Euphoria groaned as pain overwhelmed her body. Her eyes fluttered open to find Demetrius hovering above her. She began blinking several times as she looked around. She spotted a few guards, cops standing outside and two nurses behind a doctor. Her eyes drifted to the window to see that it was night time and it was storming outside.

She blinked a couple more times before looking back at Demetrius who stared at her with concern. Euphoria noticed that his eyes were tinted red and underlying sadness brewed within the depths of his forest green eyes. "What's wrong? What happened?'' she barely croaked out.

"Here." He handed her some water. "Leave us now."

Euphoria watched everyone leave the room besides the guards who stood at the window and at the door. She sipped her water slowly until the last person left.

"What's wrong with me?" She asked with panic raging in her eyes.

"No-no nothing is wrong with you mio amore." He sighed as he sat besides her on the bed. "It's just that when the explosion happened and the impact that it had on you ... launching you a couple feet off the ground and onto the stairs ... you uh..." Demetrius cleared his throat. "We lost a one of the triplets."

"Triplets?..." Euphoria frowned staring at him as if he'd grown two heads. She was unable to process what he was telling her.

"Euphoria you're pregnant with triplets, well you were up until a few hours ago. Now it's twins. "

Euphoria's lip wobbled and her eyes glistened with unshed tears. "I'm pregnant?" She chocked back a sob. "And I lost a baby." She chocked on more tears.

"Hey... shhh." He embraced her in a hug as he saw her reaching for him. "We'll get through this together." Demetrius mumbled into her hair.

Euphoria's sobs tore through the room eventually escaping into the hallway. Silence feel upon everyone one as they listened to a woman mourn the loss of her baby. Her heartbreaking and earth shattering sobs weighed heavily on the hearts and ears of those who know her.

Euphoria cried her heart out as Demetrius held her. Tears slowly fell from his eyes as he listened to the woman he loves mourn the loss of their baby. He let her cry and hiccup herself to sleep as he rubbed soothing circles on her back with an occasional kiss here and there.

~¤~

"Other than the miscarriage, you have a few bumps and bruises along with a concussion." The doctor informed. "We were also able to clean your womb and ensuring that the other babies are still healthy and there aren't any complications." He cleared his throat. "However, due to you not knowing that your pregnant and not having being put on a proper diet and taking medication has increased the chances of you having a risky pregnancy. The stress and the miscarriage as well as the previous bullet wound you suffered adds to the risk of carrying twins let alone triplets. So, we'd like to keep you over the next two nights just for observation and to ensure there will no longer be as much problems as there were now."

Demetrius listened attentively while Euphoria stared blankly ahead of her as though she was there, but not there at the same time. "How far long am I?"

"According to the size of your babies and the questions your husband has answered, you are five months and a week long."

Euphoria nodded before placing her hand on the pudge on her stomach. "How come I'm not showing? It just looks like I've gained a healthy amount of weight."

"Well like I told your husband it's different for every woman. Some show some don't. Some have their stomachs forming in their seventh or eight month and some their sixth."

"But I had triplets, now twins and yet I'm still not showing." Euphoria argued.

"That pudge is the first sign of a developing stomach. Now that we'll have you taking the right medication and on the right diet your babies will be developing much better and quicker, thus resulting in you showing. You'll be showing by the end of your sixth month."

Euphoria simply blew out a breath and nodded before looking away. Demetrius continued to converse with the doctor. A nurse came in and dropped of two trays of food. Demetrius joined her once the nurse had left.

"How are you feeling?" Euphoria asked Demetrius the moment he finished eating

"You're asking me how I'm doing even though you're the one who just had a miscarriage." Demetrius shook his head as he placed their dishes to the side and joined her in the hospital bed.

"Well I'm not going through this alone Demetrius. We both lost a baby. You really wanted another baby. And you got more than you could ask for." Euphoria sighed as she laid back with him. "It's ok to be sad and heart broken. It's ok to mourn. We, not I and not you, we are going through this."

"You're right." He murmured as he pulled her close and being cautious of her wounds. "I'm sad and I'm hurt but I won't let that cloud the fact that we didn't loose the other two. They are our miracle babies." He sniffed.

Euphoria wiped away his stray tears as she watched him. "You're right." She pecked his lips.

Silence settled between them as the sound of the rain and busy hospital filled in their silence. Eventually they both fell asleep in each other's arms.

~¤~

The constant flip of a page had Demetrius shoot up with his gun in drawn and ready. He noticed that the lights were off and a shadow sat in the corner of the room. A woman. She sat with her leg crossed over the other and magazine in hand as she flipped the pages ever so slowly. A gun sat on the coffee table besides the couch. Her face and upper body hidden by the darkness of the corner.

"Finally one of you are awake. I thought for a second that I would come give you a wake up call."

"Imelda?" Demetrius frowned as he stood to his feet. Everything about the situation felt eerie to him. "What have you done?"

