Episode 2

Dimitri

I'm 35 years old, but I stopped living at 25 when I lost the love of my life, my Alexandra. Since then, I just wait for the day I will see her again in eternity.

For as long as I can remember, my father trained me to be the head of the Romanov Family, the Russian Mafia in this country. I was trained as if I were in Russia, I went through physical and mental torture that most adults wouldn't endure, but I, at 7 years old, had to endure.

I killed for the first time at 10, my first torture at 12, led my first mission at 15. At 18, I met Alexandra; she was promised to me by our parents. Her father was a board member, and my father thought it would be a good deal.

Contrary to what I thought, I fell in love with her, she was incredible, fearless, brave and faced any challenge. She also fell in love with me, and together we won many disputes, besides fighting and shooting like no one else. Alexandra was a great strategist, she was the perfect woman for me.

We got married when I was 20, and by her side I became Leader of the Romanov Mafia after my father retired. Our organization grew a lot in numbers and power, we were feared and respected.

I considered myself a lucky and fulfilled man until it all fell apart.

We were ambushed at the docks, we were outnumbered, but both Alexandra and I wouldn't let our men fight alone, unlike the other bosses we fight alongside our men.

More men from the Italian mafia, our enemy, arrived. We couldn't retreat, so we tried to hide to revise and protect ourselves. But Alexandra didn't make it, the Italians got her.

After that, I only lived in pain and despair. While we were negotiating her release, Alexandra was tortured and abused for 5 long days. While negotiating, I was trying to find out where she was; when we found her location, the Italians stopped making contact. I had no idea what was going on, so I ran like crazy to get to the captivity location.

When we arrived there was no sign of the Italians, I entered the shed and saw some bars around small square spaces as if they were cages, in one of them I found my wife's cold and lifeless body, lying on the floor, naked, full of cuts and bruises.

On that day I died with her, knowing everything she went through only made me feel even more guilty for not protecting her, I shouldn't have let her get involved in such risky things, if I hadn't let her she would still be alive.

All that pain turned into hatred and murderous rage. I went after every man involved in my wife's death, slowly killing each one, leaving a trail of totally disfigured and unrecognizable bodies, but I made a point of leaving Giovani Palermo for last.

He was the son of the head of the Italian mafia, and the author of the whole mission; I wanted him to know I was coming for him.

Giovani's father came to me to intercede for his son, asking for mercy, but they had no mercy for my wife at any time, so I would not have mercy for him either.

When I caught Giovani, I did to him exactly twice what he did to my Alexandra, and after 10 days, I returned the lifeless and skinless body at his father's feet.

Luigi Palermo swore revenge. But there's nothing he can do against me, not directly, since it was his family that broke the agreements first.

I spent these 10 years reliving this pain day after day, suffering in silence, while commanding my organization, and getting rid of the ridiculous attacks of the Palermo Mafia against me, but I'm always one step ahead of them, and I always will be.

My men are afraid of me, the closest ones respect me, but they know I became harder after Alexandra's death. I am known as a man without feelings, cold and aggressive to the extreme. Well, it's not all a lie.

I swore never to love again, I don't think I could, there's no one like her.

I can't risk loving someone like I loved her, and live through all this pain again, I couldn't bear it.

Right now I have more important things to worry about, the board is pressuring me to get married and start a family, they want an heir to replace me in the future, since I'm an only child.

Even knowing my opinion on this, they still insist and even threatened to remove me from the leadership of my own organization.

My father, like them, also pressures me with this talk of marriage, as if he understood anything about marriage, he killed my mother with sadness, cheating and mistreating her all her life. Treating his own son as an object, a weapon to gain money, fame and power for himself. If there's anyone alive I still hate in this life, it's my father for sure.

All the pain, fear, insecurity and loneliness I went through all my life before I met Alexandra, it was he who caused it, he hit me so much and so many times that I can't even remember.

He never gave me affection or showed me affection, he only treated me with indifference all my life.

And now that I am where I am, and have achieved all that I have, he treats me like a trophy, as if it were his merit all my life and my struggle. As if I were just a puppet of his, it makes me hate him even more.

I need to think of something to get rid of these old men who won't get off my back, but getting married is out of the question, there has to be another way out. I will not marry again, there is only room for her in my heart and it will be like this forever, until I leave too.

If they still insist, things are going to get ugly, and I'm going to have to show each and every one of them why I'm the boss!

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