Nik.
He smiles admiring the girl in his arms. she looked peaceful, he grins hearing little snores from mia. she is so cute. he knew she got drunk because of him, he was mad at himself for hurting her. he never wanted to hurt her but he did. how much he regrets it. but he also needs to tell her the truth. Nik thought about how it would play out. most of the scenarios were mia leaving him. why the fuck I am so stupid?
But once he tells her everything, he will also tell her about his mafia. he didn't want to keep any secrets from her. Nik knew he was falling for the raven-haired girl in his arms. he was falling hard and fast. he wanted to see her face when he wakes up in the morning, she was constantly in his mind, when he is working with his dad when he is eating, the thought of her loving someone who isn't him makes him sick and lost. he wants to protect her, care for her, love him more and more every day. he didn't want to leave mia but he had to deal with Adam.
he carefully gets up and pauses as mia stirs in her sleep. he sighs in relief seeing her still asleep. he walks out of the tent slowly not making any commotion. Nik smiles looking at the tiny frame for the last time and walking out of the tent. his expression changes into a scowl when he looks at Adam. he walks up to Jason who had a bored look on his face and holding an annoyed Adam. "let me go" Adam says pulling against Jason. "you know Adam, you pissed me off lots of times before" Nik starts walking up to him. Adam rolls his eyes "you are just jealous that mia wants me" he smirks. he moans in pain as Jason punches him in the face.
"let's go to the South Side." Nik orders making Jason's eyes widen. "now" he glares at Jason who nods and drags Adam to the south side. the south side was Nik's territory. when Nik was bored with the torture chambers, he comes to the south side to torture his victims. nobody uses the south side apart from him. it was surrounded by trees with private property of the Russo family board. any same person won't cross their property. "why did you bring me here?"adam demands making Nik chuckled sinisterly. "get this in your head adam, I'm in charge here and if you say another word it will only become worse for you" he spats with a deadly glare.
adam grins, his lip bloody from the punch he received before from Jason. "you know, Mia has a very gorgeous body." he stars spitting the blood out. "and you ruined it today, I would have felt her body beneath me tonight, her lips, her breasts, and her pussy. she would have taken me in her mouth. but I have a question Do you think it is tight?" Adam asks Nik. "shit" Jason mumbles watching Nik's eyes darken in anger and his nostrils flare.
He swings his hand back and punches adam in the face, smiling in satisfaction hearing a crack. Adam groans in pain as Nik punches him again and again. he was angry. All he saw was red. how dare he talk about mia like that. his mia. he first dares to put his filthy hands on her body now he talked about her.
Nik breaths heavily as he stands up straight, glaring at adam's bloody face. he walks up to a tree and pushes a branch, opening a vault. he punches the code in, his hands and knuckles bloody. he pushes his hair out of his eyes and clicks on a button. lights turn on around them. "Nik, what are you doing?" Jason asks holding a barely conscious adam up. Nik stays silent as the vault unlocks revealing several blades and torture gadgets.
Nik takes out a bloody cloth and a black box. "Nik" Jason gulps looking at the box. Jason knew that Nik was pissed off looking at the box. he stays silent and roughly grabs adam's face and ties the cloth around his mouth." what?" he snaps glaring at Jason. he lifts his hands "Woah, not the enemy here" Jason mutters. he rolls his eyes and opens the black box.
"Is this necessary Nik?" Jason asks as he looks down at the box of Nik's favorite knives and torture devices. he smirks picking up a needlepoint knife. Adams's eyes widen and he began to fight against Jason. Nik twirls the knife in his fingers watching Adams scared face. he smirks as Adam flinches when he traces the knife from his eyes and down his cheek. Nik presses the knife, drawing blood. Adam wines as he makes random patterns on his face and gets up. Adam groans, tears escaping his eyes due to pain.
Nik plunges the knife on his shoulder, a muffled scream escapes from Adam. his eyes were swollen from the punches, nose broken, and lip busted. his face looked like a horror show. "yes" he answers picking up a bottle of HCL . "here," he said throwing him a pair of gloves while wearing his.
"Nik we can't -" Jason cuts himself off when Nik throws him a glare. "are you questing me? he asks taking the HCL in a dropper. "no sir," Jason says acknowledging he is in mafia mode."good," Nik says with an emotionless face. "you have disrespected me several times, you know," Nik says walking around him. "I was pissed but I controlled myself as I already killed that Anderson guy," Nik says rolling his eyes.
" I thought it was Ryan?" Jason asks confused. "well I told him too," Nik says to Jason then turns to Adam. "However, where was I? yeah. I have already told you to stay away from mia, did you listen? no. fine okay, I let it slide as I was feeling merciful but then you ask her on a date knowing she is mine then you touch her when she is drunk?!" Nik yells at him. "someone will hear you" Jason says rolling his eyes. "then we kill them" Nik shrugs carelessly. Jason rolls his eyes "I'm not cleaning up your mess" he pouts. "whatever hold him back" Nik orders and Jason holds his prying his eyes open.
