Chapter 66

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"You okay, baby?" Vince asked, bending down to my level. I nodded, while moving my hand to the next item.

Elonzo grabbed my wrist.
"Nuh uh. Food can wait. Come on." He said, holding my hand in his and pulling me somewhere.

"How dare you, Elonzo? The food is offended. Go apologize." I said, trying to pull him back.

"I will apologize later." He said, in a reassuring tone.

"She's perfectly okay." Vince chuckled, coming to that conclusion after hearing my last statement.

We reached a hallway, just outside the ballroom. Elonzo picked me up and made me sit on the stone counter type space before the window.

"Why were you there alone?" Elonzo asked, sternly. "The only rule you have is stay near one of us." Ugh. Truck his scary self.

I glared at him. I'm not always stupid and doing dumb things.

"She wasn't, actually. I asked Luciano to look after her, until I return." Vince said, all signs of amusement now gone, replaced with anger.

"So he just left her alone to go..." Elonzo paused to cover my ears before whispering something, to which Vincenso nodded and rolled his eyes. I just looked at them blankly.

He mouthed it and what I gathered was,
Truck a chick?

These oldies are wasting my time. I want to eat food then stare at Zack. That's all I'm asking for.

Elonzo removed his hands from my ear.
"I want to hear everything that happened out there."

I saw Vince dial someone's number and walk away.

Luciano is in trouble.

"Baby?" Elonzo said, softly, grabbing my attention back to him again.

I started telling him everything that happened, which was mostly me ranting about how girls are treated here and how abuse looked like a common thing. I didn't remember all the dialogues. So, he will have to settle with that.

As I was ending my rant, Vincenzo appeared, pulling Luciano with him, you guessed it, by his ear. Luciano was rubbing his jaw with his hand, so I guess, he got a punch too.

"Why do you find it so difficult to follow simple rules, Luciano?" He scolded, pushing him towards us. Luciano stumbled but regained his balance and took some steps away, to get out of Elonzo's reach.

"You were given one rule, that you can't have..." Vincenzo paused, glancing at me then looking at him. He cleared his throat. "Do. Do bad stuff."
I stifled a laugh.

"What does this little twit want now?" Luciano scowled at me.

"Wow. You barely entered Europe and you're using british insults now? Trucking Impostor." I narrowed my eyes. Elonzo and Vince were glaring at him, trying now to kill him then and there. "Was the chick british?"

Okay. I know I don't have control over my mouth. Vince choked on his spit and started coughing, while Luciano started laughing. Elonzo was glaring at me.

"Watch your mouth, baby. You're too little to be talking like that." He warned, narrowing his eyes. I gulped and nodded.

"He clearly told you to look after her for some time." Elonzo stated, glaring at a frustrated Luciano.

"What happened? Did you wet your diaper, little baby?" Luciano mocked, pouting.

Vince scowled and grabbed his hair, rotating his head.
"The cousins bullied her. At least, they tried to." He gritted.

Luciano's eyes widened, when he finally came to the realization that not only did they find him absent, but also found those bullies present. 

"Those bitches are dead." Luciano said, now shaking with anger.

"Ooohh! Who put your diapers in a twist, Luciano?" I mocked, rolling my eyes.

"No one's dead. Yet. But if I see you anywhere, except sitting on a chair, for the rest of the time, you'll be dead." Elonzo warned. "Go grab a chair and sit near the others. Don't you even think about moving."

Luciano groaned, but wisely zipped his mouth when the two oldies glared at him.
"Fine." He said, storming off.

"You sure you're okay, baby?" Vince asked, kissing my forehead.

"Yeah. She's just a bit furious." Elonzo said, amusement lacing his tone.

Then I ranted again, while they chuckled but listened attentively.

I went back to the food counter and asked them to go back, because Damon was already there. I looked around and saw the two girls from the bully group to my right side, some metres away. They were ignoring me, which was the best they could do.

Then I looked to my left, to see Damon talking to two girls. He looked comfortable talking to them, so I guess he knows them from before.

"Hey, Evvie." He called out after some time. I stopped chewing and looked at him. He motioned me over, so I walked over to them, looking at the girls suspiciously.

"Meet Rosaline and Alessandra. Our cousins." I scowled at him, making him chuckle. "The legal businessman uncle's daughters. They are not like the others." He said, making me ease a bit.

I don't want to deal with more female dogs now.

"Evelina." I introduced, shaking hands with them. They did the same, before addressing my suspicions.

"We can understand. That is what our Dad is protecting us from." Rosaline said. They looked at the other girls with pity.

"Yeah. I had a little argument with them." I scowled.

"They were being mean to you, right?" Alessandra spat, making me nod.

"My sisters are here too. My other second cousins." I told them.

"Of course. Jenna, Britney and Jodee, right?" They asked, making me nod again.

Of course they know them. I'm the new one.

We talked for a long time, during which Damon moved farther, to give us some time and space to get to know each other. But he was still there, looking at me from the corner of his eyes, every few seconds.

"Ooh la la. Look at that hot..." Alessandra cut herself off, to pretend to swoon.

"The other one too." Rosaline muttered, practically drooling.

"I want both. Back off, Rosaline." Alessandra said, shoving her.

"Shut up, Alessandra." Rosaline said giggling. "The two witches are drooling over him too."

