Heartless Heart

Chapter 98

Alex

A few months later
Me and Ryce are sitting on the grass while Bella is sitting on the sun bed in the garden. The weather was pretty nice so we decided to sit outside enjoying it.
I lay on the grass. I put Ryce on my stomach. Ryce has grown up a bit. He can now crawl. We started playing. Bella came. She sat beside us. "Mom is here, Ryce," I said. "Mom," Ryce barely said. Bella and I quickly looked at each other. Wow, he said his first word.
It's so cute hearing my son's first word.
Bella giggled happily. "Ryce, say Mom," she said to him while looking at him.
"Or dad," I said while looking at Ryce. Ryce looked at me. "Dada," he said.
God, I love this boy. He is for sure going to be like me.
I smirked. "Good boy, Ryce," I said as I kissed him on the cheek.
Bella giggled. I sat down while Ryce was still sitting on my lap. I kissed her on the cheek. She looked at me. She giggled. She looked at Ryce again. She grabbed his tiny hands.
"Mom," Ryce said. She giggled. "He said it again."
"Ryce, you are a smart boy," I said.
"Alex, he looks exactly like you," she said as she looked at me.
I smirked. I looked at Ryce. "Did you hear that, son?" I asked. Ryce put his hands on my face. I smirked.
I heard the doorbell. "The boys," I said.
She picked Ryce up from my lap. I stood up.
I walked inside. I walked to the door. "Hey," Dylan said. "Hey, come in."
They all got in. "We're sitting in the garden."
They nodded. We walked out. We went to Bella.
I sat beside her. The boys sat across from us.
"Hey, Ryce," Dylan said as he grabbed Ryce's tiny hand.
Ryce looked at him.
"I thought when he gets older he will look more like his mom, but I was wrong," Josh said. Bella giggled. "Oh, shit it, Josh, even Ryce can get more girls than you," I said. Josh smirked. "When he looks like you, I'm not so sure about that," he said. Bella giggled. Max sat on Elijah's lap.
I picked Ryce up. I kissed him on the cheek.
"I need to go," Josh said as he stood up. "Alright," I said while looking up at him.
He walked away. "We should go too," Dylan said. They stood up. I nodded. They walked away. She looked at Ryce. "My baby boy, I love you so much," she said. She looked at me.
"I love you so much, my husband," she said to me. I smirked. "I love you, my angel," I said.
"Let's go in," she said. "Yes," I said. We stood up. She picked Ryce up. We walked in while Max followed us. We sat on the couch.
She started feeding Ryce. "I will order pizza," I said. "Oh, yes," she said. I smirked. I took up my phone and called a pizza store. "Hey, sir," a guy said. "Hey," I said.
"I want to order cheese pizza and I want it to be delivered to my house," he said. "Small, medium, or big, sir?" He asked. "Medium," I said. "Alright," he said. I told him the address. I hung up.
Ryce was done eating. I put my phone down. Bella put Ryce on the couch between us.
"So Alex."
"What?"
"How do you feel?"
"About what?"
"About everything we lived?"
"Oh..."
That was a bit unexpected question, but very interesting.
"I lived a life I never thought was impossible to live..."
"Until you came into my life and made it a dream life," I said. "Because of you, I experienced a lot of new things."
And I'm so happy about that. Without her, I would never in my entire life experience things like that.
"I experienced happiness, I experienced seeing the positive life and the light in life."
She bent forward kissing my cheek.
I heard the doorbell. I stood up. I walked to the door.
I opened it. "Hey, sir, that will be $23."
"Hey," I said. I paid. "Thank you, enjoy your meal."
I grabbed it. "Thank you."
I closed the door. I walked back to them.
I put it on the table.
I sat beside her. "Let's eat," I said. She nodded. She grabbed a slice. I did too.
"Alex?"
"Yes, my angel?"
"As you know you are still in the mafia..."
I looked at her. No way we are going to talk about this again. I hate talking about it. And I thought she knew that, but I guess I was wrong.
She took a bite of the pizza making me wait longer to hear what she would say. She swallowed it before continuing to talk.
"And now you have a kid..."
"And Bella?"
What is she trying to say?
"And that you are still involved in the mafia can be dangerous for our kid," she said. Yes, we're definitely having this talk again.
Which is making me very annoyed.
"No, it can't, don't worry."
I looked away.
"Yes, it can Alex."
I looked at her. "I'm here to protect you both, nothing to worry about, Bella."
"But Alex—"
"Bella, we have talked about this before, do we really need to talk about it again?"
"You mean before the baby was born, Alex."
"It's not a different, you two are still safe with me."
"You have dangerous enemies, Alex."
"That won't dare to come close to any of you," I said. "You don't know that."
I sighed as I placed my pizza on the pizza box. It's not tempting to eat when we talk about this.
"None of them would dare to come close to what's mine."
"Yeah, I see that," she said.
I sighed. "Bella, enough."
"Look, Alex, I just don't want something to happen to him or you, you both mean everything to me."
"Nothing will happen. Can we end this discussion?"
"No, you always say nothing will happen. What makes you so sure?"
"Because I just know it."
"Oh, I definitely felt safe hearing that."
I raised my eyebrows. What does she mean by that? So now she doesn't feel safe with me anymore?
I sighed as I stood up. I walked upstairs.
I got into the room. I sighed as I lay on the bed.
I grabbed my phone. I checked some things.
I heard the door open. I looked toward it.
It's Bella. She is holding Ryce in her arms.
I looked back at my phone. She got in. She walked slowly toward me. She arrived. She slowly sat down on the edge of the bed by my side. She placed Ryce on the bed. He crawled toward me. I looked at him as I smirked. I put my phone on the table. I picked Ryce up. I placed him on my stomach.
I kissed his cheek. "Dada," Ryce said as he hugged me. I smirked as I hugged him back. "I love you, Ryce."