"Melanie get your ass down here!" I yelled at my cousin as she continued to get ready after an hour of my nagging her to hurry up.

"Calm down Cassidy, you can't rush perfection" Melanie fluffed her hair as she walked down the stairs.

"And you can't rush Melanie O'Donnell" I grumbled to myself as I grabbed my purse and headed towards the door.

"Hold on!" Melanie yelled and stopped to look in the mirror" I growled and ran back to grab her arm and drag her away from her reflection, "You look fine, now we are going to be late" We walked out of the door and straight to my car. My father, the head of the Italian mob, owned a club in downtown Boston that we were headed to, it was the best place to get trashed and have some fun. Melanie got in the passengers seat of my royal blue challenger as I got in the drivers side and revved the engine with a smile.

"Now who's the one that's stalling" Melanie complained looking once again at her make-up.

"My car, driver makes the rules and the passenger shuts their pie-hole" I smirked at her and threw the car in reverse and burned out of the drive way and headed into the city.

We had been at the club for a good five hours and I was beginning to get a little bored with dancing while Melanie was having the time of her life on the dance floor. Melanie and I were almost complete opposites, while she was shorter and brunette I was tall and blonde, while she was of Irish decent on my mothers side I was of Italian decent on my fathers side, she was a club girl and I was a bar girl, but in the end we got along like sisters and I was glad she had gotten shipped off to Boston a year ago. I sat down at the bar and scanned the room for anyone that I might know, but was sad to see that it was just a bunch of teens and older adults trying to recapture their youth. I laughed to myself as I watch a couple in their mid thirties dance like there was no tomorrow.

"Can I get you anything Cass?" Jimmy the bartender asked me and I asked for a beer, I was a girl but I was a fruity drink type of girl.

"Cass, come on you're missing all of the fun!" Melanie yelled in my ear and I shoved her back as my ear started ringing.

"Jesus I'm standing right here!" I grumbled not really feeling in the party mood anymore, "Plus I think you are having enough fun for the both of us" I smiled and got up off my bar stool as Melanie ran back out to the dance floor. I made my way through the crowd and back to the offices to chat with my dad for a bit.

"Hey dad, Melanie has gone completely nuts again" I laughed as I walked into the room, but stopped dead in my tracks when I looked up to see two men holding guns to the back of my dad's head.

"Spiritus Sancti" They both called out and pulled the triggers. I screamed and looked at my dad dead on the floor.

"Murph' tak' care of 'er, I'll finish up 'ere" The blonder haired man said with an Irish accent and the dark haired man nodded and walked towards me.

"No" I shook my head and the dark haired man stopped and looked at me, "No you are not going to touch me, now get out of my club" I pointed to the door and the dark haired man named Murphy or something turned to look at the blonde.

"Ya want me to do as she says Connor?" He asked and Connor stopped what he was doing and looked at Murphy.

"What 're ya takin' 'bout, tak' care of 'er" Connor said as he looked back down at his work. After shooting my father he had crossed his arms over his chest and put pennies on his eyes.

"I know who you are" I looked at Murphy with wide eyes, "You're the Saints" I steadied myself on the doorframe. I thought about my options and if I stayed here any longer I was for sure dead, so I turned and ran out of the door and out onto the dance floor. When I turned around I saw Connor and Murphy take off their masks and make their way into the crowd.

"Melanie!" I called frantically searching the dance floor for my cousin. I ran up to the bar out of breath and asked Jimmy if he had seen her.

"Yea she just went out back to smoke" I heaved a sigh of relief as I knew she would be safe out there, but then I remembered that I was no longer safe in here. I searched around and didn't see Connor or Murphy anywhere in sight so I took a deep breath and casually headed towards the door.

"Cassidy!" I heard my name being called and I turned around to see Melanie waving her hand in the air, I decided to ignore her and turned around to walk out of the club but ran into a black wall with blonde hair.

"And wher' do ya tink you're goin'" Connor grabbed my elbows and kept me in place.

"Please just let me go" I pleaded trying to see if he would fall for the poor helpless girl trick. When Connor didn't budge I crashed my boot heel into his foot so he would let me go, unfortunately he had steel toed boots on so all I did was break my heel, "Damnit" I mumbled.

