Traitorous Revenge

Playlist for this Chapter: Wolves by Sam Tinnesz, Go For Gold by Autumn Kings.

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- N I C H OL A S - K I N G -

Father.

I was going to be a father.

My wife was pregnant, with my child. With our child, and if that didn't rock my world upside down, I would be lying to myself.

"What the fuck is wrong with him?" Jake turned to Stuart who was right next to me when she had called and knew what had happened, and since then, I was frozen.

"Is it true, Ace? Is she....?" He trailed off when I clutched my phone tighter in my hands.

"È vero." (It's true) I said when his eyes widened when Jake shook me, knocking me out of my temporary daze as I blinked twice.

"What the fuck is wrong with you too? What was she saying? Is she alright?" Jake asked worried as I turned to Luca.

"She sent a signal, did you get it?" I asked and he nodded immediately.

"We got a location. It's a miracle the signal reached so far. She's on the other side of the country so I also traced the call to get a better location." He said and I nodded.

"Prepara i nostri uomini, presto, dobbiamo raggiungerla il prima possibile." I ordered Jake who nodded, but stood right where he was as he waited for me to tell me what had happened, along with my uncles.

(Get our men ready, quick, we need to get to her as soon as possible.)

"Diventerò padre." (I'm going to be a father) I said and everyone's eyes widened in surprise before Jake looked at me seriously.

"That puts her in more danger, especially since she's carrying your child." He said solemnly and I nodded, running my hands over my face.

"I know, which is why we have to hurry up. All the traitors, did you get them?" I asked Matteo who nodded.

"Certo, capo, ognuno di loro è stato smascherato e alcuni sono a una riunione a casa di Francesco". He said when my jaw clenched.

(Sure did boss, every last one of them has been exposed and a few are at a meeting at Francesco's house.)

"Catturateli, ma non uccidete nessuno. Mi occuperò di loro tutto da solo. Stuart, come sta tua moglie?" I asked turning to my cousin who nodded.

(Capture them, but don't kill anyone. I'll deal with them all myself. Stuart, how's your wife?)

"She's well, and... uh... Adrianna's also pregnant." He said rubbing the back of his neck.

"How far?"

"Two months now." He answered and I nodded, congratulating him on the good news before telling him to accompany Matteo with my uncle Stefano, Matteo's father.

"Congratulations son. And don't worry, she's a smart and strong woman and can hold her own. You know that, so keep working to find her, yes?" Salvatore said and I nodded, hovering beside Luca as he worked on her location.

"Do we have a plan?" Jake asked turning to me when I nodded once.

"I do, I need to tend to my dear friends in the cells first." I said and Jake smirked knowingly and followed me down to the basement of the warehouse.

"Valentino." I nodded to one of my most trusted guards who nodded and unlocked the cell door, revealing Ricardo, another trusted guard whose head snapped up the moment the cell door creaked open.

His eyes widened in fear when he saw me and his body started to shake while my lips curled in disgust at the pathetic man in front of me.

"Ricardo, pleasure to see you after so long. How's the wife?" Jake asked bored while I watched from a distance as Jake circled him like a predator.

"Oh, right, you killed her. I forgot, sorry." Jake chuckled darkly, stopping right in front of the man and leaning down s he was at eye level with him.

"You know what I hate, Ric?" Jake asked almost innocently while I clenched my jaw, my hands forming fists as I kept myself from killing the son of a bitch right here and now.

"Men who don't know how to respect a woman." Jake spat and out of nowhere, stabbing Ric's thigh with a sharp dagger, causing the man howl in pain.

"P-please, let me g-go, I-I don't know anything about G-Giovanni! I-I swear!" He pleaded when Jake rolled his eyes and looked at me for confirmation and I nodded in affirmation and saw his lips curl.

"I never asked about Giovanni but thank you for confirming that you betrayed us." Jake said nonchalantly.

The man's eyes widened as he shook his head frantically while Jake put on a pair of leather gloves, taking his sweet time.

"I-I didn't do anything, p-please!" He yelled and I scoffed at the nerve of him to lie on the brink of death.

Just fucking spit it out.

"May I do the honours, Don?" Jake asked me, looking at the man with a madness in his eyes when I smirked.

"You may proceed." I said, crossing my arms over my chest as Jake run the tip of his dagger along the side of the man's face, applying pressure at his neck where blood started to flow out.

"I've always wanted to learn how to carve. I guess I'll learn now." Jake muttered when the man screamed in pain as Jake dug his dagger into the man's forehead, writing god knows what.

