also never considered that they had more siblings.

I was so blinded by anger and hurt that I never fully closed the door. Hence letting all the intruders in. Literally and figuratively.

Looking the man across from me eyes I took my gun out and simply shot him in between the eyes. I could hear cars up our driveway and knowing that it was Rocco and I's families.

I walked down the hallway and downstairs back towards the front door and swung it open. Standing outside was a bunch of guards along with my parents along with Roman's.

I could see Rocco being stopped from going back inside by Mia who looked minuscule next to his 6'4 frame. Once we locked eyes he gently pushed Mia to the side and ran to me.

"Are you hurt? Who's blood is this?" Roman's hands cupped my cheeks raking my body with his eyes for any injuries. I shook my head and wrapped my arms around his torso.

Rocco yelled some demands to the squares who entered our house like a swat team. He then grabbed the back of my thighs and picked me up. As we walked to the car, a gunshot rang out. Rocco immediately put me on the ground behind the car and pulled his gun.

"Mia!" Roman's mother yelled. I shot up from my place behind the car and to where Mia was now lying in a pool of her own blood. Their mother held Mia's lifeless body in her arms as she sobbed. I couldn't breathe, I dropped to my knees knowing that Mia was gone. The bullet came from behind her. Through the back of her skull all the way to the front.

"Mia, Mia, wake up baby. Come on Mimi, you've got to wake up baby." Rocco came to my side and held me as I sobbed and a few tears escaped Roman's eyes. "No, no, Mia come back please." After a few minutes, Rocco began to pull me away when the ambulance came. "No! I want to stay with her!"

"You can't amore we have to leave." I fought Rocco with everything I had but ultimately he got me to the car and we drove off. Then it really hit.

Mia was gone.

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hope everyone is staying safe and healthy! xo anna