Till Death Do us Apart - Episode 53&54

 

TILL D£ATH DO US APART

Till Death Do us Apart - Episode 53&54

(The•Devil•I•Loved)

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"Schizophrenia? Alzheimer's? Which of the two is your current problem?" Bobby replied, coming closer to Leonardo who's still standing there.

"You clearly said Joy, but you're suddenly asking if you said Joy?"

"Get Ivanna, ASAP." Leonardo replied with a flat face, going past him.

Bobby went after him again.

"Ivanna Joy Cooper," He muttered to Leonardo's face. "Now I remember. Joy is her middle name, what was that supposed to mean? You calling her middle name?"

"Are you going to get her here, or will you keep standing in front of me, asking boring-a$s questions?" Leonardo replied, voice as flat as his face, and it made Bobby scoff.

No additional words were spoken before he backed up.

Together, they moved to the park, and on their way to the park, Bobby made the call to the guard station closest to the Cooper siblings apartment, ordering them to send Ivanna running to Leo's private park.

When they arrived at the park, they only waited for a minute before she came in a run as ordered.

The private park guards almost bounced her back, but Leonardo gave them a glare, and she was allowed in.

She's still in her training gear, she's sweating from her temples. 

She was still on the self-training when the guard came to give her the order, and she had to rush here.

Again, no words were exchanged, but she made one eye contact with Leonardo, and that brought an insane rush of what he did last night. 

She had watched everything in the mirror, so the flashback is so damn lucid, just like now. 

When their eyes met before he entered the car, she felt his dirty grip on her chest, and she cussed him inwardly, under her tongue.

No idea where they're going, but she opened the front door, and she paused immediately.

One of Leo's personal drivers is on the driver's seat, and Bobby is sitting beside him, so there's no space in the front anymore.

"Go back!" Bobby barked.

She shut the door and was already going to the backseat when she went to open the door again.

"I wasn't aware that a driver was inside the car, that's why I wanted to sit here, so...you didn't have to shout at me like that, Mister Bob." She said shortly and shut the door again, then she went to the backseat and opened.

Leonardo sat there majestically, a laptop on his laps and a weed roll between his lips.

Not cigar, weed!

The smokes in the car made her pause again, and though she already had two pumps from her inhaler this morning, she brought it out and had another two before entering the car, sitting beside him.

As the car moved, she still held her breaths cos apart from her asthmatic state, she hates the smell of weed.

She could feel the tension in the car. The only carefree person is the driver, but Bobby's eyes are glaring at her from the front mirror.

She felt it on her skin.

And Leonardo? He's very focused on his laptop as if the world would end if he looked up.

One time, she peeked at his laptop screen, and she saw what he's doing. 

A game.

He's playing a game, but not boring board games. She has no idea what game he's playing, but it looks self-developed.

She knows cos Ginny used to develop games too, but her games always got hacked and taken away by stupid cheater hackers.

Ivanna looked at Leonardo's focused face, making sure his eyes are still on the screen before she began looking too, watching his game.

The more she watched, the more confused she got, her brain ain't processing the concept, so she got more and more curious, craning her neck towards his side to view well.

Suddenly, Leonardo's arm stretched to her, pulling her by the shoulders to his side. Her hip hit his body.

He lowered his weed from his lips.

"It's not worth breaking your neck over, it's the simplest mafia game existing. You're too easily impressed." He said, looking up at her with cold eyes even as he talked.

"Ginny used to be a player too, that's the only reason for my curiosity. You have no idea how torturous it is to sit beside you" she replied, wanting to shift away, but he tightened his grip on her shoulders, leaning in.

"Was it torturous last night too? When your breàsts were in my mouth? When your body was jerking at every lick of my tongue? When your n+ples reddened under my brutality. Did you feel violated?" He whispered in her ear, but it was loud enough for Bobby to hear.

Bobby looked back from the front immediately, his eyes glistening with sudden lust.

"All of that happened last night and I wasn't aware?" He muttered. "Bro,you could have involved me and we would have shared! You could be sucking the right one while I take care of the left one, and probably make her take turns to swallow our cûm too...that whoring mouth of hers would have been more useful."

"You f+kin dirt bag! I'm not a pr0sti+ute! I'm not one of your s+x workers so don't talk about my body like that!" Ivanna shouted.

"Not a s+x worker? Yet, you once sucked Leo's c+k, and last night he sucked your t¡ts. At this rate, you're more than a s+x worker..." Bobby laughed mockingly, and Ivanna angrily picked the laptop on Leonardo's laps.

