His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies

Today was the day.

I was going to tell Christian the truth about my pregnancy. Even though I hate to admit it, Marc was absomade no sense to hide or to run away from the situation when he was going to figure it out either way, sthe best if it came from me.

I looked at the leather jacket in my hands and straightened it. It was the same jacket he had given me thebrought me home and I had yet to return it, he didn’t even ask for it.

I know I was over-analyzing things as usual but if he was going to treat the baby like the jacket I did not expectations. To be honest, I didn’t had any expectations at all so I was prepared for the worst. I did not I did not want his money, I just wanted him to know and that’s all. The last thing I planned on doing wasbe a dad when I wasn’t all that ready to become a mom.

I got out of the car and made my way to the front of the club. The back door was something I would notbecause even though the girls weren’t here yet I didn’t want any of the staff to be in my business or to ptogether about why I was here, looking for Christian, while I was supposed to be sick.

I stood on my tippy toes to reach the small doorbell and hoped for it to get answered by someone decebe asking too many questions. “We’re closed.” A voice I had recognized as Gio growled. Out of all peoplbe him.

“It’s me, Serena!” I called out, as I tried my hardest to hide my nerves, but he didn’t make it easy. “Seren

It was cold enough

when did they do stuff according to the

something to tell Christian.” I answered. It was not too late to turn back around. Yes, I couldand use Gio treating me like some intruder as an excuse. “Gio stop bullying the poor girl, it’s cold outsidfor your stupid games.” I

I could enter the bentering through here instead of the back felt different and it had looked the same as it did when I was htime. In front of me was a front desk and on the ground floor, there were different entrances. One for theone for the casino while the one for the club was upstairs, at the top of

at the front desk gave me an uncomfortable smile and probably thought of a reason why I where in the morning while everything was still closed. The poor woman

third time was when I got picked out to serve the menmoment I would never forget, even if I wanted to— the fourth time was when I asked Enzo to place me bfor the night and this would hopefully be the last time, to tell Christian that I was pregnant. Quite some tI planned on telling him about the pregnancy and would dip before he got the opportunity to freak out. would go home

before I reachhad the urge to turn back and was close to panicking but realized I couldn’t. All I had to do was tell him after that,

I can do it,” I whispered to myself and took a deep

there was a camera meaning he could see every little thinI slowly

at the moment. He continuedoing and did not even look up to see me. He usually looked different from his brothers and ditched thebut this time he wore a suit and somehow seemed even more threatening than he had already been. “Yohere?”

chase. Christian chuckled and loomy eyes. “What’s that important that

the same guy who was nice enough to let his friend check up on me,