chapter 70: day one

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I knock on her door and it takes a moment but Cora opens up dressed for the day. "Are you ready?" she nods, walking out and shutting the bedroom door behind her.

"niki?" Hazel walks out of her room. "this is hazel" she walks by my side as hazel's smile "hey, good to see another woman in this hallway" she leans on the wall just under the hallway light.

i grab hazel's hand and cora walks on my right "are you guys um- together" we both laugh "no we're not,i like girls too though" hazel smile and cora nods "dominico doesn't care?" I shake my head "Antonio and Dante are together too, my father isn't like most mafia bosses" we walk down the steps and make it to the dining room.

"where do i sit?" i hum "wherever you would like'' she nods as hazel and i take our seats leaving her to sit next to hazel. The food is already set as we start eating.

"okay cora this is the rivera family" she nods "feel free to introduce yourselves" i take a bite out of my toast "i'm alice, stefanos girlfriend" she smiles and stefano nods his head "stefano"

i glare at him "if your going to try and be all cold faced and hard now your going to have to keep it up stefano" i take a sip of water and stefano breaks character laughing.

"I'm sorry, I'm Stefano, the best Rivera sibling." coras brows raise "I'd have to disagree" his head tilts "what?" she hums "niki has better humor and skills than you do" vinchenzo snorts.

"anyway, vinchenzo." he points to himself "you can call me that or vin or v i don't really care" cora nods "i'm aunt v, that's what you call me" she smiles

"i'm antonio, this is my boyfriend dante" his hands slide across dante's back as he smiles "luciano" he takes a tougher bite of food trying not to wince "you're not related to anyone are you?" her head tilts.

"i'm not, what makes you say that?" she hums "well you have brown eyes but they aren't as dark as dominicos like stefano or antonio, your hair is lighter than roses and your bone structure does not match roses or anyone" i laugh a bit.

"okay anyways, i'm blade" our heads turn towards the end of the table to maria daniel and blade. "God given?" her head tilts and he shakes his head "unfortunately no" she nods "his real name is brandon, if he pisses you off just call him that" hazel whispers in her ear and cora nods.

"I'm Maria and this is daniel '' Daniel Sanchez takes the coffee pot and pours himself another cup "it's a pleasure to meet you cora" she nods smiling softly.

"Are you all always here?" domino shakes his head "no unfortunately not" he smiles "it's usually just us plus luciano"

"oh okay" her fork pushes around her plate for a moment before she picks up her glass of water and shakes it around lightly. Hazel looks at me and I immediately know what she's doing.

"Eat up, you've had a long day." Rose places the food in front of me with a glass of water. "So what did we learn from training?" I use my left hand to eat because my right has two broken fingers.

"don't assume" i take a bite out of my food making my mouth water "when is training going to stop, mom i'm really good i'm able to go on missions" i take a few more bites before i pick up my glasses of water taking a large chug.

"You're really good, not amazing. you must be impossible to stop if you ever want to get anywhere" i nod looking down into my food. my body gets tingly and my brows furrow let "mom'' my stomach and head feel numb "i don't feel so good"

and then i woke up in the warehouse getting questioned about what i did wrong during my meal. She taught me to look at everything I ate for poison or sedatives. It took a long time but it eventually started to work. It's a hard habit to break now.

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