Together till the end

April 4, 2022

The little girl was sitting on the step, crying. 

“What’s wrong?” Grace asked as she approached her.  

“I can’t find my Mom,” the little girl replied. Behind a couple of trees, someone smirked and left. 

Grace was the daughter of Alexander Smith, one of the known mafia leaders in the country. 

Grace was never interested in learning about the mafia growing up, but as she got older she got more involved. While being in the mafia she knew that she had to watch out since her father had many enemies. His main enemy was Benjamin Miller with a son her age, Liam Miller. 

Grace had a kind heart, though. She loved to do charity work. She often worked with children, so when she noticed the little girl crying she wanted to help. 

After finding out the girl was lost Grace asked if she knew her mom’s number. The girl sobbing said she did. Grace decided to take her to an ice cream shop to get her to calm down. The girl’s eyes lit up while entering. When reaching the register

“What would you like?” Grace asked the little girl with a warm smile

“Some chocolate ice cream!” She exclaimed. 

“3.75,” the cashier said

After paying, they sat down so the girl could enjoy her ice cream. 

While eating Grace asked, “What’s your mom’s number? What’s her name?”

“It’s 948-845-8346, and her name is Linda.”

Grace dialed the phone. “Yes?” The worried voice on the line said.

“Is this Linda?”

“Yes, do you need something?”

“I found your daughter. Would you like me to take her to you or would you like to come where we are?” 

“OH MY GOD, can I send you an address and meet up?”

“Yes, of course, see you in a bit.”

After seeing the address she noticed it was in a sketchy place. Before going she called her father 

“Send me two guards. I have to return a lost girl I found but the place is sketchy,” she said

“Alright remember to be cautious, the guards will be following you but in secret like always, call me when you are coming home we have a business to do,” he said

“Thank you father and of course, I’ll be quick,” she said and hung up

After the phone call, she told the girl to finish up so they could go back to her mom, Linda. They started to head over to the location and the girl was happily waiting to see her mom. While talking and heading over they finally reached the location and once she rang the door the mom and the girl ran and hugged each other. After many thank you’s

“I’m sorry for the trouble,” Linda said

“No problem, have a good day!” Grace exclaimed

Once the door closed she dialed the phone

“Hey!”

“How was everything? Fine?” her father asked 

“Yup everything was fin-.” The next thing they know a black car stopped and men jumped out to grab Grace. The guards tried to stop it but they were too late. They followed the car but lost track of it since another car crashed into it. 

“GRACE GRACE WHAT’S WRONG DAMMIT” Alexander immediately hung up and ordered multiple people to look for Grace.

Meanwhile, Grace was tied up in the van and knocked out so she couldn’t fight. A while after they had arrived at the destination. They carried her to a room where it was shut locked. After a while, a man in a sharp suit came in and placed something on a table waiting for Grace to wake up. After a few minutes, Grace had finally woke up and realized that she was tied up trying to unite herself. A voice stopped her. 

“Well morning took long enough for you to wake up, ” Liam stated

“What do you want Liam? Why would you take me knowing that my father is looking for me?” Grace questioned

“One, you know what we want and that’s to get rid of your father, and two you’re his weakness and he will try to find you and we get him,” Liam mentioned with a smirk 

“I think you forget something important,” Grace declares smirking right back

“Oh-, What did we forget according to you?” Liam questioned

“3,2,1,” Grace said with a smirk. 

The door was knocked down with many guards surrounding Liam and pinning him down while the others were getting to Grace and untying her. 

“This what you forgot, I am the daughter of the most powerful man. Take him back to you know where and let’s go, quick.”

They started heading back and arrived quickly. After entering her father was in the center waiting for her and hugged her. Grace said, “See I’m fine. Guess who tried to kidnap me!”

“Who?” 

“Liam Miller.”

“It’s time to show them a lesson.” 

“Alright, let’s go.” 

Walking to the room Liam should have no fear whatsoever but that was not surprising. As the daughter or son of the mafia bosses, you shouldn’t show fear. But once they started to torture him she felt something. Not sure what it was she left the room, her father followed her and asked 

“What’s wrong, you don’t feel remorse right?”

“Of course not. I’m just tired.”

“Alright, get some rest then.”

After leaving her father she went up to her room and thought why did she bad for him to be tortured. Why did she want to go help him? Later in the night she got food from the kitchen and went to the room where Liam was. Once she opened the door she noticed him just laying there she just sat down looking down at him.

“Here is food if you want,” she said. 

“Why would I want food from you?” Liam asked

“Fine, starve then,” Grace said 

“I never said no–give it to me,” Liam said aggressively

“Alright here you go,” she passed him the food while rolling her eyes.

After that, they started to talk and the conversation seemed to go well. They were talking about their parents and different things. This has been going on for a couple of weeks now. Both Grace and Liam started to feel a connection forming. They got closer each time they saw each other. One day Grace bought food for the both of them and ate and she even slept there since she was too tired to go to her room. In the morning they were laughing and having a fun time until then her father arrived and asked her what she was doing there. 

There was no excuse for her to use so her dad told her she can’t come in here anymore and there will be guards at the door to make sure that she wouldn’t go inside. After kicking her out they went to his office. 

They started to discuss that she can’t fall in love with him but 

 “Who said I fell in love with him?” Grace questioned

“Your actions speak louder than words!” Alexander Shouted 

She stormed out of the room knowing that it was true she couldn’t fall in love with him but it was too late. After days passed she hadn’t spoken to her father. Alexander kept trying to talk to her but she wouldn’t budge. But what she didn’t know was that they kept hurting him.

Benjamin had no luck trying to find his son, multiple people couldn’t find him. Alexander kept sending him messages to leave and not come back and he would get his son after. But Benjamin wasn’t going to leave; he wanted his power over his son. But soon enough he was going to find out something dark that would lead him to fall.  After days Grace tried to go see Liam, she noticed that the door was not guarded but when she entered she heard a gunshot. Looking at Liam she saw that there was blood on the floor and she saw the wound on Liam and she ran to him

“GET THE MEDIC, HELP HIM!” Grace shouted

No one moved. She carried Liam in her arms. 

Liam looked her in the eyes and said “I love you” and closed his eyes

“NO NO NO!” Grace got up and yelled at her father “ WHY WHY” running off to her room. Her father orders the other guards to take him to his father while writing a note. That said, I told you to leave now the consequences. The guard did take the body and delivered it to benjamin. Once they left Benjamin broke down his world was falling apart and wanted revenge but he knew that he could lose much more if he did. Grace finally pulled herself together and went to talk to her father 

“I didn’t want to be a part of the mafia anymore.” She said coldly

“Once you’re in there is no way out and you know that,” Alexander said

“I don’t want this life anymore. I lost the person who I loved. I want to be normal, not do this. I’m done with this.” Grace said 

 She ran out and her father followed her, she was running towards the forest and her father realized that in the direction that they were running in was heading to a cliff 

“GRACE DON’T, STOP RUNNING WE WILL FIGURE IT OUT!” Alexander shouted

but she kept running until they reached the cliff. It was just her and her father. Walking slowly towards the edge 

“I felt something and didn’t know what it was!” Grace screamed 

“Step away from the edge and we’ll talk about it,” Alexander said nervously  

“It was a feeling that made me feel drawn to him like an attraction and when we started to talk I felt like he understood me and I understood him,” Grace said sobbing in tears. 

“We can get you help but step away from the cliff, you know how important you are to me.” Alexander desperately said

I’m Sorry dad…” and took her final step. 

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