BURNING HOT

CHAPTER 13

AL' was pissed, but he didn't know what or who he was pissed at. Why had his heart raced to the point he shooke when he heard Bananno's men went after her with intention to kill her when they couldn't get to Matt. He didn't have the report of how she and her best friend came out of that unscratched. Him traveling to California was not a bright idea but to hell with everything he needed to know the truth.

Pam. His Pam was Ila Ivanov? How had that happened, she had been in plain sight all along and he never knew.

The pain had been too much then, that he had finally buried the past under building his Famiglia stronger. He had replaced all his men as soon as he could and the first mission they had went on was assassinating all the disloyal family members. He took care of family first before he focused on their enemies one after the other, now it was Bananno's time.

The man had change for a while but his brother Marco came back after Lossing his own territory to a new gang, the new gang had taken other territories wettin a small amount of time and he would have been worried like the other Mafia families if not that he was the godfather to the new Mafia boss.

"Boss you have to see this, Mr Stark sent it" Lui passed the phone from the front seat, they were already at the airport, close to the runway where the jet waiting. He took the smart phone from Lui and clicked on it. It was from a security cam from massaging room, the video showed two naked woman seat up and the men that had been giving them massages stepped away, then the door was blasting open and immediately bullet had rained down on the room, he watched the red hair woman move so fast and smoothly behind the shelf that held different massaging oil, wrapping a towel he hadn't noticed she had grabbed around herself. He couldn't track the two woman's movement together that was how fast they had moved almost at the same time, he had to go back to track the brown hair woman, Yes her was doing it again with the names. The other woman rolled off the bed and under the bed it, the camera couldn't see under it. One of the men had been hit almost immediately the first shot was fired, the other had been hit in the shoulder before he got down on the floor.

"Mr Stark said it's going to delete the minute the video ends" Lui informed him as he continued to watch, the car had stoped and they waiting for him. This was the attack on Ila, the red hair most have been Grace her best friend, he read the little information they had on her.

He watched everything, from how Ila had somehow avoided the search from under the bed and how Grace had intentionally allowed herself to be captured, how Ila had bated them with her body, damn he shouldn't be turned on by this but watching this woman command men instead of being intimidated. And he would have never thought her cane had been a sword cane. Ever. If he wasn't seeing the proof, in less than a minute she had killed two men double her size and he knew it was only the trust she had in her friend taking out the other two men. These women were a dangerous set and she barely got blood on her sword before flicking her wrist to get even that off.

The moment the clip ended it crashed and went blank. That couldn't erase the image of her body that would now torture his mind, bitting aback a curse he opened the door and stepped out of the car.

He had left Alexandre in charge of their Famiglia, while Lui took up being his personal bodyguard and Rene. He had invited an old friend along too, his other men would be joining later.

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Ila kept telling herself that waiting for Grace and Sam with a clear head was going to do everyone good but after she freshened up and the days event finally hit. Looking around the big suite alone, she knew a big change was coming, Her mom had warned her that she could never run from her past, especially when her present was still linked to it. The deeper meaning was something she denied over and over even when her body never lied to her. She always thought no man could ever make her feel the way Sam made her feel, she had been hopeless in love with him from the first day she laid eyes on him. Everyone thought it was just a little girls crush, until she made sure everyone knew how serious she was.

Ila smiled at the memory, damn she needed something really strong to clear her head, she looked down at the foot of the bed where Grace's travel bag was laying half closed, they had rushed to dress up for the spa. Walking towards it. She bent and unzipped the bag, They had always shared a room together. Pulling out a small purse, she opened it and smiled.

Pulling what she needed and closing the bag she went to take her seat, She knew It was bullshit when Grace had told her she stoped smoking, pouring herself a cup of wine and moving the ash tray from the center of the table to her side she light up the smoke and took a long drag.

"f**k" Ila coughed out "what the f**k did Grace roll up" she took a slip of her wine. She was normally naked anything she was in her room but confronting Grace and Sam naked wouldn't pass the right message so she had blessed her nightwear racks with her visit, picking a black lace lingerie, it was a two piece and that was the best she could do.