With uncontrolled anger, she stretched herself to the front to smash the system on Bobby's head, but Bobby caught her wrist.

The laptop fell, but that was only a decoy cos Ivanna slammed her own head on his nose, and it bled.

Next, she shoved his head into the window twice, and that window shattered, hurting his head.

The driver just continued driving as if he's not seeing the ongoing, and Leonardo sat still at the back.

His body is pressed forward though, and he's watching the fight with interested eyes.

His eyes moved from Bobby to Ivanna, then from her back to Bobby. When his eyes moved to Ivanna for the second time, he didn't look away anymore. He focused on her, licking his bottom lip when she smashed Bobby's head on the window.

He laughed crazily.

As Bobby's blood rolled out, his eyes widened, and he looked at Ivanna with those shocked eyes.

"Martial arts?" He muttered, voice barely up.

"I respect you a lot as the clan's Enforcer and the second child of the Esposito family. Yes, it was wrong to break into your clan and mistakenly kill your wife, but you already set me up for killing when you sent me to the political summit last time. If you're going to give me tortures, do it, but don't just...mock me s+xually." Ivanna said, her tone holding firmness.

Bobby stayed still. 

He didn't hear any of the epistle she just read. All he's thinking about is the martial arts moves she made, and if she made those moves, only one person taught her the drill.

His eyes went to Leonardo, but Leo is already back to his game on his  laptop, not giving him attention.

Ivanna sat back beside Leonardo. She winded down the window, staring out and feeling less suffocated.

Fewer buildings whizzed past their car till there are no more buildings, and she immediately knew where they're going.

Panda Port.

They arrived at the Port in ten more minutes, and when they hopped out of the car, it was past 10am.

Bobby waited for Leonardo to come down at the backseat door, and he blocked his way.

"When did you inculcate the new habit of blocking paths? It's unattractive." Leonardo said.

"Martial arts, Leo. Martial arts. I saw her moves, and I recognize them!" Bobby spat.

The blood on his head is dried now, and a few drops on his shirt.

"Right, same skill I tried to teach you, but you declined. Oh...wrong. I tried to give you, Cardi and Sandra the compiled notes, but y'all declined, saying you'd never get involved with mum's occultic training notes, so I threw it in the crypt, and she picked it simply." Leonardo replied expressionlessly.

"You gave her your FT movement technique, and now the overall martial arts notes? Whatever is wrong with you ain't normal, bro. What the f+k! You're empowering her too much and it's dangerous! You have no idea the kinda bomb you're creating! She learns fast and it's f+kin insane!" Bobby shouted.

"You had her tîts in your mouth last night, she got the notes, and this morning she's already making moves on me? Look at my f+kin head!" 

"She's not very sharp with her movements yet, you could kill her or wound her deeply if you wanted, but you allowed her to bloody your head." Leonardo glared.

"Kill her? As if you'd allow that, Leo. As if you'd ever allow that! Now why don't you appease me by chaining her up tonight in the reserve forest? We'll take turns on her till she won't be able to walk for the rest of her life!" Bobby replied angrily.

Leonardo smiled, placing an hand on his younger brother's shoulder, but the smile wasn't beautiful. It wasn't even crazy, it was something out of the pit of irredeemable darkness, and it wiped off as fast as it formed.

"Eraze any thought of having her from your head, Bob. And you'll never be caught talking about her body with your mouth! I s+ked them, so they're mine. I decide her life and death, and I call the shots on her damn body." He warned.

Bobby stayed expressions too as he stepped away from his brother.

To calm down, he pulled out a cigar and was sparkling fire on it as he walked to the shore.

The driver and Ivanna already walked to the shore immediately they arrived earlier, so Leonardo followed

The water is almost frozen with the deep blue colour, and the ship is already sitting on it, waiting with their goods stacked inside.

Ivanna and the driver entered the ship, and each carried a heavy box outside, dropping them in front of each of the brothers.

Ivanna dropped hers in front of Leonardo, and she opened the tight locks before he told her to.

She raised the lid of the box, same time the driver opened the second box, and their contents came to view at the same damn time too.

When the brothers saw it, they were unmoved for a beat, but then... Bobby faced Leonardo, grinning.

"When you said to call this prisoner girl along with us to go get the shipments, I was shocked cos we always went for shipments with at least twenty mobsters, but I followed up, wondering what you were up to, so you knew this would happen?"

