Isabella Marie Cattaneo was having a normal day. Or as normal a day in the life of the Mafia princess can be.
Today was one of those days when all her siblings were home. And she was going to enjoy every minute of it. So they had planned a fun day ahead, starting at relaxing in the pool and ending in a baking activity. It was supposed to be a relaxing day.
Oh, how wrong she was to assume that.
The day started out good enough. The siblings lounged in the pool and had numerous splashing fights and diving competitions. Izzy, having finally gotten over her fear of water and learnt to swim, was participating enthusiastically and the air was filled with shouts of laughter. They then decided to have a picnic lunch on the green grass as it was 'too hot to eat inside' according to the twins. Everyone agreed to the plan, though Izzy did it reluctantly.
It was there that the day went wrong.
Elijah had made sandwiches for all of them and they relaxed on the checkered blanket, laughing as they made up the weirdest theories to explain what happened in movies that they had been seeing.
Suddenly, all the blood seemed to drain from the youngest Cattaneo's face. Her eyes were fixed on something, her countenance showing only one thing. Horror. She felt frozen as she watched the vile thing creeping towards them. The rest of them noticed her abrupt silence and slowly started freaking out at her unresponsive state.
"Izzy? Izzy, are you okay?"
"What's wrong, bambina?"
"Isabella! What is going on?!"
"Izzy, come on. This joke is getting old now."
"Isabella?! Stop messing around."
Isabella just continued staring as the vile creature continued to slowly make it's way towards her. She snapped out of it when it was merely a foot from her leg. She let out a high pitched scream as she scrambled away from the stupid thing. The others jumped and finally followed her gaze to the creature that was steadily making it's way towards her.
"A Lizard? All of that because of a stupid reptile?" Luca asked exasperatedly but she was in no state to respond. Tears were slowly making their way out of her eyes as she struggled to get her breathing under control. Her brothers finally realised that this was something was terribly wrong in this situation. Luca, who was the only one who had no aversion to the horrible specimen, grabbed it by the tail and then decided to play a prank on his sister as revenge for the countless ones she had played on him. He gave an evil smirk and waved the lizard in front of Izzy's face. Izzy who had relaxed a little, stiffened once again and scared her brothers completely by what she did next causing a lot of broken glass, a sheepish idiot and four livid men who were ready to kill the idiot.
She fainted.
A fun little chapter for all of my lovely readers. This book continues to get so much love and I'm so happy.
Also, the fear of Lizards is something I share with Izzy. I actually had a full fledged panic attack once and all it was doing was sitting in the corner of the room. It's called Herpetophobia and I can't stand to even hear someone say the word lizard. *shudders*
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
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