They should never have met.
Each one of them lived in different parts of the world. She lived in the light, an ordinary existence while he kept to the shadows, the underworld.
But one fate encounter brought them together and no matter how hard the...
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Maximus
I waited impatiently outside Stella's hospital room where she is being checked by the doctor. She's been in and out of consciousness and gone through two fluid IV's and a nutrient one.
I had to be kicked out earlier. Apparently, it's wrong to ask for the credentials of nurses.
My eyes could see her bruises through the window. The finger marks around her neck from when Carnellio squeezed her are pronounced. Her usually rosy cheeks now red from his hits. Her plump lips split from the same assault.
Footsteps sounded down the hall making me turn to Lorenzo, his hand running through his messy hair.
"How did it go?" I asked.
He flicked dirt off his dress shirt. "After you went all knight in Armani and left us to do the work? Good."
I ignored his jest. My job was to get Stella out and I did.
"How's Stella?" He asked adjusting his cufflinks. "Could not be yours."
My jaw clenched from my older brother, one I needed to remember is my Don in public. "She isn't like that."
He watched me from the corner of his eyes. "You barely know her, thought I taught you and Romano better then to get someone knocked up."
Romano appeared on my side as I straightened from Lorenzo's words against Stella. I know her, she would not lie about this. "Thanks Lorenzo, I really appreciate your scolding. You're my brother, not father."
Lorenzo slowly turned his head towards me and I cracked my neck. He didn't say anything but I could feel his thoughts and they are ones I didn't want to hear.
"He does have a point though." Romano muttered making me walk away from. If I keep standing next to them and their accusations, I will throw a punch.
I walked towards Stella's room. It's time to be with her, fuck anyone telling me I can't be in there.
"Maximus." Lorenzo said with my hand on the doorknob. My head slowly turned back to him. "Carnellio had an escape passage. He got away."
I gripped the door handle tightly. "I want him alive."
Romano gave a nod. "You know we will find him."
Lorenzo still held my gaze. "Have you thought this through?"
My grip got tighter.
Thought this through? Having a child in the mafia world is dangerous. They are the first to die in a war and Stella doesn't know about my life in the mafia. She has only been with me for a few months and already has been kidnapped.
Her innocence drew me in. Now it's something I see being the reason she is killed.
And me a father? I am supposed to raise a kid. Can I do that?
