𝑪𝑶𝑺𝑨 ╱ 𝑵𝑶𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑨 .

he can’t help but roll his eyes as he sees the new young bartender racking up tips as he flirts with the older woman, a shake of his head as he removes himself walking down the hallways until he sees a familiar face. stopping in his tracks, he grabs asks the young bartender for a bottle of whiskey &. walks over to steve ❝ long time, no see huh ? come on, have a drink with me . ❞

after leaving the venue, he disarms the gun and beaks it into tiny pieces. throwing them in the nearest garbage can, he grabs the blunt from his gold case, his name engraved in the golden container. his lips wrap around the filter of the blunt &. he lights it up smoking. after he was satisfied with it, he placed it in the garbage can and throws in the lighter, making the garbage go into flames as he turns around. he sees the blonde and she crashed into his chest ❝ you have to watch where you’re going luv . ❞  he whispers as he looks at the blonde smiling ❝ now, I think you &. I should have a little conversation. ❞ 

he hadn’t really been out so the black rabbit since what had happened at the wedding, not that he had anything to hide because he didn’t but it seemed that the black rabbit was his perfect residency for the moment. grabbing his coat he makes his way outside as he bumps into someone that was coming out of the ladies room &. then he spots her : amalia. he can’t help but let a small smile cloud his lips ❝ what are you doing here, wrong side of town don’t you think ? ❞  he inquired with a tilt of his head &.  a small smile on his lips. 

as isaak made his presence on stage he slipped behind aeva &. snaked his arm around her neck, pushing her against his chest. his lips right at her ear ❝ не волнуйся, любовь моя, я тебя понял. просто смирись с этим.❞ he whispers and as isaak shoots, he narrows his eyes ( he’s never been one for killing woman &. children. they were simply off limits in his mind but he wasn’t pres &. rules were rules )  back to aeva. the man that has been her date saw his actions and went to lauch to protect aeva or to swing at him but milo’s actions were faster. milo placed the gun right on aeva’s temple ❝ i wouldn't do that if i were you. if you make one single move, i will blow her pretty little brains all over you .  ❞ each word that left his lips were false accusations , her would never hurt one single hair on her head but they were acting &. was it one hell of a performance. ❝ chase is it ----  ❞ he made a brief pause &. his head tilted to the side . his arm lossens around her neck as he gets closer the balcony of the farm with aeva , his hand now wrapped around her neck , as he looks at chase ❝ you make any sudden movements to alert anyone &. i will throw her ass over this balcony. do you understand ? ❞

just as he was about to leave he spots the raven haired beauty, she looked an uneasy and maybe even a little scared but he keeps his composure as he sees her. he approaches her carefully, not wanting to alert her. he knew that everyone wanted them to win &. yet he was always careful with her , like a flower that had just been through a cold winter. ❝ do you need a ride ?  ❞  he didn't want to pry her for information, she would tell him when she was ready. 

after emiliano was done with what he had to do , he lets chocolate hues scan the room &. he sees ivan who is panicking looking for someone &. he shakes his head knowing exactly who it was. he makes his way to him and grabs him by his arm as he reaches him ❝  we did what we had to do . ❞ he says as he looked at the younger homme before him ❝  you will make this turn quickly against us if you go to her . ❞ he knew that he wanted ti protect her but that was sold news ❝  she is the enemy &. you need to get that through your head, ivan ! ❞

Maria was thankful for Emiliano’s presence as he pulled her from fixating her gaze at the sight of her ex with what she could only assume his date next to him. She needed a distraction and the Captain proved to be very adept in that department. “The security’s pretty shit so the risk factor is low.” she joked speaking freely as no one else was close enough to hear. Although she knew there was risk in him crashing a wedding that was basically enemy territory. “You get a dance in or two?” placing the drink before him and grabbing a glass of water for herself.

