It's not that the thought never crossed my mind when I met his mother but saying it out loud confirms it. I'm dating a mafia man. Oh my god.
"How many people have you killed, Ronin?"
I blurted out what was in my mind unconsciously. I dressed quickly to be ready to run.
"I lost count."
My eyes might have popped out of their sockets because man I was not ready for this answer. His expression was serious and my brain fused so did my sixth sense.
"I'm kidding. I know how to kill a person but it's not my hobby."
I released a sigh of breath which I choked on as he completed his sentence. In my mind, I was imagining a scenario where I'm introducing him to my parents like "Mom and Dad, my boyfriend, he knows how to kill people but don't worry it is not his hobby."
"What does your dad do then and why has your mom had him kidnapped? I'm confused."
I will admit that I love drama and all kinds of crazy stories but this seems illegal and scary. Shit is getting serious.
"I have no time to explain my whole life to you right now"
Ronin was completely dressed and was heading for the door but I placed myself between him and the door not letting him go without answering me.
I gave him the look. The look when your arms fold automatically, your stance changes, you start tapping your right foot, your neck push itself inside your face such that your chin disappears and then you narrow your eyes until you go blind or the only visible thing is the strap of your boyfriend's boxers.
"Bítch say what?"
I was giving him attitude at the worst time but I think we are past offending each other.
"Swearing at me? You should have majored in Drama? It is your thing. "
I agree but he doesn't need to know that.
"Down, boy. You are already on your second strike."
I stopped him by putting my hand on his chest and he tried to move again.
"Stay out of my family business and don't dare follow me. Make that the third strike."
He lightly slapped my hand away from his chest, circled his arms around my waist, gave me a mind-numbing kiss and was out of the door before I could come back to Earth.
Ronin has balls, not the real ones, metaphorically, I mean I'm sure he has those too not that I've seen it if the universe keeps playing a cruel game with me like this. I like him that he is honest and not afraid to offend me because it is better than having a cheating douchebag as your boyfriend. But I'm not going to let him get away with this so easily even it means I have to follow him to the tigress's lair.
I called Ben as soon as Ronin left. For the first time in his life, Ben answered within a few seconds.
"What now?"
"It is rude how you never call me and asks me how I'm doing?"
"I have seen your face all my life. I've known you all my life. If you are not doing well, you call me anyways. So spill, I don't have all day. I have a date."
"You are always late to your dates. I waited a day for you in that cafe that my parents called for a search party. All because of you, jerk. Be grateful I never spilled your name or you would have been in jail."
"Chey, we were SEVEN for god's sake. I'm sorry I forgot about our date and you camped outside the cafe like a lunatic that you are. I'm so glad I never dated you. Now tell me your deal or I'm hanging up!"
"I need a lift. I'm following my boyfriend. Meet me in the parking fast."
I hung up and walked out and thankfully saw Ronin barking orders at someone at a distance. I hid behind the wall as he whipped around.
I saw Ben waving at me like crazy but I gave him a dead look and he started dancing to avoid suspicion. Man, I need new normal friends.
"Okay, dirty dancer let's go. That's him on the bike. Follow him."
I adjusted his car seat and stooped low to avoid getting caught.
"Why exactly am I doing this?"
I looked at Ben and threw him a disgusted look. How dare he ask me that?
"Because you owe me after that disastrous date experience."
"I'm going to crash this car if you brought that up to one more time. I will call Ronin and inform him of what you are trying to pull here. The guy is scary and I still don't know how you too co-exist and I bet he wouldn't like to be followed by his girlfriend."
I hit him hard on his chest. He almost totalled the car into a pole but got on track soon.
"Once a jerk, always a jerk."
"Shut up. Where the hell is this guy going?"
"I might have an idea"
"You need to trust your man, woman. Don't become a clingy girlfriend who is always stalking their partners.
Ben is never serious and hearing him talk like that made me consider his words. It's not like I don't trust him. It's just that I'm a curious cat.
"Stop right here. Okay, thanks for the ride."
"Whoa, what is this place? Looks like a palace."
He stuck his head out of the window but I shoved it back inside.
"Go now."
I am a small girl but it might difficult to sneak inside with so much security. I looked around for a small stone and found one. I threw it at the car across from me and it hit the car with a bang and it started making sounds. The distraction was enough to get the guards alerted and they opened the doors to check it out. I slipped in and hid behind the bush. I smiled so wide not really believing I entered the mafia house without getting caught.
"uh-hmm"
"Oh shit."
The next thing I know a large burly man is carrying me with one arm to a room. He put one hand on my mouth preventing me from shouting. As I was about to bit him, he locked me inside it. There was a man sitting on a king size bed resembling Ronin.
"Mr. Ronin?"
I asked him nervously and in response, I received a low chuckle. The room was huge and there was a mirror separating it from the living room where I could see Ronin. I ran over and banged on it but he didn't even look my way.
"Are you Chey? The girl who has my boy wrapped around her fingers?"
He offered me a small teasing smile and I couldn't believe that this lively man is Ronin's father.
"I don't know about that. You don't look kidnapped to me? I mean sure you are locked in this amazing room but you don't look so bad."
"Ah, if you are captured and put in a golden cage ..it doesn't mean you are not in a cage anymore."
He talked so wisely and with an accent that is missing in Ronin. I wonder where he gets it from.
Then I saw her, the ice queen was wrapped in a white fur coat from head to toe. She walked over to Ronin and my jaw dropped after noticing her full outfit. The woman was in a silver-glittery leotard, with her hair gelled back behind her back, not a hair out of place, sporting a burn to hell red lipstick and her long toned legs seemed never-ending in those silver spiked boots ending a little above her ankles supported by an at least 6-inch heels.
If this is what you look like after becoming mafia, count me the fucking-in. The woman can put any Victoria Secret model to shame. I'm might turn gay for her and have my luck with her. I've read stories where the girlfriend falls in love with her boyfriend's parents.
"You are drooling."
I look at the man who has the honour to be married to this woman and I, for the love of God cannot believe why he would ever run away from her.
"How can you not? She is like your own Beyonce. What is wrong with you?"
"I see. You are blown away by her beauty too. I was fooled once too till I found a man dead in my kitchen and his blood on her hands and my six-year-old son standing there frozen. You can imagine her "beauty" was no longer appealing to me. All I saw was a monster who killed a man in front of our child."
"Oh my god. Poor Ronin. Why are you still married to her?"
"She is powerful and according to her, no one leaves her at dust. Some part of my heart still beats for her but my mind can never be at peace around her. Sometimes you have to go with your mind and not your heart."
"Ronin is not like her."
"I know. I raised him to be a man who could easily take down his mother and her people but has a heart gentle enough to love too."
I smiled at the man letting him know how much I appreciate it. The door opened and a man very very familiar to me is thrown inside.
"Ben, what the actual hell?"
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