"How long do you want to keep me here?" She asks after seeing Marco walks through the front door after disappearing for 3 days straight.
Leora stayed long enough to familiarize herself with Nonna and her house. Even when Marco doesn't around to do his own business, she always plays with Nonna and bakes some cookies. She learned a lot of Italian recipes that she had mastered. With this new skill she hopes back when she finally reunited with Matteo, she can please him with her dish.
"Long enough. Well, you need to wait until your husband of yours calms down and kills the rest of the agency's army." He says and plops himself on the sofa next to her in the living room.
"Tell me! How is the situation out there?" She insisted. Leora is very frustrated after not knowing everything for two weeks.
"You can already guess it. Everything is a mess. Well except for your husband. I need to act like I care about the American mafia, but I don't really like it. They don't have any respect. I think the war is done soon enough. Just don't stress over everything." He says and looks at the belly.
Marco and Nonna know about Leora's pregnancy. She tried to hide it but even when she tried her best her body can't cooperate. Her morning sickness is severe, just this week it getting worse. She even looks thinner than before.
"Just eat well, be happy, and take care of my niece." He says and stands up from the sofa.
"One more thing, I think my brother knows about your whereabouts. I can feel that somebody is watching this house, two days ago. Just be careful, I don't know for sure if it's your husband. I'll try to look around to confirm it." He says and left to the basement.
She tries to think positively, that it is surely her husband. After all back then when she was away from him for 2 years long, he always take care of her in the shadows. She just hopes he doesn't know yet about her pregnancy, she was just scared of what his reaction was to find out about the little angel inside her belly. Thinking about the future they could have with the baby, scared her. She is scared that all of her fantasy is broken by him.
She sighs and chooses not to think further about all of this. Leora stands up from the sofa to make herself warm milk. She hasn't drunk her pregnancy milk today, she forgets about that.
She smiles when she sees Nonna making their lunch in the kitchen. She can't help herself and hug her from behind. Her cinnamon smells comfort her jumble mind. The warmth from her skin transferred to her heart.
"cosa c'è che non va mia dolce ragazza?" Nonna asks.
Since I live here I start to understand Italian better. Nonna patiently always speaks and repeats her words slowly, so I can google them while learning about them. But for these words I don't need any translation, I know she is worried about me and asks how I am.
"Niente. Sto solo pensando a mio marito." I say proud of myself that I can form words and speak it correctly. 'Nothing. I just thinking about my husband'
"Arriverà, ne sono sicuro". Nonna says with sympathies eyes. 'He will come, I'm sure of it.'
Nonna doesn't really know about the situation. Marco lied to her that he needs to go for business and abandoned his dear wife who is pregnant.
Nonna is their nanny. She knows about their family long enough to know their deepest secret. She is the one who takes care of both siblings since they are little. Matteo gives her this house and freed her from the cruelty of mafia lives.
Leora smiles at her warmly and hugs her thigh. Suddenly Marco comes from the basement with panicked eyes.
"They are here." He panicked and walks towards her.
"Who is here?" Leora asks as Marco drags her somewhere.
"Where are you taking me?" She shrieks in confusion.
"Hide in his room." He says and opens one of the locked doors in here.
"He has room in here?" She asks in disbelief.
"Well he has the master room, after all, he is the one who builds this house." He says and rolled his eyes.
"And he gives you the basement?" She asks.
"Yeah, what a great sibling is your husband." He says and pushes her inside.
"Who is here?" She asks again before he closed the door.
"I still don't know. But some men come here in the car. My alarms run on when they detect some cars coming in this direction." He says and tries to close the door.
"Do you really want to lock me here?!" Leora says in disbelief when he tries to close the door again.
"Your presence here will make me in a dangerous situation. But if it is your husband I'll let you out before he kills me because of you." He says and closes the door.
"Wait!" She screams and put her hand in the door gap.
"What if you die out there and nobody can't open this door?" She asks trying to be realistic.
"You can roam this room, I'm pretty sure he saves the master key to all the rooms. If you can't find it, well you need to figure it out by yourself." He says and locked the door for sure this time.
"What a great brother he is." She mumbles.
Leora looks around the room. She founds a computer and three monitors that look really advanced. She can't help but shake her head. Both brothers really love computers she thinks.
Besides that, she can feel the difference between this room, his room in the mansion, and the apartment. This room and the apartment look normal, with common furniture, such as a bed, table, and sofa in a neutral color. It's different from his room in the mansion. Leora can tell that he mostly lives in there. Most of it all black, his favorite color she thinks. Besides that, anybody can tell that the room in the mansion back in Sicily is more personal with his collection of books and mine.
Leora walks to the computer and tries to turn it on.
"Surely you are really a geek." She mumbles when sees the computer turning on faster than any normal computer she knows.
"Let's see what we will find here. I hope something amusing that can help me spend my time here." She says and clicks all files she can find in every folder.
"Pretty boring." She sighs. She tries to open every folder and software until she founds that, this house has CCTV all around, and she can access it through this computer.
"You are so typical." She smiles.
"Well, thanks to you I can see now what happen outside." She says as she clicks on the file with this time and date.
The CCTV records that Marco pointed his gun at some men in a black suits. Pretty sure it isn't Matteo men. One of the guys put his hand up and tries to talk to Marco but before he can walk close to him, they guys dead on the spot. But Leora didn't see Marco shoot his gun. Everybody is in there looking at the shooter but unfortunately Leora can't sees, the CCTV can't reach the spot where he is.
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