CPOV

We're driving uptown to a restaurant GEH owns in Harlem, to everyone it is a fantastic fifties style diner, but the basement is soundproofed and we use it for our underworld hits as well. It is far enough away from us and the city is unaware there is a basement, we found it during renovations and has become quite beneficial.

I don't know how Ana will handle what we are about to do, if needed I will send her upstairs and have her sit and wait. I never know what will trigger that woman or how she will react, she drives me mad.

I park the car in one of two parking spots out back and we all walk in, sneaking down to the basement since some of our regular staff members still don't know about the basement and definitely do not know about by main job. Ana is friendly and bubbly with all the staff that we pass on our way, she walks between Elliot and myself as a precaution.

Down in the basement Reynolds is there waiting for us with Kevin tied to the chair, blindfolded and it looked like he had been crying. Ana freezes when she sees what is happening, unsure of what to do about her I continue towards our friend, removing his blindfold and letting him adjust to the light and surroundings.

"What the fuck, Luciano? You're insane!" Kevin snapped.

"Now Kevin, watch your language in front of my wife," I tease.

"You won't get away with this, you fucking asshole!"

"What was the target with the ambush yesterday?" I ask with a calm voice.

Ana's hand slips into mine, she is right beside me. Ooo, Kitten is curious. Elliot moves so he is behind Kevin sorting out knives, guns and other weapons of torture which everyone could hear and made Kevin turn white.

"Your kids, they were the target. Primary goal was to kidnap but if there wasn't a clear hit we were to kill both targets," Kevin smirked with satisfaction.

Before I moved to do anything Ana was hitting and punching him, shouting at the top of her lungs in english, spanish and there was a bit of italian in there. When she was satisfied with herself she marched to the leather chair in the corner and pouted while glaring at him. Kevin did not know what just happened, Elliot looked scared and I laughed. God, I don't know how but that turned me on, her standing up for our family.

"Shit, for a tiny thing you can sure cause damage," Elliot exclaimed.

Kitten shrugged, holding some sense of satisfaction within her, I looked back at Kevin who was bleeding quite a bit and parts of his face were discoloured and swelling up like a balloon. Oh how I love Anastasia right now.

"Who sent out the order? Callum or Jamie?" I ask.

"I'm no rat!"

"We will kill all of you, no one will survive unless you give one or both up. What we could do to your wife, sisters, daughters and sons. Elliot you better be coming up with something as good in your head as I am in mine," I laugh.

"Leave them out of this!"

"Aside from you did they primarily send Capos or Associates? I will go out to Long Island and buy up every property I can, push you out like we did in Hell's Kitchen."

"You're not stupid enough to cause a turf war."

"Who says I'm not? Plus there would be no war if I won. Jamie's son threatened my son and daughter so Jamie is already going down, but I want to know how involved Callum was in all of this. So, are you going to tell me? You lie or answer wrong you will lose a piece of yourself: fingers, ears and it will move up. I'm all for taking an arm." I laugh.

"Callum has been out of country for a month, he has no clue what has been happening here. Some of his family were in an accident so he is overseers dealing with deaths and recovery, I swear on it."

"What does Jamie want to gain from this?"

"I don't know."

Elliot hands me a knife and I cut off his right ear, he screamed out in pain and it got louder when Elliot burned the wound so he wouldn't bleed out.

"How about you try that answer again," Elliot suggests.

"Territory, profits and control," Kevin panted.

The next time I checked the time it was two in the morning and he was still alive, barely. His eyes have been on Ana for the last twenty minutes, studying her and it has been slowly pissing me off more and more.

"Jack Hyde and Jose Rodriguez, you're the girl they told nearly everyone about. How great of fuck you were and how you could be used and abused without whining or complaining, fuck what did they call you? Doesn't matter but I know a shit tonne of bosses that want to get their hands on you," Kevin smirked.

Ana lunged, it was as if she was someone completely different in the blink of an eye. Elliot and I didn't catch what she did while she did it but then he was limp and she was trembling from all of the adrenaline pumping through her body. We could have gotten more out of him but as angry as I was about that last comment it did something to Ana. He's dead but she is still hitting and punching him like she can't notice it. I have to physically pull her back and she fights back, she gets me a couple times but between Elliot and myself we subdue her.

"Reynolds, take care of the body and any evidence. We need to take her home and get her to calm the fuck down," I growl while Ana struggles in my arm.

Elliot helps me get her in the car, he activated the child locks for the backseats where I place her. Elliot gets in the driver seat while I slide into the passenger seat. When I look back at her she is shaking and if I didn't know about adrenaline and what it can do I would think that she was having some kind of seizure.

