Rose's POV
"How many new faces should I expect?" I asked my father as we're going to meet men. It's morning.
"Apart from Russians, like 30," He told and I nodded.
"How many people from you?" I asked Dimitri,
"Not much, like 150 is here, others are in different countries most in Russia," I nodded.
"Are they all living here?" I asked both of them.
"No 50 from each live here, others are in a different one. Near though," My father answered.
"How many mansions did you buy?" I asked them. They both chuckled.
"Two, both of them are connected secretly" Dimitri answered.
"All of them are here to meet you today," My father told me.
"Okay, so all together how many?" I asked them.
"400," I nodded.
We soon came to the hall where they are. I could hear muffled sounds of chattering and arguing. But as soon as we entered all the sounds stopped, until nothing was left but pin-drop silence. After we all sit down, I looked at them, there were girls, whom I assume were girlfriends or wives. Some of the men gasped recognizing me and smiled at me.
"As all of you know, we've come to face a new threat, Robert Doru, so we need to bring him down before he brings us down. This is Rosemarie Hathaway. She's my daughter and she'll be the main hacker and most importantly she's working with me and Dimitri which means she's your boss too." My father told and turned to me.
"Do you have anything to tell?" I nodded and came in front.
"To all the people who know me, Hi, once again! to everyone who doesn't know me Hi, I'm Rose, and to the Russians, Privet! I've worked here before and as so many of you know already, I left 3 years ago. So without any further references, I'm back here to help all of you to destroy that Robert fucktard Doru completely. To do that we all have to work together." I finished.
"Okay, anything you guys want to tell?" Dimitri asked from all of them.
"Welcome back Ms Rose, we missed you so much," I heard so many voices, I smiled at all of them.
"Are you here forever?" One of them asked. I shook my head.
"As much as it's so nice to see all of you, I'm sorry as soon as we'll get down that Robert, I'll be leaving," Some of their faces dropped.
"Can you speak Russian?" A Russian dude spoke.
"Da," I told him. (yes)
"What is your plan?" Another one asked. Me, Dimitri, and my father looked at each other.
"We'll let you know," Dimitri told.
"Whatever it'll be, we will destroy him," I told them.
"Kiz," I turned to face my father.
"When can you start?"
"Today, if that's possible," He nodded.
"Are you sure?" Dimitri asked. I shrugged my shoulders.
"Sooner the better," I replied and he nodded.
"Before we start, is there anything you want? Work-related?" My father asked me. I thought a bit before replying.
"A new laptop, a tab, and a phone," I told them. He raised an eyebrow.
"I already have them but for my work, I need separate ones. I can't mix inside with outside," I told them and they nodded.
"Right away," My father nodded to one of his men and he nodded.
"Before I start I want to know what happened," I told them. My dad and Dimitri looked at each other.
"Robert used to be a problem to me way back, to be specific the in the first year I became the leader of my mafia, he troubled a lot. We fought a lot," Dimitri told.
"As you know our main rival was and is Robert. I didn't have this partnership with Dimitri back then all I did was fought with Dimitri. We all, I mean including you thought that he died on that day but we weren't sure, remember?" I nodded at my father's words.
"Well he's not dead and now he's back, most importantly somehow he managed to be strong once again, that's why we united our mafia together. The reason that you're here is that we found that recently he hacked the system you made three years ago" My eyes widened.
Dimitri's POV
Her eyes widened, her jaw dropped to the floor, goosebumps appeared on her skin, if I describe it simply, she looked like the devil.
"Cover your ears," I heard one of Russo's men telling us before I could ask why she screamed.
"YOU FOUND OUT WHAT?" All of us flinched.
I remembered Pavel's words about her. 'She did leave but still, she hates when her work gets ruined by someone.'
Zmey sighed.
"Kiz, calm down, we found out exactly what you heard," He told her trying to calm her down. She closed her eyes tightly, clenched her hands, and took deep breaths.
"I want everyone who's not related to the work, out from here right now!" She told without opening her eyes. Pavel gave the signal and all the women and men, by that I mean, either girlfriends, boyfriends or wives, husbands of our women and men went out. After the door closed she opened her eyes.
