Chapter 7
Background check..s
Alex POV
Why am I acting like this? Why am I acting like the stupid 16 years old me all over again? Didn't I already learnt my lesson?
See, I have always had the worst relationship experiences you would ever find or hear off. When I was 17 and trying to get over mother's death I met this stupid, stupid boy. His name was Justin. I thought he helped me with all the s**t I was going through. Apparently he was trying to kill me… or get me killed at least.
He worked for one of the rival gangs and pretended to be in love with me. As soon as I started trusting him, which took quite a while by the way, He kidn*pped me and tried using me as leverage. But that was my fault that I trusted someone.
It wasn't all him.
He helped his gang kidnap me and then demanded meeting my father alone with 10 million dollars if he wanted to see me alive again.
Now of course my father isn't that dumb. We aren't the biggest and most feared gang for no reason. He was prepared and got me back. But I had already been tortured physically, and mentally. I had scars all over my body that reminded me off it too. I ended up getting tattoos to cover them up so I would feel less anxious about them.
Not that I usually care about my appearance, but these reminded me of my stupidity. I couldn't trust anybody after that.. Well not until I was almost 19.
I started opening up to this boy, Zayn. I’ll already save you the trouble and inform you that it did not last long. He was killed by a rival gang.
Ever since I understood that love was a weakness. I don't believe in it nor do I want it. To be honest, I even hate it. It just makes us so damn weak and our enemies use that opportunity to finish us.
I promised myself not to feel anything or fall for someone after Justin. Which I kind of did. I wasn't really truly in love with Zayn yet, or that's what I tell myself, so I actually ended up believing it.
He was just the first one I talked to after Justin. I feel bad for him but there isn't much I can do. Except not fall in love again so history doesn't repeat itself.
But I did take revenge for him.
Revenge I will never forget.. It haunts me to this day.
•••
I have just reached the city and I directly headed to my office in the club.
I want.. no, I need to know who the f**k Alexandra Jonas is and what she is hiding.
I ran upstairs and went inside the office but there weren’t any files on my desk.
I didn't get any email or messages either.
I took my phone out and called Enzo.
"Enzo, where is the background check?"
"Bro, you are going to want to see this. I am at the safe house. Come here and I'll show you" He said making me sigh.
"Unless it's the Salvatore leaders head on a stick or a background check on Alex, I don't care"
"Just come down here and you'll see for yourself"
Great, another damn trip. I ran back to my car and headed to the safe house, and my office.
"So, what have you got?" I asked Enzo sitting on the sofa in my office.
"I don't know what you'll think of this but there isn't any Alexandra Jonas"
"What do you mean?" I asked not wanting to believe him. Deep down however, I knew it.
"Well the only one I found was a 60 years old woman on the edge of her grave, and I don't think that's the chick I saw so.."
"She lied about her name" I replied spelling it out for myself.
I really did not want to believe it but now I know that there's a story behind her. Why else would she lie if she isn’t hiding something?
This got me way more intrigued.. who the hell is Alex? Is that even her real name.? oh wait..
"Look up Alexandra Salvatore for me" I said through my teeth looking at Enzo.
"You don't mean Salvatore as in the mafia, do you?"
"Did I stutter? Yes Enzo, Look her up!" I said pissed as f**k.
"Okay, calm down I'll do that and come back as soon as possible" He replied.
She could not be related to the mafia, could she? How the f**k is that possible? That would mean she is the leader we are hunting. Did she even know who I am? Was this truly a coincidence only…? There is no way that she knows who I actually am. Oh Dio no.. what the hell is going on?
•••
A few minutes later
*knock knock*
"Come in" I yelled
"Okay so here is everything I could find on -"
"Did you get a picture?" I interrupted.
"No but, enough information to figure out who she is"
"Fanculo" I sighed
"Okay, so she is a 20 years old business woman living in New York with a girl named Camila King. Her last relationship was with a boy named Zayn Silver, who died in a car accident. She has a twin brother named Alessandro. Their father is Italian, and their mother is American. Now here is the catch. Her mother was Nicole Salvatore. A very famous businesswoman who died four years ago, in the same fire your father died in. So, they were business partners perhaps? Also, her father is Angelo Salvatore, who we all know is a businessman of course but also The Salvatore's leader. However I couldn't find anything on her in the business so she is indeed the daughter of a mafia leader but she might not be the women running the gang in New York, it might be someone else so there is a slight chance that she isn't involved or even aware of the mafia stuff. We can't really be sure about it" He explained
The only f*****g time a girl catches my breath, I have to kill her.
She is the daughter of our rivals.
She is probably the one leading everything in New York.
She is more of an enemy than her father.
She was the one who tricked and killed my men.
How, how is it possible? Out of all the women in the club that night I slept with her. Out of all the women I met she meant the most.
This s**t is.. I honestly don't know what it is. But right now, I wish that I had never met her.
I'm gonna make her regret this.
She lied to my face to get close to me.
I'll make sure she regrets this, I will crush her.
•••
Alex's POV
I just arrived at the city, thought I would head to the office and get back on figuring out what the hell that damn code meant. First I had to message Camila, so she doesn't freak the f**k out when she wakes up.
