Calli was perplexed.
How on earth did Ann, known to be fragile become so strong?
Wait a minute...
He had gotten information from his sources that the *Mafia princess* eloped from Italy to avoid being crowned.
Now the only thing he wanted to know was if Ann said she was. As he approached her, she kept glaring deeply at him.
If eyes could murder, he would have been killed. Immediately she grabbed a metal pole at the side and just like a sword, she used it to stab a man about to also stab her with a dagger.
"How did you know that he was crawling up towards you?", Calli asked confused.
He wanted to stop the man but seems like she was quicker and the pole was already buried deeply in his unlucky stomach.
What he just saw was something you could only see on the training ground. It was really surprising that one woman had defeated twenty of his strongest guards. Now it was his turn to be afraid as she walked up to him,
"I once loved, now..... Even the respect I have for you is gone, I could have died but why would you care, You love getting what you want by force and that feeling is not Love but obsession", Ann blurted.
She felt crushed despite her victory.
When she was fighting, she hoped for a while that Calli would stop his men but he didn't. Instead he was engrossed watching her fighting skills.
It seems her dad was right, there was no true love in this world.
"You have lots of women at your feet, you have Cherry, why can't you stay with them and stop pestering me. I hate you Calli and my hatred will keep growing"
"You came all the way from Canada huh.... What were you trying to prove. I know you must have sent many spies to look into my background", She said and Calli's mouth hung limp.
How did she know?
"Well let me save you the stress and read my lips. *I AM THE MAFIA PRINCESS* and it would be unfortunate for anyone that tries to limit me. Once I have revenge on those that ruined my childhood and almost got me killed, the evil perpetrators in the underworld, they'll wish they were never born", Ann said quickly dragging out the pole in the guard's stomach.
Ann noticed tear drops fall from Calli eyes, she used her hands to wipe it before putting that same hands into her mouth,
"I was never meant to love, it's either I chase or I am chased. There's no peace of mind for me..... So don't waste your tears on a hardened soul like me".
Calli fell to his knees holding her feet.
"I am sorry, I really am mad over you. I know I have done many crazy things that I'll need to repent and account for but I am pleading and crying for just one chance", Calli said sniffling a bit before getting up his feet and wiping his runny nose. Ann didn't understand what was happening, she was mesmerized.
"One week..... Just one week and I'll prove myself to you, I really am not in love with anyone, those pictures you saw in my house..... I have thrown them away, I only came here to clear the misunderstanding, please don't go", he sobbed harder and his tears touched her heart deeply stopping her initial heart made decision to go away from him.
Calli hugged her deeply, while smoothening her hair. His eyes fell on the skull tattoo bound in chains beside her ear.
Ann was truly the Mafia princess and he hugged her deeply not wanting to let go of her for a second, for fear of her leaving him.
Ann feelings was torn apart; her heart was against her mind and rationality.
Does she love him?, Yes of course.
Does she want to be with him?, Yes but her ego, life and sense of responsibility was standing in the way of the happiness she truly deserved if only she was just a normal girl.
Was she and Calli even meant to be together?, She asked herself before quickly disentangling herself from his hold as he raised his head with last look of pity and hope left like a lost sheep.
Her eyes were red rimmed no longer having any trace of innocence, he teeth gritted and her body shook.
Calli knew what was going to happen, Ann's emotional gear was switched to psycho mode because of all the held anger since a long time.
"Oh gosh, I'm in trouble Lord help me, if I survive this, I'll kill the fattest ram ", Calli prayed, sweating as she looked his way with a dangerous aura she emitted. The great Calli Ambrosio was afraid and felt completely useless against a woman for the first time.
The feeling of fear felt familiar.
Ann grunted and groaned as she tugged at her hair, she walked briskly to the entrance, on sighting the crystal flower vase and breaking it to pieces and broke a couple more after breaking some stuffs, she broke down in tears.
Meanwhile Calli wrote a check for each broken wares.
"Why did you break my heart in high school?, Why did you kiss Jessy?, Why did you abandon me when I needed you he most? Why did you tell me you like me as a friend not in a relationship only to come back and love me huh?", Ann asked despite the tears choking her up. She cried as Calli crouched to the floor and hugged her also crying.
They were locked in that embrace.
"Wait.... Stop... My hands is soiled in the blood of so many people!!!", Ann said alarmed.
"If only she knew...", Calli's conscience tugged at him.
"I don't care, I want you and only you. Nothing else matters to me now or will ever matter", Calli said while wrapping her arm with a pice of his shirt that he had torn off.
Ann couldn't help laughing at his funny appearance and he slightly pinched the bridge of her nose.