CHAPTER 24 - ENOUGH

Romeo POV:

Its been one hell of a day, and still more to come. Who the hell is calling me now. "Luc?" I answer.

"Brother, apparently some of Toscano's men have been harassing the girls," Luc says sounding irritated.

"Well brother what I want to know is how the fuck they got onto De Luca property in the first place!" I shout.

"They came in stating they have the okay from you since you do business with Toscano," Luc says with a sigh, "Romeo, he's throwing your name around and letting the men use it too," he finishes.

"I will speak to Toscano. We own his ass and I can take everything he has away in a blink, I don't know why people like to test my patience, especially that asshole," I say exasperated. "Did they hurt any of the girls?" I ask, hoping I don't have to go kill more assholes today.

"Yes, Hillary. She was beaten up pretty badly and said she was your girl, and you would be pissed if anyone hurt her," Luc says with disgust.

"Fucking Hillary! I will deal with her when I'm through with the Mancini business. Do you have the men responsible for this shit?" I ask looking out the window at the city passing me by.

"Yeah, it was three of them, and we have them, they are being taken to the cells as we speak," Luc informs me.

"Alright brother, send Leo to deal with them, Dario is with me and Alina is at the house, so go there and protect her and inform Leo," I instruct him.

"Sure thing Rome, see you later." Luc hangs up and I finally pull up at the casino. Four men escort me and Dario inside. Time for me to call some friends in Italy and get the ball rolling on Mancini, this is going to be a long few hours. "Dario where are we with finding Mancini?"

"Well Rome we have men that have spotted him in Chicago, so that means calling Dimitri and Gio to see if they can help us," Dario says thoughtfully.

"Yes, that's a good idea, Alina would want us to get along, so give them a call and I will call my people in Italy," I say with a nod. Dario goes to work as do I. Like I said four long hours later I have some men coming from Italy and Vince is joining in on the Mancini hunt. Time to call Toscano.

I dial him and wait for an answer. "De Luca," he answers.

"Toscano," I return the sentiment.

"To what do I owe the pleasure of this call?" Toscano says with a chuckle.

"Your men were at The Underground, they harassed one of my dancers Hillary. Now what I want to know is why they think that's okay? And why you are all using my name as you wish?" I answer him.

"Well De Luca, I don't know why the men think it's ok, but I will speak to them. As for Hillary I have heard about her, she was flaunting that she's your woman or some shit and was rude to the boys and they didn't stand for it, now I understand that you have them but can you cut them some slack? I will have them stay in their place and leave your businesses alone. You have my word," Toscano says.

"Very well, we do have to kill one of them, and rough them up a bit, so you will get them back soon. As for Hillary she's not my woman, she's crazy, but she is under my protection as long as she works for the club, other than that, don't give a fuck what happens to her, but don't think that this means your men can do as they please," I say with a sigh.

"Sure De Luca, the men will hear it from me, that's a promise. Nice doing business with you," Toscano says and I end the call.

"Dario, we are done for the night, I need to go stop by Hillary and have a word with her, after that you can go home, it's been a long day," I say and he nods.

"Sure Rome, I need to get back to my girl anyway," Dario says with a smirk. I'm a bit surprised, but just nod.

All business looks good and we head out, I arrive at Hillary's apartment just after eight pm. I knock on the door and wait for her answer, finally the door opens. "Romeo, I knew you would come," she says throwing herself at me and drenching me in her cheap floral perfume.

"Hillary, back the fuck off," I say pushing her away and she pouts. She has a few bruises and a sprained wrist, nothing serious.

"Well baby, are you staying the night?" She asks running her one good hand down my chest and I grab it and shove her away and she stumbles.

"Hillary, get it through your thick fucking skull, I don't want you, I never wanted you and I would never want a cheap whore like you," I say to her sternly. "One more thing Hillary, if I ever hear you say you are my girl and I am giving you special privileges or indicate in any way that we are seeing each other and sleeping with each other, you will be thrown out on your ass with no job and no protection that any girl in the club has. Do I make myself clear?" I shout and she nods her tears flowing.

"I love you Romeo, what we had was special," she shouts back at me.

"No we had one night fucking two years ago when I was fucking drunk and irresponsible. I have a girlfriend now and I love her. Stop this pathetic delusion you have going on, it's not a good look on you," I spit at her.

"You mean that whore Alina? What does that bitch have that I don't?" She shrieks at me.

I grab her throat and squeeze, "be very careful, you mistake me for some everyday runner for the Mafia, I own the fucking Mafia and you better be fucking thanking God that I don't harm women or you would be dead for speaking about Alina that way. Don't worry I might not be able to kill a woman but Alina is a good shot, I'm sure she won't mind taking out the trash for me," I say to her calmly and throw her down on the couch releasing her throat.

