I look behind us and see the three of them standing there.

Alessandro, Lorenzo and Xuan.

Xuan looks around the room and his gaze lands on me.

Something flickers across his face and he turns back to the others, not noticing me one bit.

Thank God.

He nudges Lorenzo who mutters something to Alessandro.

I watch Alessandro's movements as his hands go to his back but Xuan shakes his head.

'Don't worry, they won't do anything here.' Chris says as the waiter puts our orders down in front of us.

'I haven't seen them in ages.' I reply. 'Im just in shock, that's all.'

'Just enjoy yourself.' He smiles.

He digs into his waffle and I dig into my sundae.

*************** ADRIANO'S POV: 'Do you know where Lorenzo's gone?' Amira asks walking into the kitchen.

'He's out with Xuan and Alessandro.' Mimi replies, feeding her daughter Rory a strawberry.

I'm glad that I have a niece now. Alessandro and Mimi got married six months after Dilara left us, it was cute to have a newborn baby at the wedding.

'Woah, you look terrible.' Amira says.

'Shut up,' I reply.

I've just gotten home. Since Dilara left we had to relocate all of our bases that she knows about, so it's a longer journey to and from our new house.

We can't take any risks.

I open a cupboard and take out a bunch of bandages and rubbing alcohol.

'What happened to you?' Alora asks walking in with Dynamite following behind her.

'Dilara happened.' I reply, taking off my black shirt.

'What!' Mimi exclaims.

'You met her again?' Amira questions.

Alora opens a cupboard and takes out dog food for Dynamite.

'Yup, we got into a fight.' I explain, cleaning the wound Dilara caused, thankfully it's not too deep.

Vitoria bursts into the room.

'We lost it!' She yells.

'I know we did,' I reply. 'The Ravens knew he was going to sell them out so they infiltrated the mission.'

'Whoever that bitch in the cafe was that Killed him brought a lot of attention to us.' She snaps. 'If she didn't mask her face I would send men to kill her.'

'Language.' Amira warns signalling at the two year old in the room.

'That bitch was Dilara,' I reply, groaning from the pain of the rubbing alcohol. 'And I don't think you'll successfully kill the heir of The Ravens.'

'That was Dilara?' Mimi asks looking at us.

'Yeah,' I reply.

'She brought the attention of the police back onto us.' Vittoria snaps. 'We got them off our tail a year ago and now they're back.'

'Vittoria could you keep down the yelling, Terzo's asleep next door,' Zoya says walking in.

Mimi puts Rory down and she runs to Zoya, her blonde curls bouncing as she moves.

'Hey Rory.' She says, ruffling her hair.

'Uppy!' Rory exclaims.

Zoya leans down and picks Rory up and they leave the kitchen.

'Listen, I dealt with it.' I say to Vittoria, walking to the freezer and taking out an ice pack. 'Now please shout at me later.'

'You!' She exclaims turning to Mimi. 'You were supposed to be on lookout!'

'It's not my fault the girl storms in and shot the asshole in the head as soon as he got out of the toilet!' Mimi snaps back.

'You're her best friend of course you would cover for her!' Vittoria scoffs.

'I was her best friend.' She snaps.

'Leave Mimi alone Vittoria,' Amira says. 'Missions go wrong, that's life deal with it.'

Vittoria storms out of the room, and Amira start cleaning up the spare bandages.

'This was my favourite shirt.' I mutter as I throw it in the trash can.

I turn around and see Mimi fiddling with a strawberry.

'You good?' I ask her.

'Yeah.' She says.

'We're back!' Alessandro announces his arrival by walking into the kitchen with his arms outstretched.

Xuan and Lorenzo walk in after him and place some bags on the table.

'Hey amoré,' Alessandro says, kissing Mimi. 'Where's Rory?'

'With Zoya,' she replies smiling.

'What happened to you?' Lorenzo laughs.

'I had a fight with Dilara,' I reply.

He bursts out laughing, but stops once he sees the look on my face.

'Oh your serious.' He says.

'We just saw her at Gails dessert place.' Xuan says.

'Did you speak to her?' Mimi asks. 'How is she?'

Alessandro puts a hand on her shoulder and shakes his head.

'I'm gonna head to my room.' Mimi sighs.

'Lets go,' Alessandro says taking her hand.

'What exactly was Dilara doing there?' I ask.

'She was with Christianto,' Lorenzo replies.

I clench my jaw.

'Why, do you care?' Xuan asks.

'I don't.' I reply.

Amira scoffs from behind me.

Fouzia walks in and goes to the fridge. Everyone stays silent.

'Adriano.' She smiles stiffly.

'Fouzia.' I reply.

She grabs a can of coke and leaves.

I pinch the bridge of my nose and sigh.

'I need to smoke.' I say.

Xuan hands me one of his cigarettes and a lighter.

'Do that outside, we have a little kid running around the house now.' Amira says.

'Yeah yeah,' I reply, dismissively.

I go upstairs to my room and get a grey hoodie out.

Dilara looked different today, she had something in her eyes. Regret? Revenge? Hatred?

I don't know what it was but I need to get her out of my head and I need to get rid of her.

Her warm vanilla scent filled my nose when I had my knife on that pretty neck of hers.

I head out onto my balcony and light my cigarette.

She was just standing there, her body taunting me in that skin tight suit. Her hair has grown out so much since the last time I saw her.

I shake these thoughts away.

I have a wife.

But I don't love her, but I need to love her.

I need to get rid of Dilara, at any means possible. She just caught me by surprise this time.

She caught me by surprise for the first and last time.

*AUTHORS NOTE* Dilara and Adriano are both hunting eachother. I feel bad for Mimi but that's life 🤷🏻‍♀️. Have a nice day!