Rivals To Lovers | ✔️

- 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 18 -

- Roxanne's POV -

We sat down in the two chairs in front of his desk as the man poured himself a drink. I slowly watched his every move, I could feel Mattheo's eyes watching me.

"So what is this deal you want to propose to me?" He asks. I look over at Mattheo to him still looking at me. I know he knew how I felt about this whole thing and that I was trusting on him.

"You've been assaulting the American mafia for a while now and our fathers have been meaning to set an alliance between our mafias to finally be at peace," Mattheo says slowly taking his eyes off of me and looking at the man.

"But we don't want it to happen," He says.

"And why is that?" The man asks. Mattheo takes a deep breath in before answering.

"Because," He says letting out his deep breath and looking over at me again.

"We're enemies, always have and we want to keep it that way," Mattheo says. I look deep into his eyes to see if he meant what he said. Those words hurt me more than I ever thought they could. I looked away so I wouldn't show any sign of weakness or emotion.

"What will I get in return?" The man asks sitting down on his desk and taking a sip out of his drink.

"My brother, I know he's the one who's been working behind our backs for a while now but I know the deal he is making you isn't as good as the one I will give to you," Mattheo says.

Wait, Taylor was the mole this whole time. Did he know or did he just find out? I asked myself. Why didn't Mattheo tell me? There were too many questions I asked myself.

"There's no use to me to have your brother and not your father." The man says as Mattheo lifts a brow at him.

"What are you impleading?" Mattheo asks as the man smirked.

"Give them both to me and fifty percent of your supplement when you take over boss position," the man says taking another sip from his drink. Mattheo let out a chuckle, I looked over at him in confusion at what was so funny.

"Thirty percent," Mattheo says. The man looks at Mattheo thinking before speaking.

"Deal," The man says standing up landing out his hand to shake Mattheo's. Mattheo stands up and shakes his hand.

"I'll keep you in contact," Mattheo says as the mad nodded slightly with a smile.

When we walked out I could feel Mattheo's arm on my back slightly walk me forward. I tried not to bring too much attention to it. He let go when we saw everyone waiting for us outside. When we walked up closer to them Lucas walked up to me not thinking about it twice before embracing me into his arms.

I looked over at Mattheo but when he caught me looking at him he quickly looked away. Lucas pulled me away and put his hand on my face gently looking at me up and down.

"Are you ok, are you hurt? Did they touch you?" He kept asking me questions as if we were dating and he cared. I grabbed his hands taking them off of me.

"I'm fine," I say trying not to be rude looking over at the twins. They look pretty hurt but they look sturdy which made me smirk over at them.

"You guys look good," I say as they both look up at me with a slight smile.

"What can you say, we're a good team," Jacob says with a smirk, and Abigail chuckles.

"What did you guys do?" Lucas asked Looking at me and Mattheo. I knew they all wanted to know but I didn't know what to tell them.

"We found out who the mole is, that's all you need to know," Mattheo says slightly looking at me.

"We should go before it gets late. We have to fly back tomorrow" I say as everyone nods in agreement.

When we all got back to the safehouse everyone was inside except me I couldn't find my phone and I knew I left it in the car somewhere.

"Looking for this" I heard Mattheo say behind me. I turned around and accidentally bump into him and trip but he grabs me by the waist from falling so I could catch my balance. I scratch my throat in embarrassment. I don't know why he has always had such a strong effect on me.

"Thank you" I say trying to grab the phone from his hand but he wasn't letting go.

"Aren't you going to explain?" He said as I looked at me him in confusion.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"You and Lucas, are you two together?" He asked with a serious face as I Laughed. He was so jealous I just couldn't help but laugh.

"Your jealous aren't you?" I say putting my hands on my hips in a sassy way.

"Me, jealous. Why would I be jealous? I can get anything I want by just saying it" he says as I laughed again but stopped myself by bitting down on my bottom lip.

"Whats so funny?" He asked with a small but confused smile looking down at my lips.

"Nothing, now give me my phone back" I say in a more serious tone. I did t have time to play games.

"Oh you want this, then your just going to have to work for it" he says hanging the phone over my head so I could reach it. I tried standing on my tipy toes to catch it but the more I did the higher he would put it up.

"Give it back!" I yelled at him getting frustrated as he laughed. I couldn't help but admire his beautiful laugh. I just wish he would do it more often.

He caught me looking at him as he stopped laughing and looked down at me with those beautiful green eyes of his, like I've never seen before.

He slowly leans in towards my lips to kiss me. I could of stopped him, but I didn't. His lips crashed into mines as I could feel the sparks going through my body.

With his empty hand he pulled me in by my waist as I placed my hands in his chest breaking the space between us. This kiss was passionate and full of want. I hear somebody call after me as I pull away from the kiss and look towards the house.

I look back at Mattheo to see him hand me my phone. I smirk at him and grab it before walking away. It was those little moments with him that made me think twice about him. I was having mix feelings about someone I think I might even love.
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Author note: These two really make my heart flutter! ❤️🥺✨

I just can't get enough of them.