SOLD TO THE MAFIA QUEEN

Noah moved his feet in the rope that was tied to the chair. “Don’t move,” Ashley said, placing her hand on the trigger. Jake whispered to Chris. Chris took a step forward, standing behind Ashley.

“Ashley, please don’t do this. I know you are sad that you lost your father but killing him won’t bring him back, it will just bring more problems,” he said. But Ashley’s body was still tense, she had made up her mind to kill Noah.

“I am sorry, Chris, but I can’t listen to you right now. I am sorry.” She said and fired the shot, but Xander intervened just in time, causing her to shoot out the window instead.

“Stay out of this!” She yelled at Xander and attempted to shoot Noah again. Noah started trying to untie the rope from his feet with his hands quivering.

“I said don’t move!” Ashley roared.

“Ashley, please don’t kill him, didn’t you say you wanted to torture him? If he dies, how are you going to torture him?” Chris asked, placing a hand on Ashley’s back. Ashley’s eyes shifted back and forth widely, trying to suppress the burning fire inside of her, she slowly lowered the gun. Chris leaned closer to her and grabbed her hand, trying to take the gun from her, but she refused to let go of it.

“I won’t kill him anymore.” She said, calmly, her head turned to the floor as if lost in thought. Chris placed his hand on his chest, letting out a sigh of relief. Jake and Xander also calmed down, breathing heavily, they knew allowing Ashley to kill the heir of another great gangster would cause a war. There was an awkward silence in the room, and all eyes were on Ashley. She ran her hand through her hair, messing it up while still holding tightly to the gun. Noah looked at her with wide eyes, quickly removing the rope from his feet. A knock came on the door, breaking the silence. Xander went to the door and opened it. The butler made his way into the room, holding an envelope.

“Queen, look who is here,” Jake said. She turned around to see the butler. He stood in front of her, bowing his head slightly with respect, and extended the envelope to her. “Your father asked me to give that letter to you once anything happens to him,” he said. Ashley’s hand shook as she took the letter from him.

“When did he write it?” She asked her voice hoarse. “It hadn’t been long, he had one of the servants write it for him before he died.” He replied.

Ashley swiftly opened the letter and started reading it. “My dear daughter, I don’t know what will happen in the future, so I decided to write this letter. If I die, I want you to get married and have a child that will take on most of the responsibilities I left for you because you can’t handle them alone. If your mother continues to disturb you for money, I want you to give her one of my hotels to manage. As for Noah’s father, he is being held captive in the warehouse I love to go to when I am stressed out. I want you to know that you are my favorite human in this world. I am very proud of you, my girl. I love you.”

Ashley fought back the tears that were striving to come out of her eyes and clenched the letter. A part of her felt satisfied as she was aware of her father’s last wish now, but she wasn’t sure she was ready to get married now or start a family. “I love you too, dad.” A cry that she couldn’t hold back erupted from her throat. She ran into Chris’s arms, wrapped her hand around him, and buried her head in his chest. Chris was startled at first, but he began stroking her hair with his left hand. He expected tears to land on his chest, but he didn’t feel anything. Noah got up, his mouth tightened into a hard line, and he squeezed his hand as he started walking to the door. He grabbed the doorknob and was about to open it when Jake seized him, putting his hand around his neck.

“You can’t leave now, the queen hasn’t said you could leave,” Jake said. Noah just released his muscles and refused to fight back while Ashley was emotional. She patted Chris’s back a little and pulled away from the hug, her eyes extremely red. She met Noah’s terrified gaze, holding tightly to the gun.

“I am sorry, Chris.” She said and nudged Chris aside and shot Noah in the chest with great speed. Jake let go of Noah immediately, Noah staggered and creased his forehead, giving Ashley a pained look, but she put another bullet into his stomach. “That’s for killing my father!” She snapped.

“Ashley, what have you done?” Chris asked slowly as Noah landed on the floor with a great thud. Tears were leaking out of his eyes. Ashley’s heart stopped thumping and her body relaxed when she realized what she had done, but she didn’t regret it.

“What about all the things we told you? Queen? Why did you still go ahead and shoot him?” Jake raised his voice at Ashley.

“I couldn’t hold myself back, Jake, he has wronged me, he is the reason my father is dead,” Ashley answered. Xander just simply shook his head and went to Noah on the floor, grasping Noah’s right hand and feeling his purse. “His heart is still beating. If we hurry up, we can still save him,” Xander said and picked up Noah in his arms.

“Don’t take him to the hospital, send his corpse to his house, his relatives should know what to do with his body,” Ashley said.

“Queen, what have you become? Just because someone has wronged you does not imply that you must repay them with evil or take the law into your own hands, things do not work that way.” Chris started. “I thought you were bigger than this, what are you going to do after killing him? Are you going to kill his father too?” Chris asked her. Ashley swallowed hard. “I think that’s the only way to settle the score.” Her words came like a bomb to all of them, and Xander was still carrying the lifeless body of Noah in his arms.

“Queen, you can’t do that! You are going to get us all killed!” Chris argued. Ashley just turned on her heels and headed out of the room without responding.From NôvelDrama.Org.