Mafia Princess

chapter. 4

We are at the beach and Ella is drinking like its her last. I keep staring blankly at her as she downs another glass of wine.

Is it weird that I realise just now how cute she usually is, may be I never took time to take it in. Her black wavy hair is falling carelessly on her right shoulder and her make upless face is so flawless and..

“are you going to keep  staring at me or are you going to pour yourself more wine and have fun.” she cuts me from my short riverie.

Without a word I pour the whole drink from the glass into my mouth and I gulp it down, doesn't hurt to let go and have some fun.

“that's more like it.” she yells pulling me to the dance floor to join the other people dancing.

The wine we've drank since we arrived here plus a few cocktails starts to take effect and everything is beginnibg to shift.

The feeling is great and we keep dancing and rubbing our butts on some random guys.

A few minutes into the dancing one of the guys starts pulling me to himself and I try pushing him away but he is too string to burge. He grabs my ass and I slap his arm, “hey,  let me go.” I yell and he doesn't.

I reach to pull him away but,  “she said let her go.” an awefully familiar deep voice says and I raise my dimmed eyes.

“Bred!” I say more to myself not sure if its true or the alchohol is playing tricks on me.

The guy keeps his hand on my waist and I watch as Bred's eyes run from his hand on my waist to his face.

He's getting angry alright,  and this is not going to end so well.

“I'm not going to say it again.” he says getting closer.

“what are you going to do?” the guy dares him.

“well,  lets find out.” he says his hand rolling into a fist.

“No you don't wanna do this.” I say reaching for his fisted hand. He doesn't look at me. He keeps staring at the guy. 

“looks like the bitch is clever after all.” the guys keeps taunting.

“call her bitch again.” Bred seeths.

I push his hand off my waist and I take a step to Bred. I place my both hands on his cheeks and turn him to look at me. “Hey,  Bred don't.”

I watch as his eyes soften when they land on me. “you can't stoop that low to fight with him. He's an asshole, that's right.” when I realised his attention is on me I continue. “you're better than him.”

Without a word he holds my hand and leads me away with him.

I let my eyes scan the looks with the hopes of finding Ella but she is nowhere to be seen.

I pull my hand from his grip and he stops.
“you okay?”

“ I cant see Ella anywhere.” The panic is making me sober. I reach for my phone in my pouch and when i call her, she sends me to voicemail. “she is not picking my calls.”

“Relax,  may be she left with someone.” he tries reassuring me. “Besides,  she's a grown up she can take care of herself.”

****
We are at Bred's house and I keep zoning out since i'm not completely sober plus Ella is still nowhere to be found.

Its been 3hrs since we left the beach club.

“say something.” he finally breaks the silence.

“I still can't believe that you've had a house in my hometown all this time and you never bothered to tell me.”

My phone chimes and a message from Jim pops up.
Ella is with me.

The information makes me heave a sigh of relief.

“Neither did you tell me that this is your home town.”

That is when I realised that i've been in a relationship with someone for two years and we barely know eachother it feels like I just met him. Come to think of it, he has never told me anything about his family.

Wait.

Why am I even realising this right now?

“Do you even know my family?” I ask.

“Yeah.”

“How? I never told you anything.”

“I just ...”

“investigated.” I complete his sentence.

“ I did not.”

“why wouldn't you just ask like a normal person.” i snap. “you just chose to investigate me like am some sort of a criminal.”

“why are you mad at me anyways.” he acts oblivious.

“all this time dad told me that you were not what I thought you were. ” I say bitterly “but I just told him that he wanted to ruin my life. I was so blind to realise that he was trying to protect me.”

“what do you mean?”

“You might wanna tell me what is going on,  Bred”

“what did your dad tell you?” he asks panicking.

His reaction only makes me want to know what he's hiding.

“Everything,  I just need to know if he's telling the truth.” Dad never told me anything,  we haven't talked since at the house when I forbade him to call me princess anymore,  so I lied to Bred for him to spill what he knows.

“Hey, I need you to know that despite what he said. I still love you.” he starts. “I only did what I did because my dad pressured me to, plus am just caught up in the middle of it like you.”

“what did you do?”

“Mr. Falcon is bankrupt because of me.” Am tempted to scream in disbelief but I need to keep my cool untill he says everything,  but unfotunately I can't stop my tears from rolling down. “I was sent to befriend you and find out everything about your family. My dad said that infiltrating your family was difficult so he found a loophole.”

“me.” I say more to myself.

“yeah.”

“who is your dad?”

“Tom scott.” he says briefly.

“your last name is Carter.”

“I lied..” it comes as a whisper. “carter is my uncle.”

“wow.” I cant believe i've been this stupid.

“am sorry.”

“Wait.” I gasp qhen it hits me. “my dad's rival is your dad? Will is your brother? ”

“yeah.”

“I grew up with Will how comes,  I never saw you?”

“I was raised by my uncle in US.”

“Just when I thought my life was getting complicated.”

I can't believe Will has been my bestfriend yet he lied to me all this time. To top it all off I have been the reason my dad is going through all this. I should have listened to him.

I didn't edit this part so I apologize for any mistakes..have fun.

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