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Leo's P.O.V 

"Capone, the multimillionaire was found dead in his own hotel room, in Chicago last night. Sources say that apparently his own men shot him in cold blood. Capone owned countless casinos in LA, Miami, Vegas and Chicago, he also owned construction companies however those were not the only works he was known for. Inner source reports that he was in business with the drug cartels and involved in numerous money scams. In-tells also confirms he was behind the murder of well-known Tycoon Xavier De la Cruz and his girlfriend... Read more on page 14"

"FINALLY, that bastard is gone." Jamie gushed out.

"Yeah well that doesn't bring Xavier and AnnaLynne back." Cole stated raising his beer bottle to his mouth. "We should have killed him first."

"It took us 6 months to get to that bastard; I think it would have nearly impossible to do it in 3 hours." I reminded them.

"I can't believe we didn't know there was a bomb in Xavier's car." Jamie stated getting up from his seat, opposite from the desk. "I'm gonna go and check out the Thompson's new deal downtown."

"Good, try and get as many men you can in the construction business and bouncers. Just because X is gone doesn't mean we're carrying on like this. Our fathers fucked up and I don't wanna end up like him, neither did X so we make it right." I announced sternly. My right-hand man Jamie and third in command Cole nodded in sympathy.

"I met this chick, I don't want what happened to Anna, happen to her." Jamie admitted with beady eyes.

"Yeah. Anyways, Malina Cartel wants a deal... I can't just turn it down like that, I'm gonna get some of the experienced ones and do the boost. Cole you're in charge next week 'cause we'll both be out of town." I commanded playing with the glass globe on Xavier's former desk.

"Fine, I'll see you later." Cole stood up and followed Jamie out of the office that I owned now.

Getting up from my seat, I walked over to the hall of fame that X created when he was alive. It was a montage of all of us. Me and X grew up together, my father was his father's right hand man and we both experienced the same torments from our fathers. 

However, I was proud of my boy for taking the high way out whereas I took the support of girls and alcohol after both of our fathers died.

I still couldn't get the image of X out of my head when he first saw her, he usually never takes a second glance at any girl, even the ones who'd physically throw themselves at him but with Anna, he looked damn star stuck. 

That's when I knew, she was the girl he'd been looking for years and there was no way in hell he was going to let her go.

The sound of the phone ringing snapped me out of my zone, I rushed to pick it up knowing exactly who it was.

"Martinez speaking." I announced confirming the code letting him know it's safe to talk. Usually I never used my surname but I needed to let the person know I was alone.

"You've done well Leo, I'm very proud of you." He complimented.

"Yeah well, I learned from the best didn't I?" I retorted back, laughing . "You coming back now?"

"Come on Leo, a dead man can't come back." Xavier stated.

Xavier's P.O.V

"So what happens to your empire now?" Leo inquired.

"You're the king now. You run YOUR empire, I never wanted that life in the first place. As long as you don't cut me off, I don't have to come back from the dead." I warned him chucking because I knew he'd never do that to me.

"Never bro, whatever you need, just tell me yeah?"

"Will do." I smiled at my friend's sympathy and kindness. I did miss that knuckle head. After our parents died, we only had each other.

Flashback

"Bring my sports car around and get one of my private planes ready." I ordered Leo and Dylan as I safely held the love of my life in my arms while we speed walked down the hall towards the elevator.

"WAIT" Dylan stopped us all before getting into the elevator making me angry. I didn't have time to waste, I needed to get my princess to safety as soon as possible. "What if this is the exact reaction he wants from you... what if he already sabotaged your cars and planes so when you get on it... you die."

For some reason he did make sense however knowing Capone, he'd always strike from the front. "But that's now how we do things here, we declare wars not some spy shit." I informed him and tried to move past to enter the elevator.

"Hear me out, how about we try out your idea with other people and see if it's safe. X I've known you for years now. I wouldn't want anything to happen to you... After all my father did manage the dirty tactical cleaner job." He reminded me. Cleaner in this business mean cleaning up the crime scene with no suspect and evidence including federal data. They can make people vanish into thin air.

"Fine what's your plan?" I asked bringing Anna closer to me, her hand fisted around my grey t-shirt.

He nodded and spoke into his wrist piece. "I need couple of guards to run the elevator with flour bags, get them from the kitchen and run it quick, another one to check his sports car and start the engine and I want Dina to hack into the cities' surveillance system and get me a clear route to X's private airport."

"What's with the flour bag?" Leo asked shielding Anna from behind.

"It stimulates the weight barrier, so if it was sabotaged, we'd know." He smirked knowing he was right.

We waited for his theory to work in the hallway, I looked at my fiancée in my arms who stayed awfully quiet the whole time.

"What's wrongs princess?" I asked taking her away from my guards.

"Nothing's wrong." She replied with a tired smile as she stepped up onto my feet on tip toes trying to match my height to kiss me. I couldn't dim the roaring fireworks that were being lit in my stomach when she gently tugged on my messy hair and kissed me so passionately that it made my heart ache.

She kissed me like it was the last time ever.

