Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
It didn’t hit Cindy that she was invading someone’s privacy as she searched the room. It wasn’t until she found the laptop and saw a picture of Rhea and Lukas together, used as the screensaver that she gave up. It was Ariel’s room.
Cindy was disappointed, she refused to believe that Lukas was clean. None of her family members were innocent, however, Lukas’s sins had to be greater than all of theirs. She was sure, her instinct never fails her.
She sat on the bed with her legs crossed over the other and thinking of her next course of action when a sudden bark brought her back to the present.
Cindy turned, surprised to see a snow white chihuahua on the bed and the dog continuously barked at her as if she was some sort of intruder (which she technically was). However, she didn’t heed the warning from the dog and turned to it instead with fascination, taken in by its innocent beauty.
“Aww, aren’t you a cute one,” Cindy swooned, trying to touch its fur but the dog barked at her aggressively and she withdrew her hands.
“Oh come on!” Cindy whined, “You can’t be that bad. And you are so cute that I can’t help but want to hold you.” She reached for Redhead once again and he struck.
It all happened faster than her eyes could register. One moment Cindy was reaching for the cute-looking thing again and the next thing Redhead lifted its head and chomped down on her finger.
It was like something out of a horror movie as Cindy stared at her now completely broken and limp finger pumping out blood that trailed down her hand and dropped onto the bed.
Then the pain registered.
“Ahh!” Cindy screamed at the top of her voice. She couldn’t lose her ring finger. Where else was she going to wear her wedding ring?
You Did Daddy Proud
“Daniel is not here,” Lukas pointed out to Victor who came to stand at his side. He didn’t know whether to be relieved or get anxious by that thought.
“Perhaps, he’s running late.” Victor didn’t want to think the worst.
“Lesson 101 on knowing Daniel, he would never be late at a gathering like this one. He would love to be the first to be able to access his enemies, recognize their weakness, and piss me off, undoubtedly.”
Lukas let out a shaky breath, “It can’t be a coincidence that he’s missing on the day that Natalie is getting married.”
At once Victor leaned closer, checking their surroundings to make sure no one was watching them as he said in a lowered voice, “You think he somehow heard about the wedding.”
“It would be more shocking to me if he doesn’t know. He’s practically obsessed with her.”
“Maybe I should send some men to stop him?” Victor asked him.
“And what if he’s at Natalie’s wedding already, are they going to tackle him there? What if he resists them and it breaks into a fight? Tension is already tight between us and the Draven’s. We can’t give them a reason to react, accidentally or not.”
Victor nodded his head in understanding. Moreover, it was not like the Draven’s were going to open their doors wide for them to come in and check on Daniel. No, Eric probably put out posters for Daniel, his uncle was not going to get a mile from Natalie.
…..
Lukas pinched the space between his brows. He said to Victor, “Just let him be. Daniel might be reckless, not stupid. He should know by now that Eric and Natalie are serious about each other and can’t do anything about it. Who knows, my father might have a heart after all and is currently mourning the love of his life already,” Lukas said with deep sarcasm at the end. He still could not understand how he could loathe the woman, Natalie, and yet, love her daughter, Rhea. Fate was fucking with him.
“Moreover,” Lukas continued,” He not appearing in the meeting today is to my benefit. Daniel does a good job of controlling people’s opinions around here, I’ll be taking up that role today.”
Lukas patted Victor on his back. Putting on a serious look, he said, “Let’s get this meeting started.”
Just like that, Lukas stepped into the conference room in style with Victor trailing after him as everyone turned to stare at them. Everyone was left dumbfounded by the confident aura they exuded, their gazes following the handsome men until Lukas took his place at the head table and Victor at his left with Adele, his underboss, having taken her place at his right.
“Thank you all for attending the meeting today,” Lukas said to them, his gaze taking in everyone seated down until his sharp gaze noticed that another person, aside from his father, was missing.
Cindy.
Of course, Lukas was not bothered about Cindy – she was not worth his time – but the girl was as slippery as an eel and he did not want her going around and causing unnecessary problems in his place. Hence, he was about to signal Victor to go find her when a scream was heard and everyone in the room had their hands going to their guns already.
They thought that it was an attack from a rival clan and had their weapons to defend themselves already. After all, it wasn’t the first time they suffered an attack after the enemies got news of their gathering.
It was the fastest way to destroy a Mafia family – take out their top guns one after the other or destroy them all in one place. However, there was no sound of bullets flying around, not to mention that the banshee cry sounded familiar.
Adele stood up the same Lukas did and they both left to take care of the situation while Victor stood to announce to the family members, “Don’t worry, we have this covered.”
It was not hard to find the source of the noise because some of his men had gathered around the scene and one should already see the murderous look on Lukas’s face when he discovered it was coming from Rhea’s room. He did not need to know what happened, all he knew was that Cindy trespassed into Rhea’s room. She violated her room.
Who gave her the right?!
Hence, as soon as he came in to see Cindy still screaming while holding up her limp finger, Lukas didn’t waste a second to land a slap on her face and she saw stars.
“Lukas!” Adele moved in between them and said sternly to him, “Control yourself,”
Lukas looked at Adele with his red, fiery eyes before they flickered back at Cindy who now had tears running down her cheeks. She couldn’t believe that Lukas just hit her.
“Get her out of here,” He growled the orders at his men.
“No, wait, what about my finger? My ring finger!” Cindy cried out. Her screams echoed around the house as they dragged her away.
As soon as she was gone, Lukas’s attention was drawn to the chihuahua barking for his attention. Lukas bent down and picked Redhead, his eyes narrowing in displease when he saw the blood stains on the bed Sheet. The sheet still carried Rhea’s faint smell and Cindy just ruined it.
Judging from the little stain around Redhead’s snout and his constant barking, Lukas could already deduce what had happened. Cindy was lucky enough she had not bumped into Samson, who has become a constant guardian of Rhea’s room else it would have been a different story altogether.
“Don’t worry, boy, the nuisance is gone. Calm down, now,” Lukas said, scratching his fur and soothing him.
As if Redhead could understand him, he calm down and Lukas lifted him only to kiss on top of his head, saying, “You did Daddy proud today,”
He turned to Adele, “Tell them to get rid of the sheet,” and he left with the chihuahua.
Meanwhile, back in the conference room, some of the family members were becoming annoyed with Lukas’s disappearance and were ready to complain when the door was opened, startling them. They quickly composed themselves as Lukas came in with a stoic expression with a cute-looking chihuahua in his arms.
What the hell?
However, none of them dared to say a word, watching Lukas sit back down and stroke the chihuahua leisurely. Redhead in question leaned into his side as if staking his claim on Lukas and daring others not to come close.
“Now, where were we?”
He Doesn’t Want To Die
“Has the Draven Family decided on giving up Elijah for the trial?” Robert asked him with authority. With his nemesis, Daniel, absent from the meeting, he must feel that it was right that he took his place.
Unfortunately, no matter how intimidating he appeared to look, Lukas didn’t even flinch, no, it seemed as if that annoying dog was more important than the meeting judging from how nonchalant he looked.