"Do you want me to get you some ice for your hands?" Kathleen asked me. "They're still quite bruised"

"No, it's okay" I said to her trying to flex my fingers. "I think I'll be fine now".

"Are you sure?" Emilia asked. "You really did give Lucas a solid punch. If I did that I'd probably broke my fingers or even worst my hand"

"For the time I thought I did, but apparently that cracking sound was Lucas nose" I replied. "Though I did bruised my knuckles pretty bad with that punching bag"

Yesterday after I've finally snapped at Lucas and punch him in the face my hand felt as if I had broken it but I was still going to kill Lucas with my bare hands as he had stumbled back due to the force of my fist colliding with his face. Gio was swift enough to come and held me back, therefore Lucas only ended up with just a broken nose, if Gio didn't grab me and bring me out of there I'm sure I'd broken more than just his nose. Though that didn't really make up for what he did but wrecking his car and then confirming his nose was broken had made me feel a little better. My knuckles were split from punching the punching bags raw in addition to that me punching Lucas didn't do any justice to my poor hands, my right hand was more bruised and I had managed to break a nail which started bleeding. Gio had take me to get my hands dressed and bandage.

Everyone at home had noticed my bandaged hands the minute Emilia and I was back home. Of course they were concerned wanting to know what happened and so I didn't even bother to lie to them about it, I told them that I had punch Lucas minus the information that we were at Gio's gym. Emilia on the other hand had been hounding me as to what was going on, and why I was that hostile towards Lucas, since Gio had told me that she was aware of the whole mafia thing I just decided to come clean and tell her what had happened between me and Gio,us being from the different rival mafia families and also how the baby died. Emilia was surprised to hear that I was actually aware of Gio's true reputation as mafia boss much more being from one of those families. I guess Bering around my family for the time they hadn't given away anything or give off any impression that we were involved anyway. And ever since I've told her she's been acting really weird with me, as being extra nice. I don't know if it was because of what I told her about losing the baby. In addition she's totally glad I punched Lucas even though she's been a little offish towards Gio ever since.

"I'm going out with Dominic in a few minutes, he coming to pick me up" Kathleen said to me. "You'll be fine right?"

"You're not seriously asking me that are you?" I chuckled lightly. "Of course we'll be fine"

"OK, your right" Kathleen. "I'm gonna go finished getting ready"

"Have a good time" I smile at her before she left.

"How come I haven't met your brother yet, doesn't he like come around here?" Emilia asked.

"He does, but guess he's been extremely busy since" I replied. "He's coming to pick up Kathleen soon so maybe you'll get to meet him then".

"His he like pretty much stuck up and intended as Gio?" Emilia asked.

"Pretty much" I laughed at how she described here brother.

**** "Shit!" I groaned dropping my hands back to rest on the table.

"What's up now?" Emilia asked looking up.

"I'm trying to type this email but my freaking hands are killing me" I said leaning back.

"So do you want help, I'm pretty much free right now and I'm a pretty fast typer" Emilia smiled.

"You wanna type it?" I asked.

"Sure " Emilia replied smirking a bit as she got up and walking over to my table. "If you promised to pay me double".

"Yeah right" I said sarcastically putting on the biggest fake smile. "Not happening"

"Doesn't hurt to try right?" Emilia chuckled. "So what should I type?"

"Here" I said showing her the handwritten paper and showing her what to do before getting up allowing her to take my place in the chair and heading over to the couch that was in my office.

"This really sucks" I groaned as I laid down in the couch and started to pull off one of the bandages to inspect my still throbbing and bruised hand. "That bastard's face was really hard"

"But you did managed to break his nose though" Emilia chuckled. "That was so awesome"

"Yeah, but the results aren't"I said holding up my hand.

My hand was purplish and still slightly swollen although it wasn't as swollen as it was before. It seems I've never punched anyone this hard before, because I did that on Saturday and today was Monday and I'm still pretty much just starting to feel the effect. Maybe I should've even go checked it out if I had somehow managed to break my hand while I had broken Lucas nose. My inspection of my hand ended when my phone that was still at my table started ringing.

"Its Marc" Emilia said taking up the phone and stretching it to me as I had gotten up to retrieve it. "And Marc is?"

"None of your business" I said before answering. "Hey"

"Are you cheating on my Brother?" I heard Emilia asked.

I just grabbed a blank paper from the table before grumbling it and tossing it at her.

"Hey Lexi, you at work?" Marc asked over the phone.

"Yeah I am" I replied sitting back on the couch.

"Great, I've stop by to say hi" Marc replied.

"Really? Well come and say hi then" I chuckled.

"Okay" Marc chuckled before hanging.

"Do I need to somehow inform my brother about this Marc person?" Emilia asked teasingly.

"Do I need to somehow inform your brother that I can no longer look out for you? So he could post you straight back to Italy?" I asked as well.

"Didn't think so" I smirked when Emilia didn't reply. "I'm not cheating OK, Marc's a friend and family".

"Hey" Marc smiled opening the door.

"Come in" I smiled at him from my comfortable position on the couch.

"Well this is new" Marc chuckled as he entered closing the door behind him and taking me in. "Usually I'd find you over there working tirelessly at that table... Oh hi. I didn't know you had company".

"Marc, this is Emilia, she's a friend... Emilia this is Marc" I introduced them.

"Hey Marc" Emilia smiled waving at him shyly. "Nice meeting you".

"Yeah, you too" Marc smiled walking over to her and stretching his hand.

Emilia took his hand shaking it with that creepy grin on her face. After a few seconds they pulled away and Marc turned back to me. I could see Emilia gawking at his back with a love struck expression. When her eyes caught mine I rose a brow at her questioningly to which she mouthed 'he's so hot'. After a couple minutes of us talking Marc decided to say goodbye to is and left.

"Oh my God. Lui è così dannatamente caldo" Emilia gushed. "He's so... Does he... Uhm have a girlfriend?"

(He is so damn hot)

"Alright firstly no none that I'm aware of. Secondly he's way older than you, by eight years" I started counting on my fingers. "And thirdly, he's off limits to you okay. Definitely not the type of guy you wanna be crushing on now especially since he and Gio hate each others guts. Gio would kill him and I can't allow that so forget it".

"So what age is just a number right? I'm legal. Gio is way older than you as well and besides Gio doesn't have to know anything does he?" Emilia smiled getting up.

"Where the hell are you going?" I asked once she started making her way to the door.

"No worries, I just realized I kinda have to go.... You know" Emilia grinned before slipping out the door before I could stop her".

Oh my God. Gio is gonna kill me if I ever allow his little sister to get mixed up with Marc. Well doesn't this situation feels familiar.

Here you go guys, didn't want you to wait too long for another update. I haven't proof read or edit this chapter so if there are errors, I'm sorry. Anyway thanks again guys for continuing yo read, vote and comment on my story, hope you enjoy it and don't forget to vote and comment.