“They’re not even on par with the basics…” Faye huffed her agreement and disgust. This was such a travesty and they had to endure it. Hearing his comment prompted her to take a sip from her own lets-call-it-glass. “At least they didn’t screw this one up. Color me surprised!” she lifted an eyebrow with a small smirk. The smirk on his face warned her of what was to come. The fact that the bruising on his face was slowly but steadily dying down offered her some sense of peace even though what she saw when called to tend to him had made her want to rip him a new one. They had talked about this over time, but he just couldn’t help himself, she knew. But at the same time, she knew he always gave as good as he got if not better and that gave her a twisted sense of pleasure and pride. “Оба. Being upset doesn’t mean I’m not also proud as hell.” She told him honestly. There was no single spec of room in the universe where her being upset tramped her love and loyalty to him or meant she wouldn’t have his back. Through thick and thin, she’d plot everyone’s murder with him and take the fall if she had to. “I’ll always have your back; even when I want to nurse you to health so I can kill you myself and heal you back again.” Faye nodded her head in confirmation of her own words and tilted her cup to clink against his.

if there was anyone who he could talk like this with &. still be in hard terms with . it would be faye, no matter how many discussions or bad terms he had with her , she was right there . always had his back no matter what . ❝ well, you should be very proud because he’s still bitter . ❞  he can’t help but smile as he looked at her and grabbed her hand placing a kiss on it . ❝ what would I do without you ? ❞  he tells her smiling and grabs her flute placing it on the counter as well as his glass &. grabbing her hand once again ❝ will you give me this dance ? ❞  he asks with a small smile &. a tilt of his head

“Is the business doing really that well that you need to rely on an open bar in a wedding you weren’t invited to to get drunk?” Guasparre countered back, not even bothering to hold back his anger. His rib still  hurt, and all of the bruises weren’t completely gone, and yet, he was willing to do anything to get the man out of here. Nothing was going to ruin Julia’s and Gabriel’s day. “Don’t you? Is that your fucked up sense of fun? Or are you pathetic enough to seek out attention this way?”

a small chuckle escapes his lips as he looks at guasparre ❝ oh my business is thriving . just as many of the plenty others that I have but I decided i celebration was in order &. I even brought a gift the happy couple , always been a sucker for weddings , even one as humble as this one . ❞  he responds, the same usual smirk on his brims. ❝ you know maybe for once scordato, not everything I do has to do with you . ❞  he takes another sip of the liquor, emiliano wasn’t truly bothered by guasparre &. today simply wasn’t going to be ruined by him. ❝ is that all ? ❞

A tender barbarian - the phrase suited him perfectly. Dangerous, non-opposing, imperious, yet caring and gentle. The combination of all these features is who he was &. he would be for her. 

A nod and Ness moves along with Emi, letting her eyes fall closed for a moment and exhaling, “Yeah, I sometimes forget how entangled a lot of our lives are in chaos.” she pauses, waiting for them to get free of the abundant crowd before she offers him a grin and lowers her voice, “I came with a man named Max, I kind of like him. We have fun.”

It was unclear how closely Ness kept up on people’s roles anywhere, whether they were public or not, and her job in the Vipers was so minimal in terms of the whole of the organization that she sometimes felt like, though she was very much loyal, that she was sort of an afterthought, “I really hope I get to meet her, you know what I mean? If she’s that important to you she’s basically family to me, too.”

he nodded his head as she spoke ❝well, regardless of the time span I’m happy to have you in my life.❞ vanessa was truly the only person that  he trusted ( besides faye, the volkovs &. his own sister of course ) with his very own life. he nodded his head as he looked at her ❝ max ? ❞ hr inquired as he looked at her ❝ do I need to have a talk with him ?  ❞ regardless of how capable he knew vanessa could be, his initial to be overprotective coats right over . 

he nodded his head to her ❝ of course you’ll get to meet her . I was thinking though somewhere more ——- ❞ he takes a pause and makes a sort of disgusted face ❝ classier location, you might be meeting the future mrs. taylor who knows ? ❞  he jokes slightly knowing that his mind wasn’t far from that. ❝ want to get a drink with me ? ❞ he inquired her as he offered his arm. 

