My Mafia Madness 4

Chapter 21 - Shared Bloodline

The entire room was strangely silent now, with everyone’s wide-open eyes locked on Dante after his most recent announcement to his host, Don Liam Levine.

The Reaper was asking for Don Levine’s permission to marry his granddaughter, Alexa.

Funnily enough, it wasn’t the request itself that had everyone in such a state of shock. No… instead it was the actual claim that his request held behind it!

Right now, Dante was claiming that Liam Levine had a mystery granddaughter. One that the Canadian Don himself did not even know about... until this very moment.

But could someone as powerful and well-resourced as Don Liam Levine be completely unaware of such an important existence in the first place?

One of his own blood?

Was it even possible?

Or had the Reaper perhaps made an unfortunate mistake?

As Dante’s emerald-green eyes scanned the room before finally fixating on the expression of Amelia who sat opposite him, the Reaper was then assured that his claims were in fact correct.

The middle-aged woman appeared to squirming about in her seat in sudden discomfort.

She was clearly nervous of something.

Her brown eyes were downcast to the floor as her hands fidgeted with one another.

And to someone like Dante Romano, a skilled interrogator who could identify the various tells of a person’s truth and honesty, these were clear signs of Amelia’s obvious guilt.

From her expression alone, she looked as if she was about to make a run for it at any given moment...

It appeared that Dante’s research was indeed accurate. That this woman sitting opposite him was indeed Alexa’s long-lost mother, Emma Myers, aka Amelia Levine.

It was Don Levine’s voice that broke through the silence as he looked to Dante with a rather serious expression.

“Forgive me Don Romano, but I believe that you are mistaken. You see, I have no granddaughter named Alexa.”

Liam made his announcement as calmly as he could manage.

“I thought you of all people would have done your research on me and my family before hand-”

“-My apologies, Don Levine. I mean no disrespect but I’m afraid that it is you who is mistaken…”

Dante cut in over his host as he came to stand up from the sofa, straightening his suit jacket.

As he did, Nicola reached into the briefcase he had been carrying along with him since their arrival and pulled out a simple manilla folder before handing it to his capo silently.

Taking the folder, Dante maintained eye contact with his host as he began to explain.

“You do have a granddaughter. Her name is Alexa Myers, she’s twenty-six years of age and currently lives in New York City.”

As Dante gave his explanation, he slowly made his way across to stand before Liam holding out the folder as he went on to explain more.

“I had my sources run a DNA test just to be certain…” the Reaper admitted, nodding towards the folder as he added, “Go ahead, see for yourself.”

Both outraged and confused, Liam glanced down at the manilla folder he now held in his hand for a moment in silence.

And as his curiosity got the better of him, he quickly flipped it open and began scanning through the documents inside as everyone else in the room sat or stood by watching him in total intrigue.

One of the documents viewed was the results from a laboratory test done on Alexa’s blood work, clear proof that whoever this woman was, she was indeed related to him by blood!

It appeared that Dante’s outrageous claims were in fact true.

Liam Levine did have a secret granddaughter!

One he had never even known about, let alone met before.

“This is… unbelievable…”

Don Levine muttered softly as he lifted his gaze, returning it to Dante who stood before him.

“It’s not possible. How could I have missed something like this?”

Turning his gaze and attention towards Amelia now, Dante began to explain his suspicions regarding that subject.

“Truthfully, I think that there’s only one person in this entire room who could answer that question, Don Levine. And I must say, she’s being awfully quiet right now.”

And this drew Liam’s attention over towards his daughter, who by now was trying to make herself as small as possible as she awaited her father’s expected wrath.

“Amelia? Did you know anything about this?” Liam demanded, holding the folder up as he spoke sternly to his daughter.

“This child… is she yours?”

Inhaling a deep comforting breath into her lungs, Amelia then went on to exhale slowly as she prepared herself to try and explain her reasoning for keeping her daughter’s existence a secret from her own father for so long.

“Yes, father. Don Romano is telling the truth.” she admitted hesitantly.

“Alexa Myers... is my daughter.”

Liam looked beyond disappointed as his face fell.

The folder dropped into his lap as he ran both his hands anxiously through his chestnut brown hair several times in an attempt to self-soothe himself.

Now realising that his attempts to self-sooth weren't working, the older Don suddenly moved to stand up from his armchair, his spoken command coming out harsh and loud, bouncing off the surrounding walls.

“EVERYONE OUT… NOW!”

And quickly moving to obey the Don’s command, everyone in the room then began to head for the sole doorway as a mass.

The room was quickly emptied of its occupants, one by one.

“Not you two!”

Liam corrected sternly, aiming his harshly toned instructions towards both his daughter Amelia and his most recently-arrived guest, Dante.

“I believe the two of you have some explaining to do.”

Dante appeared confident as he stood there before his fellow Don. And in truth, he was fully prepared to come clean with everything that he knew regarding Alexa’s birthright and lineage.

But Amelia on the other hand did not look ready to talk about it.