Leonardo looked at the box again, not even saying a word.

Instead of the velkrona drug, the boxes contains expired chemicals, bricks of plasters and empty crates.

Valon fooled them.

"Why would Valon send these unwanted garbage? After all, you payed for the goods." Ivanna spoke up, looking shocked too as she stared at the boxes.

"People love playing with fire, pet. Fire is dangerous, but at the same time it's beautiful...they simply can't resist the beauty." Leonardo replied.

He entered the ship with them, and they checked the remaining boxes—over hundred. No drug in sight.

But there's a letter from Valon on the hundredth box.

Skeptically, Leonardo picked it, reading...

★It's hightime The Outfit learnt their lesson that they can be fooled too. I sent your drug shipment, but I simply sent them to Monika of Crimson Cave. If you really need your drugs badly, find Monika, and be ready to give Ivanna Cooper to her in exchange for the drugs.

"Valon's handwriting is terrible... Could have hurt my eyes." Leonardo smirked, getting his lighter.

He set fire on the letter and walked out of the shipments room, going to the outside space where he stood by the railings. He watched the letter burn till the base, and the fire was nearly burning his fingers before he threw it in the water.

"Monika's hidden Cave is winging that b+ch, and Valon is working with her? Not surprising." Bobby said, joining Leonardo on the left.

"If you're going to give me up to Crimson Cave, make sure you give me up with my brother." Ivanna said, standing by his right side.

"Who said Monika would ever lay her hands on you?" Leonardo faced her immediately, and she stilled.

"Before dusk, her little cave would be found out, and we'll go for a drug war." Leonardo said, moving his eyes back to the water.

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[Crimson Cave, 10:30am]

The large gate was pulled open by a number of gangsters, and Moo drove in the truck containing the drugs. She went to get them at the Dark Pit—a secret border for shipments 

And she went with Bradshaw, and he's beside her in the truck driver's seat, looking as hateful as usual.

The truck stopped some gaps away from the mighty gate.

The gangsters closed the gate back, and as they closed it, the forest view in front of the gate rolled.

Hayden stood beside a pillar with his fellow gangsters on the first floor, and Moo smiled at him before she pulled down the trunk of the truck, revealing the velkrona drug boxes.

The lower gangsters began taking them to the cave's warehouse.

While they transported the drugs, Moo and Bradshaw left for Monika's hall, but they couldn't find her.

They exchanged glances and left the hall, only to meet Hayden outside.

"Leader is in the Distillery." He told them curtly.

The two led the way while he followed till they arrived at the distillery.

The distillery is Monika's lab where she properly mixes her deadly poisons, so they had to wear nose masks before they could enter.

As expected, the vile woman is in, mixing a newly created poison.

She gets ideas for new poisons always. It's almost as if her head was created for that. It's all she knows.

She's not wearing a nose mask, and when they entered, she's drinking directly from a round-bottom flask, and the liquid is leaking from her mouth to the workbench.

"The shipments is here, Leader." Bradshaw reported.

She lowered the flask, wiping her lips with the back of her palm before smiling at Hayden.

"I proposed an offer to Leo in a letter. I told him he'd give me your girl before he gets his goods back." 

"Seriously?" Hayden gasped.

"Don't be silly, of course he won't let go of Ivanna. He'd find another way to get his goods back." Moo said.

"Right, and that's why we have to be prepared. I won't underestimate that man." Monika added.

She led them out of that poison lab, taking them to the second lab—the computer lab with system screens plastered on every part of the wall.

"Brad, click out the decoy buildings." She ordered.

Bradshaw made few swipes on the screens, and many building that looks exactly like this cave building appeared on the screens.

And they're all very madly far from each other.

Moo smiled.

"Just so you know, the Cave we're in is located in a forest called Hydra—the longest forest in this country with no end. So I built fifty other Caves in this forest as a decoy. If anyone's gonna find out this forest as our location at all, then the person would have 49 fake buildings to find first before reaching us. If they're not careful, they'd get lost in this forest." Monika said.

It's almost like she's explaining to Hayden alone cos her eyes are on him as she talked.

"So...this our main real Cave is the 50th?" Hayden asked.

"Correct, and the other 49 are over the ground, but this Cave we're inside? It's in an underchamber which can only be opened with the eyes of me, or Moo." Monika grinned 

"Why isn't Bradshaw's eyes registered?" Hayden asked.

