Dangerous Love

54||The Mafia Ball

PETRA RAMIREZ

"Good evening, Mr. Romano and Ms. Ramirez." Preston greets us, before turning his attention to, Ellie, "Evening, Ms. Eliana."

"Hi, Preston!" Ellie says as she wraps his arms around him, and I send him a smile as he opens the door for us.

Xavier helps Ellie and me, into the limo first, before he gets in and Preston shuts the door after us. Everyone else along with the guards gets either into their vehicles or limos.

Once everyone is in their cars, we start making our way to the ball.

After some time we arrive at our destination, the limo stops in front of this huge building that has a bunch of lights. Preston gets out of the car walks around to our door and opens it. Xavier gets out first and then helps Ellie and me out.

I notice that the guards have already made their way to us, but they're all standing a little farther away with their eyes watching their surroundings.

Xavier wraps his arm around my waist as he holds Ellie's hand.

We make our way inside, and everyone else follows behind. The stairs that we have to walk up are covered up with a red carpet. As soon as we stepped inside the building I admired how elegant and classy everything looked.

The beautiful marble floor is so shiny, we walk towards these huge white double doors where two guards are standing by, and as soon as we approach them they open the doors.

We walked into a huge room where there was a whole bunch of people who looked like they had power. I couldn't help but look up at the ceiling where there was a huge chandelier, along with angels that looked painted on.

"Mr. Romano!" A voice spoke, making us turn around to see a man in a black and red suit walk up to us with another man following behind him.

"Good evening, Mr. Gambino." Xavier says as he shakes his hand, "Good job on the ball this year."

"Thank you, my wife picked out everything for this." He says as he turns his attention to me, "You must be the wife, my name is Ricki Gambino."

He gently grabs my hand and places a kiss on my finger, "Your name?"

"Petra Ramirez." I told him as I grabbed onto Xavier's arm, "It's nice to meet you, Mr. Gambino."

He smiles at me for a moment as he looks over at Xavier, "I'll talk to you later, I have to find Diana."

"See you later," Xavier says as Ricki walks away from us.

"Who's that?" I asked, looking at Xavier.

"Ricki Gambino, the boss of the Greek Mafia, but ever since he had his son he gave it up to someone who was his associate." Xavier paused before letting out a sigh, "For some reason, Ricki never said who is now the boss of the Greek Mafia."

I nodded my head, "Well, thank you for that."

Xavier smiles before placing a kiss on my forehead, "Would you like some wine?"

I furrowed my brows, why would he offer me wine when I was in my second trimester of this pregnancy?

"Xavier, I am twenty-three weeks pregnant with our babies...I can't drink." I remind him.

He shrugs his shoulders, "Let loose, get drunk, forget those babies.."

It's silent between us, I narrow my eyes at him as I cross my arms over my chest.

"I'm kidding, love." He laughs as he kisses me, "I love you and our kids."

I roll my eyes before saying, "Can you get me some strawberries covered in chocolate, also can you bring me the big bowl of candy."