The Mafia King

Chapter 26

Song for this chapter:

We Are by Justin Bieber

Justin's POV

Love is not a feeling that can easily be explained or even easily felt, it takes more than a romance novel or some cheesy poem. And it can't be felt as deeply as a knife into someones flesh, it takes time, trust, loyalty and affection.

Love can either send you onto the highest of mountains, make you see the sun brighter, grass greener. It spreads a smile from up to your ears and a tingly warm feeling in your body and the pit of your existence. But it can also feel like a million tiny, burning swords being thrusted into your soul.

Instead, my feelings for Rose seem to be something I can't explain as they burn bright like a bonfire in the canopy of the dead of night. My feelings scare me, even though they are everything I had ever wanted and dreamed of, I'm scared of how deeply I'm really going to end up feeling for Rose.

The small excitement I get every time I get home from work knowing that Rose is there, replacing the miserable getting home and slumping on the couch alone with a glass of whiskey. The rush of electricity I feel when her skin even brushes against mine. It scares me. 

It scares me that it could all disappear and leave me even more empty than I was before.

Like one of my favourite songs by Ed Sheeran had once quoted "all I want is the taste that your lips allow" could never had made more sense to me than all the times I had listened to it alone in my bed wishing I knew what he was truly singing about. 

All I had ever wanted was to understand the way people would touch and hold each other.

Rose lay asleep next to me, her pale skin blending with my cream satin sheets as her chest rose and fell with grace and peace as she slept. I lay with my elbow cropped up my hand holding my head in place as I stared in the sleeping beauty as she lay at peace under the blazing light of the stars.

Her eyes fluttered slightly as her long black lashes fanned her pale cheeks illuminating her beauty, infatuating me wanting to keep her in my sight forever Her soft rogue lips contrasting as a burst of colour to her pale skin, every inch of her was beautiful as if she really was a delicate Rose.

Brushing a strand of her auburn hair from her cheek she shuffled closer to me, my breath hitched in my throat as her body grazed mine slightly. 

I slowly placed my arm round her small body as I pulled her closer to my presence laying down.

I had always hated sleeping in the same bed as someone, I couldn't trust girls I had slept with. I felt uncomfortable with other people in my bed with me, it had always been that way, but somehow with Rose she had helped me sleep better, I could relax and actually find some sleep.

Rose had stopped a lot of my nightmares when I shared the same bed with her, she had fallen asleep in the spare room bed last night and I had laid in my bed for hours before getting into bed with her later on because I couldn't sleep.

I froze suddenly as Rose groaned slightly before turning over and nuzzling her head in my chest before settling back into a peaceful slumber. I sighed slightly with relief of not waking her up before closing my own eyes waiting to drift off into my own silence.

Rosalina's Pov

"Justin, you're going to get on my last tit, and trust me when I say I only have two" I warn as I sit at his dining room table trying to type an email to grandmother about my trip so far in Vegas.