Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
“She’s too young,” And a girl too. Weren’t hackers mostly male? What happened this time?
Rhea didn’t want to believe it because that only proved that the girl was more capable than her. While Winters was a hacker, what was she again? A thief?
“I felt the same way when I first came to know about her. But don’t worry, you’ll get over it soon and I have a feeling that both of you would work just fine.” Lukas stepped back, returning to the girl’s side.
Yeah, that feeling of his was wrong. They would never be friends, Rhea didn’t need to see their future to know that.
Lukas announced, “We’d speak more over lunch, but at the moment, I need to give Winters a good tour of the base,”
“You never gave me a tour of the base,” Rhea was tempted to say, but even when her mouth opened, no words could come out. She only watched helplessly as Winters happily clamped onto Lukas’s side like a damn octopus and they both walked out of there.
Lukas and Winters didn’t walk a long distance before the girl suddenly stopped and faced him, asking, “That woman, Rhea, is something going on between the both of you?”
He looked at her in surprise, “Why do you ask? Did something happen?”
“She just seems quite intense and I felt daggers were aimed at me the entire time,” Winters would have said to him, but she told him instead, “She’s pretty and I’ve not seen other younger female around,”
“You don’t need to worry about her,” Lukas clarified, “We’re just friends, nothing else.” He intentionally said that seeing there was no need to narrate his history to the young girl.
Lukas didn’t want to make things harder for Rhea who was still struggling with the confession he made today – Lukas could see it in her eyes. He’d give her the space she wanted and wouldn’t pressure her into accepting his feelings. No matter what he did, It seems he lost to Elijah in the end.
“Sure,” Winters continued with her journey, but not without teasing him, “So that means, I can still flirt with you.”
“Grow up first,” Lukas brushed her off as he continued with the tour.
Meanwhile….
“I like her,” Mimi said, staring at the spot Lukas and Winters stood minutes ago.
“I don’t like her,” Rhea retorted, heading over to her seat. She suddenly wished this stupid lesson was over. What was so hard about cleaning?! Then she could go to her room and lock herself in. No, what was she thinking? She had to know what Winters was up to.
“Why don’t you like her? Isn’t it a good thing if Lukas finally takes his eyes off you, so you would be able to concentrate on waiting for your darling Elijah?” Mimi reasoned and didn’t expect Rhea to say.
“She’s too young for him!” She shouted at her best friend, getting saliva on her face.
“Geez, calm down,” Mimi said, wiping her face with her palm, “Jealous much?”
Rhea was so red in the face that all that remained was sizzling smoke to ooze from her head, “I think you’re mistaken here, I am not jealous! I’m only helping Lukas make the right choice and that little girl isn’t it,” She defended herself
“Sure, just as you directed him when he decided to have feelings for you,” Mimi answered back.
“What are you trying to say?”
“All I’m saying is that Lukas liked you of his own free will and who he decides to like afterward is his choice as well. So I don’t see what help you’re being here? Also, if I were you, I think I should be calm at the moment. You just lost Lukas’s favor, what do you think will happen to you from now on?”
The Whole World Was Going Up In Flames
She shouldn’t have come to this lunch meal, Rhea decided as she watched Lukas release a boisterous laughter after Winters whispered something into his ear.
Unknown to the both of them, Rhea was no longer eating and just gripped the spoon hard enough that it might as well bend anytime soon.
It was as if Lukas no longer recognized that she existed anymore, Winters came and took her place in his life. If the young girl hadn’t been here, Lukas would be invested in her.
Thanks to that, Rhea’s view of the young girl only worsened. Winters was here to convert Lukas and Lukas was a fool not to see that.
“So how long have you both known each other?” Rhea suddenly asked, destroying the moment between them.
“What?” Lukas asked, startled by the suddenness of the question.
Victor and Mimi who were both at the table exchanged glances with each other and didn’t say anything else. No, the both of them simply continued their eating and pretending not to know that a bomb was about to detonate in front of them.
“I believe she’s asking how long the both of us have been friends?” Winters stressed the word, “friends,” while placing a hand on his shoulder, drawing his attention to her. A gesture Rhea all too well noticed.
“And I believe the gentleman can answer perfectly without your reminder. Lukas has in fact a remarkable memory and good hearing if you haven’t noticed,” In one word, who made her his spokesperson, the sarcasm was quite obvious.
…..
Mimi chewed her food slowly, she didn’t like this suffocating atmosphere. So she leaned towards Victor and whispered, “Any chance we can avoid this er… impending doom?”
“Nope.” Victor answered, bringing his glass to his lips, “I believe that we are to die together with them.”
No wonder his dear cousin stressed the need for his esteemed presence. When did his presence become “esteem”? He should have known. Dying together, huh? It sounds fun.
Mimi sighed, having no idea how to calm Rhea’s tit. So much for claiming she wasn’t jealous when she was clearly being possessed by the green-eyed monster at the moment.
“A-hem,” Lukas cleared his throat having sensed the tensed atmosphere. He thought the ladies would make good acquaintances, but it turns out he made poor judgment this time. Rhea was usually cordial with everyone, what happened this time?
“Winters and I have known each other for about two years now,” He finally answered.
Quite longer than the both of them know each other; it was barely two months since she and Lukas met under these special circumstances, Rhea thought. No wonder he and Winters worked fine like oil and fire, only that she – Rhea – would stop Lukas from getting burned.
“Yes, Lukas and I have known each other for so long that I no longer think of us as just friends, but family now.” Winters inputted happily.
“How funny,” Rhea said without thinking, picking at her food, “In that case, your fiancé should be family as well,”
And what followed next after that statement was a tense silence, Lukas stiffening while the others froze for like a second or so before pretending they didn’t hear that.
Mimi kicked Rhea’s legs from beneath the table warningly, she should behave. Rhea didn’t look at her but actually shut her eyes and took a deep breath. She hadn’t meant to say those words to him knowing deep inside how much Lukas loathed that engagement. He had even confided in her about it and it took a level of trust to do that. And she just fucked that up.
Rhea was just about to apologize when Winters stepped in, saying, “Has Lukas told you how both of us met?”
But Lukas in question said, “It is not necessarily -“
“I would love to hear it,” Rhea said. She needed to know everything, how Lukas came to know this young girl that was clearly taking liberties with him, and yet he was not doing anything about it.
If it had been her goading and challenging him like that, Lukas would have… He would have….. He would have done what? Spank her? Kissed her as a form of punishment? Teased her with his finger while grinding against her?
Rhea grew breathless at the thought. Maybe, it was a good thing if Lukas didn’t punish Winters at all and continued to indulge her. She was a guest after all. A guest that was bound to leave as soon as this mission was over. Perhaps, it wouldn’t cost her much to be a doll for two or three more days. She couldn’t wait for it to be over.