"How the hell did this happen? I worked three days to build that security system, and that was the best one I've ever done. All you had to do was to take care of it, how the hell did this happen?" She asked from Mazur with a murderous glare. He sighed.
"We don't know how he did that, we couldn't figure it out," Mazur told her.
"When did you find out about this?" She asked.
"4 weeks ago," I replied. She nodded.
"Did you try to hack him? Or anything like that?" She asked.
"We tried to find out but nothing came out, but no, we didn't try to hack him," I replied. She nodded clenching her hands even more.
"What do you think?" Mazur asked her. She looked at us with a glare.
"What I think is that..." She stopped and look at our men.
"That we should talk in private," She told and we all got up,
"Let's go to my study," Mazur suggested and we all nodded.
"Does all of their phone systems is attached to our security?" She whispers asked us referring to our men. We both nodded.
"Cut the signal for two days, all of them, their families anyone near them. Make sure no one, not even those girls leaves this place until I tell if anyone has left already, I want you guys to find every detail about them," She told us while we are walking. We all stopped.
"Do you think one of them is a betrayer?" I asked her.
"I don't know, Dimitri. But I'm not taking any chances," She told me.
"You know that this is a huge thing right? We all are bound together with a brotherhood," I told her. She sighed and turned to face me.
"The security system which I made by myself is so advanced. The reason I made it was, that I've decided to leave this life. I have only three options about how he broke it.
One, there must be a technical error or underestimated problem from our side that helped him.
Two, he has a great hacker with him.
Three, someone from our side is betraying us. As I told you I'm not buying any chances," She explained.
"Let's think that there is a one. What are we going to do if they've contacted them already?" Mazur asked her.
"Did you tell my name when you told them about my arrival before I came today?" She asked.
"No," We both told together.
"Then I want you to find every information about every call, message, or anything they did in the past 24 hours," She told. I furrowed my brows.
Her name? I looked at Russo but Russo just looked nodded at me.
"Fine, I'll have my third in command, Peter, right at it. He's good in these too," I told her.
Once we came inside she watched around, "This is your study?" She asked looking around, clearly awed.
"Yes now back to the point?" Mazur reminded her.
"Ah, yes, show me the security system they broke in," Mazur handed the laptop which is connected to the security system.
She immediately started going through it. I watched her carefully. She didn't lift her head for a second, she didn't tell anything just unpleased sighs. After all most 20 minutes, she looked at us.
"This has been destroyed, I'm surprised that he hasn't entered yet," She told to Mazur, glaring at him.
"So can you fix it? I mean what is your plan?" I asked her, she turned at me with a fuming glare.
"Yes, I can. But it'll take a few days, but anyhow first things first, forget about what I told you earlier. I want laptops, tabs, and phones, 2 from each. And I want you to do a background check on men and women and to go through them and tell me anything suspicious. Do not try to work it out by yourself. And also don't even try to do anything suspicious to them, because if one of them is a betrayer they might end up doing something different. So don't even think about messing up,"
Whoa! What the? She is ordering like she owns this. I looked at Mazur and Pavel. They're looking at her with an adored expression. I guess she's bossy when this is her life.
"And as the first step, I'm going to find out what exactly happened. There are 3 things I can do.
One, if this is some kind of a technical problem, I'll fix it immediately.
Two, if they have a great hacker I'll find out who he or she is.
Three, if there's a betrayer, I'll find out who he or she is.
And if this is some kind of a betraying problem, you can deal with him. But hurry up, I want the items I asked from you within at least 5 minutes so that I can start right away. I'm sorry to inform but I'm going to run a background check on each of your second and third commands.
And also I," She stopped and sighed.
"I, sounds like the old Rose, again," We all laughed.
"Old habits, I guess?" I asked her smirking. She groaned placing her head on the table.
"Fuck it. I thought I lost it," She told me.
"We'll do what you want," Abe told her.
A knock interrupted us. Pavel opened the door. One of our men came in with a package.
"Thank you, you can go now," Abe told him.
"There you go, Kiz," She nodded and opened it after he left. She spent a few minutes adjusting with them.
"Okay, now the rose gold. MacBook, tablet, and phone are connected to our security system. While the blue ones are not," She told.
"So are you going to find out what happened? Or hack their's first?" I asked her she nodded and shrugged her shoulders.
