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

Chapter 304

Marvin

“She can absolutely not stay here. I don’t know what the hell Panter is thinking-

I entered the library, searching for my mom. Elena, who was exhausted, had decided to take a nap, which gave me enough time to think about my decision.

“Yes, I know Marvin.” My mom yawned, getting up from her chair. She threw her book onto the side table and walked closer. “So, what are you going to do now?”

It wasn’t my intention to let her stay here, but kicking her out was also not an option. I didn’t want her near the Castillo’s, and especially not in the lion’s den-as if one dinner wasn’t bad enough.

We were not an ordinary family, and anyone directly involved with us had to be prepared to their lives at stake. I took my distance to protect her, and this was not what I wanted.

put

I had to get her out of here, and I had to do it quickly.

“Are you done with the preparations for the house?” I asked. “Yes, you can move in next week.” My mom confirmed.

That was good news. That meant Elena could move in with me until we could come up with a perfect solution. “Good, Elena’s moving in with me.”

“Oh wow.” My mom frowned.

“Oh wow, what?”

“Nothing.” She smirked. “I’m sorry, but what is she exactly to you?”

“What?”

She let out a frustrated sigh. “Why do you want to take care of her?”

Why did I want to take care of her? She was the only regular person I could talk to. She needed my help, and she was my friend-so it was only normal for me to take care of her. “Just because.”

“I think you feel guilty because you couldn’t take care of Tiago-so you moved on to Elena instead.” My mom concluded. “Because you feel obligated to protect someone to make yourself believe that you’re a good person….that’s in your nature, and that’s who you are.

I didn’t utter a word. My mom had a point, and I hated it whenever she was right. I couldn’t

take care of my brother when he needed my help, but I could take care of Elena. “Since when did

you become a psychologist?”

my blood boil. No man should hurt a woman, and especially not a father. We could say a lot about Mario Castillo, but even he would not lay his hand

Women.

mom lowered her head. “I

should just kill her dad and her

mom’s loud voice cut me off, waking me up from my darkest thoughts. “We can’t just eliminate people because you feel like it!” She hissed. “You’re better than

know, I

the maids like to gossip about everything.” She spoke as she made her way to the window. I followed my

and Panther.” My mom shared. “Since I got nothing else to do

after my last encounter with Panther. I was still confused about my

it, so I did. I hadn’t told my dad, my mom-or

why I wanted to take care of Elena. She deserved it because she was one of the few who would never

I better go talk to them.” I sighed, preparing myself to leave. “What did they do to deserve those

didn’t they do?”

library, I went straight to my dad’s office and knocked on the door. The door got opened by Victor, who was clearly not that pleased to see, and

dad looked up from his desk. “Marvin, nice timing.” He greeted me. “We were

chuckle escaped from Victor’s lips. “This is what happens

in my power to ignore the sound of Victor’s voice and

mentioned. Unimpressed, I shrugged my shoulders. “I don’t know. You told me Freddie has changed,

hurt his son and decided to let

make a move,

rest?” My dad furrowed his brow.

“I told you he’s

spoke a bit too enthusiastically. “Pull out every string

I shook my

Was he crazy?

“No?”

which isn’t even there in the first place?” 1 pointed out. “Stabbing Danny was already risky enough-and the authorities are just waiting for us to

“Victor thinks-

I knew was that Victor felt way too comfortable with making these types of calls. The way he controlled my dad was slowly becoming

to work, don’t you?” I turned to look at Victor. He glared at me

don’t care about what

right, and maybe I am overthinking this Freddie situation.” My dad agreed.I was glad

I could stop you from doing something stupid, but

could see the worry in my dad’s eyes. “Is it about

he

I reassured him. We all knew Tiago wasn’t doing okay, but