Matteo
"I'm waiting, let me hear the excuse."
"Dad I'm sorry."
"You're sorry?"
"Yes I-
"You know the rules Esther. Straight after school you come home. If you want to come home a little later you communicate that with us but you didn't. You know why you didn't? Because I know it's because you were with Hardin. Sí?"
"Papà per favore" (Dad please)
"Stai lontano da quel cazzo di ragazzino o inizierà a perdere gli arti, capito?" (Stay away from that fucking kid or he'll start losing limbs, understand?)
"Matteo, that's far enough." Alexa interrupted. "They're just kids babe, Esther we expect you to listen to us you know how your father gets especially when a boy is involved but we'll talk about it later. Go to bed." She practically just gave her a pat on the back.
Esther wasted no time in leaving the room probably thankful for her mother's dismissal."Such a bossy man, why don't you fuck some of that tension out of your system?mhm."
"You're so hard on her sometimes. Has it ever occurred to you that's why she always finds herself in trouble?"
"You're putting this on me?"
"I'm just saying Matteo, teenagers tend to act out when they're governed by strict parents. Being overprotective and overbearing force the children to rebel. Maybe we should ease up on her a bit."
"Alexa she needs to understand that she is a child, a girl in a man's world. She can't go about doing whatever the fuck she wants like she is a nobody. She is a Romano, which means she always has eyes on her even those of our enemies. I won't be any less protective of our only daughter."
"That's just the thing. You're strict with her because she's your daughter. I don't see you being this hard on Zayne."
My phone rang interrupting our conversation. I told Damién that I would meet him soon and ended the call."There is nothing that you have to do now that can't be done in the morning Matteo? Please come to bed, my love."
"I'm meeting Damién first then I'll join you. I won't be long." I said placing a kiss to her temple as I left the room.
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Debolezza(Book 3 of the Romano series)
AcciónIt's a new generation of Romanos and Matteo and his brothers plan to keep the Italian mafia as powerful as it has been over the decades thanks to their late father Dario Romano. Taking over an empire is one thing but keeping it on top of the game i...