My Mafia Madness 2

Chapter 17 - Defying Dante

If Dante Romano wanted Alexa to remain in their shared room until some strange doctor finally arrived to check her over...

Then she would do the exact opposite.

Making a somewhat rash decision, she ventured into the walk-in robe to find something nice to wear.

After searching through the various outfits for a while, she finally located a cute little red cocktail dress with matching red heels.

Dressing herself and quickly applying hair and make-up for a night out, Alexa felt happy with her finished appearance and made her way out of the bedroom with her purse in hand, headed down the hallway to find her soon to be accomplice.

Willow...

-

It didn’t take her too long to locate where Willow was out on the balcony with Roberto. The two were sharing a cigarette when they noticed Alexa emerging in her dazzling red dress and heels.

Willow immediately frowned in confusion.

Roberto’s brows shot upwards at the sight of Alexa dressed in such a way.

In fact, the shock of seeing her like this caused him to suck the smoke down the wrong way and he began coughing to try and clear his throat.

“Lex? What are you doing out here? And what the hell are you wearing?” Willow was first to raise the obvious question about her friend’s newest attire.

“I’m getting the hell outta here.” Alexa announced, fishing into her purse to check she had everything she needed for her planned night out.

“I’m going out.”

“I’m sorry, what?” Roberto asked, putting out his cigarette in the nearby ash tray.

“Yeah? Wanna clue me in here? Did something happen?” Willow asked, coming to stand in front of her bestie with concern painted in her eyes.

“I don’t want to talk about it Will.” Alexa admitted.

She closed her purse and lifted her eyes to meet the two pairs of eyes now staring back at her as Roberto came to stand beside Willow in front of Alexa.

Both with looks of concern... for her.

“Well… do you think you should be heading anywhere in your… you know… condition?” Willow asked, raising both brows in an obvious gestured attempt to convince her to change her mind.

Of course, Willow was referring to the possibility of Alexa being pregnant.

But Roberto who had no idea of this assumed that Willow was instead referring to how Alexa had fainted earlier on.

“I agree, it’s best you stay here and rest. You don’t want to have another episode like before.”

Alexa frowned back at Willow, as if silently warning her not to bring the subject up again.

“Look, I’m going out. Now you can either come along with me or choose not to. But think quick, my taxi is on its way here now.” Alexa quickly explained.

Willow’s left brow lifted as she placed her hand onto Alexa’s shoulder.

Her expression showed how silly it was of Alexa to doubt that she’d be by her side, no matter what they were doing.

These two always had each other’s back.

“You know I’m down, girl. Always…”

The two women then turned to look at a worried Roberto as he glanced between them with a panicked expression on his face.

“You both know this is a bad idea, right?” he announced matter-of-factly.

“When Dante finds out you’ve gone-”

“-He won’t.”

Alexa cut in over him, a frown on her face.

“Apparently, he’s got more important things than to be concerned about than my whereabouts right now…”

Roberto noticed the anger she was emanating and knew that something had to of happened between her and his older brother. Something that caused her to act in such a way.

This wasn’t like her at all.

Not like the Alexa he had grown to know since their first meeting back in Chicago.

This side of her was rash, undisciplined and ready to get herself into trouble.

Which was no good for any of them.

Him especially!

If his older brother found out that he had agreed to taking the two out anywhere other than the family castle, it would be his head on the chopping block for sure.

Which meant if he was going to go with them, he needed an accomplice in this.

Someone to help him keep an eye on these two while they were out. True, the less people involved with this little ‘trip out’, the better. Less people to blab about it.

So, it would have to be one person. Someone he trusted.

A grin spread wide across his face at the sudden thought of who he would get to come along.

By now, both women were beginning to grow impatient as they stood waiting for a reply from him. Willow’s hands were now resting on her hips and her brows both set high on her forehead.

“Well?” the fiery red head asked him.

“Are you coming with us, or not?”

Roberto’s emerald eyes lowered to meet hers and he smirked at the thought of bringing who he had planned along with them.

It may eventually cause more trouble when Dante did eventually find out. That was an obvious risk. But he didn’t trust anyone else more than this person and he was running out of options and time.

“Fine. I’ll come…” he paused before adding the next part while he took out his phone and began calling someone.

