Entangled With The Mafia Lord

At dinner, Tristan and Esther made the order for room service since we were yet to get groceries while I remained in the room upstairs, talking to my immediate assistant at my company. He told me about how the people who came from Spain were still interested in signing the contract even though one of them was dead due to the sniper getting embedded in his neck.

I was a bit surprised, frankly I expected them to turn a cold shoulder towards us since their boss got killed in our last meeting, and not for them to still be willing to sign the contract with us. I guess this is just one more proof that anytime you end up dying, the world is going to continue moving without looking back- so just live your life to the very best while you still can.

I ended the call and I headed downstairs slowly. Aria, Nicole and Tristan were standing around one part of the dining table while talking amongst themselves while Esther was fiddling with the TVs controls.

“Nicole?” I called out once I was down the stairs. Everyone glanced in my direction and looked away almost immediately, except Nicole who was beside me in the next few seconds.

“Auden?” She questioned slowly.

“Go get Nicolas for dinner.” I said to her and watched as she blinked a little like she didn’t understand what I said at first.

“What?”

“Go get your twin for dinner.”

“But-” She started to say but I shook my head and cut her off. “No buts, he wants to see you. He wasn’t ignoring you or anything, he was just in a very bad place.” I didn’t bother telling her that he was most definitely still in a very bad place from what I could tell when I talked to him this afternoon. I pointed down the hallway for her and watched as she hesitantly stayed behind for a few more seconds before turning around and disappearing down the hallway.

I stopped beside the table and noted the different kinds of foods surrounding the table, the different smells hit my senses full force and I felt my stomach rumble not so quietly.

“Damn, I’m hungry.” I said loudly as I rubbed my hands against each other. Everyone at the table chuckled softly as they sank into their seats.

“I figured everyone would be really hungry since we didn’t really eat lunch this afternoon except some chips, and some people ate only a little thing this morning, hence this amount of food.” Tristan explained as he laid his phone on the space before and looked directly at me, I knew then that the last part of his sentence had been meant for me. It wasn’t like I wasn’t hungry, because I was. There were just too many things to sort out and arrange, which made me lose my appetite this morning.

Thankfully, all I took was one glance at the table for my appetite to return back to me with full force. I sat at the head of the table while Tristan sat at my very right side. Aria took the seat directly beside Tristan and I knew immediately that she only chose that seat so she could fit in more instead of the seat by my left hand.

Our gazes locked for a moment and her lips twitched like it was about to spread into a smile but she clamped her teeth on her lower lips at the last second and looked away immediately. I didn’t miss how the lights in the dining corner made her greenish eyes appear brighter.

It didn’t really matter where everyone sat at the table, the head seat was just always kept for me so far I was going to be eating with the family- it’s like a sign of respect for the head of the family and the eldest of us all. Esther finally agreed on a movie and settled down beside Aria, in no time, we all started eating.

I glanced at my left hand side, all the chairs on that side were empty and my mind drifted towards Nicole who went off to get her twin…

What about Daven?

“Where’s Daven?” I asked Tristan who was currently loading his plate with salads.Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“I don’t know. You showed him to his room this afternoon, right? So maybe he’s probably still asleep.” Tristan replied immediately.

Fuck. I had forgotten to tell Tristan to go check up on Nicolas so he could show Daven to his room.

Oh well.