The Queen of Mafia - 113 How are they alive!?

[A/N: Hello, just want to say that if there is a “(word/s)” it means that it was something that was said in Nicolette’s memory. I hope you will not be confused. Thanks.]

“How are you still alive!?” Nicolette screamed as she saw Reid was still alive. “You should be dead right now. I saw the same poison as that bïtch.” She staggered backwards.

Just who is this bunch of crazy people!? Just why can’t they die!?

Reid bend his knees as he scooped the sleeping Antonette in a bridal style, then he look solemnly at Nicolette. “Cole…” He called.

(“Cole…”)

There it is again! Nicolette winced as she felt a painful throb in her head. She gripped her head with both of her hands, “Shut up! Shut up! Don’t call me Cole! You have no right to call me like that!”

(“I’ll call you Cole, alright? Your name is a mouthful, so just bear with it!”)

(“Reid, you bàstard! I sounded like a boy!”)

Nicolette gasped, her vision blurred as images flash in her head all of a sudden. It was her memories! She knew that but why does after one image or scenario ended, a same image or scenario will followed.

No, it’s not the same! Nicolette clutched her head tightly as tears are threatening to fall in her eyes.

Why does these images contradicts with the other one!?

“Stop, stop, stop!” She yelled continuesly then she lifted her head to glare angrily at Reid. “Just what did you do, you bàstard!?”

It hurts, she cries.

“Enough Nicolette!” Andrew bellowed angrily. “Stop it! You’re being naughty again!”

(“Nicolette Einsberg! You’re being naughty again!”)

“Fvck!” Nicolette cursed as the throbbing in her head increases. Her knees trembles, as her vision blurred. It didn’t help that she was losing too much blood because of her injuries.

Where did that voices came from!? Why am I keep hearing these voices!? Why am I remembering those two all of a sudden!?

“Nicolette.” Andrew called as he approach her.

“Stay right there!” Nicolette shouted as she took multiple of deep breaths in attempts to ease the throbbing in her head. “Just who are you two?”

Why am I remembering my brother and childhood friend from you?

“You know us, Nicolette.” Reid said as he gaze at her with pain in his eyes. “We know each other ever since we were kids.”

“Lies! You’re a member of the Lumière famiglia! How can I know you!?”

“It’s true.” Andrew’s voice is sharp, however, there was a subtle longing in his tone. “What Reid said is true.”

Something in her head clicked. “Reid…?” Then she look at Reid.

Reid nodded with a bitter smile in his face. “Yes, I am Reid. Reidhart Smith[1].”

What!? Nicolette was dumbfounded hearing that name. It couldn’t be… he died… I saw him die right before my eyes…

How could he be alive!?

Then, this man… she look at Andrew with a petrified gaze. He couldn’t be my… brother?

Andrew notice Nicolette’s gaze. “I’m Andrew Einsberg[2], your brother.”

“Wha-what?” She stammered, her trembling knees suddenly gave away, making her body dropped with a “thud” in the ground. Her eyes stared at them with a confuse gaze. “You’re… lying… they already died…” She mumbles.

“They died that day… when the Eisberg famiglia was massacred… the De La Torre famiglia killed them! They killed them all!” Her mumbling turns into a series of shouts in the end, and as she shouted the last sentence, she suddenly got up in the ground and launch at Andrew.

As she was near him, she jumps a little towards him and as she descend to the ground, she give Andrew a hard punch in the face, not minding if her hand and shoulder was heavily injured, but Andrew blocked it with his palm.

“How dare you say that you are my brother when he is dead! I saw him die… he died in the hands of the De La Torre men!” As she screams, she throws a series of punches towards Andrew which he easily blocked it.

“If you think that I was not him, how do you think… Reid was still alive when you give him a deadly poison?” Andrew calmly asked, then both of his hands gripped her wrists to prevent her from attacking any further.

Andrew tightens his hold on her as she struggles in his gripped. “That poison you gave him… it was the same poison that Mother developed in our early years.” That made her stopped struggling.

“Ever since we were kids, you developed a great interests towards poison because of the influence of our late Mother.”

“How… how did they know about that?” Nicolette whispered, by now, tears are already streaming down her face.

Her head was hurting like a bïtch as the images of Reid and Andrew being killed before her eyes keeps appearing, and then there’s another image of someone grabbing her from the back as she was taken away from them. She didn’t know what to believe anymore. Her memories are mess up!

Andrew ignored her question and continued, “You always complained to me how you need to learn medicine from our Father, when you only wants to learn about poison, but I know deep inside that you were fascinated at everything that Father taught us.

“Nicolette… our famiglia was long gone, as well as our parents, but Reid and I survived. Boss saved us. But you need to differentiate between lies and truth.”

Andrew paused, then continues, “It was Johnson who killed our famiglia.”

And then everything went black.

[1] Reid Leor’s real name.

[2] Andrew Ivar’s real name.