"Gio, what are you doing here!?" I whisper yelled.

If anyone found he's here now, all hell is going to break loose now. This is not good.

"I believe I was invited for dinner" Gio said kissing my cheek. "Am I too late?"

I opened my mouth and closed it about ten times unsure of what to say or how to react or anything. I'm just in a state of shock right now.

"Are you- are you out of your mind?" I said in a panic voice. "First you said you'd call and then you left me worried for hours and now you show up here?"

"Sorry about that, after we caught up with Julian Snakes managed to ran and we've been out searching for him since and then my phone died" Gio replied.

"He escaped? Oh no,that's so... everything is just... Gio you can't be here" I said placing my hands on his chest trying to push him back. "Dominic's here and so is my dad and if they know..."

"So the whole family that's great" Gio replied. "And I thought you said I was invited to dinner, your dad wanted to meet the boyfriend?"

"Yes he did but he doesn't know that its you. I only told you that because you were in a bad mood, I was trying to lessen the tension I didn't think you'd show up" I said to him.

"Well I did and besides I think its about time your folks know we're back together" Gio replied.

"Well I don't, I shouldn't be dating you after everything that has happened and Dominic swore he'd kill you if you ever came near me again" I said to him. "Do you have any idea how bad this is gonna be if he find out your here? You have to go".

" Lexi, you're an adult, you should act like it. You're free to date who you want and shouldn't have to hide it. Besides I don't want to be your dirty little secret, I don't make you mind " Gio said seriously. "I'm sick of you having to sneak around and lie just to see me, and whenever I want you to stay over you have to be coming up with excuses like a damn child".

" Gio that's not fair" I said to him feely slightly hurt by what he said even though I know its the truth.

"What's not fair is you having to be hiding how you really feel and scared because you're afraid of what your family is going to think or do. You're an adult, you should stand up and act like one" Gio replied. "You said your dad wanted to meet your boyfriend and wanted you to invite him to dinner? Well here I am, no better time to get this out and over with".

" Gio I... " I started to say but a voice coming up behind me cut me off.

"Lexi, what's taking you so long? Whose at the ...door?" Mom trailed off seeing Gio standing there in front of me.

"Mom I..." I started saying as I turned around before stopping not sure what else to say.

"Uhm...hi" mom said equally surprised to Gio. "Mr.Cavelli?"

"Good evening Mrs.Luciano" Gio nodded smiling slightly. "Please, call me Gio"

Mom looked to me for answers then back at Gio still surprised. I bit my lip sheepishly not knowing what to say. I know my current actions had answered any questions mom might have had. It was obvious that Gio and I were seeing each other once again.

"Uhm, right sure" mom said shaking her head quickly as if to get rid if her shock state. "So what brings you here Gio?"

"I believe I was invited to dinner ma'am, Lexi here told me that here family wanted to meet her boyfriend" Gio responded.

"I didn't thought you'd actually showed up" I tried to argue.

"So you guys are back together?" Mom asked.

"Mom I think that's a question with a pretty obvious answer right now" I replied. "He needs to go now".

" Lexi I told you I'm done being a secret " Gio said.

"You're not my secret..." I tried to tell him.

"No?" Gio asked raising a brow. "Alright then, what? You just don't want your family to know your dating me"

"Come inside" mom said to him.

"Mom?" I looked at her as if she was crazy. "If they see him here you know what's gonna happen"

"He's right though, they deserve to know" mom said inviting him in and closing the door.

Mom was always the easy going and lenient one. Even though she knew what happened with Gio and all, she still haven't mentioned it yet. If only the others were like her then I wouldn't have much to worry about.

"I brought this" Gio said handing her a bottle of wine.

"Oh thanks, though you didn't need to bring anything" mom said taking it from him. "Oh,grand vin 1961"



(AN- I know nothing about wine)

"Yeah,it's good stuff" Gio smile at her.

Wait, hello am I the only one freaking out here?

"Come on Gio, this way" mom said leading him to the dining room area.

"Mom no" I tried to stop them but it was no use. "Yeah sure, follow here to your death".

