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"You were gone for quite a long time"

"Didn't you hear what I said?" I turned to my red-headed friend. "I fell asleep in the garden and lost track of time..."

"Was Santi with you?"

"Why would he be with me?"

She grinned at me devilishly. "I couldn't help noticing how swollen both of your lips were and I saw how you two avoided eye contact the whole time we were eating."

Just my luck that the moment I decide to have a relationship, or rather "no strings attached" relationship with Santiago, Vanessa notices the small little things she usually doesn't look at.

"There's nothing going on, end of story."

The door to the bathroom in my room opened and my mother came out wearing a white robe and a towel wrapped around her head. She looked at us and then at the sleeping Sofi in my bed.

"Why didn't you girls cover her up with a blanket?" mom walked over to the closet to grab a warm blanket and then slipped it over Sofi's body.

"We don't do those kinds of things, Vicky" Nessa joked. "That's a mother's job."

" Haha very funny. What are you two doing here, anyway? I don't want you to wake Sofi up."

Vanessa smiled and nodded towards me. "I'm trying to make your daughter tell me what she was doing with Santiago."

I rolled my eyes. "Don't listen to her Ma', she's crazy."

My mother raised an eyebrow at me. "You two did look kind of suspicious down there..."

"Ugh, not you too!"

"I told you!"

"He's a very handsome young man, Gabby" Mom spoke as she walked over to her suitcase and pulled out a few of her clothes. "But you have to remember that he's the leader of a Cartel."

"Are you saying that I shouldn't get involved with him?"

"I'm saying that you should really think about it if you decide to get involved with him" She said giving me a knowing look before turning around and going into my walk- in closet. "I know what it's like having to deal with a Mafia boss...I was married to one."

I didn't have a response to that. My mother knows what she's talking about when it comes to this, and now that I'm kind of in the same situation she was in. I can actually relate to what it was like for her whenever she was married to my dad.

"The wise words of momma Vicky"

"Shhh" I whisper yelled at my friend. "You're going to wake up your sister."

Mom walked out of the closet dressed up in blue jeans and a very nice brown leather jacket. Vanessa let out a quiet wolf-whistle and mom laughed and shook her head, "You're always loud Vanessa."

"Why are you getting so dressed up?" I asked her as she struggled to put her brown boots on.

"I'm going out with your father."

I flicked my eyes to Nessa who wiggled her eyebrows at me. "On a date?" I asked her in a suggestive tone.

She frowned at me and looked at me strangely. "No, we're just going to visit some old friends."

"Mafia friends?"

"Si. Ay mucha gente que me quiere ver ahora que saben que estoy con tu padre. (Yes. There are lots of people who want to see me now that they know I'm with your father)

"Damn" Nessa laughed. "You were very popular Vicky."

Mom shrugged. "I was the wife of a very important Mafia boss. Cartel leaders are like royalty in this Mafia world."

We helped her do her hair and after a long time of looking in the mirror trying to make sure she looked good, seriously she's even worse than Sofi, Nessa and I put together, we finally walked with her down the stairs where everyone was standing by the door looking ready to go.

Were they going to leave us home alone again?

"Are all the boys coming with us?" mom asked as she went to stand next to my father.

"The only one who's coming with us is Joel. Alejandro and Martin have to go take care of some business for me, the rest of them have to go take care of some business for Ernesto."

Business, business, business!

"We're going to leave some guys guarding the house but I told them not to come into the house, I don't want you girls to feel uncomfortable." Don Ernesto said to us.

"Sounds good" I nodded. I noticed the house was unusually quiet which was weird since there are usually a lot of maids around. "What about all your kitchen and cleaning staff? I don't see them around anywhere."

"I asked them to leave but they'll be back later, you girls have the house to yourselves."

Sweeeeeeeeeeet!

"We left a list with all of our cell-phone numbers in the kitchen table" dad walked over to kiss my forehead. "You can call any of us in case there's an emergency."

I couldn't help but laugh at how over protective everyone was being. A list of everyone's number?