"We could have gotten so much more out of him, the worm was talking with ease. Fuck man, you better do something about her," Elliot sneered.

"You really are going to try telling me what to do?" I ask.

"Just saying, she is undisciplined and blows with the wind. What happens if the wind blows her out the window next? I mean she already tried to get you to kill her, what's going to stop her if she gets real desperate? The Ana who killed him is not one I have ever seen before, sure it was wicked but what next."

I look back at Ana who has now passed out from the huge drop of adrenaline in her system which I was expecting. When we pull into the garage she is still out so I carry her up. Kate is awake in the living room feeding Rachel. I place Ana in the bedroom then go back out to Kate and Elliot. He is explaining to her what happened earlier and Ana's final reaction which shocks Kate. I take the baby and rock her in my arms, I love claiming baby time.

"I didn't think that she would have it in her," Kate smirked.

"None of us did, it was definitely something else," Elliot laughs.

"You should have got it on video."

"If we knew what was happening we could have but it took a moment to register in my brain and then I had to pull her off and restrain her," I answer.

Kate is looking over my shoulder and I turn to see a very confused looking Kitten. I hand back the baby to Kate then lead Ana to the shower. She doesn't speak, just moves when I move her and does what I tell her in the state that she is in. I take her to bed and pull a silk night gown over her head before she lays down and looks at me with those eyes.

"I just killed someone," She breathed, realization hitting her.

"Yeah. Kitten, what happened?"

Here breathing became erratic and I had no idea what to do, she was panicking because it was like she blacked out when we were up int Harlem. I pull her over my lap and spank her ass hard, harder then needed but it was all I could think of. I was so mad at her for killing him before we got everything we needed and for reacting that way, now this. By the tenth slap she was breathing normal, at eighteen she was moaning and at twenty five she was dripping and begging me to fuck her hard. I lay her out, strip and pound into her hard and fast. She is a moaning, writhing mess until she explodes in ecstasy which triggers my own. I roll off her and pull the covers over her body, only having to pull down her night gown. I go out and pull on a pair of cotton pyjama pants then crawl in next to her, pulling her flesh to my body allowing he to curl in and relax normally.

I fall asleep next to her, fearing what is to come after what Elliot said and watching her reactions to Kevin last night.

I wake up to no Ana, go out to look around the rest of the penthouse and there is no Ana in any of the rooms which makes me panic. Taylor comes up behind me quietly and earns a great punch to the stomach when he scares the shit out of me by touching my shoulder.

"She's down in the fitness center, has been for almost three hours. We've been watching her on the monitors. Ava, Noah, Jude, Jacob, Micah and Maia are all down there as well but in different area's," He grunts.

I rush to the elevator and go down a floor, rushing out and observing the area. Noah, Jude, Jacob and Micah are in the dojo while Ava and Maia are in the dance studio. I check the pool, other studio and then go into the weight room where I find Ana running on the treadmill drenched in sweat. She's wearing some of Kate's work-out gear that Kate obviously can't fit anymore; a pink sports bra and slate running capris. I stand back and admire her body that, although drenched in sweat, is incredible. Ava and Maia come and stand by me, Maia is on her cousins back and seems as happy as can be.

"We found her in the dojo when we got down here working on flips and kicks and just stuff you can do alone but then she came in here and has been running for at least an hour and a half. Where did you go last night?" Ava smiles.

"Your dad and I had work to do and Anastasia wanted to come, has she talked to any of you guys?" I answer.

"No, and I thought I was supposed to be the deaf one," Maia joked.

The girls run down the hall towards the pool, Ava's one of the only people Maia will swim with and listen to when it comes to rules so I don't worry about that.

"So now that you're sweaty how about we go upstairs, I clean you up and then I get you nice and dirty again," I tease.

She screams and leaps off the treadmill, turning and glaring at me with one of the cutest pouts I've seen; however, she regroups and runs into my arms, her body heaving with silent tears. I try to move but she doesn't let me, I try to scoop her up and into my arms and she screeches as if I am hurting her which I know I'm not so I stop. We both stand there silently until she makes the first move and we go upstairs. I leave her in our room to rest while I go into my office to get some real work done so the FBI and IRS try to get into my underworld dealings.

Gail brings me the mail around two and I open them up, mostly bills and invites to various events that would gather that companies attention. Two packets catch my eye and I page Noah to my office, one thing I learned going to private schools is that they decline you in a letter and accept you with a package. My son is going to summer school for a month and then boarding school next year; however, I don't know if I am proud, upset or both. Noah is off the walls with how happy he is which makes me smile.