His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies

Chapter 293

Elena

“Here you go, dad!” I placed a cup of coffee on his desk. “Watch out. It’s hot.”

My dad turned on his lamp and closed his laptop to face me. He was still crazy, but he looked a lot better than he did two weeks ago. “You’re in a good mood.” He smiled. “Why are you all dressed up? Aren’t you going to bed?”

I spun around to show him my outfit and made a pose. “I’m going out with Rona, don’t wait up for me.”

He shrugged and took a sip from his coffee. “You deserve to have fun.” He spoke. It took a lot to gain back his trust, but I had somehow managed to do it. The poor man thought I had cut off all contact with Marvin, and I did not feel bad for lying to him.

I wasn’t the issue, and I didn’t do anything wrong, dad and Alex did.

“You know, Victoria misses you.” My dad mentioned her name. Since the wedding, the two of us had barely talked, and it was not that difficult to guess why. We clearly had different views on Marvin, and I didn’t need her to tell me how messed up I was for being by his side.

I shot my dad a reassuring smile. “Victoria and I are fine. We’ve just been so busy with work.” I told him. There was some truth to it because, as far as I was concerned, Victoria and her dad were too busy defending the Hernandez.

“Anyway, I have to go-and don’t stay up too late!”

Not long after, I had arrived at the cocktail bar by uber. It had been a few days since I last saw Marvin, but I was just as nervous as when I met him.

“Why are you all dressed up? Marvin has already seen you in your hideous state.” Rona commented the moment she had laid her eyes on me. It was her strange way of saying I looked good, and I appreciated it.

“You’re not even working any shifts tonight. I can’t believe you came all the way here for Marvin.” She rolled her eyes. She could play all she wanted, but she was the one who had forced me to invite him in the first place.

“Are you going to stop now?” I raised my brow. Rona shrugged. “I guess.” She smiled. “As you can see, the place is fully packed as usual.”

Rona and I burst out laughing at our usual joke. The only time this place was packed was on the weekends “Did you send everyone home?” I asked Rona, noticing the bar was empty.

“Yes, I just needed someone to keep me company-and now I have you.” She spoke. “Anyway, when will they be here?”

“I actually don’t know.” I took out my phone and scrolled through my conversation with Marvin. “We didn’t really agree on a time, so-”

“Elena!”

I flinched at the sound of Panther’s voice, who walked up to me with open arms. I looked behind him to search for Marvin, but I could barely see him as Panther lifted me from the floor to pull me in a hug. “If you can put me down and let me breathe!”

he put me back on my two feet. He scanned his eyes up and down to look

know I

chuckled. “And

really funny.” I rolled my eyes.

say

laugh and pushed Panther aside so I could look at Marvin. He showed me his two perfect dimples and tilted his head to look at me. “I think you look

into his arms and

in his car.God, he must think I’m annoying.

that I was overdoing it again.

second. Was he

why aren’t you in your wheelchair?” I pulled myself away from the hug and looked behind him. “Don’t tell me

aside. “He did, but don’t worry about it.” He spoke. “Marvin does what Marvin wants, so you’ll only

“What?”

Panther slammed his arm around my shoulder. “So why did you invite us all the

at Marvin, who by the looks of it, seemed to be wondering the same thing. I thought I had made it obvious that

seen Marvin in a few days…so I thought…

off to spend time with you.” Rona spoke for the first time. Marvin’s eyes widened as he stared at me in

his reaction. Marvin smirked proudly. “You didn’t have to do

Elena.”

empty, so each day is like

“You know, other than following behind Marvin’s ass all day, you probably

a response, while Marvin patted his friend’s back. “That’s right, get him, Rona. Don’t let him disrespect you like that.” He praised her. It was so easy for her to get his attention. while I almost felt as if he didn’t notice me at times. Was it because my personality was

wasn’t mature

sit, and I’ll tell you all about why this place is so

her fourth glass. She had dragged all of us to a booth and told us her entire life story. “It’s not because of me. It’s because

know, I know.” Panther rolled his eyes, comforting her. It seemed like I wasn’t the only one bored to death.

trying to come up with a solution. “Don’t you have a distributor?” Marvin asked. Rona nodded her head. “I do, but it’s so expensive. Everything in life is just so

Someone kill me.

“I think you might need to distinguish your bar from the competition—”

take any more of this business talk, and poor Elena is almost falling asleep.”

heads turned to me while I looked down at my knees. I mean, he wasn’t wrong-but

my head to look at him. Yes, he was tiring me, and I couldn’t remember the

made some good points. Doesn’t your family

Shit.