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

Chapter 251

Chapter 251

Elena

Hi Lena,

It’s good to talk to someone from San Diego.

It took me some time to get back, and I would like to apologize for that, but I’m a bit shocked.

This is not quite what I meant when I said I needed someone to talk to, and I’m a bit confused as to why you would send me a prison riddle,’ but so be it.

You asked me if I knew what kind of bars

won’t keep a prisoner in jail.

The answer to that corny question is obviously chocolate bars. Even though the riddle was a bit weak, the intentions were definitely there, and you’ve caught my attention.

I think it’s only fair for me to ask you something in return. I was very intrigued by not only your way of talking but also your use of emojis, so I just have to ask. How old are you?

Marvin

“W-what?” I mumbled, confused. I almost fell from my bed and rubbed my eyes to see whether I was dreaming or not.

It was still early. Of course, I was dreaming. This couldn’t be real. I reached beside me to turn on my lamp before I took another look at my phone.

No matter how many times I read the message, it was still there. That Marvin guy from the pen pal program had really sent me something in return. I had forgotten all about him, and two weeks had already passed.

“What!” I gasped as I read through the message for what would’ve been the fifth time. This was the first time I interacted with someone in prison, and I could hardly believe it. “What the fuck.”

I dialed Victoria’s number and waited for her to answer the phone. “Come on, come on.” I whispered.

“Lena?” Victoria spoke. I let out a relieved breath and didn’t know where to start. “Tori, he has answered!” 1 yelled out. “The Marvin prison guy from the bet actually replied, and his message is kind of rude, actually a bit terrifying-but that doesn’t really matter, because he honestly answered, and I don’t know what the hell I have to do now and-”

“Calm down!” Victoria stopped me from talking before she let out a squeal. “Hold up, he replied?”

“Yes!”

“Oh my god!”

“I know!”

“So, what are you going to do?” Victoria wondered. I hadn’t even thought about that, and we hadn’t even expected him to reply. “I don’t know!” I stressed. “Do I write him back? Do I ignore him? What do I do!”

“Write him back, of course!”

of adventure for Tori. We lived in an extremely brave neighborhood where the

are you serious?” I frowned. “Yes!” Tori spoke and let out another squeal. “Wait, what did he say? Read the message!”

“O-okay.”

cringed even more after reading it out loud. My message sounded so

Tori laughed out loud. “He’s definitely making fun of you, and he

me that it was necessary to reply, but only so I could clear up

tell him that it was all a stupid

“Good plan!”

up. I’ll send something right now.”

took my time to type my response

Dear Marvin,

is chocolate bars, but I must

didn’t even know you would reply. I promise you I’m

the way (almost 22)

for my use of emojis, but I

I’m so sorry for bothering you, but now that you’ve actually replied, it means we can all let this rest!

for the reply, and wishing you all the

Lena

wasn’t that

delete his message. “You should!” Tori encouraged me. “You have nothing to lose, and it’s a polite thing to

I carefully pressed send. “Wait!” Tori suddenly called

“Shit!”

Victoria sighed, disappointed. “You aren’t making it any

and prepared myself for disaster. The plan was to end the conversation, not to

don’t tell me you’re actually anticipating his reply?” She spoke. “Lena, this guy is a felon—”

“And just so you know, you’re the one who

Tori told me. “Anyway, I have to go-I

Victoria was busy.

to play around on some stupid website. “It’s fine, Victoria, I told her. “I’ll

for me, bye!”

I mimicked in a childish tone. I didn’t know whether I was jealous of Victoria or whether I wanted

it was a good thing I hadn’t. He would’ve gotten poor Marvin thrown into solitary if he knew he’d answered. I didn’t even want to start about my brother. If my dad was

couldn’t find him. Today was his day off, and if he wasn’t at work, you could always find him in the kitchen

spend his day off with Maddens, but

make my way to his office. “Dad!” 1 knocked on

was too

about to walk away before I decided to wait it out. What if he

I still didn’t get a reply, so I opened the door and almost dropped my jaw as I looked at my dad. He was fast

usual cheerful self, which made me believe whatever happened at work was something serious. It had to

you’ve been working the entire night-haven’t you?” I spoke disappointed. “And what’s with the eye-

eyes and gave me a confused look. His look told me, where am I? Who am I? What am I even doing

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