Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
“No, it’s not going to solve -“
“A deep breath, Mimi,” Rhea insisted and she hesitantly closed her eyes and took a deep, long breath until she calmed her tits.
“Sit down and let’s talk this out,” Rhea nudged her to the bed and made her sit, pulling out the chair by her side and sat down as well, facing her.
“First thing first, we’d go by procedure, how did you know you’re pregnant?” Rhea was still asking when Mimi pulled out the stick and she took the pregnancy test from her.
Rhea glanced down, it was two lines. Damn. She was right. Mimi is indeed pregnant. Wow!
“So who else knows about this? Have you told Victor about it?”
“What, no?!” Mimi was horrified at the idea of telling him.
“But why? Victor would be ecstatic to know that you’re carrying his baby,”.
“Exactly the point!” Mimi wanted to rip her hair off, “He would be ecstatic enough to tell his mother and then he would be married by the end of the week.”
Mimi added with a very grave tone, “I am not ready to get married. No, I’m not getting married.”
“Why?” Rhea was trying hard to understand her. She couldn’t tell if Mimi had gamophobia – a fear of commitment or fear of marriage. Even at it, that phobia can be developed through a painful breakup, divorce, or abandonment during early childhood or adulthood, making her afraid to commit to someone she loves.
However, Mimi had a wonderful childhood and her parents were in love and still together. Sure, she had lots of breakups – with her always doing the breaking up – but none of them were traumatic. Mimi always moved on, finding her next victim which Rhea had always found admirable. If Mimi was a boy, then she was a playboy, until she met Victor.
Although it may be due to a mixture of things rather than a single cause, it just doesn’t make sense for Mimi to be scared of marriage.
“Don’t you get it?” Mimi told her, “I’m not ready for this! I don’t want to get pregnant! I don’t want to be a mother! I’m not ready to be a mother! I had plans for my future until this came along and now, I have to think of a little life inside of me. I can’t even take care of myself, not to talk of a child! My child! What would my parents think of me?! Of Victor! He’s a fucking consigliere! Do you think my parents would fucking accept him! They had great plans for me! What if they chase me out for bringing shame to them?! They would think I’m a failure! Gosh, I’m twenty-three! I’m still young! – “
“Hey,” Rhea was quick to gather her into her arms, “Hush, you’re thinking too much, that’s not good for a mother.”
“It’s all too much,” Mimi burst into tears.
“Yeah, I know. It’s too much to handle. However, you forget that I’m here. Together, we’d go through this. I’m not leaving you alone.” Rhea assured her.
They would get through this, hopefully.
The Prince And The Hacker
“Could we play for an hour more?” Ella, Reina’s daughter and one of the triple-trouble begged Winters.
“Nope, not happening. You guys promised that you would go to bed peacefully if I let you have ice cream for dinner. I’ve already broken one of your mother’s rules, hence it’s up to you to keep your part of the deal,” She held them to their words.
“You’re right,” Elsa, their ringleader stepped up, “Just like mom says, our word is the law. We made a deal with you and we would keep it,” She turned to Winters with her head lifted, “We would go to bed as we promised. See you tomorrow then,”
Elsa strutted in the direction of her room with her sister, their arms hooked around each other’s, and Diego, their brother was about to join in when Winters pulled him back by the scruff of the neck.
“Your room, mister,” She pointed out with a sweet smile and reminded the boy he was too old to share a room with his sisters, triplets or not.
“This is unfair, I thought we preach gender equality,” He argued.
“Yep,” Winters agreed, and just when his hope rose, she killed it, “Go take it up with your mother, not me.”
“Ugh!” Diego lowered his head and stomped in the direction of his own room.
Poor boy, but nah, Winters was more than grateful to have sent them to bed. She would be leaving tomorrow, how happy she was. She has missed her babies aka her computers and once she gets home, she would hug and kiss them and then spend quality time with them since it was her day off.
…..
However, Winters was quitting her nanny job after Friday for a good reason. She has sent information to Lukas, the party was happening on Friday and Winters was hundred percent positive that his sister would be there.
The birthday party was all the kids could talk about the entire day and then she heard it, Chloe was coming as well. So the moment Lukas has her sister, she would vanish as well. The Spencers might be kind but they weren’t dumb, they would know that there had been an inside Job and Winters wasn’t staying around to find out what happens to moles.
After making sure the kids kept their promise of going to bed ‘peacefully’, Winters returned to the living room and plopped down on the sofa with a sigh. She was exhausted yet couldn’t sleep. Moreover, it was just eleven, and back at the base, this was the time to have fun with her on the dark web. Unfortunately, she didn’t have her set up with her nor could she risk playing around with the computer set up here. They can’t know she’s a hacker. It was too risky.
“You should be given the nanny of the year award,”
Someone said from behind and Winters was startled at first until she recognized the voice and relaxed.
Akim came to sit down beside her on the sofa. He turned to her,
“You’ve learned to handle them. This is the fastest I’ve seen the kids obey a non-related person.”
“Yeah, I’m incredible,” Winters grinned at him cockily.
“Yeah, your ego deserves a bit of stroking but it needs a gauge as well.” The both of them burst into laughter while staring at each other and without warning, the atmosphere heated and their laughter gurgled to a halt.
Winters was the one who looked away first, clearing her throat and rousing him from the spellbound.
It was awkward.
“So you’re a prince,” She said, the title feeling a bit heavy on her tongue. This was another reason she couldn’t get entangled with Akim.
So, she was not dealing with a patriarchal family, but a monarchy. Amazing, life keeps throwing ridiculous surprises her way.
A hacker and a prince?
What a nice fairy tale. It was never going to work. Akim’s role was to keep national security and her role was to break into national security.
Damn, she was doomed.
“So you finally found out,” Akim said, licking his lower lips as his throat suddenly felt dry. She now knows his identity, what happens next? Would their relationship change? Would she keep him at arm’s length because of his power or be with him because of what she could benefit from him?
If only he knew Winters was more interested in watching the action of licking his lips.
“Yep, the triplets talk a lot,” Winters admitted, having a hard time taking her eyes off his lips.
But she did.
Maybe, she was good at this self-control thing and she would keep it up till Friday till things come to an end.