Their Bella

Chapter 10

Isabella's POV:

Damiano had pulled out of the driveway, and then moments later Alessio pulled up. He hopped out of his black shiny car and walked up to the door. I raced downstairs and met him there before he could knock. I had to quickly change my clothes back into my sweats. 

"Hey Bella. Did you have fun with Haley?" he asked me.

"Yeah we watched Jaws and ate some popcorn." I lied.

"Okay well tonight our cousin is coming over." Alessio told me.

"Really? I'm excited. Honestly I didn't think we had any other females in the family until Leo told me about her." I admitted.

"Did he tell you about our adorable baby cousin?"

"He said she was on maternity leave, but he never showed me a picture or anything." I told him.

"Oh you should see her. She looks just like you looked like as a baby." Alessio laughed before frowning. 

"What's wrong?" I asked, wanting to know about the sudden demeanor change.

"Nothing... it's just I wish I could have seen you grow up. You're basically all grown up now." Alessio pouted.

"I know. You were only 10 when Mom took me away, right?" I questioned.

"Yeah, but I still remember everything. From the time you came home till Elena took you away." he said. After a moment of complete silence we pulled into our driveway. There was a set of five black SUV's in the driveway as well. 

"Looks like Dani is here." Alessio smiled.

"Why are there so many cars?" I interogated.

"Um. Daniella is married to a very important man, so it's their security." he told me. I nodded my head and followed him inside.

A woman that had the same jet black hair as me, but hazel eyes, was standing in the doorway from the foyer to the living room. A tall, extremely tall- probably 6'4- was standing beside her. He had dark hair, dark eyes, and tan skin. We walked closer and I spotted Dante holding a baby.

"Alessio! You're back!" Daniella said as she came over. She gave my elder brother a hug, before her gaze settled on me. "You must be Isabella! I'm your cousin Daniella, this is my husband Francesco, and my daughter Sofia." she said motioning to the large man and small infant.

"Give me Sofia." Alessio demanded from Dante as soon as he saw the baby being held by him.

"No, I just pried her from Leo, let me have her." Dante whined. Here we go again. They bicker like no other.  While they were bickering I walked over to Dante. He wasn't paying much attention, so I carefully peeled baby Sofia out of his large arms. I held her close to me and walked over to the baby's mother.

"They are really annoying sometimes." Daniella mumbled. I hummed in agreement and admired the baby.

"She is so adorable." I cooed.

"She looks just like all the rest of the Marino's. Francesco was mad that she didn't look like a Valentino." Daniella laughed. "Actually she looks just like you did as a baby."

"You remember me as a baby?" I asked.

"No, I was only 5 when your mother took you away, so I don't remember you. But, there were always pictures of you." she said, looking at me with pity.

"You shouldn't pity me." I told her before I could stop myself. She looked at me strangely before chuckling. 

"You're definitely a Marino." she laughed. I looked down at the small baby in my arms. So innocent, so pure, such a blessing.

"Hey!" I heard Dante scream. How did you get her?" he shouted.

"I walked over to you and I snatched her out of your arms." I deadpanned. Dante looked at me in disbelief before walking out of the room in a huff.

I handed the baby to Alessio before following Dante out of the room. I found him in the bar area of the kitchen. I walked over to him.

"Seriously? Are you in that big of a tizzy because you couldn't hold the baby?" I teased. He put the glass of whiskey up to his lips before setting it back down. 

"No. I just was doing it to annoy Alessio." he huffed.

"Exactly." I said, before we started heading back to the living room.

We walked back in and saw the family of three beginning to say goodbye. Francesco whispered something in Leo ear before Leo's eyes grew dark. I saw Alessio stand up before and walk over to him. Leo whispered something to Alessio, and then all three of the men looked angry.

"Are you okay?" I asked. Leo turned to me.

"Don't worry sorella. You don't have to worry about anything." he told me, but the look he held in his eyes was telling a different story. By eldest brother looked scared. I've never seen him hold an emotion anything like that before.

"Francesco, Alessio, and I have to go to the office and do some work. Why don't you and Dante, Gianni, and Andre watch a movie." he suggested.

I nodded my head as Daniella, her husband, and two of my elder brothers left the manor. I looked over at my brothers who just shrugged. We decided to just sit down and watch episodes of Criminal Minds. Dante sat on one end of the couch. Gianni on the other, I laid my head down on his chest. While Andre sat on the floor in front of me as I ran my fingers through his hair.

Leonardo's POV: 

We stormed out of the house, Alessio hot on my tail, and Francesco beside me. This is bad. This whole situation is bad. 

"Leo? What are we going to do?" Alessio asked me.

"Kill the motherf*ckers if we have to." I grunted out.

"Leonardo, you are angry and not thinking straight." Francesco told me.

"The bastardo wants to take away my baby sister." I hissed out.

"He won't." Alessio demanded.

"You don't know that. The only way to ensure it is to kill him." I told him.

We hopped into our individual cars, leaving me to sizzle by myself. The driver, Marco, started to head towards the warehouse. The warehouse is where we made our criminal plans and conducted the...messy, part of the business; like torture. Once we made it there we walked inside to my office.

Francesco, Alessio, and I walked in and Alessio told me that he had already call Vincenzo. He shortly arrived a few moments later.

"What's the situation?" Vincenzo asked.

"Sergei Mironov wants to kidnap Isabella." Francesco told him. Francesco was the leader of the Valentino Crime Family, Vincenzo was head of the Messanelli Crime Family, while I was the head of the Marino Crime Family. Together we were the most influential and powerful, not to mention dangerous men, in New York. There was only one man that would dare threaten us, and that was Sergei Mironov, head of the Russian Bratva. He was a dangerous man that had no morals. He was involved in human trafficking and terrorism. 

"Why? What would it gain him?" Vincenzo asks.

"Oh God," Francesco blurts out, we looked at him, "His son, Aleksander. He probably wants her for him."

"Our sorellina is only 15 years old." I shout to him. 

"Her 16th birthday is coming up." Alessio stated. "That's when the Bratva usually get married." I looked at him with anger in my eyes.

"If that's what he is planning on doing then he won't just be taking away our sister, but also our alliance with Vincenzo." I told him, the stress of the situation began to get to me, as I felt a headache coming on.

"Leo, you shouldn't even be thinking about the alliance between us right now." Vincenzo reassured me. 

We made plans for a couple more hours before getting ready to head home. It was decided that Bella would have security guards the entire time when she wasn't in school, and when in school her brothers would watch her if she wasn't in her classes. She was probably going to be confused and irritated at the situation, but it has to happen, and she definitely isn't supposed to find out about the family business until her 18th birthday.