After Their Story Began

Chapter 11

Adriana's POV

We just got back from dinner and dad called all of us into the living room.

"Oh no it's the mass grounding."

"Shut up Milo." Dad said in an amused tone

"If it's not to ground them why are we gathered here?" Yuri asked

"My lack of communication over the course of these difficult weeks led Adriana into enemy territory. As a result all of Eastern Europe is upset and are willing to go to great lengths to ensure JJ's death. Today I was able to settle any hostility between us and the Greeks. They will be helping ease tension with other mafias."

"Way to go dad!" My twin complimented

"We're moving out of the penthouse into a three story townhouse in the Upper West Side right next to Central Park. You'll each get a larger room and master bathroom on your own shared floor."

"Wait so us kids get our own floor?" Lessi asked

"Yeah, there are three rooms on the second floor and the largest room is on the third floor. The basement is a separate space with its own entrance, bathroom, and two bedrooms. There's even a room below the basement that has the laundry room. We're having that turned into a playroom. That'll be for Yuri and his family whenever they come over so none of you go in there."

"If there's only four rooms are we living separately?" Niko asked

"Mhm, I bought the unit next door. So we share the backyard and rooftop space. It also has a basement unit that will be for Sergei. Our layout is different since it would just be the two of us. It's only two floors but it's penthouse style. There's a bedroom and master bathroom on each floor."

"Since we have connecting backyards and rooftops you'll have a key to those doors so you can come and go as you please." Dad told him

"I also don't want you alone all day so you'll have to spend most days I'm working at Aleksandr's. You okay with that?"

"Yeah, it'll be nice not having the twins barging into my room and I won't be lonely cause they'll be right next door."

"I'm glad everyone is happy. We'll move in at the end of this month which will give us a week to settle in and do back to school shopping. In the meantime we'll be staying here in Greece. Vasilios was kind enough to offer us his vacation home in Volos. We'll start driving tomorrow morning. Those are all the announcements for today." He concluded

"I'm so excited for the new apartment and we can visit next door every other day so we dirty both sides!" I squealed with my twin

"If I come back and my apartment is a mess I'm dragging you back by your ear to clean up." Dimitri threatened

"Okay mom."

"JJ, It's time. Let's go outside."

"Yes dad."

I followed him to the garden. There were lots of guards but they weren't within earshot of us.

"For starters I still love you and this is going to be a very harsh conversation."

"Are you gonna hit me?"

"I don't plan to." He shook his head

"Cool."

"Why did you do this?"

"To save Xander."

"You've been up for hours and not once did you ask about Xander. Let's stop pretending this was about him." He rolled his eyes

"I've just been distracted."

"Your brother was missing for three weeks, you staged a coupe, blew millions of dollars worth of resources, and left us in even worse social standing with other mafias. You'd think you'd be able to prioritize the well being of the person you allegedly did all this for. You didn't even check on him when you initially found them. How about you try out some honesty and admit that you only did all this to misbehave."