“But I’m bringing someone along with me to help me keep an eye on the two of you.”

“Sure, whatever.” Alexa agreed dismissively as she turned around and began heading out through the balcony doors, back inside.

Willow gave Roberto an apologetic look as she reached out and grabbed his hand, squeezing it as she spoke to him softly.

“Sorry about this. I don’t know what’s going on in that mind of hers right now.”

He merely smiled back at her, gesturing with a nod of his chin towards the door.

“It’s fine. Go get yourself ready, cutie. Quick!” he prompted her with a warm smile.

‘Cutie’ had apparently become his latest nickname for Willow.

One which ironically she found rather cute coming from someone the size and stature of Roberto Romano.

Watching as Willow smiled and then followed her friend inside, Roberto listened to the phone ring only once before it answered on the other end of the line.

“Yeah?” the voice spoke with an obvious tone of boredom.

“Hey, get yourself dressed and ready for a night out… be down at the front in five.” Roberto announced, strolling after the others back inside.

“Huh? What the f**k’s going on?”

“Don’t ask… Just be down in five, got it?”

Roberto let out a sigh before he spoke the next part into his phone.

“We’re... going clubbing.”

“What? Who’s ‘we’?” the voice asked with sudden interest.

“I’ve somehow been roped into escorting Alexa and Willow out. I’m not sure, but I think they have plans to get s**t faced...” Roberto explained, shaking his head and running his hand through his long thick, dark hair.

The voice asked another question, “Does Dante know?”

“No idea.” Roberto shrugged his shoulders as he replied.

“s**t… well count me in. See you down there in five.” the voice announced before the line went dead on the other end.

Roberto too hung up, glancing down at his phone as it switched off in his hand and pocketed it hesitantly.

A part of him wanted to make another call, or at the very least send his older brother a text message about what they were doing.

Just to cover his bases.

But the thought also brought with it a tremendous amount of fear for how Dante may react to hearing that he planned to sneak Alexa out without him knowing.

Men had been killed by Dante in the past for much, much less…

An uneasy feeling settled in his gut as he pursed his lips together for a moment and closed his eyes to steady himself.

“Dante’s going to have a f*****g fit when he finds out.” he muttered to himself.

“s**t Roberto, what have you got yourself into?”

-

The taxi arrived only two minutes later than it had been scheduled to arrive and the two girls were both dressed and ready, standing together with smiles on their faces as they thought of the fun night that awaited them.

True, there may be consequences when they returned later on.

Severe consequences...

But Alexa planned on washing all worries away with countless amounts of liquor. If she had to come home to a raging Mafia Don she would do so, making sure to be as drunk as possible.

Tonight, it was all about defying Dante.

That was her main goal.

“Come on Roberto, what’s the hold up?” Willow called out as she stood by the open door to the taxi.

Alexa had already gotten inside and sat in the middle of the back seat.

“Yeah, yeah. We’re coming. Keep your panties on woman!”

Roberto called out as he and another familiar figure descended from the stairs leading up towards the entrance of Castello Romano.

The two men both looked quite handsome, not wearing their usual business suits and ties.

Instead, they each wore long sleeved dress shirts and long pants.

Roberto wore jeans and his dress shirt was made of white silk. His long dark hair was tied back in a sleek ponytail and his piercing green eyes stared down at Willow with a dazzling smile.

Willow had to restrain herself right then and there. He looked rather dashing, good enough to eat in her opinion.

She glanced at the other figure but didn’t make any sort of connections as she too slid into the backseat of the taxi beside her friend.

Being the tallest of them, Roberto got into the passenger seat up front of the taxi beside the driver.

That left the final member of their little group to open the opposite backseat door, sliding in and boxing Alexa in against Willow so the three could fit in together.

Alexa turned her head and met the emerald eyes of none other than the youngest Romano brother, Matteo.

“Good evening, ladies…” he beamed with a bright smile.

Alexa was stunned, caught off guard.

She swallowed hard.

Matteo too looked devilishly delicious. His short dark hair was spiked at the top and like his brother, he too wore jeans and a dress shirt, only his was black.

He had it unbuttoned at the top, revealing his heavily sculpted chest and the large intricate tattoo that ran along the middle of both pecs.

