Property of Lisa Manoban | JenLisa [?]

The trip back to Lisa's building was quiet and peaceful. I guess we were both thinking about our last words to each other, what they really meant. The kiss we'd had was like a switch. It felt like a lot had changed when it really was nothing at all.

I was seeing the moment as a wall, holding back all our feelings, thoughts and worries. Once we'd faced it, it broke down like a stack of cards and everything just came rushing out. The weird things is, it felt natural.

Sitting as we were now in the board room, waiting for everyone else to arrive, I couldn't stop my leg from bouncing up and down. I was hunched forward, my elbows on the desk as we waited.

This was it. This was finally it.

Nerve wracking didn't even begin to describe what it was like to finally see your destination in your grasp. I knew there would be more missions after this, more threats and dangers but none this important, none this personal and none this close to home.

I said I'd kill my parents and I would, but then what? I wouldn't change what's happening to me sure but damn, it would feel good.

Lisa's hand landed on my thigh and she pulled me back so I rested my head on her shoulder. She then proceeded to wrap her hands around me and kiss the side of my head.

"Relax, tesoro." she said softly. "I'm right here and always will be, until the end. I may not have been able to protect my mother but I promise you tesoro, no harm will come to you as long as my heart still beats."

I nodded against Lisa, knowing how much she would try to keep her promise but nothing was guaranteed.

"And I promise to protect you too, amore. Even if it costs me my life."

I valued my promises, I did. I promised myself I'd get revenge for what happened to me and I would.

"It won't come to that," Lisa said in my ear and I hugged her.

I sure hope it didn't.

The ding of the elevator down the hall is what separated us. Even then, Lisa placed a kiss to my lips and stood up, waiting for the arrival of the people she leads her mafia with.

I saw some familiar faces like Ryujin and Chanyeol. By the nod Ryujin gave me, she had taken care of the Wendy issue.

"Where's Nancy?" Lisa asked and I smiled at the same time Ryujin snorted, only to hide it with a laugh.

"Oh, I kicked her out of this." I said motioning to the people around, about twenty in total.

"You can't be 'kicked out of the mafia'," one man dared to say. I stared at him and my gaze was cold.

"Oh, I know that. It's either you're in or dead. She made her choice, did she not?" I asked with a tilt of my head.

I knew 'kicking' Nancy out of the mafia just made her a target for assassins and bounty hunters. I was rooting for it actually and the best part, Lisa seemed pleased.

"In our last meeting, we discussed a problem that's been plaguing our mafia for months now. The Ravens. A new mafia, built on secrets, under the guard and functioning well over the past few years. Good news is, we now have a face and a name to it," Lisa explained. "Tomorrow at dusk, we are setting out on a mission to eliminate the Don and disrupt the mafia."

"What about the next of kin?" Chanyeol spoke up. "We managed to get information that the Don has a lawyer who made him a contract, giving his mafia to his first born upon his death."

"Then we find the next of kin and eliminate them. Do you have a name?" Lisa asked.

"Actually, no. Angel Claurisse, his wife, was pregnant but she's in the infirmary as we speak. Miscarriage."