His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies

Chapter 142

“Mom.” Christian called out. We entered a room, and Cesca was on the phone. “I’ll call you back later. Something funny came up.” Cesca spoke as she glared at me.

It started off great.

“I thought you were going to bring me Siena, but you brought her instead,” Cesca spoke with a fake smile. on her face. It was almost as if she was refusing to say my name.

“I came here because I want to talk to you,” I told her, hoping it would explain things. “Talk?” Cesca laughed. “What do you want to talk about?”

She was not very friendly, and it reminded me of the first time I met her. I was still confused as to what I had ever done to deserve this kind of treatment. “I want to talk about everything. Christian and I made up. so we should probably do the same-”

“This is not a game, Serena” Cesca rolled her eyes while Christian, who had been quiet for a while, had enough. “Mom, stop disrespecting her-please.”

“Do you need a reminder of what happened the last time you refused to talk things out?”

The look on Cesca’s face had slowly changed. How could she not remember that? It was the day Christian fost it and went against his brother for me. “No.” Cesca sighed. “If she wants to…talk things out…I guess we

can do that.”

That’s what I thought,” Christian spoke. I would’ve been lying if I said that Cesca was not a scary woman, but having Christian helped a lot.

“Can I get you something to drink or something to eat?” Cesca offered, but I shook my head in response. “No, that’s not necessary-I just want to talk.”

“Okay.” Cesca smiled and sat down. “Please talk.”

The look she gave me made me nervous, and she had no issue showing me that she was only doing this because of Christian’s threat. “I uh…I’m sorry for everything, but I don’t know what I did wrong

It went quiet for a few seconds before Cesca let out a loud chuckle. “You don’t know what you did wrong?”

matter how much I went through the situation in my head, I still couldn’t

names through the

at Christian and felt regretful for what I was about to say, but it was the harsh truth. “Christian, leave,” I whispered. I still

that I can talk to

head. “If that’s what you want.” Christian sighed as I patiently waited for him to leave the

locked up in a safe house, and if it weren’t for our families being childish, I’d be willing to take him back, so he actually got away with it pretty easy.”

son. He used to be terrible, scum, disgusting-but he has changed a lot, and you know that.” Cesca spoke. “And there’s no reason to defend him, but I will defend the family’s pride. There is this issue with you, Serena. The issue is that

“W-what?” I stuttered.

explained. “Trust me, I know what you’re going through, and I know that you feel betrayed and angry, but if you were planning on leaving him, you should’ve done it in silence.”

“Maybe.” I shrugged.

tips I gave you about all the girls from the other

one to do it. After getting the name ‘neighborhood thug and ruining our families’ bond, I understood where Cesca was coming from, but accepting a disloyal man and letting him get away with everything was not me. Maybe it was time for me to return so I could change things around here. It was time to show everyone that I was

it was time for me to become the head of the Lamberti household.

own death and running away from this twisted family seemed like a good theory to me, but

but ruining the family name and not letting.

chuckled, surprised. I didn’t do anything wrong. I handled the way I should’ve after Christian threatened to

to make sure none of this mess reached Lucio? You could’ve at least

made me angry, but I kept my calm. We wouldn’t let Lucio rest in peace, the poor man lived in a lie, and everyone was too scared to tell him the truth. Everyone was too afraid to tell him that his decision of making Gina, Christian’s assistant, had backfired so badly that we were

if he had done it on purpose, and he regretted that decision, so it was beyond me why we couldn’t tell him every little

see Siena-but his actions and words hurt me a lot.” I smiled as I tried to remain classy. I only felt sorry about not letting him see Siena,

because all I ever wanted was for the two of you to live a happy life,” Cesca spoke. “Does this mean the two of you are getting back together?”

decision. This family was toxic, and a lot had to change, and I would be the one to do it. Even if I didn’t

grandpa. Me being with Christian means we’re almost at

blinked with her eyes, but I was right, and she knew I was right. She

to leave the family business several times, but they were so put on keeping him there because no one else was capable of leading the family the way he did. They were even defending his

her eyes. “I’m sorry for everything, and since you’re obviously here to stay…I hope we

Cesca gave me an offended look. “You enjoy glaring at people, don’t you?” Cesca chuckled. “Those eyes will ruin everything