"Bradshaw is unstable. He fell in love once, and there's no promise that he won't do it again even with his manhood on holiday, but Moona? Moona has been my replica from the beginning. Beautifully Heartless." Monika smiled.

Moo's smile widened, and Bradshaw folded his arms behind, pinching his own fingers painfully.

"Why are you the only one who calls her Moona?" Hayden asked again.

"I'm feeling too generous today, so all of your questions would be answered. I call her Moona cos it's her full name, and I like it better. Now enough of the questions" Monika sighed.

"I have a feeling Leo is gonna find one of the fake Caves today, Cave 01, which is why there has to be a trap waiting for him and his mobsters." She continued, snapping his fingers.

At the sound of her finger snap, the wall screens lit up again, and this time, Distillery came to view.

There's a very small conical flask sitting on the workbench, and Monika clicked on it.

Inside, there's a red liquid.

"Here's the poison I created today, and it's for you, Hayden." 

"Me?" Hayden frowned.

"You'll only get three bullets for this mission, you'll soak all three in the poison flask before loading them in your gun. You were told to target the Esposito brothers before, but not anymore. Your target is Leonardo alone. If your first bullet fails to meet him, then the second and third should meet him!" Monika spat.

She's getting angry even as she talked in front of him.

She's tall, plus her heels, so they're the same height.

"Listen, Hayden Woods. If you fail to give Leo one hit from the poisoned bullets, I'll strip you naked in front of the gangsters, and I'll have the male gangsters f+k your arse!" 

"No!" Hayden replied, feeling disgusted just thinking about it.

"Then don't disappoint me, cos if you do, you'll experience disgust in all form." Monika smiled.

Another snap from her, the screens went off, throwing the room into complete darkness as they exited.

"Assemble fifty gangsters for this mission, now! Start the journey to the first Cave before 12." Monika said.

"Aren't you coming with us, Leader?" Moo suddenly asked.

"I'll be watching from here. Your performance decides if I join you all later or not." Monika replied.

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[Armando Mansion, Lissa's Private Training Hall]

The place carries the scent of raw metals, toxic air and dangerous aloneness.

Too much ceiling fans, so as Lissa entered, her hair got blown heavily to her face. She had to sweep it back with her fingers instantly.

Her training gear is custom-made, white in colour and tight but free on the laps for comfortable kick raises. 

Her boots are high, expensive like her face. She hates her hair up, but she has no choice but tie it up cos of the blowing fans.

She went to a silver hanger which was attached to the back of the door, and from there, she picked her sword

During the martial arts trainings, VV said good martial arts comes with weapons which use would only be known to you alone, so she made them chose a weapon each.

While she choose a sword, Leonardo choose bullets, and that's why in the whole of the clan, his shooting angles are the sharpest and rarest.

He never misses unless he wants to.

But VV also said relying on your weapon too much is idiocy, and that's why Lissa's hung her sword here since years ago.

She hasn't touched it, till today.

She looked at the sword and rubbed her fingers on the blade.

The blade isn't unnecessarily long. It's just moderate, and it's in a zigzag style, but even that zigzag is death.

It's sharper than air with two long earrings hanging on it's handle like accessories. It's beautiful.

Lissa started her moves, the blowing air from the fans was even threatening to remove her band from her hair. It was too much.

But she likes it—it's energizing, and she has the poise of a action show main character as she swung the sword around, parrying and swerving, touching grounds and wall

At first, it was a normal practice, and she was happy her swordsmanship is still very perfect, but then...

She started getting flashbacks.

Her biometrics is out of Leo's door.

He cut her tattoo away from himself.

He declared their friendship over.

He was indirectly siding with Ivanna!

Lissa lost her senses totally, imagining herself at war with Ivanna. 

She moved again, her movements turned sharper than the sword blade.

She stabbed walls, stabbed the ground, the air and even the fan.

She stretched to the door, and when she saw Emma coming, she couldn't control herself to change direction.

She almost stabbed Emma, but Emma moved to the side.

Still, Lissa came for her, and for the second time, she almost stabbed her again, but Thaddeus made a fast entry and pushed Emma out.

He then caught the sword with his palm, and he got cut deeply.

"Dad!!" Lissa gasped, the madness clearing off her face as Thaddeus' blood dropped on the ground, staining the sword.

"I became a part of the brigadiers, that should lessen your anxiety and help you calm." Thaddeus replied.

