Chapter:-3

"My daughter will not be your whore," spat Jia, "I'll kill her myself before she becomes a mafia play thing."

Alexander  let his red eyes  as he stalked towards Jia. Using his hand, he pinned Jia to the wall with a chokehold. Tightening the grip on , he snarled, "Don't you dare lay a hand on my Ashly. According to this  contract, she's mine now. And as I already said, I'll be making her my Donna, not some whore." The  desk began to shake and objects began falling to the ground as Alexander anger caused the ground to quake. Jones attempted to run to his wife's defense, but with a flick of his free hand, Alexander bodyguards held him  Jones crashing to the ground.

"Alexnader , please release Jia . I'm sure she doesn't mean Ashly any harm," said Simon , warily looking around the office. The government knew that the  mafia leader  was powerful, but it was becoming obvious that they had underestimated him. When Alexander releases Jia, Simon continued, "You understand this is a difficult request. What if we pay you in jewels and rare artifact's instead?"

"I already told you that I have no interest in money. And it wasn't a request," said Alexander , holding up the contract, "The contract clearly states that I can get anything I want as compensation for my services rendered and I want Ashly. If you don't want to settle up, that's fine by me. Just know that until this debt is paid, I won't lift a finger to help you with another war. And since the government doesn't know how to honor their debts, my group will no longer be performing services of any kind for you."

"You can't do that, the Accords -" said Malachi, before he was cut off.

"The Accords don't get to dictate how my people do their business. There's nothing in the damn thing that says we have to help you government. The Law of the Covenant grants  the right to conduct our internal business privately and to self police. That means that if I want to tell my people to shut down their businesses, I can," said Alexander.

Picking himself up from the ground, Jones whispered, "Why are you doing this?"

Seeing that Alexander wasn't going to answer, Sam replied, " Alexander needs a Donna and he needs one soon. As a mafia Don he need someone besidea him who gave him a child beacuse other mafia want to take his position if he don't have a Donna ."

"But why Ashly?" asked Jia, still trying to catch her breath. "You've never even met her! Why not another? You can have anyone you want"

Not bothering to dignify Jia question with a response, Alexander  turned toward Simon and Malachi, "So, what will it be? Am I telling my people to pull their protection or is Sam going to be making preparations for a marriage ceremony?"

Closing his eyes, Simon  took a deep breath before opening is eyes again and replied, "That's not a choice and you know it. I'll send people with Jia and Jones to collect Ashly  . You can do the bonding tomorrow morning." "No! Simon , you can't just hand my daughter over to this mafia," screamed Jia.

Simon gave the Jia a chilling look. "It will do the two of you good to remember that you are still on thin ice with the government. Knowing people in high places might've gotten you a lighter sentence, but many of us will never forget your betrayal. Let's face it, you didn't surrender years ago because you suddenly saw our city safe. You surrendered to save your own skin. With other war , there's no guarantee that you won't go back to your old ways and rejoin them. But if your daughter is bonded to Alexander, you won't have a choice but to stand with us. And mark my words Jia, if you harm the girl in anyway, I will end your hole family"

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Ashly was training with her brother when her parents and a dozen police officer family representatives walked . She instantly knew something was wrong when she saw her parents' face. Before she could ask however, the  soldiers surrounded her and Man.

"What's the meaning of this Jia?" asked Man, moving to stand back to back with Ashly, knife trained at the soldier in front of him.

"Put down the blade Man, they're not here for you. They're here for Ashly," shouted Jones, not wanting the situation to escalate.

"That's even more of a reason for me to fight. I'm not letting them take my sister," said Man, anger clear in his voice. "Ashly hasn't done anything. Why are they trying to arrest her?"

"They're not arresting her. They just need her in main headquarter. Ashly , put your gun down and go with them," demanded Jia.

Ashly  gripped her gun harder as her parents' attention shifted to her. She was confused as to what to do. She had never disobeyed the commander before and couldn't understand why they would send so many people to escort him to headquarter, a place she hadn't been to since she was but a toddler. In her peripheral, she saw Ohm holding his gun, ready to fight. Not wanting her siblings to be injured, she put her gun and quiver on the ground and let one of the Fairys representatives handcuff her. As she was being escorted out, her parents had to hold Ohm and Man back as they tried in vain to save her.

When Ashly was gone, Ohm shoved his mother off of her and demanded, "Why did you let them take Ashly? What did she do wrong?"

"It's Alexander! It has to be him. I knew we shouldn't have believed him when he said he wouldn't report us to the commander," said Man shortly.

"So Ashly has met Alexander after all. And what do you mean report you to the high authority?" asked Jones.

"You don't know? This is about last night isn't it?" asked Ohm. Seeing his parents' confusion, he continued, "We tracked an theaf to Alexander Club last night. So we didn't have time to follow protocol and notify Alexander before going inside."

"He said he didn't mind. He even thanked us for getting rid of that theaf," said Zia.

"If the government wants to hold somebody responsible for this, it should be me. I was the one who insisted we go inside and broke the rules. " said Man.

"And I was the one who arrest that theaf into that storage room," added Ohm.

Jia and Jones looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Not having the patience to deal with his  parents' crypticness, Ohm lashed out and screamed at his parents. "Tell us what is going on!"

"As you all know, Spanish mafia tipped off the government about Mafia Don ambush of the Accords meeting. But with only an hour to prepare for the attack, the government didn't have enough power to defeat them. So they enlisted the help of Alexander group of man of  and he agreed on the condition of a  contract, a blood contract that bound the government to give him anything he wanted. In the 6 years since the war, Alexander has never once mentioned using the  contract, but he just used it in exchange for your sister," explained Jia.

Remembering how the mafia Don flirted with his sister , his eyes narrowed as he asked, "What do you mean in exchange for Ashly?"

"Alexander  needs a Donna so he can start a family and remain a mafia don  and he's decided that it's going to be Ashly ," replied Jones.

"You can't just let the government hand Ashly over to that mafia like she's some..some pet," cried Ohm, "What kind of parents are you -" Before Ohm could finish his sentence, Jia slapped his across the face.

"Don't blame this on us. You and Man are the reason Alexander met Ashly. If you wish to put the blame on someone, put it on yourselves," said Jia, "We were only following the  orders. Ashly should've stopped the two of you and since she didn't, she's going to have to live with the consequences of putting herself on Alexander radar."

"Don't kid yourself Jia, this has nothing to do with last night's mission. The government probably doesn't even know about it. I never said anything before because you've taken me in while my mom is in headquarter, but I won't keep your secret anymore," said Zia before turning to Man and Ohm, "They're former Spanish Mafia members and were at the war. Why do you think you live here instead of headquarter? Your parents were exiled here as part of their punishment and I bet the only reason the government  not fighting Alexander on the  contract is because they want Ashly bound to him. They want to make sure your parents won't rejoin other Mafia."

Ohm stared at his parents in shock. They had never been the most caring of parents but he never thought that they would let his sister pay for their sins. Grabbing man and Zia by the wrists, they left the place.

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