The minute we reached the dining room and Dad and Dominic caught sight of Gio the environment just got cold and sounded chaotic. Dad and Dominic had both pushed back their chairs and stood up guns drawn. Dominic's chair had even fell back to the floor from the force from which it was pushed back. How did he even moved that fast. Kathleen and Emilia sat there with eyes and mouth wide open in surprise.

" Alphonso, Dominic" mom called trying to calm them.

"What the hell is he doing here?" Dominic growled referring to Gio which had also had his gun out.

You've got to be kidding me. Gio, you're definitely not making a good first impression at all.

"You have some nerve showing up here in my house and pointing a gun at us" Dad said.

"I believe you both pointed first, I don't think its wise to be defenseless when you have two guns aimed at you" Gio sassed.

"I don't think that's the proper way to treat a dinner guest" mom said. "Alphonso, you invited him".

"You've got to be kidding me" Dominic said looking at me of confirmation. "Lexi, you're back with this toolbag after everything?!"

"Guys put down the guns" I said in a strangely calm voice.

I noticed neither of the three made any move to lower their guns which caused me to started fuming once again.

"I said lower your freaking guns now!" I yelled.

They all slowly lowered their guns hesitantly while keeping their eyes on each other.

"Good, there's no need to be acting like wild animals now" I said to them.

"You're dating Cavelli? Again?" Dad asked in disbelief.

"I am" I replied.

"I knew it" Dominic laughed humorlessly. "I knew it guys, she's crazy. She frigging crazy. She's screwing him again after everything he's done. Don't you remember how he killed your child!?"

"Listen buddy, that was my kid too. And I didn't kill it, what happened was a mistake" Gio said dangerously, obviously more upset that Dominic mentioned our dead child. "And it was your fault too, if you didn't use her as a tool to get to me and making me thought she betrayed me that wouldn't have happened, so you're to be freaking blamed for it as well".

"I could just shoot you right in the skull right now" Dominic said raising his gun again and taking a step closer to Gio. "If I didn't 'use her' you wouldn't have even get close or even know her in the first place. So maybe you're right, its my fault she fell for a douche like you but now I have the opportunity to fix..."

"STOP IT! Both of you just stop it!!" I yelled putting my hands up and moving in between the two. "This is exactly what I was trying to avoid. I jokingly told Gio about Dad's invitation to dinner, I didn't actually think he'd show up but he did. This is about me, I know what I was getting into when I started dating Gio..."

"You're making the biggest mistake of your life Lexi" Dad said.

"Well then its my mistake to make" I replied. "I am an adult, I think I'm capable of making certain decisions for myself".

" After everything that he's done? And you're back with him!?" Dominic shouted. "He's a dick and you're just forgetting about everything like that!?"

"It is my choice! What happened in the past happened and..." I started.

"It wasn't so long ago that..." Dominic started but I cut him off again too.

"I don't care! What I'm saying is that this is my decision. What happened before, it happened to me. And I had managed to somehow get over it and forgave Gio even though it wasn't easy" I said to them. "But if it happened to me and I can looked past that why the hell can't you? He might be an ass at times but it doesn't matter, because he makes me happy. I'm not asking y'all to become best friends because I know that's probably never going to happened but I'm asking you to let go of the past and accept the fact I'm dating a guy who both hate. Either that or you can cut me off, disowned me whatever. At this point it doesn't matter because I'm still going to be doing my own thing. I'm in love with Gio and y'all need to respect that".

Everyone seemed shock at my little speech but I needed to get it all out, I've been keeping that bottled up inside for a while now.

"I'm not going to be staying here and listen to this" Dominic announced as he tried to walk away.

"No! You won't leave" I said point blank like a mother giving orders to their son. "You're behaving like a immature child right now. You all wanted to know about my love life, so there its out in the open now. We're all going to sit at this table and have dinner like we originally planned and anyone who objects or have a further problem with it, then that's it between us. You can forget about me all together and I don't care who!"

Dominic stopped and looked at me properly trying to gauge if I'm being serious or not as well as equally surprised at my level of authoritarian skills I had just displayed. I was dead serious though, if Dad or Dominic act out anymore I'm moving out tonight and if Gio worst tried anything I'm not speaking to him again.

