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All Hail the Tribal Chiefest

With all the warnings in the world, Roman wouldn’t have believed that he would be here. He remembers his father’s warning about him about keeping the castle happy. He remembers his cousins telling him that the most dangerous thing on earth was a scorned woman. He remembers her own warnings, how if she gave him her heart, to not break it because he wouldn’t like the outcome.

It sounded like a threat at the time and it didn’t always sit right with him. Roman grew up to be the most feared person walking, everyone knew not to mess with the Tribal Chief.

And yet, there was only one person who seemed to not take heed to those precautions, and maybe it’s because she warned Roman that she may be just a little bit more dangerous than she led him to believe.

Roman’s word was law, that’s just how it was. She knew that before marrying the mafia king; but she always let it be known that when the instance came for her foot to be put down, her word was also law.

She’s guessing, Roman took her for a joke. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t be here.

They all warned him, and he reminisce on the words his wife had said to him just a few months prior to him being in this situation.

“Do you love me Roman?” She softly asked in the room, their legs tangled underneath the sheets from the rigorous activity they engaged in prior.

Her hand was caressing his chest, and Roman turned his head to face her. “More than I want to admit.” He confessed because it was true.

Roman never thought April could’ve stole his heart the way she did. Her tender smile being his biggest light on his worse days. She had a hard exterior but her interior was very soft. And once Roman was able to get a glimpse of her tender side, it was like he couldn’t get enough.

April softly smiled at his response, “I want you to show me, everyday. Even if it’s not to the world, I want to know you love me and promise you won’t break my heart.”

Roman knew she was speaking like this because of her past; all she wanted was a little reassurance and Roman could give her that and the world if she asked.

“I would never hurt you April.” He promised

She pressed her lips to his chest where his heart pumped all the blood into his body. “Good, cause behind my heart, I could kill you.”

It was a warning, but he paid no attention to it. Till now.

Roman’s hands were bound behind his back with handcuffs, his breathing was heavy and the only thing that could be heard in the room.

Blood mixed with sweat dripped down his face as he sat and took everything April had to give him.

“If you touch her, I’ll kill you.” Was the only warning Roman gave to his guards when they started to move in to intervene.

April ignored him, clenching the brass knuckles that was in her hand and swung at him again.

“Did you enjoy it Roman?” She asked tauntingly, the anger in her tone only really displayed her hurt.

The left side of his face was swelling, and the cuts on his face were profusely bleeding from her swings. “Was she worth it? Do you love her?”

He shook his head no, but that wasn’t enough for her. No. She wanted to hear him, his apology needed to be just as out loud as the disrespect.

“What all of a sudden you can’t fuckin speak!? Tell me, was she worth it?”

“No. It meant nothing to me April, I promise.”

April let out a humorless laugh, She couldn’t help it. “You promise?” She repeats and laughs again, hunching over to hold to her stomach.

“You remember promising you would never hurt me? Is this the same promise you giving me?” She questioned, before turning to face everyone else in the room.

Everyone just watched in silence, they were riddled with shock because they could not believe their eyes.

Their Tribal Chief, on display by his wife, taking the beating she gave him without a fight.

“You all walk around like my word means nothing because you serve the Tribal Chief. Like nothing I say matters because I’m just the bitch he sleeps with right?” She asks as she addresses the room.

Nobody knew what to say. April flashed the fakest smile towards them. “You ever hear behind every great man, is a great woman? You think because Roman is your Tribal Chief it means you can disrespect me? No. So I’ll ask you all, only once…. Who was it?”

Silence. Tone deafening silence and them refusing to answer her question, only infuriated her to no end. If there was one thing she was going to get everyone in this room to understand, it’s to not play in her face anymore.

Her patience was thin, so she grabbed the gun she had hidden in her waistband and raised it to a random person, and pulled the trigger without blinking.

The sound of the gun going off, made almost everyone jolt in the room. The body dropping on the floor, made their blood run cold.