The key difference between the relationship the Taylor siblings had when compared to others, was that they were connected by the blood that stained their hands far more than that which ran through their veins. Two sides of the same coin, tarnished in ways that might tear one another apart. “Oh,” Her smile is genuine, though it soon dissipates as she crinkles her nose, “Clearly, he has a few more uses than I first thought.” As Milo continued, however, Jack cast hues up at him as if he might have truly insulted her, You might care for him - Surely, her brother wasn’t thinking about Brandon Shapiro, the royal pain in her ass. “You’ve always been bold, Milo… but that certainly doesn’t always make you right. He’s a temporary annoyance, that’s all.” Even if merely saying as much left a bitter taste on her tongue. Mention of Carmen forced her eyes to roll back into her skull, the irate sigh that built not even slightly curbed for his sake, she only hoped this wouldn’t be something about her. “Oh, without a doubt.” Jack retorts without thought, an amicable smile soon gracing her lips as she moved a little way beyond him towards the tree line, “But we always are. We chose everything too big and too great for merely one person to handle, you just have to figure out whether this.. person, is willing to keep you afloat, or allow you to drown.” And if it happened to be the latter, Jack would happily return the favor tenfold. “Do they know?” She stopped then, lithe fingertips plucking at the overhanging branch, “Who you are? About the family?”

if anyone were to ask emiliano to ever double cross jack that would be a shot in each knee cap and then after a few weeks on torture it would end in evident shot between their eyes. the loyalty that he held for jack was like any other, even though he was older &. sometimes took the role to be the big head of the family, which tended to piss the youngest taylor off but regardless there they were attached to the hip.  ❝ seems like he may need another talk, not as harsh as the first one I’m guessing . ❞ he says with a small smile. ❝ I think you forget that I was the one raised you, as much as you think that I don’t know you , you’re very wrong but I’ll let you think you have the upper hand . ❞  but we always are . her words cause a nod of his head &. she’s not wrong, they go 200% forward with everything that they do. ❝ I think she’s the one that’s been keeping together after this whole thing , she sees something human in me. something I don’t really see in myself . ❞ he honestly never though that he would ever talk about anyone like that again, her next set of words cause another nod of his head. ❝ she knows, she’s in it all the way &. she accepts the ugly parts , parts that I don’t like but she loves it &. it scares me because I don’t think I can handle what happen with carmen to happen with her . ❞ 

he leans on the chair as he looks at aeva, his hands rest on her waist playing with the the dress that was not resting there . ❝ it wouldn’t be the first time . ❞  but soon enough his brows furrowed and be turns on the light in the middle of the roof of the car . the bright LED light shining on them . chocolate hues scan her body trying to make sure if their is any bruised that are forming, any soreness. ❝ you should tell me if your hurt . ❞ 

he’s never cared much for woman after sex, not that he was a total asshole but he did care for their well-being making sure they made it to their destination safely which is why most of the time he would rent out a jazzy room for them to spend their time. yet with her, he cared for aeva &. it was all completely different .  a small chuckle escapes his brims as he hears her . ❝ don’t tempt me . ❞ he says smiling ❝ I would not mind in having you vent over . ❞  his lips press against hers as he is pulling up her dress ❝ but sadly both me and you have things to do at this wedding .❞  he says as he looks at her smiling and buttoning up his shirt. 

he makes his way out of the car and fixes up his tie and his suit, padding it out. helping her out , he lets his fingers run through her hair ❝ I’m sure you’ll need just some lipstick &. you’ll look as good as you walked in today . ❞  he wishes that he could walk back in with her but he knows that both of them have a role to play in this. ❝ i certainly feel much better. ❞  he steps closer to her and lets her back hit her car ❝ you can go back inside &. have fun wit your pretend date ——- но я хочу, чтобы ты запомнил одну вещь в конце ночи. Это буду я, которого ты похоронишь внутри себя. Поняла, девочка? ❞