Trust Jake to be over dramatic.

"Beautiful, what do you think Ace?" Jake looked at me with a proud smile on his face when I glanced at the man who was crying pathetically with 'Rapist' carved on his forehead.

Fucker deserved it.

"Very artistic. Although, I'd like to add some things. Se posso?" (If I may?) I took a step forward when Jake smirked and handed me the knife before I got on my haunches as I watched the man with furious eyes.

"You better speak up, Ric, the Don feels extra pissy today." Jake said when I cast him an unimpressed look but he shrugged casually.

"Parla cazzo!" (Fucking speak!) I bellowed, the man flinching harshly as he shook violently and whimpered.

"I-I didn't do anything, I-I swear, please let me go." He said when I scoffed, feeling the anger build up in me rapidly.

The anger I had controlled needed to be released, and I would be raining hell on all these fucking traitors, wishing they'd never been born in the first place.

I'd feed on their fear, their heart-wrenching screams that were music to my ears, their spilled blood like a work of art, splattered everywhere and their begging and pleading like a sweet melody.

"Oh? So you weren't involved in the kidnapping of the donna?" Jake cocked his head to one side when the man glanced at me nervously.

"N-No." He answered shaking his head when I chuckled humourlessly.

"Fucking pathetic liar." I said gritting my teeth together as I landed a punch right in the middle of his face, hearing a loud, satisfying crack when my fist collided with his nose.

"I'll make you beg, make you scream for mercy, to kill you, but I'll keep you alive, and I'll feast on your screams and pathetic sobs for laying a hand on my wife, let alone thinking of her." I said darkly, my voice lowered a few octaves as he trembled in fear.

I stabbed the knife in his other thigh, dragging it all the way down as blood pooled at his feet and he howled in agony.

Music to my ears.

But I didn't stop, I pulled out my gun, shooting his knee caps after taking off the safety, his screams echoing in the basement while I tortured him endlessly until Jake put a hand on my shoulder but I shrugged it off angrily.

"Speak." I spat as I looked at the nearly lifeless man holding on by a thread.

"H-he paid me to get rid of security that day so he could take her with him. I knocked out the other one too." He confessed, referring to Adriana when Jake sighed, shaking his head.

Stuart would've ended him if he was here.

"What else?" I asked but he shook his head.

"I-I d-don't know anything else, I s-swear to god!" He said as I stared into his frightened eyes, knowing he was speaking the truth as I cocked my gun.

"Great chat." I said sarcastically and shot his chest three times until his body went limp, his lifeless brown eyes staring back at me as I wiped my hands on a spare cloth, my white shirt now stained with the fucker's blood.

"Seriously, that wasn't even so hard. His death would've been much easier if he'd spoken sooner." Jake said sighing in disappointment as I gulped down a glass of scotch my men brought for me.

"Dov'è lei?" (Where is she?) I spat with disgust when his face turned grim.

"Lei è qui. Matteo e Stuart hanno portato gli ultimi traditori." Jake said and I nodded, seeing red as I set the glass back down and made my way to the end of the basement.

(She's here. Matteo and Stuart brought the last few of the traitors.)

Stuart and Matteo talked to each in hushed tones as I walked up to them and they immediately stood straighter.

"Everyone caught?" I asked looked at both of them when they nodded.

"All of them. Every last fucking rat." Matteo said and I nodded, glancing at Stuart.

"The man who knocked out your wife is dead. He was also responsible for getting rid of security that day to take Dove." I told him and saw his face harden.

"Chi era?" (Who was it?) He gritted out, clenching his fists.

"Ricardo." I answered when he nodded.

"You can get rid of everyone he's ever cared about." I told Stuart who smirked sinisterly.

"Consideralo fatto, capo." (Consider it done, boss) He said.

"Deal with the rest after we're done here." I told all three men who nodded as my men and guards followed me inside the other cells.

My eyes narrowed at all of them as I contemplated how I was going to torture them.

"Choose." I said as Matteo, Stuart and Jake smirked and chose their weapons from a table, handing me a knife while my eyes stayed fixed on her.

"Where's your confidence gone now, fiancé?" I spat when she shivered in fear and tears fell down her face.

"P-Please Ace, I didn't do anything, I swear!" She defended herself when I scoffed, eyeing her bruised cheek and looked at Matteo questioningly who shrugged.

"Ha chiamato la tua ragazza puttana." (She called your girl a whore) He justified and I nodded, not saying anything else while my fists clenched shut.

