Sworn enemies
Lucy was sitting in her office, her eyes on a photograph which had been slightly damaged from one side, by the action of moisture and air.The photo was also wrinkled from one side, making it look old.
In the photograph, there was a handsome man aged somewhere between 40 to 43, and a soft white skinned woman few years younger than him standing close by. Between them was a little girl full of joy and laughter. Her eyes were lively, and her dimples shone on her face as she clung at her father's leg, giving a wide smile to the photographer. Though, everyone was dressed in dark gloomy colours, their minds were bright and they were enjoying the moment.
Lucy stared down at her little self once again. How good it was when she did not have to worry about how to prepare a new file or which design would be the most popular among the ladies or which investor she would choose to invest in her company or about the affairs of the underworld.
She stared at her father. There was something else behind that smiling face. Although she never knew it then, she now knew what was going on in his mind behind the smile by which he was hiding his exhaustion.
She glanced at her mother. She was smiling, blushing prettily in the photograph. But that was only on the outer side. Her mind was full of pain and fear .....a constant fear of losing her daughter or her husband forever.
She stared at both her parents. They were a perfect couple, and they were the most lovely parents in the entire world. But they lied. They lied that each day for them was the same, they lied that they were never tired and they were always happy. They lied that they were not afraid of anything. They lied that they would never leave Lucy alone in this world.
Lucy was the first priority of her parents. Even though her looks and behaviour greatly resembled her mother, she was always daddy's girl. He used to call her his sweet little butterfly and always found time to spend with her. Whenever her mother was busy, he would cook food for her and help her with the homework. He even used to ask Lucy to bunk her classes, to have fun sometimes. He never told her that behind his love and care, he was another man , a completely different man. He never told her that behind a rich and successful CEO, he was also a dark and menacing mafia king. He never told her that he used to shoot bullets down the people who tried to harm his family. Her mother also knew the real identity of her husband but she hid it from her own daughter. She loved her family, and did her best in every possible way. She was also a rich model , a job which her father used to hate because of men staring at her. Her father was very possesive of her, and would try to restrict her mother from performing in adult films asking her take part in child movies instead.
She remembered the fateful day - the darkest day of her life. It was a Sunday afternoon and her father had stayed back to play with her. He mother was out for shooting.
Then suddenly her father received a call. Chills went down his spine, when he saw my mother in minimal clothes tied in a dark room.
He growled at the man, and threatened to burn him alive.
He went away, leaving her with his best friend Kevin Les. She never knew what happened after that. Kevin was also called in a short time, saying that it was an emergency. He quickly sent her to her aunt, and after ensuring her safety went somewhere.
Three hours later, their house was surrounded by men in black clothes..She grew afraid and went to her aunt. One of the men came forward and was followed by four others, each carrying a dead body.
As they uncovered the bodies, she yelled in shock. She did not care what people wre saying anymore or who was trying to hold her back. She pulled herself out from her aunt's grasp and rushed towards the bodies , screaming. Her aunt followed and went near one of the bodies.
On the ground lay the bodies of her father, her mother, Kevin and her uncle. She went straight off to her father, his body was smeared with blood and there were many bullet holes in his body. She rushed now to her mother, whose clothes were torn, and her stomach was oozing out blood.....she had stabbed herself.
That day, she changed from a playful lovely little girl- to a cold and cruel hearted woman, from an innocent daughter to the dangerous mafia queen.
At the funeral, she was told everything. The truth. She did not get shocked, and she could not become sad, as she was already on the extremes of both the situations. She just asked one question - Who killed them?
And it was not the voice of an thirteen year old lovely girl, but the voice of the person who was about to be the most dangerous mafia queen of all times.
"The second mafia king and his people", replied Allen, a close confidante of my father.
That day she had decided what she wanted to be and what was the real aim of her life - it was not to be a model like her mother, but a murderer. Shw sweared to erase each and every member of the fucking family, to erase his entire family name from the earth 🌎.
"I will help you ", said a girl, coming out from the crowd. Her face was deep and pale, she was just around my age. She was Uncle Kevin's daughter and hence her responsibility but her soon realised that she was not a responsibility but a support which I needed to conquer my aim. That was the day she and Athena first met and had decided to avenge their family.
"Wherever you are right now, mafia king, enjoy your life", said Lucy, putting the photo aside,"Because I am gonna erase your fucking existence from this world in a few months".