"We'll be fine, daddy"

I decided to hug every single one of them goodbye just so that I could hug one person in particular without everyone getting suspicious about it. He was the only one out of all of them to give me a tight hug but I made sure to make it short enough like everyone else's

"Take care" he whispered just loud enough for me to hear.

After they were gone I made sure to lock the large door behind them. When I turned around I was surprised to see Nessa doing a happy dance as she made her way up the staircase.

"WOHOOOOOOOO WE HAVE THE MANSION ALL TO OURSELVES!"

"Let's go wake Sofi" I followed behind her and we made our way back to my room where sleeping beauty was still dead asleep on my bed.

Vanessa got on top of the bed and turned to smirk at me.

I knew exactly was she was going to do but I didn't do anything to stop her because I knew she wouldn't listen to me if I told her not to do it.

"SOFIAAAAAA WAKE UP! WE GET TO DO WHATEVER WE WANT!!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs while jumping on the bed like the maniac she is.

Sofi groaned loudly and hit her sister with one of the large pillows. "Shut up!"

"Sisterrrrrrr c'mon we only have a few hours!"

She pulled the blanket away from her face and narrowed her eyes at me. "Why didn't you stop her from waking me up?"

I grinned. "You've already slept for a few hours, I think that's enough sleep."

"Get up!"

She sighed, "Fine! I'm up already I can't go back to sleep anyway." she stuck her tongue out at me and ran to the bathroom to wash her face.

"You can take a nap later" I yelled out.

"What do you want to do?" I asked Vanessa while we waited for Sofi to come out.

"I don't know..."

"Well I don't know either" I went to sit next to her on the bed. "You're the one who was so excited about it, I thought you already had something in mind."

"Let's go!" Sofi said as she walked out.

"We still don't know what we're going to do."

"You woke me up for nothing" she whined. "I say we all take a nap!"

"I've got it" Nessa stood up and began taking off her shirt. "We should go play in the game room!"

Sofi and I glanced at each other as we watched her strip out of her clothes and walk over to her suit case to pull out her black booty shorts and her favorite green tank-top.

"Why are you changing into your booty shorts?" I asked.

"We're going to be playing games so I want to be in comfortable clothes so I can beat your asses in the dancing video games."

Sofi and I decided to follow suit and changed into out own comfortable clothing. I put on my blue booty shorts and light-blue Chuck Taylor tank-top, these were the type of clothes we usually went to sleep in but they were also the most comfortable and stretchable clothes we had, there's no one else in the mansion so we can walk around with no worries what so ever.

"Let's go have some fun!"

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Three hours later we were tired, sweaty and very hungry.

"I totally beat you guys in Dance Dance Revolution" Nessa bragged for the hundredth time. "I told you so!"

"You dance like a crazy person" I rolled my eyes and lead the way downstairs to the kitchen where we would fix something to eat after spending hours playing active video games.

"We should get the guys to play with us one of these days" Sofi said when we finally reached the kitchen. "I bet we could beat them in the dancing games easily."

"Totally"

I walked over to the fridge and pulled out some mayonnaise, ham, lettuce and cheese while my friends grabbed the bread and three bottles of water from the freezer. We sat down on the large kitchen table and began making some sandwiches.

"Have you girls talked to Daniel and Leo?" I asked them.

"Not really" Sofi spoke up first. "We were distracted by your mom's arrival and we really haven't had the time to talk. I haven't had any alone time with him since we were attacked at the club."

"Do you still want to be with him after everything you've found out about his life?"

"I don't know" she hesitated before continuing. "I mean I still have strong feelings for him but I've already been in a relationship with a mafia guy, I don't want to go through the same thing I did when I was with Alex."

Holy crap Alejandro! "Does Daniel already know you and Alex had a thing?"

She shook her head. "But I think he suspects that we had something going on."

Nessa snorted. "That's why he looked all jealous when he saw how worried Alejandro was about you."

It was a little odd how worried my brother was about his ex-girlfriend, I didn't expect him to panic so much about Sofia. Oh God, what if Alejandro still has feelings for her? If he does I'm going to beat the shit out of him! He was the one who broke up with her claiming that he didn't want a long-distance relationship.

