Dr. Enzo Romano

Chapter 8

ENZO

It has been a year. A f*****g year since I last saw Dylan. It’s been a year and yet I haven’t been able to get her out of my mind. After her asshole of a friend literally gave me the boot, it took everything in my to not kill him right there in that spot he stood. I have made Seth keep a close eye on her throughout the whole year. But I have restrained myself from looking at an image of her, because I know that if I take one single glance of her, I will go out running to her. But she does not deserve this, she does not deserve the world I life in. It’s just not fair. Seth always keeps me updated, telling me she looks healthy and happy.

I’m currently keeping my mind occupied in my office doing some paperwork. A knock breaks me from my working trance and Blade walks from behind the door.

“This year’s mafia gala invitation” Blade said as he slides the invitation towards me. I let out a frustrated sigh. I have always hated these galas. Always trying to get me to work for them and looking for protection from me. The annual gala consisted of every mafia leader and his accompaniments to assist the gala and look for allies or protection. The gala is taken very seriously, no weapons allow for obvious reasons and there are guards in every corner.

“Tell Skye and Red, they are going with us” I say to Blade and he nods his head in understanding. I can’t believe I have to attend these stupid things.

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“Are we doing business tonight?” Skye asked as I walked into the living room. She is wearing a tight black dress with black heels, and she complements the dress with golden accessories.

“Nope, just there to not start a war for not attending. And Red, no stealing” I say and then glare at Red; he always likes to rob things in these galas and it always start trouble.

“You are no fun Z” He said as he rolls his eyes at me. Red is wearing a red tuxedo with black dress pants and black dress shoes.

“We should get going” Blade said as he lifts himself up from the door frame of the entrance of the mansion. I nod in agreement and straighten my suit. We all made our way out of the mansion and into our respective cars. Blade and Skye ride together, while Red and me ride alone on our cars.

We get there in about an hour. The music is heard from outside the place. We park our cars far but not too far; you never know when you need to make a run for it. We all straighten our looks and walk inside. The workers greet us and pat us done, looking for any sort of weapons. After each of us have been patted down, we make our way towards all the noise is coming from.

The ball room is decorated with an old pink and gold. I look around and see a couple of my enemies and some of my allies. The problem of this galas is that there will be enemies all around us and I can’t do anything about it. Tonight, is known as a peace day. Which means no killing.

Skye and Red get separated from me and Blade as they always go and mingle for a few minutes and also to make sure that everything is extra secure. Blade always stays by my side, he never leaves me alone in these galas, not even to let me go to the bathroom.

“Lorenzo” A voice called out for me and I drifted my eyes until I met a pair of hazel ones.

“Leonardo, long time no see” I say to him, I became allies with his gang the Leones for about 3 years ago.

“Camila” I say with a curt and she smiles back at me.  I have never met their family, only the two of them. But their kids are all known all over the world. We have the infamous twins; both know all around the world for being the best assassins out there. One is excellent with the knifes while the other is excellent with firearms. The older one is good at closing deals, also known by being very smart. I know they have a baby in the family, that is really good at manipulating people into getting what the kid wants. And there is another kid, but he is not involved in the gang world anymore, but he was known to be a killing machine, one of the best fighters out there. And the last one of their kids is good at the art of seducing, knifes and the martial arts. This kid has also left the gang world for about 2 to 3 years. But I must say that Leonardo and Camila created the ultimate gang family.

“Will I be able to get to know your kids today?” I asked hoping to meet at least the oldest kid.

“Yes, tonight is the day you will get to know all of our heirs.” Leonardo said while he crossed his arms around his chest.

“Can’t wait, I have been dying to meet them, looking forward to be working with all of them” I said as I also crossed my arms around my chest.

“Son!” Leonardo waved at a young-looking man and he walked up to us.

“You called dad?” The young man asked, and his father nodded.

“Lorenzo this is Ares, one of the infamous twins” Leonardo said, and we shake hands.

“Let me guess, you are the one that deals with the knifes?” I asked and Ares lets out a chuckle and shakes his head.

“Nah, my sister takes the credit for the knifes, she has a perfect aim. Not better than mine though” He said with a chuckle, and I looked at them in gap, I did not know that one of the twins was a girl.

“Yep, one of the infamous twins is a girl, I bet you didn’t see that one coming. But she is not the only one, we have two more girls.” Camila said with a chuckle.

After this conversation I move towards the bar, where I met Red and Skye. We talk for a little bit but suddenly my ears pick up a specific sound, a distant laugh. I look around like a maniac for the source of that sound. I would recognize that laugh anywhere, that’s Dylan’s laugh. But it couldn’t be since she is too innocent for this cruel world of the mafia. I take a deep breath and scan my surrounding for her face.

My eyes widen as I see her beautiful face, she is here. I cannot believe it. She is actually here. As I get up to walk towards her a hand stops me and yanks me back.

“Where do you think you are going?” Blade asked me as he eyes me up and down.

“That’s Dylan over there. I let her escape once, I’m not doing it again” I said as I snatched my arm from his grip.

“Have you stop and think that she is here with someone else? That she might be claimed by someone? We do not need to start a war right in the middle of a gala room.” Blade said as he crossed his arms around his chest.

“I will start a thousand wars just for her, and I will also win them in the end. And I will be dammed if I let another man have her.” I said to Blade as I push past him and towards my dear Dylan’s direction. I pull her right arm gently away from the people she was talking to and pull her to my chest, and that’s when we started dancing.