April tilted her head in mock sadness, “Anybody feel like answering now?”

“It was Tatiana.” A young maid answered. Wringing her hands at giving up the name of her ‘friend’; but her life was worth more than her fake friendship with that girl anyways.

April turned to face her, the look of fear in her eyes made April smile. “And who’s Tatiana?”

Her finger pointed to another woman who tried to hide herself behind a couple of the guards. April hummed, tilting her head at the girl, “What’s your name?”

“Keira.” She answered timidly and April smiled. Of course, it was a woman who was brave enough to say something. She appreciated the honesty.

“Keira, your Tribal Chiefest forgives you for lying to her.” Then she pistol whipped the girl, watching as she fell to the floor with a small cry. “But let that be your last time lying to me, do I make myself clear?”

She brought her attention back to her husband. Walking back to him and placing the gun in her hand under his chin and forced him to look up at her. “You want Tatiana, Roman?”

The eye that wasn’t swollen, stared into her eyes and he answered honestly. “No.”

“When people disrespect me, they disrespect you, Remember that? What happens to people who disrespect the Tribal Chief, Roman?”

“I punish them.” He answers but April laughs, shaking her head in disagreement.

“You kill them.” She corrects. “So what happens now Roman since you’ve disrespected me?” And the silence was loud.

She had walked into the room with a cup, she turned around to grab it from where she placed it and throw the essence of it on his face. Freshly squeezed, lemon juice all over his cut up face.

The yell Roman let out wasn’t even enough for her, but she took pity on him.

April chuckles sadly, shaking her head at him. Even in this position, Roman was still the most handsome man she’s ever seen in her life, and she gave him her heart on a silver platter that she knew he wasn’t ready to return.

“Tell me you love me Roman. Tell Tatiana you love me.”

“I love you, April. Only you.”

April’s eyes started to water, her resolve starting to fade but she refused to fold before her point was made. “Do you mean it?” She whispered and Roman nodded his head.

“It was a mistake baby, ONE mistake that I will never make again. I swear to God.” A deity that he doesn’t believe in, but swears on if it meant April would forgive him.

April lifted her free hand to caress the side of his face that wasn’t bruised. “Till death do us part?”

“Till death do us part.” He answered unhesitatingly, and even if Roman could die in this very moment; He’d rather it be at her hand than anyone else, after all it was only her that was his only weakness.

April couldn’t though, even if she wanted to. She loved him and she was selfish. This man was hers and her’s only. She’d let this go just this once so that anyone else who even thought about doing something this stupid again could be warned to stay away. Because there won’t be a second time.

April pressed her lips to his forehead. “I want you to tell her she meant nothing, I want you to mean it. Then I want you to kill her in front of everybody since the Tribal Chief is the only one who does the punishing around here, right?”

April spoke aloud on purpose because that Tatiana bitch couldn’t do anything about it. The power she thought she had over her, definitely died the second April put her hands on Roman.

April turned to face the room, “Let this be a lesson and the last time any of you think my words carry no weight. Because if I wanted to, Roman would do anything I ask. This isn’t just Roman’s house. This is MY house and If I say go left, this whole house better be turned to the left, do you hear me?”

“Yes ma’am.” A unison reply, and a small smile etched it’s way on her face. Especially when she turned to face Tatiana. “I hope it was good enough to die behind it.”

The woman shook her head no, tears flowing down her face cause she was stuck. She didn’t know what to say, especially knowing her fate had been laid out in front of her. “I… I didn’t mean-“

“I don’t care what you meant. It’ll be the last time.” April retorted, and when she felt Roman’s presence behind her, she smiled.

“Make it quick. I’m hungry.” April stated before turning to walk out of the room.

April doesn’t think she took 5 steps outside of the room before she heard gunshot rang throughout the room. A smirked on her face as she continued her journey to her bedroom.

Hell hath no fury like a scorned woman, and she made sure everyone would remember that moving forward.

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