Fiore Mortale (mxm)

76.

When I crack open my eyes, a little soreness throbs at my behind from where Arsenio had spanked me yesterday causing me to instantly realize he's still handcuffed under me. Was I fucking stupid?

What kind of shit was in my food last night? Oh, it was that he mentioned the surrogacy shit. Slowly I sit up seeing the clock show me a quarter to seven and crawl off of him.

He's still soundly asleep once I exit the shower, seeing the rain pelting at the window. As if I thought it would get me out of trouble, I pull the cover over him unlocking the cuffs and, studying the hickeys interlacing themselves on his neck before heading to get Georgie dressed for the day. "Where's dad?" She asks while I look through her dresser to find her something to wear.

"He's sleeping, dad is tired." I say without thinking realizing I'd have to use it again for when Arsenio wouldn't make an appearance to breakfast. I wash her face and brush her teeth since she'd became obsessed with having pretty white teeth as she'd told Alanine.

I fix her breakfast without saying a word to anyone, but they watch me curiously once I sit down to my own plate, making sure I cut Georgie's pancakes and offer her a spoon.

"Did you kill my brother?" Giovanni accuses me, since he'd yet to make an appearance and they were almost finished.

I glance up to see the girls watching me in slight alarm and Gio pointing a gun at me.
"Because if you did, I'm going to kill you. You're nothing without Arsenio's protection. You're not apart of our family, hell Carmen isn't even apart of our family and she's Italian. Just so you know."

"Calm down, I'm sure he left this morning before any of us got up." Narazio corrects, as I study the similarities between Narazio and Gio, but not seeing many between Arsenio and them. If anything, Arsenio resembled Pericio more so than anyone at the table.

"Right?" Yuri asks a little perplexed.

"Daddy is sleeping." Rosabelle exclaims, making me sigh when I realize how it interpreted from a kid, as I stare at my plate briefly before looking up.

"What the fuck Eli!" Yuri hisses.

"You killed Arsenio in his sleep?" Isla asks.

"Have you lost your mind?" Alanine finishes.

"Arsenio is sleep, did you expect me to wake him up?" I ask like they were all stupid.

"So you killed him? You Americans literally aren't shit. I bet he'd wished he'd listened to me now. I would've been so much better to him than you ever could have. Rosabelle would've had as many siblings as she possibly could've wanted! It should be me!" Carmen hisses.

I squint at her, wondering if she realized what she'd said. "You do realize Arsenio is gay, right?" I point out, to which she shrugs.

"And? Something I could've corrected easily had Pericio not been drunk when bargaining in with my father! I shouldn't be married to Giovanni, he's literally lower than the scum on my shoe. But h-"

"Eli, where's my son?" Marie asks me hesitantly, while Isla and Yuri just look flabbergasted.

"He's sleep." I say again, not sure what they weren't understanding.  "Let's say I did kill him, pointing three guns at me, along with the guards and killing me in front of my daughter isn't going to bring him back." I shrug, sipping the rest of my apple juice as Kian looks conflicted as if he shouldn't have his gun pointed at me, but somewhat does.

Pericio, Gio, and Narazio seem intent on pulling the trigger which makes Rosie cry loudly. Alanine immediately picks her up out of her high chair as she screams for me.