Matteo

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 8.

Ring...Ring...Ring...

Matteo groaned in his sleep as he rolled over closer to the side table. He grabbed his mobile phone and glanced down at the glowing screen, unknown number. He rejected the call and rolled back to sleep.

Five seconds later, his mobile phone started ringing again...

Ring...Ring...Ring...

Someone was going to die today, he thought as he grabbed the mobile phone again seeing an unknown number was calling again, he rejected it. He was in no mood to talk to anyone. He just wanted to rest his eyes before his alarm went off.

Last night has been one of those night where Matteo couldn't sleep, not because of his migraine. But because of one red-head beauty that kept flashing in front of his eyes every time he closed them.

Five seconds later, his phone pinged with an incoming text message. Groaning loudly he grabbed the mobile phone and read the text. Who on earth wanted to talk to him so badly.

Unknown number - Answer your useless phone, lover boy.

He rolled his eyes as he read the message and within two seconds his mobile phone started ringing again in his hand.

Ring..he answered the call right after the first ring.

"Yes," He spoke rashly as he threw back the covers and rolled out of the bed. He wasn't getting any sleep today. He rubbed his hand over his face and glanced down at the bedside clock.

It was 3:10 am and he had just fallen asleep, minutes before Aria's call. Also, he had no idea why she was calling him in this awful time of the day.

"It's me, Aria" Like there was another Aria that would be calling him at this time.

"Yes, I know."

"Oh really then why didn't you answer you phone. You know it was solely invented for that purpose lover boy."There she was again, instantly throwing him off his game, causing his anger to subside and a flutter to run wild through his chest.

The entire ride back home from his parents place, Matteo kept thinking about her. He had no idea why he was so intrigued by her and irritated by her at the same time. You know exactly why.. his inner voice said.

"Were you sleeping??" She earnestly asked sounding surprise.

"Normal people sleep at this time of the day, princess."

"Oh yeah, normal people also don't get married to someone they just met over dinner." She replied ignoring his princess remark and getting right back at him.

People have called Aria with all different types of names, the shy girl, the quiet princess, the icy princess and the mafia princess. All because she didn't have any friends or she barely spoke to anyone. But some thing in Matteo made her comfortable to talk casually. To show him her anger.

He exhaled loudly as he pulled his fridge door open and grabbed a bottle of ice cold water "What do you want princess?"

"Glad you asked, I want you to reject the marriage proposal. Okay?"

He downs the entire bottle of water before answering her "And why I should do that?"Now full awake and really curious why she was so adamant about not marrying him.

"Okay lover boy needs a list, well good for you cause I got one."

For some reason it made him smile, realizing she had spend the entire night thinking about him just like he had done. Although her reasons were totally different from his, but still she did stayed up.

"A- I don't know who on earth are you. B- You don't even know me. C- You have no idea what I like or dislike. D- I don't even like you let alone love you to marry you." She ended her oh so long list with a triumphant voice.

"And you took the entire night to come up with this four points?" He acted soundings bored, but he was anything but bored.

"Well it sounded a lot in my head," She mumbled under her breath and his lips curved upwards in a smile, unconsciously. But quickly he stoned his features even though no one was watching him.

He knew she was a distraction that he can't afford. He was a killer, an underboss and soon to be a boss. And having a weakness in this line of work meant only trouble. He needed to focus, this one just like one of his other deals. An investment to step up and expand his empire, nothing more.

"Oh there is another one," She added sounding proud that she got one more point on her list. Lucaa waited patiently for her reply. "I DON'T WANT TO." She yelled causing him to pull back the phone.

After a second, when he was sure that she was done yelling. He carefully placed the phone back over his ear. But he couldn't hear anything, except loud inhale and exhale sound. Like some one was doing breathing exercise.

"Princess," He asked carefully, not wanting to poke the bear.

"WHAT!?" She screamed.