Runs In The Family

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OLIVIA'S POV:

"Liv!"

I stirred in my sleep, trying to ignore whoever was calling my name. I felt around for Mattia but my hand only hit the sheets. I yawned, dismissing the voice downstairs.

"Liv, I've been shot!"

My eyes snapped open as Mattia's voice became louder. I got out of bed and threw his hoodie over my head. It was big enough to cover my underwear, besides it was only us in the house.

"Mattia? Where are you?" I shouted, running downstairs. My heart was pounding.

"Kitchen! Hurry!"

I ran into the kitchen to see him standing by the stove with a plate of blueberry pancakes in his hand. I stared at him, horrified. He stared back at me with a huge smile on his face but I was beyond angry.

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't actually put a bullet through your head" I said, picking up a handgun on the counter and aiming it at him.

"Easy" he said, casually walking past me and setting the plate on the table. He didn't even flinch at the sight of a gun being aimed at him.

"You love me, Liv"

I sighed, placing the gun on the counter and taking a seat at the table. He laughed lightly and came over with a bottle of golden syrup.

"Make sure-"

"On the side, Liv I know" he said, finishing my sentence off "we've been married a long time, I know you hate syrup getting your fingers all sticky". I felt myself blushing as I started eating breakfast.

Not only had Mattia and I grown with our children but so had our mafia. We decided to keep the name as NJ13 since they had a reputation. We had become the most famous & powerful gang in the world, world domination was definitely on the cards.

"When are the kids coming back?" I asked. Mattia shrugged, looking at his phone.

"Levi said they set off already" he answered. I nodded feeling slightly guilty that we'd sent the kids to Alana Brook's funeral.

"Do you think we should've gone instead?" I asked Mattia. He thought about it for a second.

"Whoever killed her was definitely going to be at that funeral" he said "showing our faces would've made us an easy target. But no one knows about our kids yet so it would've been better for them to go"

"True" I said, dragging my knife through the syrup. Mattia looked at me, slightly concerned.

"What's wrong? You look like you wanna kill someone" he said. I sighed, shaking my head as I placed the knife down.

"I know Alejandro killed her, Mattia"

He pressed his lips together, looking out the windows. I knew he didn't want to have this conversation but I did. We'd been putting it off ever since we received the news that she'd died. We didn't know her personally, so I don't understand why Mattia had been avoiding the subject so much.

"There's no proof-"

"We don't need proof" I said, pushing the plate away from me "Alana lived in New Jersey which is near to us. If that isn't Alejandro saying he's coming for us next, then I don't know what is"

Mattia looked at me, alarm in his eyes. Whenever I mentioned our family being in some sort of danger, it was as if I'd switched a flick in him. It would kill both of us if anything ever happened to our family.

"And Alejandro's leading the second most powerful mafia in the world" sighed Mattia "he's definitely coming after us"

I nodded, satisfied that he was finally seeing sense. I stood up and took my plate to the dishwasher. Mattia followed me, leaning against the counter opposite me. He watched me, folding his arms across his chest as he was deep in thought.

"Oh my god" he said, I looked up at him as sudden realisation washed over him. He looked at me with widened eyes as I stood up.

"Do you remember Ralph Maguire?"

"Who?"

"Come on Liv" he said impatiently, clicking his fingers as he tried to recollect the memory "huge mafia leader, son was called Kyle Maguire"

"I have no idea" I said, leaning on the counter opposite him.

"He was one of the biggest leaders around and Alejandro was his second in command but Ralph died like years back now. You won't remember cause I did the mission alone".

"Mattia, what is your point? And since when do we do individual missions?" I said, extremely confused.

"My point is" he said "Ralph only wanted to kill me but he died trying to do it, I guess, which means-"

"Alejandro's definitely going to try kill us" I said, finishing his sentence. Mattia shook his head, clenching his jaw slightly.

"Not us. Me"