•••
1 hour later in The Salvatore main safe house
I have been sitting here for about an hour and I just can't get anything done.
I keep on thinking about him..
What the hell is wrong with me?! I don't know. But one thing I know is that I need to figure out who the f**k he is.
It was still early, and Mike wasn't here so I thought I would try to run a background check on him alone.
I went to the computer room where we have all the top security data and devices.
I sat in front of the computer and searched Elijah Black. It loaded for quite a while, but the result came back after a while.
FULLNAME: Elijah Giovanni Black
AGE: 25
BIRTHDATE: 1993 - 25th of March
FAMILY STATUS: Only child, Mother, Father dead
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single, last relationship with Caroline Star
POLICE-FILES: Empty
ORIGIN : 50% Italian 50% American
ADDRESS: -
NUMBER: -
Birthdate is 19932503, I have seen a similar number... but where..? I took up my phone and searched that number in my emails.
Oh no no.. It can't be!
The same number The Black Snake member gave us. Well almost..
The number we got was 930325.
93 Is the same thing as 1993, the year he was born. 03 is March, because March is the 3rd month in the year.
25 is the exact date.
Could this be a coincidence? Now I'm more eager to find out who he is.
Let's see... Family..
Father is dead.
Could it be him he was visiting at the cemetery this morning?
Well let's find out who he was then shall we.
I clicked on the word father for more information to come up and what I saw had me lowkey freaked out.
His father was Christian Black.
As in my mother's business partner for years, well was before they both died at that fire in Italy.
Now this can't be a f*****g coincidence.
But his father wasn't only a businessman, I knew he was involved in the mafia, but I never thought that he was a leader.
Let alone the Black Snake leader. So, when Christian died, Elijah took over..
Shit did father know about this?
It was too damn messy, I just couldn't believe how everything went together.
Did he know who I was that night at the club ? Is that why he slept with me?
But why didn't he do something then?
He had many chances to kill me.. or to hurt me at least...
He couldn't have possibly known, right?
Gosh I need to talk to the boys.
There was way too many questions in my head.
I hurried to my office and realized that everyone was already here.
I had been sitting in the computer room for over 2 hours.
We also had a shipment tonight so everyone was getting ready.
Mike was still not here so I called him and told him to come down to the safe as soon as possible. Meanwhile I found Antonio and Alessandro and told them to come to my office in 20 minutes.
•••
40 minutes later
"Are you sure he doesn't know who you are?" Mike asked concerned.
"Yes, I mean first of all I didn't use my real second name, so unless he ran a background check he wouldn't figure out that Alexandra Jonas doesn't exist. Also, he had many many chances to kill me if he wanted to but he didn't" I said trying to also convince myself along with them.
"Well what if he is still trying to follow the old plan they had, you know kidnap you to get father here..?" Alessandro asked
"In that case they have brought hell upon them. We already know that plan so it would be stupid if they continued with it. Anyways we will do everything needed so we don't risk this" I replied.
"So, what's our plan then?" Antonio asked.
"I get close to him, get as much information as possible, and we when we are done we destroy him" I shrugged.
"Evil" Mike said laughing.
"But I don't know sister, it's too risky. What if something goes wrong. I'm not sure father will like the idea. Can't we send someone else?" Alessandro said worried
"Yeah you know he will totally fall for a random girl we send who throws herself on him, because he hasn't seen that before in his 25 years of live" I replied.
"Okay okay, but you tell that to father" Alessandro said raising a brow.
"Good luck with that" Antonio laughed.
"If there is one thing father taught us growing up was that a great leader would sacrifice anything for his people. I'm just doing what he taught me" I replied
"Still Alex, it really is risky" Antonio said.
"Okay, remember long ago father suggested we get one of those trackers implanted and you cover with a tattoo, we can do one of them so you can always have my location if something happens. Deal? Also last we checked I had amazing fighting and shooting skills which happens to be the reason I'm a leader. So, it wouldn't be that hard to escape or protect myself if something happened" I smirked but the boys didn't look that pleased..
"What, someone wants to test me?" I said reaching for my gun.
"You win" Mike replied as I barely finished my sentence.
"All in" Antonio quickly followed.
"Okay, let's make a deal" Alessandro said.
"A match, the two of us after the shipment, you win I'll 100% support you with your decision and even talk to father about it"
"I'm in" I quickly replied.
"You don't even know what happens if you lose.." Alessandro sighed.
"Cause I know I won't, little brother" I replied sure of myself. I mean I'm the leader for a reason.. no offense to him.
"No but seriously, I wanna know what I'm watching" Mike said as Antonio and Alessandro gave him an annoyed look.
"If you lose, we come up with another way, and worst case have this as our very last choice when it comes to taking down The Black Snakes"
"I'm still in" I replied with a smirk on my face knowing I have already won. I already know all his weak spots so this would be a piece of cake.
"It's settled then" Mike added.
"Okay girls, go get ready and make sure everyone is ready for the shipment. We are leaving soon" I said packing all the files up and collecting my stuff to get ready.
This will be a hell of a night..