Alexa couldn’t restrain herself from glancing at the tattoo, intrigued by it as she suddenly came out of her apparent daze.

His cologne swept over her, invading her nostrils and causing her skin to tingle.

Her lips parted as she suppressed a gasp, quickly pursing them together and averting her gaze from him as she tried to suppress her raging hormones from causing her to do something stupid.

Fuck, he smells incredible! she thought to herself.

Alexa couldn’t seem to understand why she was feeling this way about a man she knew she didn’t have any interest in.

She loved Dante.

She wanted Dante, not Matteo…

What the hell was wrong with her right now?

Breathing in a deep breath, she leaned in closer towards Willow as Roberto spoke with the driver up front in Italian, giving him instructions to their intended destination.

“I hear we’re headed on a night out?” Matteo mused, turning his head to the side to meet their gazes.

“Which one of you managed to convince Roberto to go along with such a crazy idea?”

“Oh, this was all her idea.” Willow blamed her friend quickly.

Alexa slapped her bestie’s shoulder, frowning at her betrayal.

“Thanks Will.”

“Anytime babe.”

Rolling her eyes, Alexa relaxed a little more into her seat, as snug as it was sandwiched between the two of them.

She pulled out her phone from her purse and checked to see if there were any messages or missed calls. Any signs whatsoever that Dante had even noticed she was missing.

She wanted his attention.

She craved it desperately right now.

Maybe it was the hormones…

That reminded her.

Knowing that both Romano brothers were within earshot of their conversation, should they have one right now, Alexa began typing away a text to Willow.

If she was going to have a conversation, she would do it via. text.

She finished her message and hit send.

Willow looked down as her purse buzzed and promptly took out her phone, peeking at the message she had just received…

‘Did you get rid of… you know... IT?’

Giving her friend a side-glance, Willow began typing away her response. She knew exactly what Alexa was referring to right now.

The pregnancy test.

Alexa’s phone ‘pinged’ and she checked the screen…

‘Yup. Do you wanna know the result?’

Alexa’s eyes widened at the thought of knowing. She typed a response…

‘You mean you already know???’

Willow chewed her lip as she typed her reply.

Alexa’s phone ‘pinged’ again…

‘I took a photo of it before I trashed it.’

Another message quickly followed along after the first…

‘Don’t worry, I haven’t looked at it yet. ; )’

Alexa suddenly found it hard to breathe as she hovered her fingers over the touchscreen of her phone, swallowing nervously as she weighed up knowing whether she was in fact pregnant or not.

If she was really having a child with the notorious Mafia Don, Dante Romano.

She didn’t know what to say.

Just as she was about to type her reply, Matteo happened to notice their little texting conversation going on and leaned in, peering at Alexa’s last message displayed on her screen.

“Must be an interesting conversation the two of you are having...”

“Hey!” Alexa snapped, frowning.

He chuckled darkly at her nervous reaction, watching as she pulled her phone away from him before locking the screen and tucking it back into her purse.

“It’s actually none of your business.” Willow announced, faking a smile in his direction.

“Ouch… was it something I said?” he taunted, putting his hand to his heart and smirking.

Leaning back against his seat, Matteo kept his eyes on Alexa.

There was something off about her and the way she was acting right now.

Deciding to let it slide, he took out his own phone and began searching for local nightclubs in the area where they were staying.

As he spoke next, it was intended for Roberto sitting in the front seat.

“Hey bro, where are we headed?”

Roberto turned his head to the side, acknowledging Matteo’s question before he spoke.

“Blubay. You always liked it there, right?” Roberto called out from the front.

“Ah, nice one.” Matteo grinned, patting his taller brother on the shoulder.

He turned to face Willow and Alexa. They appeared confused, clearly having no knowledge of any places here in Italy to go nightclubbing.

Neither of them had ever been to Italy before.

They were relying on the brothers to show them a good time.

“Don’t worry, you ladies will love this place. It’s by far one of the best nightclubs Puglia has to offer.” Matteo assured them, glancing down at his own screen.

No new messages… good.

That meant that their older brother hadn’t yet learned about their little quest for a night on the town.

They were safe… for now at least.