*Long Chapter Alert*

"Bye! ", Nathan gave a final wave before getting on the taxi.
"Bye bye uncle! ", May waved back.

Stephanie and Chris bid him farewell as he saw them disappear.

His flight back was in about ten hours. So he decided to tour Athens a bit since it was such a beautiful city before he went back to his task. After all he had a job to complete.

"Sir, could you go to Gylfada Square? ", he told the driver as he read the address from his email.

The driver looked at him as if he had lost a screw from his brain.
It wasn't his fault though. Nathan had ordered him to go to the most dangerous place of all in Athens. A place where the pubs were run by the mafia bosses!

Nathan was aware of what he had talked about but the driver didn't. So he flashed his gun from underneath his shirt as a surety that he knew what was going on.

The driver then went back to driving.

It was dark by the time he reached his destination. The driver quickly left after he received his fares.

Nathan then got a call.

"You kill the man and then you're free to go. Understood? ",the caller said.

"Understood ", Nathan replied curtly.

After all the underworld business he had done, it was not possible for him to just return back to normal life. So he just joined an international mafia gang.

It wasn't as serious as the others so when he announced that he was going to leave, the boss gave him a final assignment. A final job to complete.

Hence, here he was.

It was a contract for killing a man who raped a girl belonging to the Greek crime family Velentzas.  His gang wanted to be on good terms with the Velentzas and he happened to come here so the opportunity was seized when the news of the notorious act spread among people.

Nathan entered the destined pub and searched for a white-haired guy named Crinkles who would have a long scar showing on his arm.

Weird? He had heard worse names.

There he was!

Sitting extremely drunk on a table with a girl who was flirting and laughing with him. Nathan approached the man and tapped him lightly on the shoulders.

"You Crinkles? ", he asked.

Crinkles turned to him and smiled.

That disgusting breath!

"Yeah!  Why...you like me? ", he asked and laughed.

Nathan smiled amusingly and then shot him in the head. Blood splattered everywhere. Even on the girl beside him.

"Sorry I don't like rapists AND drunk guys", he whispered as the people around screamed and ran all over the place.

Not the girl.

Her eyes were wide in shock but not in fear. They were trained on Nathan as if expecting him to do more.

Nathan silently escaped from the back door into a silent and relatively empty alley.

He was walking away when the ground slipped from beneath him and the wind got knocked out of his lungs.

"What—"

As he fell,  someone rolled him on his back and punched him in the stomach. It was hard but not hard enough to make him gag.

Nathan wheezed but years of training and experience had made him act fast. Even while in pain.

He caught hold of the guy, pinned him on the ground and went on top of him.

Or her....

It was the same girl he had found back in the pub. She had brown caramel eyes that emitted fire at the moment.

"Why'd you kill him? ", she shouted, her Greek accent too heavy.

"Cause I was told to do so", he replied smugly.

"He was mine to kill!  He raped me! Why did you? ", she demanded.

Her arm came for another punch but Nathan caught hold of her wrist and pinned it on top of her head.

He stared at her wrist. There was the tattoo of a roaring lion engraved just below her palm.

No way!

It was the symbol of the Velentzas...

"Do you belong to the Velentzas? ", he asked, wonder-struck.

The girl scoffed.

"I am His daughter... The boss' daughter", she informed him with a smirk.

Suddenly she moved beneath him and grinded her hips against his.

Okay... So that is happening....

Sitting on top of a lady and being grinded on in the middle of the street was not exactly his idea of a fantasy.

"You want to do it with me too?  I am rich and vulnerable after all", she wondered seductively.

But there was no glee in her voice. He saw shame and fear in those caramel eyes.

Nathan was yet disgusted by her actions. He slapped her across the cheeks to bring her into her senses. Then he got up, yanking her on her feet at the same time.

"Why did you do that? This is not how you do things. It is what makes monsters yearn for more! ",he yelled at her.
For some reason he felt very protective of her.

The girl's eyes filled with tears as she heard a flow of warm words for the first time since she was born.
Letting men take the best of her and then killing them later was what her Papa had taught her to do. 'It's what women are for' he always said.

Seeing the girl in front of her stand so small he noticed how beautiful she actually was. Her brown hair was tied in a bun. It was open back in the pub.

She wore a tank top and shorts. It was simple but yet pretty.

Nathan found himself blushing profusely.

"Seeghnomi! It's just that that's what Papa taught me. To find out who are the baaastards...  It's not the first time", she wept.

Nathan's heart shattered into a million pieces. So that's how she was treated? And brainwashed?  By her own Papa?
Somehow it reminded him strongly if Stephanie.

"That is not the way. I will teach you how to do that....Next time just shoot them dead", he said earnestly.

The girl smirked.

Damn!  She looks so crazily amazing with that tearful smirk!

"I'm Zan", she introduced... Stretching out the 'a' in her name as in Zaaan.

"I'm Nathan"

"Naathun! ", she pronounced instead. "Haa-ree-ka-polee! I mean it's nice to meet you! Which mafia do work for? ", she said all too quickly.

"I used to. I don't anymore ", he answered.

"Exairetikí! Then come! Papa will be pleased to have you with me", she said.

Zan grabbed him by the arm and guided him through the streets.

"You want me to come with you? ", he asked in confusion.

Zan responded to him with a beautiful smile.

"Neh!  You are mine! ", she simply stated.

Wow.
That was quick.

Nathan couldn't deny that he was already falling for her gradually.

Guess the flight will have to wait.

Suddenly some other girl flung herself on Nathan taking him by surprise.

"Wanna come along kýrios?", she giggled.

Before Nathan could react, Zan kicked her away.
The girl started to shout something in Greek.

"Zárí! Skoupídía! Pórni—BANG! "

Zan swiflty silenced the drunk girl. Then she wrapped her arms around Nathan's and walked away as if nothing had happened.

"Remember this agápi. If a girl looks at you for more than the required time, she dies. If you look at another girl for more than the required time, you die too", she warned him with that beautiful smile remaining consistent on her face.

Then she kissed his cheek and rested her head on his arm, being too short to be able to rest it on his shoulder.

A smile escaped Nathan's face as he realized he had fallen deep in the entire shit. He was not intimidated at all. Simply amused.

He sighed in defeat.

Zan..... You are going to be the end of me.

*****

I really enjoyed writing this chapter! I hope my Greek reference was correct!  I did do some research before writing this.

Translations :

Seeghnomi — sorry
Exairetikí — great
Neh — yes
kýrios — gentleman
Zárí — Die
Skoupídía — you trash
Pórni — whore
agápi — love

I might even write a love story based on this.. What do you think?
Till then vote!!