The Seven Deadly Brothers

Chapter 22

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Elora's POV:

Everyone is silently staring at me. What do I say? "Uh, what happened to Valerius." That seems to be my biggest concern at the moment.

"He...fell asleep. Yeah, he fell asleep." Matteo tries to convince me. Excuse me bitch, I'm not stupid. There's no way he 'fell asleep' on the middle of the floor.

"Fuck." Enzo seems to snap out of whatever trance he's in. "Elora go upstairs right now. We'll be there in a minute." He tells me.

"No. I'm not leaving until you tell me what happened." Maybe it was something with the Mafia?

"Elora. I'm not going to ask again." I murmur a small 'fine' and turn around. I go back up to my bed and wait in the kitchen while eating waffles. Wow, these waffles are actually pretty good. Ugh, not the time Elora.

I can't get the image from downstairs out of my mind. What even happened? My thoughts are interrupted when I hear the elevator door open and I watch as my brothers step into the penthouse.

I debated going back into my room and never coming out but I was stuck in my seat. I couldn't even pull my eyes off my waffles.

"Elora." Dom starts. "You shouldn't have what you did today, you know that right?"

"What happened." I cut him off.

"That doesn't concern you." Ric joins the conversation.

"Yes it does." They're my family. Why wouldn't it concern me?

"Don't fight us on this, Elora." His tone is deadly, sounding a lot like Enzo.

"No! I'm tired of you guys fucking lying to me." I don't care what it takes, I'm getting them to tell me everything right now.

"Watch your language, Elora." This time Enzo says to me.

"Is this about the Mafia?" I blurt out. Shit, I didn't mean to say that. Everyone went quiet. The silence was suffocating, I couldn't take it anymore. I got up to walk back to my room when I felt a hand grab my arm and pull me back to my brothers.

"Say that again." I looked up to see that Ric had just pulled me over. His right hand was holding onto my face, making sure that I'd look at him. At this moment I realized how scared of my brothers I actually was. Sure I tried not to piss them off, but I had never been truly terrified of them.

"Is this about the Mafia?" My voice is quieter than a whisper. I see my brothers all share a long look, like they're trying to decide what to say.

"Would you like to explain to me how the fuck you know about that?" His focus is completely on me, as well as everyone else's in the room.

"Um, no." Wow, nice going Elora.

"Listen Elora, this is very important. Who told who?" He asks me.

"So it's true?" Fuck, it really is. My brothers are actually in the Mafia.

"That's not important right n-" He starts but I cut him off.

"Not important? I think that it's pretty important. I would like to know if my brothers are in the fucking Mafia." They can not be serious right now.

"Look Elora, we'll explain later. But first you need to tell." Yeah, right. They'll probably get me to tell them that Alex and Rus told me about the Mafia and then they'll kill them and never tell me anything.

"No. I want you to explain now." I demand.

"You're not the one in charge here, Elora." Val pipes into the conversation.

"Really? Because that time I checked I know something that you don't." Damn, I would make a great mafia boss. 

"Come on." Ric says with a sigh. He leads me to my bedroom and the rest of my brothers follow behind. He sits me down on my bed and the rest of my brothers all take a seat on my bed too.

"You can ask three questions, Elora." Shit, I need time to prepare.

"Um okay. So, how long have you been in the.. Mafia." I couldn't even believe I was asking this question to anyone.

"Well our father was the Capo, which means the leader. We were born into the Mafia because of it and when our father died, I became the Capo. I was 22 when I took the position." Enzo explains to me.

"Oh, does that mean that I'm technically in the Mafia too?" Oh my gosh, I should join the mafia and become a mafia boss. And then I can order everyone around like Enzo does.

"Yes Elora, you are a part of the family of the mafia. Your name gives you lots of power which you need to use wisely. In some situations it will be your greatest strength but in some your biggest weakness." That being said, you will not be involved with our mafia affairs. They're dangerous and no place for you." Damn, they really think I'm gonna stay out of this. 

"Okay, last question. Have you, um. Have you ever, you know?" Shit, how do I say this.

"Full sentences Elora, or we won't answer them." Enzo reminds me.

"Right, well. Have you ever killed someone." Shit, I shouldn't have asked that. 

"Yes." They all say at the same time.

"What the fuck?" Great, I'm living with murderers.

"Watch your language." Val warns me.

"Are you actually serious right now?" This bitch is really worried that I cursed and not that he's killed someone.

"Look Elora, we don't kill innocent people. The people we kill have committed serious crimes or are big threats to our family." Ric says to stop Val from saying anything else.

"Well that makes me feel so much better." I say in a sarcastic voice.

"Well you asked your three questions, now you have to answer ours." Ric tells me. Damn it, I thought they would have forgotten about that.

"Okay fine, but you're not going to kill anyone right?" Should I lie about it, or just tell them?

"We'll have to see." Enzo shrugs.

"WHAT!" I yell.

"We're just kidding Elora." Dom tells me as they all laugh. I just mentally roll my eyes at them.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Did I really know that?

"Fine, we promise not to kill whoever told you." He assures me.

I take a deep breath before saying, "Alex and Russell told me."

"How did they know?" All of my brothers ask me. Um, aren't they supposed to be the ones that know?

 "TheysawValatastreetfightandfoundoutthatyouguyswereinthemafia." I say as quickly as possible. My brothers just give me a look and I sigh before slowing it down. "They saw Val at a street fight and found out that you guys were in the mafia."

"Your friends so street fighting?"

"I knew I saw them somewhere."

"Isn't that dangerous."

I just listen to them while shaking my head. This is going to be a long night.

A/N: And is chapter 22!

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