My Mafia Madness

Chapter 33 - Playing Chicken

Just as he was about to reach up to cradle her face, to make his move and go in for the kiss…

The sound of the patio door sliding open and several men laughing could be heard, as they came strolling out towards the poolside with towels of their own.

They were dressed in their swimming attire, which was a totally different sight to what Alexa was used to seeing them in.

Hearing them approaching, Matteo winked playfully at Alexa before he casually swam away into a slow swim down the full length of the massive pool.

The moment he had swum away Alexa felt she could breathe normally once more.

Her breaths had suddenly become much shorter and shallower as she fought to regain her composure after such a closely intimate gesture from the youngest Romano brother.

Why was he doing this to her?

What was his angle?

And then she saw him making his way out onto the poolside patio, with Roberto walking to his left and Nicola to his right.

Her mouth parted unknowingly as her eyes couldn’t seem to tear themselves away from the god-like man strolling towards the pool.

Dante looked phenomenal!

It was hard for her to control her surging emotions as she watched him drop his towel down onto one of the poolside lounging chairs before kicking his sandals off, one by one.

Alexa had never seen him without his expensive suits on before and she took the rare chance to take in all of his extensive ink.

She would finally get to see that mysterious neck tattoo she was so curious about!

Dante had various tattoos running down both his arms and coming up over his shoulders, front and back.

She could see some words written in fancy italic bold, running down one of his arms, mixed in with the surroundings of what appeared to be pictures intertwined with one another.

The tattoo on his neck looked like some sort of a knife or a... sickle? She couldn’t quite see it’s detail from so far away.

His arm muscles bulged in the afternoon lighting as he slowly stepped down into the warm water of the spa side of the pool.

Several others did the same as their boss, all except for Luca.

Strangely enough, Luca walked back a bit until he was a short distance from the pool, before turning around to face it.

Some of the other men began cheering him on from where they were either in the pool or standing outside of it and Luca chuckled, readying himself for what he was about to do.

Alexa watched on with wonder as he suddenly began sprinting for the edge of the pool, his muscular calves straining with each of his steps until he suddenly leapt high into the air.

Tucking his knees in against his toned chest and holding them in with both arms, Luca successfully completed a double somersault before crashing into the water with a large ‘splash’.

Water appeared to explode high into the air, causing a large wave to ripple outwards at everyone in the water at that moment...

Including Alexa.

Alexa was both shocked and amazed by this highly skilled and incredibly dangerous little stunt of his.

She chose to join in as several of the others began clapping along playfully for him as he surfaced with a large smile and flicked his head rid some of the water from his face.

“Not bad huh?” Luca called out to Alexa as he came to rest with his arms up on the edge of the pool beside her.

“What do you think Miss Myers? Ten out of ten?”

She chuckled darkly, shaking her head in an effort to taunt him.

“Hardly even a six.”

He frowned, feigning an expression of being hurt as he held his hand to his heart.

“Ouch! You’re evil!” he joked, before smiling along with her.

Luca noticed Matteo was now at the other end of the pool, sitting in the spa with Dante and the others as they casually chatted amongst themselves.

“He didn’t upset you, did he?” Luca suddenly asked.

This had caught Alexa totally off guard and caused her eyes to widen as she turned to face him.

“Who?”

“You know who… Matteo.”

She frowned, shaking her head.

“No, of course he didn’t.” she replied.

“Good. That’s good.” Luca nodded his head.

But her curiosity got the best of her and she couldn’t help but ask her next question.

“Why are you asking me that Luca?”

Luca seemed somewhat hesitant as he gazed down at the water they were submerged in.

“No reason…”

Her eyes narrowed. She could detect his obvious hesitance around their newest subject and wanted to know more.

She felt she had a right to know more.

“You know, you can talk openly with me Luca.” she reassured him, placing her hand onto his right shoulder, before removing it just as quickly.

“We both work for the same man, remember?”

Letting out a sigh, Luca decided to give her a warning instead of the entire backstory leading up to it.

It would take far less time to do it that way.

“Just be careful around him, Miss Myers, that’s all I’m asking...” Luca announced, meeting her gaze with a serious expression.

“Matteo’s… well, he can kinda be… unstable, at times.”

She frowned, fighting to fully understand what could be so dangerous about the clearly innocent-looking man sitting at the other end of the pool.

He didn’t look unstable.

So, what had Luca meant?

-

Ten minutes later Alexa felt bored and was about to get out of the pool when she noticed several of the men were starting some sort of a game.

There were around eight of them, in pairs, with one man balanced up on top of his partner’s shoulders as they walked around the pool.

It actually looked quite funny from where she was positioned watching the chaos continue.

The pairs were working to try and push the top person off his partner’s shoulders, and into the water.

Apparently, that’s how the game was won; the last pair left standing.

It didn’t take long for Nicola and Luca to knock out several of the other pairs, themselves becoming the winners and cheering loudly with their fists pumping up into the air.

Of course, Nicola being the bigger of the two was the one balancing Luca on his shoulders.

