The Mafia's Babies by Kaycee Romano (howl and other poems txt) 📗

"Of course I do Sir. You don't need to worry about this matter at all. I will make sure that Dr. Adesso is comfortable here and has no kind of-"

"Her name is Dr. River Johnson and I am glad to see that you have an idea of what you are doing." He shut him up. "But if you continue blabbering like this and give her identity as my wife out, you can say goodbye to your life on earth."

Mr. Simmons gulped, knowing that Mateo Adesso did not bluff.

"I will do an impeccable job, Sir." He was making that promise more to himself than to anyone else. His life was dear to him and he did not want to die by the hands of a made man of the Mafia any time soon.

"Good."

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"What did he do now?" Was the first thing Alessia, who was back from her late night expedition, asked as soon as River walked into the apartment. Lorenzo was sleeping in Alessia's arms and it was the only thing that stopped the orthopedic surgeon from screaming at the top of her lungs how much of an asshole and an idiot Alessia's elder brother was.

"Let's just say he really was out of line this time." Michelia walked out of her room, her phone in hand. Adam had told Leonardo and Leonardo had told his wife what had happened. Alessia would have known sooner but Adam and she were fighting again so he had not told her what was happening.

"You want me to go punch him in the face?" Alessia asked. She didn't really need to know what the reason was. She knew that he must have said or done something really bad for the usually cool and composed Dr. River Johnson to look like she wanted to kill someone.

River paused for a moment, a small smile momentarily appearing on her face when she realized that Alessia had said almost the same thing thing that Adam had asked her via text. The shipper in her started bursting confetti out of happiness, and she started rooting for her even more. It would be so nice if they just accepted that they were meant for each other.

River wanted her good friends to be happy, especially Alessia after all the bullshit that she had gone through in her life. She knew without an ounce of doubt that Adam would always cherish her. She knew that he would never raise her voice or hands at Alessia, not that it mattered now anyway because the Italian woman was capable of cutting off tongue and limbs and putting bullets through brains.

But the surgeon believed that there was still a part of Alessia within all the cold and rock-hard exterior that just wanted to be understood and treated with basic respect.

"I am thinking of doing that myself the next time I see him." River sighed which made the other two women chuckle. These two had a completely different dynamics, unlike any other, didn't they?

"You want me to teach you how to do it without leaving any apparent bruises?" Alessia winked.

River shook her head, chuckling quietly before announcing. "I start my first shift at six in the evening."

"WHAT?!"

Lorenzo started awake and started crying immediately, startled by the shrill disbelieving yells of the two Italian women.

"You woke my little boy up." River narrowed her eyes at them before taking Lorenzo from Alessia's arms and trying to console him.

"Are you serious?" Alessia asked.

"Yep."

"Okay now I need to know what he said." Alessia turned to Michelia who just shrugged.

"My lips are sealed."

Michelia had said that because she believed that if she and River refused to talk about it then the next person that Alessia would go to despite everything would be Adam. Just like River, Michelia was also an 'Adessia' shipper and she hoped that they would talk on the pretext of this incident and will sort out their current fight, whatever it was for.

Michelia gave River a knowing look which she returned with a cryptic wink.

Alessia narrowed her eyes.

"River?" She turned to her friend.

"You know I don't want to talk about this right?" River let out a dramatic sigh and left the living room, going over to the nursery that had been set up for little Lorenzo to put him down on the crib.

Alessia mumbled to herself as she plopped down on the couch, taking her phone out from her phone.

Of course her finger tapped on Adam's name in the contacts, her brain not thinking for a second to call Mateo or Leonardo to ask them what exactly was going on.

And Adam picked up at second ring, thinking that the stubborn woman had finally called him to apologize for the last argument they had had.

"Well well well, if it isn't the daughter of the Boss of The Sicilian Mafia!" Alessia rolled her eyes when she heard the way the asshole had addressed her.

"Yep, and that makes me your boss as well." She said.

"Oh please, even my left toe nail would not take orders from you." Alessia scrunched up her face, wondering what that was supposed to even mean, but then again nothing this dude said ever made any sense to begin with so she wondered why she was expecting it to do now.

"I don't have time for any of your nonsense. Just tell me why River is so moody and looks like she wants to decapitate someone."

"Aww... Nobody told the baby of the house what is going on?"

Alessia clenched and unclenched her fist. It was something Adam had been calling her ever since he joined the Mafia and she did not like it one bit even though most people found it hilarious and endearing.

"Are you going to tell me or not?" She gritted out, trying to keep her voice as even as possible because she knew that she would blow any chance of him spitting it out if she raised her voice at him.

"Well, I will have to go ask wiser people if the baby is allowed to know such things or not." He said. He loved to annoy Alessia and he had not been able to do it ever since their argument so he was having all the fun in the world while he could.