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seven | keep your enemies closer

"Behind every powerful mafia leader, is his wife." She states like it's so well known. It's not. She sees through my confusion so she adds, "What? I've seen Reid change his entire plans completely because of his wife."

"Speaking of Reid, he already approved the plans." Donovan states, proudly.

"Your the only one who needs to approve them so we can follow through with the marriage." Ayla says.

I think about it.

Carefully.

"Fine, go on with the plans but make me at the top of your emergency contact after Donovan." I order.

Donovan smiles in approval as Ayla smirks wickedly.

"Now get the fuck out of my office."

Translation: Leave so I can go see my girlfriend.

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When I get to Trinity's house, I make sure everything is normal. No strange cars. No strange neighbors.

I enter her house in a hurry. I'm late.

I just want to hold her in my arms right now.

I lock the door behind me before saying hi to the dogs.

Cleo jumps on me while Dylan acknowledges my presence.

Dylan's mad I'm late.

I give my attention to Cleo first then Dylan. I slide my shoes off before heading to Trinity's bedroom.

She's not in there but I head to her bathroom to take a shower.

After I change I look for her. 

When I walk out of her room, I find her in her kitchen, her back facing me as she hums.

I walk over to her. I wrap my arms around her waist and kiss her neck, from behind.

Usually when I do this, she giggles and then kisses me back.

Today, she doesn't do that. She just hums in response, still focused on her task.

I look at her hands and see her preparing the dogs food.

"You okay, Trin?" I ask, still hugging her.

There's two answers to this question.

I'm okay: the good answer.

I'm fine: the bad answer.

"I'm fine." She states, picking up the two bowls with the dogs food in it and escaping my grip on her.

She walks over to the dogs eating area and bends over to place them on the ground.

I adjust myself in my pants before walking towards her.

"What's wrong Amore?" I ask her, looking down at her face. She looks up at me and her cheeks are flushed.

At first I think she's blushing but when she reaches behind me and a wine glass with red wine in it appears in her hand, my thought disappears.

"Nothings wrong." She responds, downing the glass before placing it back on the counter behind me.

She's lying. I've known Trinity long enough to pick up on her habits when she's lying.

The way she's scratching her elbow with her left hand is an indication that she's lying.

"Trinity, tell me what's wrong." I state, grabbing both of her arms, gently, and placing them by her sides.

"Your late, you told me you would get home by six, it's seven." She crosses her arms over her chest, a frown forming on her face.

I kiss her lips, hoping to wipe the frown off her face.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry." I keep repeating it, kissing her lips after each 'I'm sorry.' "I'm sorry. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

"Why were you late?" She asks, her voice sounds so sad and I hate the fact that I made her sad.

"Donovan needed to explain something to me." I answer, honestly.

"Are you going to stay now?" She questions.

"I am, but first I'm going to go to the supermarket, buy everything you love-"

"Even the cookie dough ice cream?" She interrupts me.

"Even the cookie dough ice cream, and then we are going to watch a movie before we go to sleep." I explain and she smiles.

There's my girl.

She kisses me before rushing me out of the door.

Trinity and her cookie dough ice cream. The best combination.

I walk to my car and put my phone in the cup holder only to get a notification.

It's from Reid.

Urgent. Meet at the club. Plan B.

I sigh in frustration.

Plan B: Keep your enemies closer.

Fuck. Things weren't supposed to go to plan B.

Something went wrong for Plan B to be activated.

Fuck.

Plan B means two things.

One, it could take the Quinton's down faster.

Two, less time away from Trinity.

Plan B is still safe though, and we need to keep it that way.

We can't let it go to plan C.

Less time away from Trinity can turn into no time with Trinity if we have to go to plan C.

I need to make sure we stay far away from plan C.