Scarlett was in the city with one of the subs driving her and wishing Lila was there with her.
The main point of going into the city was to visit the shops. Adult shop for that matter from seeing how things were, she knew that it was going to be harder for convincing Leonardo to help her in her heat.
She enjoyed how Leonardo was so jealous and nearly possessive over her but he stopped himself by saying his goodbyes but his bold footsteps were enough evidence that the Alpha was hurt enough.
“We have arrived Ma’am,” the sub said while stopping by the shops.
“Thanks,” she said, grabbing her emerald green luxurious handbag while she was in a fawn half-long pencil skirt and white silky cropped shirt with Versace shades on.
She exuded elegancy like a sophisticated business owner woman.
She climbed out of the black Maserati car and strode inside the adult shop door in the mall.
Her dark green eyes gave a glow with a glint of wildness.
“Hi, how can we help you Ma’am?” one of the female workers approached her politely.
Scarlett gave a thinking pose and said, “I need s*x toys and lubricants. Expensive ones.”
“Okay, follow me, Ma’am.”
Her eyes and lips widen with a gasp from watching all the c**k toys come in different sizes. Long, tiny, small, short, large, huge, big, and enormous while some had veins on them.
She chose the average-size one with a smile appearing on her face.
“Okay,” the worker said. “And you can use it with this lube,” she prompted.
Scarlett gave her a nod.
Her phone rang from her bag.
“Hello,” she answered.
“What time will you come back?”
“Uhm, I don’t know. Why?” her brows raised.
“I need us to visit the Saint Clair resident together in the late afternoon,” Lorenzo said.
Scarlett became confused. Lorenzo never invited her to Saint Clair resident. She last went with her parents when they were alive.
“Okay, I will be done by that time,” she answered simply and the phone call was hung up by Lorenzo.
It wasn’t all about the invite, Lorenzo was not trusting Scarlett. In his mind, he was thinking Scarlett and Marco planned to meet so he planned to distract Scarlett.
Scarlett escaped a chuckle.
“Can you show me the harness and sexy wears?” she asked and followed the worker.
Scarlett loved that she had found everything she had in mind.
******
Leonardo was in his office and trying so hard to focus on his work but Scarlett was playing in his head and not getting tired from running around in his head.
Her last words pierced deep into his heart – it felt as if Scarlett was rejecting him.
At the party, he saw how Scarlett was looking so beautiful in that black dress, but he was not eyeing her with that eye. And he saw how grown she was.
Her dress exposed her top body. Her chest and back, it was designed with v-shaped at the back with her mask just making her look so mysterious and wild.
But, in the morning, her attire exuded her position in her family even though she has no position in the mafia and he saw himself being perfect next to her.
The color of her dress was just perfectly fine and complimenting her smooth vanilla skin tone.
He drooled and felt a surge to lick her. She didn’t have to look so sublime, immense, and perfect like that.
Leonardo hated how infuriated he was when Scarlett asked and scent mark on her brother. How could she? But his mind reminded him that he denied her last night.
He hissed with how things went last night.
How could the moon goddess grant him with the forbidden mate?
Ughh, he rolled his office chair while pinching the bridge of his nose.
Leonardo had never mated before, but that doesn’t mean he never fooled around. He even fooled more than a person should but no omega ever set their foot in his bedroom.
“Luca, come here,” he mind linked his second in command.
Luca strode inside his boss's office and waited to hear what he was called for.
“Update me about Scarlett.”
“Miss Marino she’s still in the mall, shopping and alone,” Luca simply filed him.
Luca was built like a warrior and tall like his boss. He was trained to fight with wit and strength and be a perfect sniper.
“Okay, update me if she meets up with anyone. Whether male or female,” Leonardo commanded.
“Yes boss,” Luca bowed and strode out of the office.
While at it, eating the brain out of his head and trying to banish the illicit thoughts of seeing Scarlett in a naked profile, his office phone rang from his desk.
He grabbed it and answered, “Hello.”
“Leonardo, I think Scarlett is compatible with that bastard crime lord.”
It didn’t need Leonardo for Lorenzo to mention the name to know who he was talking about.
His insides and face pinched with a hidden guilt.
He gulped twice before asking, “Why do you think so?”
“His actions of last night. Didn’t you see him dancing with Scarlett last night? And he’s the one who told me to chase away all the Alphas because Scarlett was on heat.”
