𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 | [𝟏𝟖+]

thirty: the note.

𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐯:

Waking up this morning was rough. We got up at the ass crack of fucking dawn because Leo decided that it would be best for us to leave in the morning. Which makes sense, I guess, but I would much rather leave later in the day and get home in the middle of the night rather than wake up before the fucking sun.

But anyway, we made it home from Bora Bora and I already want to go back. Don't get me wrong, I missed Leo's family, but Italian families are loud and have 500 different conversations at once. I should be used to it because that's how it was back at my estate in Italy but that break completely fucked me up.

We come home to cute 'welcome home' and wedding gifts that put smiles on our faces. Romeo and Isabella even made us a huge card that I will cherish for the rest of my life. Once we say hello to everyone, we end up walking upstairs to find a vase filled with beautiful roses and I feel my cheeks warm. Leo lifts it and pulls a card out of it. His face remains the same as he's quick to shove the note in his pocket.

Weird... Whatever.

"Stephen left us flowers," he says as I walk over to them. I lean forward to smell them but soon realize that flowers just smell like water and earth. He puts the flowers back on the dresser as I walk over to our bed and lay on it.

"God, I forgot how good our bed feels," I sigh as I sink into the bed.

"You heading over to your brother's today?" he asks as he crawls onto the bed and lays on his pillow. I groan once I realize I need to freshen up before heading over there.

"Yeah, told them I would," I say as I sit up and put my head into my hands.

"If you need rest then you can see them tomorrow," he reminds me and I shake my head.

"I'm fine. I'll go see them today and then tomorrow I'll sleep the day away," I tease knowing he has a shit ton of work to go over tomorrow. He flips me off as I stand up and walk over to the bathroom to start getting ready.

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"I'm home, motherfuckers," I yell once I enter the estate. Salvatore followed with all the souvenirs I bought on our trip.

Stephen and I always make sure to bring home something for Markus and Grey whenever we go on trips. It was kind of weird buying Stephen a souvenir as well because we always took those trips together.

I watch as Stephen walks out of his office as we make our way to the living room to find Markus and Grey. They're watching Dynasty which makes my mouth drop because they promised they'd wait for me.

"I see how it is," I say as they look at me and pause the show.

"Oh, shut up. The number of shows you've watched ahead of us and you're complaining about this one?" Markus says as I look at the episode they're on.

Oh... I'm way past that.

I roll my eyes at them as I pull out their gifts from out of the bag. I turn towards Stephen and hand him this black pearl bracelet and a t-shirt. I hand Markus this small statue thing and a t-shirt because he's decided to collect those instead of collecting keychains like a normal person. Then I got Grey a variety of things. A few stones, cute seashell necklaces and bracelets, and a sweatshirt because god forbid I get him the same shirt as Markus and Stephen.