The Long Lost Mafia Princess

Chapter 12

I woke up wrapped in Allesandro's arms. I smiled remembering his words from yesterday. I'm kind of disappointed in myself to be honest, how I got the nightmare, and it slipping my mind and telling him how someone had never said those words to me.

I look up seeing him already looking down at me.

"Good morning piccola" he said in a groggy voice.

"Good morning" I replied back.

"How did you sleep baby?" He asked

"Good and you"

"Also very good "

"Let's get up, so we can go downstairs and eat, okay" I hummed in reply.

Before leaving the room, I turned around to face him and say "Sandro, thanks for being there for me, and can you please not tell the others. I don't want things to get weird please." His face lit up hearing the nickname, that accidentally slipped out.

He nodded while speaking "first of all, you don't have to thank me or be sorry. Second, I won't tell the others, if you promise me that if you get a panic attack, or feel anxious you come to me okay." "Okay, I promise."

I walked out of the room, then walk to mine at the end of the hallway. I close the door behind me and slid down the wall. What did I do, I need to be more careful, I can live with the fact that Allesandro knows about my panic attacks and anxiety. As long that he or anyone don't find out about the abuse, I'm okay with it. They'll just see me as some weak girl and send me away or back, who knows maybe they'll treat me the same way.

It can be a good thing that Allesandro knows about my anxiety and panic attacks. Maybe he can help, I promised it to him and I don't break those.

Snapping out of my thoughts, I walk to my closet. I grab my jeans, the other T-shirt and a black hoodie. I step into the bathroom and turn on the shower.
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Dressing myself I look away from the mirror, I don't want to see how disgusting I look. When I have my clothes on, I do turn around to do my hair. After brushing my teeth and combing my hair, I cover the bruises on my neck. Making sure you can't see another bruise I start walking downstairs. I need to open myself up, I've always wanted to have a family, and now I finally have one.

I also need to find some supplies to clean my wounds, I think the cuts are infected. That reminds me, I need to find some pain killers too. The ones I had at home are empty now, and the pain is killing me. Every move I make hurts, either on my ribs, the infected cuts, the bruises itself, or the wip slashes and my shoulder it's standing in a weird position. Let's just say, I really need some pain killers. My wounds aren't so bad, I have had much worse before. I'm lucky that I don't have anything broken, I think. I'm not sure but maybe my ribs, they look even worse than yesterday. Nothing looks like it's going to be healing very soon.

Being lost in thought, I didn't realise that I had already made it downstairs. I don't really know where to go, so I just walk towards where all the noice comes from.

Walking in the dining room, I see everyone sitting there. I awkwardly stand there not knowing if I should come in or not. Allesandro noticed me and made a hand gesture to come to him, so I walk up to him.

"Hey piccola, are you okay now?"

"Yes, I'm good Sandro, are you okay?"

He chuckled before answering "Yes, baby, I'm good" I gave him a small smile, not really knowing what to do.

I nervously began fidgeting with my fingers. I think he noticed because he placed me on his lap before gently stroking my back.

"You're okay, don't be scared, we won't hurt you. I'll protect you. Why are you being anxious or nervous?" He whispered so only I can hear.

" I-I don't know, I'm just scared"

"Of what baby?"

"What if you guys don't like me, or what if you send me back, or maybe you guys hate me and just took me in because you pity me. And what if-" he cut of my rambling by placing his hand on my mouth.

"Sh sh, hey, don't think like that, we all love you okay don't think different. And we won't send you away and for sure as hell don't we pity you. And why on earth would we hate you. We have been looking for you for 12 years and now that we finally found you we are more than happy. You've only been here for a day and everybody has been talking more too each other, I know you don't know how it was all those years for us, but we were all heartbroken, the only princess in the family in generations taken away. Nobody talked to each other, only if it was about finding you, everyone closed themselves of from everything in the world. We all just wanted to find you and now that we have, we're getting better. You're our glue in this family. Without you, I don't think we would be a family anymore. You're the most important thing in this family, don't think otherwise."

"Are you sure, I really don't want to go back, I don't want to go back, please don't make me go back there" I begged while some tears fell, and my hands started to shake a little, thinking about those horrible monsters.

He grabbed my hands stopping them from shaking, while starting to talk again. "I'm positive piccola, we're not going to send you back. I pinky promise" We intertwined our pinky's and both kissing our thumps to make it a official.

" don't cry baby" He smiled at me then kissed my forehead before giving me a hug. "Thank you Sandro, I really needed that" I whispered.

He pulled away, giving me another kiss on my head before telling me to go sit on the seat from yesterday. I slowly stepped of his lap and walked to the same seat next to Xander, across from Xavier.

When I finally looked up, while wiping the tears that fell I saw everyone wide eyed and mouths open looking at me.

"Can I help you" I asked after I cleared my throat.

"Wha-how-I..." Lorenzo began

"Yes?" I ask unsure.

Xavier cleared his throat before answering "It's the first time in years that Allesandro has given anyone a hug, hell even just showing emotions. How did you-,...god you're amazing, I'm so happy we finally have you back." He smiled so bright.

He stood up from his seat and walked towards me, but I wasn't...scared? He gave me a big hug, I had to bite my lip to not scream out in pain though. When he released me he kissed my forehead the same way Allesandro did before sitting down. "I'm happy to be back" I smiled back at him.

'Later, I want everyone in my office, that includes you principessa" dad said in a soft voice, smiling at me. I gave him a small one back.

"Well let's eat" Elijah said.

"Here sorelina" Xavier said, giving me some food.

(Sorelina-little sister)

"Thanks, Xavier"

There were two yellow, brown square things which had like holes in them? What is this? I've never seen it before.

"Xander?" He hummed in reply.

"W-what is this?" I asked pointing to the weird square thing that smelled amazing.

"What do you mean, you don't know what that is" he asked eyeing the thing.

"No, I've never seen it before"

He looked concerned to say the least, sad and mad, making me scared.

Xavier saw the whole thing and interfered.

"Xander calm down, it's okay, you're scaring her. And sorelina, that-" he started making Xander calm down then pointing to the thing. "- is a waffle, it's really good" I nodded giving him a small smile.

"Sooo that's a waffle,-" I chuckled "-I've heard about them once from some old friends at school, but I've never seen one or tasted one" I said.

The people that heard me gave me a small smile, sadness and guilt in their eyes.

I grabbed my knife and fork trying to use them the same way the others did, this is hard. Those monsters really didn't teach me anything did they. Eventually I got the hang of it, with some help, but we don't need to mention that. I tasted the waffle and OMG I almost moaned at the flavour, this is soooo goooooood. I can get used too this food.