Amara POV
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It’s been a few hours since Dimitri took Sadie and I am in my room trying to wrap my head around everything. He brought Mary here and had her plant files around our old work place just so she could be here with me. Not to mention he just adopted Sadie so he can be her father. He didn’t give me much of a choice in that matter either considering he was just going to adopt her with or without my signature.
How that is even possible is beyond me. Knowing how ruthless Dimitri can be sometimes. It wouldn’t surprise me if he held the judge at gun point to have the adoption papers approved without my consent.
I let out a loud sigh as I stare up at the ceiling.
It has been a lot to take in. I still can’t believe my three best friends from middle and high school are all in the Mafia.
Now that I think about it there were signs. Dimitri would skip school or show up late. He would never tell me what he was doing. He would just tell me not to worry about it.
I groan loudly and grab the pillow above my head. I place it over my face and scream into it.
Dimitri can be so damn frustrating!
” Are you done with your temper tantrum?” Liam asked causing me a jump a little.
Pulling the pillow down to my chest I stare at Liam. He was standing at the foot of my bed with a cocky grin on his face.
” There this thing most people do before entering someone’s room. It’s called knocking.” I tell him.
Liam nods, ” Yeah, well I knew you weren’t doing anything. I could hear you screaming from the hallway not to mention Dimitri would kill anyone that is found in your room without permission.”
I roll my eyes, ” I could have been naked for all you know. I can also have whoever I want in my room.”
Liam chuckles, ” No, actually you can’t. Dimitri doesn’t want anyone in here with you or Sadie without his permission. He will kill anyone that disobeys that order.”
He won’t actually kill someone for being in my room with me.
” You can’t be serious? Besides you are in my room. Dimitri going to kill you?” I asked him.
I watch as Liam takes a seat on the edge of my bed. ” No, me and Lucia get a free pass and can come in here whenever we want. Anyone else has to ask permission.”
I slowly sit up and rest my back against the headboard with the pillow in my lap. ” He is being a little overprotective don’t you think?” I question him. Liam nods, ” Maybe a little bit, but he just wants you to stay safe.”
” I am pretty sure I am safe in a house full of guards and three psycho best friends. Which is why I don’t think it matters who is in my room. Swear you guys act like I can’t take care of myself. Even throughout middle school and high school you guys baby me.” Hearing my phone vibrate I lean over and grab it off the nightstand.
” You are right you do have three psycho best friends that will kill to keep you safe and out of harms way. Even back in middle school and high school we did what was best for you. Even if it meant you were mad at us for a few days.” Liam says as I stare down at the text message from Mary.
She wanting to talk to me down in the library.
” Speaking of middle school and high school there is one thing I was wondering about. You remember Daniel and his friends right?” I asked him.
I haven’t thought of Daniel in years but I remember how him and his friends were always picking fights with him, Dimitri, and Lucia.
” You once told me that Dimitri and Daniel didn’t get along due to their families bad history. Does that mean that Daniel is also in the Mafia?” I question Liam.
I watched as Liam tilts his head to the side and seems like he is in deep thought. ” Yes, Daniel is in the mafia as well. Although no one has seen him or his friends since graduation.” Liam tells me.
” If I remember correctly he was just suppose to be out of town for three years. Not to mention he was looking to get pay back on me for what I did to him and his friends after school.” I tell Liam as I text Mary that I will be down in a bit.
Liam laughs, ” Yeah, I never forgot the way Nate was holding his crotch and James was limping behind.”
I laugh and nod, ” Despite the fact they were assholes and annoying. I hope they are safe and okay.” Feeling my phone vibrate again I let out a sigh. ” Mary is wanting to talk to me down stairs and since she keeps blowing me up. I guess it must be important.”
Liam stands up, ” I doubt it is important. She probably wants to talk to you because you stormed off during dinner.” He says before leaving my room.
Right, dinner I was so mad that I didn’t get to eat my food. Might as well get the conversation over with so I can warm up my left over spaghetti. It’s not that I didn’t miss Mary or that I am mad at her. It’s too dangerous for her to be here and Dimitri already made it crystal clear he wasn’t letting her leave alive.
So this conversation probably isn’t going to go very well. I am already dreading having this conversation with her because I have to tell her that she can’t ever leave this place.
I get up off the bed and slip on a pair of flip flops before walking out of my bedroom. I head down the hall before going down the stairs and heading in the direction of the library.
When I enter Mary quickly closes the door behind me. ” Why did you shut the door?” I question her with a raised brow.
” So we can have a conversation without people eavesdropping.” Mary says as she takes my hand and gently leads to an empty table. ” I guess but Dimitri is going to hear about the conversation anyway. Even back in middle school and high school, he always found out without me telling him.”
