I never thought that in my mid twenties, I would need to be watched as if I was a mere child. As if I am incapable of going somewhere without a bodyguard, and yet according to Kai, that is the case.
Which explains why I am here— being escorted home by my fake-husbands older brother, but also his protector, an enforcer or whatever. Blake Bliss doesn't once speak to me, unless I speak to him. It's ridiculous, I can't help but wonder if Kai had warned him. If he had warned Blake on making conversation, he's even crazier than I had imagine.
But literally who plans on a kidnapping? Psychopaths, that's who. I know it wasn't Kais' idea, but that doesn't make this whole thing right. And I could not just sit there and listen to Luca Garcia explain the plan as if it was normal. "Have you ever planned a kidnapping?" I asked Blake as we drove in silence, the traffic had stopped moving and therefore making this a painfully long journey.
"Why are you asking that?" Blake shot back, his eyes finding my own just as quick as they returned to the street. "You never answered my question," I commented, dread filling my stomach. Was it normal in their world to consider kidnapping someone? In my world that would land your ass in prison, clearly not theirs. "No," Blake finally replied after seconds of silence, and that alone almost makes me doubt his response.
"Did Kai say something to you?" The question effortlessly left my mouth before my brain caught up. Once again Blake shot me a look, but this time it remained emotionless— that's one thing him and his brother have in common, their ease to show no emotion. How is that humanly possible? I show all my emotions through my facial expressions, it's the norm. And yet people like Kai and Blake Bliss are anything but normal. "Like what?" Blake asked with a smirk, he knew what I was thinking, whether it was real or not.
"Why don't you start a conversation?" I said with clear confusion, "we sat in silence for fifteen minutes, and you obviously weren't going to say anything," I stated. I shouldn't feel hurt about it, but I am. At the end of the day, despite the situation, Blake is my brother in law now. We're somewhat of a family, and yet he doesn't try to act like I am anything but a stranger to him. "What would I say anything? I prefer silence," Blake commented instead of answering my own question. That's another thing I've noticed about him and Kai, they answer in a form of a question, rather than simply giving a response.
It's frustrating, the riddles that can't be solved.
"Because we're family now," I said in a pathetic whisper, family and the topic of such has always been a sensitive subject for myself. With my own family being M.I.A for the rest of my teens and onwards, I've always had the desire to get back what I had when I was a child. Marrying Kai, somewhat gave me that aspect and feeling back, I know... Crazy of me to believe.
"Don't," Blake said, his one word alone crushes any hope I had. "Don't what?" I asked, pushing for an answer, a real one this time. "Get attached, I don't stay around long, and especially don't get attached to Kai," Blake explained with ease, the answer already thought threw. "You may be married and that is a lifetime commitment, but don't expect him to be something he isn't— he can't be what you want or need," his words ringing in my ears because I know it's the truth.
Kai will never change, this is how he is. The mafia is his world, it's his family. I wouldn't want him to change for me, because that would mean he wouldn't be himself. And Kai Bliss is everything I've ever been looking for. I can't deny that, I truly never did.
"I am just sorry that you got trapped into this world, you remind of someone I used to knew," Blake muttered, his voice softening in tone. "Who?" My eyes searching his face as he continued to focus on the traffic ahead. "I remember around eight years ago, nearly nine, that I got asked to protect someone, to look over them— at first, I didn't know who she was, and then I watched her, made sure she came to no harm," Blake confessed, but even as he spoke, he showed no emotion, no sadness, nothing.
"After Hunter Capello told me to back off, and swore that he would protect her, I left and headed to London— to this day, I wondered if I should have continued watching her, to make sure Sofia was safe but I wanted to trust Hunters words more, than rather having anything happen to the Italian princess while under my protection."
"You cared for her," I whispered the truth, and Blake knows it too as he slowly closed his eyes. The traffic hadn't moved so that wasn't the issue. The issue was that I was right— he cared for Sofia Lewis and now Hunter was planning on kidnapping the women, so I should tell him? Would he warn her? If I told him and he did warn Sofia, then I would have not only betrayed Hunter but also Kai, as he brought me to that dinner tonight, and trusted me with the information.
"That's the past now, I haven't been keen on keeping tabs on her," Blake admitted with a shrug, and it's then I decide not to tell him of the plan. What he doesn't know what hurt him, and like he said— he hasn't been keen, on keeping tabs on Sofia. It's not his issue, nor is it Sofia's. This is her fate, despite it being altered by Hunter Capello, this is what was suppose to happen, that's what I believe, despite how harsh it is. "Why?"
Blake sighed as the car began to move once again, "what is this? Twenty-one questions?" His patience now vanishing, I choose then not to ask any more questions in regard to Sofia, it's not my problem, and she was raised in this world, surely she understands what goes on.
"I'll escort you up," and other than the, 'goodnight,' we shared, we waited a second and when the elevator doors opened, Blake never said another word to me. I guess he did prefer the silence, after a while the whole word disappears as the quietness seeks in.
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"I should've known that it was dumb love, fifteen dozen roses, all the things that I've done for you not to notice... Can't believe I chose you over all my best friends. What the fuck did I do in the end?
Just to not be yours."
The best part of that song!!
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