"wait what? how long has he been working and what is his job? Why are you so afraid?"I asked her. She looked us square in the eyes despite the fear.

"lets just say that gun is a tool given to Mello by his work and that the gold digger dug her grave in a most painful way when she chose you as her date." She said dead serious.

"sweet Jesus is he an assassin or something?" I asked. It would explain pretending to be dead.

"you can say that" she said not giving it away. I then looked at her and whispered in her ear. "Whose rod?" She looked at me pale with fear at her old bosses name.

"Where did you hear that name?" she asked.

"Mello said his name on the phone when he got called that your club was shut down." She looked down.

"it's not my club it was Mello's" I looked at her. "After replacing the old dancers and stripper staff with witches and vampires it was re opened. He owns everything here. "

"damn if Mello owns a club and a gun.. grand theft auto" said Keith

"you got to be kidding me Mello's in the mafia?" I said in shock reeling from it all.

"not just in it.." She swallowed looking me dead in the eye. "he leads it" it now made sense he was a great fighter and the troll freaked when it saw him. What was more it explained the fear the wolves had. Finally it explained him vanishing for a month.

Knowing he was leading a mafia made me sick to my stomach. Why was he hiding secrets like that was I just not important enough? "what if I had decided to kill myself?" I asked.

"he'd make sure you didn't." then it occurred to me. Fuck he was blond I kept glaring at. I was embarrassed glaring at my mate. "he knew you didn't mean to glare at him but it killed his heart to not have been there when you were in wolf form"

"she saw you in wolf form?" asked Keith shocked at this.

"Yeah I went and scratched on his door only not to be answered and when I left I went to her house" I said glad of the subject change. I wondered if Mello would have ever told me. "how would he have stopped me?" I asked going back to him again I couldn't help it. I tend to obsess over him even if I thought he was dead.

"He can turn into mist and when he wasn't watching you aki or I were. You're his most valued person. However he might have had someone on his tail. So if someone knows about you," she replied

"I can be a target too well fuck" I now needed to get better at fighting my life and his life was counting on it. I swore I'd take up somthing maybe have Mello as my trainer. I know he'd hold back but he could still kick my ass hard enough to toughen me up. 'Damn it Mello you got me mixed up in something awful' I thought. I only prayed to god we both live to die at age forty.

After the taxi ride which was to Mello's house, I got off with Keith and Galalaya. I went into the living room. The shock was too much but now I felt hurt. Keith and Galalaya went exploring and when Mello came back he was not in the leather any more. He was in black sweats and a long sleeve black turtle neck. "where is the leather?" I asked in curious tone of voice.

"If you think I'm going to wear that around here you're nuts" he replied.

"so I'm just like the others then" I said in a neutral tone which I was anything but.

"oh no" he said and kissed me. I didn't kiss back. "your not" he said and tried to show I wasn't.

"You kept me in the dark" I said showing anger in my voice. He winced. "you always kept me in the dark hell I had to find out from Aki that you killed someone and had a sister. " I continued.

"Matt please" he said.

"Don't Matt please me. When were you going to tell me huh? When you quit? When you were in the hospital because you got shot?!" I yelled He closed his mouth. "What did you not trust me to keep your little secret or was this a game to you?" I asked on the verge of tears. He sighed and hugged me.

"I was about to tell you on the phone that I was mafia. Hell I was going to pick up the phone after playing dead for a few hours. But you picked it up. " He said and I handed it back to him. He took the cell phone smiling that I fixed it up.

"it's not just that you haven't told me you told me nothing about your past" I yelled tears streaming down my face.

"You didn't tell yours either" he retorted

"you didn't ask had you asked I would have told you everything about me" I said.

"ok what school did you go to before you moved here?" he asked making a point

"the schools were fang elementary and middle wolf. I was the highest grade earner in my class. I got into one fight and never had a girlfriend or boyfriend till I met you" I said almost like I was answering a problem in class and his eyes widened.

"ok I got the point what all do you want to know?" he asked sitting up since I got up.

"same questions" I replied.

"wings elementary then after that I went to monster middle school. I was the highest grade in my wings elementary class. In middle school I was the second best just like I'm second best now. I got into ten fights all after I got burned. I never had a steady partner."

"what was your first fight about?"

"it was about some ass hole thinking I couldn't just heal it off because I was week I decked him and he tackled me. We wrestled till I bent his arm into a chicken wing. Yours?"

"a boy stole my game boy. I transformed into a wolf and fought him that way. The teachers were scared we would rip each other apart with the claws and fangs"

"damn" said Mello laughing. "I never pegged you for a wolf that would fight over a game boy." I shrugged. "though that makes sense of why you growled at them" He smiled and cupped my cheeks. "bet that woman made you mad huh"

"are you kidding? she drove me insane!" I said I then sat next to him. I told him everything that happened. His eyes widened then narrowed then he shook his head in responses to things I told him till I got to the part that I saw him.

"She's right you're extraordinary Mail, but not because you're rich. It's because you are smart, funny, really good looking, also so sensitive and damn loyal. If I told you not to do it you would have listened to me over your dad." I blushed at his pouring out of complements. He kissed me. "I didn't kill her though I wanted to. I thought I'd leave that pleasure to you." I laughed.

"I can't kill except on video games Mihael" It reminded me that I needed to get stronger. I asked him for help.

"Matt theres one more secret I need to tell you" I looked at him confused.

"those moves arn't from me. I was trained by the mafia how to fight and shoot when I was in sixth grade" He said and I fell on my back. That meant he had been in the mafia at a very young age. I fainted on the couch it was just too much.