In my blood

09~secrets

Raven's pov:

Its been a couple days since mine and Romano's 'encounter'. Its not exactly been awkward, but we haven't said much to one another.

On the plus side Danté is arriving to England today. I haven't seen him in a while and when I did he acted awkward and quiet, as if he was scared of me? I wouldn't be surprised if he was, most people are, but he's also in the mafia so he should really be scared? I'm over thinking this.

I've been in my office most days minding by own business. Romano has come in a couple times to get some files and to check up on me.
Me and Maria have been hanging out a lot, the other day she was telling me how happy she was with Alessandro. It honestly made me so happy to know that my best-friend is happy with someone. Even if its not me.

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I'm sat in bed with a bottle of vodka whilst binge watching Netflix with Maria who's half asleep next to me, life pretty much literally couldn't get any better for me.
Until I fucking hear a knock on the door.

"Fucks sake who is it?" I shout whilst taking another mouthful of popcorn.

"Awe missed me, amore?" Romano says coming in taking the vodka out of Maria's hands and proceeds to drink it.

"Hey I payed for that!" I say taking the bottle back and drinking from it.

"If you wanted some you could have asked me." He responds taking a seat next to me. I furrow my eyebrows confused by what he meant. "What you watching anyway?" He start to get more comfy in my bed and takes the pretzel bag out of my hand.

"Coraline" Maria replies. "For the fifth time this week now" She says dramatically sinking into the pillows.

"Its a good movie okay" I argue back getting more popcorn.

"Hmm sure, keep telling yourself that" She rolls her eyes dramatically.

Romano comes a bit closer making me be able to feel his hot breathe fanning my neck slightly. I turn to look at him whilst taking another swig of the vodka. I try to focus on the movie, but its so hard too when I remember me moaning his name a couple days ago.

A few more minutes go by and I feel a heavy weight on my left shoulder looking down I see Maria nearly asleep on me. I sigh and move the popcorn of her lap making her groan and get more comfortable.

"I have a mission next week and its going to take a while" I blurt out breaking the silence.

He raises his eyebrows looking towards me and grabbing the vodka. "How long will the mission be?" He asks drinking most of the damn bottle. fucks sake I payed for that.

"It will take a few days, the Americans know you're here Romano, we need to come up with something other-wise we will both and the rest of our mafia end up dead." I sigh sinking into the pillows behind my head.

The Americans have been trying to start a war with us and the Italians for a very long time now. Sending us threats every now and then trying to get a reaction out of us, but they've been quiet for a while now meaning that they are planning something big and if we don't think of a plan fast we will all end up dead.

"Fuck. I forgot about them." He sighs taking a deep breathe letting out slowly. He quickly gets up fixing his hair and pointing his hand towards mine.
I scrunch my face in confusion slowly moving Maria of my shoulder and taking his hand.

He leads me into his room opening a draw by his bedside table. "What are you doing?" I ask sitting on the edge of his bed.

"I didn't want to tell you" he sighs. "The Americans have sent us an invitation for a ball. Its meant to be in a few weeks time" He slowly hands me the letter. The envelope was already open from Romano viewing it, but you could still see it said 'Raven & Romano' seeing both of our names together made my stomach squirm slightly.