I wasn't one to torture women, but this case was different. I wouldn't just cause her physical pain, I'd fuck with her mind as well.

And I was going to enjoy every fucking second of it.

"Falla guardare." (Make her watch) I told Val who nodded, dragging her chair to a side so she could watch us torture them.

"Bonetti." Stuart regarded the old man with disgust who sneered at him.

"Stai scherzando con l'uomo sbagliato, ragazzo." Francesco looked at me when my lips tugged into a malicious smirk.

(You're messing with the wrong man, boy.)

"Lo sono? Scopriamolo, va bene?" I said dragging a chair and sitting where Sofia was, placing my elbow on my knee and placing my chin on my fist.

(Am I? Let's find out, shall we?)

"Have fun, gentlemen." I said when Stuart punched the old man square in the jaw, busting his lip and Matteo slashed another man's cheek while Jake dragged his dagger along the third man's stomach.

All of them were traitors.

And all of them would fucking suffer for putting my girl through hell.

Stuart grabbed a sharp blade, slashing Francesco's fingers off and chuckled darkly when the man's screams reached his ears while the woman beside me yelled at them to stop.

"Jake, cos'ha detto il tuo uomo finora?" (Jake, what has your guy said so far?) I turned to Jake who shrugged.

"Nothing much, except the fact that he's always been loyal to you." He said when I arched a brow at the man with a dark expression who gulped.

"I-I never betrayed you, Don, I'm t-telling the truth." He said when I leaned back in my chair and looked at Sofia.

"What did he do?" I asked when she shook her head violently.

"I-I don't know, I haven't s-seen him before." She denied it when I sighed, rubbing my temples.

These people are too fucking stubborn.

"Sweetheart, if you don't spit out the truth, I'll make Jake do whatever it is to him, to you." I said exasperated when her eyes widened in fear.

"I-I don't know him!" She yelled when I sighed, shaking my head as I turned to her and took out my knife, putting it against her pulse on her neck and hearing her breath hitch as she cried.

"The truth, now." I said as calmly as I could, pressing the knife a bit deeper onto her throat as my men watched us.

"H-He was the one who shot at her on Stuart's wedding reception." She stuttered when the man's eyes widened and I remembered him.

Of course, how could I even forget that?

"Giusto, ovviamente. Ora." (Right, of course. Now.) I pulled my hand back with the knife in it and heard her sigh of relief as I looked back at the man with a dark look.

She actually thinks she has a chance of getting out alive.

Ignoring her, I stood up from my seat and stalked over to the man, fury in my blood as I slapped the man as hard as I could.

Blood splattered out of his mouth at the impact when I grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him towards me, seething in fury.

"Osi metterle una mano addosso, stronzo!" I boomed, punching him repeatedly till my fists were covered in blood and his face was unrecognizable when Jake and Stuart pulled me back forcefully.

(You dare lay a hand on her you asshole!)

"And you." I turned to Sofia, my eyes narrowing at her when she whimpered, her face going as pale as a ghost as I pulled out my gun and pointed it at her forehead.

"What the fuck did you do?" I seethed, glaring daggers at her.

"I-I helped him! All this time! I helped him get rid of your sister and father with my father and then Dove! She's gone, and you'll never get her back!" She yelled, my chest constricting.

She was involved in Amelia and papa's death.

I slapped her, hard, her cheek bruising even more and lip bleeding, my ring leaving a mark on her face.

"You hurt my family, and I kill you." I said lowly before pulling my trigger and shooting twice in her head, her body falling limp against the chair she was bound to.

I turned to the other three men and shot the man whom I beat to a pulp moments ago. Grabbing Francesco's collar, I saw the fear in his eyes when I glared at him.

"Where the fuck is she now?" I asked threateningly as he shook in my hold.

"Giovanni has her in his house. He's marrying her in three days but as soon as he finds out you killed half his men, he'll do it earlier, and after he's done with her, he's going to finish her off." He said with clenched teeth, one eye swollen shut from Stuart's blows when I grunted lowly in anger.

"I even saw her today, dressed like a pretty fucking whore. I bet he's fucking her right now." He spat blood that splattered on my shirt when I wrapped a hand around his throat, gripping hard as he struggled to breath.

"What did you do?" I seethed when he chuckled darkly.

"She's as good as dead, boy, along with your unborn child." He spat with distaste when Jakes's eyes widened in alarm along with Matteo and Stuart's.

My heart thundered in my chest as I searched his face for answers.

