The Mafia King

Chapter 22

Songs for this chapter:

For him. by Troye Sivan

Heat by The Knocks

Rosalinda's Pov

Something sinister and dark inside Justin would be impossible to imagine. But there's always something insanely damaged and hidden beneath all the rubble in dark souls of people who's eyes sparkle like one thousand tiny crystals. 

Innocent mesmerising brown eyes that hide a million words unsaid and two hundred secrets that could change everything.

I don't even pay attention to the music blaring from my headphones and into my ears as I chew down on my nails staring out of Justin's huge apartment window. Nothing could ever drive me as crazy as Justin does through the way he is hiding himself from me.

I whip my body around quickly pulling my headphones from my ears not caring about unplugging them from my phone. I smack my phone down onto his glass table before stalking off down his hallway.

I was determined to find out exactly what Justin had been hiding in that forbidden room for so long. I know I shouldn't be snooping around but I was scared for him and the scars that possess his face from something I know nothing about.

As I made my way down his long hallway ready to barge into the room at the end of the hallway I suddenly stop myself taking a deep breath. Pulling my hands through my hair tugging on my roots I turn away from the door biting down on my lip. 

What if I find something so awful that I could never even bring myself to look at Justin ever again, what if he's hiding dead bodies?

Leaning against the wall I slide myself down it pulling my knees to my chest. What am I supposed to do when I'm falling so hard for someone I'm not even sure gets any hints I like him or is even close to liking me, I have so many imperfections he wouldn't want.

I want him to understand how strongly I feel for him and seeing him stumbling in at god knows what time with bruises and cuts all over his face makes my heart leap to my throat. I rub my hands over my face in frustration towards myself and him.

I was sick of hiding my feelings towards him because I was scared of the outcome, I can't hide from him forever and I would be leaving in just over a week, he needed to know I felt this way about him before I boarded a flight to never see him again.

But did I want to put myself through the pain of telling him how and I feel and him not feeling the same. Or what if I do and he does like me and I have to leave the next day to go home.

Justin's Pov

Pulling on my coat slowly trying not to scrape any of the bruises on my body I pull the leather over myself straightening it out. Rose had texted me an hour ago asking to speak to me and I would be lying if I said I wasn't putting it off as long as I could. 

Whipping my cigarette packet from the back pocket of my jeans I place the death trap between my lips grabbing my lighter.

I wave to Max my personal trainer before sliding on my black Ray Bans covering my dark brown orbs. I light my cigarette quickly inhaling the smoke as it burns my throat with a sweet sensation before making my way to my Lambo waiting in the parking lot.

I didn't want Rose to find out anytime soon that I had been in a major gang fight with many of Johnson's gang members ready to be put in a situation of death.