Falling in Love With a Mafia Boss

Ch. 30

It's been a few weeks since the Stark case. She's doing better but Pepper tells me she still has nightmares. The man we arrested was arraigned and is awaiting trial. He gave up his ring in order to get a lesser sentence. It wasn't much. He'll be in jail for the rest of his life. We just got the death penalty taken off.

Later that day, we arrested the rest of his crew. They all confessed and even gave up some names so we've been working to find them. Most are out of the country but we have an office in Belgium who is helping us find them.

Steve and I are good. He's been working his butt off to make things up to me, even taking me to Disney world for the weekend. It is strange having someone to come home to but I like it. I haven't moved in with him, yet, since we need to take things slow but he's either at my apartment or I'm at his mansion. I haven't slept with him since that night. I'm still scared something is going to happen afterward. We've talked about it and he understands, thankfully.

He's completely different around me versus his employees. We're keeping my occupation on the down low since it can cause a lot of issues. He's still partnering with my father, who now knows about us and that Steve knows my job. He warned both of us and then threatened to kill Steve if he got me hurt. It was valid so I didn't mind it.

My train of thought is suddenly interrupted by the loud shrill of my phone ringing.

"Payne." I answer.

'Why do you always do that when I call you? You know it's me.' Jake responds.

"It's habit. What's up?"

'You wanna watch the girls this weekend? Mark surprised me with a trip to Boston for the weekend.' He sighs.

"He's already called me. I'm picking them up from school in a bit." I tell him.

'Oh thank gosh. He literally told me at lunch so I'm hurrying to pack.' He admits.

"You know he's last minute. Go pack, I'll tell you when we get to Steve's." I say.

'Don't let them stay up too late please.' He says.

"I won't. Bye Jake."

'Bye Bells.' We hang up and I climb out of my car, walking to the front door of Steve's mansion.

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-Steve's POV-

"I'm going to ask you one more time, where is my money?" I punch the bloodied man in the jaw. He groans and his head slumps back. Dammit dude. This would go so much better if he would just speak.

"STEVEN GRANT ROGERS! WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT GETTING BLOOD ON THE FLOOR?!" Shit. Bella's home. Usually I wouldn't bring people here to investigate but since my club is under renovations, I had to use my office here.

"OoOoh you're in trouble." Bucky laughs as I glare at him.

"Finish him. If I'm not back in 10 minutes, just assume I'm dead." I sigh and of course, he finds it hilarious. "Man shut up." I snap but he just keeps laughing.

"Go deal with her, we'll finish." He finally says once he stops laughing. I sigh and walk out of the office, quickly running downstairs. I see Bella standing next to a small puddle of blood with her hands on her hips.

"Ok... in my defense I didn't know he was bleeding that badly." I admit but she scoffs. It's hard to take her seriously when she looks this cute. I know she's mad but she's adorable.

"Why the hell are you beating someone up here? You have an office for that." She snaps.

"It's under renovations..." I start walking closer to her but stop when she folds her arms, raises an eyebrow, and leans on one leg. Yea... you know that pose. Fuck I'm seriously in trouble.

"Hayley and Ella are staying here for the weekend. I am going to pick them up from school. If this isn't cleaned up by the time I get back, Bucky will be the new leader of the mafia." I gulp, knowing exactly what she means. I know I run the New York Mafia and I know I can kill anyone. Nothing scares me... except for one person who is standing in front of me right now.

"Yes mam." I say. Damn she's terrifying... but why do I find it so hot? I am perfectly aware that she can kill me and no one will find my body but for some reason it just makes me love her more.

"I love you and I'm sorry." I sheepishly smile and slowly start walking to her.

"Clean it up." She says and goes to walk away but I grab her.

"Baby... I'm sorry. It won't happen again." I say.

"Good because if we ever have children and they see blood on the floor, you will never hear the end of it." She says but I can't help the smile that forms on my lips.

"Children? You want children with me?" I ask.

"Shut up that's not the point of this. Clean the blood up. I'll be back." She starts walking off and I, of course, stare at her butt.

"I love you!" I yell.

"I love you too." She huffs then disappears. So she wants kids... with me. Mm I never would've thought of myself as a father but I think I want that with her. There's a lot that I want with her that I never knew I wanted. I can definitely see a few kids running around here.

"So you're not dead." Bucky says. When did he get down here?

"Surprisingly no. She was mad though. Said if I didn't clean this up, you'd be running the mafia." He laughs but he knows she's serious.

"That's great. You definitely have to marry her." He says.

"One day... need her to fully trust me again. Is it bad I'm absolutely terrified of her?" I ask.

"Not at all, she is terrifying. I never knew something so tiny could scare the crap outta me." He admits.

"Neither did I. I'm a Mafia Boss... I'm not scared of anything. Except her." I tell him.

"I mean you have good reason. She can kill you and no one would ever find your body." He says.

"Why do I find that hot?" He laughs, shaking his head at me.

"Hey I get it. I'm terrified of Jane. Maybe it's the Italian." He suggests.

"And the fact that they're both 5'5".

"Yea... tiny women have a lot of anger in them." He sighs.

"Well when they deal with the two of you, it's completely valid." My maid, Maria, sasses.

"Mar, we're not that bad." I say but she scoffs.

"You forget I know you since you were a boy. You are a pain in my ass." Her thick Hispanic accent rings through my ears.

"You still love us though." I say.

"Yea yea, go away." She waves us off and starts cleaning up the blood.

"Cmon, Buck, I need your help. Bella's godchildren are coming."