Entangled With The Mafia Lord

‘I’m attracted to you, like a whole lot of attraction and for some stupid reason, I can’t stop thinking about you’

Those words resounded in my ear, I let out another sigh. Although she barely crossed my mind yesterday after everything turned to chaos, I’ve got to admit to myself that I’ve got a thing for her. Aria’s beautiful, sexy, hot, wild and seductive. She’s also cute when scared, her bright aura didn’t go unnoticed either, she’s smart, witty with a very sarcastic mouth that almost never stopped running. She’s definitely enticing and her greenish eyes always threaten to pull me into it’s deep abyss each time I look into it.

The thought of her dying because of something she didn’t even fully understand left a bitter taste in my mouth. I pushed the thought of her reminding me that she wasn’t going to have anything to do with me after all these since apparently I’m Danger in human form.

“Auden?”

I blinked a few times when Tristan touched my shoulder, focusing my tired eyes on his equally tired looking face, I watched as he tried to force a smile on his face for me before asking. “I know you’re not alright because I’m not too… we’re going to sort all these out tonight, so stop thinking. Yeah?”

I glanced away from him as I scrubbed my hand over my face, not bothering to reply to him since I didn’t even know what to say.

Tristan stitched up my wound tightly and I shrugged on my shirt after muttering a thank you to him while I headed for the fridge to grab a beer in hope of it numbing my heart for the time being.

“Auden? You should eat something and not empty more beer into your stomach. I’m guessing you lost some blood at the office today, beer won’t help you restore any strength and I’m sure you’d need lots of those tonight.”

I paused, the fridge door already opened since I was about to pull out a beer a moment ago.

“Did you eat anything since yesterday’s afternoon?” I asked instead, turning around until I was facing him. He shrugged his shoulders, “I had a cup of coffee this morning, and a few spoonfuls of soup since Nicole kept insisting.”

I tsked, pot calling kettle black. “You should eat something, you look so pale.”

“I’ll live, I didn’t get shot at, I also didn’t lose any blood.” He gave me a pointed look.

“I’m too restless to eat, maybe tonight, after we get Nicolas. It’s only a few hours until then anyway.” I pushed the fridge door close before heading out of the kitchen with Tristan behind me.

“Nicole wouldn’t be happy to hear that.” Tristan muttered.

“She wouldn’t be happy if she finds out that Nicolas isn’t busy but instead got a gunshot wound yesterday as well as being kidnapped by a lunatic.” I replied as I massaged my stiff neck with my fingers as I climbed up the stairs.

A sniffing sound made me snap my neck up so fast, the massage I gave it a second ago vanished into thin air. Nicole stood at the top of the stairs with tears streaming down her face, her eyes red rimmed and puffy.

We raced up the stairs until we were standing beside her, “What is it? Why are you crying?” I asked as I tried pulling her into my arms but she pushed my arms away immediately, taking a shaky step backwards. She look like she was about to fall any moment from now, her face was almost white too. She shouldn’t be stressing herself at all since she only got an operation yesterday’s evening.Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

“You lied to me. Nicolas isn’t busy, is he? He’s kidnapped with a gunshot wound and the both of you decided to keep that away from me.” More tears streamed down her cheeks as she pointed at the top of us in accusations.

I didn’t even know what to say, we kept it from her to avoid this from happening.

“Nicole…” Tristan started to say as he reached for her hand but she took another step back, glaring at him. “No! Don’t patronize me, don’t. Y’all keep everything from me because you claim to be protecting me.”

She turned towards me this time, “I get that you’re only looking out for me but this is too huge for you guys to hide from me.” She paused and sniffed before continuing, “What if something bad has happened to him? Auden what if… what if I don’t get to hug my twin anymore?” She bursted into my tears as she flung herself into my arms, hard sobs racking her whole body.

I blinked a few times, forcing the tears prickling my eyes to hold the fuck up as I stroked my fingers through her hair like I knew she’d always liked it. “Nothing’s going to happen to him, he’s fine. We talked to him yesterday and they said we could come get him tonight. You’re going to get to hug him tonight because we’d be bringing him home to you. Yeah?”

She sniffed more as she buried her head into my chest more before suddenly pulling away and wiping her face as best as she could with her hands as she muttered a thing about how strong girls don’t cry. Tristan dug out a handkerchief from his pocket and dabbed her face more thoroughly before tugging her into his hands and dropping a kiss in her hair and whispering apologies into her hair.

He scooped her up into his hands because she’d gotten more pale from stressing herself by crying when she should be resting. “Put me down, Tristan. I can walk just fine.” She mumbled but Tristan ignored her as he headed down the hall towards her room.

I sighed tiredly as I let myself into the work room.