51. The Play!

Author's POV

"What? How the hell he got them?"

Rose growled frustrated.

"Rafael got Knight brothers? Either you have lost your mind, Jack or you want me to go crazy."

Damian has never seen her so frustrated. These things were really making her loose her patience.

"Rose, calm down!"

"Calm down?"

She growled.

"Calm down? How the fuck did he got my sons? It's impossible, even I struggle to stand in front of them when they are together."

Damian called Rafael.

"Rafael____"

Rafael smirked mischievously like he was enjoying his victory.

"It's an honour to get a call from you, Knight... Biggest achievement of my life."

Damian closed his eyes annoyed.

"Rafael, I am in no mood to fuck around. What's happening there?"

Rafael sat on the ground while playfully making circle with the small stick.

"Today we were feeling bored, so my brothers and I thought about doing some hunting. And guess what we hunted?"

He chuckled.

Damian groaned frustrated.

"I am not fucking around, Rafael... What did you do?"

"Your sons are so brave, Knight... I have to give it to you."

Mikhail and Damon shook their heads at his evilness. Rafael was in full mood to fuck their minds.

"Both fought till their bodies gave up. First time in my life I have seen someone from Knight family loosing... Yeah, it was hundred against two but I still won. Right?"

He asked Knight brothers who were tied together. They were looking tired and exhausted.

"Well, you won but at what cost?"

Damian mocked.

"Hundred against two? Well, at least tell me that those were trained martial artists."

"Of course, you think only you have copyright on assassins or what?"

He chuckled.

"Cut the crap, what do you want, Rafael?"

Rose asked madly.

"You would not kill them because you would have done it by now if you really wanted to."

"Opps! Someone looks mad... Did I scare the lengend Rose?"

He teased even more.

"You are so smart, I love you... Big fan of you, really!"

She rolled her eyes.

"What do you want, Rafael? This is the last time I am asking you."

"Your daughter!"

He declared.

"Are you out of your fucking mind?"

Damian growled.

"I am a big fan of your daughter, is that wrong?"

Rafael mocked.

"I became her fan the moment she put her gun on Aurora's temple... I just want to have face to face conversation with her. A cup of coffee because I don't like tea, that's it!"

"Not happening!"

Rose declared.

"I am not letting her come in front of a psycho like you..."

Rafael sighed dramatically and laid on the ground.

"We are in the middle of the forest which is denser than my beard, think about it... You won't be able to see them again... Looks like you love your daughter more than your sons. You are so careless about them, who let their children roam around in the forest all alone."

"I want to see them"

Rose demanded.

"Your wish, my command!"

Rafael switched phone call to video call and turned camera towards Knight brothers. Rose saw them on the ground, tied together with covered in blood and dust. They have fought good, because dead bodies laying around them was telling her how bravely they have fought. She noticed Rafael's brothers standing close to them and one assassin who was still alive.

"See, send Rosetta or they will die."

"You really think we care about death, Rafael?"

Oliver mocked.

"We have come beyond that... We are dying everyday!"

"Really?"

Rafael mocked.

"You killed my hundred assassins because they wanted to kill you... Only this one is alive and that too because your energy was exhausted... Do you know how much money I had given to hire them... Now only one will go back alive. I have to compensate for all hundred. Rancho is a bastard, he will charge extra."

Rose understood that he had hired all assassins from the agency she once worked for. The founder, Rancho is no more but his son is taking care of his legacy and she knows that Rambo isn't a man of ethics. He just wants money.

"If you wanted to die then why did you waste my money?"

Rafael complained.

Damian was getting annoying by his mocking behaviour, he was doing it on purpose to piss them off.

"Oliver, Arthur... I want you two back home... I don't know how!"

Rose ordered.

"What's the use of it, Mom?"

Arthur chuckled bitterly.

"We are already dead... Let him complete his wish... This life is hollow anyway."

"Men in love!"

Rafael laughed, pretending that he is admiring them.

"I know this feeling... Hurts like a bitch but you shouldn't loose patience, you don't know when destiny plays tricks with you... I had no plan to kill you but how can I miss this golden opportunity. Knight brothers are finally helpless in front of me..."

"Rafael, you are not doing anything."

Damian growled.

"Do you really want to start a war just because my daughter threatened your wife? You are more sensible than this?"

Rafael scoffed.

"I can burn the whole world down for my wife, you are asking about killing two men? Are you serious? You should be thankful that I am now friendly version of Rafael, you wouldn't like the old version of me."

"Fine, kill them! The world needs to know that Rafael, the king killed Knight brothers with the help of hundred assassins... It will add glory to your crown."

Damian mocked.

"Do it!"

Rafael smiled naughtily.

"Don't you know me, Damian? My definition of killing people is something different. I don't kill them, I do worse than that... You want to see?"

Damian frowned when he got up with his evil smirk.

"They feel dead inside, should I bring them back to life?"

Brothers frowned at him when he mocked.

"Wait and watch!"

He asked the only alive assasin to stand in front of them and removed her mask.

Brothers felt their world shaking when they saw that lost face again.

"Kitten. Dove."

They said in unison. Horrified and shocked.

Arabella was standing in front of them like she doesn't recognise them. Emotionless, like a robot.

Rafael chuckled at them.

"Feels like life is breathing again, isn't it? I know, seeing your lost love again is magnificent feeling but enough of this feeling. Now, I'll kill you."

He looked at Arabella and ordered.

"Shoot them!"

Without hesitation she unlocked her gun and pointed towards them, making them look at her in disbelief. She wasn't looking like their delicate and timid girl anymore.