I always found it weird how he would know about conversation that he was never apart of or around to hear.
” Sounds like he had someone keeping tabs on you.” Mary tells me as she takes a seat.
I take a seat across from her and give a nod, ” I guess it is possible. Everyone was pretty much terrified of Dimitri and would do anything he asked them too. Even the teachers were scared of him. Which is why I don’t think it is a good idea that you are here, but Dimitri isn’t going to allow you to leave. I already tried talking to him about it.” I ramble out to her.
Mary reaches her hand out and places it gently on my hand that I had resting on the table. ” I knew what I was getting myself into the second I heard his name.”
” Mary, you don’t understand. He isn’t going to allow you to leave here alive.” I watch as she just gives me a soft smile. ” Amara, it is fine. I don’t mind not being able to leave. As long as I am able to be with my best friend. It really doesn’t matter. Which reminds me!” She says happily as she pulls out her cellphone and shows me a website. ” We can get a job at one of the local hospitals. I have been looking them up online for a few days.”
I look at the website of the local hospitals she has pulled up on her phone. ” I would like to get back to work but I don’t even know if Dimitri will even allow me to go back to work. He is in a bossy mood here lately.”
Mary places her phone on the table and switches it over to her contacts. She strolls until she lands on Dimitri name and hits the call button.
I quickly hit the hang up button, ” What are you doing?” I question her.
” I am going to ask him about letting you go back to work.” She tells me as she hits the call button again.
The phone ring two times before Dimitri picks up. ” Yeah?” He asked as Sadie’s babbling can be heard in the background. ” Where are you?” I asked him hearing Paw Patrol blaring in the background.
I don’t recall hearing Paw Patrol blaring on my way down here to speak with Mary.
” We are in the theater room on the west side of the masion.” Dimitri tells me. ” Is there a reason Mary called me? And where are you two?” He questions us.
I didn’t know there was a theater in this place. ” Yes, we wanted to know how you would feel about me and Amara going back to work at a hospital.” Mary tells him.
” No.” Dimitri says bluntly.
” You didn’t even think about it.” Mary says with a eye roll.
” I don’t have to think about it. She doesn’t have to go to work because I am taking care of everything.” Dimitri says in a stern tone.
” Dimitri I went to college to be CNA. So-” Dimitri interrupts by cutting me off. ” No, you went to college to be a doctor but when you couldn’t keep your grades up. You settled on being a CNA even though you told everyone you were originally going to be a CNA cause you didn’t want to put your hope into being a doctor incase you didn’t make it.”
I am in complete shock as I stare at the phone in disbelief. ” How did you know I wanted to be a doctor? I never told you that and when I tried to talk to you before graduation. I could never get ahold of you.”
Dimitri chuckles into the phone, ” You didn’t have to tell me. I had some of my people do some digging into your college credit to know what classes you took.”
” So you were spying on me?”
” I was keeping an eye on you to make sure you were safe. You could have been a doctor if you kept trying.” He says as Sadie babbles a bunch of words. ” Yes, I see that.” Dimitri says to Sadie.
” I got tired of studying. Plus the classes were getting harder by the day and I was starting to fail.” I tell him and continue. ” What is Sadie showing you?” I asked him.
” You could gotten a study partner to help you, and she is showing me her hair tie.”
I laugh, ” A study partner? You wouldn’t even let me have a study partner in school. Your exact words were ‘ I can help you study. You don’t need anyone else’s help.’ Than you punched the kid helping me in the face.”
A hair tie? I didn’t give her a hair tie and I didn’t put anything in her hair.
” And were did she get a hair tie?” I question him.
” That is because your study partner was a guy. If you got a girl study partner I wouldn’t have cared. As for the hair tie. Lucia give it too her and she been playing with it since.”
Thanks a lot Lucia for giving her something to put in her mouth.
” Just make sure she doesn’t swallow it.” I tell him as Mary jumps in. ” So can she start working at a hospital?” She questions.
” No.” Dimitri says in a stern tone before hanging up on us.
That jerk just hung up on us.
” Come on.” Mary says getting to her feet. I stand up and stare at her in confusion, ” Where are we going?” I asked her.
” We are going to the theater room. Where we can talk to him face to face.” Mary says as she heads to the door.
Yeah cause talking to him is really going to change his mind.
” But we were talking.” I tell her.
” We can talk more later. Let’s get your freedom to work back first.” Mary says exiting the library.
I can already hear a fight starting and we haven’t even found Dimitri yet to talk to him. I already know he isn’t going to change his mind.