Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
Lukas knocked everyone out of his path as he let his leg lead him anywhere. By luck, he spotted one of his men being beaten by his father’s soldier and he grabbed the asshole and slammed his fists to his face several times before pushing him away. He then pulled up his soldier, growling at his face, “Where is she?!”
The soldier didn’t need to ask twice whom his boss was talking about because there could only be one woman he was interested in.
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“The garden,” He answered immediately. The instant Daniel’s people attacked them, Luca had given out orders to the soldiers close by to protect the boss’ woman. Daniel had chosen a good time to attack them, when neither Lukas nor Victor was available.
And with that information, Lukas hurled him away and took to his heels. He had to save Rhea! However, something happened. Lukas was still running with all of his might when he heard shrieks and a great stomping of feet, and at the same moment, Samson ran past him with great ferocity, stunning him.
What the…?
However, Lukas didn’t have time to question what was going on and amped his speed instead. Unfortunately, the animal was faster and by the time Lukas could even get to his destination, there stood Rhea with Samson circling her, only to lurch forward and release a mighty roar that even he felt deep down to his bones.
Lukas knew that he couldn’t step forward because Samson was all animal at that moment and his instincts were telling him to protect his master’s woman, Rhea. It was risky at first but Lukas was grateful that he had gotten the lion familiar with her.
Lions were highly territorial and if any fool dared to make a move at that moment, he was as good as dead. Lukas raised Samson as a cub which explained their tight relationship however, they still established boundaries.
A great silence fell upon the environment and Rhea turned at that moment, their gaze connecting, and relief left his lips. She was fine. Rhea was alive and not dead. Nothing happened to her. Lukas swore to thank whoever released Sansom from his territory later.
Lukas took a step, he wanted to have Rhea in his arms and confirm that she was alive, when out of the corner of his eyes, he spotted Daniel and halted. Great anger filled him, how dare he infiltrates his place and try to murder his woman?! He would murder him today!
Daniel was a smart man, and knew that he couldn’t win this fight, not with that massive lion protecting the woman. So he ordered his men to retreat and they began to leave one after the other, careful not to startle the lion and lose a limb like the first fool.
Not only his son, but the lion was even close to the woman now? Daniel couldn’t believe it. He underestimated the little girl. With a pussy and breast, it was easy for a woman to tame a fool of a man, but a lion? It was a great feat.
Daniel gifted the lion as a cub to Lukas when he was younger so he could prove his capability, and his son didn’t fail him. Lukas was able to make him proud even though he worked with professional lion tamers to achieve it. However, had Daniel known that this was how he would use his gift, to protect his whore, then he would have killed the creature long ago.
No, Daniel was tempted to do just that. Four or five bullets would be able to put the creature down, however, this wasn’t the day for it and Lukas was too damn emotional, Daniel wouldn’t be surprised if his son turned against him and shot him dead instead.
Hence, by the time his people retreated, it was just Lukas, his whore, the lion, and a few of his soldiers remaining. In one word, Daniel was all alone yet there was not even a trace of fear on his face. He had faced a much worse scenario and feared Lukas was giving his son power over him.
Lukas strode over to Rhea and when he got to her, began to check her body for wounds, when he found a bruise on her arm where she was grabbed earlier, his eyes flashed and Samson released a low growl having sensed his owner’s discomfort.
Turning around immediately, Lukas pulled out his gun and aimed it at his father, “Give me one reason I shouldn’t blast off your head right now?!” His gaze was hard and cold.
But Daniel said, “That depends if you want to end my life because of a woman. I didn’t raise my son that way.”
“Just shut up! Don’t you dare try and use father authority on me because that’s not going to work!” Lukas ran his hands through his hair and ruffled it, “What the fuck is wrong with you?! Were you really planning on killing her?”
“Depends,”
“On what?!”
“If you were going to go on with the wedding or not,” Daniel told him.
“What?!” Lukas couldn’t believe him.
“I told you the other day, that the wedding must go on,”
“Chloe is gone, you have nothing on me, now,” Lukas reminded him, his gaze getting colder. He was forced into the engagement at first because of Chloe, but not anymore. Perhaps, his sister being with the Spencers was a good thing because even Daniel couldn’t lay a hand on her.