Leonardo was not aware of Scarlett dancing with Marco last night. How did I not see that?
Leonardo nearly escaped a pissed growl but he held back.
The thought of their prime suspect being close to his mate was raging him with anger and the thought of Lorenzo thinking Marco was the compatible Alpha for Scarlett, was adding.
Leonardo was boiling. His face changed into a grimace and he seemed not to be able to respond to Lorenzo back.
“Can we come there late in the afternoon?” Lorenzo asked.
“Yeah sure,” Leonardo forced his voice out with his brows furrowed.
“Okay expect me and Scarlett.”
******
Scarlett was done with her shopping, she even bought a new dresses. More exposing dresses of her body and skin.
She couldn’t stay long in the mall, the sight of Alphas were triggering her heat and she didn’t trust herself enough to be able to resist them in her heat state.
Before wearing her sunglasses, she caught the unfamiliar subs following her. Their eyes were glued to her sight through the glasses. She put them on and walked out of the mall.
Scarlett knew who the subs belonged to and she loved that, knowing she got Leonardo where she wanted him to.
The Marino resident was not far from the mall, she arrived in 15 minutes and climbed out of the car.
It was still in the middle of the afternoon, but she knew she would need more hours to prepare herself.
She found no one in the lobby and lounge room but knew that her brother would be in his office.
“Julian, where is Lorenzo?” she asked Julian, Lorenzo’s second in command when she bumped into him.
“In his office Ma’am,” Julian answered simply wearing a dark suit with a lean, agile, athletic, and well-built body with a rough white skin tone.
“Thanks,” Scarlett said, and having the sub who was driving her follow her up the stairs with the shopping bags.
Her phone rang while opening her room door and saw her best friend's name popping up on her phone screen.
“Lila.”
“Hey, I’m bored here and I’m thinking of celebrating my Christmas holidays there, with you in your resident,” Lila said and someone from her behind was heard saying, “I’m coming too.” Her voice sounded more cheerful than Lila’s.
Scarlett was excited.
In her four years of studying, she never came back home and always celebrated her holidays at Lila’s home. She became part of the family.
“Perfect,” she excitedly said with a squeak.
Scarlett, was fierce, confident, and hot-headed while Lila was vibrant, outgoing, a bit rebellious, and push-boundaries and Reni, the little sister of Lila, a famous UK model, was hyper-active, cheerful, a bit loud, and the social anxiety enemy.
******
The Marino’s car arrived at the Saint Clair residence.
Both sibling's car doors were opened for them.
Lorenzo was in a dark brown short-sleeved golf t-shirt with scotch black and gray tapered pants and loafers. He was in casual wear according to mafia Alphas.
Her sister was in a cream white satin bit loose long dress with a bit of falling spaghetti straps, exposing her smooth and glowing vanilla skin tone. Her hair was put in a messy bun exposing her well v-shaped form face and nude lipstick.
The dress was long but slit open from her hip on her left side to her ankle.
They walked inside and got welcomed by the man who just widened his eyes and his world became unknown and lost in it.
His eyes locked in the dark green ones and loved the black ring around the green color.
“Are we welcomed?” Lorenzo had to ask.
“Yes, please,” Leonardo said after he found a way out of the unknown world.
His chest was heaved up in a dark gray shirt and dark formal trousers.
The siblings walked to the table and found food already decorated on the table.
“Where’s the bathroom?” Scarlett asked.
She wanted to see where Leonardo would be sitting.
Leonardo cleared his throat and said, “On your right side.” The Alpha wanted to eye his mate but he couldn’t.
A few minutes later, Scarlett walked in to hear the name Marco escaping the Alpha's lips and saw that Leonardo was sitting at the head chair family and staring at her.
She slightly swayed her hips and walked over to face her brother. Just a chair next to Leonardo’s and remained silent.
But her body was not silent with her Feraline pheromones lingering in the air making Leonardo to be unsettled.
Leonardo did not mean to avert his eyes away from Lorenzo to under the table because the corner of his eye, caught something he did not expect to see especially on Scarlett. Not at that moment and time for that matter.
Scarlett’s left thigh was fully exposed, with a black harness that clung so tight and perfectly to her glowing vanilla skin.
“f**k,” the word came out muffled through tightly clenched jaws while mumbled. So not audible for anyone to hear.