Leora wakes up groggily, she can feel warmth engulf her and snug deeply into the warmth. She tries blinking several times to wipe out the sleepiness in her eyes.
"Sshh.. Go back to sleep." Matteo whispers and strokes her hair to coax her back to sleep.
She wants to succumb to sleep as the voice said, but she needs to wake up. When she comes back to her senses, she realizes that she's in Matteo's arms. She looks around and found a lot of unfamiliar men.
"Wake up?" Matteo's voice brings her to look at him. Matteo stroke her face lightly.
She nods her head to answer her question and comes back hiding her face in his neck. She can sense the men staring at her, it makes her shy. She always feels uncomfortable being the center of attention.
"Where are we?" She whispers in his ear.
"We will come home later okay." Matter answer.
"She can't be here Matteo. We don't want outsiders to hear what we talk in here." Matteo's right-hand man says makes Leora snuggle closely to Matteo. She doesn't like when someone talks about her and doesn't acknowledge her presence.
"She's the donna Greg. Quindi chiudi il cazzo so!" Matteo shout at him while cupping Leora's ears. 'So shut the fuck up I know'
"Can I wait in the car?" Leora asks whispery, she knows her presence is not welcome in here.
She doesn't want to make Matteo or the men angry and shout at each other. All of the men in the room are dangerous men. So she doesn't want to make a civil war inside the room.
"You can walk around the hotel. You'll be suffocated in the car alone." Matteo suggest.
"Will you accompany me? I'm scared to go alone." She whisper.
"Sorry Bambina, I would love to but I can't. You won't go alone though. Your bodyguards will be there to guide you." Matteo says sadly.
He's in good mood today because of her clingiest. He even spoke so softly and warmly at her. But unfortunately, she wakes up and he can't always tie her by his side.
"Can Taylor accompany me? I don't want another bodyguard to guard me. I just need one bodyguard." She pleads.
"Two is the minimum. I'll call them immediately." Matteo says without any space to objection.
"Fine," Leora says while pouting. Her cute face makes her get a slight pinch in the check.
"Go now, they're already waiting in front of the door," Matteo informs and kiss her forehead.
"That was fast. Bye Matteo. Bye, everyone." She says hurry and runs to the door. She doesn't want to be in the lion den any longer.
"Don't do anything stupid!" Matteo shouts in warning at her. She put her thumb up and close the door.
"You seems to love her." The Bratva don says.
Matteo simply raises his eyebrows. He comes back to his usual cold self when Leora is not around. He dismisses the irrelevant conversations. It annoys him someone talking about his girl.
Leora waited in front of the door scaredly. There's a lot of scary guys with a gun in their hands. Looking at her as a predator looking at his prey. She wants to enter the room and hide behind Matteo, but she hesitates to enter the room. She doesn't want to interrupt Matteo's meeting.
"Taylor!" Leora shouts when she sees Taylor's brunette hair.
She runs to Taylor and drags her outside the room. Another bodyguard followed them to the hall. All the men inside laughed mockingly at her. Leora shudders in cringe when she hears the mocking laugh, while Taylor clenching her teeth and cursing under her breath.
"Stupid people. Do you want me to take care of them, miss?" The other bodyguard asks.
"It's okay. I'm Leora." Leora introduce her self tries to befriend the bodyguard
"Hello, I'm Anna. Ready to serve you miss." She says cheerfully and winking to her, makes Leora laugh at her.
"Just call me Leora, don't call me to miss. By the way who is the people inside the room?" Leora asks.
"Most of them are Bratva men, and the rest is our man," Taylor explains.
"Yeah, mostly they are the ones who work under the sir Greg. Don't really like them." Anna says with a disgusting face.
"Why?" Leora asks innocently.
"Just because they work under the leader in America they think they can control everything in here when the don back to Italy," Anna says.
"Matteo will go back?" Leora asks.
"I think so. I hope the Don will bring me to the Sicily main branch. With that, I don't have to face idiots people in here." Anna says.
"Everyone will want to go to Sicily," Taylor says.
"Why?" Leora asks.
"You'll have a chance to work under the don directly. Everyone will respect you and it's such a great privilege." Taylor explain.
"Yeah and mostly you'll have a lot of access to the great weapon and you'll have a professional team. Not like in here." Grumbles Anna.
"Where are we going?" Taylor asks, in the hope she can have some answers to her question from Leora.
"Anywhere. I don't want to be around these creepy men." Leora says and enters the elevator. She pushes a random button. Maybe she will walk around the hotel mindlessly, just to kill time until they got home.
"Can we go to the bar?" Anna asks.
"Don't listen to her Leora. She just wants to drink some alcohol." Taylor interrupts her.
"I never go to the bar. Is it okay if we go? I'm kinda curious." Leora says hesitantly.
"Look what you've done to our innocent miss." Complaint Taylor to Anna.
"I just want to have some fun in the middle of the work." Anna whines.
"I'll ask Matteo, if he doesn't allow it we can go to another place," Leora suggests.
"Okay." Answer Anna cheerfully, while Taylor just nods her head.
"Can I borrow your phone? Matteo hasn't given me the phone." Leora asks while stocking her hand to Taylor.
Taylor gives her phone to Leora. Except for calling Matteo, Leora uses this opportunity to say yes to Taylor's plans. After thinking for a long time in the car, she'll take the risk to escape. After typing some words in the notes, she continues typing Matteo's number. When she is on bed rest because of her throat, Matteo insists she memorizes his personal number. In case something happens she can call Matteo.
"Hello, Matteo," Leora says after the line is connected.
"What's wrong?" Matteo asks in worry.
"It's nothing, I just want to ask. If I can go to the hotel bar?" She asks timidly make him chuckle on the phone.
"You can't drink anything alcoholic, don't drink anything that is given by others," Matteo says sternly.
"So I can go? Thanks!" She says excitedly.
"Hmm," Matteo reply simply and end the call.
"We can go!" She announced excitedly, making Anna and Taylor chuckles at her cuteness.
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