Another scream escapes from Adam as Nik pours the HCL in his eyes. he chuckles statistically enjoying the screams from Adam.
"how much I would love to hear you fully scream" he pouts at Adam. "I thought you hated when they scream?"
Jason asks with a sarcastic grin. "oh Jason I love it when they are my favorite or girls" Nik says with a wink. Jason laughs pulling on Adams's hair. "oh can we play darts? please" Jason whines jumping up and down. Nik nods "okay but only 2 rounds," he says to Jason who happily places Adam against a tree and skips to the black box.
Jason takes out 20 shuriken blades and walks up to Nik with a grin. "I'm so going to tell Ryan about this! he is going to so jealous," Jason says handing Nik 10 blades. Adam cries as a shuriken thrown by Nik plunges in his thigh. "move" Jason shoves Nik away and throws the shuriken at his right pec. "ha! 10 points!" Jason squeals. he rolls his eyes and throws another one which embeds itself in his abdomen. another yell escapes from Adam which both ignore. "15 points" Nik smirks at Jason.
They both go back and forth and at the end of two rounds, Adam was in very bad shape. "I'm getting bored now," Jason says as Nik cuts Adams fingers. "me too," he says slicing the last finger. "kill him," Nik says getting up on his feet.
"and call the cleanup team," he says walking towards the lake. it was around 3 am and Nik didn't want any trace of blood when he wakes up next to mia later in the morning.
Jason says making mia frown along with others.
"why?" mia asks taking another bite. "ugh.. he had some work with Mortuus est," Jason says and Jacob chokes on his sandwich. "what?" Marcus says his eyes wide. "yeah work with motto? mort?" mia stammers. "Mortuus est, Nik helped him leave," Jason says, and mia nods while Marcus rolls his eyes. " but why?" Jacob asks and Jason takes a sly glance at mia. "what is the time?" mia asks cleaning her hands with a tissue. "it's 10:15" Brooke answers and mia quickly gets up. "where are you going?" Brooke asks and she laughs "pee I need to pee," mia says then walks away quickly.
was it left or right. right, yes 50 steps. she walks 50 steps right from Brooke's tent and finds Nik sitting on a fallen tree trunk with his head in his hands. "Nik?" mia calls him and he snaps his head towards her, she was surprised his neck didn't crack with the speed he turned to her. "you came" Nik breathed out, running up to her. he stopped a few steps before her, studying her face and outfit. she nods feeling his heated gaze on her making her swift at her feet. "you look beautiful," he says with a small smile, Mia nods hiding her blush, "you wanted to tell me something?" she asks and Nik bites his lip. "yeah" he says looking at the ground.
"Just hear me out okay" Nik pleads looking back up at her brown eyes. Mia nods encouragingly seeing the fear, guilt, and nervousness in his eyes. "when we first went out it was all a plan to me" Nik says mia frowns shaking her head "what do-" she starts but Nik places his finger on her lip "sh-sh" he says cutting her off. "as you know I don't like it when someone disrespects me so I wanted to punish you..." he pauses taking a deep breath. "so my plan was to date you and make you fall for me than break up and humiliate you in front of the whole school". Mia steps back from him. it was all a game? he just wanted to hurt me, how could he.
her heart hurt, it felt like it was ripped open and she felt like her stomach going to fall any second. a lump formed at her throat, and tears brimmed in her eyes. everything hurt, her head, she hurt. it was too much. the pain of rejection.
he never liked her and she liked him so much. Mia started to see a future with him.
"but- but, then I started spending time with you, at first you annoyed the hell out of me but it became annoying when you weren't beside me
baby-" he pauses wiping her tears, Mia tries to step back but couldn't. Nik holds her face gently in his hands. "baby, you are always in my mind, you make my heart beat faster. kitten I want to be the reason you blush, I want to be your friend, lover, I want to be the person you rely on. princess... baby don't cry....please don't cry...I just want to say that you are like air to me, without you I would be dead, my existence doesn't mean anything...I don't care if you don't love me, I love you...I love you" he breaths out.
Mia steps back as Nik pulls her in a kiss, on an instinct she kisses back, they share a rough and sensual kiss before mia comes to her senses and pulls away from him "you can't just say you love me and kiss me and expect everything to be fine" mia says to him, "mia" he says stepping towards her and she takes a step back. "I need time, stay away from me nik," she says walking away. she gasps as Nik pulls her back. "just remember that I love you" he whispers placing a kiss on her head. he pulls away giving her a small smile "I'm sorry" he says walking away from her.
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