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

Chapter 316

I walked into a completely dark house. Other than the guards on duty, even the maids were asleep, but it was past midnight, so that wasn’t too crazy.

Marvin wasn’t at home, which made the house feel even more empty. Although it was too bad, it wasn’t that difficult to get used to-because my dad and Alex had always been workaholics.

I made my way to my room and took a deep breath as I fell to the bed. Work was not that tiring, but I couldn’t say the same about Rona. The bar was not doing well, and honestly-it would be shocking if the bar would still be standing at the end of the week.

It seemed like rest wasn’t a part of my routine anymore because my next thought went to Marvin. He said he wanted to be honest with me. He asked me to spend the day together-and I still had no idea where all of this was going. Tomorrow would be interesting.

Was he going to confess his feelings?

Was he going to tell me the truth about his family?

Was I crazy for hoping he wouldn’t tell me the truth about his family?

Yes, I wanted Marvin, and after giving it a second thought, I did want to go on a date with him-but I did not want to lie to him.

There was always this small part of me fearing for his reaction. I wasn’t the daughter of a random cop, I was the daughter of a DEA agent. There was no way in hell he was going to accept that.

Why does life have to be so complicated?

I opened my eyes and yawned as my sleep got interrupted by the sound of footsteps near my bed. Who would even make that much noise in the morning?

Startled, I let out a yell as an unknown girl looked right into my eyes. To my surprise, she yelled back- while she was the one in my territory.

“Why are you yelling?” I spoke, confused. “You’re in my room!”

The girl moved her brown strands of hair to the side, allowing me to get a better look at her face.I hadn’t seen her before.”I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” She giggled.

“I’m sorry, who are you?”

She stuck out her hand. “Amelia, at your service!”

“Amelia?”

“Yes.”

“Okay?” I frowned, still confused about what she was doing in my room. “Thanks for introducing yourself,” I spoke awkwardly.

“I’m twenty years old, a Gemini. I can clean your room, fold your clothes, keep you company, carry you on my back, and I’ll even crawl if you want me to.” Amelia gave me a thumbs up.

She seemed to have a lot of energy, which was strange coming from my mouth. Even then, it was nice to have someone in the house who could match my level of energy.

“Where’s Marvin?” I rubbed my eyes and stretched out my arms. If he was not downstairs but at work, because he somehow decided to bail on me-I would kill him.

Amelia gasped. “Oh, big brother?”

“Marvin?” I asked again. Since when did he have another sister? Was she also one of Mario Castillo’s bastards, which I wasn’t aware of?

“Marvin is in the kitchen,” Amelia told me. “He’s waiting for you.”

“Thanks.”

Only now had I noticed the mid-sized box in her hands. “What’s with the box?” I wondered.

“It’s your outfit for your date tonight!”

So it was indeed a date.

I picked it out, and it’s really cute!” Amelia reassured me. As long as it wasn’t a dress or

a minute-how do you know my

maids tell Marvin everything!”

head. It was a good thing to know these maids were all up in my business as

ally. “It’s good to have someone my age in

a confused look on her face. “I’d give Marvin

know, and it’s actually ten out of ten.” I got up from the bed. “I was just trying to be funny, but I don’t think we’ve

going to the kitchen. I don’t want to kill anyone.” I attempted to make another

myself a bit more decent- looking, I made my way downstairs and walked to the kitchen. I could hardly believe my eyes as I stared

was making breakfast?

turned around to face me, and as always, I was blinded by his handsomeness. Unlike yesterday,

for me. I couldn’t help but admire all the dishes on the table and even felt a bit embarrassed. Was he trying to outdo me?

make all

hungry because I worked really hard on

+5 Bonus

Marvin in front of me

of this looks really good!”

Marvin released a breath. He grabbed a plate and filled it with food.

“Amelia?”

“Yes, her.”

because that was the kind of person I was. Still, he could not

new maid,” Marvin informed me. “If you need

snorted, still in disbelief that there was actually someone weirder than

that part.” Marvin laughed along as he

give you the box?”

corrected me, but he didn’t. That was a good sign. “Thanks for the outfit!” I gushed. “I haven’t seen it yet,

Marvin winked. If there was one thing he was not afraid of, it had to be eye contact, but I was not the one to lose a challenge-so I stared back into his

curled into a perfect smile, I panicked and did not know what to

spoke. Was this really the best I could do?

“Thanks.”

find my pimples if I had them. “So….beautiful eyes,” I repeated, nervously. “Sometimes

wasn’t going anywhere.

I moved back, embarrassed. “You sound silly. My

“I know.”

but silly,”

couldn’t handle any more embarrassment and felt eager to change the subject, so

open.” Marvin commented. Yes, thanks for

aren’t you going to feed

I gave him a confident nod and leaned into the spoon so he could give me a bite.

“This is good!”

as Marvin leaned in closer and rested his hand on

had low

I was supposed to intimidate him. It should not be the

wearing any makeup!” I

of a catfish.”

think so?” I pouted, nudging his shoulder. Marvin chuckled, shaking

think you’re

Beautiful?

Marvin blinked his eyes and cleared his throat. It took

lie.Amy was out of her mind because there was no way Marvin was just

thinking about?” Marvin woke me up from my thoughts. “Or who….” He continued. “It’s me

bold question, but I couldn’t find the