COIN

41. mirrors🌹

MIRRORS
-your shine is something like a mirror-

I hate waking up with a hangover.

My eyes open very, very slowly. "Morning, precious." Ciro was standing by the window, nothing but his boxers on. "You sleep good?"

I look at the clock.

It's the afternoon.

"Apparently so." I sit up, holding my head to stop it from pounding. "Who let me drink? I'm a lightweight."

He turns to look at me, "Take the hangover cure, i'll make you my hangover soup." He points to the bedside table.

I have never been more thankful to see a bottle of water and some pills.

I down then all right away, then lay back, looking at him. "Why are you looking out the window?"

"You slept through the alarm, it was tripped. This window here." He keeps his eyes on me, "Just making sure."

"For how long?"

"Lot of the night." He walks back to the bed, laying down. "What happened to your thigh?"

"Maxim stabbed me. Did Kairi leave a baseball bat here?"

"So that's why the baseball bat was outside the door. I was confused." He kisses my neck, "You should change."

"I know." I kiss the top of his head, "How'd i get home?"

"UFO, alien dropped you off." He lifts me off the bed, "Shower."

"Yes, daddy." I practically crawl over the bed, then hold onto everything i can while i walk to the bathroom.

I'm already naked so i step in.

He leaves me clothes and a towel and i spend almost an hour just gaining my consciousness properly. The clothes was his shirt. I tie my hair loosely and walk out of the bedroom, into the living room to see two unfamiliar faces.

"Hello, who the fuck are you?"

Ciro sighs, "Keilani, meet my brother Enzo and my brother Carlo."

I look at them, then turn to look at Ciro, "Baby, i hate to the the one to break this to you but you're adopted." I walk to the kitchen, leaning against the counter as i grab a bottle of water.

"She's hungover." She announces. "You should say thank you to Enzo, he bought you home."

I walk to the couch, sitting opposite them. "Thank you... now who's who?"

"Enzo." The younger one raises his hand, "Nice to meet you."

"Keilani." I nod my head, looking at the other one, Carlo.

"You had a lot to drink last night." Enzo speaks up.

"Yeah. I get carried away." I down half the water, Ciro was cooking with just his boxers on. He looks yummy. "So what are y'all doing here?"

"Oh, just visiting." Carlo smiles, "My brother wanted a family heirloom and-"

"Fuck up, Carlo." Ciro calls, "Baby do you want chicken or tomato?"

"Chicken." I look back at his brothers, "Can y'all cook?"

"Yeah but our wives do." Carlo raises an eyebrow.

"Oh, sexism in the mafia, forgot about that." I hate how they leave the women to cook, clean and carry children.

Ciro chuckles but doesn't say anything.