Imelda scoffed as she tossed the magazine to the floor and sat back in her seat with her arms resting on the arms of the chair. "What I've done? It's more like what have you done?"

"You're not making any sense. I haven't done shit to you." Demetrius frowned, now tired of her antics.

"Haven't done shit?! You took everything away from me! You got everything handed to you!" Imelda jumped up with her gun resting at her side.

Euphoria had now woken up. She stared in shock and astonishment.

"Great! Sleeping beauty can fucking join us now." Imelda smiled sarcastically.

"You know of all people I never expected you to be the one Tasha was talking about." Euphoria flinched from the pain as she sat up slowly.

"Tasha?" Demetrius frowned.

"Oh? You don't know!" Imelda exclaimed with a laugh. "Go on tell him Nancy Drew." She nudged her head to Demetrius. "Why don't you tell him how I was the one behind the attacks hmm?" She cocked her head to the side.

"Why the fuck would you orchestrate all these attacks?" Demetrius growled.

"Does Nancy Drew have the answer to that?" Imelda asked Euphoria as if she was asking a child.

"No." Euphoria sneered as she looked to the door.

"Oh don't worry about the guards and everyone else. I managed to get rid of most of them on the floor and the others I just had to deal with. The doctors and nurses have been told to not bother coming in until given the all clear." Imelda sighed heavily as if it were a waste of time. "Oh and before you wonder Katrina and Stewart are fine. They're just heavily sedated."

Once Euphoria had stood to her feet Demetrius shifted her behind him protectively. Imelda only smirked at the gesture.

"I did all of this because mama and papa's little golden boys just have to be given everything that they desired. Parlo runs all the training and recruitment. Benedetto is the face of all the legitimate businesses. Demetrius runs the illegal business and is just the face of the D'Agostino Empire. Imelda? Oh no she has to groomed to be a lady and be wedded off to the richest man aside from the D'Agostino family of course." She laughed as if it were a joke. "You never let me be apart of the business until I begged and pleaded with all of you. And when I thought my prayers were answered I was given the mother hens job." She spat. "If I couldn't be king I at least expected to be queen but nooooo! Imelda had to check in on the wives and children of those who work for us. Imelda must dress up and be at every fundraiser, charity and bluh, bluh fucking bluh!" She threw her arms up as they flayed about.

Demetrius jumped back as he now knew he couldn't read the situation. Imelda had become reckless and her actions unpredictable. He had to get the situation under control fast and soon or else there could be no telling what she could do.

"Then you!" She thrusted her gun in Euphoria's direction making Demetrius shove her further behind him. "You came along with no knowledge or training whatsoever and you get to be queen?! You became queen and the mother of my nephew without even owning the surname!" Imelda screamed.

"Imelda please-"

"Don't!" She cut Euphoria off. "You know I actually love you Euphoria but ole Demetrius just had to swoop in." Imelda scoffed.

Euphoria scrunched her face up in confusion as she looked at her. "What?"

"Not that you would remember, but I was always at the strip club. I always requested for you to serve me when I was there."

Recognition flashed in her eyes as she remember a certain woman who sat in the dark private room only asking for her. She wouldn't have thought it was Imelda. She never spoke to her whenever Euphoria had to make and serve her drinks. Plus she was always surrounded by women.

"You're lesbian?" Is the first thing that came out of her mouth.

"Bisexual." Imelda threw her arms up. "But nobody would know that because they all care far to fucking much about the angels of the family." She sneered.

"If you love me why would you try to blow me up?!'' Euphoria exclaimed. "Twice!" She added.

"The first one was to scare you off from the family. I knew you weren't at the building. And the second one wasn't me. It was one of those fucking idiots." Imelda snapped. "But no worries I killed that moron."

"One of them?" Demetrius squinted his eyes at her, prying for information.

"Of course I couldn't do this with my money that was linked to the family business." She scoffed. "I'm not an idiot. I just used people who have a strong hatred for you Demetrius and they obviously must have power and money."

"Crooked Politicians." Euphoria simplified. They were the ones they weren't able to remove from the list of threats.

"Nancy Drew is on a role right here." She clapped her hands.

"What are you going to get out of this? You kill me then what? You take over the family business? No one is going to follow your rule."

"I took their precious leader from them. They'll have to follow and if not then I'll just keep making myself clear until they eventually understand." Imelda shrugged.

"You're not gonna get away with this." Euphoria spat.

A shot went off making Euphoria jolt back. Her arms immediately wrapped around her abdomen. Demetrius groaned as he stumbled back clutching his left thigh. "Oh but I think I am." Imelda smirked after she blew off the smoke coming from her silencer. "I'm going to get away with this and Euphoria will be mine." She stared into Demetrius' eyes with promise.

Euphoria screamed as two more shoots went off. Dropping to her knees she pulled the bedsheets off the bed and pressed them onto Demetrius' torso. Blood spluttered out of his mouth as his wounds soaked the bedsheets.