Dr. Enzo Romano

Chapter 20

*ENZO*

I feel bad for leaving Dylan back at home, while I fly to Italy to solve some of my family drama. I got woken up last night by the ringing of my phone. Once I saw that it was Caterina, I instantly awaken and answer the phone call. I hear her let out a relieve breath. Caterina tells me that our cousin from our mother side got in so trouble with another mafia and now I have to bail him out.

I arrive at my old home, and I sigh, it still looks the same as it did when we all once lived here. I enter the house and I’m quickly engulf in a bear hug. I look down at my feet and see Lucinda hugging my legs. Lucinda is my baby niece; she is 5 years old. She wears the same golden hair as her mother, but she has her father’s freckles and dark brown eyes.

“I missed you uncle Zo” she says, and I lift her up and place her on my right hip, and I scatter her in kisses, once I hear her laugh, it brought a smile on my face. I just can’t wait to have kids of my own.

“Baby isn’t it past your bedtime?” I ask my niece and she shrug.

“She wouldn’t go to bed until she saw her uncle Zo” A voice spoke up and I lift my gaze to meet with a pair of dark brown eyes. I smile at the man I let have my little sister’s hand. Chase is a tall build man, with dark brown eyes and light brown colored hair. Chase smiles at me and walks in my direction, he takes Lucia from me and places her in the floor. We hug for a minute and smile at each other.

“Oh, thank God you are here!” I hear the relieve in my sister’s voice. “He is at the Rossi Hotel” she said, and I ran a hand through my hair.

“He could have fouled with any family, but he chose the Rossi family?” I say with an irritated tone in my voice.

“He reminds me of someone I know” My sister says, and I roll my eyes at her. Time to bring that troublemaker back home.

-

I’m currently sitting in an office waiting for the Rossi family to arrive and bring me back my cousin. I hear the office door open and in came 3 guys, 2 which I recognized. One is the father Victor Rossi, the other is his son Zach Rossi he is a year younger than me, but the other man I don’t recognize. I stand up and greet each of the guys. I sit back down on the seat in front of the desk, while Victor sat at his desk chair.

“It’s good to finally see you again back in Italy Romano” Victor said with a smirk, and I just roll my eyes at him.

“Just give me back my cousin and I will be on my way” I tell him, but he gives me a humorless laugh.

“That little s**t gave me trouble.” Victor said with anger in his voice.

“It’s in our blood to be mischievous and cause trouble, especially to others” I say with a shrug and a smirk.

“I will let him go this time, just because I respected your father. Next time I will cut the kids balls” Victor said, and I nod my head.

“Don’t worry there won’t be another time. I will keep him on a leash from now on.” I say and with that the doors burst open and in came a man with my cousin. He smiles up at me, but I glare daggers into him, and soon his smile falls and fades away from his face.

“We will be in our way now Rossi” I tell him and nod my head to them. I grab onto my cousins’ arm and pull him out of the office. “And next time don’t you dare threaten me, I do not do well when people threaten me” I say with a glare and Victor just smiled at me.

-

“What the hell were you thinking Riccardo?” I asked furious at my cousin once we are out of the building.

“We are meant to create trouble” he said with a shrug, and I glared daggers into him.

 “Don’t give me that bullshit! One, you are grounded and two, you are moving with me back to California.” I say as I cross my arms around my chest.

“What? But-” He started to argue but shut his mouth closed when he saw my eyes had darken.

We drive in silence and when we get to my old house where he has been staying, he jumps out of the car, before it came to a stop. I catch up to him and tell him to get his things since we are leaving first thing tomorrow morning. I let out a frustrated sigh and run my hand through my hair. Riccardo is a troubled kid, his dad ran out on him and his mother, and when he was 16 his mother died of cancer. He moved in with me, Caterina, and my parents. Once the war killed my parents, we stayed together for 6 years. And once Caterina moved to Italy, he took the opportunity and went with her.

He is now 22 and its time for me to take care of him. My sister has her own family to take care of and a troublesome 22-year-old man is not something she needs to be worrying about.  Riccardo has his father’s black curly hair, and his mother’s green eyes. He works out and his signature weapon is the firearms. His criminal name is Loki, which I find quite funny. He is a stealer known all over Italy, if it shines, he wants it and he will get his hands on it.

-The Next Day-

I wake up the next day and get ready to go back home and back to my girl. I knock on Riccardo’s door and enter without permission. I let out a frustrated sigh when I see that he hasn’t woken up. I walk up to his bed and snatch off his blanket. I hear him groan and I smile at his suffering. I might be enjoying this a little too much.

“Get ready, you have 10 minutes” I tell him, and I hear him groan once again. I turn around and leave him to get ready.

I go back to my room and finish packing up my stuff, after a few minutes I hear a knock on my door. I open the door and see a grumpy Riccardo holding two suitcases and a duffle bag. I smile at him, but he just rolls his eyes at me. I smack the back of his head and he let out a yelp.

“Keep on rolling your eyes at me and see what happens” I tell him, and he lets out a groan. We walk down the stairs and once we are about to leave, I hear the soft voice of my sister ask.

“You are leaving?” Caterina asked.

“I have to” I say with a shrug, and I see Riccardo rolling his eyes.

“You still have time to grab a quick breakfast with me.” She said with a smile on her face.

“Caterina” I say in an irritated tone.

“Let’s go” Caterina said, and she turns around to look for her car keys.

“You don’t go anywhere; I will be back in an hour max” I tell Riccardo and glare at him, but Riccardo only gave me a wide smile.

-

“So?” Caterina said as she takes a sip of her coffee.

“So” I answered back as I move the spoon inside my cup in a circle motion.

“How is everyone back there?” Caterina asked with a smile on her face. I know she misses them; they are her family after all.

“Same old, Margot and Red are still driving me crazy, Blade is pissed at me, Seth never talks, and Skye is Skye” I say with a shrug.

“Why is Blade pissed at you?” Caterina asked and I shrug once again.

“Something to do with my girl” I say and Caterina’s eyes shimmer in excitement.

“I want to know everything!” She said and I chuckle at her excitement.

I spend a few minutes rambling to Caterina about Dylan. But with every word I say about her, Caterina seems to sink into the story more and more. She never got tired of my constant rambling about Dylan.

“It seems you like her” Caterina says, and I smile at her.

“You could say that” I say and Caterina laughs.

“I can’t wait to meet her; she sounds like a true badass” Caterina says.

Shit

As I look at my sister I see from the far behind, I see… Dylan? A furious Dylan walking our way. From behind her I see a frantic Red trying to keep up with her. Red grabs onto Dylan’s arm and tries to stop her, but she just snatches her arm from his grasp and keeps on walking our direction. I notice that she pulls out her dagger and once she is in front of me, she stabs it in the table, I see her hand go up and she goes to slap me, but I hold her hand with mine.

“Dagger, you have to listen to me. This is not what it looks like” I tell her but with her other hand she slaps me in the face.

“You want to go to Italy and cheat on me. Then fine by me! But do not expect to see me when you get back home” Dylan said and with that she walked away, I notice Red with a turned look on his face. He doesn’t know what to do. Either come to my side or to his new best friend. I let out a breath and nod to Red to follow Dylan. I slump into the chair, and I look at Caterina and she looks like she is holding back a laugh.

“You can laugh” I say, and Caterina burst in laughs, and I roll my eyes at her.

“I was right, she is a total badass” Caterina said in between laughs and let out a frustrated sigh.