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

Chapter 280

Elena

She meant nothing to me. I saw her as my little social experiment and chose to interact with someone below my status. She is immature, naive, her personality is average, and so are her looks so-

“Man, I should’ve just punched him in the face when I had the chance to,” I complained as I almost ripped the dress from my body. What an odd thing to say when I was the one who had walked out on him.

“So he’s the one who so desperately wanted to meet up with me, and now I’m the issue?” I murmured, confused. He didn’t even seem to regret those hateful words because he had walked away right after.

Even when we were taking the pictures, he did not have the guts to look at me-and I knew that was what I wanted, but I wouldn’t take this slander. Whether he was in the cartel or not.

He made me look ridiculous, desperate, pathetic-while he was the real issue. It was time to stop asking myself why I cared because I finally had my answer. I cared because he put my reputation on the line. What would Tiago and Anya think of me?

“You know what? Fuck it. I’m just going to do it!” I decided. All I had to do was ask him why he would badmouth me after all the conversations we had once shared. Average looks? Yes, I’ve been called immature, stupid and naive, but no one in my entire life has ever called me average, so what were his -standards?

“Lena, who are you talking to?” Rona asked. She was so kind enough to follow me to the dressing room so that I could change back into my uncomfortable dress. Even though the clothing was uncomfortable, it made me feel better than the bridesmaids’ dress.

“I’m not talking to anyone, come and zip me up!”

Rona entered the tiny space and helped me with my dress. “So, what did you think of the brother? He is cute, isn’t he?” She commented. “I caught him staring at you a few times.”

“Oh, really?” I chuckled. I couldn’t put two and two together because I had a lot on my mind-but what was Rona’s excuse?

you get his name?” She continued. I ignored her

something interesting to tell you, but I’ll tell you when we

debating, I decided it was best to keep my mouth shut and do my job. Rona needed me. We needed the money for the bar-and I

average?” I asked for her opinion. At

at least,” She agreed with me. So I wasn’t crazy. That

“Come on, let’s get to

the reception hall to prepare for the feast. I had already been way more involved than expected, and it was time to get to work. What would Alex and dad be doing right now? Were they

me believe that no one could break in-even if they wanted to.These Castillo’s

long before the sun had set, and the reception hall was in a full party mode. I didn’t even get the opportunity to keep an eye on Marvin as all of the drinks were in demand. “It’s a shame we can’t

you—”

team effort.” I smiled at her. I knew it

placed her hand on my shoulder. “Okay, don’t look to the left-but Tiago’s brother is

her sentence as I had already turned my gaze to the left and stared at Marvin, who looked at me from a distance. “I

into mine. This would’ve been a good opportunity to walk up to him, but there was

Marvin. I bet he had expected for me to turn away, but things were clearly not going as expected. I watched as the side of his lips curled in a smirk, and I

like a challenge, and I could not tell who would win this time. Would

shoulders while Marvin smiled back at her. I could not tell why, but it felt as if

close to

me