Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
“Do you want me to tell you or not?” Victor asked with a bored tone, unbothered by her outburst.
“Do tell,” Rhea plopped back down on the seat, eager to hear this thing on Lukas. The more she knew about him, the better for her – and she could use it against him in the future. You never know.
“Well, indeed, Lukas didn’t have a normal childhood, however, he still had the chance to make friends with the children of the soldiers. They do come around sometimes and of course, with other members of our dysfunctional family. But Lukas had a little problem. “
At this point of the story which was the climax, Rhea would do anything in the world to hear what Victor had to say. Hence, it wasn’t surprising she listened to him with rapt attention.
“He was extremely covetous and possessive. It became a norm in our family to hide your things from the greedy gray-eyed monster. Although none of them could say that to his face neither could Lukas prove they referred to him as such, since most of the Luciano’s have gray eyes.
“What am I trying to say? When Lukas liked what you have, he made sure he had it to himself. And I’m not going to lie, uncle Daniel did encourage the behavior. According to him, his son was going to be the leader of the Luciano family in the future and deserved to have whatever he wanted.
“His mother was solely against it and tried to reform him to the best of her ability. Unfortunately, bad behaviors are far easier to catch on. Soon enough, his possessiveness extended to not only objects, but to people as well, to me.
“If I was to hang out with Lukas, I couldn’t play with other family members. What could I do? I was a child and loved my cousin far better than any of my other second cousins who were honestly assholes. Lukas might have acted mean, but they had a hand in provoking him.” He explained.
“So, what is the point of the story? ” Rhea asked. As much as it was interesting and gave her more insight into why Lukas behaves the way he does, sometimes, it didn’t relate to why he tricked her.
“Lukas might have outgrown his childish behavior, however, some things never change. He has a massive crush on you and you just won a fight against him, what do you think would happen after the match ended?”
Mimi inputted immediately, “Massive high fives and hugs from good looking men, including the gay ones, in a place saturated with testosterone,” She took a deep breath,” Lukas just denied you a savory experience.”
“Oh,” So that was the problem, Rhea finally figured it out. Lukas was jealous.
“Nonetheless, congratulations on winning the bet even though you played dirty….”
“A win is a win,” Rhea stood her ground. The rule of the fight was to successfully hit him three times and she did that. Creatively.
“Neither am I complaining, which means the initial plan of saving Chloe would go as planned and I can sleep much better today knowing there’s a much better chance of success now.” Victor complimented her.
“Yeah,” Rhea breathed, “I can’t wait to start.”
“No,” Mimi corrected her, “You mean we can’t wait to start.”
Her back stood straight as Rhea gave her friend a confusing look, “What do you mean by that?”
“Yeah, what do you mean by that?” Victor was surprised as well. He had not seen that one coming at all.
Mimi looked at Rhea as if she had developed two heads, saying, “You probably didn’t think that I would let you go there all by yourself, right?” She hoped for a positive answer.
But Rhea was dumbfounded, and no words could come out of her mouth. When the shock finally wore off, she said to Mimi, “No, you can’t do this, it’s dangerous.”
“And you’re the one who can do this dangerous job, huh? What are you, supergirl? Hunk girl? Immune to danger, is that it? We are going to have to come up with a superb name for you and of course, your costume if that’s your superpower, honey.” Mimi didn’t hold back with her tongue.
Rhea sighed, rubbing her head. She hated when Mimi was being this way – sarcastic and unreasonable – because she wouldn’t know how to handle her then.
“You don’t get it -“
“Then make me get it”
“I’m the only one with a skill here and capable enough to go in there and do the job cleanly, and we both know that.” She argued.
“Yeah, stealing and getting yourself in trouble, Rhea, those are quite your strong suit. I wonder if you remember who gave you the idea on how to win your deal hours ago? I wonder how you’d seduce the guards to leave their post with your zero charm points?” She laughed dryly, “I guess I’m useless after all,”
“I didn’t say that,” Rhea defended.
Victor came in, “Babe come on, perhaps we could -“
“Don’t babe me if you’re not ready to support me!” Mimi warned him fiercely, poking him in the chest.
“Okay,” Victor gave up because he was just about to discourage her from going.
So this was how it felt for Lukas when Rhea offered to go? Victor was sick and worried about Mimi’s safety right now. He didn’t want her to go, he wanted her where he could see and protect her.
Mimi was not done with Rhea, and went on, “I guess all that promise about being there for each other was just talks, blah, blah, nonsense.”
She rolled her eyes heavenward,
“Just like fake promises made to a woman in the middle of sex, you just said those words to satisfy me?! And in the end, you became the badass female ninja who could climb over walls and break into Daniel’s residence and do whatever they want you to do without the help of your bitchy best friend who wouldn’t stop whining her mouth until you give her a good reason she shouldn’t – “
“Okay! Fine, you win! You would come along with me, Jesus!” Rhea gave in to her request, trying to catch her breath. She always knew Mimi was a handful but this? She was too much.
“Thank you, my bestie!” Mimi threw herself on Rhea, tackling the both of them to the ground as they fell off the sofa while Victor’s hand hung uselessly in the air.
He was just about to ask if he gets a vote in the matter as well, but it seems the election has been concluded already. Yep decision made, Mimi was going.
“Get off me, you wild pig!” Rhea complained when Mimi wouldn’t let go of her.
“No, I’m so happy right now that we would be together in this exciting adventure and since you don’t have a boyfriend yet, all I can do is show you my gratitude with a kiss!”
“What?! Eww, no!” Rhea tried to escape her but Mimi was on top of her and in a more advantageous position. So she smooched her on the face like some dog.
And while both women were playing around, Victor could only fear for this upcoming mission because this wasn’t an exciting adventure like Mimi thought, it was a life and death situation. He wondered if any of them knew that.
Maybe Lukas was not entirely wrong about not wanting Rhea’s involvement in this, not to talk of Mimi. He bet his cousin would go bananas when he heard Mimi was joining her.
No, Victor was currently going bananas watching both women play around, it didn’t give him hope. At this rate, the future of this mission seemed bleak.
The Stakes Were High
These women would be the death of him, Lukas groaned inwardly while rubbing his forehead. It wasn’t until the next day that he heard the news of Mimi deciding to join the party and was seriously against it.
It wasn’t enough that he had to look out for Rhea, now Mimi’s added to the circle already? This wasn’t a fucking field trip for crying out loud. Their lives were on the line here.
Lukas had good reasons for worrying about them. He wouldn’t be there, and neither would his people, to avoid rousing suspicion. In one word, they were operating in the dark and that worried him the most. If anything happened to the women there, he wouldn’t know.
So he repeatedly pounded upon the issue of their safety and refused Mimi’s zealous desire to join in the risky mission. At least, Lukas knew Rhea, she was a fighter and a quick thinker, and if push comes to shove, she’d be able to figure out a way to save her ass. Lukas was sure of that.
But Mimi? Lukas didn’t know about her abilities except that she had great energy and good socialization skills if only she could upgrade her decorum and language. In one word, those skills weren’t helpful in real-life fighting scenes. However, Lukas underestimated her because the woman could talk the stripes off a zebra and that was how Mimi got him to agree to join her best friend.