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

She blew out a breath.

"And you are an oracle, I assume?" She raised a brow at her.

"I sleep with men to get info woman. That's a completely normal job in the mafia. So is pimping, smuggling, trafficking, killing and raping!" Amanda flipped her hair.

"No it isn't."

To River's knowledge, the Italian Mafia had gotten some principles engraved in gold. They were men and women of honor. They don't do the shit she was accusing them of doing.

"River River... You think they follow the principles these days? Do you know Alessia's story? Or why she is so fucked up?" Amanda asked and she lowered her voice. "They married her off to an inhuman animal who raped her, assaulted and almost killed her. Do you really want that for your kids? Tell me River, isn't that why you haven't told the kids yet? Because deep down even you know what I said is true?"

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Mateo made his way through the living room, over to the kitchen. The group had been discussing about the sudden increase in assault against their men in New York. Whoever it was knew that the Capo wasn't in town. It had to be Mona or Dmitri or their people who must have spread the news.

He had decided on a break and offered to get them all some beer. It was just an excuse to check on what Amanda was up to and how River was holding up.

"Look lady, I don't care who you are but I don't have any obligation to answer your questions." He heard River sigh. He stopped near the entrance of the kitchen to listen. He knew he shouldn't be eavesdropping but he knew that Amanda wouldn't dare spew any bullshit in front of him so it was better that he hid and listened.

River really didn't even want to waste her energy on this woman anymore. She was not going to believe her; she was just trying to get inside her head.

But was she telling the truth about Alessia? But Alessia looked nothing but amazing to her.

"Please, you act so tough but the truth is you are scared out of your wits and you don't want the kids to ever know that Mateo is their father." She scowled.

'Who does this woman think she is? So you want drama? I will give you drama.' River thought.

River being River, there was one thing she always knew – people get on your nerves when you try to deny whatever they are trying to convince you that you are feeling. So the easiest way out was to give a much negative reaction. It wasn't the most mature thing to do, but if some drama saved her some time and nonsense, she was up for some bullshit.

River didn't speak for a while. "You are wrong about one of those two things."

Of course she was scared. But she wasn't scared of Mateo and the people she had met so far. She was scared of the danger on all of them.

"I am not scared of you all. I am disgusted." I said. "I am disgusted by that man and disgusted at myself for getting knocked up by him. Disgusted that my children have to grow up around murderers, human traffickers and sluts like you because of my mistake."

She hated what she said but she knew that it had done its job. But now she was angry at herself for saying it. River decided that this woman was staying away from her children. She refused to let people who even thought negatively about her kids near them.

" Amanda stood there stumped for a moment before she finally said, "You will pay for this!" and walked out of the kitchen.

River sighed. Drama drama drama.

Someone give me a gun and I will forget I am a doctor and shoot her.

'Ugh.. Snap out of it River. Some people are just like that!!'

"You okay?" River turned to see Mateo watching me with an unreadable expression. She didn't know that the guy had just heard everything she had said, not knowing that she didn't mean any of it.

But at the sight of him, she felt her anger rise again.
"I don't want that woman anywhere near my children."

"You don't get to decide that. " He said, his eyes hard. He was hurt by what he had heard and it came out in the form of anger.

River narrowed her eyes and took a step forward. "Actually I do. I am their mother."

"And I am their father." He said, his voice challenging.

"If their mother can give up all of her family and friends for them, their father can lose one too." River held eye contact for a moment while he stared back, jaws and fists clenched.

She finally backed down, stepping back and sighing before she walked out of the kitchen.

She needed to think.

She wished she had told the kids already. Because now she was having second thoughts yet again.

"Snap out of it River. You are telling them today." She said out loud. "You promised you will fix everything."

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Mateo had thought most of his life that he had a heart made of steel. But he was wrong! Because at that moment, it felt like someone was squeezing his heart as if it was nothing but bath sponge.

This was what she thought of him and his family and friends?

Mateo was fooling himself when he thought that she was finally telling their kids that he was their papa. He was wrong.

He hated what she said. But he hated himself more because she had every right to feel that way about him.

If she didn't want him in their lives, why did she act so understanding and nice?

"Because she's a cunning manipulative bitch who wanted all the good things that came with being the baby mama of a made man of the Mafia." He said out loud, gritting his teeth. He was wrong about her.

He took a moment to calm himself down before he went back to the office empty handed.

Amanda wasn't there. She was probably wandering around like she owned the place.

"We are going back to New York." he announced.

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