Her Mafia Prince ✔️

Chapter 25 - I Miss You

~ Gabriella's POV ~

"Why do all my children do this? I just want one normal child."

"Dad it's not my fault and he's innocent anyway I've already told you this." My dad shook his head as he leaned back against his chair. He really wasn't handling this whole thing very well.

"Your boyfriend is in prison Gabriella. You can do so much better for yourself than-"

"Than Matteo? That's absolutely not true. He is the best thing that's ever happened to me."

Once again my father shook his head.

"You've known for two weeks now dad, you don't need to keep acting like this."

For the past two and a half weeks that Matteo had been in prison, my father has definitely not been a happy man especially when I started living in Matteo's house permanently. Yes he likes Matteo but he doesn't want me to be with someone who is in prison and he definitely doesn't want it to smear his reputation.

Over the last two and a half weeks I did everything I told him I would. We exchanged letters almost every day through the post, I would answer every single call from him and I went to see him as much as I could. So far I'd only missed one visit when Carlotta went with Adrian who texted me that morning to apologise and say that there was nothing he could.

Needless to say I cried a lot that day because I missed Matteo and I was only coping with all this because I had it in my head that I would see him that day. Also, Matteo called me and was pretty angry about it too, which only worsened my mood. I wanted to make sure he knew I was always there for him and I wanted to be the thing that made it easier for him to get through this. So I was disappointed that I broke my promise to him.

Apart from that though, everything had been fine. I was getting a little more used to not having him around so much but it still hurt. More than I could ever try to explain.

But there was still one thing, in the back of my head which I had been trying not to think about. Something I had been trying to ignore for the last two weeks.

But it was becoming increasingly harder to do that.

I had to focus on his trial anyway and focus on just being there for Matteo, I couldn't add any more pressure on him. Not now, not yet.

Adrian had managed to get the trial moved to next week, so in total Matteo would have been in prison for three weeks and then for the duration of his trial however long that will last.

Of course that meant Adrian was super busy working with Matteo's lawyers so I was going to visit Matteo alone some days. Which I was okay with because I got him all to myself for an hour, but I could tell he wanted to see his brother, even if he didn't show his disappointment to me too much.

Once I'd finished having lunch with my dad (yes somehow we are at a lunching stage in our relationship), I drove to Jordan's house just to check if she needed any help with the children or anything at home. We've been checking in on each other over the past few weeks, she would be there for me if I was missing Matteo too much and I would be there for her when Adrian was busy working on Matteo's defence.

When I pulled up to their house there was another car there which I didn't recognise. I did hesitate for a moment before I gathered all the courage I had to get out my car and go and ring the bell.

Moments later the door swung open revealing Jordan. Her eyes widened a little when she saw me before she turned her head back to look inside the house and then back to me.

"Gabriella, hi. What are you doing here?"

"Uh, I just came to check if you needed any help or anything." It was so obvious I'd come at a bad time and as much as I wished she would have sent me on my way she was too nice for that. "Oh, well come in. I'm actually okay right now, Caterina is down for her nap so I was just playing with the boys."