Lissa dropped the sword and took his hand, pulling him out to their home infirmary where she began administering every painkiller and powdered treatment she could get on his wound.

"I know, I just can't rest. I miss him so much you have no idea. Can the plans just start already?" She said as she wrapped bandage on the wound.

"I acted yesterday, and I'm sure Leo is suspicious. I have to lay low for today before continuing. I'm playing a game with a smart motherf+ker here, we have to be careful, and you miss him? You'll be seeing him today at the mission." He replied calmly.

"Mission?" Lissa looked up.

"The deal with Valon fell into fire. He sent jargons instead of the drug, and he sent the real drug to Monika in Crimson Cave. To get the drugs, Leo is to release Ivanna, but you know he'd never, so he's currently searching for the Cave location in earnest." Thaddeus explained fast.

"What!" Lissa stood.

"You didn't check your phone? The update is boldly on the estate bulletin." Thaddeus said.

"My phone?" Lissa checked her gear pocket, but it's nowhere.

"Here," Emma came in, stretching the phone to her. "I was coming to give you earlier in your training hall when the sword stuff happened.

Lissa snatched the phone from her, checking the update.

"It's +kin true... Is Valon insane? Who the fûck does he think he's playing?" She held her head angrily.

"Get the drugs from Monika? Fûck, Valon is a bastard. Does he even know he's courting death? How dare he tell Leo that statement." She muttered, unable to take it.

"I'm going to the estate, I'm on the mission roster anyways. Emma, prepare the L. Navigator." 

"Yes Miss!" Emma replied, escorting her out of the infirmary.

Thaddeus remained sitting in bed, looking at his bandaged palm with a intentional smile till Penny came in.

"Did leave for to the clan estate?" She asked.

"As she should. She needs to continue staying beside him even with their friendship off. I'll consider this period a short break in their relationship till Padrino Marko arrives." Thaddeus replied, rising up.

"There's something I need to tell you, though." Penny said, getting her phone to show him something.

When she showed him, he frowned.

It's a grave. A shallow grave in the woods. There's no body in sight, but there are decayed termite-eaten clothes inside the grave.

"Those clothes...they belong to the Cooper couple. Those are the last clothes they were wearing in the hospital before they went missing. A man went hiking this morning with his dog, and the dog sniffed this shallow grave out." Penny provided.

"You're telling me someone killed the Cooper couple and buried them there? Then why is there just their clothes and not their bodies? It's barely been a month and two weeks, their bodies couldn't have possibly decayed completely. Even if it did, their skeletal parts should still be there in the grave with their clothes." Thaddeus said.

"You're saying?" Penny asked.

"Someone unknown is playing a game with the couple, more reason why we have to clear off the kids as fast as possible." Thaddeus said.

Penny crossed her arms.

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[House Of Esposito, 2pm]

News of the new brigadier Thaddeus was what the mobsters were spreading in the morning, but at noon, it was about Valon and the fake shipments he sent.

The mob is definitely going on a mission to get it back tonight, but Crimson Cave is still hidden, and till it's found, no one is moving.

Though, everyone's ready to move.

Nino and Island emerged from her apartment, and Island is holding tightly to his arm, pulling him with herself into the compound.

She even matched her mission clothes with his own. Leather jackets on singlets and compression pants.

While she's smiling like sunshine, Nino looks so lost, so out of it. He looks dead as she took him around.

The eyes of mobsters fell on them in no time, noticing fast cos everyone knows Don Anthony's driver hates Donna Felicia's favorite maid.

• Is another news upcoming?

• They definitely look like it.

• Why the f+k would Island be around Nino?

• Didn't he dislike her?

Donna Felicia already tipped Island that she's in Anthony's office, so Island took Nino to the office.

When she entered, the meeting is still ongoing. Apart from Don and Donna, Bacardi and Sandra, there's also distant American members of the mob who came for the meeting.

Members of the 4th and 5th families in the clan founding calendar. Old scary men in tuxedos and coats.

They sat around the round meeting table, but Island entered anyways.

The old men would have shot Island down for invasion, but Donna Felicia quickly stood.

"Let the sin be on me, Old Men. It's my fault for wanting to announce the relationship of my maid and my husband's driver in a grand style." She said with a sweet smile.

"What!" Sandra shot up quickly from her chair, eyes wide.

"She's never scared to show her blunt fangs anywhere,.." Bacardi muttered, scoffing at Felicia.