Whatever Grace had rolled, this was the first time she was having it and the stuff was amazing, taking few more drags she relaxed into the couch and sighed. When you have a son that adores and understand you, you want to do everything in your power to convince yourself that you deserve such blessing.

She picked the remote and played one of her best tracks, soft music filled the room. She loved music, it placed her in a comforting mood but right now she couldn't stop thinking about her son

"How would Sky take all this?" She asked out, yeah she was on some high s**t.

"How would I take what?" She heard Sky voice across from the room, she looked up and turned her head, Sky was standing in the middle of the room looking tall, big and handsome. She sometimes wondered how she had been so lucky.

"I knew something was wrong when I saw your face on that roof top" Sky walked towards her and she just kept looking at him. "I don't need to ask where you got the smoke"

"I don't even know what she has in this" Ila finally spoke out "I would have offered you some but I think one of us needs to be clear headed for this" she stood up from the couch. "Help me with the wine dear, I need more air"

"You probably do"

Ila chuckled "I just don't want to drop this, since we decided you'll be the clear headed one" she opened the screen door to the balcony, the city view was always nice from here, but the pool room had the best view.

"Let me help you with that" Sky brought the lighter close to her face, the glow on his face was really nice.

Lightening up her smoke "Thanks" she turned from him and went to take her seat, the moment she sat down her mind her wondered.

"You might want to take it easy, I don't trust Grace and her drugs"

Ila laughed at that "anyone would be stupid to trust Grace with drugs" but the two of them had gone down that part together from an early age, they had done a lot of things together that they're parents would probably have heart attack if they knew half of it. She just naturally stopped few years back right before they moved to California more than three years ago, she smiled and picked up her wine glass.

"So what's happening mom? You've been getting more on edge this few months" Sky turned away from her. "Though that edge pushed you into making up with Sam finally. I just can't shake this feeling off"

"What feeling" Ila whispered "You shouldn't turn your back on your mother when talking you know" Ila tried to sound a bit stern but it seemed she did a poor job at that because Sky just chuckled but he did turn with an amused look. "More like it, now what feeling?"

"Since I met Matt, for the first time I couldn't figure out what I felt. The only thing I could decide was that we were getting really close in a short amount of time" Sky stoped pacing and she breathed out, she was about asking him to stop that. "Mom you also changed when you met Matt"

What? How? "I did?" She asked out, had she Subconsciously connected Matt to Allen? His surname was Allen and though it seemed Matt looked more like his mother the resemblance was still there if you looked, but she had just kept denying the possibility of it happen. She dropped her wine glass and the smoke on the table and stood up, why was her leg suddenly aching?

"Mom, we only have each other. I convinced myself it was because you wanted to get a lot of work done before the vacation and that's why you became distance"

No this couldn't have been happening? Had she really been that out? She looked at her son standing tall and strong, he was all grown up. He didn't deserve all the secrets anymore, he wouldn't leave her. That had been her greatest fear.

"Matt is your brother" she said it while holding her breath and looking at his reaction. "Allen, no Al' his your father"

"My father is actually alive? Hmmm. No one ever mentioned him so I had thought he was dead"

"I'm sorry Sky" she whispered even though her voice sounded okay she couldn't control the tears. "I was young and foolish, I made decision without thinking back, I just..."

Sky picked up a blanket and came towards her, "Sky baby" the tears were flowing down her face now as she stretched her hands out and wrapped it around his neck. Sky brought his hand around her body with the blanket and hugged her.

"You're my world mama. I'll always be by your side"

"I'm sorry Sky I kept telling myself when you were older I'll tell you about him and if you decided you wanted to know him I would let you" She snuggled closer to his warm body. "But then one thing after another happened, I wouldn't have survived all those without you" she whispered.

"And same here mama, we went through it together. We are each others strength, why would you think I will leave you"

"Mne tak zhal', moya lyubov'." 'i'm so sorry my love.'

"Come on now" he lead her back to her seat and wrapped the blanket around her, before have his own seat. "I think I need this now" he picked up her wine glass and had a gulp.

