His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies

ooked around me and took in my new surroundings. I had been working here for six months but had never been upstairs other than the time that Christian took me. It was strictly forbidden and well

of drinks in my hand. I didn’t know where to look and awkwardly looked around until my eyes caught Christian walk in as last. Next to him was the other guy he was always with, his right-hand man and cousin Johnny. Unlike Christian, Johnny was known to be a warm person and always smiled at everyone who would walk past him. He and Marc being here definitely calmed my nerves. Christian had a strong presence and the moment he sat down the room went silent. Even if I didn’t know who he was I would’ve guessed what kind of status he had. I would’ve been lying if I said that he wasn’t attractive when the man was a walking god. His beautiful almond-shaped hazel eyes matched his soft olive skin. His full dark brown hair matched his thick and perfectly shaped eyebrows, and even with the suit, he was wearing I could still see how toned he was. “Don’t stare at the boss, are you crazy!” Faith whispered in my ear, making me look down in an instant. What was I even thinking? Did he see me? “Shouldn’t your brothers lead this meeting? I’m sure Lucio is not crazy enough to let a twenty-three-year-old lead this business meeting.” One of the men laughed and playfully nudged the other men, but they gulped in fear and looked over at Christian to see his reaction. *Christian doesn’t like to be embarrassed.* That was one thing I had figured out the day he dominated me on his office desk. Christian liked to be in control and wouldn’t dare lose it. Those were the same words the girls never missed when they were gushing over him. Everyone looked at Christian awaiting his reaction, but to everyone’s surprise, all he did was chuckled as he raised his head. “I’m the heir so I lead this business meeting, not my older brothers.” Was all he said and proceeded to talk. All the terms they used were extremely confusing to me so I ignored it while wondering for how much longer they had expected me to hold the tray. The only thing I focused on was to not pay any attention to Christian but it was hard to do when he was the one leading the meeting. I felt my legs close to giving out and tried my hardest to balance the tray while drifting my attention elsewhere. For the last minutes, I had done everything from counting tiles to counting the seconds on the clock. “It’ll be over soon.” Faith softly giggled in my ear to calm my nerves. If anything she knew how much I sucked at standing still, it was something I wasn’t made for. “Give the men what to drink.” Gio suddenly spoke and guided his hands to the men at the table. Luna who was on the other side of me gave me a small nudge so I wouldn’t lose my balance. “That’s your cue, you’re the one with the drinks.” I looked from Luna to the tray to the men who were watching me and carefully walked forward making sure I wouldn’t drop anything. If I was allowed to sweat I probably would’ve. Determined to not make any eye-contact I went around the table and gave everyone a glass of champagne, so far so good. Just when I had two more glasses to go I felt sudden dizziness through my head and accidentally spilled a bit. A passable scenario would’ve been for it to just have fallen on the table but instead, it reached the suit of the man I was supposed to give it to. “What are you doing? Apologize.” Gio sternly spoke, making me feel chills throughout my body. Gio was someone you did not want to anger and a perfectionist. “I-I’m s-so sorry.” I stuttered and took a napkin to clean the man’s suit but before the napkin could even reach his suit he grabbed my hand and squeezed it. “Don’t worry about it, it’s just a suit.” He said. Surprised at his laid-back comment I looked at him for the first time and figured he wasn