How the fuck did he know?

"How the fuck do you know that?" I gritted out when he smiled wickedly.

"Wasn't hard to get a reaction out of her when I said you didn't knock her up already." He said with clenched teeth before chuckling when I gripped my gun and hit his head with the back of it, making blood flow from the impact.

"Fucking kill him, Nicholas." Jake said from behind me when I sneered at the man.

"Gladly." I said before shooting the man between the eyes, one bullet, and he was as good as dead as I glanced at the last man who'd pissed his pants in fear.

"Finish him off after getting answers." I ordered Matteo and Stuart, leaving the cell with Jake and a few guards behind me.

Getting in my car, we were driven back to the estate and went inside, the guards following us and some taking their places outside immediately when Adriana ran out.

"Ace!" She ran towards us breathless when I frowned.

"D-Dove..." She panted, waving her phone in the air as she tried to catch her breath.

"What is it?" I asked impatiently, looking in her panic and fear filled eyes as a tear slipped down.

"S-she called me, said you weren't picking up. She said something's wrong." She spoke quickly while I fumbled for my phone and tried to turn it on, but it was dead. Swearing, I looked back at her.

"What did she say? Is she okay?" I took her phone from her, redialling the number that called but no one picked up.

"She said Gio knows we're onto him, and he's marrying her tomorrow, Ace." She cried when my expression hardened.

But she's already married to me.

"Ace, she was really scared and she was crying. Giovani, h-he-..." She stuttered when I felt my blood boil as I took hold of her shoulders to steady her.

"What happened Adriana? Fucking say it!" I shouted when Jake pulled me away from her and scowled at me.

"Addy, what the hell did she say? What did Gio do?" Jake asked her more calmly while she trembled furiously in his hold.

"H-He tried to force himself on her. He tried to rape her, Nicholas!" She shouted and I felt my blood freeze over as Jake froze in his place.

"W-what? H-he did what?" I stumbled back a step, my vision getting blurry as I sharply turned to Jake.

"Gather every fucking person, call in every fucking favour, get me everyone. We leave immediately." I told him.

He nodded once and took out his phone, barking orders while I took Adriana inside the house and to the living room.

"Did she say anything else? Please, Adriana, please, tell me she's fine. Tell me she's okay, that our baby's fine." I pleaded when she hiccupped and nodded.

"She was able to save herself from him in time, Ace. Someone there is helping her escape. And the baby is fine." She said regaining a little composure when I nodded, dropping onto the couch beside her and holding my head in my hands.

"Nicholas." I looked up at Jake's voice who looked at me with a dark expression.

"I called for a code red." He said and I sat up straighter.

"Good, is everyone coming?" I asked as the front doors were thrown open and all my family walked in, followed by my cousins and both uncles at the front.

"Abbiamo un codice rosso, Ace." (We got a code red, Ace) Salvatore came to me with a grim expression when I stood up as everyone bowed their head to me in respect.

"Giovanni tried to force himself on my wife. She's carrying my child, the heir to my empire. I want everyone ready, we're leaving, now." I ordered when murmurs sounded through the crowd as the closest family I had came to me confused.

"Wife?" Stuart asked and I nodded, looking at Jake meaningfully who explained to everyone that we got married privately the day she got taken.

The memory itself made my chest constrict as I tried to control my emotions. I couldn't afford a slip up. Not now.

"Tighten security on her family, make sure they're safe and let them know." I said and Jake nodded, giving out orders as everyone scrambled abut to get ready.

I went upstairs to my room, taking a shower and watching the blood of the traitors wash away from my body as I clenched my fists shut.

I'll save her.

I shaved and put on an all black suit, leaving the first two buttons before slipping on my black shoes and reloaded my gun, tucking it into my belt with another extra one.

Placing a few knives in strategic places, I went back down to see all my men washed up and cleaned, gathering their weapons and reloading them.

"Tutti pronti?" (Everyone ready?) I asked and Jake nodded as we all made our way outside.

"Posizione inviata, Don." (Location sent, Don.) Luca said.

I nodded, watching as he got in a van with other men, my guards getting in their own vehicles as I got in my car before we drove to the airport and got on my jet.

The guards and other men would be coming in another plane and we would all meet there. Tapping my foot impatiently on the floor, I fidgeted in my seat as Jake talked to Luca on the phone.

Stuart and Matteo cleaned their guns while Salvatore and Stefan discussed the plan with me, making sure we had a back up as well in case things went south.

I'm coming for you my love, I'm almost there.