I turn around and I hear her cry. "Give her medical care and keep her away from the club till she is healed and Valencia can decide what she wants to do with her," I tell one of the guys and he nods. Time to get back to my love.

I walk in the door and see my beauty working hard on her laptop curled up under a blanket on the couch next to the fire with a glass of wine on the table next to her. She's so effortlessly beautiful, I just stand and watch her and she bites her lip in frustration typing away with a little frown under her glasses. She has her hair up in a messy top knot, with an off the shoulder grey top of mine on, miles too big for her. She finally looks up. "Romeo, how long have you been standing there?" She says with a smile.

"Not long," I answer smiling back at her, and she shoots up her beautiful eyebrow at me, "I was just admiring your beauty bella," I answer walking toward her. She sighs and puts her laptop aside and shakes her head in almost disbelief, and I can't help but kneel in front of her, my queen and place a kiss on her lips. I hear a soft moan as she holds either side of my face.

I hear a voice clear, and it breaks our kiss. "Brother if you don't need me anymore I'm going to head out, I kind of have a date," my brother says awkwardly. My brows shoot up, he doesn't elaborate, I'm convinced he's gay, always so secretive.

"Have fun Luc, who's the lucky guy?" I ask openly. Luc is blood red.

"What?" He asks and I hear Alina giggle as I sit next to her.

"You heard me," I answer teasingly.

Luc sighs, "how did you know?" he asks.

"I'm your brother, I have always known. I'm just hurt you didn't tell me," I answer with a apologetic look.

"I'm in the Mafia, how would it have looked," Luc says shrugging.

"Fuck how it looks, I just want you to be happy. You're my brother, and I don't care what you are, I still love you," I say with a smile.

"We have been seeing each other for a few weeks now, I really care about him, his name is Blake," Luc says slightly hesitantly.

"Well bring him around some time," I say winking at him, he nods, and I hear Alina tease him.

"Now I have two more shopping buddies," Alina says laughing, Luc rolls his eyes.

"Not on your life! See you both soon, Blake is waiting," Luc says with a chuckle and we say our goodbyes.

"Well bella, that was interesting," I say to Alina.

"It sure was, I'm just glad he has someone and isn't lonely. He's a really sweet guy and I'm so happy for him," my queen says and I can't help but kiss her, she breaks it. "How about you have shower and I will order some pizza and we can just spend the night cuddling?" Alina asks and I nod in agreement.

"Sounds good," I answer giving her a kiss and make my way up to our bedroom. I don't realise I have been in the shower forever when I hear Alina say the pizza has arrived.

Alina POV:

Romeo looks tired and it's been such a long day. He comes out with nothing on just a towel drying his hair. I can't help but stare, hell who wouldn't, that's a good few inches. He slips on his boxers and lays down on the bed next to me, I search for a movie or something and find "Black Mirror", we both have not seen this yet so we settle in, eat and watch, switching off the entire day.

Halfway through the series, I hear Romeo. "Lina baby, I wanted to ask you if you would like to leave for Italy in two days?"

"Yes, that should be okay, I can't wait, I haven't been there since I was little," I say smiling. Romeo nods and I lay on his chest and before I know it we are both fast asleep. I hear noise, it's around one am and I look up and see Romeo still fast asleep, I hear footsteps, sounds like it could be down stairs. "Romeo," I call softly shaking him awake, "Romeo baby wake up," he opens his eyes groggily.

"Alina, what is it baby?" Romeo asks huskily still half asleep.

"I heard a noise and what sounded like footsteps coming from down stairs," I say slightly panicked.

Romeo is up in a flash, pulls on some sweatpants and pulls out two guns, and hands one to me. "Lina, you know how to shoot, we don't have men in the house only around the perimeter. I know you won't stay here, so stick behind me and shoot if you see anything suspicious," Romeo says and I nod, he gives me a kiss and I follow him. He tries to call security, but the phones seem jammed, no signal.

It's so dark in the house, we walk slowly and my heart is pounding but I stick to Romeo like glue, there's only moonlight shining in some of the windows. We hear some more footsteps and it's close there's a crash and what sounds like a vase shatter. Romeo raises his gun and I do the same, I went to the opposite side entrance to the living room, I'm a very good shot. We see two men dressed in black it seems, and some muttering in Italian. Romeo nods to me to take a shot, and without hesitating, I shoot the one man in the leg. "Cazzo!" We hear a shout.

Romeo flicks the lights on. "What the Fuck!" Romeo screams, my heart is in my throat, and there's a gun aimed at me, from the second man.

"Shit," I squeak.