I looked to my right to see that indeed those two were staring somewhere. Atleast the younger one was. The adult one was just looking, because she already has that dictator of a boyfriend.

"Who..." I cut myself off and choked on my spit as soon as I turned my head. I started laughing, loudly.

"What?" They asked, together.

"I get how the taller, more built one is hot. But what do you see in the other one?" I asked, still laughing.

"Hey! Don't be rude." Rosaline said.

"Oh no. They're walking towards us. How do I look, Rosa?" Alessandra panicked.

I stifled a laugh.
They walked over towards us, while the girls looked at them wide eyed.

Max hugged me, while complimenting about how beautiful I looked.

"You know them?" Alessandra asked, shocked. I nodded and started laughing.

Zack pecked me once, making sure no one except our friends saw, before wrapping his arm around my waist and standing beside me.

He's playing with death right now.

"Oh." Alessandra pouted. "He's taken." She said, making us chuckle.

"This is Zack Smith, my boyfriend." I pointed at my gorilla. Then I pointed to my idiot best friend. "Max, my best friend. Kate, my best friend." I said, when Kate suddenly joined us, to stand beside Max.

Max glanced at her a little too long, like soaking everything in and retain to his memory.

"He's taken too." Rosaline pouted, looking at Kate, like she wanted to be in her place.

Anyone can see these two like each other.

"No. We're just best friends." Max rubbed the back of his neck, his face turning red.

"For now." Alessandra smirked, giving them a knowing look.

Both of my best friends were blushing like idiots.

Before anyone could say anything, the music started playing. It was playing in the background before, but seeing how couples were moving to the centre of the room, it was time for dance.

"May I have this dance, beautiful lady?" Zack bowed, extending his hand forward. I melted, before controlling myself and putting my hand in his.

He stood up straight and led me to the middle. Max and Kate followed close behind.

Just best friends, my butt!

The lights dimmed thankfully and everyone was too engrossed in their own thing that I doubt anyone will notice. According to my family, I can dance with Zack, but we can't kiss publicly. For Zack's safety. Zack can be the target if he was seen kissing the princess.

"You look so pretty, Nerdy." He whispered, entwining our hands. My one hand was on his shoulder, his free arm around my waist as he pulled me impossibly closer. Closer than we've ever been while dancing.

"You too, princess." I muttered shyly, looking away. My face was red and I could feel the heat radiating from it.

Zack chuckled quietly, bending down to place a kiss on my nose. I looked at him surprised.

"You're so cute, Nerdy." He muttered, pecking my lips once.

This dude is kissing the Italian Mafia Princess in a ball where the whole Mafia is present. Guts.

"Do you wanna get killed?" I whispered, as he swayed us both with the music. He's better at dancing. Wayyy better.

"Maybe. But I can't control myself when you're looking so smoking hot, pretty, cute and cool at the same time." He said, tightening his hold on me.

"You still look like the ugliest Gorilla to ever exist. And yes, I'm still questioning your existence." I said, sticking my tongue out. He rolled his eyes.

I love his eyes.

I stared into his chocolate brown eyes, just letting him take the lead and sway us both with the music while I enjoy the view of his face so close to mine.

Ugh. I love him more than I'd like to admit.

"I love you, Nerdy." He said, smiling sweetly.

"I love you too, princess." I said, smiling so wide, my cheeks hurt. As the lights dimmed more, he leaned in and pressed his lips to mine. I closed my eyes. He was supporting my whole weight. I wrapped my arms around his neck, while his one hand was at the back of my neck and the other on my back, keeping me exactly where I was.

"This is perfect." He muttered. I just nodded, not wanting him to disturb me right now.

Who wants to hear this pighead's voice anyways?

He pulled away a second before the lights turned bright again. They were so dim before, that you couldn't make out anyone's face.

I took a deep breath to calm my racing heart and gain my breaths back.

"God! What're you doing to me, Nerdy?" Zack exclaimed, stepping away a little. He whispered. "I don't want to stop kissing."

"But you can't kiss me before the whole mafia." I shrugged, looking around. No one was really paying attention to me.

"That's alright. I can wait till tonight to sneak into your room then kiss the life out of you. So what if our balconies are not connected this time?" He asked, winking. I blushed, making him chuckle.

Trucker always manages to do that.

We stepped away from the middle and went back to where the family was.

"You're so cute, Evvie." Jenna said, bumping her shoulder into Zack's, while smirking. "That dance was amazing."

I just rubbed my neck, turning red, while Zack cleared his throat and looked away.

"Aww..." They said, extending the aww, before all three of my sisters were shoved aside.

"Don't hype them up." Luciano gritted, glaring at them.

"Hey! You hurt my sisters." I said, moving forward to punch him, but someone held me back.

"I didn't. Shut up and stay away from him. The dance is over." Luciano said, grabbing my arm and pulling me to him.

I stomped on his foot. That's the best I can do to get back at him. As revenge. Otherwise, Elonzo will throw me from one of the towers of this castle, if I embarrass the Romanos by fighting with my siblings before everyone.

Luciano zipped his mouth shut, not letting the string of curses out. I smirked and went to sit with the A-trips, who were laughing at the scene.

I started laughing too, but then stopped when my eyes locked onto Salvatore Bianchi's. For the second time.

Creep!

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