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I smile down at Ivan as I step closer to Paula. The last position I thought we'd find them in is this, but it makes our job much easier this way.

His eyes are filled with so much fear, but I don't think he's scared of us. The woman sitting above him has blood splattered across her shirt and a bit of it got on her neck.

"Care to explain yourself?" I ask her and she shakes her head. She sighs heavily as she flips a bloody dagger between her fingers.

I look down at Ivan and smile just a bit. "Betrayal," I say when I see a large red dot forming on the side of his ribcage.

"He talks too much," she laughs while pressing her foot on his head even harder. He groans and squirms underneath her foot which only makes her step on his head harder.

Ivan pleads, almost cries even, that she just stops and helps him stop the the bleeding, but she just looks at him with no emotion in her eyes.

"You here to kill me or what?" She spits while bring her eyes back to me. Ivan let's out a frustrated, but weak, breath as he closes his eyes.

"Just killing you is too easy," I say while taking a step back. She cocks a questioning brow and I just smile at her. "Get up." Paula grins and actually gets up, stabbing the bloody dagger into the dresser behind her.

"Come on then," she mocks as she weakly puts her fists up. She laughs while rolling her fists in my face, underestimating me in this moment.

I roll my neck as she steps closer to me and this when I notice that she's actually a bit taller than me. Not like her being taller is going to change the fact that I'm going to beat her ass.

I toss my tablet to the side and put my fists up. She bounces on her feet a few times like she's a boxer, a bad boxer, and I contain my laugh.

Paula tries to punch me, but I dodge it and sweep my foot across the floor, tripping her in the process. She falls on her back with a loud thud and groans as she arches her body up.

"Too easy," I laugh while kicking her in the side. She rolls over onto her side and I drive my foot into her spine, twice.

She rolls over once more so she's back on her back instead of her side. I try bringing my foot down on her throat, but she rolls to the side and kicks me in the back of my knee.

My knees buckle and I stumble back as I to get my balance. Vincenzo tries to help me, but I send him a warning look, making him step back that second.

Angelo just nods at me and takes a step back.

"You are so slow," Paula says while getting up from the floor. She pushes her shoulder back a bit, just to get feeling back in her spine and I just smile.

She fixes her ponytail and before I can even process it, she kicks me in the stomach then in the hip. I take a few more steps back and she follows me, punching me in the stomach the closer she got to me.

I grab her arm and twist it around, forcing her body to turn so her back is pressed against my chest. She squirms around in my hold, but I push her arm higher up her back.

She frantically moves around, only worsening the tight hold on her arm without me even doing anything. "Let me go!" She demands, her voice cracking just a bit, and I laugh at how weak she sounds.

"You little bitch," she grits. She uses her free hand to pull a sharp dagger out from her side and my eyes widen. She tries stabbing my side, but I jump away, pulling her twisted arm with me.

She screams out in pain and I pull her arm in an attempt to yank it out of the socket. "No!" She screams and throws the dagger towards me. I jump to the side and the dagger barely misses my head.

I let go of her arm and kick her in the spine to get her away from me. She stumbles forward but is quick to turn around. "Die already."

She pulls another dagger out from her side and throws it, and I'm unable to dodge it quick enough.

"Amore!" Vincenzo shouts when he sees the dagger sticking out of my side. I pull it out without make a sound and Vincenzo takes the dagger from me.

He throws it to the side, the strength in his throw causing the blade of the dagger into stab into the wall. "You–"

"I'm fine," I say while pushing him to the side. Blood drips down the side of my arm and I smile at Paula. "Try that again," I dare her and she grins while pulling another dagger from her side.

How many does this bitch got?

Just end it.

"You really want to–" I pull a dagger out from my sleeve and throw it at her throat.

"Die? I think you are the one who is going to die," I say as she grabs her neck. Blood seeps through the gaps between her fingers as she tries keeping it in.

"I–" she chokes on her own blood which makes me smile. She falls over with blood spilling out from her mouth.

"Bitch," I laugh as I whip around.

"You are bleeding, a lot," Vincenzo says while grabbing my arms.

"I'm fine," I say while shaking my head. I look down to my side and my shirt is soaked with my blood. "I'm gonna be–"

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Nyx finally moves and I jump up from the couch set in the side in her bedroom. She has been out cold for the past three days and all I've been doing is worrying about her.

If I just protected her better then she wouldn't have been stabbed so easily. She almost bled out because of me.

She rolls to the side of the bed, quietly wincing into the covers before rolling back onto her back.

"Enzo?"

I'm quickly by her side, holding her hand in mine, mostly to put myself at ease. "Did I pass out?" She asks while slowly opening her eyes. The roaring fire that shines in her golden eyes never ceases to stop burning.

"Yes."

"Fuck," she groans while sitting up. "Is she dead?" I only nod and she also nods. The room stays quiet for what feels like forever. We occasionally look at each other then away without saying a word.

"You ok?" Is all I manage to think of.

She looks up from her hands and slightly smiles at me. "Yeah." She crawls to me and climbs out of the bed. With her thighs on either sides of my body, she sits down on my lap and places her head on my shoulder.

"I killed someone," she says into my neck. "And I don't feel anything about it."

"She deserved it," I grit.

"But, no one really deserves to die, or at least in my case, get killed," she whispers while moving further up my lap and even closer to my chest.

"Don't think too much about it," I say because I honestly don't know how to address something like this.

"I'll try."

"I have something for you," I say with a smile and she looks down at me with a confused look. I stand up with her wrapped around my body, but I tell her to sit on the bed.

She crosses her legs and tilts her head to the side as she watches me walk over to the dresser. I pick up the white box and turn around, her eyes lighting up the moment she sees the box.

"Is that what I think it is?" She asks in a cheerful tone. Hearing her with so much joy in her tone makes me happy. She jumps up from the bed and runs over to me.

"I don't think you should–" Nyx suddenly loses her balance and falls forward. I throw my body in front of hers and we both crash only the floor.

She giggles while sitting up on my chest. "The cake is fine," she says while pointing to the side but I don't even look there. I keep my eyes focused on her.

"What?" She asks while tilting her head to the side. "You want something," she says while narrowing her eyes at me.

"Maybe."

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Uhhhh guys don't hate me but the epilogue is right after this... and there's no more smut scenes.

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