His Identity

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|Alessio's POV|

Seeing Nick like this makes me feel strange. He used to be the liveliest kid I knew— in fact, Sean and I made sure of that.

However, despite all our efforts, he turned out to be like his dad in the end. But then again, I suppose death is not something you can predict unless you're some sort of doctor or the one about to cause it.

Eli's death was definitely not expected. She was still practically a baby. She had so much to see, to learn, to discover, to live.

But life has its ways of fucking someone over. There's this famous quote ; Nobody dies a virgin, life fucks us all. That is so damn true.

Lea and Enzo did not deserve to have one of their children taken away from them. Nobody deserves to go through that. I know I'd fucking lose it if I were to lose Atlas or Ares.

The two fucking devils of my life. My sons. Twins. They're both fifteen.

I never saw kids in my future to be honest. But what else could I expect from countless hours of sex?

Having Thea with me makes the whole raising kids process easy and worth it. And honestly? It makes me wanna have more kids with her but then Atlas and Ares's faces flash in front of my eyes and I'm like immediately no, thank you very much. Two of these fuckers are enough for a lifetime.

Atlas is the older twin. Ares is seven minutes younger. I never fail to remind the both of them how they were the result of a broken condom when they piss me off and when I do, Thea never misses her slaps on my stunningly gorgeous face.

Sometimes I'd look at Sage, Sean and Athena's thirteen year old daughter and hope I had a daughter instead. Because Sage is probably the quietest girl there is unlike my boys. Absolutely nothing like her parents. You'd barely hear her voice unless she's talking to myself the boys. Even when she was a baby, she'd hardly cry. 

Sage, Atlas, Ares and Eli were the ultimate group. They still are, they just lost a member.

Anyways, I decided to stick around in Chicago for a while. To keep Nick company and to prevent him from doing idiotic shit like killing another family member without bothering to give a warning first.

Paulo's death came out as a shock to everyone and the reason behind it led Maria, Nick's grandmother to have a mini heart attack. Then for days, she wouldn't shut up about how she thinks the family's cursed. Old people's mindset's going to be the death of me.

Athena had been the one to deliver the news and the reason. Arabella didn't seem sad or anything which made me figure that Paulo was really a fucking dick. I should've seen the signs earlier and killed him ages ago.

Enzo was pissed. Lea didn't react much— or if she did, she didn't let us see. She spends most of her time in her room these days doing god knows what. Enzo has been giving his half of attention to his mafia, making it reach greater heights and the other half to his wife.

Nick isn't to be blamed at all for what happened to Eli. Enzo and Lea knows it. They don't blame him— they simply can't. They've both been too busy grieving to give a shit about their other child, the one that's still breathing. And although I've tried convincing them a shit ton of times to come with me to Chicago to see him, they've always refused.