In fact, she looked absolutely terrified now of being forced to confess such a massive secret as this, especially to the one person in the entire world whom she had fought so hard to keep it from.

She looked as if she were about ready to burst.

“Now, both of you…”

Liam went on commanding them as he pointed with his outstretched finger towards the three-seater chesterfield sofa opposite him.

“Sit down!”

-

With her son still fast asleep and Dante currently out doing god-knows-what, Alexa needed an urgent distraction to keep her jealous mind sated until he eventually did return.

And she knew exactly who she should go and visit.

Shortly after everyone’s arrival at the manor, both Roberto and Willow had their sights set on taking a romantic dip together in the luxurious pool located in one of the larger rooms on the ground floor of the massive structure.

As soon as Willow arrived at the pool area she immediately realised that it was unlike anything she had ever seen before or even imagined!

Not only was it heated for increased comfort, but the unique design practically took up the entire space of the gigantic room, linking itself around several decorative pillars and with a collection of different waterfalls, LED lights and incredible features.

By now, the couple had been relaxing there since arriving almost three hours ago, happily splashing about and enjoying themselves in such undeniably luxurious comfort.

All the while relishing in this opportunity to share some one-on-one time alone with one another.

Alexa on the other hand was quite desperate to find her bestie amongst the maze of a manor she now found herself inside.

After she couldn’t locate Willow in the guest room shared with Roberto, Alexa was luckily able to find them laughing and lounging about in the clear, warm water of the pool down on the ground level.

All she had to do was follow the sounds of laughter and happiness.

Arriving at the pool area and carrying the portable baby monitor along with her she glanced around, taking in the tremendously fancy room as a whole and quite astonished by what she could now see.

“Whoa! This place is… it’s…”

“It’s something, huh!”

Willow called out with a giant smile as soon as she noticed her best friend had appeared through one of the open doorways leading into the giant area.

“Come on in, girl. The water’s yummy as! It’s like having a warm bath in Heaven.”

Giggling at her friend’s ridiculous comment, Alexa looked down at her current outfit and frowned.

“Yeah, sorry Will. I’m not exactly dressed for the part.”

Alexa tried her best to come up with a somewhat believable excuse, and to avoid crashing their private time with one another.

With Dante always out on various jobs and tasks in his line of work, Alexa herself knew just how precious these brief moments shared with the one you love actually were.

How much they truly mattered.

And she didn’t want to be the cause of ruining theirs.

“Yeah, come on in Lex.” Roberto joined in with a large smile.

He wore a pair of black swimming trunks, with his long dark hair out of its usual ponytail as he glided effortlessly through the clean water on his way towards the edge of the pool, one stroke after the next.

“A dip might get your mind off my i***t brother for a change.” he suggested with a smile.

Willow on the other hand was lounging silently in the spa area of the pool, with her head resting back against the edge and her body submerged all the way up to her neck.

She wore a stunning pair of bright neon green string bikinis. Willow’s baby-bulge wasn’t yet visible this early in her pregnancy and she wore her long, red wavy hair down over both her shoulders.

Alexa frowned at Roberto's last remark.

How did he know what was going on in her head at that very moment? That she was hopelessly stressing about where Dante was going and what he was doing?

It wasn't like Roberto couldn’t read her mind… right?

Noticing her expression, Roberto’s smile only widened as he reached the side of the pool and rested both his muscular arms up across the tiled edge, balancing himself in place as he spoke with his eyes fixated on her.

“Relax, it’s kinda obvious you’re worried as hell about him. But believe me when I tell you, you don’t need to be.” he tried to reassure her with his comforting words.

“Dante’s a big boy, Alexa. He does this kinda thing every single day. He’ll be back here in no time, you’ll see…”

Letting out a long hard sigh, Alexa’s shoulders slumped forward as she nodded her head.

“Thanks Roberto.” she spoke a little calmer now.

“That actually helps a lot.”

“So, you’re coming in then?” he urged, lifting his left brow high up onto his forehead at her in challenge.

“Sorry guys, I didn’t anticipate going for a swim. I’m not exactly dressed for it.” Alexa reminded them, waving her hand in front of her outfit to demonstrate her point.

But the couple were having none of it!

“Well… it just so happens that I came prepared for such a situation...” Willow announced with a devious smirk curving the corner of her mouth upwards as she made her way out of the pool via. the steps in the spa section.

Cool, crystal water cascaded down over her body as she moved.

“What are you talking about?” Alexa questioned, watching her bestie closely as the red head made her way over towards her bags and reached inside one of them.

“Willow? What are you doing?”

“TA-DA!”

Willow cheered as she pulled out a pair of bold, red bikinis from one of her bags and held it up in front of herself as she locked sights with her friend and spoke.

“Now you have no excuse.”

Tossing the crimson bikinis directly at Alexa who somehow managed to catch them with a displeased huff, Willow chuckled as she watched her friend marching off towards the connecting bathroom area to go and change.

Alexa was going to have some fun with them, even if Willow had to tie her down to do it!