"What does that mean?" Leonid asked her.
"That means, yes, I'm going to hack it but before that, I'm going to find out what happened," She told us.
"How are you planning to do that?" Russo asked her. She sighed and looked at us.
"I'm going to trick him," She told.
"What?" We all asked her.
"I'm not going to do that in my way," I raised my eyebrow.
"Your way?" I asked her. She looked at Abe.
"You didn't tell him?" He shook his head.
"What didn't you tell me?" I asked him sternly.
"I worked under him till 3 years ago. We were in Italy back then most of the time, and also as you know he's the most powerful among the Italian Mafia," Chloe started.
"Back in there, all the Italian mafia knew that Ibrahim Mazur's child is the person who's behind his hacking system. They've never seen me beside Eddie was treated like his child too. But all of them know the hacker, and that is because of a reason." I raised an eyebrow at her.
"I handle these differently, no one can point it out but they can see it," She told.
"Can't point out?" I asked her.
"Which means, different times, different ways," I nodded.
"So this time I'm not going to do it in my way at first," She told.
"Why not?" Russo asked.
"Then he'll know that I'm back on the track. Before I'd do something he might take a step. He hacked your security system once. That means there's a possibility of him doing something different." We both nodded.
"So how are you going to do this?" I asked her.
"First I'm going to find out what happened. After that, I'm going to try to enter his system, but for both of them, I'm not gonna do it in my way. So if anyhow he still has the access to log in to ours he'll think that you both are doing this in your way," She told.
"How are we going to know if he knows or not?" I asked.
"He'll ring us, that bastard loves to enjoy his victory," Abe told.
"I'm going to start now," She told opening all the laptops surrounding her, by which I mean, new two and the one that has the busted security system.
"Can I get some slow music?" I nodded.
"I'm now going through everything Peter sent." She told. I watched her carefully. She's giving her full attention to what's in it. So serious and so into it.
She didn't look at us for a second. This is not the Rose Hathaway I know, this is Rose Mazur.
"Done," She looked at us after almost 9 hours.
"What?" We asked.
"I went through every call Peter gave me," She told stretching her hands above her head blinking repeatedly.
"And?" I asked her.
"What did you find?" She asked me.
All this time I and Abe were going through the background checks of our men as she told us to do.
"From what we gathered there are 10 suspicious people, all of them are men," We looked at Ivan and Pavel. They were going through all the women who are around.
"Well, from what we see there are 5 ladies who go to others too if you know what I mean, and here are their reports," He handed over to me.
"Did you go through all the calls in only 9 hours? All 400?"I asked her.
"Peter has made it easy. He has categorized them, so it was kind of easy," I smirked proudly. My men
"How many have you found?" Abe asked.
"I'm not going to say it now because I didn't go through the mails and others," She told us.
"anything we can help with?" Ivan asked her. She thought for a few seconds.
"Yes, the suspicious people you chose, go through them once again. About where they've been, when and for how long," She told.
"And also, can you bring some kind of a snack because I'm hungry," I chuckled.
"Finally something amazing," Ivan exclaimed happily while getting up. Rose laughed.
"It's not a rest, Ivan," She told and he groaned.
For the next 3 hours, we finished what she asked. But she was still going through them. We can say that she's bone-tired but she didn't stop.
After almost another 5 hours she looked at us.
"Done," She told looking at us, yawning. I raised an eyebrow at her.
"Went through all the emails and messages," She told.
"And?" Abe asked her.
"Give me your suspicious files," She told while getting up and stretching.
"How about dinner?" Abe asked.
"Yeah, that'll be nice since we missed lunch," I told.
"Can you guys bring it over here? We can't leave these alone," She told and I nodded. Pavel went out and brought pizza for each one of us, we devoured them.
"Damn, I didn't realize how hungry I was until you brought it, uncle Pavel," She told while eating.
"So what do you think?" Abe asked her.
"about?" She asked removing the olives.
"What do you think happened?" Ivan asked her. She spoke without stopping, removing the olives.
"Give me a minute," She told. I sighed.
"Rose, this is not the time to worry about damn olives," I told her. She looked up and glared at me and then gave her attention back to the olives. We sighed.
"I'm not just removing the olives, Dimitri. I'm making a summary of everything I found, in my head," She told softly. I looked at her. Now I see. She was removing them so slowly.