"You can have the smoke too, you need it, though fair warning you're going to get very horny." Leave it to his mom to deliver that speech with a perfect low tone and tears still running down her eyes. He couldn't help but laugh, they knew when to c***k each other up so well.

"Nice one"

"But I'm actually seriously" Sky just chuckled and took the smoke. "So does he know who I am?" Sky asked, he took a slow drag before puffing out the smoke, this was a lot but somehow he had always learned to accept things he couldn't have controlled, and he never could get mad at his mom.

"He doesn't" he saw the doubt on her face though.

"Just before I came to check up on you, Matt got a call from his dad, he told Matt to get ready to move back to the house with Kat that he was on his way here" he looked at her, she wasn't surprised with the news.

"He may have a guess but he can't be certain you're his. But he made a statement at the end of our call that sounded like he knew"

"Doesn't matter, it's what you decided we'll go with, I'm an adult now and you never even should have thought you would lose me. It's your feelings towards him we need to talk about" could he take the shot and ask about how they actually met? All he knew was she was really young when she had him, so it must have been hard.

"I don't know Sky, I've loved Sam all my life and never thought for one moment that I would give myself to another"

"How then?" Sky hope she was willing to share because he needed to cross out all the bad scenario in his head.

"It's quite a ridiculous story at first" she smiled, well that was a good start.

"My father was invited to the peace summit held in Mexico. He was to go with his heir, those that went with their daughters were acknowledged as those without an heir. It was a weakness many tried to avoid and you can only ignore an invite twice and never the third, that was the rule in the underworld."

"Dad had already ignored the invite twice and there was no reason for him to ignore the third invite. But Mael had been is naughty self again and gotten himself in a fight in school, the fight got serious because his opponent was at the jaws of death before his best friend had manage to get him away from the other boy, that got him in prison and dad also refused to bail his ass out not until the invite came in"

"Dedushka is very stubborn" 'Grandpa' he admitted.

"Well his stubbornness cost me, by the time the invite came we couldn't bail Mael out, we decided I went in his place, I was good at mimicking and I knew everything it was to know so I went"

"You met him there, what about Sam?"

"After all the pointless meetings and excises I excused myself to find Sam, let me cut off all my shameless act to get in his bed but he rejected me. Told me I was a small girl and a lot more painful words then."

" He pushed you away" Sam was good at pushing people away, he was only a different man with his mom.

"I went back to my room to cry only that Grace gave the brilliant idea of removing the disguise and getting drunk at the bar, no one would have asked about my age and she would cover for me" of course Grace would give such advise to someone that was heartbroken.

"Went to the bar and drank a lot of champagne, Allen was in a corner with an older man that looked like his father. We happened to be going to thesame floor and he invited me to his room" she already made bad decisions from listening to Grace, following an handsome young guy back to his room was just adding to the bad decisions.

"We tried to denial how drawn we were to each other even when I was crying over Sam at least I did, not until he kissed me and I forgot all about Sam. Things got really heated" They had s*x.

"It was so good, too good we couldn't get enough of each other" He saw the longing in her blazing eyes, the glow she had just talking about that night, her eyes reviewed a lot of passion she never could control well.

"I snuck out after. Just before dawn, Grace kept calling me so I had to leave"

"You didn't leave him a note or something? He didn't look for you?"

"I told him my name was Pam and I came with my father, it was even after we had s*x I told him my real age. I'm sure he wouldn't have done it if he knew my age" His mother was a very smart woman but somehow she kepts denying her own feelings. She had been rubbing her kneel too and she looked worn out and tired now. They all have had a long day.

"I did leave my number behind but I assume he didn't see it. He wouldn't have been able to find me if he didn't see the note." Funny how she assumed he didn't see her note.

"What if he had seen it and just didn't care? What if that night wasn't has special as you thought it was for him?" He asked her.

"I... I don't know Sky but by the time I had you in my arms I wasn't ready take any risk of losing you. Sam was ready to claim you as his but I couldn't have draged him into it."

"More like you wanted him to yourself. Selfish much, I wonder if you would let the boy finally have a romantic life." They both turned to Grace voice at the screen door.