Fatal

14| Bebe

Rafael and I arrived back home, I offered for him to stay for awhile. When we walked in, I spotted Marco going into his office so I grabbed Raf's hand and pulled him with me.

"Marc?" I spoke up, making Marco instantly look at me with soft eyes.

"Briella, Rafael, come on in" Marco smiled. We both took seats facing Marco, Rafael held my thigh as I started speaking.

"Did Rocco tell you?" I asked Marc.

"Yep, that's completely fine Briella, I'll take over for a few days" Marco reassured.

"No, I don't want that anymore."

Both Marco and Rafael seemed surprised, I'm not letting Scar make me feel this way anymore. I am not letting him get in the way of my success.

"I'm not letting him trail me down, I'll be there tomorrow" I told Marco and I swear to god, I've never seen him more proud in my life.

"You're definitely a De Luca" Marc smirked.

"I um..." I stuttered. "I kind of told Rafael about what Jason did to me..."

I felt the need to tell Marco, for some odd reason, he makes me feel like I can talk to him anytime. And I know for a fact that Rafael doesn't see my past as a weakness, he see's it as strength.

"That's completely fine," Marco said before turning to Rafael. "But I swear to god, if you use that against her, I will torture you to death."

Welp.

"Got it" Raf smiled, completely unfazed. Marco then told us to leave his office since hE'S gOT BiG bOY WOrK!

So I decided to let Rafael meet Ciro! I went to Ciro's playroom, finding a distressed Hala.

"Hiiii!" I waved to her.

"Hey...you must be Rafael?" She smirked to him.

"Yep, we've met before silly" Raf chucked.

"Oh yeah! Sorry about that....baby brain and all" Hala mumbled, I looked down to see Ciro distracted by his toys. He was playing with a Shrek teddy and a fire truck....

I could see that Hala was exhausted so I offered to babysit for her, she happily accepted and went straight to bed, leaving Rafael, Ciro and I together.

"He's adorable!" Rafael smiled, catching Ciro's attention.

"Man!" Ciro shouted, pointing at Raf.

"That's Rafael, Ciro" I explained to him, Ciro gave me the biggest smile. I don't think he realized that I was also here.

"Bebeeee!" Ciro ran to me with open arms. Yes, he calls me bebe cause she can't say Brie. I held Ciro in my arms, catching a glimpse of the sparkle in Rafael's eye. Something I had never seen before...

"You're good with kids" he spoke up, a smile rested on his lips.

"Only this kid...oh and Luna! Nicole Lucido's daughter" I replied, letting Ciro go and play again.

Beckham then walked in with a toothbrush in his hand. "The only stick I could find was this" he said, handing the toothbrush to Ciro.

"Thanks dada."

Beckham then looked over to us, nearly jumping out of his skin.

"JESUS! TELL ME WHEN YOU'RE HERE THE NEXT TIME!" He placed his hand on his heart. Raf and I chuckled at his antics, Beck them took a seat beside us.

"Why'd you give him a toothbrush?" Rafael asked Beck.

"Oh, he wanted ladders for his fire truck!" Ham smiled brightly.

"Then why does he have it up his nose?"

Beckham slowly turned around to Ciro, seeing him shoving the toothbrush up his nose...

"HEY NO! I HAVE TO GET A NEW TOOTHBRUSH NOW!"

God...

I have a crazy brother...

After I consoled Briella, I went over to Nicole's, I need some helpful advice right now...

I walked in to see Luna watching Nicole's phone while she was cooking.

"Hey babe" I smiled to her, making her slightly blush.

"Oh hi!" She replied.

"Soooo," I began. "I need your help."

Nicole rolled her eyes before putting the utensils down. "What the hell did you do now?"

Um what?

I never do anything bad.....

Okay, that's a lie.

"Scar made Briella cry today, like really bad. I found her crunched up in a ball on the floor, please convince me not to kill Scar Zaid."

Nicole sat down beside me, she held my hand and looked deeply in my eyes.

"I mean this in the nicest way possible, Scar deserves to fall down the stairs and break his neck" Nicole calmly stated, kind of freaking me out.

"Damn, you're scary" I told her, making her giggle, god I love that cute little giggle.

"No but seriously," Nicole became more serious. "He's not a good guy. She didn't even break up with him and he goes and sleeps with another woman? Then proposes to her?! No thank you satan, not today."

"He's really hurt her, Nicole. She hides it but then breaks down and I don't want her to go through that again" I told her. I hate seeing my sister being so upset over a man, Brie's been through enough and Scar knows that! So why does he keep hurting her?

"If you killed him, Brie would be pissed off. I was speaking to her the other day and she has no feelings towards him but she wants to prove him wrong. She told me a few stories about their relationship and I must say, it was toxic as fuck" Nicole explained.

"Toxic how?"

"Well, she said the first few months were delightful, he was lovely to her. Then he became a bit rude and selfish, he was starting arguments over stupid petty shit and I'm glad she got out of there....because if she didn't, she'd probably end up dead."