Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
“I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you,” Chloe apologized, crying on his shoulder.
“Shh, it’s okay,” Lukas wished he could stroke her hair and comfort her properly, but then, he had to settle for words, “You’re just a kid and teenagers make lots of mistakes. Moreover, I’m not entirely blameless either, so you’re forgiven.” He kissed her on the cheek and nuzzled her.
“Aww, such a sweet reunion,” Isabella’s voice was sweet until she added, “However, can someone untie him and get him out of my sight so I can see better things.” She wanted him to leave.
However, Chloe pulled away from Lukas and turned to the defeated Reina who had a sour look, and pleaded,
“Can I still come and visit you?”
At once, everyone’s gaze rested on her and Chloe felt small under the blazing intensity of their looks. She scratched the back of her head, “I would miss you so much and I would love to see Elsa and Ella….” a blush formed on her cheeks when she said, “And Diego too.” Chloe couldn’t help but giggle silly at the end.
The room went dead silent.
“Oh boy,” Reina was the first to react. As a mother and an adult, she was the first to connect the dots and find out what was happening before the others.
“This can’t be happening,” Niklaus breathed, rubbing his temple as he could already feel a headache brewing.
“This just got interesting,” Isabella chuckled, a twinkle in her eyes and she turned to Lukas as if daring him to say something.
Lukas was utmost speechless, no word was able to leave his mouth. Is his baby sister crushing on a boy? Not only that but on Niklaus Spencer’s son? She was not even old enough to begin crushing on boys already, Lukas’s protective instinct rose. He was not going to let that happen. If only he knew that the kids were dating already.
At once, the guards came and released Lukas from the binds. As soon as he was free, Lukas took his sister into his arms and hugged her tight. They are together now. However, he quickly remembered,
“What about Winters? You took her too and pray to God that you haven’t laid a hand on her.”
“Oh, you mean the other female with you?” Isabella said, “You might have proven you had no bad intention in coming here, Lukas, but not the girl,”
Lukas lurched forward and the guards moved as well, thinking he was about to attack them. But he only told Isabella, “I was the one who ordered her to apply for the role of a babysitter. I needed her to get information on Chloe, nothing else.”
“Sure, she might have been a babysitter -“
“And a good one at that,” Niklaus cut his daughter off, the sarcasm deep in his tone. It was obvious that he was not doing well with the infiltration thing. His family was at risk here.
Isabella didn’t mind the interruption, her father had a good reason to be salty. She went on to say, “The girl has an interesting background and occupation.”
“But then, she did not bring harm to your family, did she?” He asked, his lips pressed together firmly.
“No, she didn’t.” Emerald answered, “But she’s a hacker and who knows what information she might have stolen from us while disguising herself as a worker. AInformationshe might have very much given to you.” He accused him.
“I never -“
“You disguised as Nahid, the information could only be seen on the guest list which was private,” Isabella smirked wickedly, “I’ll say that was the work of a hacker.”
Lukas sighed, running his hand through his hair. This was all his fault. He shouldn’t have gotten Winters involved in this.
Even though he knew that they weren’t going to listen to him, Lukas still went ahead to defend her, “The only information I asked was regarding Chloe and anything else that could help me bust her out, nothing else. Winters has a working code and she would never intentionally hack your secrets.”
“It’s quite unfortunate that you don’t have evidence, do you?” Niklaus’ tone was, as usual, unkind.
“You are free to leave with your sister,” Sakuzi said decisively, “But for the hacker, I’m sorry, but you can’t leave now. Until we are done with our investigation and make sure she’s innocent, she can’t go with you.”
The Proposal
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This was not really how she planned to spend the rest of the night, Winters thought as she stared around the cell. Yep, she was really in a cell room and it wasn’t really shocking since Lukas has a dungeon hidden away in the base. Moreover, this wasn’t the first time that she found herself in situations like this.
You see, the thing is that bad guys often need people like her. Someone who could simply expose their enemy’s secrets with just her fingers flying around the keyboards in hours. Yeah, it wasn’t as easy as it was shown in movies. Note, bad people tend to keep their secrets heavily encrypted and as much as it was stressful, Winters loved a good challenge now and then.
In one word, she was a rare gem to be wasted, hence they always ended up “convincing” her – often forcefully – to work for them – unless she outlived her usefulness. However, Winters was smart and often found a way to plot her escape before they blasted her brains out. Honestly, Lukas was the first person she worked with that trusted her enough not to end her life in the end.
Others were often in awe of her skills at first and used money to seduce her to stay, thinking that was all she cared for – if only they knew her worth – and when their hold on her seems to be slipping, they attempt violence then. Human nature is greedy and when a man stumbles upon a diamond, that is when his darkest side is revealed – the desire to keep the diamond to himself.
Hence, Winters was not scared of death, because she knew the Spencers would not kill her. They must have looked into her background already and like the others, they would also fall into that same cycle of greediness that never grows old.
So she made herself comfortable on the bed, and honestly, the Spencers sure know how to treat a prisoner well because her cell almost looked like a hotel room – she would ask Lukas to take inspiration from here and add that to his prisons. Those dungeons were old school. Winters couldn’t help but wonder if it came with room service as well.
Winters lounged on the bed waiting for their meeting with Lukas to be over, so they could come and see her, when she saw a shadow appear and turned around without a second thought only for her throat to suddenly go dry. Standing in front of her cell was a complication she had never thought about in the first place until now.
…..
“Akim…” Winters slowly rose from the bed, her heart beginning to pound in her heart as she could already sense where this conversation was going and how it was going to end.
He was going to break up with her.
Winters was sure of that.
That was how scenes like this often played out, both in movies and in real life.
She was doomed.
The only good thing in her life was about to end before it even began.
Akim stood in front of her cell with an unreadable expression that she was sure spelled trouble. But Winters had no choice but to face him. There was no running away now, he knew everything.
“Hey…” She said unsure, walking over to him till it was just the bars separating him.
However, Akim did not answer and just kept on staring at him so intently that it made her self-conscious and the guilt in her heart increased such that she couldn’t look him in the eyes and had to lower her head in shame.
“Did you approach me on purpose?” He asked all of a sudden, making Winters’ head jerk up, her eyes wide with shock.
“Of course not!” She told him firmly, “I never even knew that you were going to be here in the first place or the fact that I would last long. The mission was straightforward, get Chloe out of here. But then, we couldn’t find her and I had to stay back and get information about her whereabouts. But then, you came and… and… Winters found herself stumbling on the words.
“And what?” Akim asked that she finish the rest of her words.
However, Winters shook her head, “It’s not -“
“And what?” He demanded fiercely, stunning her. She was not backing out of this one.