Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
“Lukas!” Victor shouted at him, “Do you even realize how serious this is?”
“Of course, I have a tennis-sized bump on my head,” He gestured with his fist.
“No, it means someone wants you dead, idiot.” Victor hit him in the back of the head.
“Seriously,” Lukas groaned, “I am currently a patient, dear cousin.”
“And I am not your doctor.” Victor sighed, silence descending on the both of them. He lifted his face, “This is serious, Lukas. Someone out there wants you dead.”
“Well, who doesn’t want me dead?” Lukas looked him dead in the eyes, “I’m Daniel’s son. If they can’t get through my crazy father, surely his son would be an easier target. And number two, I’m the Mafia Don of this family, that already makes me a target to my rivals out there.”
“We would tighten security then and probably bring that up in the meeting tomorrow -“
“You are not bringing that up, not at all,” Lukas told him firmly.
“Any one of us could be in danger and we don’t even know who is after us?”
“They could have attacked us on the way to Mimi’s place, but they didn’t and waited for me to be all alone. It’s clear that the target had been me, not someone else.” Lukas said.
Victor looked at him with a narrowed gaze, “Why do I feel like there is something that you’re not telling me?”
“You mean the part where Daniel might decide to create chaos with this piece of news? I kept everything quiet, Victor, be sure to do the same.”
Victor thought about it, “You think Daniel might not let the incident go and blame it on someone like….” His eyes widened, “The Draven family.”
He quickly added, “It makes sense that the Draven’s would be the first on his list of suspects considering we have an unresolved conflict.”
“We both know that Eric Draven would not do this. He is an honorable man and not the type to send assassins after his rivals, stabbing them in the back. However, Daniel is looking for an excuse for this war to happen, and if he comes to know about the attack? “
“Innocent or not, he would heap the blame on the Draven family and manipulate the others to vote on the war,” Victor figured out the rest.
He said to Lukas, “We must have the meeting tomorrow and have the elders on our side before Daniel can think of retaliating.”
Lukas nodded his head and then laid back on the couch with a groan. His entire body hurt and he would need a lot of painkillers to sleep tonight if he was going to face his father tomorrow. At this point in his life, he needed a break from everything and he didn’t see that happening soon.
“Don’t move,” Victor resumed his treatment for his face, “We have to reduce the swelling against the meeting tomorrow else Daniel begins to snoop around to know what happened to his precious son.”
“Haha, funny,” Lukas laughed sarcastically, but he let Victor do whatever he wanted with him.
Victor made him lie on his lap because the position seemed much easier and rubbed around the bump. He continued the treatment in silence until Lukas said,
“Do you know, if you weren’t my cousin and a boy, I would have fallen for you? Your eyes are so pretty.” Lukas stared at him in adoration.
Victor halted his movement at once and looked down at Lukas with a raised brow. He asked, “Just how hard did you hit your head?”
“I don’t exactly know. I didn’t even feel the pain until I came home and the adrenaline wore off,” He confessed.
“In that case, you need a doctor. What if you suffered a concussion? No wonder you’re beginning to talk rubbish, ” Victor was ready to call his doctor when Lukas stopped him.
“I’m fine, Victor. I know my body well and I’m not having double vision. I’ll just sleep it off and feel better in the morning.” He promised him.
Victor gave him a long look but agreed in the end reluctantly. He would look after him tonight anyway and if something’s not right, he’d call the doctor right away.
Silence filled the room once again. But then, Victor had something to say, he just doesn’t know if this was the right moment. But then, he couldn’t keep it in forever and eventually announced,
“I think you and Rhea might be able to meet.”
A Fool For Love
Victor felt Lukas stiffen beneath him when he said that and he braced himself for the explosion that was undoubtedly coming his way. And just as he expected, Lukas sat up at once and faced him.
His mouth opened and yet no words came out as if he was struggling to say the word. Nonetheless, Victor shut his eyes and waited patiently for his cousin to snap at him only to hear minutes later,
“Okay”
Huh?
Victor opened an eye first just to be sure that he heard right before the other one popped open and he stared at Lukas with wide eyes. What has possessed his cousin? Was this Lukas he knew or was another soul occupying his body? It sounded too good to be true.
“Are you sure?” He wanted to know if Lukas was serious about meeting his ex-girlfriend.
“It’s high time that we met already and I can’t keep running away from her forever. It makes it seem as if I’m the one most affected by the breakup when I was the one who broke up with her,” He wasn’t a coward either.
“Well, if you say so.”
Lukas scrutinized him, “What’s the plan though because I won’t be the fool who risks his neck for his ex-girlfriend. If we are going to talk, Rhea would be the one making the sacrifices.”
…..
“Of course, she would,” Victor was in support of his decision. Sure, he liked Rhea but that was until she hurt Lukas and that was a crime he doesn’t forgive easily. The only reason he was involved in this plan was to keep Mimi from taking the lead and putting herself at risk again. She never listens, so he’d do the job instead.
He went on to say, “Mimi and Rhea are in communication, and from what she gathered, Eric and Natalie are getting married tomorrow.”
“What?!” Lukas shouted, shocked by the news. He knew that Rhea’s mother and Eric were together, but the thought of them getting married just didn’t cross his mind until now.
“Does Daniel know about this?” Was the first question that came to Lukas’s mind. Not that his father would go say his piece on their wedding day, he definitely wished not.
“I have no idea, but from what Mimi said, the wedding was a late-minute adjustment after the provocation from your father. So I don’t believe he has an idea of it already,”
“Good. We’d keep it that way,” Lukas had a smirk at the corner of his lips. “We must do everything possible to make Daniel attend the meeting tomorrow while the love birds get married,” He decided.
It was so relieving to know that his bastard father wasn’t going to marry Natalie and Rhea ends up as his step-sister. That would be a nightmare. A nightmare that he would never recover from.
“You know when you smirk like that, there’s literally no difference between you and Daniel, and you look so evil,” Victor shuddered, “Gene is so creepy.”
At once, Lukas tightened his expression, he didn’t even realize that he had been smirking all this while. He cleared his throat, saying,
“What happens next? I don’t remember getting an invitation to the wedding though.”