"You know I'm not gonna let anything happen to you." I reassured her, grabbing her small face in my large hands, bringing her forehead to rest against mine.

"I know." I could hear the smile in her voice. "But if anything happens to you, mean anything could happen to me." She hugged me tightly like she never wanted to let go.

"I'd die to protect you." I told her honestly kissing the top of her forehead.

"I know... but I'd die with you." She smiled against my chest making my inside break into pieces at the thought of living without her.

I didn't know what love meant before I met her and the moment I met her I knew the purpose of my life. It was to protect her at any cost. I couldn't believe I only met her a month ago. It honestly felt like I've known her for eternity, like she was made for me.

 I found myself confiding in her with my business and personal life, like she was my best friend. I loved her company and her laugh was like music to my ears.

"I can't believe my first time had to end like this." Anna chuckled removing her head to look into my eyes.

"It hasn't ended yet princess-"

"X, the elevator is fine but the car blew up and they found bombs in all of the planes." Leo's worried voice broke the trance she always seemed to keep me in.

"So what now?" I asked as the girl in my arms turned around to face Leo.

"I don't know but we have to get you out, quickly."

"No, we plant fake evidence." Dylan's wise voice called out as he made his way through the barricade of guards. "We let the world know, you and your girlfriend were leaving in a hurry and didn't know about the bomb, we pay people to tamper with the crime scene and make people believe you're dead until we get Capone and his loyal men then you can return."

"That's not a bad I idea." Anna's sweet voice whispered lightly.

"Yeah? You think it could work?" I asked Dylan.

"Yeah. I'd come with you two as well as your bodyguard... but right now we wait here for a couple of days. We need you two in the parking lot by the way so we can edit the surveillance."

End of Flashback

"How's Dylan doing, I'm sure he's loving Maldives?" Leo asked.

"Yeah." I laughed. "There's not much work here, so he's usually at the holiday night clubs, picking up ladies."

"That's Dylan for you. How's your right hand men doing?" I asked in concerned, they weren't in our previous inner circle as it used to me be only me, Dylan and Leo.

"Yeah they are alright men you know it's not the same but they're trustworthy." He reassured me. "Anyways I have ladies to do." He told me earning himself an eye roll. "Give Anna my love and hope her parents accept you as well man."

"Yeah. they're inside right now, anyways I'll call you back okay." I ended the call and shoved my hand in my pocket watching the waves crash along the white sandy shore. The huge wooden holiday house Leo bought for me a week after the news of me and Anna dying broke out.

Dylan promised he'd come along with us for reassurance. He was supposed to back afterwards but he was honestly having too much fun to go back, so Leo bought him his own separate bungalow.

When I heard the news that my men closed in on Capone, I decided to get Leo to bring Anna's parents here. I wanted her to have all the happiness in the world. I loved how free she was here, although every time she'd go out on her own, my heart will ache.

Not because I was concerned of her safety because she had guards but because she might meet someone else much better than me.

 Although I'm still engaged to her and she shows me she loves me all the time, I still can't help but think that she'll one day wake up and realise I wasn't the one for her while she's everything for me.

My thoughts were abruptly interrupted when bolts of electricity shot through my torso. Anna's arms encircled my body. Her face buried in the dip of my back muscles. I gulped loudly at how easily she could get me on my knees with just one look. 

Turning around in her arms, I hugged her back tightly never wanting to let go of how good she felt flushed against my body.

"What are you doing here?" She asked kissing my chest before looking up with those hypnotic hazel green eyes. This girl would be the death of me.

"I just wanted to give your parents some space... you know... they're having a hard time digesting the fact I'm a murderer. Anyways what are you doing here? You haven't been feeling very well lately you shouldn't be out." She's been throwing up in the mornings and looked slightly paler but more radiant than usual. I told her to go to the doctors but she refused saying it will go away soon.

"No I'm fine honestly and are you marrying me or them?" She asked making me chuckle.

"You."

"Are you in love with me or them?" She asked again tip toeing on my feet to trying to reach my height. She was still a good 6 to 7 inches shorter than me.

"You."

"Good because, you only have to impress me or care about my decisions because there's no way in hell I'm letting my soul mate go." She stated firmly bringing her arms around my neck to pull me down to her height.

We kissed until our lungs gave out and continued to stare at each other intently. The way her hair danced along with the afternoon wind, how her white sundress flared around her thighs, made her look like an angel. 

A movement in our house caught my eyes, I saw her father lurking out the windows with a fixed frown on his face.

"You're dad's watching. I think we better go in." Her family hated me.

The day went by quickly, to my relief. I stayed quiet and helped Anna with the food. Surprisingly dinner was less daunting than I thought it would be. They talked among themselves as I fiddled with my food at the head of the table with Anna beside me.

 She noticed how uncomfortable and left out I felt, so she'd put her hand on my lap and rub my thigh gently every now and then to comfort me.

After dinner, I decided to go up to our room while they all instead on helping with the clean-up but Anna on the other hand didn't like the way her family was treating me at all. 

I've never seen her angry or disappointed before, yes we had our little arguments but it never lasted for more than an hour or brought that 'I want to kill you' look on her face that she had on when her mother totally ignored my I offered to help.