The dumbass.

"What about you and Leo?" I turned to Nessa.

She shrugged. "I'm not mad at him. Whenever I get the chance to talk to him I'm going to tell him that everything is fine with me and I'll just enjoy my time with him while I'm here, we'll figure out what to do when it's time for me to go back home."

I blinked. "You don't care that he's in the Mafia?"

"I was mad about it when I first found out, but now I think it's kind of sexy."

Oh my God.

"Vanessa do--" I began. "You know what? Never mind. I'm not surprised to hear this from you; I already know how weird you are."

She winked. "Hell yeah!"

We continues chatting about nothing in particular and soon it was 6:30pm but there was no sign of the guys or my mother so we assumed they wouldn't be home till' late at night.

I glanced at the mess around us and wrinkled my noise. "We should clean the kitchen a little... look at the mess we made."

"Let me put on some music and we can start cleaning just like we did in our apartment" Nessa walked over to the iHome set up in the right corner next to the large microwave. "It'll make it more fun!"

Sofia and I began cleaning out the table while Vanessa ran upstairs to grab an old iPod from the suitcase in my room.

I walked to dump our glasses and plates into the sink and washed the dishes quickly so that I could help the girls clean around the kitchen and be done faster.

"I feel so sweaty" Sofi reached out into the sink and splashed some water around her neck and arms. "I'm going to take a shower when we go back upstairs."

Vanessa walked back into the large kitchen with her iPod in one hand and a bucket with a broom and mop in the other. "I found the supply room" she said happily waving the bucket at us.

"Nessa you can grab a rag and clean around the table a counters, Sofi you're sweeping and I'll mop." I grabbed the bucket and pulled it on to the counter so I could fill it up with water.

"Same as always" Sofi shook her head and snatched the iPod from her sister's hand, plugging it into the small stereo.

The music blasted loudly and we got to do our tasks. I couldn't help feeling a bit homesick as I watched my two friends bobbing their head to the music, this was the thing we always did together to clean around our apartment. Over there we could do whatever we wanted and go out wherever we pleased while here we were treated like children that whenever my parents went out they had to leave a sheet with their phone number in case of an 'emergency', this wasn't like any normal 'emergency'-by that they meant if an enemy cartel decided to attack the mansion and try to kidnap us.

Bullshit.

A new song started playing and I recognized one of our favorite songs.

Mr. Saxobeat by Alexandra Stan

Nessa threw her red hair around wildly as she swayed her hips along to the beat of the song. "This is my jam!"

"You make me this, bring me up, bring me down, play it sweet make me move like a freak Mr. Saxobeat!"

Sofi and I stepped aside and laughed as she danced around the kitchen doing some weird and exotic dance moves. Her lips mouthed the lyrics of the song and she waved a white cleaning cloth up in the air.

"C'mon girls! Let's dance!"

I laughed and began dancing along with her, Sofi grabbed the broom in her hand and pretended to grind on it making Vanessa and I laugh hysterically.

"Oooh oh yeah...mmm...yeah...mmm...yeah" We formed a little line and threw our hands up in the air just like we did when we danced at the club.

I motioned for them to move aside and I grabbed the mop on the floor using it as a fake microphone to sing my favorite part of the song. "Hey sexy boy set me free. Don't be so shy play with me, my dirty boy can't you see that you belong next to me."

"YOU ARE THE ONE I NEEEEEED!" Sofi and Nessa chorused together.

"Remember when we used to dance this song at the club in Chicago?" I yelled over the music.

"Of course! Ohhh and the time Brandon tried kissing you while you were dancing to this song" Nessa laughed, swinging her hands from side to side. "You teased that boy a lot."

"Who's Brandon?"

We all froze at the sound of the masculine voice. Oh no...

We turned to see Santiago, Daniel and Leo standing in the kitchen doorway staring at us with raised eyebrows, their mouths slightly open as they raked their eyes over our outfits.

"H-How long have you guys been standing there?" Sofi asked nervously, she walked over to stand behind me, the girl was using me as a shield!

