to capture a heart

Meeting

Vivian River

Me and Enzo walked around for a while which consisted of him whining that nobody was good enough and that he wanted to go home. I ended up choosing the next 9 people to go. 4 girls and 5 boys.

Dad rang Enzo to let him know he found 10 people and then we all decided to make our way back to his to make ball arrangements. God this was going to be long.

Eventually, everyone made it home and we all gathered around the table. "So where do you want to do it?" Dante questioned as he pulled his laptop out to rent a hall. Lorenzo stayed silent thinking hard.

"The Ampfiresh Hall." Dante nodded as he went to rent it for one night. It cost $20,000 which Enzo didn't mind about. "Rented," Dante spoke. "Decoration and food are all included."

Enzo nodded whilst keeping silent. It was really awkward if you couldn't tell. "Guest list?" Dad asked. Enzo's jaw tensed "Every single Mafia, tell them to bring 10 of their own. A vote will occur with the Vipers tomorrow." I glanced at him seeing his discomfort at the whole situation.

His hair fell framing his face, His brown soft hair. God, it smelt delicious as well. "Vivia?" Enzo stared at me when I realised Dad was speaking to me but I was staring at Enzo like some idiot.

"Oh sorry, Yes Dad?" Dad cleared his throat biting back a smile "Dress extra, Enzo is hosting you gotta look the best dressed." I nodded assertively as I saw Fi and Chris arguing again.

"Fuck off Fi," Chris grumbled as he walked over to sit next to Enzo and Adri. Erm was that necessary.

"I have to host this dumbass ball to fucking tell people who's the leader of the Vipers as if anyone gives a flying fuck." Enzo grumbled. Dad chuckled trying to lighten the situation "Son we know you'll win, no Viper's like your father I can assure you."

"What if it's a tie?" Lia chirped into the conversation. "It fucking won't be, if it comes to that then the future Mafia Queen has the last vote, or the previous Mafia Queen." I gulped knowing that I might have to vote.

"It all relies on a coin." I slightly giggled to myself about how stupid it was. An entire mafia based on a coin. Now that was silly. This time Enzo had Kai, Kayden and Colt to vote for him. We were all silent until we heard someone munching on crackers. Kai was in the corner munching on a box of crackers.

Enzo glared at him and Kai earned a scowl from him. "Fat shit." Kai laughed as he shook Enzo's comment off. Dante got Pinterest up and turned it to me and started showing me options for dresses. Since I had to be the best dressed Enzo hired a makeup artist and hair stylist for me.

"It's ugly." I groaned as he showed me the 20th dress. "You're picky huh," Enzo smirked at me as I rolled my eyes.

I ended up telling Dante I'd find my own dress and Dad proceeded to start to make his way back home. Everyone left alongside him. We said our goodbyes and hugged each other.

I had to buy 2 dresses. One for the voting and one for the ball. Enzo assigned Kai to take me dress shopping which he obviously hated. As I joyfully speed-walked around the place he was groaning telling me to hurry up before he picked the ugliest one and runs home without me.

I ended up in a ginormous shop filled with the most elegant dresses I've ever seen. I thought to go for gold. "Hey welcome to Ballarista! How can I help you?" A tall dark skin girl approached me with a wide smile across her face. She had a short bob and light makeup on.

"Hii! I'm searching for one gold dress and one white dress that would make me stand out. And the price doesn't matter" She excitedly turned around to an aisle filled with golden dresses. She ran her finger through them until she picked out a Golden dress before turning it to me.

"Here's our exclusive Mirabel Chic Gold sleeveless halter sequins dress! It costs a rocking $500,000 due to the real gold." I bite my lip staring at the dress knowing it was quite pricey.

Then she ran her fingers and brought out a white sparkly dress with fur alongside. "Here's our White fur off-shoulder dress! This one costs only $300,000"

I smiled at her kindly before excusing myself to ring Enzo. "Hey Enzo I found a dress but it's $500,000 and the other is $300,000" I had a feeling he would tell me to find a cheaper one so I waited for his response.

"Is that it?" He sounded quite unamused at the price. I raised my eyebrows "I can buy it with your card?" He chuckled over the phone "It's a black card Amore spend billions on it I wouldn't even notice."

I giggled as I thanked him and went to buy the dress. As I got to the register a familiar face stared at me. "We meet again Miss River." I gulped as I saw Kai walking towards me alerted with a gun in his hand.

"Mhm we do Mrs Russo." She smirked at me as Kai came next to me. She shook her head snickering and walked off to see more dresses. I smiled at Kai thankful he was here and we quickly paid and left.

Me and Kai brought a couple of other stuff since Enzo wouldn't notice. We left the mall with a burger meal in our hands. "That was weird of Mrs Russo." I chirped as Kai laughed. "The Russo's own that mall, I wasn't too surprised seeing her." My eyebrows raised. God, they're rich.

I hummed as Kai got to driving back to Enzo's house. "I've been meaning to ask, how did you get Enzo to be like this?" Kai turned to me with one hand on the wheel.

"I didn't, he chased me." I winked playfully as Kai smiled at me slightly chuckling and turned back to driving. We got back to his house and I saw around 40 men in the living room with Enzo. Kai put a hand on my back and whispered in my ear "That's 20 different mafia leaders, including Stefano. Go upstairs."

I nodded at Kai. As I was about to make my way upstairs a revolting voice echoed across the room "Miss River, join us since you are the future mafia queen of the Vipers I presume." I turned to see Stefano smirking at me.

I debated whether I should until I saw Chris, Adri and Dad there. I went and sat next to Chris until he muttered "Next to Enzo, Vi." I glanced at a very livid Enzo. I quenched as I slowly made my way to Enzo. He placed a hand on my hip as I sat next to him.

My heart was thumping realising it was 20 different Mafia leaders staring straight at me. I recognised a couple of them as they allied with the Fury's. I assumed this was about the Viper's rein.

Multiple security paced around the room with loaded guns. Kai, Kayden and Colt sat down as they proceeded to talk. Enzo cleared his throat "The Viper's vote occurs tomorrow, You guys will know the result the next day at the ball that I'm hosting."

I saw multiple enraged faces. "It should fucking be Stefano, not a little boy handling the biggest and most powerful mafia in the world." A chubby middle-aged man spoke up. He represented the Spanish Mafia.

Enzo snickered "Does it look like we give a fuck about your thoughts? You own the 10th largest mafia pipe the fuck down cunt." The man shut up real fast.

"Bring 10 of your people excluding your wife and families." They all nodded and I saw Stefano smirking. "Does that include Vivian for you, since she is just your girlfriend or slut as most would say?"

Enzo stood up first until Dad rapidly stepped in to calm Enzo down. "Fucking call my daughter that and I'll place your head on a silver platter for your wife, this time making sure it's yours."

Enzo sat down. I started to fidget with my hand and he glared at me pushing my hands away from each other. He interlinked our hands and started to fiddle with my fingers instead. "Do only the Viper's vote?" Another much skinnier man asked, he represented the Sudanese mafia.

I didn't realise how many mafia's there really was. Even though only 20 was present today Enzo warned me there would be 100 times more in the ball.

"Yes." Stefano replied. Enzo scowled at him for answering for him.

"Did you get a dress?" Enzo mumbled. I nodded.

I decided to go upstairs, I gave Dad a little peck on his forehead and said goodbye to Chris and Adri. As soon as I left everyone in that room started to shout and yell over each other. It was chaos.

I heard deep loud voices yelling at each other, it eventually stopped after an hour. They all left and only Enzo was in the house alongside Kai, Kayden and Colt.