"Now, behav' and come wit' us" Connor laced his arm with mine and helped me walk out of the club. As soon as we were on the street I looked around for any other people, but alas they were all in the club, no witnesses for my soon to be death. Connor dragged me down the street to the alley on the other side of the club and threw me up against the wall, "Stay" He pointed a finger at me and I closed my eyes knowing what was going to happen next.

"Cassidy!" I heard Melanie call from the front of the club and I opened my eyes and went to scream for her to stay away but Connor's hand was cupped over my mouth before I could get a sound out. He used his body weight against me and kept me slammed against the wall and his hand firmly over my mouth. Connor looked to Murphy and nodded in the direction Melanie's voice was coming from. I mumbled no into Connor's hand and struggled to try and get away, but it was no use.

"Keep ya'r mouth shut" Connor whispered in my ear as he continued to look towards the opening of the alleyway.

"Oh hi there" I could hear Melanie say as she saw Murphy I could just see her twirling her hair around her finger flirtatiously. I rolled my eyes and slightly shook my head at her stupidity even in my situation I was still judging my cousins decisions.

"Come wit' me" I heard Murphy say quietly and I could then hear Melanie's heels click on the sidewalk and get closer and closer to me and Connor. When Melanie turned the corner and saw me she gasped in horror, but she didn't have much time to worry about me because she was put in a similar situation as me against the opposite wall. She yelped out in surprise but the sound didn't travel very far because her mouth was soon covered by Murphy's hand.

"What's da plan brudder?" Murphy asked as he turned to look at Connor.

"Well she's the daughter of da boss, we do wha' we do best" Connor reached behind him and put a gun with a silencer in my face. I crossed my eyes to look at it as he had it centered on my forehead. I was the daughter of a mob boss and this is how I was going to die, I should have known. Connor let go of my mouth and gave me a stern look and I knew that if I made a sound I would be killed a lot quicker.

"Any last words?" Connor asked as he looked from me to Melanie.

"Mel, look at me" Melanie opened her eyes and met my gaze, "Listen it's going to be ok, we are going to be just fine, do you understand me" Melanie looked back at me and nodded slightly. I smiled to reassure her that everything was ok and then I told her to close her eyes and try not to listen.

"Now do your worst" I looked back and stared at Connor right in the eyes. If I was going to die I was sure as hell going to look my assailant in the eyes, after all I was my fathers daughter. I took a deep breath and continued to stare at him in the eyes. He watched me slowly and then looked at his gun and flexed his finger around the trigger.

"Dah" Connor grumbled and un-cocked his gun and put it back in its holster, "Go get out'a 'ere scram" Connor yelled and I stood there stunned like an idiot. Murphy let go of Melanie and turned to talk to Connor in a different language. I ran to my cousin and grabbed her hand before running out of the alley and heading for my car. As soon as we got to the car I took of my boots and jumped in pressing the ignition button and starting the car before throwing the car into drive and punching the gas down to the floorboard, I was determined to get away from the club as quickly as possible. I pulled in the driveway and turned off the car and just sat there focusing on my breathing.

"Cassidy?" Melanie broke my train of thought and I turned to look at her as she was shaking and trying to be strong.

"Let's go inside" I said and opened my door and walked to the front door of my house. I frowned at the thought of this being my house now, with my mother dying a few years ago and now my dad being murdered by the Saints, all of this was mine, I was 24 and inherited a house and a mob. I ignored the fact that anyone else was with me and walked straight to my father's liquor cabinet to get a drink. I was numb all over and I wanted to make sure that numbness lasted forever, I never wanted to feel again.

"Cassidy!" Melanie yelled, "What the fuck just happened!?" She continued to shout at me.

"I'm in shock not deaf" I turned my head to glare at her.

"What happened, who were those people, why did they want to kill you, what is going on?" Melanie frantically asked every question that came to minds.

"We don't talk about this, don't think about it, we go on with life like it never happened, we are alive, that's all that matters" I took a drink of my whiskey and left the room leaving Melanie shaking and fearful for her life.