The Long Lost Mafia Princess

Book 2 chapter 17

I pull away from the hug and give him a small kiss on the lips before we jump on our motorcycles and drive to the warehouse.

When we arrive we both park before we walk inside with Roman's hand wrapped around my waist holding me close too him.

We walk to my sort of office.

It's kind of on office but not really, you know.

We walk inside before I tell Roman to lie down and get some rest, not trying to be mean but he looks like he arose from the dead.

"No I want you close to me" he says.

Oh...

"Okay, I'll grab my laptop and I'll sit down next to you on the couch. Is that okay?" I ask him.

He nods his head before he lies down on the couch.

I sit next to him as he places his head on my lap.

"Go to sleep baby" I mutter before giving him a kiss on the head.

He doesn't say anything, just closes his eyes then slowly starts to drift of to sleep.

I play with his hair and start to go over some files on my laptop.

I really really like Roman but he needs to take better care of himself. And if he's not going to do it then I'll do it for him.

I kind of feel bad for Roman. His family was killed when he was young in front of his eyes, leaving him to survive in this cruel world alone. He's still alone most of the time in that apartment. I've been there a few times, it's nice, big and beautiful but it lacks life.

He doesn't like being there all alone and I can understand why. I wouldn't like it myself either. Roman stays mostly with us or with our friends. In one of the guest rooms in our house, we kind of turned into his bedroom over the years and at our dinner table we have an extra chair for him to sit in.

We all love having him around us, part of the family.

By him being all alone in that apartment, he doesn't really take care of himself. Another reason why I like him being close to me, to watch out for him.

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A few hours have gone by and everything is ready for this weekend. The strategie to take down the ring once I'm getting sold. If something would go wrong in the few days I'll be staying there and I'd need to get disposed of a body or anything, I have a team outside to take care of that and more.

Plan is that while I am getting sold, a team rescues the girls that would normally be sold after me.

My family would during the auction place bombs around the place that would go off when everyone is out safe.

After I'm "sold" by my family, my dad gives me some guns before my family and some men stand and take down as much people as they can while running to the doors and locking everyone in and taking the already sold girls with us.

Then run outside before we explode the building.

Well that is if all goes well, it sounds way easier then it'll be.

I plan some more things for after the mission and then the mission that will come after that one before Roman starts to stir.

I look down at him to see his eyes open.

"Hey Ro" I greet him while giving him a smile.

"My love" he mutters also smiling.

I close my laptop and turn all my attention to him.

"Did you sleep well?" I ask him while still playing with his hair.

"Yeah, thank you" he thanks me while holding onto me tight.

"I'm always here for you, never forget that" I tell him.

"Did you get some work done?" He asks after a few moments of silence.

"Yeah, I got a lot done." I tell him, "do you have homework that you need to complete later?" I ask him after answering his question.

"Yeah a little, not too much. You?"

"Same, a few things" I answer.

Suddenly my stomach started growling.

My face flushes in embarrassment while Roman starts laughing.

Soon after his stomach grumbles too making me laugh.

"Ro, what do you think about maybe staying the night at my house? I know it's a week day and stuff but I think that we could both really use it to be with each other." I ask him.

I know that my parents wouldn't make a fuss about it since this has happened before. Where we kind of need to be with each other. With us both having gone through a lot at a young age, it's easier to understand what the other feels or needs.

It's easy to fall back into that pit or to have bad days. And in Roman's case with not really living with anyone and only having human interaction with friends and our families, he neglects himself often. So over the years Roman kind of became part of our family, where I help him and he helps me when we need each other. When we may think that we don't need it but actually really do and the other notices.

And I am noticing that Roman has been neglecting himself a little so I'll be there for him. I am here for him. He knows that but he's a little like me on the fact that he doesn't like to ask for help. So I'm taking it upon myself to help him when he needs it which is now.

"Euhm yeah, I'd like that." He says calmly.

I nod and smile softly, "let's head to your apartment and get some stuff okay"

"Yeah"

We grab our stuff before we head to his apartment.

We walk inside and immediately Roman's mood goes down.

I look around while Roman starts to pack some stuff.

This place is so dull, more than...normal.

It's so lifeless, like it drains Roman's happiness out of him. And it pains me to see him so sad, unhappy,... just because of him living in this place.

And then when he sees us, our friends and family, his face lights back up. But after that his happiness gets stolen again by this apartment.

I don't know why and I'm not going to hurt him more by asking him questions that he doesn't want to answer.

Maybe him living alone in a place of his own makes him remind him of his family. His family that sadly isn't alive anymore, maybe he his reliving them get killed or maybe he isn't. I can think a lot of things but I really don't know. All I know is that I want him happy.

I walk to his bathroom and start to put stuff that he needs to stay at my place in his toiletry bag. After doing that I walk to his room where he is sitting on his bed with a filled bag next to him.