The Cards You've Hidden, Been Dealt & are on the Table

Chapter Eight-Lilliana

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Here's chapter eight.

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"Well why don't we start with the beginning?" Is Lucas' honestly expected reply. I mean that is typically where a story starts in the beginning. That's how you need something to start so you understand the background and the details so why not at the beginning.

Christian sighs and begins to talk, "alright so Emily was the daughter of the head of the American mafia and was an only child. When she got older she realized that she didn't want to run it and since there were no other heirs and mafias tend to stay in the family unless they're overrun. Her parents decided to have an arranged marriage." He pauses, takes a breath and runs his hand through his hair. "Now dad was the third born child of the heads of the Italian mafia. The oldest being his sister and then brother they both were going to run it together so in an attempt for a stronger alliance and the chance for father to run his own mafia they decided to arrange a marriage."

From here Diego picks up seeming to want to be a part of story time. Or maybe he just wants to give Christian a break from what's bound to be a long story. "Dad was a year older than Emily and a couple months after she turned eighteen dad moved to America bringing his two best friends with him to help run things. Now dad was for the arranged marriage he decided he would make the best of it and try to find love in the marriage and be a good husband and have a good life. Emily on the other hand wasn't in favor but just did it because she had to. If she wanted to run the mafia then she wouldn't have had to get married but since she didn't want to they needed to switch power over through the next generation and marriage was the only way. Due to the nature of the business she had to marry someone who would know what to do and was familiar with this world so that someone was dad."

Vincent speaks up next, "So a couple months after mom turned eighteen like Chris said they came to America and then about a month after they met got married. The two friends dad brought with him became his second and third and about a year after they got married they got pregnant with Chris. Dad had fallen in love with Emily and he believed that she did as well. He loved her like any man loves his wife and he truly did. Obviously as the years progressed they had us having more kids and dad continued to run the mafia."

Seems this story slash history lesson is a tag team event because folks Christian is on the floor again. "Everything was going great or so we all thought. Emily was a decent enough mother, maybe not perfect but she loved us. She played the part of a mother well enough. Dad still loved her. He wished she would be more active with us and a better mom but he thought maybe she just couldn't express it the same or something. Emily and dad found out they were pregnant with you two when she was two months along. However around that period before we knew of you too we had a problem with the mafia. One of the guys who was with the mafia already had lost his wife and one year old daughter in an attack. Now this man was high up in the power scheme. He was the head of all of the tech parts and became close to dad. Now dad felt bad for him and so did Emily so she went and spent a lot of time comforting him and trying to help him make it pass or at least easier." Why do I have a feeling I know who this man is?