Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
“I guess, I’ll see you later,” Lukas said.
“Yep, don’t wait for me. I’ll be home late.” Victor winked at him.
Lukas scoffed, “Whatever. As if you’re my girlfriend…” He trailed off as the memories returned to his head.
Victor knew he probably thought of Rhea again when the awkward silence descended upon them. He immediately said, “Go home Lukas,”
“Aye, consigliere,” Lukas waved at him before starting the car and driving off. Victor watched him the entire time until he drove out of sight. He shook his head in pity, his poor cousin. He deserved a little bit of happiness, you know.
With Lukas gone, only then, was Victor able to walk over to the entrance and knocked on the door. Yep, there was no more sneaking in through the window again. Only thieves do that and he had gotten Mimi’s parent’s permission to date their daughter. So this was him doing it the honorable way instead of sneaking in like a thief.
“Hello Victor,” Hannah was the one who opened the door. She welcomed him by wrapping her frame around him in a hug. And for quite a petite figure, she was quite strong. She almost crushed his lungs.
Over the weeks, Victor got along well with Mimi’s mother, and she usually called him the son she never had. They were practically besties now, that is if you can call a son-in-law and mother-in-law relationship that. And though Roger warmed up to him, he still had his reservations about Victor considering his occupation. Aside from that, he was beloved by his in-laws.
“It’s so nice to see Hannah,” and if you can stop crushing my lungs now, he said inwardly.
As if she heard his prayer, Hannah step back and said excitedly, “I’m so glad that you’re here,”
“Yeah, me too,” Victor let her take his hand as she walked into the house shouting,
“Roger, your son-in-law is here,”
Roger was reading a newspaper when he arrived and he closed it and folded it into two before keeping it at his side.
“Victor, you’re here,”
“Nice to see you, Roger,”
It was quite an awkward exchange for Victor and Roger because while Victor went for the usual handshake since the man was cautious around him, Roger surprisingly went for a hug this time and they fumbled for a while before settling for a weird embrace.
Well, that was progress.
Settling down, Victor discovered that there was no sign of Mimi and he asked her, “Where is Mimi?”
Hannah laughed, “That is a weird question because I was about to ask you the same.”
Victor raised a questioning brow, “What?”
“She told me she was going to see you,” Hannah chuckled nervously. This happening now was a joke, right?
At once Victor and Roger’s eyes met and there was sudden tension in the air. If anything happened to his daughter, he was going to skin him alive.
“Oh right!” Victor suddenly laughed, “I forgot but Mimi told me she would be seeing my mother instead,” He lied just to alleviate the situation. But the look on Roger’s face told him that he doubted that.
Victor brought out his phone and pointed to it, saying, “I should probably call her and ask what’s keeping. You know, my mother can be quite a storyteller, haha!” He laughed and stood from his seat.
“I’ll be back,” He ran out of the room as quickly as his feet could take him and found the bathroom, locking himself in.
Victor quickly called her name and waited for her to pick up. The call went through.
“Victor?”
“Where are you, Mimi? Do you know…. wait a minute, ” Victor paused at once when it hit him that the voice didn’t sound like his Mimi at all. And it sounded quite familiar.
“Victor?” It came again.
“Rhea?!” He was stunned. How was this….?
Holy mother of God, it dawned on him. That stubborn girlfriend of his went after Rhea even after he explicitly instructed her not to. Oh, he was so mad right now!
“What the hell, Rhea?! Where is Mimi and why do you have her cellphone?” He hoped to God that this wasn’t some sick joke and that her people don’t have her.
“Mimi came to find me and gave it to me. She said that it would be our way of being in touch.”
“Then where is she?!”
“She should be home soon,”
Almost immediately, he heard Hannah’s voice informing him that Mimi was finally home.
“Well, she’s finally home.”
“Thank God,”
There was a short silence between them before Rhea said, “Listen, Victor, I know that -“
“I have nothing to say to you, Rhea,”
Victor hung up on her.
The Query
Victor was mad at her, Mimi knew that the instant she got into the house and saw his smiling face. Not that Victor didn’t smile every time, but she had known him so much that she could proudly differentiate between his sincere smile or one from his illness and when he was merely covering up his anger.
Right now he was smiling so much she wondered if it didn’t hurt his jaw. He was barely able to contain himself and she could see that. And that was why she walked over to him and threw herself on him saying,
“You’re finally here, baby,” She gave him a charming and beguiling look that said, forgive-me-please?
Unfortunately, Victor was immune to Mimi’s charming eyes this time because Victor refused to be deceived by them. They were going to talk, he was determined.
Hence, after Mimi made a small conversation with her parents, she made a small excuse and took Victor’s hands, leading him to her room where they can discuss. As soon as they were in and the door was closed, Victor pounced upon her.
He grabbed her shoulders, “I thought I told you -!”
Mimi took Victor unaware by kissing him on the lips and throwing him off balance. She incapacitated him. However, Victor fought against her knowing that this was her tactic to get him to calm down. But then, he didn’t want to calm down! He wanted Mimi to feel the heat of his anger so she would know that he had meant what he said and was truly, truly, mad at her.
But then, what Victor felt was the heat of her mouth as Mimi deepened the kiss. The more he tried to fight her, the more she held on tight – like her mother crushing his lungs earlier – and he wasn’t able to get away. He now knew where she got her strength.