TRAPPED BY A HEARTLESS MAFIA

SELENA

"Stay away from my family," I warned him as I gave him a tight slap on the face. I didn't care about the fact that his business associate where in the office currently looking at us with their jaw dropped in shock.

Yes I slapped the well known billionaire Aiden Frazier in his office and I wasn't sorry about it.

I know you might be wondering how I got here and where I got the audacity from to slap such a man and honestly I will tell you without leaving any details out.

It all started a month ago when my father announced that he was getting married to his mistress. The truth was I really didn't care, infact my mother and sister didn't care about it. We were fed up of his useless lifestyle of frolicking with different women.

We even wished him well in his endeavours and didn't attend the wedding but thereafter we started getting into trouble day by day. It started off as just little boys harrassing us and telling us to pay them back what we owed them and then it got serious to them harassing us publicly.

I soon found out from my mother that my dad had loaned some money from some Mafia gang under Aiden Frazier, don't ask me how they even got to meet and discuss about that loan because I don't know. I was more concerned about why me and my sister were getting harrassed and not my dad and his slut, sorry new wife.

I took it upon myself that day to go to my dad's house and find out what the hell was going on because the harassment was getting too much and I feared it might get out of hand too because trust me I wasn't one to be afraid, I always found courage to fight back those men and it didn't always end well for me. I had gotten a lot of bruises on my body due to fighting back.

My dad had apologized to me and reassured me he was going to talk to Aiden Frazier to stay away from us and focus on him but I knew he was lying, I always knew when he was lying. I don't know when he suddenly became like this, so foolish.

I went home that day raining curses on him and his new wife, I was this close to beating her when she said I wasn't lady like but I just decided to leave in annoyance. When I got back home I knew today was going to be the day.

My mother's little shop had been demolished and when I say demolish, I mean it. I am not exaggerating here so you should get a hint of where my anger started from, I stood in front of the shop staring at my mother on the floor crying her eyes out and my younger sister Brianna consoling her to remain calm and not cry anymore.

How could they do this? This was going too far, my mother's shop was our livelihood. This shop was our source of income and they just demolished it like it was nothing, I bent down to console my mother because I knew it would be stupid of me to start crying as well. I had to be strong for her and I tried to be until I noticed her cheeks were red.

Why were they red? What else did I miss?

"Who did this to you?" I asked touching her face as she winced in pain.

"I tried to stop them but they shoved me off and slapped mum twice in the face," Brianna explained crying.

How could they do that to my own mother? I didn't know when I rose up on my feet and left them alone there, I could hear my mother calling out to me but I paid no attention to her.

I took a taxi with the little change left with me straight to his company, he was a well known man so his company wasn't so hard to find. If my father couldn't talk to him then I would do so.

When I got to the company I felt out of place when I stepped in, everyone was dressed in suit. Not like I couldn't dress like that but it wasn't like I planned to be here by this time. So, I was dressed in a T shirt and tight jean.

I approached the receptionist desk and made enquiry about Aiden Frazier and how I could meet him but instead I got a repulsive look from her as she scanned my outfit from head to toe kissing her teeth silently.

"Do you have an appointment?" she asked me already looking at her computer so I could give her my name.

"I need to see him now," I demanded but she only laughed in my face annoying me the more.

"So, you don't have an appointment, should I place one across or will you just leave?"

I stared at her for a while debating what I should do next and trust me I wasn't thinking straight when I ran into the building and straight to the elevator.

I concluded the receptionist was a foolish woman because she decided to circle her desk and chase after me than call security on me. By the time she was done circling her chair and trying to catch up with me i was already in the elevator and on my way to the last floor which I suspected was where he was.

I got to the last floor and wasted no time in going into all the rooms, opening the door as quickly as I could, scanning the room for Aiden Frazier and moving on to the next.

It didn't take long when the receptionist caught on to me but she was too late, I was already at the last door.

"What is wrong with you?" she yelled at me trying to get me away from the door but I shoved her off me stepping inside. I scanned the room and caught sight of Aiden Frazier sited far off, it seemed they were having a meeting because they all turned to stare at me and the receptionist.

"Forgive me Sir, I tried to stop her," I heard her begging.

I walked up to his seat without hesistating, how could you be here having a meeting and dining while my mother was crying her eyes out.

I slapped him right in the face. His left cheek to be precise.

"Stay away from my family," I warned him slapping him again right on that same cheek.

