t h i r d p e r s o n

Romeo didn't know how to tell Vincent that his Angel might die today. He didn't know how he would tell Max his fruitcake might die today.

Heck even he could bring himself to believe his little sunshine could die.

He was shaken out of thoughts by Vincent. "Fucking answer me Rome." He snarled.

"Vince...she's in surgery... we had just got done with basketball practice when she said she'll be back. I waited for ten minutes but she didn't so I went to check and the whole team came with me. We ran out and saw a bleeding Angelina with her head on Ace's lap. He was crying. She got hit by a car and then the person shot her two times." Romeo told him with gritted teeth.

Romeo had asked Ace what had happened as soon as he arrived with Julian.

Vincent's eyes widened and he froze. A painful sob left Max's mouth.

He was pulled into a tight hug by Vincent.

"My baby..." he whispered as he broke down in his older brother's arms.

"Where's Ace?" Vincent asked, his voice heavy with sadness, as he pulled away from Max.

Romeo pointed towards Ace, who was sitting in front of the room where Angelina was being operated on.

He hadn't spoken a word since Angelina was taken away into by the paramedics.

Vincent knew, that though the twins were on bad terms, Ace can still feel everything going on with Angelina.

He knew....god forbid if something happened to Angelina, Ace would be the first one to feel it. He would feel the bond with his twin break. He would feel his other half's loss.

He didn't understand how he didn't know Angelina didn't do the things they accused her of.

It was not the time to think about that. Vincent went over to Ace and sat down beside him. Ace didn't move an inch. It was as if he was afraid something might happen if he did.

"Hey little man." His voice cracked.

"She will be fine Vince. I know she will be. She told me she would never leave me. She told me we will always stay together. It was us against the world. She won't leave me right Vince?" Ace finally looked at Vince, his bottom lip quivering.

Vincent's heart broke. He pulled Ace to his chest and hugged him tight as he let a few tears out. He could hear Ace sobbing in his chest and telling him how he just wanted his twin back.

Vincent didn't know what he would do if he lost his Angel. She was the light of his life.

He remembered the day he fell in love with the little princess. His dad had come home yapping about this little girl that he had saved.

Flashback.

Steve Costa had finally come home to his boys after he saved a little girl in the alley and dropped her home safe and sound.

She had managed to capture the man's heart with her innocent green eyes which were filled with fear.

This was the third time he had seen the girl. According to Steve, she was kind and lovable.

When he came home, he would not stop talking about a girl with green eyes.

Vincent later learned her name was Angelina.

Two months later, Steve had been hell bent on taking this girl in as his daughter.

Steve has always wanted a daughter but his wife had sadly passed away in childbirth when she had Max.

Not exactly childbirth but that was a story for another time.

And that was when he found out that the girl had a twin brother. He was willing to take him in too.

So he went and met their mother, telling her to marry him. He thought they wouldn't want to leave their mother.

Oh how wrong he was.

Audrey being a gold digger, did not hesitate to say yes.

Vincent wasn't too keen on having them, at first. He was drowning in grief. His girlfriend of four years had just died four months ago.But when he saw his father talking about these kids with a twinkle in his eyes and so much fondness, he agreed.

Max was the happiest of them all. He would finally have a little sister and a little brother to protect. He wouldn't be the baby of the family anymore!

The day the twins arrived, Vincent and Max fell in love with them.

Vincent was the second person to hug her after Steve did. Her twin punched him in the face.

That was amusing to Vincent. The boy was fiercely protective over his sister.

Angelina, who had a heart of gold, told Ace to shush and hugged Vincent back.

You wouldn't believe it, but with that hug, she took some of Vincent's grief away.

He somehow felt lighter .

Flashback over

From then on, she would not miss a chance to make everyone laugh with her cheesy jokes and teasing smirks.

Her pout was the Costa men's weakness.

Her smile became their strength.

They loved her antics. She would have weird dad jokes showdowns with Steve.

She would have a staring contest with Vincent and would throw a tantrum if she lost.

She would bake and goof off with Max.

And then she would just cuddle up to her twin and talk to him in hushed tone. They would whisper and make each other laugh.

The memories just flooded through his mind.

That was when five figures bust through the door and Vincent saw red.

m a s o n

Both pair of twins and Aaron hadn't gotten home yet. They had basketball and football practice.

Ace had called dad this morning, he said Angelina was okay and was over at Vincent's house.

He also told us about some video and how Angelina hadn't done what we accused her of.

I feel so fucking guilty right now. First, we try and snoop into her personal files even after she told us not to. Then, we believe some whore over our own sister.

