Luca's POV

I was currently on the phone talking to Chad (one of the guys on the football team) about the party he is throwing at his house tonight. Me and Marco were planning on sneaking out later tonight. I had to be extra careful because ever since Katherine came back all of my brothers and especially Xavier have been at her beck and call.

Honestly I just don't get by we have to be at her beck and call all the time. I mean she lived her whole life with our mom. What more could she want, I know my mother and I know that she would have treated Katherine like fucking princess.

I know I was only four when mom left but I was old enough to have memories and we had a lot of pictures and home movies that dad made that clearly showed how much she loved us. Mom was living happily with us up until Katherine was born, it was as if the first girl child in the family opened up her eyes to the fact that the mafia can be dangerous. I never hated her for going, unlike my twin brother who still held a little bit of resentment towards her for leaving us behind.

I knew she did what she had to do but what I hated was that she took Katherine and not one of us.

Back to my call with Chad, we had just finalised our plans when all of a sudden someone pushed to side, one hand around my middle while the other on the back of my head, and they pushed me with such force that I fell down behind my car hitting my elbow on the ground.

I turned around furious, ready to loose my shit over whoever the hell pushed me but to my complete and utter shock was met with the frantic and panting figure of Katherine, she was on her knees, after she did a once over of my figure she averted her gaze to the farthest corner of the parking lot. It looked like she was looking for something.

Noticing my stare on her she turned back to me while grunting softly, that's when I noticed her right arm was bleeding, she too looked at it but didn't seem to fazed and just answered with one word "snipper". Fuck. A fucking snipper, I had so many questions right now but my priority was to help her.

There was a little voice in my head that was telling me to deal with her later and to go find the person who just tried to kill me, that Dante and Marco would take care of her but that teeny tiny voice was over powered by this huge feeling of wanting to help her. That no matter how much I hated her taking away my mom and breaking my family I still had to help her.

And that is what I did. I helped her, I got up on my feet gently got her up as well, the rest of the parking lot was almost empty by now. I opened the passenger seat door and set her down, that's when I noticed the dazed expression on her face and how frantically her eyes were moving around the area not doubt searching for the shooter. "Hey, hey look at me. We'll find them okay?" I guess that was what broke her out of the trance as she lightly jerked at the sound of my voice, looking up at me her hands immediately went to my face checked for any injuries. "Are you okay? The guy didn't get you right? Oh I swear to god I would have fucking killed him. You sure you okay?"

What I found most weird was that a. She was asking me how I was even when she was the one with a bleeding wound. b. Why the hell was she asking how I, the brother who has been nothing but crap to her over the past week was? c. Even though her voice was frantic it was devoid of any emotion, except for maybe anger and even her face was blank not giving how she was actually feeling.

I in turn just nodded my head and went to the trunk, opening it I took out an emergency medical kit to treat the wound on her arm. As soon as she saw me holding it Katherine's eyes widened and she jumped up from her seat. "I knew it! You are hurt aren't you? Where is it show me, I'll fix it." She commanded taking the box from and started rummaging through it.

I bit my tongue to stop me from smiling at her worried expression, but I had to remind myself that it doesn't matter how she acts, she is the reason I don't have my mother, she is the reason my whole family was crushed. I snatched the box away from her and simply gestured to her wound, and when she looked back at it, it was like she just realised that she still had that wound.

"It is fine, I'll fix it up when we get home." Katherine just shrugged it off but I was adamant. "Yeah no. I am fixing it up right now. The bullet just grassed so it will probably need just a couple of stitches and it'll be fine." She doesn't argue further and sat back down while I bend down on my knees in front of her.

I took out some scissors and started to cut up the the shirt around the wound to get easy access but she instantly stopped me. "Wh- what are you doing?" "Cutting up the sleeve. It'll make the process easier?" "No, I-I just bought thi-this. You can't ruin it." "You have a closet full of clothes like this. One shirt is not going to put a dent in your wardrobe."

Of course she would care more about her fashionable clothing than her own health, then again she lived with mom and I can't even image her ever denying her daughter any thing she would have wanted.

She reluctantly let go and I cut off the sleeve from below the wound and almost immediately Katherine's hand went up to cover most of her arm from my sight which was a little suspicious but I ignored it for now. While I was stitching up her wound I had expected to be in pain or at least flinch a little but she didn't show any signs of it affecting her, almost as if she was used to this much pain.

When I was finally finished I came back to the drivers seat, I had messaged the others about what had happened and told my twin and Dante that I was taking Katherine home by myself and would meet them there only. Xavier had also informed me that he would be talking to he once we get back home.

Katherine's POV

The whole ride back home I didn't say anything even though I had a thousand thoughts in my mind.

Why would someone want to shoot my brother?

Who was that guy?

How did he even reach us at school?

We're my brothers involved in something I didn't know about?

Over the past week I have had my doubts about their said business. I knew they were into some shady business but I always gave them the benefit of the doubt. Now my suspensions were getting stronger and stronger especially after what happened today. I need to find out if my brothers are indeed what I think they are.

