His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies

Chapter 182

“Serena, you need to relax,” Carmen told me. “Siena is with her dad. She’s not with some stranger-just breathe and wait until he gets here.”

“I can I pouted. It had been hours, and Christian wasn’t responding to any of my calls or texts. He didn’t even give me an update about Siena, and it was freaking me out.

Not being with Christian or Siena made me realize how boring my life was and that I didn’t really have anything going on for me. Enzo left to do whatever he was doing, and hanging around my sister, who wasn’t exactly the smartest, became annoying at times,

I leaned back on the sofa, but just when I was about to close my eyes, I got interrupted by the sound of a

car.

“Is that Christian!” I jumped up and grabbed Carmen by the shoulder, who stared at me with big eyes. “Move!” I told her and forcefully pushed her aside so I could run out the door. “Is there something wrong. miss?” One of the men spoke in a hurry, but I shrugged him off and ran over to the car.

It seemed like the mansion was just as heavily protected as at the beginning, which was probably because no one knew where the hell Berto was hiding.

I left a few inches between me and the car, so Christian couldn’t run me over and looked as he opened the window. “What’s wrong with you?” He chuckled.

“You didn’t answer any of my calls!” I attacked him as I stepped closer, but what I had not expected was to see Dario in the passenger seat. He noticed me staring and shot me a wink, which made me lower my head.

Don’t blush, don’t blush.

“H-hi?” I stuttered and took several steps back. Christian finally parked the car and went to the back to grab the baby while my feet were glued to the ground.

What was he doing here?

Why would Christian even bring him here?

“Hey, Serena.” Dario suddenly interrupted my thoughts. I looked down at the shadow on the ground and. slowly raised my head to meet his eyes. “H-hi!” I tried to sound as cheerful as possible. “What are you doing here?”

“What do you mean?” Christian called out while he grabbed Siena. “You knew I was going to be with him today, am I not allowed to invite my cousin?”

“N-no, no!” I shook my head while Dario laughed at me, “So I’m welcome here? You don’t want me to leave?” He teased me.

All I wanted him to do was to stop smiling, so I didn’t have the urge to stare at him. “Stop staring at her. You’re making her feel uncomfortable!” Christian interfered as he made his way towards us. Dario had a surprised look on his face and took a step back. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay!” I smiled at him. My eyes moved to Siena, who desperately tried to get my attention and leaned her head towards me. “Siena!” I called out as I grabbed her from Christian’s hands.

She let out a squeal and gave me a head bump. “Weird baby.” Christian commented.

“I thought you said you were the favorite parent.” Dario chuckled. “I am!” Christian frowned. “She’s just like that because she hasn’t seen her all day.”

“Sure.” Dario let out a laugh.

“I looked down at their empty hands and wondered what they had been doing all day. “Where’s Beau?”

“He got summoned back home, of course, like always. Christian made fun of him. “Yes, you just looked at your phone and ignored Serena’s calls while Beau…” Dario shook his head. “That girl calls him every ten minutes-that’s an issue.”

“You ignored my calls?” I spoke, surprised. Christian was close to sweating and seemed nervous. “No, of course not!”

“What if I was close to dying?”

It was unlike Christian not to pick up the phone, and it made me wonder what he was really up to and if it had to do with the reason why he looked through all of my stuff this morning. “So what were you guys doing?”

“The mall!” Dario spoke while another answer left Christian’s mouth. “Hospital!”

“Uhin?” I laughed, confused. “We went to the mall, and then we went to the hospital.” Christian sighed. “Come on, let’s go inside.”

“What about your stuff? Did you really leave the mall empty-handed?” I asked as I looked behind me, but Christian turned me around and led me inside while Dario followed us. “I know you’re up to something!” 1. gave Christian a suspicious look.

“Serena, I was thinking-how about we hold a charity auction and let you be the price?” Dario suddenly suggested. “One day with Serena, how does that sound?”

“What?” I asked, confused. It was obvious they were up to something, but I had decided not to ruin the surprise. “We’ll definitely get back at that.”

Christian slammed his arm around Dario’s shoulder and whispered something in his ear while the two of them left me behind. It was strange to see that the two who wanted to choke each other seemed to be getting along, and I didn’t know whether to feel happy or anxious. This is from NôvelDrama.Org.

