( outfit above ) { Tori's POV }

My father Valente takes me to this study that happens to have a bar in the back of it.. how convenient.

"What would you like to drink?" He asks

"Do you have any red wine?" I ask

"Yes of course." He says and he gets me a glass of red wine and he pours himself something else.

"This actually Angelina's red wine. She makes it at a winery we own that is about thirty minutes from here." He informs me

I take a small sip and I'm actually really impressed.

"It's one of the best that I've had." I tell him He sends me a slight smile and a nod. I wouldn't have expect anything more.

"Downstairs at the grand entrance hall is most of our mafia. Well the ones that are in Italy, anyway. They are here to welcome you. You'll be blessed by me, Riccardo, and Francesco being we are the council here. Then you'll be sworen in. Then you will go into the basement with Luca, Marco, Lorenzo, and Diego. Being you will be serving the mafia with them. Then they will give you your omertà tattoo and you'll officially be a member of not only my personal family but also the mafia family." Valente explains

I nod in acknowledgement.

"Victoria, I want you to know that I'm glad you decided to come here. I know I didn't have a hand in raising you, and I regret not looking for your mother harder.. but I want us to have a good relationship. Or at least try. I know you're grown now, and that you probably don't need a father, and I can't even promise that I'd be a good one.. but I can promise I'll always protect you and put your life before mine." Valente says to me

I almost cry. But I hold it back.

"You aren't perfect but the great thing about it is ; neither am I. I'm not going to be the type of daughter who does everything how you want. Yes I'm already an adult, and I have a mind of my own, but I think there will still be times where I'll need a father." I tell him trying to reassure him a little

"Are you nervous?" He asks

"No." I simply answer

Valente slight raises his eyebrow in question.

"I don't really get nervous." I reply with a shrug

He nods

"Well we're already late. I think we better go, none of the mafia men are very patient." My father tells me as he finishes his drink and stands up

He takes and places my hand on his elbow, as we walk out of the study, and down the long fancy stair case of steps. I see over a hundred of men in black suits, and nearly all of them look as if they just stepped off of a runway or out of a gym. I see Luca, Marco, Lorenzo, and Diego all looking at me as if a ghost just walk into the room. Francesco and Riccardo seem shocked.

I guess I do look really different.

We reach the last ten steps and my father pulls me to a stop and says "Famiglia, meet my long lost daughter, Tori Ferrari. I expect all of you to treat her with the same respect you show me."

My father kisses my forehead, then he walks down the stairs, and goes near the others. Francesco walks up the stairs and stands beside me.

"I think we've always had a missing piece in the family, and I think all of us felt as if we were just missing something. You are that missing piece that has finally arrived home." Francesco says loud enough so everyone can hear

He also kisses my forehead in a fatherly way then he goes back to the others. Now Riccardo comes up and stands beside me.

"May you always make us proud, and serve the Italian mafia well." Riccardo says then he also kisses my forehead.

Next Luca comes up and stands beside me, and everyone looks surprised by it ; only I don't know why they would be...

"Do you Tori Ferrari swear to put family above all?" Luca asks

"I do." I say realizing how weddingish this all sounds. I'm saying til death so us part, to two hundred men or more.

"Do you swear to protect the family against our enemies?" Luca asks

"I do." I say again honestly

"Do you swear to keep our secrets by the code of silence. The omerta?" Luca asks

"I swear." I reply honestly

"Tori Ferrari, you are now officially a family member in the Italian mafia. May you always stay strong, and prove others wrong." Luca says then he leans down and kisses my cheek.

Everyone seems shocked by that too. Luca then places my arm around his, as he leads me down the last ten steps, and takes me towards Lorenzo, Marco, Diego who are in the corner.

Lorenzo hugs me but it catches me off guard but eventually force myself to hug him back.

"We finally have a sister!" Lorenzo says while doing a playfully fist bump in the air making me smile a little.

Marco says "Welcome to the family Tori."

