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

Chapter 157

“Christian,” Luca spoke and placed his hand on his shoulders to stop him from entering “Don’t trust him. I’m sure it’s a trap!”

Marc and Johnny took a step forward, but Christian raised his hand to stop them and looked at Dario who rolled his eyes. Christian’s eyes moved to mine, and I gave him a slight nod. “You can trust him”

“Beau, come here.” Christian requested. Beau took several steps forward and made his way to Christian. “Beau, you tell me-are these the eyes of a man who’s planning to betray us?”

Dario chuckled and stared straight into Beau’s eyes. “No, I can’t see it.” Beau decided. If there was anyone Christian trusted nowadays, it had to be Beau. “Johnny?” Dario spoke as Johnny turned away.

“We might have the same father, but you’re still my brother, and I don’t want to see you get hurt. You can trust me this ti—”

“We’re not brothers.” Johnny spat. “We don’t have the same mom, and dad isn’t even fond of me, so cut that crap. We are not brothers.”

Johnny’s issues turned out to be a bit more than just his dad being alive, but the way he handled it, wasn’t working out for anyone. “I don’t know the code to the vault,” Dario admitted. “Come on. I’ll bring you upstairs-we don’t have much time.”

Dario walked in first as we all followed closely behind him while he led us to the office. “I know this code. It’s my birthdate.” Christian spoke while Dario shrugged his shoulders. “Not my idea.”

I looked back at Luca, who had a tense look on his face which was probably due to his plan being a complete failure. It was once again the Lamberti’s being a pain in the ass because Beau and Marc supported every decision, even if they disagreed with it.

The moment the office door opened, Christian pushed Dario aside and sped to the vault. “Don’t bother knocking, yelling, or whatever you plan on doing-they can’t hear you, and it’s well protected,” Dario spoke.

“So, how do we open this?” Christian asked. It was a surprise to see how calm he remained because I was so convinced he would’ve beat up Dario-but it was the complete opposite. “There’s this code,” Dario explained to Christian as he pointed out the security system on the vault.

“You know my dad likes riddles, but he never told me the code-he won’t tell me unless I’ll find out myself

“Move.” Beau interrupted him and pushed him aside. “Your dad recommended Christian birth date as the code because he doesn’t want anything to do with him.” He spoke as he looked at Christian.

“That means this code is probably for Johnny because he doesn’t want anything to do with him,” Beau concluded. “That’s not true!” Luca immediately called out while Johnny had an offended look on his face. but Christian wasted no time and typed in Johnny’s date of birth.

A few seconds felt like minutes as we waited for the security system to show us a green light, which it surprisingly did. “Thanks, Beau. I don’t know what to do without you.” Christian padded him on the shoulder.

Christian wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me closer while both Beau and Dario reached out to grab my hand. “Guys?” I chuckled, confused. “I’m sorry,” Beau apologized and took a step back, but Dario wouldn’t take no for an answer.

“She’s mine, so I’ll take care of her.” Christian told him.

“Stay next to me.” He demanded and glared at Dario, who stared at the two of us. “Come on, start walking.” Christian told him.

The room behind a vault seemed like a completely different house on its own and proved just how comfortable Berto had been living. He had been living an entirely new life on his own. “I think they’re in the basement.” Dario spoke as he led us through the space.

“For how long has your dad been living here?” Marc asked. “I’m going to help my cousin and an innocent girl who has nothing to do with this, and that’s it-I can’t tell you any more than that,” Dario answered. At least he referred to Enzo as his cousin. That was a start.

took a step back. “You go ahead and open it.”

think this is a trap?” Dario sighed, annoyed. “Why would

don’t know,” Christian spoke. “It wouldn’t be the

“You lied to her multiple times, or

make sure Serena stays here!” He instructed him. I ignored his words. and ran after him, but before I could take another step, Beau pulled my hand to stop me from

than enough for us to realize that Dario led us in the right direction. The only moment I could breathe was when Marc walked past me to follow Christian. At least I was assured that he would not

of this?” Dario muttered, confused. “Serena. I-I didn’t know, I

who confirmed that Berto had been abusing Enzo and Gina to get information out of them. Dario gave me a regretful look and

unlike Johnny-Luca’s expression had not changed a bit. He did not care.

person who was even allowed to speak to me. “You’re sick. Stay the hell

personality disgusted me. It was clear that, unlike Dario, he enjoyed doing this. He never cared for his family, so all of this came naturally to him. The biggedt difference between him and Dario was that I didn’t see one bit of regret in his eyes, while I could feel a genuine reaction

what you’re doing, we all know-so you can drop the act,” I spoke. “I won’t let you touch Christian. I want you to remember

stop it.” Johnny interfered. “This is not the time to do this.

myself from Beau’s grip to step forward to face Luca, who looked back at me with a startled look on his face.

that it’s time for you to pick

he smirked at me. “Very well, then.” He chuckled as he pulled out his phone. “Then I might as well put an

my accusations, but he didn’t give a crap and saw it as an excellent excuse to

but it

Dario, played you, Christian is

sentence, he fell down to the floor as he got hit in the back of his head by his own brother. “I’m

the phone. “Luca, are

the voice. So that was Berto Lamberti. He sounded just as scary as described. Johnny held

our heads, begging him to end the call, but Johnny

Berto replied. “Johnny,

into his own hands and snatched the phone from his hands to end the call. “Get Christian and go.” Johnny gulped. “We have to leave, now!”

about making the right decision. He just did

go and get Christian so we can get the hell out of here before

sure that Christian would get out safe. “Go!” Johnny yelled. “Get Christian,

we can trust Johnny?”

we had finally reached the end of the basement, and the view was pretty shocking. I could finally understand why Christian didn’t want me here.

and his face was

held him in his arms, but I did not see Christian. Beau and I made our way over to Mare and Dario. “We have to leave, now!” Beau told Marc.

“Why aren’t your cheeks

capable of joking around. “Yes, I’m here

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before they looked back at me. “Gina, she’s in a bal state,” Mare explained. “I’ll go get him” Beau spoke, but I stopped him and got up

get

our job to save Gina, but just hearing about the two of them being together made me jealous. He was all about protecting his brother, but somehow he ended up being