Angel

Angel LXV

         ANGEL

The house is full once we enter it, his men are all here, the huge dinning room that is only used for occasions like this, filled with buff, tall men, food along the long table with plates and crystal cups above.

River is going back and forth from the kitchen, bringing food and drinks, and I spot Laura at a corner with Richard, Gianna on the armchair playing with her toys.

"Boss. Happy birthday." A deep voice snaps my attention to Lukas again, his hand resting on my lower back.

Even with heels the fucker is taller, I reach only his jaw.

"Thanks, Rafa." Lukas nods, patting his back in return. His men one by one come to congratulate him, and half way, I get bored so I walk to Laura.

After all, the mother has to be congratulated too. She was the one putting Gianna to the world.

"Hi." She smiles warmly at me, Richard nods in acknowledgement. "Red."

It's funny that the pet name sticked.

"Richard." I nod once, failing in hiding my amusement. He chuckles, patting my shoulder, and I look at Laura. "Hi. Congrats."

"Thank you." She grins. "Where's my brother?"

I nod my chin to the corner of the table where he is, surrounded by his men, chatting and laughing filling the area.

She questions Richard if he can look out for Gianna, he nods encouraging her to go to Lukas , his hand briefly touching her lower back.

Hm.

I look down at Gianna, who's out of the world surrounding her, bitting on her toy, shaking her arm.

Richard chuckles beside me. "You're looking at her like it's going to eat you."

Well... babies are unexpected.

"She's bitting that strongly. I wouldn't be surprised." I frown.

"You don't like babies?"

"It's not that. They just... scare the shit out of me."

Richard chuckles, but I'm not even sure I'm joking. People say labor hurts like a bitch, sometimes I'm glad I won't ever go through that proccess.

Are you?

Ignoring my own mind, I grab a glass of champagne from the table, Lukas lost between the crowd of men around him.

It's good that his men and him have this type of relation and not exactly just following his orders and shit.

He tries to be there for them, and be a good leader.

"Lukas seems like a good boss." I comment, sipping champaign, and look up at Richard who nods.

"He is. A lot changed since he took the position of capo."

"I'm assuming that with his father shit was a lot worse?"

I don't know what the man did to Lukas and Laura, besides killing their mom. And I know Lukas hates the man, even if he's buried six feet under.

"A lot really. We had to follow his commands, and when shit went wrong he used to beat some of us to pulp. Actually came to the point of killing his own men."

Gosh... Mafia is dangerous as it is, being terrified of your bosses temper must make it even harder.

"You worked for him?" I ask. He seems young, maybe Laura's age which isn't even thirty. And I know Lukas took over at his nineteen.