"Thank you." I reply a little softer than usual

Lastly Diego who doesn't seem like a hugger nods his head and says "Congratulations." with a deep voice that caught me off guard.

So I nod my head back as a sign of respect and say "Thank you!" with a polite smile.

The others seemed surprised he said a word to me but I didn't want to draw attention to it luckily Luca spoke up as he placed my arm back inside his and he said "It's time."

I let Luca lead me with my arm in his to the basement with Lorenzo, Marco, and Diego following behind us.

We get to the basement and I see Pietro who is surprisingly still alive, and hanging up in mid air, but it seems he was beaten worse than what I had done since I'd seen him last.

"To be official in the mafia you have to have your first kill in order to show that you will protect your family." Luca says

Luca hands me his gun which I take.

"You do know how to use a gun right princess?" Marco asks

"I guess we are about to find out.." I say as if I'm doubting myself. I walk up to where I'm standing across from the guys, and in front of Pietro.

"Well, well...looks like someone is trying to be a part of the mafia." Pietro says trying to get a rile out of me. I just stay deadly calm.

"I don't have to try." I simply reply

"Victoria, you aren't going to shoot me.." Pietro says as if he's certain. He's a an idiot to even have that idea. Of course I will.

"And why not?" I ask playing with him

"Because you are going to need me if you want to survive him.. He's obsessed with getting you back, and when he finds out you've joined the Italian mafia he's going to be so angry with you. The Italians won't be able to stop him nor calm him down." Pietro says confidently

I lightly laugh and say "That's almost cute.." He looks at me like I'm crazy so I explain further — "For one, if he catches me it'll be because I want to get caught. For two, I don't need anyone. Not the mafia. Not my father. And certainly not you. Lastly, even if I don't shoot you they will. The fact of the matter is that your stupidity makes me want to shoot you, and the fact that you're a back stabber is just icing on the cake."

Pietro smirks and says "But you don't have it in you... if you did you would've killed him when you had the chance."

"I didn't have it in me. People change." I reply with a smirk then I turn my face completely emotionless. Pietro's face drops. I hold up the gun and shoot him right in between his eyes. Killing him instantly.

Luca looks like he's proud in a strange way and Lorenzo and Marco just look a little shocked. Diego has a ghost of a smile on his face.

"I believe the tattoo is next?" I almost ask but it sounds like I'm stating it..

"You would be right..." Luca says as he puts his gun away and puts my arm around his again and lead me to another smaller room in the basement. The other boys follow.

I see a machine and two chairs.

"Have a seat.." Luca says while gesturing to the chair I'm suppose to sit in. So I sit down and Luca sits in the other.

"Where do you want it?" He asks

"Where did the rest of you get it?" I ask genuinely curious

"The older generations got theirs on their forearm and so did the rest of our men...but Marco, Diego, Lorenzo, and myself got ours on our right ripcage." Luca says

I nod and take a pair of scissors that were laying on the same table as the machine and I cut a piece of my dress that is near my right hip.

"Here." I tell him.

He looks surprised that I just cut my dress so willingly in front of them but smirks and nods.

Luca starts my tattoo and honestly it doesn't hurt at all. I watched Luca as he did it because he was focusing so hard almost as if he's trying to draw it to perfection. When he was finished before he bandaged it he let me see it finished with a small hand held mirror.

It was a black rose and in the stim of the flower it says famiglia.

"Does everyone have a black rose?" I ask

"No the rest of us have a spiral symbol that says famiglia but after all of us thought about it — we thought you deserved something a little better being the first woman to be sworn in." Marco explains

Luca bandages the tattoo then helps me stand back up. The guys make a fortress around me before we walk back up the steps.

"Why are you all acting like my personal body guards?...like I'm Britney Spears or something." I ask confused

"You cut your dress princess..." Marco says

"I don't want my men to lose their heads by staring at what doesn't belong to them." Luca says

"So we're walking you to your room so you can change and then we'll go to the dinning hall." Lorenzo explains further

That's just what the guys do they escort me like my own person fortress back to my room so I can change for dinner.

What a night this is...