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chapter 32 - weak when you're around

Pov: Carter

Her lips didn't leave my mind, the thought of her stayed in my head all night.

Fuck, It's fast I know but something tells me I should've kissed her yesterday.

I got so lost in her eyes, at that moment when I was with her, the breathtaking sights spread out in front of us I saw Delilah as a forbidden flower I'd been missing out on. 

That night, I saw all the depths of her, like an ocean unexplored.

I wanted to throw all caution to the wind and dive in, but I didn't. 

Sistine called all of us to the table to talk to us as I was buttoning up the shirt Lilah gave me, "Hurry up!" Matteo yells and I roll my eyes. 

I raise my hands up in defense and enter the room to see Lilah dressed in the most simple yet gorgeous dress, she looked stunning. 

I smile as my eyes look her up and down but it drops when I see the nervousness on her face. 

I stride across the hallway and take a seat right next to Lilah, Lorenzo was on the seat beside her and Matteo was on the seat beside me, Sistine in front of us. 

"Lilah?" I whisper next to her ear, she doesn't say anything but her fingers find their way into mine, I hold her hand which felt like they were trembling. 

"Is everything alright?" I ask Sistine who doesn't seem troubled one bit, whereas I'm getting worried by the look on Lilah's face as well as the concerning look on Lorenzo's face. 

"We were going to plan the omertà, but right before you arrived Delilah over here got a little letter." She slides an envelope across the table which stops right in front of me. 

I look at Lilah, who was focused on the envelope, and open it, message for Delilah Fiora - the front of it said. 

I unfold the paper and my eyes begin scanning the words, apprehension takes over me, worry fills my heart and something in my stomach drops at the words I read on the paper. 

"You have committed an undue sin young lady, we have complete knowledge of you eliminating our weapons dealer, what kind of assassin are you to not cover your tracks? You destroyed one of our pathways to building our mafia, and now you shall suffer. Revenge is yet to be taken, watch your back before it gets stabbed Fiora - The Francesco's."

She got a threat, Delilah got a death threat from the Francesco family, my shoulders tense at the realization. 

"She's not safe," I glare at Sistine with nothing but pure unbridled rage fuming from my eyes.

"She is, this is not her first threat and it sure as hell won't be her last." Sistine asserts. 

She needs to be safe and I'm going to make sure it stays like that.

"Yeah well, there's no way in hell I'm letting them get to her, alive that is." I seethed and felt Delilah's fingers grip mine tighter. 

You aren't going to stop me from protecting you, Lilah.

"We're with Fenix on this one, Sistine." Lorenzo confidently states and backs me up, "We aren't going to take drastic measures but we will protect her." Matteo adds on. 

"What do you mean?" Delilah speaks up, her fingers leaving mine and now adjusting her dress. 

"Meaning that if we ambush them or attack them now, the consequences are more likely to be worse later on. I say we avoid dealing with that and stay low, when danger comes upon us, the three of us fight it together. Make sure Delilah isn't alone on this one." Matteo smiles and explains nothing but a solid plan & the truth.