"Sorry," I told and she only nodded. After finishing it she looked at us.
"From everything I went through, there are 4 suspicious people. Two women and two men. And also you haven't gone through the security system enough, I think that made him easier," She told.
"I'll go through what you found, and after that, I'll go through the security system once again properly to find something. If we succeed in finding what helped them to destroy our security system, half is done," She told furthermore.
"What's then?" Pavel asked.
"What happens after then is something we're going to find out," She told while getting up.
"Now, who's going to assist me to my room so I can change into something comfortable? I can't wear this anymore," She asked.
"I'll come with you," Ivan told while getting up.
Ibrahim's POV
She went out with Ivan after placing her pizza on the table.
"Doesn't she get tired or what?" Dimitri asked breaking the silence. I smiled.
"This is her. No matter how many times she keeps telling us that she hates this life, there's a part of this inside her," I told him. He nodded.
"Are you planning to keep her?" He asked.
"I don't know," I told him.
"What I know is that we have to give her a proper house tour," I told him looking at the watch.
"That we should," He told laughing.
Soon we heard the knock and Pavel opened the door. She came inside with Leonid.
I looked at her, she was wearing a crop top with shorts and a cardigan. A bit too exposed but who am I to tell her that?
"Can we start again?" She asked.
"When did you get the tattoo?" I asked her, looking at her tattoo on her collar bone.
"This year," She replied and started going through the suspicious files we made.
"Anything we can help with?" I asked her.
"Not yet," She told without looking at us.
She told without looking at us. If she hasn't changed at any minute now she'll ask us to leave. She didn't like working with so many stares.
"Do you mind leaving me alone?" Ah ha. She asked looking at us.
"Why?" Dimitri asked.
"No reason, too many stares make me feel uneasy," She told.
"We can leave but what if you need us for something?" I asked her.
"One can stay in the room, please go and rest. This won't end until tomorrow," She told.
"We'll take shifts," Dimitri told. She nodded.
"I and Ivan can stay first," He offered.
"I don't care about who's staying," She told.
"Fine you two stay here, we'll go nap for a little while if anything is needed don't think twice to barge in," I told them leaving the room with Pavel.
...
ROSE'S POV
"Have I mentioned how sexy you look right now?" I rolled my eyes.
"You know I'd like to have my father here," I told Dimitri.
"Oh, come on! Don't be like that, we are working together you know," He told.
"Yeah, I'm so glad that I'm not working for you, I can't imagine you as a Bravata leader," I can feel him stiffen.
"Don't test my abilities, Rose. You don't know me enough to tell that," I didn't look at him but before I could tell anything from the corner of my eyes I saw a hand coming to steal my pizza.
"Ouch! What the hell?" I glared at Ivan, who's now rubbing his hand on where I slapped him. I glared at him.
"I should ask you that, Why did you try to steal my food?" I asked him.
"You have enough, 5 slices remaining," He whined.
"So? Who told you that I'm not hungry? I'm starving, Just because I'm a slow eater doesn't mean, I don't eat," I told him.
"No need of hitting," He mumbled.
"Trust me, Ivan Zeklos, if you ever dare to play with my food, I bloody dare you, I'll cut your fingers and feed you them," I told him grabbing a slice.
"No, you won't." He mocked.
"There are plenty of people here, who'd do that for me," I mocked him back.
"Stop it you two," Dimitri told us, we both looked at him.
"Yeah stop it you two," I told back. They both looked at me.
"I'm trying to find out what happened and one of you won't stop flirting when the other one trying to steal my food. So for the last time, stop annoying me," I told them.
And they did surprisingly.
"Can someone pass me that blue file you made, please?" I asked them without taking my eyes off the screen. Ivan handed it to me.
"Any lead?" Dimitri asked. I sighed.
"No, I can't believe this. I can see and feel that there is something but I can't figure it out, it is annoying actually," I told them leaning back on my chair. I got up wincing.
Fuck! My back is killing me.
"What's wrong?" Dimitri asked.
"Just my back," I told him.
"Can one of you come with me to show me where the kitchen is?" I asked them.
"Is there anything you want?" Dimitri asked me. I nodded.
"What?" Ivan asked.
