Bound by my blood

Chapter twelve

You're a dime a dozen
Oh your skin is golden
Let me show the whole damn world
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Vincenzo's pov:

Alexandria's scream echoes around the plane as the turbulence gets worst.

Recklessly, I undo my seatbelt and stumble to where she is sat. Her eyes are clenched shut and she's shaking.

I throw myself into the seat next to her and do my seatbelt before placing my hand over her tiny ones.

""Fuck! Why didn't you tell me you were scared of planes?" I curse.

"Make it stop! Please make it stop!" She begs, completely ignoring my question and for once I feel helpless when it comes to a women.

"It's okay, Alexa, just look at me, okay?" I demand and she timidly opens her eyes. I wrap one of my arms around her and pull her to my chest as best as I could.

"Please make it stop!" She repeats as her tears soak my shirt. Instead of responding, I rub her back soothingly.

Within 15 minutes the turbulence passes and I move away from my wife. I stand up and tower over her.

"Are you okay?".

"I'm fine" she mutters as she stares at the ground.

"Come and sit with me. We will be in Catania in a few hours" I mutter gruffly as I walk back to my dad and Angelo.

She follows behind me silently. Her head lowered as she was staring at the ground. I gesture to the reclining seat in front of the TV.

She pulls down the curtain without looking out the window before sitting down. I watch her carefully as she grabs the remote and starts flicking through the Disney movies.

"Sei uno stupido! Non ti ho cresciuto così. Cosa stavi pensando?" Padre spits rapidly as soon as Alexa puts on her headphones.

(Translation: You are stupid! I didn't raise you like this. What were you thinking?)

"She is my wife, padre, what was I meant to do? It was you that came up with this arrangement! What do you think would have happened if her family had heard I left her when she was terrified?" I question and he shrugs.

"So che è tua moglie! Avresti dovuto ignorarla. Lei deve crescere su" He snaps.

(Translation: I know she is your wife! You should have ignored her. She needs to grow up)

"Let's both calm down and talk about the situation we have on our hands" Angelo speaks up as he notices my clenched fists.

Angelo was also the voice of reason between the two of us as we were both very opinionated and hot headed.
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Alexa squeezes my hand tightly as the plane descends from the sky. I stare out the window as the view of my home country and sigh.

As soon as I step off this plane, I need to immediately go to the 6 members we lost and inform their families. Then I would have to catch up on all the paper work I had piled up from the trip.

To say I wasn't looking forward to the rest of the day would be an understatement. No doubt Alexa will do my head in too.

The plane stops on the runway strip and the hostesses open the door. One gives me a flirtatious smile. Which causes Alexa to glower at her before storming down the steps.

I watch in amusement as Alexa storms to the limo that was waiting. The driver goes to open the door but in a fit of rage she hits his hand and does it herself.

I follow behind her after saying goodbye to Angelo and padre who had both arranged their own way homes. As I get closer to the car Alexa rolls her eyes and slams the door shut as hard as she can.

Alceu opens my door and I slide in; ignoring Alexa who was glaring at me. I pull out my phone and send a message to my housekeeper.

"Where are we going, Mr Lombardo?" Alceu questions stiffly.

"Home to drop Alexa home then take me to Librino" I order without looking up from my phone.

"No go straight to Librino. I'm not going to sit around feeling sorry for myself" Alexa answers back stubbornly.

"You're going to get yourself killed, Princess" I chuckles as I continue as I read through my emails.

Suddenly, my phones been snatched from my hands. I look up at her with my eyebrows raised just as she shoves my phone into her bra.

"Now you listen to me. I am coming with you, I may not have chosen to join the physical side of the mafia but that doesn't mean that I don't know how to protect myself. Do you really think my babbo, Nico or any of my cousins would allow that?" She sasses, "now you can have your phone back when we get to wherever we're going".

Alceu has a look of shock on his face and I growl lowly at the pure disrespect she's showing me in front of my member.

"Listen here, love, I am the one in charge in this relationship. So give me back my phone before I take it myself" I snap as I lean forward with my hand outstretched.

"No" she giggles as she undoes her seatbelt and literally climbs over to the front seat; flashing her boobs to Alceu.

As soon as we get home, I'll teach her some manners. I won't be disrespected by anything, not even her.

...Then I will rip Alceu's an out for looking at her breasts which belong to me only.