"Long enough to see you girls dancing in a very provocative way." Leo licked his lips, his eyes glued to Nessa who was standing in the middle of the kitchen with no care in the world, she wasn't even trying to cover herself up.

"You still didn't answer my question" Santiago stated with a stern look. "Who's this Brandon you were talking about?"

I blew out a big breath and shook my head slightly. "He's just a friend of ours from back home."

"A friend that had a crush on her" Nessa added in a sing-song voice.

Santi walked over to turn off the music. "You girls didn't have to clean the kitchen, the cleaning staff will be back in an hour."

I shrugged. "We didn't have anything else to do."

"I-I'm goanna go upstairs and change" Sofi spoke awkwardly. "Ness--"

"I'll go with you" Daniel smiled at her. "We haven't had that talk you promised me."

They walked together out of the kitchen leaving us in a very uncomfortable silence. Nessa walked over to Leo and tugged on his hand. "We also need to talk. Let's go somewhere more private." they left the kitchen holding hands.

Santi cleared his throat to get my attention, I looked up to see a smile on his face and I took a few hesitant steps towards him. "The girls already suspect about us" I stood in front of him looking up into his blue eyes.

He wrapped his arms around my waist pulling me closer to him. "I kind of figured since they've been watching me closely ever since we got back from our little walk in the forest."

I ran my hands over his suit jacket absentmindedly. "Ummm, do any of the guys look suspicious about us?"

"Not at all" he grinned. "I'm a good liar, it's a Mafia thing."

I rolled my eyes. "I'm not surprised."

He laughed kissing the top of my head. We were getting way to comfortable with ourselves, the thing that bothers me about Santiago is that I never know what to expect from him, he always has a poker face on when he's around business stuff, which is basically all the time.

"What type of business did you and the guys go take care of?" I blurted out without thinking. I winced slightly after realizing I was probably asking him about some confidential Mafia information. "Never mind. You don't have to answer that, you probably can't talk about it with me."

He raised an eyebrow, looking amused. "Gabby its okay" his face turned serious as he continued, "We went to try to get information on what Hector and his guys have been up to, I found out that they're trying to find information about you girls but they haven't found anything."

I let out a sigh of relief. "That's good news."

"Yes, and that means that you girls will be stuck with us for a while" he smiled.

"And that makes you happy?"

"I get to spend more time with you" he grinned, leaning down to give me a kiss on the lips. "Have our parents gotten back from the party?"

I shook my head. "You guys are the first to get here. Why?"

"I'm going to call for a meeting with both Cartels, I found out some important stuff."

More information? So important that he was going to call for a meeting? Should I ask him what its about? There's no way they would allow me into their meeting. I have to ask him, the curiosity will bother me if I don't know what's going on and what if its something about the girls and I?

"W-What did you find out that's so important?"

He looked surprised I had asked. "You want to know?"

"Yes?"

"Gabby, I thought you didn't want to get involved in any of the business..."

I groaned. "I don't but now I'm curious about what it is. Is it something you can't tell me?"

"Not really" he scrunched up his eyebrows deep in thought. "I guess I can tell you since I don't know if what I found out is true."

"Tell me."

"There are rumors going around" he began. "People are saying that Los Zetas are trying to unite with another powerful cartel to take us all down. Hector, the guy who attacked us at the club and leader of Los Zetas used to work with us but he left because he wanted to be the leader of his own group, he knows that he won't be able to take your father down as long as the Sinaloa Cartel is by his side so he wants help from other drug cartels to defeat us."

"But you guys are the most powerful Cartel in Mexico" I snorted. "There aren't any other groups he can work with to try to take you down..."

Santi laughed humorlessly. "The son of a bitch is betraying his own Country, he wants power and he'll do anything to get it."

"Betray his own Country?"

"Think about it Gabby" he grabbed my shoulders, looking directly into my eyes. "What other country has a powerful Mafia?"

"Italy?"

He nodded.

I gasped. "The Italian Mafia?"

He smirked. "Bingo"

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