I smiled at her patience and left the room letting them talk among themselves.

The neglected feeling was never a good one and the fact that Anna's family had the ability to change her mind about us getting married, terrified me. Instead of sitting here and mourning I decided to stand against the long stairway and hear their quarrel from downstairs.

"You know you don't have to do this, we're here now and we'll protect you." Anna's brother voice echoed through downstairs hallway.

"I already told you I love him and that's why I'm staying with him." Anna retorted back with a stern voice making my heart jump with joy.

"No, you don't." Her mother cried through.

"Yes, I do."

"He's a murderer for God's sake." Her dad's cursed slamming something against the wall.

"Well he SAVED me."

"Is that why you're here, you think you owe him something? Because if you do we'll pay him back full price so you don't have to stay here." Her brother shouted.

The silence that broke through the house made my heart clench in my chest. Did Anna really stay with me to repay her price?

"Fine. 10 million and 7 months' worth of luxuries. Pay that back...." She told them with a cold voice making my knees buckle forcing me to hold on to the banister.

They all sighed in relief before her father spoke through. "I don't care how and from where I'm gonna get that amount of money but I will."

"Fine." Anna stated with a normal voice.

So she's leaving me?

"Good, your dad already brought an extra ticket to take you home." Her mother told her with a humble voice making me miss my own mother.

"Wait... who said I was leaving? You said you wanted to pay him back, so pay him, I'm not leaving. At least then Xavier would know I'm staying with him because I love him, not because I owe him anything." My princess scoffed making my all the pieces of my heart instantly mould back together.

"WHAT?" They all shouted in sync.

"What? The only way I'd leave Xavier is by death so you either kill me or see me with him forever." She warned them.

"He's a MONSTER." Her brother spoke up in frustration.

"DON'T YOU DARE JUDGE HIM; you don't know what he's been through so don't. We all had it easy while he had to fight for himself and other people. He's lost his parents and I'm sure Luke, you'd want revenge if someone killed our parent right in front of us. I know I would"

No one dared to speak after her mini outbreak.

"Yeah that's exactly what I thought." She scoffed in victory.

"But he puts your life in danger." Her mother spoke up.

"And I'd happily die by his side." She shot back too quickly, my heart clenched at the thought of her dying. "I can't imagine myself living without him. So, I'm not taking any chances."

"So what about us?" Her father asked with a sad voice.

"You can always come and visit. The main reason why you're here today is because Xavier arranged it and we're getting married soon and I'd like you all to be there." When I heard shuffling of chairs, I moved back. "I don't want to talk anymore and I'm really tired so I'm going bed."

I quickly went into our room and pretended to read a book but knowing her, she probably knew that I was listening to it. When she entered the room, she had a cute little pout on her face which soon disappeared when her gaze met mine. 

I loved the way she smiled at me. It made my existence relevant. After a quick shower, she changed into my boxers and a t-shirt before climbing into bed with me.

"You feeling okay princess?" I asked bringing her body closer to mine, draping my arm across her tiny waist.

"Yeah, I'm sorry about how my parents treated you." She sighed, backing into my chest even more.

"It's fine." I told her kissing her shoulder.

"No it's not." She retorted back slapping my arm that rested across her waist making me chuckle. "They have no right to judge you and I don't wanna talk about them anymore." She stated firmly which I obeyed.

"What do you think about the name Phoenix?" She asked out of the blue.

"It's unique why?" I asked confused.

"You like it? For a boy that is?" I raise my head from the pillow to look at her beaming face. And that's when it hit me.

"You're pregnant." I asked sitting up immediately turning her around to face me. My mind became a whirlpool of unfathomable emotions.

"Yup." She smiled up at me with blazing eyes.

"With my baby?" My eyes blurred slightly.

"Well, it would be pretty hard for me to get pregnant with someone else's baby considering the fact I've only slept with only one man." She retorted back sarcastically.

"YOU'RE PREGNANT WITH MY BABY! YES." I screamed lunging forward to kiss her belly repeatedly.

It was fascinating to think that a part of me was in her right now. My child. Our baby.

"I can't believe it." I whispered resting my head lightly on her stomach, so I didn't squash the baby.

"You know, you can' squash the baby yet." She ran her soft fingers through my hair.

"Shh..." I scolded her scrunching my eyebrows playfully trying to hide my embarrassment.

"Well done baby daddy" she shifted back into our spooning position.

"Daddy, I like the sound of that." My heart was about to burst.

She only laughed but stayed silent for a while giving me some time to digest the news properly. I was going to be a dad. A father. As I rubbed her flat stomach that will be swollen with my child, I made a mental promise to myself to be the father I never had.

I'd treat my children and their mother like the queen she is. I'd give them the whole world before they even asked for it. With the last vow, I slowly started to fall asleep with a smile on my face when Anna's spoke up.

"You know you didn't have to eavesdrop, I would have told you anyways." My eyes widen and then I realised it was her talking. Obviously, she knew me better than I knew myself.

"God I love you." I told her bringing her closer to my body and dreaming of a happy new life.

THE END