"You could have told me this when everything is settled, Felly. This is an important meeting." Anthony said.

"Guess I couldn't wait," Felicia smiled widely. "I'm sorry once again."

"No!" Sandra sounded. "No, Island can't..."

"Sand!" Bacardi pulled her back to her seat, and Sandra swallowed spit, staring at Nino who's not even saying a single word.

"I'll give my proper approval after we get the shipments back tonight. For now, leave." Anthony said.

"One more request, can I tag along with Nino to the mission tonight? If I gain merits, I can get initiated too." Island asked.

"Get out!!!" Bacardi shouted at her.

Flinching, Island left the office with Nino, and Bacardi faced Felicia.

"Is this what you're here for? Conjugating driver and maid?" She said furiously.

"This is disrespectful to we Old Men. Vera would never do this." One of the old men said.

Felicia's eyes burned.

"Vera's death was the most destructive thing that happened to you, Don. But even after her death, her first son is exactly just like her. He carries The Outfit on his back, but what is Felicia doing? Joining a maid and a driver together? Absurd!" Another one of the men said.

"If she has no child to produce, she should be gone from the clan by next year. A childless woman is a space cadet...a waste!" Another one said.

Instantly, Felicia started crying softly... Sobbing.

"I just wanted to treat maids and drivers as my equals since we're one as humans..."

"This meeting is postponed till tomorrow." Anthony said.

The men left in total anger, and Sandra followed after them.

Bacardi was glaring hatefully at Felicia as she left too.

Then... Anthony began petting Felicia like a baby in a hug.

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[Citadel]

After leaving the port, Leonardo came here with Bobby and Ivanna... Back to his computer room.

He worked alone, Bobby only helped when necessary, but Ivanna sat behind the brothers, just watching and grasping one or two cos apart from their own laptop, the other screens in the room is showing her what they're seeing, so she's calm.

Leonardo is busy contacting all his spies in this country, asking if anyone of them got a lead to the Cave yet, but none of them said Yes.

It's always... "No" "Not yet" 

Leonardo got frustrated at 4pm when nothing was still appearing, and he almost punched his main screen, but the last spy connected.

It's a very young boy.

"Yes?" Leonardo picked the last earbud to click.

When the face of the boy came to view, Leonardo disconnected the other screens in the room, so only his main screen is working.

Ivanna stopped seeing what's going on, so she stood to crane her neck, but Bobby looked back...

"Sit down, you're not meant to see this..." He muttered.

She kept standing for a minute before sitting back, and Bobby looked back at the screen.

The young boy is still there, looking like he's the happiest to be there.

"I don't remember adding you to my spy list. I don't add minors." Leonardo said seriously, his eyes bloodshot.

"Yes, that's right, but you added my grandpa. My grandpa is a truck driver, and he was tthe one who used this line, but he was killed some days ago, and I've been waiting your call, Ghost. Even before he died, we've always worked together, spying for you, but he kept my identity secret and reported to you alone. My name is Tierney." He smiled.

"And?" Leonardo said sharply.

"My grandpa died in the house of a veterinary doctor. You told him to keep an eye on the veterinary doctor, but that morning...he was shot down by a lady called Moo... from Crimson Cave. Even when my grandpa was agonizing on the ground, I followed the lady, and though she changed routes a lot, I found out she entered Hydra forest, but I couldn't follow her in cos my truck ran out of gasoline." Tierney explained.

"Hydra forest?" Leonardo muttered.

"Yes, sir. Hydra." Tierney replied, and Leonardo cut the connection.

"Hydra it is..." Bobby said, following him out.

Ivanna was last to leave. She literally rushed after them, and the door automatically closed after she exited.

As the door closed, a new information appeared on the last screen in the room.

Information about the Cooper parents—their clothes in a shallow grave in the woods.

--

[7pm, Hydra Forest]

Twenty-four cars transported the mobsters from the clan to this place—a three hours journey, but they drove through it.

Lissa is a part of the mob tonight, and she's not even looking at anyone. It's like she suddenly git reborn. She's not even looking at Leonardo.

Bacardi stole glances at Robert, but Robert was unconcerned, not giving the slightest fûck 

Sandra was staring too much at Nino, but Nino doesn't even look like he's alive at all.

Felicia made Island come with him, and Island is beside him, acting like a protective girlfriend.

Bobby's eyes are secretly looking at Ivanna—her chest.