Once we reached home I was quick to jump out of the car and make a beeline for my room but Luca stopped me. "Not so fast. Xavier wants to talk to you." Ugghhh. I reluctantly went to the living room, and before I could do anything else I was tackled into a bone crushing hug by Alex, he unintentionally put pressure on the cuts on my stomach that still hadn't healed properly so I had to bit my tongue to prevent me from screaming out in pain.

"Oh my god I was so worried!! Are you okay? Your arm still hurts?" Alex bombarded me with questions, which I honestly found kind of funny. But I had to ask them questions right now. "Yeah, I am fine. So can someone tell me what the hell just happened back there?" I look towards my brothers all of them, including Xavier were just staring at me. "Well!?"

It was Xavier who finally decided to answer me, "You don't have to worry about that right now, you saved Luca out there so thank you for that. But we will handle this so why don't you just go back to your room and relax. It was your first so you must be tired." Oh lord! Please give me the power to not break his face right now.

"Okay look first. I don't need a fucking thank you for saving him. He is my brother, of course I am going to save him! And second yes I am going to worry about. Someone tried to kill my brother and if I weren't there in time, up you would have been wheeling his dead body in. So I wanna know why the hell would someone do that." "Look, you are tired and frustrated and that is totally understandable so we can talk about this later."

"For the love of god stop, okay just stop pretending. I know damn well that you guys are hiding something from me and I am not going anywhere until you tell what it is." I was grasping at straws right now. Everything that has happened up till now was just proving my theory right and was desperately trying to find something that would prove me wrong. Not because I was scared for my self but because I was terrified for my brothers, if they were what I think they were, all of them would constantly be living in danger and I don't think I was ready to lose them when I literally just got them back.

I was brought out of my thoughts by Xavier's voice. "Fine I will tell you the truth but you have to promise me that you aren't going to freak out." I could sense the panic from others but Xavier didn't pay any attention to them, his sole focus on me. As I nodded he took a deep breath and continued, as you already know we own our chain of hotels and casinos and we are very successful." He explained gesturing around the house for emphasis. "Well, the business was started my our grandfather and lucky for him, we gained success and popularity very quickly. Which did not sit well with our competitors, and that led to fights which over time became more violent. We try to stay out of the chaos as much as we try but sometime we do end up getting caught in the cross fire." Xavier concluded gesturing to my arm.

Now I knew for sure, this was all just an elaborate lie. Well thought out but I knew it was a lie, now I had two options, I could either confront them now and blow their whole cover or I could wait, gather more info about them and then drop the bomb like a boss ass bitch. I chose the latter. "Okay, I get that. I am going to my room now, as you said I am tired so... call me when the lunch is ready." And I sprinted to my room.

When I was finally alone I decided to take a shower and relax, after taking a long shower I changed into some sweatpants and a comfortable sweater. All the while thinking about the whole brothers situation. And the more I thought about it the more I started doubting my gut. I mean their explanation was plausible, what if it was just some legal rivalry, what they weren't what I thought they were and I was just accusing them wrongly.

Okay, that's it I need to confirm my thoughts. I immediately grab my phone and call one of my most trusted sources for information.

"Hello?" "Hey Grayson." "Oh well well well, look who suddenly remembers us. It's been a while Ryder." "Uhh, yeah well I have been busy with whole shifting a different country and what not. Look I need your help with getting me some info." "K, but why not ask Lucifer." "I would but he has his training going on and his dad is going extra hard because his birthday is coming up soon and he is officially going to take over once he is 18." "Oh yeah, and I am in way going to piss of boss especially at this time so tell me what do you need." "I need you to tell me who runs the Italian mafia." "Oh, why? And don't you already know given the fact that your best friend is the heir of the Turkish mafia." "Fine, full disclosure, Eymen never really talked about business in front of me. And even when he did he never really took names, he was worried that if people knew that I knew about the mafia, someone would come after me to get to them. The only people i know about in the mafia are the Turkish because of Eren and the Russians because according to Eymen, those guys are really dangerous." "Okay, that explains why you don't know but why do you want to know about them." I look around and check that my room is locked before answering "Because I think that the brothers I am living with currently are the leaders of the Italian mafia. So tell Grayson, who runs the Italian mafia?"

And his next words the ones I so desperately was hoping would not come out of his mouth.

"The Marino family."

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She knows!!!

A bunch of stuff happened in this chapter and we also got to know Luca's point of view.

I had thought a lot about his back story and the reason why he didn't like Katherine. I really didn't want to give him some basic reason, like he didn't know how to bond or he just loved he and didn't want to show it because he thought she wouldn't survive in their 'dangerous' world. That said I know that the reason I have given him isn't to different but I wanted to go with the idea, of how he gradually changes from hating her to accepting her into his family and liking her.

As for now, I hope you guys liked this chapter and let me know what you think about this one and what your ideas are on what might happen next!!

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