The Don's Daughter

Cafe Rouge

4.

Flash back

‘You are here because you are the best of the best. NYPD do not just take in anybody. You must have shown how badly you want this by how hard you’ve worked since the moment you left your mom’s uterus. Unfortunately for you, although you may have proved yourself to the deskies, you have yet to prove yourself in the field to me. Out of the 25 of you, I will only be recruiting 8 into my field agents team. This is your new hunger games, from now on you must eat, breathe, s**t and drink NYPD because it’s survival of the fittest out here.’

Hell. That was the only way I could describe this. All of the training and fake ID’s in the world could not prepare me for this. I may as well have just joined the military; I mean who the hell seriously signs up to get shouted at every. Damn. Second. Of. The. Day.

‘Just breathe Andy, You’re going to be fine you can do this!’ my wolf cheered me on in the back of my mind.

‘Why am I even doing this?’ I huffed back.

‘The pack needs us on the inside, we cant let everyone go to jail just because we wanted to run off and be a film director.’ Akeliah retorted, the attitude radiating from her voice.

‘YOU IN THE BACK LOOKING ALL GLASSY EYED, STEP UP FRONT’

I snapped back to what was happening in front of me, and yep you guessed it he was pointing at me. I stepped forward from the end of the line up and stood to attention.

‘Sir?’ I answered back.

’10 LAPS OF THE FIELD JUST FOR LOOKING LIKE YOU WERNT PAYING ATTENTION’

SERIOUSLY?! I thought in my head… without allowing him to say anything else I started to jog towards the edge of the field where I would begin the WORST day of my entire life.

Flash back ends

I was surrounded by darkness, but I could hear my wolves feet pattering against the soft mud. The smell of burning fire filled my nostrils, my eyes opened to see the forest around me was set alight. But I didn’t fear the fire, the fire should fear me.

I jolted upright in bed, breathing heavily and dripping in cold sweat. I placed my hand on my heart to slow down my breathing as I searched the room for some familiarity. I was in my bedroom in my apartment in New York, not running through mud into fire…

‘Did you have a nightmare again baby?’ a low sleepy voice muttered to me from beneath the sheets.

‘Go back to sleep Jax, its only 2am’ I replied.

With a loud snore, I guessed that he had fallen back into heavy sleep. Not feeling tired I pulled myself out of my bed and pressed my bare feet to the cold wooden floor, I then stretched as much as I could my bones cracking in the process. I quietly pulled on my baggy tracksuit and left the room into the adjoined kitchen and living area, I walked over to the coffee machine and began to make myself a caffeine fix when the front door burst open.

Walking in reverse from the corridor was my flatmate Jules, her body and tongue wrapped around her latest flavour of the week, soft moans escaping their lips. ‘Jesus Jules, you trying to wake up the whole block?!’ I said with pure disgust written all over my face. Jules immediately jumped off her victim and turned to face me, clearly annoyed that I had just interrupted her heavy make out session.

‘What are you even doing here? I thought you were going to your uncles for the weekend?!’ She shrieked at me, her face going a flattering shade of red.

‘Change of plan, he had to work. I did text you to let you know if you ever looked at your phone!’

By this point I was highly irritated, every week I’d have to put up with a new guy in our apartment making themselves at home why they try to tame the wild beast that is my roommate. Jules wasn’t the type to settle down at all, and I pitied any guy she brought back here they were all head over heels in love with this girl. She’s not unattractive by any means, she’s just a bit of a b***h.

‘Okay skippy, time for you to go I’ll call you!’ she says as she shoves him out the door.

‘It’s Scotty! And wait, Jules you don’t have my nu…’ he said as she shut the door in his face.

I let out a scoff ‘That was rude’ I said out loud. ‘’Whatever I’m going to bed, wake me up for work please?’ she said as she sauntered off towards her room.

Before I could respond, I felt my burner phone vibrate in my pocket. I pulled it out to check the message after I made sure Jules’ bedroom door was tightly shut.

‘Café Rouge, 10, empty shells, 30mins’

Great, I thought to myself. I made my way to the shoe rack and pulled on my trainers, grabbed my keys and as I was about to put my headphones in and head out the door I felt a set of arms go around my waist.

‘Why do you always go running so late?’ Jaxon said in my ear while pecking me on the cheek.

‘I don’t think you’d be interested in me anymore if I got fat’ I joked back, ‘Don’t be long, the beds cold without you’.

I turned and looked at him while he pulled his best puppy dog face. He had a serious case of bed hair but he was still jaw dropping to look at! He reminded me so much of 90’s Leo Di Caprio, which lets face it made anyone weak at the knees.

‘We have a big day tomorrow MRS SMITH, I cant have you being super tired and groggy for our engagement party!’

Salvatore’s POV

‘Ciao amico, mio fratello mi dice che ti ha strappado la lingua per essere uno sporco topolino’

Translation; Hello my friend, my brother tells me he’s ripped out your tongue for being a little rat

I looked down at the pathetic piece of s**t in front of me, looks like Don had some fun with him the sick f**k. It was 12am and I was highly irritated. My boys had woken me up to come deal with Donovan as he was taking this s**t to far and the guy was gunna bleed out before we got any info. I was so done with cleaning up this fuckers messes. I walked behind my desk, opened up the draw and pulled out a cigarette, after I lit it and felt the nicotine hit the back of my throat I approached the weasel in front of me. ‘Can you blink once for yes and twice for no please? If not I’ll let him back in here and you’ll be getting a guide dog for christmas’ *blink* ‘Good, this is gunna make my life a lot easier kid. Now answer my questions truthfully you’ve been through enough for tonight, I just wanna know where we stand okay?’ *Blink*

‘Did you know that our warehouse was gunna get looted?’

*Blink Blink*

‘Did you know the location of our shipment before it reached the warehouse?’

*Blink Blink*

‘Hmmm, this could be a long night… Did you know that I have someone on the inside who told me you were the informant? They even provided me with the cctv evidence of you talking to some DEA f**k about witness protection.’

I saw fear dance across the guys eyes, I knew I was right anyway- Andy doesn’t get this type of s**t wrong. But it was fun to watch them squirm.

‘Cat got your tongue?’ I laughed. ‘Now, I want you to listen to me very carefully you f*****g liar, and if you tell me the truth ill make it quick, if you tell me a lie my brothers right outside.’ I paused for dramatic effect, I loved to make them wait. ‘Did you tell anyone about café rouge?’

*Blink*