Page 16 of Thalia De Luca

"Go to your room. We will discuss this matter in the morning. Alexander, you take one of the guest bedrooms."

I refrain from asking him what’s really wrong and instead I follow Alexander out the door.

Seven

ARIA

Thalia and Alexander walk out the door and I hear them both arguing as they walk further down the hallway.

They never know how to get along.

I let out a sigh and rub my temple while pacing back and forth again.

"What do we do? I thought we handled this twenty years ago?" Leo asks, looking at Ace.

I hear Ace let out an annoyed sigh. "I fucking did."

"Then how the hell is there an Ivanov still breathing?"

"I don't fucking know, Leo," Ace sighs and takes a deep breath. "Meet me in the cells downstairs."Leo and Emma both make a move to leave the office making it just Ace and me. Ace stands up from his chair and runs his fingers through his dark hair. "Fucking Russians," Ace yells as he punches a wall.

God, he still has anger issues after the twenty-one years I have known him.

I walk towards Ace and stand in front of him. "It's okay. We will take care of them," I say assuringly.

"Ari, I thought I fucking got him. I thought I fucking killed them. All of them."

I put my hands on his face and stroke his cheek. "It's fine. We will handle this. We will fix this. It will be okay."

The past twenty years have been amazing with Ace. It's been nothing but a dream. Ace was a total asshole but then he and I fell in love and everything between us has been euphoric. There have definitely been ups and downs like having Dante ruining our lives and Ace's mom dying but life goes on.

I still haven’t told Ace about the recent news I got from the doctors the other day. But I know it’s going to break him to pieces.

Ace let out another sigh. "Okay. Let's just see what this Russian scum wants," Ace kisses the top of my head.

We both leave his office and meet Leo and Emma downstairs who are talking. We don't see Jane, Thalia, or Alexander in the living room, so I am guessing that they are in their rooms.

"Okay, so what are we doing?" Leo asks as we walk down the hallway of cells.

"What Aria can do best. Get the information we need out of him and then we come up with a solution." We get to the cell where the man is, and Ace and I walk inside while Leo and Emma stand outside of the cell and just watch. "Do your thing, amore," Ace states and I walk closer to the man.

He definitely looks roughed up from when Alexander beat him. But he is still conscious.

Sadly, he is wearing nothing but thin black boxers.

Thank god he is wearing just boxers though because it's always fucking disgusting when I see men's dick's other than Ace's.

I lean towards him, making the man look up at me. "I feel bad for you," I state while observing his face. It showcases fear, especially when he looks at Ace behind me. "My daughter left you alive while she and Alexander killed off the rest."

This man looked young. Probably a little older than Thalia.

"Please just kill me," the man begs.

"Oh, trust me I will but first I need to know some things," I grab the knife I keep in the back pocket of my jeans. "If you answer my questions then you will get a quick and painless death but if you make this hard then I will make sure to skin your body while you just scream in pain and beg me to kill you. So, are we doing this the hard way or the easy way?" I ask while trailing my knife down his cheek. "What's your name?"

"R-Rasputin," he stutters.

"Okay, Rasputin. Who is Vladimir Ivanov?"

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