"Space," I told them. "Space to think and also something hot," I told them. They nodded and looked at each other.
"How about, both of us coming with you?" I looked at them.
"What about these?" I asked them.
"We can lock the door," Dimitri told. I nodded.
"Fine then, lead the way," I told them.
...
Dimitri's POV
"What are you making?" I asked her. After we came to the kitchen, she started cooking.
"Coffee," She replied.
"Why?" Leonid asked her.
"It helps me to clear my mind, do you want some?" She asked.
"Sure," We both replied.
After placing the mugs on the counter she sat down on the counter in front of us, finally allowing her to go too deep thought.
After almost 5 minutes, I placed my hand on her knee, making her look at me.
"What is it?" I asked her softly. She shook her head.
"Rose, we all know that something is disturbing you. Don't try to hide it," I told her. She sighed.
"It's disturbing. It's so disturbing. I can see, feel that there is a betrayer but I can't find him or her," She told.
"Maybe, there isn't a traitor," I told her. She looked at me.
"Three years ago, something horrible happened to me. After that, I realized that I don't fit into this lifestyle. I started hating this in every way possible. I decided to leave but I wanted my father to be safe. So I took three days, shutting everyone down and built this security system. As I told you, it's the most advanced one I've ever made. I made that because I took a decision. It's true, I love the power I hold but this isn't me Dimitri,"
She stopped to think.
"So?" I asked her.
"Mafias, they know that Ibrahim's child is behind all of his IT sides. They knew that I left. But still, my father is the most powerful among them. Why do you think that he didn't fall even after I left?" She asked us. I looked at her and thought about Abe.
"You didn't make him the most powerful mafia leader. You just strengthen him. You made him more powerful," I told her.
"You're right. I made him more powerful. More, Dimitri, more. But he was already powerful," She told.
"I just made his work easier, clearer, and quicker. That's all I did. Yes, he didn't have my knowledge and brain before I started working for him but he became the most powerful mafia leader without me. He protected and built his mafia, without me. He took care of an entire mafia before I came. Each and every side of it. How hard can it be to watch over the most advanced security? He didn't have to do much, all he had to do was to make sure it was protected. How hard can it be to one of the most powerful Mafia leaders?" She asked me.
She's right. He didn't have her for so many years. He didn't have her when he built his mafia. He did everything alone. So many things came to my head but I said the dumbest thing ever.
"Maybe your exit made a huge impact on him than you think you did," She was taken back by that but soon recovered.
"Maybe it did but the Ibrahim Mazur I know would never let his empire fall," She told.
Yeah, she does have a point.
"And what do you think happened?"
"Someone, from the day I left someone has betrayed him. Even after you came to the picture, he or she didn't stop. That's what I think happened," She told.
"Someone who's not afraid, to do that, or someone who was forced to do that," Ivan told.
"Or someone who doesn't have anything to lose," I told. She looked at me.
"Or someone who doesn't know the consequences at all," She told. We all got up. I smirked as her face brightened.
"I think we all know where to begin," She told.
"And we're waiting for... what?" Ivan asked. She smirked. A very coky one if I may add.
"Ivan, go call my father. Tell him to come immediately. Dimitri, I want you to come back with me. We started from the wrong side. I want you to give me all the files of the girls and your men who have nothing to live for if you know what I mean," She finished and turned around to leave.
"Again" Ivan mumbled.
She turned to look at us.
"Hurry up," She whined, I laughed following her.
ROSE'S POV
"So you're saying, that someone has tricked me from the beginning?" My father asked. I nodded my head.
"But who on earth would do that?" He asked more like to no one.
"I don't know father, but we will find it out," I told him.
"Is there anything I can do?" He asked me and I nodded.
"After I left, I gave you access to the security system. But to whom did you give it? Or who was here to check it and who else knew about this? Because I told you to tell this only to trusted ones," I told him.
His frown deepened, indicating that he's trying to remember.
"I assigned 3 people for this, Kev Knight, Luke Pierce, and Kallum Jules, other than me, Marco, and..." Hesitated. I raised an eyebrow at him. His expression changed to a guilty one. I knew instantly whom he was referring to. I sighed closing my eyes.
