ARIANA’S POV~
“Back to the argentos? Tomas honey they took you away from your mama, she misses you” I said giving him a surprised look.
I grabbed his arm gently and pulled him close, I missed his bright cheerful eyes.
“Tell me what’s happening tomas, talk to me, mama doesn’t let you play anymore at the chipmunk’s house does she?” I asked touching his tender sickly arms.
“Yes she says I make her look stupid because it makes me look stupid” he said sadly.
I was about to say something before he interrupted me “But Liana, Liana says im brave and strong just like her dead son Silvio” he added immediately.
I was quiet, but what if he is not dead?
Who the hell did I see in my father’s villa?
“Don’t take me back there Ariana,” he said very sadly, pain in his tone.
Fear most especially.
Do I honestly want to give him back to my father?
“Impossible, he has to go back home” I heard Mateo say.
“Mateo he doesn’t want to you heard him” I started, before turning to him.
“Look I don’t care okay? I still hold the power in my goddamn house, he has to go” he repeated.
I was immediately pissed, what the hell kind of asshole am I entangled with.
“I know you lost your memory, but surely you remember being loved as a child, but I think along the way someone fucked you up, the boy doesn’t want to go we can’t force him” I stated in a fit of rage.
I knew it was hormones but I went with it.
“I’d shoot you straight in the face right now if I had a gun in my hands,” he said coldly.
“All this….” he started, before drawing his fingers in the air around my belly bulge.
“Isn’t worth it, there are many women who will lick the sole of my feet to carry my seed” he finished before glaring at me angrily.
“Well that’s too bad because I think the universe fucked the order up and gave you the wrong woman, this could be your only seed” I replied just as coldly.
I instantly saw the hurt in his eyes, and I knew I’d taken it too far.
Here he was vulnerable and the one thing I promised I’d do, I had started to renege on it.
Protect Mateo, until he regains his memory.
That wasn’t me, that was Cayenne, these stressful situations had started strengthening my alter ego.
Feeding it like a cancer.
I watched him wheel past me, he looked at Julius, “That’s my decision and unless there’s another living Mateo that decision is final” he said with finality.
I threw Julius a glance and he looked away.
“Im sorry tomas, but you are going to have to go home, your mom misses you” I mentioned.
The boy started to cry before I told the maid to take him upstairs, instantly feeling like the villain in this short story.
“Why didnt you say anything back there Julius?” I inquired after it was just us left.
“As much as I like to suggest otherwise, Mateo is still Capo, he may be weak right now but he is still my boss” he reminded me.
Same old patriarchal shit, give the woman a taste of power, but im not about to give tomas up without a fight.
I need to find a way to save tomas from his end at our father’s hand.
“He uses him as his blood bank, I can’t let that keep happening,” I said.
“Then you are going to have to come up with a way that satisfies Mateo if not im afraid I have to do what he says this time, we did get him back to take him back to his father, and he gave back back” he said.
“Isn’t that what we went for” he mentioned before leaving the room.
I could tell he was starting to question his decision to give me control.
As I stood there pondering I got a call from an unknown number.
“Hello,” I started, waiting for the voice on the other end.
“Hello Ariana, I trust you are well, im a friend of your husband” he mentioned, and I instantly knew I was engaging with an enemy.
I had to be smart.
“Im sure, and which one of his friends has decided to grace us with a call?” I inquired.
He laughed heartily before speaking, “I think you should take a trip to somewhere nice, maybe France, it would do you some good, you and Mateo” he mentioned.
A trip?
My mind started to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
“Interpol officer Paul Asissi” I started, “surely this isn’t a friendly hello” I added before waiting for a response.
“Good, now that I understand you are aware of the deal im here to remind you that the time to pay up is drawing near, I don’t know what games you and your husband think you are playing, daring me to my face while sitting on that fucking chair, tell him to stop messing with the argentos, targeting my allies was not part of the deal,” he said.
“What the hell are you talking about?” I asked.
“Why don’t you ask your husband, tell him I’ve put your name up on the no-fly list” he mentioned before cutting the call.
How did I get banned from the airports? My husband is hiding something from me.
As I moved to go out I met Becky lurking in the hallway.
“Cheating already, ill give it to you honey you do hop from dick to dick” she mentioned.
I ignored her and passed her, “rumours are you are still pregnant,” she said.
“You don’t see my bump going down do you?, what the hell do you want Becky, I don’t have time for this” I retorted.
“The thing about bitches like you is that I eventually find what makes you tick, you may be having his child now, but remember so was I and I can do it again,” she said before pausing to look at my rounded curves.
“I know you’ve got something on Mateo, something that makes him want to stick to this charade, ill find out, and when I do, you better fucking watch out” she finished.
“Good luck” I laughed, “good luck with the first part” before gesturing to the guard to escort her back to her quarters.