Alexia

Chapter 3

(Author's note. From here on out everything spoken will be in english unless otherwise specified.) 

Leonardo POV

Leonardo Romano had just sat down at his desk inside his home office when his phone rang. It was early in the morning and they hadn't even had breakfast yet so he wondered who was calling him this early, however due to the business he was in he couldn't just let it go.
Looking at the caller ID he frowned.
+45? What area code was that?
"Hello?" He asked. He never introduced himself on the phone in case he had to deny it.
"Ah, yes. Hallo," A man with broken english said on the other end of the phone.
"I am s-sory to distub you." He continued and Leonardo had to put his full attention into this call in order to understand the man.
"I am over-offiser Larsen."
What the fuck is an over officer? Leonardo thought to himself.
"I am ringing for Mister Romano." The man said.
"That would be me." Leonardo said in his cold voice. This call was weird to him but something told him not to hang up.
"Oh! Hej!" The man exclaimed.
"I ring because I have two kids with me." The man began to explain. "Their mom was killed this morning."
Leonardo was getting frustrated with the man and his bad english. "I'm sorry for the kids but what does that have to do with me?" He asked sounding cold.
He could hear the gulp on the other end of the phone.
"I did DNA and the kids are yours Mister Romano." The man said, making Leonardo freeze.
"What did you just say?" He asked. He heard the man but he needed it confirmed.
"The girl's name is Alexia and the young boy is Leo." the man said.

Flashback...
Papa! Papa! Papa!!
His beautiful little girl came running towards him as he walked through the door.
"Lexi, my beautiful little princess." He said kissing her cheek making her giggle. Sweet music to his ears. His boys came running behind her. She was the jewel to everyone.
"Papa, Enzo is ickling me." She giggled pointing at her oldest brother.
"Well he is a mean tickle monster, isn't he." He agreed with his 2 year old daughter winking at his oldest son who just grinned at them.

"Mister Romano?
The man on the other end of the phone brought him out of his memory.
"Yes." Leonardo cleared his throat.
"Send me the DNA proof and a picture of the two kids along with the address of where I can get them to my email and I will come get them immediately." Leonardo didn't wait for the man to reply before hanging up and not even five minutes later did he have a new email.
He opened it right away. An address of a police station in Denmark was the first thing that greeted him the second was a picture of two kids. A girl in her teens sitting in an oversized hoodie with light brown hair and blue eyes with an arm around a little boy with dirty blonde hair and the same blue eyes as his sister. Leonardo frowned. The boy looked too young to be his but he was the spitting image of the rest of his boys. He was the spitting image of himself when he was a kid.
Several months after Kiara disappeared with Alexia, Leonardo found out Kiara was pregnant when she left. He, however never knew what happened to that baby. He hadn't known if she had kept the baby or had aborted it.
That baby should have been about 11 years old by now, this boy in the picture didn't look much older than 7. But he had no doubt the girl was Alexia. That was his little princess.
He quickly opened the DNA test, curious about the boy. It was indeed his son. But why was he so small?
It didn't matter. He already loved him. Loved them both. He had finally found his lost kids.
He quickly made a phone call, ordering his people to ready his jet ASAP.
He then went out to the kitchen where he knew everyone would be up by now seeing as they have school or work to get to.
He walked in a daze and it wasn't until the chaos in the kitchen and his brother Alessandro stood in front of him with a worried expression that Leonardo snapped out of it.
Glancing around the attention of all six of his sons, his brother as well as all 7 of his nephews was on him. Some of them looked cold, while others looked concerned or indifferent.
"Dad?" Matteo, his second oldest son asked.
"I just got a call from a police station in Denmark." Leonardo started. He watched as everyone glanced around at each other trying to figure out who was in trouble with the international police this time.
"It." He paused. Kiara was a sore subject in their house. They all knew she had been the one to take away Lexi. She had abandoned their amazing sons, never to be heard from again.
"It seems as though Kiara died this morning local time." He explained and watched every single boy's expression harden. Including Alessandro's youngest, Marcello, who never met Kiara.
"What does that have to do with us?" Dante one of his youngest asked with gritted teeth. Well, guess he isn't one of the youngest anymore.
"I'm going to Denmark and bringing your siblings home." Leonardo said. The kitchen remained silent.
Leonardo had only ever told his brothers and his father that Kiara had been pregnant when she had left. He hadn't wanted to tell any of the boys or his mother not knowing what had happened with the baby.
"Did you just say siblings?" Luca, his third oldest said. "And in plural?"
Leonardo nodded.
"How is that possible?" Riccardo asked sounding angry.
"It means Kiara was pregnant with my son when she left with Alexia." Leonardo said.
"What the fuck!" Nico, Alessandro's second youngest yelled.
Leonardo ignored his nephews outburst. He wanted to get going.
"Lorenzo, you're coming with me. Matteo, Luca and Santino you three make sure Alexia's room is cleaned up and make up a room for Leo as well."
"What about us?" Dante piped up.
Leonardo looked at his twins. "You two go to school like normal." He said. "We won't be home til tonight anyway.
Leonardo turned around to leave while Lorenzo went out of the kitchen to pack some work he could do on the plane.
Alessandro followed Leonardo out of the kitchen and into his office.
"I'm happy for you brother." He said as Leonardo packed a briefcase with work to do as well.
"I'm nervous." He admitted. It was only a half truth. He was scared shitless. What if his kids thought he had abandoned them? What if they hated him.
"Everything will be okay." Alessandro smiled at his twin brother. "Now go bring my niece and nephew home." He said with a big grin.
Not only was the families princess finally coming home but they were getting another son. It didn't matter that between the three sons his parents had they'd had 19 sons. They will happily add more.
Hell if Alessandro's own wife hadn't died when she was pregnant with his youngest son Angelo, he would have probably have had a dozen kids by now, if not more. But his beloved Francesca had been shot when she was 7 months along with Angelo and neither of them had survived. Alessandro had never found another woman to love.

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The plane ride to Denmark was the slowest time has ever passed for Leonardo. He is anxious and wants to see his kids. Take them home with him.
He and Lorenzo doesn't waist any time getting into the black SUV waiting for them on the landing field. His staff knows to get the jet ready to go again.
The drive to the police station took about 20 minutes and now Leonardo was standing in the middle of a station looking at the sibling duo through a window.
Lorenzo and the man that apparently called him stepped up next to him.
"Let me meet your daughter." He said.
If this was how an adult over here talked english he would probably need a private tutor for his kids starting the moment they got home. No one in their house spoke Danish. And Danish was far from the Italian they knew.
This meeting might not go as well as he hoped.