"Aiden..." I shake my head, eyes fixed anywhere but the gorgeous man next to me.
His hand grips my chin tightly, just enough to make me avert my eyes to his.
"You know you want this as much as I fucking do. I want you to be mine. I want to be the...
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Gulping down the reminder of my water bottle I set it on my lap and look down at the floor, waiting for my younger siblings to join us so Xavier can explain, whatever he has to explain.
The door to his office opens and in comes Zach, Parker, Ashton and Hunter.
"Can you please explain?" I ask in a quiet voice and he nods slowly. I feel Aiden's eyes on me the whole time, but I don't look at him, because once I look I know I won't be able to look away.
"We're in the mafia."
"What?" Zach's head snaps up, clearly shocked with Xavier's confession.
He nods. "We're in the mafia.We were all born into the families and our fathers passed the mafia's over as soon as we turned eighteen. Aiden and I have an alliance together. It puts both of our mafia's on top of the list and makes us two of the five families, basically the bosses of all bosses."
I look down on my lap, processing everything he just said.
"So what do you do?" I almost whisper.
"We buy, sell and make deals." Tristan says. "Oh and we investigate small companies in exchange of protection and money." He adds quickly.
"Buy and sell, what?" Ashton asks.
"Guns, drugs, illegal stuff." Aiden speaks. My head shots up and I look into his green eyes that hold so much guilt and regret, it pains me.
"Oh."
A long moment of silence passes, none of us talking before I decide to speak up.
"And they were here because?" I ask, not taking my eyes off his.
"They wanted an alliance. They were a small mafia, they have created problems in the past." He explains.
"They had it coming." Hunter mumbles.
"But you didn't have to kill them!" I almost shout. How can they be so inconsiderate. The men they killed hours ago could have families and they just killed them like that.
"I'm not expecting you to understand. But we did it to protect you." Xavier explains sternly.
A long moment of silence passes before I speak again.
"Are we in danger?" Stupid question Avery! Of course we're in danger! I shake my head at my stupidity. If we weren't in danger we wouldn't be here right now, the guards that are supposed to guard the house wouldn't come in and take care of the dead bodies, they wouldn't clean all the blood that fell on the floor in our living room.
"No. Not now but if there is any danger we'll have it under control." Aiden explains this time and his voice makes the words leaving his mouth sound reassuring.
"Are you sure?" My voice almost cracks.
"Yes."
"Avery, we won't let anything happen to you guys, you're safe." Xavier promises and I shake my head.
