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I slip on the dress I had Diego brought me a couple of days ago, it's been a week and tonight is the officiation ball, the last ball I was at I do not have fond memories of.
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It's been stressful, running the Mafia I didn't know existed, but all the idiots aren't idiots, just days of my training, and they know a thing or two. I haven't had much time for Enzo, it's driving us apart and I don't know how I feel about it.
"Ms. Morre the limo is here," Diego informs me. "I told you to call me Elora, how do I look?" Diego is a good bodyguard and a good friend, or whatever. "Amazing," he was fawning over me but if I ignore that then we're good friends.
I moved everything out of my apartment and into this house, it's different but good. "Thank you, ill be down in just a minute." I smile at him before he walks off. Rose has put off the dinner with Enzo for weeks, well only two but I want her to love him.
I take a deep breath before grabbing both sides of my dress and making my way down the spiral stairs. All of the teenage boys, standing there. Looking at me, "Elora you look beautiful." Jackson says, I let him call me by my first name because he's the least idiotic one of them all, "Thank you, Jackson, you've been doing very well with you're training so you'll be dancing with me tonight." I inform them, Enzo will hate it but he gets a dance too.
It's hard to remember their names but I do, there are Jackson, Evan, Mason, Aaron, Jules, and Mike. I hate all of their names but I can't change them, I could but it's a waste of time. I can do whatever the hell I want and let me say it feels good.
"Okay boys, go wait in the limo, Jackson you stay behind." I say while letting the sides of my dress go, "Yes Ma'am?" "Elora, I just wanted to tell you that dancing with me is a privilege and I hope it won't make you go soft, you will be incredible one day so don't let up, and that's the highest compliment I give to newbies, now escort me to the limo please." I say, He wraps his arm around mine, "Of course, I won't let up."
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We arrive at the ball full of people, everywhere. Apparently, there's something I have to repeat, like a chant I had to memorize. I'm a part of a cult in a way, a no-good way.
"Elora," Enzos says behind me. "Lorenzo Romano, I haven't seen you in a while." "Leave," Enzo demands to Jackson, "I only take orders from Ms. Moore sir." I could hear the fear in his voice, "Jackson go before you shit your pants, get me a drink, nothing too strong." I say while smiling at him.
"So, you brought a date?" Enzo asks, "No, he's been good in training, I'm his reward." "I'm your reward, I've heard you've been doing good, although I would've loved to hear it from you." He begins kissing down my neck. "Sorry I've been busy being good, I know this isn't what you wanted for me but I'm doing good." I smile before kissing his neck, "I have to go, talk to people." I say before walking off to find Jackson.
"So, Lorenzo Romano is your boyfriend?" Jackson asks before placing a cup in my hand, "That is not any of your business." "I don't want to dance with you if you are, he will kill me, you and I have both heard the rumors and you know the truth." I take a sip of the drink savoring the burn I feel when it travels down my throat.
"He won't kill you," a slow song comes on. "But if you slow dance with me he will find the others and ill find you when a faster song comes on," I say before leaving him, I wonder and talk to some people, only the ones who didn't look like they wanted to kill me, even if they did they cant. There's a rule at these things, no weapons, and no hurting anyone. If you break them you die.
"Elora Moore is it?" A girl asks from behind me causing me to turn around, "Yes, it is, and you?" "Sorry, Anna, I worked with your mother in the past." She holds her hand out, I shake it, "Okay, I will find you later Anna I have to go find someone." "Lorenzo Romano?" She asks. I would go all bitchy on her but I'm not really in the mood, "Wow, word travels fast." I say before walking away.
I eventually find the table with Enzo's clan's name on it, and the only person at the table is Silas. "Elora, I haven't seen you around the house, and you canceled training, everything okay?" "Fine, I just went from training to running a Mafia, not much time to do anything else." I say before sitting next to him, "I thought that was just a rumor and Enzo won't say a word about you, the serpents?" "Yes." I say while holding a secret back, "what is it?" "Nothing, nothing do you know where Enzo is if I don't dance with him he may kill whoever I dance with."
The music stops, "Okay, I'll see you later I have to go vow to cherish the Mafia more than my life." I smile before getting up, most people mean when they say this because they watched their parents go through it but I haven't, and I don't know if I can ever mean this the way My choice would've been to stand up at the ball I went to with Enzo, but I'm not an idiot.
I step up on the stage where Enzo is standing in front of the microphone, "I run the number one Mafia in the city, Elora Moore, heir of Lilyan Moore today will become the official leader of the serpents." He says into the microphone, there was a mix of boos and cheers. He steps aside letting me step in front of the microphone.
"I am a woman, people underestimate the things a woman can do for a number of reasons, all of which are bullshit, I can be a very nice lady, I can also rip your fingernails out and then hang you from the highest building in this city, that was not a threat. All of this goes to say that I am a lady but don't underestimate the things that I will do, now to my vows." I smile, "I will put nothing above the Mafia, I will when asked for information tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, assume nothing, never look back, and be the best boss bitch my Mafia has ever seen." I bow before stepping aside, Enzo says a few more words, and so on and whatever.
The music comes back on, the same slow song. "May I?" Enzo asks while holding out his hand, "You may," I take it as he leads us to the dance floor. "Your speech was." We begin dancing, "My speech was great and I was great." I take the words out of his mouth, "there's a thunderstorm right now." He whispers into my ear while his hands grip my waist and mine grip his back, "You want to kiss me in the rain?" I ask, "You are a hopeless romantic, let's go." I say before pulling him outside.
He was right, it was raining like hell and there was lightning and thunder. When the lighting was so bright it made the entire sky shine, he connected our lips, and there is something there.
