Father taught me how to use a gun and a knife together, and I realized I was better suited with guns than with knives.
I tried hard not to displease him while he taught me, and I did great in it. He was satisfied with my work and left the other teachings to my new teacher, Thomas.
If anyone's wondering where my mother could be? Well, she's captured in a villa as a punishment for trying to kill me.
After failing to persuade my father, I tried on my 'now' mother, but she seems to hate me more than my father himself. Maybe...she despises me for being an illegitimate.
Well, I somehow tried to cope with the feeling of being hated by both my new parents. It was okay until I turned nine and my 'now' mother tried to kill me by suffocating me with a pillow.
As a result, she was sent to a villa as a captive and never came back again.
Years went by with me going through thorns and fire and I reached my eighteenth birthday. I had completed my schooling perfectly with amazing grades. I studied hard since I never again wanted to be thrashed by my father for failing a subject.
After passing high school, I went to a higher college for business studies. Thankfully, I have seemed to please my father quite a lot. So, his making me his heir could be possible. But the thing was...
"I don't want to be the heir of the family, Father." I stood in front of the shocked man and blurted out what I had in mind.
Ever since I finished high school and qualified for my college entrance, I have been getting nervous about the novel which will start in a few months.
But as I looked in my father's favour, it has increased so much that I doubt he would even need the time to look for some other child for his heir position. Then what would become of the novel? What would become of me? I don't want to be part of this crude family that cares about nothing but money and power. I don't want to be free from this family now. Free from my father's clutches and simply live my life. I want revenge for my mother who was cheated, even though I don't know her, I feel for her. She's similar to my mother from a previous life.
And for that to happen, the main characters have to come.
"Why?" A cold voice rang out of his throat.
I shivered under his icy gaze and opened my mouth carefully.
"I believe I'm not qualified to be a proper heir and take over the business."
"What about the undercover members?"
"I believe they need a better team leader."
I took a long breath in and confessed.
"I would like to manage 'The Web'."
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The Web.
That was the codename for the underground intelligence network that is controlled from the shadows. It operates like a massive net, stretched across cities, countries—even inside enemy organizations. It's the mafia's eyes and ears.
It doesn't look flashy. No guns, no armies. But it's the most dangerous because it holds secrets. And in the mafia world, secrets are currency, weapons, and chains.
I can use this to make my own different identity that no one knows and when anything differs from the plan, I'll run away.
My father, Daniel Rosenthal, did not value 'The Web' much since it was not that useful in his eyes. He believed in just killing and finishing it off. But I know the value it holds, it holds the secret of every individual. I can avoid getting killed just anywhere since I would know what my enemy was doing.
And it was best to keep an eye on the main characters who would be here in just a few months.
The best part of this network was that I was the one who built it two years ago. Father gave me this project to make a good network team to keep an eye on our enemies and help with not getting caught in smuggling weapons and drugs. But soon he lost interest in it since he started to focus on his other projects and works, which eventually led 'The Web' to be undermined.
Since I was the one who hired the people who were in trouble and needed someone to support them, they were only loyal to me and not to my father.
But as my father would be wary of his daughter controlling a whole union on her own, he infused some of his own men into the group. Well, the others are loyal to me and would do anything to hide things from my father if I said so.
I have finally gotten permission from father and have gained the right to manage 'The Web' on my own.
Now the only thing left for me was to wait for the main characters to come and take their revenge. So that I get out of this hell.