Tattered Love

Chapter 15

It was creepy and eerie at first until we hit the bottom step. Each step had me terrified for my own life. One tiny mishap and your skull could be crushed to smithereens. I make it down to the bottom floor without any injuries. The creepy and eerie feeling leaves my body nice I take in the huge area.

Donatello was not lying when he said all his sons' offices were pretty much next to one another. Each office walls are glass. Each one looks to have a shade like my room, lining the walls. Donatello leads us closer to the seven offices. You can tell each brother has their own personal style. Most are dark in color but you can tell from where we are; five different individuals own five of these offices.

"First up, this is the reception area." Donatello points out the huge open lot in the center of the offices. Elegant black chairs are here and there around the massive area. Several smaller white tables are in between what chairs are here. One large white table is on top of a humongous dark grey rug. Some fake plants are placed around the opened area. The reception desk is dark grey and has a computer centered in the middle of the desk. A black office chair sits in front of the desk.

"Not much to this area really." Alexander comments as he walks off towards an almost empty office.

"This office is father's. He doesn't really use it much anymore. He uses the one upstairs by the library. It's beyond the big double doors on the main floor." Adriano explains why it's almost bare.

"Come along. We will start with the furthest office first and make our way around." Donatello says as he claps his hands and walks to the office next door to his bare one.

"This office is mine." Antonio says from behind me. We walk into his office and on his desk sits a picture of a beautiful lady. It looks to be an older picture. As I take in his office, I notice a hint of color that plays around in the lesser of the dark rooms. He has a lighter grey desk with an office chair that matches in color. Two smaller chairs are in front of his desk. His desk also rests on top of an abstract earthy toned rug. A small book shelf sits on a wall that isn't glass. A few literature books rest on the shelf as well as law books. No hand prints are visible to the eye on the the three glass walls. Not even a speck of dust can be seen.

"Law?" I peep up.

"One of us has to be familiar with the law. So as well as being the soon to be Captain.... I'm a brilliant lawyer." Antonio says. I do a double glance as I take in Antonio's appearance. I couldn't picture him being a lawyer but with this family business.... They'll need one. A damn good one. Donatello ushers up to the e next office.

"Now this one is my humble abode." Arcangelo roughly says. Again it's set up like Antonio's office but his desk is darker. Everything in the room is darker. The rug, the stands, the desk; the only thing not dark and with the only pop of color is a bloody plant in the solid dark grey wall. Like the last office, it has three glass walls. His book shelf has a few technology books and a few law books.

"I went to school for technology. Someone in this family needs to fix electronics. Hell, hack into anything we'd need." Arcangelo says as I study him like I done his twin. Out of the two, out of all of them, I could see Arcangelo being a hacker. He's quite intelligent, I mean they all are. But he seems to be the most intelligent. Like his twin, there's the same woman in a completely different occasion sitting on his desk. Donatello again ushers out of this office and into the next.

"This is is mine." Adriano comments as he walks into his office. The room is darker than the last two. However, the rug is a dark blue and a gold abstract structure is on the back solid wall. A shelf sits with books littering the shelves. I glance and see the same woman with love shining in her eyes sitting on his desk.

"I went to school for medicine. As in actual medicine. I'm a scientist in a way." He says as I look around his office. Donatello again has us go to I am assuming is Alexander's office next.

"Now this cherry is mine." He says. Making my assumption correct. His office is the darkest of the four. He has pops of greens around his office but mainly it's dark as hell. Doctor books litter the shelves and when I look at his office. I see the same woman on his desk.

"Doctor." Alexander says with a smug look. We walk out of his office and into Alessio's office. I'm correct when Alessio walks into it first. His office is by far the eeriest and darkest of the five. The only color is a bloody crimson red rug under his desk. On his bookshelf at books about the mafia and invention books. The same woman is on his desk.

"He's an inventor. But mainly, he had to learn the ins and outs of being the leader to our Mafia." Alexander says with a chuckle. My face morphs into confusion. This asshole invents shit? Can he invent a whole new personality? The last office is the lightest of all of them. The desk is white, the shelves are white, the rug under the white desk is a dusty pink, and the chair matches the rug. There's small plants along the wall as well as a mini Japanese cherry blossom tree. One of my favorites. Medical books line the shelves and sitting on the desk is a picture of Alessio and I at the gardens.

"And this is your office. Decorate it however you like." Donatello informs me. My office sits in between Alessio and Alexander's offices.

I have my own office....

Next to my cheating asshole husband?