Our baby sister was innocent.

I admit dad and I never called her names during the argument but we didn't stop the younger ones either.

Noah was quiet as usual but he did say this was disappointing when she never did it.

Romeo and Ace were the most shocking of us all. I had thought Romeo would be the one who would blow up and insult her left and right.

But no. It was Ace.

It made me think. Did we really create this wedge between our youngest twins?

I swear to god I will make it up to her. From now on, she won't ever get hurt. Not by my hands, not by our dads hands, not by our brothers hands. Outsiders aren't even an option because they would be instantly killed if they bring tears to my baby's eyes.

But what about you? Didn't you hurt her too? Didn't you make her cry too? Didn't you break her trust too?

You're a big fat joke in the name of a brother. Romeo is the real brother here. He stood by her side when you didn't.

My subconscious mocked me and u deserved every damn bit of it. I hurt the most precious person in my life.

My baby sister.

Dad was drowning in guilt. For the first time in my existence, I had seen the ruthless and stone cold mafia don cry.

He was crying for his little princess. The little princess he hurt.

Ever since she was little, she was a huge daddy's girl. Whenever dad would come home, she would drop everything and just run to him.

She would attach herself onto dad's leg. Whenever dad was home, she would sit with him in his study while he worked.

When Ace and her had to leave, she begged and begged dad not let Audrey take her. But for her own good, we had to send her away. The mansion had already been attacked twice.

We were receiving threats from the Russians. All the mafias in world had a silent agreement. Never threaten the queen, the princess or the youngest children of any mafia family.

The Russians did follow this, but we didn't want them to get caught in crossfire.

Now I regret letting them leave. Romeo, Marco and him, were against it from the start.

Marco simply didn't want his baby twins to leave his sight.

Romeo....he was only eight. He said that he may have always harassed them but that did not mean he hated them and wanted them to leave.

And he was downright livid. He did not want them to go. He told them they were surrendering them to a monster.

No one in the family really agreed to it. But they knew better than to interfere in the Don's family matter.

Their Grandfather hadn't been told about this until after four years of them being gone.

His phone rang, breaking him out of his thoughts.

It was Roman.

"Speak."

"Mase, the twins, Romeo are nowhere to be seen. We can't find them. We asked the coach, he said they were done early so they left. The whole basketball team isn't here either." Roman worriedly rushed out.

I frowned.

"Maybe they went to a diner or something? They go there sometimes after practice right? Maybe Romeo took Angie with him." I answered.

"I don't think so, Mason. We found Angelina's phone lying on the street." Aaron grimly spoke and that alarm bells go off in my head.

"Track Romeo's phone now or atleast call him" I ordered.

"Wait. Aaron, you call Ace. I will try and get a hold of Romeo." They mumbled an okay and hung up.

I immediately called Romeo. He picked up on the second ring.

"What the fuck do you want?" He harshly asked as he picked up.

This was no surprise to me as he's been talking to all of us like that ever since that fight with Damien.

"Where are you and the twins?" I calmly asked.

"As if you care!" He scoffed.

That hurt. I do care.

"Don't say that Romeo. Of course I care." I defended.

"Yeah? Then why the fuck are you home when MY little sister is in the hospital fighting for her fucking life? You would've known since it's our hospital and she has been admitted under Rossi."

"THIS BETTER NOT BE A JOKE ROMEO WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN BY FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE?!" I roared and that startled dad.

"What happened?" He coldly asked.

"Oh shut the fuck up Mason. You don't care and neither do you deserve to know what happened to MY little sister." He snapped and hung up.

I just felt numb.

"Mason I will not ask again what the fuck happened?" Dad asked.

"Angelina is in the hospital."

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Hey guys.

It's me your favourite author, Angel. 😂

So I just woke up and read the note thingy that Angelo published.

I read all your comments too. And I'm really happy that y'all love us so much!🥺❤️

Now for those who've been asking how I am, I'm perfectly fine. I'm being babied right now so I'm absolutely ecstatic. 😂Their words do not matter to me. It just triggered a past memory.

I really love you all for the support you've shown.

Some people were about ready to throw hands for me and that was...really heartwarming!

He's scared that I'm going to be mad at him so he's hiding somewhere in the house.

BRO I AM NOT MAD AT ALL.😂

What he did just showed how much he cares for me why would I be mad?

Now, I don't want to call them out on it. They're humans and humans tend to do rash things sometimes.

Let's just ignore this and move on.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.

We love y'all!❤️

Angel and Angelo~