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?”

how much I went through the situation in my

dirt, you drag all of our names through

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

that I can

It’s for the best.” Cesca nodded her head. “If that’s what you want.” Christian sighed as I patiently waited for him to leave

locked up in a safe house, and if it weren’t for our families being childish, I’d be willing

and you know that.” Cesca spoke. “And there’s no reason to defend him, but I will defend the family’s pride. There is this issue with you, Serena. The issue is that you do too much. You don’t talk a lot, but you’re

“W-what?” I stuttered.

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

“Maybe.” I shrugged.

thought you were like my daughter, 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

wouldn’t ruin the family’s name…but Christian ruined his own name-I didn’t tell him to cheat.” I stood by 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 show everyone that

was time for me to become the head of

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

him to cheat, but ruining the family name and not letting. Christian see his daughter? That’s on you.”

do anything wrong. I handled the

know how much I had to do to make sure none of this mess reached Lucio? You could’ve

words made me 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,

purpose, and he regretted that decision, so

words hurt me a lot.” I smiled as I tried to remain classy. I only felt sorry about not letting him see Siena,

all I ever wanted was for the two of you to live a happy life,” Cesca spoke. “Does this mean the two of you are

change, and I would be the one to do it. Even if I didn’t love Christian, I still would’ve returned to

like you also owe me an apology, and so does Christian’s grandpa. Me being with Christian means we’re

I was right, and she knew I

keeping him there because no one else was capable of leading the family

since you’re obviously here to stay…I hope

glaring at