Loathsome Brothers

Caught

Arius' Pov

Lorenzo Bianchi. The man I never wanted to get caught by. He hates us British wholeheartedly and wouldn't mind killing me for touching his granddaughter, even if it means initiating a Mafia war.

I didn't plan to get caught red-handed but if I were to, then I'd prefer it to be her aunts or uncles or grandmother. I know for a fact they'll be more understanding of our relationship, if you can call it one.

I take the smallest step to the side, successfully hiding my baby from the view of the ragged ex-Capo.

I can feel panic radiating from her along with the nervous fiddling of her fingers. I know she doesn't want to face this situation but she does anyway and sidestepped.

"Should I repeat myself or will you answer?" He sounds livid and I decided to take charge but she always like to sort things out herself.

"Everything's ok grandpa" I don't think I've heard anyone call him such a casual term. "We were just talking"

From my peripheral vision, I can see her smiling weakly. She's scared. I want to hug her and take her away from this man.

"Doesn't look like it" He pointed. "Did he do something?" Ofcourse he thinks I'm bothering her.

"No" She answers right away but hesitates on her next words. "We were just talking about the competition. We did so well. Had fun. Also we won, so that was another good thing about it. And the party is nice too. I haven't attended a gala before, and this one is just so incredibly insane-"

I don't know why she's saying all this but seeing the look on Lorenzo's face, he looks quite used to her rambling. Maybe it's one of her traits, I haven't had a chance to witness. She looks so adorable. Babbling suits her.

"-and then I came out to use the bathroom and Arius saw me so he was just-" He got irritated and cut her cute excuse short.

"Go" His voice comes out firm. I wonder if that's how he always talk to her because I didn't appreciate such tone being used for addressing her. "I'll wait for you here"

"You don't have to. I'll be back in a few minutes"

She captured her bottom lip between her teeth and I had to push back the memories of me having that in and on my mouth, sucking and nibbling it.

"Take you time principessa" His words might be soothing but voice held a warning. He never liked when people defied him, all of them would eventually end up on roads, dead or miserable. "I think Arius and I have a few things to go over" He brought his eyes on me. "I'll be here when you're back"

El hesitantly nodded and went the opposite direction towards the bathroom, leaving me alone with the deadliest man known to Italy.

"Now" He took an intimidating step towards me. We still had a good 3ft distance. "I don't want to hear any lies. What were you doing?"

"If I tell you, you'd not like it grandpa" I knew I fucking messed up the moment those words left me.

I shouldn't have dared to call him that. And what was I thinking by not denying all charges. If he wants to know the truth, doesn't mean I can't lie.

His hands fisted at his sides and I know for a fact that if he had a gun on him right now, I would've had a few fresh scars. But it would be well-deserved, I just confessed that I had an ulterior motive with his granddaughter. He has all the right to be pissed.

"I excuse you for the your age of foolishness. Be grateful that I'm giving you another chance to explain yourself" His jaw clenched as he tried to handle the situation calmly. "But understand that you're walking on thin ice young boy"