𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝

8

Giovanni

I finished making my phone calls and finally made my way into the house, I heard chatter in the living room and the first thing to catch my eyes was Mila lying on the couch talking as her kids watched some cartoons.

I look up to see who she's talking to before my eyes fall on Luca who catches my eye. "There you are, old man!" He says as he gets up.

"Luca?" I ask surprised, I haven't seen Luca in a while since he decided he wanted to try the whole college thing out.

He left the state when he was 18 and hasn't come back until now, the only time we made contact was when he'd call me every once in a while.

He said he left for school but I knew it was something else.

And I think he has something to do with what went down earlier today, he comes over to me and pats my back doing the same to him. "Don't look too happy."

I push him off of me as I shrug my jacket off and hang it up. "Why'd you suddenly come back?" I ask and he shrugs, I give him a look and he rolls his eyes.

"Just felt like it, the college thing wasn't working out." He said.

Bullshit.

"2 years of me paying tuition just thrown away like that yeah?" I ask.

"You can afford it." He says.

"You saw that Petrov girl," I said as I walked into the kitchen making sure we were far enough that no one heard me.

He stills. "What Petrov girl." He tries.

"Don't bullshit me Luca, you thought I wouldn't find out?" I said as I pulled out a cup pouring some whiskey for myself as I took a sip. "Took me a bit, but not long to figure out the reason you were getting your ass kicked by Victor and his brothers every couple of months was because you were pussy whipped."

He rolled his eyes. "It's not like that." He sighed. "How did you know I went to see her?" He asks.

"I'm guessing your old friends found out, shot up ma's brunch."

"Shit."

"Yeah, you're lucky they haven't told their father about you, if you fuck up and mess with the alliance I'll kill you myself Luca, just stay away from the girl."

"Can't." He says as he pulls out a chair.

"And why the fuck not?" I asked and he glared at me.

"You're one to talk, you're the one getting married! And I had to find out from your bride three weeks before the wedding, she looks very familiar by the way." He says raising an eyebrow, trying to avoid the question.

I watch his eyes for a second before shooting the rest of the liquid down my throat, ignoring the fact that he remembered Mila from the club all those years ago.

Shit, the boy loved this Petrov girl.

"L'amore è una stronza malvagia, se la vita non ti uccide, lo farà."

Love is an Evil bitch, if life doesn't kill you, it will. My nonnas famous words.

"Fuck off, it's not like that." He said he doesn't even sound convinced himself.

He got up from his chair and walked back into the living room sitting on the chair across from the couch where Mila and her kids sat.

The boy, Cade slowly eating a cookie as he scrolls on the iPad I had Victoria order with a whole bunch of other toys for the two.