Though, she's well covered right now and it's not poking, but he's still looking, imagining his mouth on her right n1pple then Leonard's on the left one, then their fingers inside her wet cûnt at the same time, and her screams, her cries.

He was chewing gum as he imagined, but he made sure to not let Leonardo get a hint of what's going on

Leonardo is in front of the mob... they're over hundred, and it might be late at night, but the forest has lamps in every corner, so it's bright.

There's no rules, they just scattered themselves, each to his or her own side of the forest.

But if anyone sights a trap, they're to alert the others with a phone beep.

The unending forest took all their night. They searched for what looked like forever, and Ivanna nearly stepped on a animal trap.

Probably set by poachers. She jumped over it and gave her surroundings a clear stare, staying under a teak tree lamp to rest and use two pumps from her inhaler before moving forward.

She checked the time. She has been walking for an hour now, and yet no sign of an enemy, and there's no call for accumulation from the others.

Her gun is intact in her hand though, and her head is ticking just right. 

Her body is on edge, ready to pounce on any problem, but she suddenly stopped again. Her eyes shadowed when she saw something from afar.

She kicked down the lamp beside her and uprooted it, taking it to move forward and view what it is.

It's a building. A building with a large black gate with a skull insignia.

She threw down her lamp and smashed it with her boot immediately, putting off the light.

She took out her phone to make a call and inform the others that she saw the building, but she felt chills at the back of her neck, and she knew immediately that she's not alone.

She moved out of the way, and true to her instincts, an enemy jumped down from the tree above her.

She used her gun, shooting fast.

The person dodged that bullet, and she expected him to shoot back, but he didn't. Instead, he held the tree trunk and swung himself, wanting to kick her in the face.

Ivanna lay flat on the ground intentionally, and the kick went over her face, then she grabbed those legs, wanting to crush the toes, but the person was fast too...

He grabbed her neck, pinning it to the snowy ground.

They both released low grunts, and the sound of their grunts was enough to alert them.

They let go of each other, standing with a large gap between them.

Ivanna's chest was already slamming, her throat was already quivering.

The other person moved back to the next lamp in that area.

He uprooted it, and as he began bringing it back, Ivanna was already having a whirlpool of feelings inside.

It can't be. It can't f+kin...

She was proved wrong when the person arrived with the lamp, and he slanted it on the tree, leaving it there to shine on their faces.

His eyes are totally wide too. Very f+kin wide they might just blow.

"Ha.. Hayden?" Ivanna muttered, her shock mixing with disbelief and horror.

Of course it's horror. Her boyfriend in a forest with her as an enemy?

Hayden's mouth went wide too, and and he became dumb and numb at the same time, staring at her.

His girlfriend? In a endless forest as his enemy?

"Va..nna???"

He was staring at her neck tattoo as he stuttered, and Ivanna was staring at his arm tattoos too.

Dragon+Leo (🐉♌) Meets Crims+n(🩸)

"No... you're not..." Ivanna shook her head, fervently.

"Vanna...it's you..." Hayden muttered again, the onslaught of emotions throwing him in a rollercoaster.

He couldn't even breath.

The air around suddenly became thicker, the snow suddenly became colder, the trees suddenly became crowdier, and the forest suddenly became denser. Everything became insanely heightened including their overwhelming emotions.

In that splitting moment, they forgot they're on a mission, they forgot about their tattoos.

Hayden forgot that Moo and the rest of the gangsters will soon get here.

Ivanna forgot that Leonardo and the rest of the mobsters will soon get here too.

They both threw down their guns at the same f+kin time.

"Babe..." Ivanna broke into tears.

"Treasure..." Hayden cried too...

Both began running to each other, each step bringing them closer, each breath felt rushed and at the same time insufficient. The forest whizzed past in their peripheral visions, and their hearts synced.

They were just two steps away from each other when a cold freezing weapon pressed on Ivanna's head from behind suddenly.

She knows that feel—the familiar coldness. It's a gun, so she stopped, her breaths seized.

Hayden stopped too, his breaths seizing just like Ivanna's.

"If you take one more step closer to him, swear to Lucifer, I'll spill your brains to the ground, and I'll fûck your dead body in front of your lover boy." Leonardo spat devilishly.

It's him.

His indulging refined face came to view behind Ivanna, his fingers held the gun to her head coldly.

"I dare you to pull that f+kin trigger on my treasure, Leonardo Idiotic Esposito!" Hayden growled like an animal, eyes glowing with darkness.

TBC.

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