Mafia's World

Chapter Nine

It took us almost an hour to get to wherever we were going. When Elijah parked the car, and we got out I saw a Bridles shop. Faith takes my hand as she started walking. "Time for you to try on your dress."

I heard Liam say, "Elijah will probably get harder if he sees her in a dress."

Elijah laughs and says, "I don't think that's possible."

Faith looks at me. "So, Mel did you give up your v-card yet?" I didn't realize that Elijah and Liam were walking next to us. I looked over at her, and she smiled at me.

"I'm not answering that question."

She laughs and says, "I will take that as a no."

"You can take it whatever way you want."

She stopped walking, and I almost bumped into her. I looked at her as she looked at me. "Let me guess Kevin and your Dad would run away any guy that ever got close to you."

"Faith."

She sighs and says, "Just answer the question."

"You know how my father and Kevin are, so why bother asking?" She looked at me before she looked around us. "I am still a virgin and I wanted to wait for the right guy." I heard someone cough behind us and I didn't even have to look back to know who it is.

I heard Liam say, "Are you all right, man?"

I looked back at them, and I saw Elijah nod. "Shouldn't we go inside now?" He walked around us and opened the door. We walked into the store and I didn't bother looking at him as I walked by. Faith went to the saleslady and talked to her while I looked at the dresses. When the lady brought the dress, I followed her to the dressing room.

I took off my clothes and put on the dress. When I looked in the mirror, my jaw dropped. It is a strapless knee length dress with gold and silver all over it. It fit perfectly and it showed off all my curves. I walked out of the dressing room and I saw Faith's jaw drop.

She looked at me. "Melody you look amazing." She walked around me, so she can see the rest of the dress and I didn't look up from the floor. When she hit my ass, I turned around to look at her. "Your ass is bigger than mine."

"Did you really have to hit me on my ass?"

She laughs and says, "Yes, I did." Then she turned to Elijah and Liam. "What do you two think?"

Liam smiles at me. "It looks amazing right Elijah."

We looked at Elijah, and he just looked away from me. He got up from his seat. "She looks breath taking and I need some air." Before we can say anything, he walked out of the store.

Faith looks at me. "Go change so I can pay for it."

"You know I can pay for it myself."

She puts her hands on her hips. "Too bad." I shook my head at her before I walked back to the dressing room. After I finished getting dressed, I walked back over to them. Faith took the dress from my hand, Liam took it from hers and Elijah took it from his. I just stood there shaking my head as they argued about who's paying.

I went up to the lady, and I gave her my card. She scanned it and gave me my receipt before she took the dress from Elijah. They looked at me and I just thanked the lady before I walked out the store. Faith ran over to me. "That's not fair."

"You three weren't paying attention, so I took it upon myself to pay for the dress that I will wear." I turned towards them, and I saw Elijah looking down. "Were you just looking at my ass?"

He looks at me. "I can neither confirm nor deny." I stuck up my middle finger at him before I started walking again. But I stopped when I looked down and I saw a red dot on my shirt.

"Elijah."

I felt someone walk up behind me and whisper, "Don't move." I kept looking down at the red dot on my shirt and I saw it disappear. When I looked up, I saw Angelo walking over to us.

He looked at me before he turned to Elijah. "There were four snipers on the roof of each building and they were all aiming at her."

"How did you?"

He cut me off. "They don't call me Fantasma for no reason, Ms. Rose."

"I'm seeing that." Elijah pulled me into his arms as he looked at everyone.

I heard him take a sharp breath. "We need to eliminate Marco Fernando."

Angelo looks at us. "What's the plan?"

Elijah lets go of me as he moved in front of all of us. "Let's go back to my house and we can discuss it there." We got into his car and he started speeding all the way to his house. I held onto the seat and I kept pulling my seat belt tighter around me. When he finally stopped, I felt like my heart would jump out of my chest.

"Were you trying to kill us?" He looked over at me. I watched as he got out of the car and he came over to my side. I unbuckled my seat belt when he opened the door and he grabbed my arm to get me out of the car. I kept trying to pull my arm away from him, but he wouldn't let go.

Liam looked at us. "Elijah let her go." I watched as Liam stepped in front of us, and we stopped walking. "Let go of her." Elijah looked at me before he looked at my arm and he let go of me. I rubbed it while I moved away from him, and I looked down.

Faith came over to me and she looked at my arm. When I looked at it I saw his nails dug into my skin and one mark were bleeding a little. I heard Elijah say, "Melody."

"Can you open the door?"

He looked at me and I looked away from him as Faith says, "Just give her some space." I heard him sigh, and I watched as he turned around to open the door. When we walked inside Faith and I went to find a first aid kit. "Melody are you going to be okay?"

"I don't know." I looked at her as she opened the first aid kit. She took out the cotton swab and the alcohol wipes before she came over to me.

She looks at me. "Hold still." I bit my tongue when it started burning, and I looked away. I saw Elijah, Liam and Angelo walk into the kitchen. When Elijah looked at me I looked away from him. "Done." I looked back at her, and she smiled at her work.

I looked down to see a band aid with smiley faces on it. "Really."

She laughs and says, "What it's cute." I shook my head at her as she looked at the guys.

Elijah walked over to us. "Melody can I talk to you alone?" I looked at Faith and she shook her head at me before she walked out the room with the guys. When he tried to touch me, I moved away from him. "Melody I'm sorry."

"I don't care." I looked at him as he sat down on the chair opposite from me. "You probably think it's okay to be aggressive, but I don't. I don't care about your apology and right now I don't even want to be anywhere near you."

I got up to leave the kitchen, but he blocked my way. I looked up at him. "I know that you don't want to hear what I have to say but I will say it, anyway." He took a deep breath before he took my hands in his. "I'm sorry for grabbing you like that, they pissed me off, and I wasn't thinking. I'm terrified that something will happen to you."

"Why?"

He sighs and says, "I can't tell you that."

"How do you expect me to continue trusting you then?" He didn't look at me when I asked him that and he didn't answer my question. I took my hands out of his, and I walked out of the kitchen. I followed Faith's voice to the living room, and I sat down next to her.

When Elijah walked into the room Liam cleared his throat. "What's the plan?"