SELENA

It was night time and I had watched my mother cry herself to sleep, while I and Brianna tried to comfort her. Eventually Brianna fell asleep and I was forced to go to bed as there was nothing I could do regarding the shop.

I was already in dreamland when I jerked up from bed at the sound of a loud bang.

It was a gun shot.

I clutched the pillow by my side to my chest as if it would somehow protect me from the danger that lurked in the shadows. My eyes were wide with fear, darting around the room as I listened intently for any sound.

When I got back home and told them how I had slapped Aiden Frazier, my mother wept bitterly and told me they wouldn't let us off for what I had done. At first I took it as a bluff but now I feared that he had truly sent those thugs to come for me.

I had let my anger get the best of me when I rushed to his company and slapped him, but I didn't regret my actions. He deserved it for what he had made his thugs do to my mother, how could they have hit my mum like that.

I slowly heard footsteps approaching and every creak of the floorboards made my heart race, and the faintest whisper of wind through the open window sent shivers down my spine. I was acutely aware of the vulnerability of my position, with no escape route and no weapons to defend myself.

The bitter taste of fear and panic lingering on my mind at the thought of the safety of my sister and mother. I was utterly powerless in the face of the danger that threatened me, I had to think fast before things got out of hand.

I rolled out of bed slowly, tip toeing to the corner of the bed where I had a baseball bat lying on the floor, I picked it up carefully not trying to make a sound, it was the only thing in the room right now that I could think of using to defend myself.

I walked to the door as I raised the bat, posing to strike, I could hear Brianna yelling and it only made me more terrified, I braced myself holding on to the bat tightly to strike as the footsteps got closer but before I could organize my defense mechanism in my head, the door came crashing and a hard slap fell on my face.

The impact of the slap was so hard that I staggered back and the baseball bat in my hand came crashing down, tears trickled down my eyes instantly without control as the man in black who had slapped me motioned me out of the room pointing a gun to my forehead.

"Move bitch."

I stood frozen in fear, my eyes wide with terror. My hands trembled uncontrollably at the side, and my heart pounding furiously against my chest. I felt paralyzed by the sight of the gun, it was the first time in my life that I was seeing a gun.

"Are you deaf? Move or I make you," the man yelled at me as I took a step forward and out of the room, I felt the gun at the back of my head as his other hand pushed my back forward.

"Selena," my mother cried out when I was finally in the living room and she caught sight of the man pointing a gun behind my head. I wanted to run to her and Brianna who were cowering in a corner as two other men in black were pointing guns at them.

"Don't be stupid," one of them warned when my mother was about standing up to cover the distance between us, her eyes were swollen and red, and it only made me angry but I tried to contain my annoyance.

As much as I wanted to yell at them for putting my mother in an uncomfortable situation, I had to control myself.

Were they planning on killing all of us?

My body became tense; every muscle was wound up like a spring ready to release. I could hear my pulse throbbing in my ears, drowning out all other sounds.

"Please don't," I cried out. "Don't hurt them, please."

"Shut up," a voice yelled from the shadows, I had been engrossed with my mother and sister cowering that I didn't notice another man was also in the room sited in the corner. "On your knees," he ordered.

I fell to my knees, my arms outstretched in a desperate plea for mercy. I begged and pleaded with my captors to spare me, my voice shaking with fear and desperation.

"Please, please don't kill me," I sobbed. "I'll do anything, just please don't kill me. I'm begging you."

"Please she didn't mean to do that to your boss, please I am like a mother to you," my mother cried out rubbing her hands together and begging them, if I regretted anything it was getting my family involved in my foolishness.

There was utter silence and then they all laughed cruelly, their eyes cold and unfeeling. They cocked their weapons, ready to fire on their boss order.

Brianna and my mother hugged each other tightly at the sound of the gun and I could have sworn my soul was leaving my body, I could hear my mother still begging in a low voice, but it was obvious they were less concerned with our pleas.

I closed my eyes, bracing myself for the inevitable. I knew very well that death was imminent but was this how I was just going to die and in front of my sister and mum, my heart kept pounding in my chest as I waited for the inevitable.

Three seconds gone and nothing was happening instead I heard their leaders voice, it seemed he was on a call, I opened my eyes slowly to see what was going on.

"Bag them," it was the last thing I heard before I blacked out.

AIDEN

My face turned red with fury as I clenched my fists in anger, my body language displayed my rage as I paced back and forth. My breathing became heavy and my voice grew loud as I yelled at the man standing before me in my office.

"I want you to find that lady and kill her," I ordered.

