Where There's Smoke

Us Versus

Janae's POV

            I walked into the house and it was silent. My mom and dad took all three girls for the day, so now I'm bored. I stood in the door way to Roman's office and just watched him work. He was concentrating really hard on the screen. The other day he brought Adrian over because he had to work. He's been thrown off since then. I walked in and kissed his cheek. He minimized the screen he was looking at. I kissed his neck and he pulled me into his lap. "I thought you were going to relax today and sleep in." I squeezed my thigh.

   "I thought my baby was going to come cuddle with me, but no he's working. I was excited to have just us time." I smiled.

   "I'm sorry." He looked down.

   "Is it something I can help with?" I asked looking at him. He just looked at me and there was a lot of sympathy in his eyes. "That look tells me it has something to do with Bobby or Bobby related." I got off his lap.

   "I mean kind of, will you come back." He sighed. I went back and sat on his lap again. He rested his cheek on my shoulder. I sighed and leaned into him. He just drew in circles on my thigh. "I love you." He whispered.

   "I know." I sighed.

   "I'm sorry." He held me tighter.

   "I know baby." I kissed his head.

   "We have to exhume Bobby, Angelo, Dani, and Angel." He said softly.

   "Oh." I sighed.

   "You actually are the only one that can give us permission to exhume him. He left you in charge of his estate, which I just found out this morning. I always knew you were worth more than me previously, but your net worth is whew Janae you're up there in the Marchetti's. Anyway because I assumed Gianni could just be like yeah. When I went over to talk to him about Dani, I think the only thing that kept him from putting hands on me was Artemis and Eva. All he said was leave and sometimes Gianni is scary as fuck. That simple leave told me if you try to disturb her at rest it will get very ugly very fast." He said softly.

   "Is that why Nick left to Italy, to go see about exhuming your Zia?" I asked. He nodded and just looked at me. "Why?" I asked.

   "We want to go back over every inch of their bodies to look for a clues. We are chilling on square one."

   "I need to think about it. Is that okay?" I asked. He nodded again. We just sat there and silence for a while and I just thought about everything. "I miss him a lot today." I admitted softly. He just looked at me and I tried to hold back tears. He looked at the calendar at the date and just held me. "Let's go lay down." He patted my leg. I got up. He led me upstairs. I climbed in bed burrowed down. After I told him about Bobby and I, when I would have days where I missed him a lot he would just lay with me. I put the blanket over my head. "Tell me about how you two found out."

   "Really?" I peeked out at him.

   "I wanna know." He smiled at me. I never really talked about Bobby anymore. I mean I kind of just locked him away in the cross space at my townhouse along with those feelings for my own personal sanity. "Hey, what about if it's just me and you tonight?" He asked.

   "What about the girls?" I asked.

   "Let Alessia keep Adrian and Eva and Valentin keep Tati. It's as simple as that." He shrugged. "Actually no, Adrian is going to spend the night with Ms. Keenan. Their supposed to clean out Bruce's place tomorrow. Let Dontae and Darian keep Eva. Yeah, that's a better plan."

   "Tati need's me." I mumbled.

   "You have milk pumped. It's just one night. Valentin can bring her back in the morning. It'll be okay. Are you okay with letting the girls having a night away?" I got anxious about it. I looked at him and he held my hand. "It's Valentin, you can threaten him with all of my guns if you'd like. Do it as a test drive, for when he gets her on the weekends in a few months. It's probation." I looked at Roman and he kissed me. "It'll be okay." I pulled my phone from out of my hoodie pocket and called Val. He answered and Roman took my phone. "Hey man, how much milk do you have?" He asked.