The M in Mafia

Chapter 27

Not too long after leaving my bed, I felt a pair of strong arms engulfing me in a hug. I relaxed at his touch and let out a satisfied sigh, flipping the last pancake and putting everything on the kitchen counter.

"So, how about we talk about the more serious part of your presence here." I told him, as I was pouring syrup on my pancakes. He stiffened a second and then looked at me, nodding slowly.

"We found out that Xavier, the guy who killed my father was coming here, with another man that we have no idea of who he is. We couldn't find anything about him being in a gang, a mafia or even in illegal business. So we figured we'd come here, and oddly enough that's when we found you." he said looking at me intently, and I just nodded my head in understanding.

"Now my question is, does he know that you are here? Are you his main target or is this all a big coincidence?" he asked, and by the sound of his voice I knew that it couldn't be the latter, in his world, nothing was made by coincidence.

"I cannot even begin to tell you how I feel that I found you. That you are doing alright. From now on I want to be with you all the time, wether it'd be in California or here in Hawaii. I never want you to leave my side again." he said, there definitely was love and care in his words but also a certain finality to what he was saying, he looked up at me, his mouthful of freshly cut pineapple.

"You know, that even if I am glad and happy to be with you again, we won't be able to be attached by the hip all the time." I tell him, raising an eyebrow and he just stopped eating, whipping his mouth painfully slow with his napkin. His eyes never leaving mine, a shiver ran down my spine, but now wasn't the time to get all hot and bothered.

"What do you mean?" he asked, as if trying to remain as calm as possible, he was freakishly frightening but at the same time, I had grown in the time we had been apart and I was't going to back down easily. I was going to tell him what I thought and prove my point.

"I mean, that tomorrow I have a class to teach, and that I cannot throw everything away now that you reappeared in my life." I said and he kept on looking at me,

"A class to teach?" he asked, raising an eyebrow and looking at me as if he was confused, and I damn well knew he was.

"Well, I have a small surf school for kids. When I first arrived here I found that I actually was pretty good at surfing and liked it a lot, and since I love children I opened a school only for kids." I said, took a piece of his pineapple and took a bite of it.

"I guess, I could let you keep doing that." he said to me, and I saw red,

"You guess, you could let me keep doing that?" I asked, raising my tone, a very hard glare on my face, looking at him, and that's when I saw his smirk and he started to laugh, a full on belly laugh. I honestly was lost, and I think the confusion on my face had to be hilarious since he kept on laughing even harder.

"I really like the new you." he said once he had calmed down.

"The new me?" I asked raising an eyebrow, he nodded, got up and walked around the kitchen island to come in front of me. He put his big warm hands on my waist and gently held me closer, our face close to each other, I could feel his breath on my face.

"Don't get me wrong, you're still the same, it's just... you look and seem tougher and I really like that. You're still my precious doll but at the same time you've become so strong." he said, as he brushed his hand slowly against my cheek and put a strand of hair behind my ear.

"Uhh, look at those muscles." he said pressing my biceps, making me laugh, I was so ticklish and he kept on squishing my biceps, and my laughter soon made him laugh.

"I love you so much." he said, softly, after we had calmed down a bit.

"How about we go and see Matteo today and you guys can keep me up to date,  on who is the other guy with Xavier and what do you plan on doing?" I asked him and he seemed taken aback but nodded.

"I will keep you safe this time and I will not let you go." he tells me, his voice solemn as if he was taking an oath.

"I promise." he said again, and I nodded, falling into his embrace and placing my lips on his softly, he sighed into the kiss, as if it really was the thing he needed at the moment and believe me, I needed it too.

We made our way towards my bedroom and while Enzo was getting dressed with the same clothes as the previous night, I went to my closet and took out a washed out blue jean shorts, a brown top and put on my white and beige nikes. Putting a clip in my hair, I entered my room again, to see Enzo fully clothed on his phone.

"Ready to go?" he asked and then looked up at me, his gaze looking me up and down, and then back to my exposed legs, his eyes darkening.

"Are you going to stare long? A picture would last longer you know?" I said, smugly and he smiled back,

"Uhh feisty, I like it." he said, making me laugh, he smiled, this gorgeous smile of his, his pearly whites showing and kissed me lovingly, I smiled in the kiss. Pulling away and soon we were connected by our foreheads, mine resting against his.

"Let's go shall we, doll?" he asked and I nodded, happy to be with him again.

Knowing that this time it would be different. We were together in this and we would make it out of it together.