Alexa gave a chuckle at the boisterous display occurring before her.

A deep voice spoke to her from behind and she spun around, suddenly realising that Dante himself had swum out to surprise her.

“Enjoying the show, I see.”

His emerald eyes glistened with delight as he hovered above the surface using nothing but his powerful arms and legs.

“Oh, yes. I am actually.” she admitted, fighting an apparent blush as it appeared.

He was quite close to where she was leaning up against the edge of the pool.

“The whole thing is absolutely hilarious!”

Dante smirked as he came to rest an arm over the edge of the pool beside her.

“Boys will be boys, I’m afraid.” he joked, turning to watch them as he went on.

“Besides, they rarely get the chance to take a well-earned break like this… to just let go of all the chaos that unfortunately, our lives seem to attract.”

She turned to face him with a look of confusion.

“Surely working in an office can’t be that chaotic?”

The left corner of Dante’s mouth curved upwards after hearing her comment.

This beautiful woman was still surrounded by innocence, hidden away from the real world that he and his men lived in on a daily basis.

She had no idea of the darker truth.

How he wished he could open up to her, to tell her everything about who he was and what he did.

“Mr. Romano?”

Alexa’s angelic voice pulled him back to the here and now and he lifted his gaze to meet hers.

“Are you alright?” she asked him with concern.

Clearing his throat, the billionaire nodded his head and forced a smile.

“Of course.”

Alexa could see something was on her boss’ mind, something that was causing him to appear solemn, sad even.

Maybe she could change his train of thought and improve her boss’ mood.

She had an idea.

“How about… you and I join in with their little game?” she suggested with a smile.

Dante immediately furrowed his brows at such a ludicrous idea.

“We what?”

“You heard me.” she replied confidently.

“Come on!”

-

Alexa took his hand in hers and proceeded to pull him along after her.

The two made their way from the deep end to where the others were having another round of their little game.

By now both Roberto and Matteo had teamed up against the others, with Roberto at the bottom and the youngest brother balancing on his brother’s shoulders.

They were up against the reigning champions, Nicola and Luca, with both opponents Luca and Matteo currently locked arm in arm with one another.

You could see their incredible arm muscles bulging as they pushed with all their strength against each other, trying to force their opponent into the water.

Alexa watched on with intrigue as the contest continued, while everyone else cheered loudly for their own favourites to win.

“You got this Matteo!”

“Yeah, you’re much stronger!” another shouted.

Alexa noticed most of the cheering was for the Romano brothers, so she called out at the top of her lungs for the underdogs.

“Kick his privileged arse, Luca!” she shouted.

Dante frowned in disbelief as he turned his head to look at the excited assistant beside him.

She definitely had a lot of spirit! This little spitfire of his…

A sudden uproar had everyone’s attention as at long last Luca fell back and toppled into the water with a large ‘splash’.

The men around them cheered, including both Roberto and Matteo.

“They didn’t even stand a chance!” Matteo mused proudly.

Dante turned his head to the side as he spoke to Alexa now.

“Do you know how the game works?” he asked.

“I think I got the idea.” she spoke with a smile.

“You have to make your opponent fall from his teammate’s shoulders, correct?”

Dante chuckled at her shortened version of the rules.

“That is the overall goal, yes.” he admitted.

“But it’s important for you to know that this game is not all about strength, bella. (beautiful) It, just like life, is a battle of wits.”

Alexa frowned, turning to face him as she listened.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, you could beat him.” Dante suggested, his left brow lifting.

“Me?”

Alexa sounded unconvinced.

“How?”

Merely nodding, Dante went on to explain.

-

The crowd had gathered around, excited for the newest round of ‘chicken’ being played.

And what’s more exciting, it would be Romano brothers vs. Romano brother!

Dante had teamed up with his beautiful assistant, Alexa. Their Don stood with her up on his muscular shoulders.

She had both her slender legs wrapped around his powerful shoulders and both of his large hands were holding onto her smooth calves to give her further support.

Dante found it lucky that his manhood was currently submerged by the water, as he felt himself powerfully tenting inside of his swimming shorts at the thought of having Alexa’s legs wrapped around him.

He had several erotic fantasies that involved this exact thing, with this exact same woman, though the two of them wore no clothing in these lustful dreams…

And they definitely weren’t about to play ‘chicken’.

Alexa and Dante were up against the reigning champions, Matteo and Roberto.

Matteo appeared to have no problems balancing on his muscular brother’s shoulders as he sat staring fiercely at the beautiful Alexa.

“Are you ready for this, bellissima?” (gorgeous) Matteo taunted with a smirk.

Alexa gave him an equally challenging smirk before replying confidently.

“Are you?”

Matteo gave a deep laugh, as did many of the men standing around them.

“Piccola principessa esuberante, vero?” (Feisty little princess, isn’t she?) one of the men commented with a snicker.

Luca lifted a white handkerchief up as he called out for the game to begin…

“Ready… set… GO!”