Golden Hearts |Completed| ✔

Book II - Part 6

  Unedited.

Third Person POV

    Flashbacks (5 years ago.)

Giuseppe was holding the two weeks old baby in his arms in a hospital corridor waiting to hear anything about his mother who was inside the OR. He kept rocking the wailing baby in his arms, trying to get her to stop crying, and looking towards the door that separates him from his adoptive mother every now and then.

The corridor- the whole floor where Emma and Müller were kept in was filled with bulky men in dark suits, each one standing in a stiff protective position, monitoring the surroundings for any potential threat. No one was allowed inside the corridor Giuseppe and Gisela were in, much less the operating theatre where their bosses lay, only the medical team that was in charge of them was authorised.

Giuseppe didn't know what to do to his crying baby sister to make her stop, she was continuously crying from the moment she woke up in the ambulance until now, nothing he did helped calming her down. It was as if she felt the danger her mother was in.

The little boy didn't know how to cope with all this, he himself was scared to death. Emma's last words kept ringing in his ears like a broken record.

"Promise me to take care of your sister and protect her if something happened to me." Emma urged her son as she handed him a sleeping Gisela.

"Mom!" Giuseppe said crying as he watched Müller running towards the voices that were coming closer and closer by the second to distract them while Emma hide her children.

"Listen to me, son. I may not come back from this, from the voices approaching I can tell they're too many for me and Müller to deal with them alone and unarmed, and if I do come out of this alive I may not be the same as before which means that Ela is your responsibility. I want you to promise me to take care of her and protect her like a brother would." Emma told her son, her tone scared the little boy even more than he already was. "If something happened to me and Müller, press this button." She handed him a small device from her pocket with a fury red button in the centre. "If you do, someone will come to pick you up, go with him and lay low until you're sure you're strong enough to protect yourself and your sibling. He will help you continuing your training, but you must never reveal yourself or Gisela until you're sure you're capable of protecting the both of you. And, son, trust no one. Only the man who's going to pick you up, he's one of us. The Crawlers will stay dormant until you're ready to be crowned, he will make sure their loyalty stays with you, do you understand, son?" Emma asked her trembling son.

"Y- yes, I do." Giuseppe nodded his head furiously, barely controlling his sobs.

"Good boy! Remember, until you're ready do not let a soul know who you and Gisela are. Not even Adam." When the boy nodded once again, Emma continued. "Don't let the mafia life consume you son, be the one to control it, don't let it control you. Once you've reached eighteen, the man will give you something to help you start your own business, but do it discreetly. Until you're sure your business is stable, don't reveal yourself as the owner. Consider this man as your right hand man and count on him like you would do me." She told him.

"Mom, can you not go?" Giuseppe asked her as he held her sleeve with his free hand. His eyes desperately pleading with her to stay.

"I can't let Müller face them alone, I have to return his loyalty gesture." Emma told him, and moved closer to him to hug him and Gisela one last time. "Take care of yourself and your sister. I love you both so much." She said as a lone tear slid down her cheek.