His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika

Chapter 107

The hours had passed, and I was still locked in my room. No one bothered me, and I was sure it was because Lita most likely told them not to. Otherwise, Luis or my dad, who jumped at every opportunity to see me-would’ve said anything by now.

“Siena is asleep.” My mom whispered as she walked in with a cup of tea. It was already late, and she had taken care of Siena for the entire evening. “I don’t know how to thank you.” I smiled and grabbed the cup from her hands.

“I’m not doing you a favor. I’m taking care of my granddaughter-I should be the one thanking you.” She spoke and held her hand against my check. “I’ve missed so much time with you, but Siena reminds me of you, so I feel like I can make up for it.”

“I know.” I smiled and held her hand. “And tomorrow, you can tell me the real reason why you took of your ring because I think there’s more going on than just a small argument.”

“Just giving you a heads up-she will probably scream during the night.” I frowned my eyebrows and avoided her question. As crazy as it might’ve sounded, I wanted this issue to remain between Christian and me.

“Don’t worry, I’ll take her-you’ve done enough for the day,” I told her. It felt nice to have someone else take care of her, but if it wasn’t Christian, it felt extremely uncomfortable and wrong. It made me feel like a bad mother who was neglecting her child for no good reason, while that was the last thing I wanted.

“If you say so,” Lita spoke and kissed my forehead. “Just make sure you get some sleep.”

After Lita left, I grabbed my phone and stared at the screen, waiting for Christian to call-but he never did. I was the one who told him not to contact me until I was ready, but why was I desperately waiting for

his call?

I had no one to talk to. Luna, Faith, and Olivia were too busy and no-go. I was not in the mood to hear, 1 told you so, and I did not want them to badmouth him. I was the only one allowed to do that.

Falling asleep again felt like an impossible mission, but after several hours of trying. I finally managed to do it. Unfortunately, it was only for a few hours because not long after-Siena was screaming like never

before.

I rushed to her room to pick her up and tried to calm her down, but it wasn’t working, and it seemed as if I was only making it worse. Siena was always quiet in Christian’s arms-so whenever this happened, he would usually take care of it so I could sleep through the night.

With a crying baby in my hands, I made my way to the kitchen and prepared her bottle. I felt terrible knowing everyone in the house was probably awake by now, but I couldn’t help it. “Just work along. please.” I pleaded as if she could understand me.

“Do you need help?” Lita rushed down the stairs, but I shook my head and turned away from her. “It’s my child, and I know how to take care of my baby. I don’t need help!” I spoke annoyed as I tried to close her

bottle.

Siena started crying

Siena and tried to give her the bottle, but she turned away and cried even louder. “Maybe it’s a bit too

mom. I know what I’m doing!” I yelled as tears left my eyes. “No, you’re not-but you’re scaring Siena,

nervous, and she misses her daddy-you have to calm down,” Lita explained and gave her the

say about Christian, but at least he could take care of Siena.

wrong?” Carmen called out

sleep. We got it.” Lita demanded. My eyes met Beau’s, who gave me a worried look, while Matteo listened to Lita and

Christian?” He asked while I broke down even more and shook my head. “No, not him-please.”

makeup with

Beau nodded his head. “You seem lost without him. I don’t like seeing you like this.”

yelled while Lita held her flinger in front of her lips. “Calm down. She’s almost sleeping!” She pointed to Siena.

fault. Why did he have to hurt ine over and over again?

later he didn’t mean it like that.” Lita reassured me. He probably did,

near, she stopped crying, so why couldn’t she do the same with me? Was I not good enough as a parent?

Christian, and I’ll leave you alone,” Beau spoke. I took a deep breath, but

he’s asleep, and I don’t need him,” I mumbled through my tears. “I did not understand a word from what you’ve just said.” He smiled

was devastating. “I know you’re usually not like this-and I don’t know what happened between you and Christian, but you can’t go on like this!” Lita spoke. “I want you to think about Siena. In every decision you make, I want you to

was easy for her to say. It was easy for

Lita glared at me. “I’ll take her back

told me after Lita had disappeared. “You haven’t left your room the entire day, did not eat anything, did

fix it. I

apology

you?”

were all so aggressive, and none of them listened. “We’ve just

thought it was a break?” Beau

a hint. “You guys were so happy last

love him?”

he loves me?” I asked sarcastically. He had