Leonora Bernardi locked in the dark. Hurt for most of her life, scared of her own shadow. Not knowing what the outside world is like, she's the epitome of innocence. One look at her and it's like her aura could light up the room.
Nikolai Volkov fut...
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Thantophobia: - the phobia of losing someone you love.
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Nikolai POV
"The Bernardi's are here."
I stop breathing in that one second, a cold sweat breaking out across my forehead and my neck. Leonora... Shit Leonora.
Looking towards my father, I see both my brothers and him are already looking at me his eyes dark. I can tell he doesn't want to seem panicked in front of our men. He nods at me in understanding before I bolt up from my chair, ripping the door open in the process. Lets just hope I didn't rip the hinges off.
I need to find Leonora.
Sprinting down the corridor I take the steps at least three at a time, my heart feeling like it's about to beat out of my chest. When I notice the familiar black doors down the corridor, I sprint there as quickly as possible hoping that Leonora is through those doors. She's fine. The Bernardi's haven't found her.
But my hopes quickly diminish when I burst through the door's. My eyes now meeting the seven Bernardi males, who are all now looking at me like they want to kill me.
"I think we have some talking to do."
The doors open behind me a few seconds later, my father now coming to stand next to me.
"Armando." My father replies calmly. A small ounce of relief pours into my body knowing my father's here with me. Armando and my father are old friends, which is why we have an alliance within the mafia.
"Victor... I think you have some explaining to do." Armando said. My eyes move to see Leonora who has her arms and legs wrapped firmly around the oldest of the Bernardi siblings. She looks so small and cute wrapped around him like that.
"Hey. Look away stronzo." (translation: asshole) Valentino said moving so she's standing in front of Leonora, blocking both mine and her view of seeing each other.
"Watch who your talking to мальчик." (translation: boy) Micah snaps back. Micah now standing to my right, and Ivan to my left.
"Hey don't talk to my piccolo fratello like that." (translation: brother) Leonardo said coming to stand next to Valentino.
"What? You need this идиот to stick up for you." (translation: idiot) Ivan said chuckling. Oh no not now, you two are not helping this situation.
"Oh I can stand up for myself." Valentino said taking a step forward.
"Oh the guy who think's he's so badass and cool." Ivan snarked back, rolling his eyes. I pinch the bridge of nose knowing this is going to go nowhere good.
"And here I was thinking I was just being myself." Valentino replies a smirk now on his face. Oh no.
"Please, your self is just a watered-down version of every frat boy, badboy stereotype." I can see both of them taking steps closer to one another.
