The Seven Deadly Brothers

Chapter 12

A/N: And here is chapter 12!

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Elora's POV:

I'm reading my book, and drinking another cup of coffee when I realize I still have that recording on my phone. I pull it up and listen to it. I only got a few seconds, but you can definitely hear talking. I pull up google translate, change it to voice and play the recording. After a few seconds, it gives me a result. 11 men dead, 3 seriously injured. If we don't do something soon, they'll just keep attacking.

Dead? Injured? Attacking? Shit, they're definitely spies. What do I do? I need to tell Alex and Russell. I can't tell them here though, I need to go somewhere. I grab my skateboard and phone and head downstairs. I don't see any of my brothers in their room or downstairs, so I assume that they're on the third floor.

I know that I'm technically supposed to always tell them where I'm going, but I'm feeling kinda lazy right now. I decided that I probably don't want to piss off Enzo again, and that I should just text them. I text Dom, because he seems to hate me the least. All I say is that I'm going out, so hopefully that's good enough for them.

"Woah, woah, woah. Where are you going?" I hear Dom ask right as I start to step out of the door.

"Out. I texted you." I say while continuing to walk out of the door.

I've only walked down a few of the steps when I hear the front door open. "Elora!" Ugh, it's Dom again.

"What?" I ask while turning around. I notice that all of my brothers are behind him. Woah, where did they come from?

"Where are you going, you can't just leave." This time Valerius speaks.

"Probably just into town or something. I texted Dom." I say, kind of annoyed that they're wasting my time. I turn back around and continue walking out.

"Elora!" This time Ric yells.

"Oh my God, what?" I say even more annoyed now.

"You can't go by yourself. And how are you even getting there?" Ric asks.

"I'll be fine by myself, I'll only be gone for a little while. And I'm skateboarding, the town's only like a few miles away. " I say.

"I don't want you out by yourself Lora. And you could hurt yourself with that skateboard. If you want to go somewhere, just ask us." Ric told me, sternly. Ugh, someone's turning into Enzo.

"Chill, I'll be fine. I want to go alone." I try to explain to him.

All of my brothers exchange a look. Finally, they all look to Enzo because they know that he always makes the final decision.

"Come here Elora." Enzo commands. I sigh in defeat before walking back up the stairs and stop in front of my eldest brother. He reaches into his back pocket. Fuck, it's a gun, isn't it? They're gonna kill me because I know they're Italian spies. "Here." He hands me a few hundred dollars bills that he just pulled out from his wallet. Okay, I was not expecting that. "Take this. It's 4:30 right now, be back for dinner at 7. Don't be late. And if I find out you hurt yourself from that skateboard, or put yourself in some sort of danger, you're not going out alone again." he finishes. 

I look up at him in shock. My brothers have the same expression on their faces. "Um, okay, yeah I'll be careful." He tries to put the money in my hand, but I pull it away. "No, that's too mu-." I start to say.

"Take it before I change my mind." He cuts me off.

"Um, thank you." I say while hesitantly taking it. My brother rolls his eyes at my hesitancy. I put it in my purse, along with my phone and started to walk back down the stairs.

"And if I call you Elora, I expect you to pick up the phone." He says in his normal intimidating tone.

"Yeah, I know." I call back. I hop on my skateboard and push my foot back to get it started.

It only ends up being around a 20 minute skate over to the town. I head into a Starbucks and order a coffee. Once I get my drink and sit down, I call Alex. I talked to him and Russell for a while. I explain about the recording and how they all speak Italian.

They both want me to move back to Idaho, that it isn't safe with my brothers. But I explain to them that I want to give my brothers a chance. Rus suggests that I learn a little Italian, that way I can try and hear some of the things they say to each other.

After I hang up with them, I check my phone and see that it's 6 o'clock. I have a little while longer before I need to start skating back. I decided to window shop a little and look in a few shops. At 6:30 I start to head back, so I can take my time.

I trip a little on the sidewalk and scrape my knee. Normally, I would have shrugged it off but I wanted to be careful after what Enzo had said. I stopped inside a CVS really quickly, and got a box of bandaids. I put one on and kept riding home.

As I was skating, I saw a car pass me. I briefly looked into the window and saw someone familiar. Where had I seen him before? I could have sworn I saw someone who looked exactly like him at the mall and at Starbuck. I take a turn down the street and notice that the car takes the same turn. That's odd. I go the rest of the way home and the car continues to follow me. Did my brothers have this person follow me?

I reach home and notice the car turn away once I enter my brother's property. This is ridiculous. They paid someone to spy on me! I mean, who even does that? I open the door to see all of my brothers at the doorway, probably waiting for me to come back.

"Woah, what happened to your knee?" One of my brothers asks.

"Did you fucking get someone to spy on me?" I demand.

They all look shocked by my question, well all but Enzo.

"What do you mean Elora?" Enzo asks me.

"Don't play fucking dumb, he was at the mall too wasn't he? You guys just can't trust me that much, so you had to get someone to follow me." I say angrily.

"La sua guardia del corpo non avrebbe dovuto iniziare fino a lunedì." I hear Enzo tell my brothers. (Her bodyguard wasn't supposed to start until Monday.) "E ho mandato un'auto di guardie diversa a seguirla rispetto a quella che abbiamo portato al centro commerciale." (And I sent a different car of guards to follow her than we took to the mall.)

"Cosa stai cercando di dire fratello" Val asks him. (What are you trying to say brother?)

"Sto dicendo fratello, che sanno di lei." As soon as Enzo says this, all of my brothers go rigid. (I'm saying brother, that they know about her.)

"What are you saying." I ask them even more annoyed now. If they're gonna talk about me, they should at least do it in a way that I understand.

"Elora, come to my office. We all need to talk." He says, now looking at me. 

A/N: How was it?

We've been driving all day, and just stopped for the night.

I got a lot of writing done tho :))))

TYSM FOR READING MY BOOK!!

Love,

Lillith

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