"Dimitri, can you please choose these three files for me and go through them? And also uncle Pavel can you find out whom they used to have relationships with? And father please, go through what that bastard did those times," I told them. And they all nodded. For the moment I decided to find which are destroyed most, just to know the timelines.
"Wait Kev knight, as in Kevin Knight?" I asked my father suddenly remembering something. He nodded.
"Why?" Ivan asked me.
"Kevin, he used to be a hacker too. We worked together when I was training. if he hasn't changed, he's not much of a talker, more work than words. He didn't have a girlfriend at the time I left but he had a girl for him. She was a bitch! I can't remember her name, she had blonde hair and everything about her was fake. But the main problem is that I didn't see her today," I told.
"Camielle Wilson, she's not here today, but here's her file," Uncle Pavel told handing me her file.
"Can you find where she is?" I asked him and he nodded.
"What about the other two?" Dimitri asked.
"Luke Pierce, I don't think he'll do anything like that, his family is in Georgia, and he came here when I was 13, if I'm right he's not a pro at these but he's good in mechanics, and he's gay, he and his boyfriend Aron were there today," I told them.
"Here, I guess these are their files," Ivan told going through them.
"Go through them please," I told him.
"And who's Kallum Jules?" I asked my father.
"He joined after a month you left. He's an introvert too. I'm sure he has nothing to do about this, Robert killed his family when he was young, he has lived hidden for so many years," He told.
"Just go through it too," I told them and they nodded.
Meanwhile, I found out that details about shipments are the areas that have been hacked at first.
"Can you give me the details of your shipments in the first three months of the second year?" I asked my father.
"Second year?" He asked me.
"A year after I left," He nodded and went towards a cupboard and scanned it before grabbing a file and handing it to me.
"Also I need your laptop," I told him.
"Why?" He asked me and I glared at him hating to repeat twice. He sighed and gave it to me.
I entered it and opened the backup files I knew he had hidden, He usually doesn't check them because he always has backup copies and files everywhere. But if I need to find something about his shipments correctly, this is where I should start.
"How did you enter it without a password?" He asked me. I scoffed.
"I hacked your computer for the first time when I was only 13," I told him without looking up. I heard him sighing.
"Who handled your shipments those days?" I asked him referring to the time earlier.
"For the first 3 months, after a year you left?" I nodded.
"Pavel," I looked at uncle Pavel.
"Did you go through the shipment details by your self or did anyone else do that for you?" I asked him.
"Somedays I went through them by myself and somedays when I was sick or in a mission minors did that," He told.
"Details," I told him. He nodded.
"Chloe, Camille, she has a degree in software engineering, and right now she's in a club, I searched about the club and Robert has been there thrice," I snapped my head in Ivan's direction.
"What?" I asked him. He nodded.
"Give me the file, the location of the club," I told him. He gave me them immediately.
"What are you gonna do?" Dimitri asked me.
"Hacking their system, trying to figure out if he's there today," I told them.
"I'm in," They all came and surrounded me.
"This is the guest list," I told them.
"Robert Doru, so he is there today," Dimitri told.
"I'm checking the normal list, and... there she is, Camille Wilson,"
"Can you get access to the security camera section?" My father asked me. I nodded.
"There he is," I told them pointing at the screen while gritting my teeth. I felt goosebumps appearing but thanks to me, I'm wearing a cardigan. There was someone beside him. I zoomed in for a clear view. My eyes widened at the recognization.
"WHAT THE FUCK?"
"BITCH,"
"I'M GONNA KILL THEM ALL,"
Angry words flew across the room.
"Get the files we are going through this more. I told them.
After half an hour we found out everything about our beloved, lovely betrayer. Everyone was fuming with anger.
"He didn't know," I told them and they nodded.
"Nothing will happen to him, if he chooses the right side tomorrow," My father told me.
Dimitri turned to me.
"You told me that you can't imagine me as a mafia leader, right Rose?" He asked me with a dangerous voice. I didn't say anything but looked at him.
"You'll find it out tomorrow, why people in Russia don't mess with me,"
Hi Guys!
I want to make an announcement! While I was reading the original book on Wattpad, I realised, that there are a lot of areas I need and can edit. So I'm uploading the edited fanfiction version here. So it is slightly different from the Wattpad version! But still the same plot.