I couldn't believe that I had been taken off guard by her actions. I had remained sited, frozen in place, my face burning with shame as the woman lashed out after slapping me right in the face with a venomous tirade of insults and accusations.

I had thought my business deal was going to go smoothly, my business partners were about finalizing on the proposal, but then she had arrived and ruined everything for me, her eyes were cold as ice as she finished her verbal assault, and left the office.

I could feel the weight of my partners' stares on me, a look of disbelief that a man of my calibre could be slapped not once but twice on the face by a woman, I was humiliated. I tried to choke out a few words to calm the atmosphere, but it was clear that my credibility had been irreparably damaged.

As the meeting disbanded, I stumbled out, barely able to hold myself up with the weight of humiliation heavy on my shoulders. I knew that I would never be able to live down the disgrace of being slapped by a woman in front of my business partner's and shareholders, and that the shadow of this moment would follow me for the rest of my career.

There was nothing more that I wanted now but to have that woman killed as soon as possible, she had done something that even my mother couldn't dare do.

"Sir, I understand your anger but it is best we find out first why she did...."

"Max."

"On it Sir," Max replied. He had been opportune to witness the whole incident and he knew I had every right to be mad with rage with what had happened but I knew he was about to stop me from trying to kill the lady but he didn't dare say anything further because he knew how I was in situations like this. It was best to obey my orders than face my wrath.

The office door opened as Natalia walked in majestically with a smile on her face, Max bowed his head to her briefly then walked out of the office closing the door behind him.

"My love," Natalia smile at me closing the distance between us, she had been at her photoshoot when I got a call from her that she had heard what happened, I knew she had someone keeping an eye on me in the company but I didn't bother finding out who the person was as long as it was just to check my well being.

"My goodness," she said placing her hands softly to my cheeks where the aftermath of the slap was still showing but I took her hands and yanked them off my cheeks, it was obvious she had left her photoshoot halfway to come see me.

"I heard what happened, I am sorry baby."

"This is all messed up," I yelled banging the desk in front of me and scaring Natalia.

We had been dating for three years now and it felt like she was still terrified of me, of what I was, even though she had told me constantly that she wasn't I could still sense the fear whenever I had a temper tantrum.

"I am sure Max will be able to..."

"I want her dead, she has to be used as a scape goat," I said.

"Baby, you need to calm down," Natalia pleaded. She placed her hand over my neck leaning in as she kissed me lightly on the lips.

"She humiliated me for fuck sake, right now we can only proceed with what we discussed last night," I said angrily staring at Natalia. My mother had suggested that I got married as soon as possible, even if it was for a period of time, it was the only way I could get my shareholders to see me as being responsible.

Right now they were still looking at me as a young boy who wasn't fully able to manage the company, even though I had proved to them over and over again that I was capable and diligent, those old fools felt marriage was the icing on the cake.

I didn't like the idea one bit when my mother had brought it to my ears but looking at the current situation, it seemed it was the best choice right now.

"The marriage stuff?" Natalia asked like she wasn't certain of what I was talking about.

I knew Natalia wasn't keen on us getting married quickly, and because of the company. I also didn't see myself getting married as well but right now it was the only option and Natalia and I had been dating long enough to get married.

She had sounded reluctant last night when I brought the topic up and even now I could see the reluctance in her eyes, I knew it was because of her modelling career but being married to me wasn't going to be an hindrance to her career as a model.

If that was what she wanted to do, then I planned to support her.

"Yes, I think that is the best option right now for the company, we should get married Natalia, I know it feels rushed but three years is enough time for us," I said trying to make her see reasons I wasn't good with words, I was sure if I told her I loved her she would be willing but I wasn't one to use that word.

"I don't want to get married," she said to me. "You know I was actually thinking of a plan to sort this whole marriage out and I think this slap incident came right in time."

"What nonsense are you on about Natalia?" I asked letting go of her, was she mocking me?

"Don't get me wrong babe, what I mean is, I am not ready to get married right now because of my career but that shouldn't stop you from getting married. This lady that slapped you, can be of good use for like a contract marriage till we are really ready to settle down."

"You want me to marry another woman?" I asked with a puzzled look not believing something like that could ever come out of her mouth. It was one thing for us to slow down on the marriage procedures but for me to marry another woman, was she out of her mind?

"A contract marriage for your shareholders."

"This is absurd coming from you Natalia."

"It isn't, didn't you say you wanted her dead. It would be a better punishment to take her freedom away from her than just killing her so easily," she suggested.