The Assassin

Ava.Chapter #23

Here we go guys...

Niccolo.

The next couple hours were a complete blur.

We found ourselves packed into my car, dead silent, paying attention to the opening and closing of Leonardo's estates' gates as people exited and occasionally arrived.

"So far, we've seen roughly seventy-five of his men exit, there's more in there no doubt, but we can't just sit and wait until he's the last one in there."Max pipes up. I listened but continued to play with my baby girl while Alexander keeps track of his movement via our inside man.

Turns out, Sean, Alexander's spy, is currently Damien's sister babysitter while Leonardo is in a private meeting.

Staring straight ahead, more specifically, at the room the girl was in, I stiffened. No!

Slipping my knife into my combat boots, I sat up. Squinting my eyes as I strained to see from such a distance, but I slumped down when my eyes confirmed the truth.

"It can't be." I groaned in annoyance.

This bitch better not fuck with my head.

"What?" Alexander turned to me, a confused look on his face as he searched me for answers.

Shrugging lightly, I twisted my body just enough to grab my binoculars.

"Alexander........I swear ......to everything holy.....if Damien made it out and you didn't tell me, I'm going to kill you and your bitch....... slowly." my threat was said out of pure shock.

"Surely you wouldn't think a jail cell could hold him back when it comes to family." Max, opened his eyes, peering at me sleepily.

"He wasn't supposed to be out this early. Why didn't I know this earlier? Why didn't you tell me?" I looked at Alexander, my eyes hard and fists formed in anger.

Instead of answering, Alexander gave me a familiar small ear device. I looked at him.

"What's this for?" i asked. By now, i was anticipating a bullshitted answer. I looked at him and flicked my eyes back to the small device.

"Just take it." he encouraged with a reassuring nod.

Glancing at the man in the back, he sent me a smirk, i snagged the device from Alexander and replaced mine with it.

"This wasn't planned, so don't start capisce?" his voice was strong and calm, odd.

"Don't start what?" i asked, though i have a pretty good idea of what he meant.

Damien paused, a few seconds went by and neither of us talked.

"Don't start shit you can't finish." another voice answered. A voice i was not familiar with.

"Who is this bitch?" i asked, sitting up again. I closed my eyes, the stress started, my head pounded in pain and i was low on drugs.

This isn't good.

"Niccolo, i need you to be ready for my call. You will enter through the back gate. Walk right in and i'll be on the third floor with Ava and Sean. For the love of God........don't screw this up." Damien warns.

I sat, working out my strategies in my mind. Shouldn't be longer than thirty minutes.

"Damien, what about Alex and Max here?" i asked, absentmindedly pointing to the two.