3. LEONARDO

The whole situation in Italy was frustrating. And not getting any help from THE DEATH ANGEL was adding more fuel to my frustrations, but eventually the child trafficking cases which were pulled up by our rival gangs got a certain end. But they'll do those things again and we've to do something for that.

Sunlight hit my skin as I got out my black Rolls Royce with my excuse of a bestfriend, my second-in-command. Vincent Russo. Entering the grand mansion in New York's outskirts of ours, we were greeted with nothing. Usually, mamà would come to check if we got severely injured or not. And my little sister would jump on Vince. But no one was in our sight.

Sharing a look at each other we strode towards living room to see my papà sitting on the couch with a newspaper in his hands. Clearing of throat by Vince made him look up at us and he greeted us with nod and a 'goodmorning'. As always.

"How'd the mission went?" papà asked drifting back to his newspaper.

"Situation is handled for now." I said but my father didn't missed the but.

"But?" he asked raising his now turning grey brows. He can sense your humour even without you showing.

"But we need The Lioness's help. She's not with us this time." Vince complied the information to papà. He just hummed and then my mamà came in, with her fresh coconut scent hitting our nose.

"Oh. Mio Dio. You both are back." she exclaimed and came to me and wrapped her arms around me.

"Yeah mamà." I replied and she checked for injuries on us and then winced whenever she touched our busted knuckles or simple gun wounds.

"Thanks Jesus, you both aren't severely injured like last time." she pursed her lips and sat beside papà.

"Why is the house is awfully silent today?" Vince asked the same question I had in my mind.

"Yeah. Where's my Satan siblings?" I asked and papà finally looked up giving us his all attention.

"Oh there are sleeping. The trio was hella tired after there movie night." my papà piped in.

"Trio?" when did I got third sibling? My mamà couldn't deliver a child in one and half months, right? Damn how can she even deliver a child now? I'm going insane.

"Goodmorning Bella." my mother's voice bring me back to earth. And I glanced up to see a very beautiful girl, clad in black see through long top and faded ripped jeans. She looks hot. I just got a slight glance at her face before she turned to mamà and greeted her and leaned down to kiss her cheek when papà huffed like a child. Who can believe this man ran the American-Italian mafia for almost two decades. I heard her chuckle and she turned to my father to give him a bear hug.

"Goodmorning to you too, Old man." What?? He's simply letting a girl call him like that? "Goodmorning my beautiful young lady." and he told her what he wanted for breakfast. 'Is she a maid?' After saying something to mamà she finally turned to us. Giving a polite smile and nod and move to the kitchen, but stopped in middle and asked, "Guys, Chai or Coffee?"

Mamà told her what to make and then my sister jumped on Vince and both me and Luca scrunched our nose. After breakfast was served that girl as she introduced herself as Hritika asked mamà papà if we're guests and after when she found out that I'm the older son the look on her face was priceless. I was amused and the others were laughing at her. Then she guessed Vince as Lucia's boyfriend, as he was. Then I gotta know that she's the bestfriend both my siblings rant all day and night about. She was staying in our house and I didn't even knew it. Great.

All the while I was staring at her. She got beautiful hazel eyes and brown hair. Her button nose looked cute as she scrunched her nose and she got perfect jawline but I can tell she has cute cheeks even if they're not much chubby. But her eyes was the only thing that settled on my mind. I've seen someone with those eyes, hazel, with green specks in it. I know I've seen her before, I can feel it, but I don't know how and where.

After breakfast she excused herself and went upstairs. I also excused myself as I have to freshen up and then I've got some paperwork to do in office. As I was walking down the hallway upstairs checking emails, someone bumped into me and I looked down to see Hritika rubbing her as she muttered something like, "Where did this wall came from? Dammit."

"I'm not a wall Miss." I said as I was holding her in my arms, to not let her fall down. Startled, she took looked up and just zoned out. Staring at me for what felt like lifetime, but only for a few hours. I don't like when someone stares at me like this. I'm used to it because everyone just stared at me like I'm some damn piece of meat, but something in her startled my soul, and warmth filled my chest. This can't be possible.

"Are you done staring at me Miss? I've got some work to do." I snapped at her and startled, she took a step back and something immediately felt like missing in me. She stood there silently for a minute or so and then spoke again.

"You don't remember me?" her voice barely above from whisper. I looked down at her 5'11 frame from my 6'3. 'Is she someone I know? I don't remember her.'

"Do I need to remember you?" I spoke and it looks like her heart shattered in pieces when she looked at me like that. Shaking her head she muttered 'No' and ran away. Strange. I just shook my head and entered my bedroom to take a shower.

Getting dressed for casuals as I'm not going out anywhere today, I strode to my study to see all my family members present there with fuming expression. And Vince was just sitting with amusement dancing in his eyes but still kept a straight face to not make my family more angry.

Clearing my throat, I asked to no one in particular, "Is there a family meeting I don't know about?" and this made all of their head snap in my direction.

"What did you do young man?" papà asked calmly. This is not good, his calm is far dangerous than his wrath. I just played innocent and round the table to sit on the chair behind desk. "What did I do?" I asked back.

"What the hell did you say to Hrits?" Luca slammed the desk, fuming like a bull. He gotta have some balls to snap at me. I just glared at him, which just shut him up but the anger in his eyes was still visible.

"Stop glaring at him, figlio. Now tell us what did you say to her?" mamà snapped at me. What the hell is wrong with this guys. My family's gone insane. "You have five minutes to tell us what happened or you're in trouble." my mother again snapped.

"What are you guys gonna do?" I asked her with same tone.

"Don't raise your voice, son. Don't think that you are the Don. You still don't fully have been made a Don." my father's words made my blood boil. They're just fusing over a girl.

"What the hell is wrong with you guys? Why are you fusing over a simple girl?" I snapped at them. "She's not just a simple girl, fratello. She's our bestfriend." Lucia spoke for the first time in the whole scene. Luca agreed to her saying, "It took us three fucking years to convince her to stay with us. And not an hour after you came back she left with tears in her eyes."

"She's not a simple girl, son. She's our second daughter. And her leaving with tears because of you means you did some really wrong shit. She never cries easily. Not even when her father stopped talking to her. So you better find her quickly. Or never show your face to me." mamà said very calmly and left the office with Luca and Lucia following behind her.

"She better be home soon, Leonardo Mancini. Or forget about being Don." papà left soon after.

Argh... what the hell is wrong with this people. Throwing everything on the desk to floor, I sat back down with my head in my hands. I heard a chuckle and looked up to see Vince having his own fun seeing me like this. "What?" I growled.

"Uh-huh, dude. You're in deep shit." he said like I didn't know. "That girl has your whole family wrapped around her tiny finger. You better place your guys to find her." he suggested and I did as he said. There's nothing I can argue about it. "Now, my dear bestfriend, what happened in that little moment with you and her?"

"She just bumped into me, and then just stared at me for a long time. And when I told her to move aside she asked if I remember her and I told her no. Just like that she ran away." I told him.

"You don't remember her? Means she knows you?" he asked and I sighed, "Maybe." He looked in some deep thoughts and then stand up realising something. He opened his mouth to say something and then closed. Shaking his head he gave me a thumbs up and left.

I need to find this girl soon.

For fucks sake I have to handle mafia shits too.