"Very well then" Dad replied. "Let's sit down and see if we can make it through tonight. You you're dating Lexi shouldn't really be any of us concern. You're a smart young woman, I believe you're capable enough to decide who you want, like you said before it is indeed your mistake to make"

"Thank you" I sighed brushing my hair back.

"Uhm okay then" mom said awkwardly. "Gio you can sit here between Lexi and Emilia"

At the mentioned of Emilia both mom, dad and Dominic's eyes widened with panic. It seems they had another guest here who is 'supposedly clueless' to everything and should have never witnessed what just happened.

"Emilia I'm ..." Mom started before Emilia cut her off.

"Its okay guys" Emilia said. "I've heard that you guys didn't get along but I had no idea it was this bad. Never knew you all hate him that much".

"You know him?" Dominic asked as he walked back to his original place at the table and picking up his fallen chair. I heard Gio chuckled amusedly at this whole new revelation that is about to be known.

"You could say I know him quite well" Emilia said smiling sheepishly.

I figured since everything is already out the bag I might as well just tell them this now too.

"Guys meet Emilia Cavelli, she's Gio's sister" I announced.

"What!?" Mom, Dad and Dominic said at the same time quite shock.

"Yeah" Emilia smile sheepishly. " Gio è la mia famiglia . Grande fratello per essere più precisi"

(Gio is my family. Big brother to be more precise)

"Are you telling me that..." Dad started the same time as Dominic started to say something as well but I cut them off.

"Alright could we put this all behind and start dinner now, or I can just leave if you want" I said to them. "You decide".

"Let's sit" Dad announced. "Ella, you can bring the food in now".

I honestly didn't even remember that our house helper was also here witnessing our bad behavior, though it wasn't something she didn't know about.

"You too Cavelli, sit down. Glad you could make it" Dad said though I could tell he was forcing it and just making an effort for me.

"Thanks, delighted to be invited" Gio smirked sitting down beside me.

Dominic who was sitting across from us kept sending death glare at Gio. I really wish they'd all stop this and behave civilized though I doubt that's going to just happen today. I'm surprised someone hasn't gotten shot as yet though I'm still keeping my fingers crossed until we get through this night peacefully.

"Let's just get this over with so I can leave before I do something I really wanted to do a along time ago" Dominic announced.

"Dominic stop" Dad said to him noticing my glare.

Nobody else said anything for the time. Ella brought out the foods while everyone helped themselves to whatever. When mom asked who wanted any of the wine that Gio had brought, dad declined and Dominic purposely dropped the bottle with the remainder when it reached to him. I gasp and glare at him for being oh so childish right now.

"I didn't mean to start up any tension between you and your family" Gio whispered to me while placing a hand on my thigh under the table.

"Its a little bit late for that don't you think" I hissed throwing his hand off.

"I think its better now that they know though" Gio whispered to me again. "You don't have to hide now".

"You think?" I asked sarcastically.

" Senti , ho intenzione di essere il grande uomo qui" Gio said. "I'm not even sure where all this 'bad blood' spring from in the first place. But I want to say what happened in the past with Lexi it all a stupid mistake on my path. I was blinded by anger and it's something that I'm going to regret for the rest of my life and I don't have any intention for anything like that to happen again. This may sound unbelievable to you but I love, I really do. And I want to spend the rest of my days doing so and protecting her. And if it makes you feel any better all those hits and attacks before on the Luciano's wasn't authorized by me, I've recently discovered the traitors responsible for all that before. I took care of one but the other managed to flee".

(Listen, I'm going to be the bigger man here)

" So you allowed a traitor from your group to escape?" Dad asked in disbelief.

"See, he's not competent enough to run a business like these" Dominic replied.

"He must've gotten suspicious when my men showed up and ran before they could get to him" Gio replied. "And I've been running this business for years now quite well. My men are on it, and I'm positive we'll locate him soon".

As they talked I sighed inwardly. As much as they still weren't getting along I was glad the worst seemed to be over. I just wanted the dinner to be over with in case any of these three men decided to kill each other after all.

Surprise surprise another update. That's three update in less than two days. I don't know how this chapter suit you but this is it.

So no blood was shed and progress seem to be making between the two sides- at least I hope so. Stay tune for more drama etc. Keep voting and commenting.