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The thing which I liked the most about Dario was that I could discuss everything with him, but now the two were getting close, I was afraid he might turn out like Beau. One of Christian’s puppets.

“Why are you guys so weird?” I asked while I walked after them with Siena in my arms. “You’re the one being weird.” Christian spoke.

We walked into the living room, where Carmen stood as still as a statue with her hands behind her back and stared from Christian to Dario. “She gets nervous around men,” I explained to Dario.

“No, I do not!” Carmen defended herself. Dario stepped forward and reached out to hold Carmen’s hand, which she accepted. “There’s no need to be nervous of me. Think of me like your older brother… you’re an adorable little girl, did you know that?”

“Little girl, right.” Carmen sighed. “Serena, I’ll take care of Sisi-she’s literally yawning in your cheek, so it’s time for her to take a nap.” She rolled her eyes before she grabbed Siena and walked away without saying another word.

“Did I do something?” Dario asked, worried.

Dario was so different from Christian and perhaps a bit too honest. While Christian didn’t want to let down my httle sister and treated her with special care. Dario didn’t know how the mind of a 16-year-old worked and crushed every dream she had.

topeless.”

“Hopeless,” Christian sighed. “Can I get you something to drink?”

“Water works.” Dario smiled. I scrunched up my nose at the word ‘water’ and looked at him with a disgusted look on my face. “What’s wrong?” Dario asked while Christian made his way to the kitchen. “Serena hates water. She says it’s tasteless.”

“Is that so?” Dario laughed. “Your skin looks really nice for someone who doesn’t like water.”

“Skincare,” I told him before I pulled him to the sofa and forced him to sit down. “Anyway-how was your day with Christian and Beau?”

“Beau?” Dario laughed out loud. “All I can say is that I feel sorry for your brother. He’s put himself into trouble for the remaining years of his life.”

“Are you talking about Isobel?”

“Yes!” Dario gave me a nod. “The rest of it was definitely a rollercoaster, and I learned one thing today, no children for me…ever.”

“No?” I smiled, but he seemed pretty serious about his statement. “Christian had to change Siena’s diaper in a public restroom!”

“We did that too!” I told Dario as I thought back at the time when I gave him a city tour. He was all about Siena back then and pretended to like children. “That’s right, we did.”

“So how many points do you give Christian? Is he a good dad?” I wondered. Christian rushed over with water in his hands and sat down on the opposite side of us. He gave Dario a threatening glare and waited for his answer.

“He gets ten points.” Dario smiled. “It’s interesting to see how he genuinely enjoys doing all of that stuff, and I’ve never seen someone change a diaper with a smile on their face, but to each their own. I guess.”

I looked over at Christian, who shrugged his shoulders and felt grateful for having him around. I never had to teach him about anything, and other than his error of swearing around children, everything else came so naturally to him.

“How did you like Gio?” I continued my interrogation. Dario’s expression changed, and he pulled a weird face. “He’s…interesting.”

“Yes, I agree-he’s something.”

Out of all the brothers, he was probably the most interesting one. He was challenging to read, and 1 couldn’t tell whether he was just being sarcastic or an asshole. It depended on the day.

“Right, because the two of you are so ordinary.” Christian jumped to his brother’s defense. “One had the desire to ruin me, and the other one used to stalk me at the club-”

“That’s not true!”

“Used to stalk me at the club-and deceived me-” I got up from the couch and jumped on top of

Christian so I could cover his mouth with my hand. “She did?” Dario laughed. “I’ll have to hear that story.”

Christian bit my finger and pushed me off so he could finish his conversation with Dario. “She did. She told me she was hungry for my attention-” Christian ranted while I decided to let it rest so he could live in a lie. Changing stories to fit his own narrative was his favorite thing to do.

Dario listened to Christian’s story with a surprised look on his face, but I didn’t even have the power to defend myself anymore. I decided to let it rest, and all 1 could look at were Dario and Christian, who seemed to be getting along perfectly fine.

There was no jealousy, no competition, no argument-just two cousins who got along, and that’s exactly what it stayed like for the entire evening.

We all got along perfectly fine and had the time of our life until Christian brought him back home. It made me realize that I had been worrying about nothing.

Everything went so smoothly, so why wasn’t it like that from the start?

And most importantly, wouldn’t it be much easier if they could both work together as the head of the family?