Chapter 6

The next morning I woke up with Xavier right next to me. He had his arm around my waist. He looked more relaxed and peaceful in his sleep. I carefully got out of the bed  not wanting to wake him up.

I freshened up and started cooking some food.

Just as I was placing the breakfast on the table, Max came downstairs.

"Good morning....",he greeted.

"Good morning Max. Call me Luna."

He smiled at me and  started to get food on his plate.

He wasn't able to reach and grab food with his tiny hands so I helped to serve him.

He thanked me and we started eating our breakfast.

He was getting a bit messy while eating so, I moved closer and wiped the stain on his shirt and his greasy mouth.

Just then Xavier came downstairs and sat next to me. He pulled my chair towards him and away from Max.

He had his hand on my thigh as he proceeded to get some breakfast.

"Good morning brother." Max greeted happily.

Xavier just nodded his head.

Max was sitting on the couch waiting for his brother so that they can leave for his training. Xavier was finishing up his work in the study. While I was washing the dishes.

All of a sudden when I was scrubbing, I heard the doorbell ring.

To look who it might be I stepped towards the door and watched in the camera screen.

No one was really standing in front of the door. I think it might be a prank and went off to complete my work.

I did the dishes and was drying my hands, I looked up and saw that on the window in front of me which was open had a small note sticking on it.

It wasn't there when I started doing my dishes so it has to have came when I was not here in the kitchen.

I unfolded the paper and saw something written on it.

It was written in Italian but not too hard for me to understand.

It said

We are giving you last chance to surrender or we will take away your lovely  wife. I think she might be a good piece of art in my collection.

Don't be late and make your decision. You only have a week left before....

N.

I was worried and scared as to where this came from and who wrote it.

Not knowing what to do, I debated on whether to tell Xavier or not.

Finally deciding to tell him as he is my only saviour and would know about it, I rushed up to his study and busted in.

He looked up from his computer surprised as I barged in and was gonna shout at me but I raised my hand and showed him the note.

Confused he stood up and walked over to me.

"Someone had put this note on the window of the kitchen. A threat is written on it. I didn't know what to do so rushed over to you." I explained.

He read the letter and his expressions turned dark. It seemed like he knew who it was from.

He looked at me and then the letter and then at me again.

"Good. I will take care of it. Don't worry."

" Who wrote it? Who is N?"

"That's none of your concerns. Just don't tell anyone about it."

"But..." I stopped talking when Xavier turned around and walked over to his desk and made a call.

Not able to get any information from him, I walked out and went downstairs to check up on Max. He was giggling and playing on his phone.

I smiled to myself. He was a lot happier today than yesterday. I hope he stays this way even after the training.

I changed into a black tank top with some black jeans and shrugged on a skin colored butterfly printed jacket.

I paired the outfit with some heels.

I was getting ready when Bianca walks inside the bedroom.

"Hey! I came here with Matteo so that we can go to the mall and have some girl time. And we have a key to your house so we just let ourselves in. So stop looking at me like that." She explained as I was staring at her weirdly for coming out of nowhere.

Nodding my head as a reply, I proceeded with my make up.

We shopped for a while and were now eating some Taco bell.

We got to know each other a lot better and I came to find out that Bianca and Matteo stayed in the house right next to ours.

We gossiped a lot than shopping.

After this exhausting day, we were hanging out in the house sipping some tea and gossiping again.

"Bianca, do you know any enemies of ours with the name starting with N", I asked randomly.

"Um... Not really as Matteo doesn't share anything. And I hear a lot of names pass through his conversations on phone. Even if he said any peculiar names I won't be remembering it."

She replied.

"Ohkk"

"But why do you want to know?"

"Oh nothing just heard Xavier talking about some guy and looked stressed."I lied.

She looked a bit worried and suspicious of me but shrugged it off before saying,"You know I have never seen Xavier showing this much affection publicly. He is a lot more loosen up. We are able to see his another side because of you."

"I mean he did have girlfriends Right?? Or some you know...."

"What? No.. he was so commited to his work that he literally would never look at any women that way. I never imagined him as a married guy." She laughed.

I don't know why but it felt good to know that he didn't have any girlfriends.

"You are lucky to have him only looking at you but be careful because guys change their minds quickly. They are bored by one toy so they need something different every time.

You know my marriage was the same as yours at the beginning but then Matteo started having mistresses. It really saddened me so rather then sitting around doing nothing, I spiced things up a bit. I made sure that everything went the way he wants. And now no mistresses are involved and I have him all to myself. Even though I am not happy his way I have no other choice. Fake happiness is the most that we can get." She explained

Is that true though? Can we not be like normal couples? Do we need fake happiness and willingness then having nothing?

I guess we will just have to find out.

It has been about a week since our wedding and Max coming to stay with us.

The days have been rough for Max as he had to train hard and had to kill someone.

Every time he looked at a lot amount of blood he would faint or cry his eyes out.

Every night when they came home, Xavier would be frustrated and Max would be next to him in a bloody shirt crying.

Xavier once even lost his patience and slapped Max to shut him down. I was so surprised but it did work and from then Max stopped crying loudly. He would either cry in his bedroom or have little tears in his eyes but would fight it.

I would usually snick into his room and calm him down. I would wash his body off of all the blood and would feed him some dinner.

Even though I thought Xavier didn't saw me, he knew what I was doing. He never really stopped me though.

Max started to get a bit tough but he was slowly sipping out of his innocence. He wasn't the giggly and hyper little guy anymore. He would look stiff and scared.

I couldn't take this anymore so had to bring it up to Xavier.

He just said," Max is next in line for being a Don if anything happened to me. He needs to be tougher than this because the outside world is even more scarier. I have to train him the same way my father taught me. I can't go any softer."

But thank fully,

The next day Maria came and picked up Max with her and the moment he saw her he looked a lot relived and happy.

The following days went normally and we went into a daily routine. I would make him breakfast. He will leave afterwards. Then he will come back for the dinner but by the time he came I was already asleep.

The lunch, I would have it with Bianca or would place orders sometimes being too lazy to cook.

There weren't any threats coming after the last note. So I thought maybe it was just someone fooling around.

We never really brought that topic up.

But I don't know why I had this weird feeling in my gut about the following day.

I quickly brushed off the feeling and went to sleep thinking nothing about it.

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