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

Chapter 142

“Mom.” Christian called out. We entered a room, and Cesca was on the phone. “I’ll call you back later. Something funny came up.” Cesca spoke as she glared at me.

It started off great.

“I thought you were going to bring me Siena, but you brought her instead,” Cesca spoke with a fake smile. on her face. It was almost as if she was refusing to say my name.

“I came here because I want to talk to you,” I told her, hoping it would explain things. “Talk?” Cesca laughed. “What do you want to talk about?”

She was not very friendly, and it reminded me of the first time I met her. I was still confused as to what I had ever done to deserve this kind of treatment. “I want to talk about everything. Christian and I made up. so we should probably do the same-”

“This is not a game, Serena” Cesca rolled her eyes while Christian, who had been quiet for a while, had enough. “Mom, stop disrespecting her-please.”

“Do you need a reminder of what happened the last time you refused to talk things out?”

The look on Cesca’s face had slowly changed. How could she not remember that? It was the day Christian fost it and went against his brother for me. “No.” Cesca sighed. “If she wants to…talk things out…I guess we

can do that.”

That’s what I thought,” Christian spoke. I would’ve been lying if I said that Cesca was not a scary woman, but having Christian helped a lot.

“Can I get you something to drink or something to eat?” Cesca offered, but I shook my head in response. “No, that’s not necessary-I just want to talk.”

“Okay.” Cesca smiled and sat down. “Please talk.”

The look she gave me made me nervous, and she had no issue showing me that she was only doing this because of Christian’s threat. “I uh…I’m sorry for everything, but I don’t know what I did wrong

It went quiet for a few seconds before Cesca let out a loud chuckle. “You don’t know what you did wrong?”

didn’t have one. No matter how much I went through the

Christian’s name through the dirt, you drag all of our names through the dirt-and I’m not even going to

spoke while I was confused by her words. I looked at Christian and felt regretful for what I was about to say, but it was the harsh truth. “Christian, leave,” I whispered. I still had a lot to complain, and I didn’t want him

that I can talk to your

best.” Cesca nodded her head. “If that’s what you want.” Christian

and if it weren’t for our families being childish, I’d be willing to take

“And there’s no reason to defend him, but I will defend the family’s pride. There is this issue

“W-what?” I stuttered.

going that girl’s house and losing control like some animal-you should’ve come to me, and I would’ve stood behind you,” Cesca explained. “Trust me, I know what you’re going through, and I know that you feel betrayed and angry, but if you were planning on leaving him, you should’ve done it in

“Maybe.” I shrugged.

and I thought you were better than that.” Cesca shrugged. “All the tips I gave you about all the girls from the other families, how you should behave, dress and

my point. A lot had to change, and I would be the one to do it. After getting the name ‘neighborhood thug and ruining our families’ bond, I understood where Cesca was coming from, but accepting a disloyal man and letting him get away with everything was not me. Maybe it was time for me to return so I could change things around here. It was time to

me to become the head of the

uncle faking his own death and running away from this twisted family seemed like a good theory to me, but I wouldn’t be like that.

sighed. “You never told him to cheat, but ruining the family name and not letting. Christian see his daughter? That’s on you.”

surprised. I didn’t do anything wrong. I handled the way I should’ve after Christian

to make sure none of this mess reached Lucio? You could’ve at least let that

angry, but I kept my calm. We wouldn’t let Lucio rest in peace, the poor man lived in a lie, and everyone was too scared to tell him the truth. Everyone was too afraid to tell him that his decision of making Gina, Christian’s assistant, had backfired so badly that we were all a mess.

regretted that decision, so it was beyond me why we couldn’t

lot.” I smiled as I tried to remain classy. I only felt sorry about not letting him

speech about how he embarrassed all of us, including you because all I ever wanted was for the two of you to live a happy life,” Cesca spoke. “Does this mean

that was my decision. This family was toxic, and a lot had to change, and I would be the one to do it.

apology, and so does Christian’s grandpa. Me being with Christian means we’re almost at the same level,

but I was right, and she knew I was

so put on keeping him there because no one else was capable of leading the family the way he did. They were even defending his cheating, which meant no one could touch me as long as

Cesca rolled her eyes. “I’m sorry for everything, and since you’re obviously here to stay…I hope we can

accept your apology.” I smirked as Cesca gave me an offended look. “You enjoy glaring at