It all began with a BET(the black Rose)

chapter 12

Anna pov

six years later

"so mommy, this is where we will be living from now on, your golden city?" the little five year, soon to be six,old boy asked with a lot of excitement, while looking around the airport. this was his first time here after all, all he knows are the stories I have told him about this place. I bend so I was the same height as him, "yes hunny, this is my city. and once we settle in, I will take you to all the places uncle Mikey and I enjoyed" I told my son, Victor James Rose.

he is the apple of my eye, and he is so different from me when I was a kid, he is more lively, too innocent, adorable and a total mommy's boy, despite being raised in chaos, he is like every other kid his age. he has medium champagne hair, crimson eyes; being the reason why I named him after my dad, he is the exact replica of Sam, that's if you die his hair black and make his eyes ocean blue, which to be fair, I did do. but lucky for me, in his natural look, they look too different. I was admiring him when I heard a stream of curses behind me, I turned to look, only to find Mike helping a very pregnant and very pissed off Lu Man off the plane. Sinece he found out about the pregnancy five months ago, he is too clingy, over protective and super annoying, but likely, not with me. It is a sight to see, the big bad wolf is , afriad of a petite girl, and to top it all off, Marcos and Jackson are laughing at his misfortunes. I was about to laugh as well when she glared at them, making them swallow their laughter, ok I'll admit it, I fear her too, since she became pregnant, she's unpredictable, even I was not like her, if anything, I always spoke of sunshine and rainbows, yes it's weird I know.

I felt someone tug at my clothes, and I found Victor looking at me mad, "what's wrong baby?" I coed him. "How long are we going to wait here mommy, you promised me a tour, the sooner we leave, the sooner we get touring. So let's go" he said pulling me forward, but then another hand pulled me back, I didn't have to turn to see who it was, just by the look of sheer hatred in Victor's eyes I can tell. "So were you planning to leave without daddy". I could only sigh. "You are not my father, and I just want to be with my mommy" Victor said glaring at him. Here it comes again. It's the same argument over and over again and man is it annoying. I don't even know why they fight, Victor may hate him, but he gets along with him better that he does with the others, even Mike is not that lucky. but this feud of theirs is getting out of hand, it has been so long and they still cant get over it. I was about to say something when someone shouted behind us. "can you two just stop. Marcos, you are not a child, yet you seem to enjoy making a little kid feel miserable, whatever went down between the two of you, you should just get over it. he is just a child, and you are being a bully" Manman was red in anger and Marcos just looked down in shame while Mikey tried to pacify her. "you should not worry yourself so much about all this, its not good for you, what if you get sick, or you fall unconscious..." he was all over her, checking for possible danger and blabbering nonstop, but he was stopped by a fist that landed square in his face, and man was the woman fuming mad,her lecture began from there about how annoying he is, how she can take care of herself and Mike was too shocked to react and could only keep nodding his head we wanted to laugh but we knew we would get it as well, "I don't want to see you at all tonight, I cant take your pestering anymore, you can take the guest room, the couch, you can even sleep outside for all I care" that was all she said before she walked away, leaving us stunned. " you are in the dog house" Jackson laughed and ran causing and angry Mikey to chase after him. We laughed at them and soon Victor and Marcos joined in the chase. Looking at them, i smiled, six years ago I never would have expected this.

FLASHBACK

Third person pov

It’s been a whole month since training began and things have not improved. Well, they have but negatively, despite Anna’s efforts to get everyone to work together, it just seemed to fall to deaf ears, each of them wanted to be the best and missed the fact that they are working for the same organisation. Even though each had a family empire to run, in the underworld, they are part of the same insane group. They all seemed to be focusing mostly on business that the group, and that will do them no good. Seeing that Anna and Mike failed to get everyone on the same page, George just exploded and put both of them in isolation for two weeks, and had the other three go for more intense training individually. During the two weeks, Mike and Anna were staved, tortured and worst of all, stuck in a dark, rotten smelling rooms with no air circulation. When the two weeks were up, mike could barely keep his eyes open, and Anna was at the brink of death, she should have been able to handle it, especially with all the training she did since she was two. She had lost so much weight, she was a walking, well, unconscious skeleton. Watching them being taken to the medical room, everyone looked guilty, but still could not even spare each other a glance. It was the news they got after that changed everything.

The doctor told them that they almost lost both mother and child, and she should take it easy and avoid stress, because her pregnancy is very risky. That when everyone realised that thanks to them, a woman could have lost her child, and they began putting in an effort to work together and make things easier. It took Anna six days to wake up, and as soon as she did, she learned about her child, and that changed her, she was sweet and affectionate, but drove everyone like horses, looking for nothing but perfection, and eventually, they began warming up to each other and eventually became the best group of friends. Eight months later, and adorable little boy was born, and had everyone wrapped around his finger, they all adored him and fought for him, whether to carry him or play with him, he was like a little blessing, even the ice-hearted Marcos melted at his sight especially because he was present during his birth since Anna would not let go of his hand.

After three long years, everyone finally completed their training, even George could not keep them there, they were better that even his group was, and he was impressed, they could leave and go back to their normal lives, but everyone was reluctant to leave, so he held a little party to celebrate their completion, and that was the night that brought a lot of memories. On the night of the party, everyone in the house had met in the hall, it was a sight, all dressed casually and ready for fun and games, forgotten were the dark secrets of the house. That was the first day everyone, except Lu Ting, had seen Manman without her male disguise, and the day Mike fell for her. Even he cannot describe what attracted him to her, whether it was her silky long hair, her attractive curves, her youthful and beautiful face or that her every movement looked regal and confident, but all he knows is that his heart had begun to beat at a million times per minute, but since then, he began to chase her, even though she rejected him time and time again, he was not discouraged and kept pushing, until she finally relented and agreed to give him a chance, to be fair, it was out of annoyance, but he took what he could get, and two and a half years later, they were expecting their first child. Their relationship may have not been perfect, filled with disagreement, hurdles, fighting, sometimes literal, but they were happy.

That very night of the party, Marcos and Jack got into a bet. Having had enough of the little guy being more comfortable with Marcos than him, and with his friend rubbing it in his face, Jack dared Marcos to get the kid to call him dad, knowing that it is an impossible task. The kid only cared about his mother, and wanted no father at all, he knows the things that happened to his mother, he may be young but he is a Rose, he can find out anything. Marcos took the bet, what would be better than having someone slave after you for a whole week. He tried everything, even threatening the kid, but he would rather take any punishment than call him dad. Seeing that nothing was working, Marcos threatened to take his mother far away from him and he will never see her again, that broke the kid, but he still refused. That was until his mother Agreed to go out with Marcos, Anna had missed the glare they gave each other when she agreed, it was like a silent promise between the two. Finally realizing that he really might lose his mother, the kid put his pride aside and finally called him ‘daddy’. It was better to lose his pride than his mother and from that day, Victor hated Marcos with a passion, but oddly enough, they were still the best of friend after, but only if there was no mention of his mother.

END OF FLASHBACK

Anna POV

Right now we were were on our way to the mansion, the whole car ride is filled with laughter and teasing, this is my family, and I know we have good times ahead filled with happiness and laughter. Thinking this, I shut my eyes and listened to the bickering around me, it's going to be a long ride.