My Assassin Husband Pointed His Gun At The Mafia Queen Chapter 08
I Take Back Everything He Tried to Steal
Within a month, the Vale Mafia is mine again.
Not that it ever truly stopped being mine.
The men who knowingly joined Adrian’s coup are removed.
The ones who followed Marcus under my orders stay.
Marcus becomes my official second-in-command.
Black Viper is finished.
Vanessa is handed over with the rest of Black Viper’s surviving leadership.
I never ask what happens to her.
My priority is Ellie.
I don’t turn my five-year-old daughter into a soldier.
But I do teach her what I wish she never had to learn.
How to recognize danger.
Where to run.
Who to call.
And most importantly, that being family doesn’t automatically make someone safe.
A few weeks later, I take her away from the compound.
Just the two of us.
We spend several days by the ocean.
One evening, Ellie sits beside me in the sand.
“Mommy?”
“Yeah?”
“Are you going to kill Daddy?”
I look out at the water.
“No.”
“Why?”
“Because I don’t need to.”
She thinks about that.
“Can he come home?”
“No.”
“Your father made choices he can’t take back.”
“What happens to him?”
“I own an island.”
She looks up.
“He’ll live there.”
“Forever?”
“Yes.”
Ellie is quiet for a long time.
Then she whispers:
“Can I see him first?”
I don’t answer immediately.
She looks at me.
“Just once.”
I kiss her forehead.
“Okay.”
One last goodbye.
That’s all I’m willing to give him.