His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies

Chapter 266

Elena

“Will this be all?” The male behind the counter asked. He frowned at the saw, ax, and planks of woods before his eyes landed back onto me.

“That’s all…for now.” I smiled with trembling lips. I knew I looked suspicious and that it didn’t look good, but what else could you expect me to do?

Tomorrow would finally be the day that I would meet Marvin, and I had to be prepared. Yes, I was silly enough to be in love with him, but I wasn’t foolish. I had to be ready in case our meeting went wrong.

The altercation at the club gave me the wake-up call I needed. What if Marvin was nothing like the emails? What if he was a stuck-up prick who hadn’t changed a bit?

I paid for the materials and smiled at the guy. “Thank you, have a nice day!” I told him before I rushed out and made my way over to my car. I was so nervous and excited at the same time. Marvin could possibly end up being the man of my dreams or the worst nightmare of my life. I had yet to find out.

Luckily enough, I had all the time to worry about tomorrow because I was done with the cocktail menu. Rona and I had been working on it for the past few days, and everything for the wedding had been taken care of. The wedding was in two days.

I had no idea what to wear, so I met up with Victoria, who was kind enough to ‘fund’ me a dress, as she liked to call it. She was terrified of the idea of me not having anything pretty to wear to the wedding and forced me to meet her at some dress shop.

“There you are. I thought you were going to bail on me.” Victoria held up her hands as I stepped out of the car. “I know, I know-I’m so sorry!”

Victoria would’ve probably made fun of me if I would mention the ax. “It’s hot outside, and you’ve decided to wear a hoodie. Are you okay?” Victoria frowned. “Do you even own color?”

I looked down at my black hoodie with a pout on my face. All of my clothes were black, but I couldn’ it. Each time I went out to buy something with color, I would end up buying something black.

“No worries, it’s a good thing I’m here now.” Victoria slammed her arm around my shoulder. “If it w to you, you would’ve gone to the wedding in your funeral outfit?”

“What?”

“Exactly!” Victoria spoke. She led me inside the shop, where a woman was waiting for us with a tray in her hands. There were two glasses of champagne. “Miss Schmidt.” The woman smiled.

Victoria gave her a nod and grabbed the two glasses of champagne from the tray. “Here you go, Lena.”

mumbled as my eyes scanned the boutique. These dresses probably costed more than a fortune, which could be

I took a sip from the champagne and pulled

second.” The woman smiled at Victoria. She walked off to get the dress while Victoria pulled me to the sofa.

and I decided to go like myself. I didn’t want to lie to Marvin, and I wanted him to accept me as Elena. The plain jane in my denim jeans and black

outfits, please!” She yelled out. It seemed as if Victoria was more prepared

time to do all of this?” I wondered. Victoria released an exhausted breath. “I don’t even

“Crazy how?”

the whole thing is kind of sketchy.” Victoria rolled her eyes. “I don’t even know

Perhaps working at the cocktail bar was the perfect job for me. I couldn’t even imagine myself defending someone

the table and followed Tori’s routine.

room is there, change!” She demanded. Going against

disaster. The dress was so tight that my boobs and ass were begging for freedom. If this was Tori’s idea of a wedding outfit, I had to say

god!” Victoria squealed. “Please spin so that I can take a proper

smacked it without a warning. “Ow!” I yelped out in pain, but Victoria didn’t seem to

I rolled my eyes. I had decided it was enough for now and turned to go back into the fitting room. “And you’re wearing that dress, by the way!” Victoria

first meeting with Marvin. This outfit was a bit more comfortable as it was a pink jumpsuit, but

of the fitting room. I had to say I was not

idea is for him to look at my face. “That’s the idea.” Victoria winked. “But your ideas are boring, and yes-we’ll also

outfit.”

hear your mouth,” Tori warned me. Arguing with Tori was a lost cause, so I wasn’t even going to do it. I twirled my finger around the $2000 price tag and thought about the $3000 dress in

nothing could stop her. I knew the money was like a penny to her, but it didn’t change the fact that it made me feel uncomfortable. I didn’t want her to think that I befriended her

it. We all knew that she would go full out for my birthday, as she had always

endless advice of what I should and shouldn’t do, I was finally back home. It was no surprise, of course, to see Alex’s car in the driveway. Other than work, that man had no life, and it was all my father’s fault. I hid the bags

“Dad, Alex!”

kitchen, come quick!”

bag of junk food and ran over to the kitchen, only to see my dad and Alex seated at the kitchen table. By the way he

are up to?” I chuckled at the sight of the papers on the kitchen table. Alex

as he looked through the countless papers. “Yes, how