“That’s where you’re wrong, Lukas. I have her.” Daniel pointed at Rhea and his blood ran cold.
Lukas stepped forward defensively, “You would not dare,”
“Then don’t make me,” Daniel told him, “You have always been too emotional having inherited your mother’s soft side and unable to see the bigger picture. But that is why I’m here, I would not let you make the same mistake I almost did, “
“The same mistake you almost made?” Lukas furrowed his brows, sensing there was something his father was not telling him.
However, Daniel had never been the type to reveal his plans to him. There weren’t just skeletons in his wardrobe, there was a graveyard of them.
He went ahead to say, “Today was just a demonstration of what would happen if you don’t step on that aisle with Clara, Lukas. I don’t care how you do it, but you have to give Clara the mushy wedding she wants and until she’s legally your wife, I don’t care if you…” His gaze strolled over Rhea with distaste, “keep a mistress for your extra fantasy called love. However, my next bloodline must be royalty. But do otherwise, then be prepared to go to war with me.”
A War He Would Get
“Why Clara?!” Lukas went after his father even after he declared war. With his father’s soldiers out of his place and Samson jealously guiding Rhea, he had nothing to worry about.
“Why Clara of all people?!” Lukas wanted to know because it didn’t make sense to him. Honestly, Clara Louise Alberta didn’t even have much power, all her family had was fame, reputation, and past glory. Heck, the monarchy system had long been abolished! Hence, they had only the title to go. So, why was Daniel so insistent on the both of them getting married?
If his father wanted more power, there were pretty other Mafia families that could benefit much more through marriage and they were more influential than the Alberta’s. Not that the Luciano family wasn’t a prominent family on its own. However, why was his father so obsessed with that royal line? Lukas had a feeling that there was more to the story and he wanted to know.
But Daniel ignored him and walked over to his car instead. The man opened the car door to climb in only for Lukas to snap the door close, and his hard gaze told his father that he wasn’t stepping a foot out of his place without saying a thing.
“Why must it be Clara? There are many other girls out there? Why must it be her?!” He snapped at him, the veins in his head bulging while his gaze was fierce with determination.
“Because I said so!” Daniel snapped back, losing his calm. He faced his son, and both of them would have been at the same height if Lukas hadn’t been taller by a few inches.
“Don’t feed me that bullshit, father!” He called him with sarcasm, “You can fool others, but not me.” Lukas stepped closer to the point that they were looking each other in the eyes.
He said, “I’m your great legacy, as you’ve called me so many times, which means that you would want only the best for me which Clara clearly isn’t and both of us know that. However, the only reason you would keep up with that is because of something, her title, why is her royal line so important to you? Why do you want to belong so much?!” He screamed in his face.
“Because it’s for your own good!” Daniel screamed back at him with a great ferocity that stunned him, “Everything I’m doing is for your sake so you don’t have to go through the same thing as me! No one would look down on you and your generation to come would benefit from your sacrifice! The Luciano name would never be sullied.”
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“And when we do belong, are you ready to close the family business?”
“What?”
“I guess you never thought about your great need to belong and its adverse effect on our family’s business? When you become royalty and schmooze with the upper-class people who are nothing but wolves in sheep’s clothing, what would you do when you attract the attention of the international communities? How long until you make a powerful enemy and bring our family to ruin? Or would you be their underdog just to get into their good grace and I wonder then, what’s the use of belonging when nothing changed?”
Something flashed in Daniel’s eyes and there was a tense silence between them. For a moment there, Lukas thought he got through to his father and that he would somehow change his mind, but Daniel replied instead,”
“Stop thinking nonsense. Our family has lasted three generations, what makes you think it would collapse now, or are you so desperate to be with your whore that you would spew any nonsense?”
“She’s not a whore and I dare you to call her that again!” Lukas growled, his body poised to attack with his hands clenched tightly at his sides. One more word from his father and he wouldn’t hold himself anymore.
“Look at you, Lukas,” Daniel looked at him with disapproval, “You have lost your way all because of a woman and forgotten all of my teachings!”