Her Mafia Prince ✔️

Chapter 4 - I'm Scared To Love Someone Again

~ Gabriella's POV ~

It took everything in me to be able to drag myself out of bed on Saturday morning for work at the salon. I was both emotionally and physically exhausted not to mention my favourite time of the month was right around the corner and I was definitely feeling it.

The night before after my incident with Matteo I ended up staying at the park for around half an hour with Justin who was having the time of his life and Lilly who didn't care where she was. When we were done we got some milkshakes to drink on the way back which was probably the best part for me.

I mean, it was the closest thing to my original plan of staying home and eating ice cream. At least there was some sort of dairy involved.

My sister came back to pick them up a little while after we got back from the park and as soon as they left I was back in bed. I managed to enjoy the comfort of my bed for the next ten hours before I was forced to leave it again.

Anyway, now I was at work early on a Saturday morning trying my best to converse with my clients and cut their hair straight. It wasn't as hard as soon as I'd had some caffeine but I still couldn't get what happened with Matteo the day before out of my head.

For some people they would have gotten over it very easily but for me it wasn't that simple. I've never slept with anyone before, so it hurt a lot more that he wanted me just for that and for nothing else. Like I was worth nothing else.

Also just a side note - yes I'm 23 and a virgin and no I'm not ashamed. I've never met the person who was worth giving my virginity to. Sure I've gotten close - extremely close. But I never went through with it and actually it was the best decision I ever made because the boyfriend I got the closest with cheated on me a week later.

In most situations men don't think using their heads, as we saw yesterday with Matteo. So all this time I've only been protecting myself.

Around midday, I was busy cutting the hair of my third client of the day when there was a small commotion by the front desk although I couldn't see what it was because we were in the main salon.

The commotion only got louder as the seconds went by and soon the sound of voices became clearer. As the sound got louder and louder, presumably as the voices were getting closer, I lowered my scissors just as a familiar face rounded the corner into the main salon where all the clients were.

I watched as a pregnant Carlotta stopped in the door way, her eyes searching the whole room before they eventually landed on me. I may not have been very close to her or know her that well but it wasn't hard to miss the fire in her eyes.

The woman was furious.

She made her way over to me, the sounds of her heels becoming the only sound in the room as everyone stopped what they were doing to watch this unfold. Putting my scissors down on the little cart with all the tools next to me I turned to face her properly once she stopped next to me.

"What the hell is wrong with you Gabriella?"

"I-" Before I could even get a word out she put her hand up to stop me and continued herself.

"Did I or did I not treat you like a friend? How could you do that?" She clearly didn't care that I was so obviously confused about what she was going on about.

"Carlotta-"

"I swear to you Gabriella, I am going to make sure you are fired from here and I will make sure you never get another job in Milan again."

The whole room was still dead silent. You could literally hear a pin drop as everyone watched her shouting at me.

"Carlotta, what happened?" She let out an incredulous scoff at my question. "You're a money grabbing whore, that's what happened. I brought my brother here because I'm pregnant and I needed his help, not so that you could try and get your claws into him!"