His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies

The next morning I woke up it took me a second to remember where I was staying.

The huge king-sized bed and spacious room were definitely not what I was used to— but I had to admit,rose and had nothing to complain about.

In case I would end up seeing Christian, I took a long shower and put on some makeup which was sometdone in a while. I definitely did not want to look pretty for him, but I was also not in the mood to look likBesides that, I was going shopping with Olivia. The credit card Christian had given me was enough reasothe part and make good use of it. In the beginning, I was heavily against the idea of using his money, buhad realized he had more than enough so it wouldn’t matter.

When I heard three knocks on the door I freaked out for a second and thought it would’ve been ChristiaEmmanuella opened the door instead.

“Good morning sweetie, I’ve prepared breakfast for you so you can come down whenever you’re ready.”closed the door again. So this is what it felt like to have a mother.

A bright smiled appeared on my face at the thought of me not having to eat any burned eggs or any oththe food I had ever made. I wasted no time and made my way downstairs while I took in the smell of Embreakfast.

“Good morning, you look energetic!” Johnny spoke and was seated at the large dining table. My eyes mewas sitting next to him and I not only wondered what both of them were doing here but also where ChriFor some reason, I was extremely interested in someone who I was trying to stay away from.

“That ring is…it definitely yells Christian.” Johnny chuckled, looking at the big diamond around my finger“Going somewhere?” Emmanuella asked and put a full plate for me on the table. “Yes, shopping,” I told hdig in my food.

“That’s right, for the dinner I suppose? Good choice, aunt Cesca is-“ He warned and chuckled, not finishi“Oh my god, this is so good!” I squealed with a mouth full and continued eating, trying not to think aboEmmanuella laughed and patted me on my head.

“The food ain’t going nowhere.” Johnny joked at my behavior. “Yes, it is, to my stomach,” I replied. The ggiggled.

“I’m sorry, but who are you?” I asked, trying my hardest to not sound rude. Once again a giggle left her stuck out her hand.

“Isobel, Christian’s friend nice to meet you!” She introduced herself. “Christian has more friends?” I askedsuppose to be a serious question but was received with laughter instead.

“What’s so funny?” I heard a voice ask and looked to the side as Christian walked in. “Joke is already oveJohnny laughed and nodded his head. “When the cat has returned the mice won’t play.”

gave him a slap against his shoulder. “I don’t think it works like that Johnny, it doesnShe told him. It was so strange to see how cheerful and welcoming they were that it had almost seemed Christian joined us at the table and sat down on the opposite side of me, doing whatever he was trying tHis eyes immediately went to my finger to look at whether I was

like you better without that circus act on your face…but you still look great.” He gave me a backhandedreferring to my makeup and I didn’t know whether to

way one looked at a friend and I did not know what was going on between thdid know was that her being that nice to me while I was carrying his baby and she

wouldn’t but I figured I’d come and look at the big talk of town myself before you leave for work.” Shesmirked at

Christian offered, but surprisingly enough Isobehead. “I wanna do whatever she is doing.”

suspicious look on his face and chuckled before he took a sip of his coffee while Christian phis ego got hurt at being rejected. “So what were we doing, shopping?”

smile. I had no idea what hethis fake mask she was wearing, but I only had to deal with her for a

seemed like he

at six.” He mumbled and

and also stood up from

to do whatever I was doing, and even took it as ffull-blown conversation with Vernon, my driver. Once again I got confronted with my lack of social skills

so she wouldn’t see any unwanted surprises.

pulled into a

was probably waiting for her to introduce herself, but Isobel took matthands and stepped forward. “Nice to meet you, I’m Isobel and did you guys work together

before,” Olivia called

card and bought much more than I had prwithin a half year. It only took me

kept her comments to herself. After we wehad some time left before Vernon was here to pick me up so went to a nearby cafe. It wasn’t long until Oto the bathroom and Isobel took

to get up to go to wknow,” I told her, implying we lived the same life at the moment. She did seem like the typical spoiled ric“Listen, let’s not beat

So he told her?

to have told her about his plans must’ve meant that they were indeed very close, but

our plans you must also know that after the baby geso do what you gotta