The DeLuca Princess

prologue

The DeLuca mansion was a buzz. Guards and maids huddled in corners, whispering about the new arrival to the big family. They were talking with questions. But mostly one question went around,

"is it a prince or a princess?"

A curious question indeed.

It was a question for the DeLuca's as well. It was a family tradition to announce the gender of the baby after he or she was born, and Aziz DeLuca stuck to it and that annoyed her husband Antonio DeLuca, the mafia Don of the Italian mafia making Aziz the Donna of it. Which also made their family a huge target, but it wasn't new for them.

The Italian mafia had ruled Italy for generations which made the family a deadly target. Now and then there are will be threats but of course they were immediately traced back to their senders and they were executed.

Yup, tortured and were slowly bought to death's door.

Known as the devil himself, Antonio had killed countless people but none of them were innocent. it was not in the Italian mafia morals to kill an innocent person. If anyone did it without a solid reason they had to pay a price. Most probably a dreadful one.

While we were talking about the family, they all were rushing towards the main warehouse of the Italian mafia. Aziz was taken to the medical wing for an emergency. Who knows how many people are gonna die today and I'm also talking about the DeLuca men. Aziz was a crazy woman who was even crazier when she's in her pregnancy. Well technically she gave birth to six children, yeah you heard it right, six boys and the seventh one were on their way. it's one hell of a big family. But well it can have its pros too. Like getting everything to your bed whenever you feel like you are too lazy.

But let's get back to reality, shall we?

And as I was saying, many cars were racing down to the warehouse. It wasn't only the DeLuca men but also the Costello's, Aziz's family. It didn't care if they had to break down gates or fences. All that mattered was to get there first.

One was for Aziz because they didn't want to feel her wrath nor did they want to miss the baby's arrival.

Two ways for the bets, millions of dollars worth of bets just for the baby's gender and who knows how many to come. But santiono DeLuca and Fernando Costello already had bets. Like the baby's first word, to the baby's first favorite color.

You can say they were excited, and how about we add an 'over' in there shall we.

they may be the mafia but they were always and will always be a family. One big family.

Antonio was the first to reach the warehouse. Of course, love will win. But just behind him, Luis Costello came. Well, he was the grandfather so he had to be there. And behind him came the DeLuca brothers Leonardo, Lorenzo, and Santino. There were two more but they were sent on missions by their father Dante DeLuca despite how much they wanted to be there.

Then there were the Costello brothers, specifically Aziz's brothers. Juan, the don of the Mexican mafia, Francesco, Miguel, Gabriel, and Fernando.

Now you can understand what is meant here by a huge family.

Antonio closed the car door so hard it might have come off.

Just as he was entering another car pulled up so fast it set off dust and then there was another door with a screw or two loose. Luis Costello ran in just behind Antonio.

''WHERE IS SHE?" Antonio bellowed.

The guards were about to pee their pants. They might be trained to kill the most dangerous people but they were surely afraid of their boss. Especially when it came to the donna.

"are you trying to get yourself murdered?" asked a calm yet annoyed voice.

Isabella Costello, former donna of the Mexican mafia also Aziz's mother. A scary woman just like her daughter!. The family was filled with crazy women and men.

"Isa what are u doing here?" asked Luis.

She scoffed "it's my baby girl who is here and why shouldn't I come? Do men only know to drive around in cars?" her tune turned from annoyance to anger.

Luis raised his hands in surrender.

We don't want the kettle boiling right now. He thought.

Maybe he is right... well, we better move on.

Isa turned to Antonio " she's alright! She's tired but she won't rest until she sees you" then she started walking towards the room in which the donna was in. by now all the brothers and the other grandfather Dante DeLuca had arrived and dashed inside. They all started walking towards the room just behind Isa. The proud grandmother went and opened the door and led Antonio.

There on the bed was Aziz DeLuca with two bundles on either of her arms. Antonio without realizing started on the waterworks. Behind him, the former dons of the Mexican and Italian mafia were also crying. the remaining hadn't got a second to come inside cause Isabella had closed the door on their faces.

Antonio slowly went towards the bed his wife was in with his newborn babies. It came out as a surprise to him because the doctor had never said it was twins. But anyways he had two more children now.

They didn't speak a word but you can just see the adoration and love dancing in everyone's eyes just by looking at the new additions to the family.

"Aziz...." Antonio said but he couldn't continue. He was just way too excited.

"Antonio meet your new daughter and son." Said Isabella. she knew Aziz still was processing that they had a daughter.

At the mention of a daughter, the don's heart skipped. He couldn't believe it after all these years of wishing they finally had a daughter.

You see the DeLuca family hadn't had a girl in more than five generations. Not one, even if everyone wanted a girl in the family they just weren't blessed with a girl you can say. But finally, after years they had one.

Aziz slowly gave the newborns to Antonio. He gently grabbed it as if they would break if he held  a bit harder. He looked at them and then back at his beloved wife. 

"what do you want to name them?"

"Alessandra Angelina DeLuca and Alessandro Antonio DeLuca"

Antonio laughed "you are always prepared aren't you!"

"well, I'm the responsible one so you can't really say anything" Aziz replied with sass. Of course, she would the responsible one.

"Alright don't come at me donna," Antonio said but he was scared. The mother-daughter duo were the same. together they were dangerous. But people still didn't get the hint and still decide to mess with them. One of them used to be Antonio who decided to underestimate them and got a handful of surprises like being kidnapped and used as a punching bag.

This was the DeLuca family and here family always came first.

And yes the brothers were still outside...