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Vivian River

After last night my perspective on Lorenzo changed. Maybe he was a bad guy. Maybe he was the ruthless, cold-hearted murderer everyone says he is. That's why he thought he was unlovable because he made himself unloveable. What he told me last night wouldn't escape from my mind.

"Don't come running back to me the second you get off this dumb fucking attitude because I promise I won't show u the love you're craving for"

My heart burned hearing those words. I understand I was being ignorant but I really didn't know what to do. It's not like I've ever been in a situation where I had to pick my blood or home. It was like Blood and water. They both felt the same if you closed your eyes. Until you keep your hand in for too long. The blood will start to rot your hand and the water will cause your hands to have wrinkles due to the hand losing volume. At the end of the day, they both change you. They try to love you so much until you rot, and can't take it anymore.

I couldn't pick Lorenzo over my dad, but I couldn't pick my Dad over Lorenzo. I love them both and I was in the middle of this. Either be the mafia princess to your father's mafia the fury's or be the mafia queen to your boyfriend's mafia the vipers.

Suddenly a loud bang crashed at my door, I furrowed my eyebrows as I slowly grabbed a knife to throw. I was never really good with knives. Guns had always been my speciality. Although I never missed with a knife they just weren't my piece of cake. The door creaked as I saw a very tired Adrian and an excited Lia. "Hiii!" She excitedly jumped around smiling. I smiled at her confused "What's the news why are we so happy?"

"Oh God haven't you heard? There's a ball in 2 days!" My eyebrows raised. That was strange. Balls usually occur every 2 months. Unless a mafia arranged it for business. "Enzo organised it for business, and Dad is going because we kind of have to" I scoffed "I don't need to though".

Adri shook his head slowly giving me a weird expression. He slightly squinted his eyes and thinned his lips. "As mafia princess you're required to attend every ball. If anything we all need to go." I looked at Adri confused, why did he have to?

"Dad gave me half the responsibility for the Mafia, making me mafia king to the fury's alongside Chris," He said in a very low tone, clearly he wasn't excited. "Shouldn't you be more excited?" I asked curiously. He shook his head "Mafia men aren't meant to be in love and all of that bullshit and I know Lia will be in more danger" He stared at her and ruffled her hair about.

"I know you're going to protect her" I smiled at him as he smiled back. Soon after Dhalia and Fi came in kicking Adri out. "Guys I don't want to go ball shopping". They all rolled their eyes as they walked out. I thought they would force me to go. Suddenly hurt washed over me. I have no clue why, I didn't want to go but I wanted for them to at least reask, make me feel wanted."

Maybe I craved attention because my parents chose a boy over me, and my boy chose his anger over me. I sat there realising I was nobody's first choice. I thought about everyone I knew. Dad had máma, Chris had Fi, Adri had Lia, Dante had Dhalia, and Des had her bf. Who did I have?

A tear rolled down my cheeks. I missed Enzo so much. My heart started to hurt as my throat closed up. It closed up to the point that It hurt me, I was so hurt but I liked it. I wanted physical pain instead of mental pain. I sniffled a little as I wiped my tears and went downstairs.

Everyone was at the dinner table laughing together. I grabbed a plate and quietly sat down. I was in between Adri and Chris. I kind of waited for someone to acknowledge me. I wasn't alone nor was I unloved, it was the fact that I was so hurt that I was focusing on the fact that I wasn't getting attention for a couple of hours. I normally didn't care but I was upset and wanted some comfort.

Our doorbell rang and I saw the same guy from yesterday who was with Enzo last night. He was brown-skinned, and he looked South Asian but only half. I nudged at Chris asking who he was. "That's Kai Katz, his family own the Luciano mafia, the 2nd largest mafia in the world." He whispered to me.

"What country is he from?" I whispered back, Chris smirked, "He's from Bangladesh and Cambodia". That ticked my assumptions about his south asian roots. Kai stood up straight staring at Dad, "You called for me?" Dad cleared his throat "You're going to get your family into a mess Kai".

Kai chuckled "No Matteo, you're going to get your family into a mess. The second Enzo decides to become ruthless to you is the day you'll wake up on why he held up the Russo name" Dad nodded his head as he realised Kai wasn't going to listen, "Don't say I didn't warn you, Kai".

He scoffed in response and his focus turned on me and my brothers. "Hey Chris and Adri how are you both?". They both responded happily that they were fine and repeated the question back to him. Then his eyes laid on me. With disgust "I hope you know what you did to Enzo you filthy shit".

Before I could even breathe Dante, my brothers and Dad stood up. "Get the fuck out Kai" Dad roared at him. Kai chuckled as he walked out. I felt even more repulsed by myself. I wanted to fall into a hole and carry on falling forever. I didn't want to be here without having Enzo by my side.

It was as if the whole world turned on me when I turned on Enzo. I completely adored Enzo but the disrespect he gave my father was beyond comprehension. But the disrespect my father gave him was jaw-dropping. They both were immature kids who couldn't handle each other's presence. They've been silently fighting for the 1st biggest mafia spot in the world for decades. Yet nobody could achieve it. I had an eerie feeling that Enzo's anguish would lead him to victory.

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