I'm here

Thirty three

Walking into Francesca's felt foreign but familiar at the same time. Kiana felt the warmth of Francesca's motherly touch to the home, but also couldn't shake the foreign feeling of the fact that she now knew nothing about the family she was quick to let into her life.

They were in the mafia, all of them...including Trevor.

Trevor left Kiana five years ago, without anything. Once he said his goodbye, telling her she was old enough to live her life, she didn't hear from him again, yes it had hurt her deeply that the only family she had abandoned her, but now she understood why.

He was was trying to keep her away from all of this...This life of mystery, constant fear and criminal activity and now she was right in the middle of it, all because she was horny in a bar and had a staring problem.

"Kiana, my dear" Francesca beamed, pulling Kiana for a hug, which she was quick to accept

"How are you? I hope the boys didn't scare you...I'm sorry this is the first time you're seeing me in a while and it's not the best of circumstances, but I'm glad you haven't run off" Francesca smiled, something which Kiana couldn't help but notice wasn't fake in anyway, but her eyes told another story.

They showed that she was happy, happier than usual in fact - but she was also weary, unnerved if anything. Something was bothering her, was it the fact that Kiana could run? That she could just run out of that door and hope not to ever look back because no one had told her she couldn't, she was free to, but once again she wouldn't do that.

She wouldn't do that because she was selfish.

Kiana Marie Davidson was selfish, toxic and unpredictable in her own right, but she was also in love with Luca Romano and she had no clue how to go about that. She was selfish because she couldn't stay away from him, so reluctantly following after him into this life, even if she wasn't sure she wanted it, she would do it. For him. She didn't even know how to deal with these feelings and now she had just been rushed to a house and was meant to accept it?

Francesca led her towards the kitchen. And that's when it really hit Kiana, this was all real.

Guns littered the kitchen countertop, casually beside dishes upon dishes of authentic Italian food, which smelled delicious.

"I cook when I'm stressed" Francesca admitted, watching her son make a plate full of food, whilst Antonio and Trevor did the same

"Go on, have some" she ushered Kiana to the middle of the room

Nervous wasn't even the word describe Kiana's current state, self conscious, maybe? Either way it didn't matter, she didn't want to be there. Not because Francesca wasn't welcoming, but more so the fact that it wasn't just the five of them in the kitchen, several other men dotted themselves around, either reloading guns, talking on the phone very quickly in Italian, or sitting down eating, but either way they all had their eyes on her and she hated it. They watched her like they knew all her secrets, which they probably did, but Kiana took pride on keeping herself to herself and now, these people probably knew every bit of information about her.

Looking over at Trevor, she couldn't help but feel a pang in her chest, who even was her brother anymore? Yes she had noticed a change in him the night of the club after five years of not seeing him, but now he was a stranger to her. What was he doing in the mafia? Why didn't he tell her? Did Luca force him?

"I-I'm going to the bathroom" Kiana said quietly, but as soon as the words left her mouth, the room fell silent

"La nuova Donna è più silenziosa di quanto mi aspettassi" One of the men whispered, whilst a few nodded

(The new Donna is quieter than I expected)

She wanted to leave the room and yet her feet hadn't moved. They stayed frozen to the floorboards as no one took their eyes off of her. It felt like this was some weird dream where no one spoke to her, all they did was stare.

Well they did, until they heard the sound of a knife and fork clattering down onto a plate loudly, causing everyone's attention in the room to change to the source of the noise.

The source in fact being Luca, who dabbed his mouth clean with a napkin, whilst everyone waited for him to finally speak.

"Smettila di fissarla, la stai mettendo a disagio." Luca stated, causing every man in the room to go back to their original task at hand causing Kiana to finally let out a deep breath she didn't know that she was holding.

(Stop staring at her, you're making her uncomfortable.)

Just as she turned to leave the room, to go to the bathroom, hoping for her sake that she remembered the directions how to get there from last time, she stiffened at the feeling of a hand on the small of her back.

"Don't worry Tesoro, it's just me, I'm here for you" Luca whispered into her ear

He guided her a different way from last time.

"Where are you taking me?" She asked as she noticed they were going upstairs

"My room, i want you to feel comfortable and not have to use the guest bathroom. If a shower is what you desire then you can shower in mine" He told her

Kiana didn't respond, instead she just silently allowed Luca to take her to his room.

The moment she got in there, she rushed to the bathroom, not caring for the interior of the room because she's been needing the bathroom since her office.

Finally reaching the toilet, after locking the door behind her so Luca wouldn't get any ideas, Kiana finally got to do her business and clean herself up properly.

Once she re-emerged from the locked room, Kiana found Luca on his phone, shrugging off his suit jacket, one handedly undoing his shirt.

"What are you doing?" She asked, she didn't realise she said it in such a harsh tone until the words slipped out of her mouth

"Changing" he bluntly stated, "Or can I not change in my own room?"

"No it's just-" Kiana stumbled on her words trying to say something. She was just in shock. Everything was happening so fast and she didn't even get to process it.

"You want to watch?" He smirked as he noticed her staring at his tattooed chest

"No, I-I, can I just stay in here, I don't like downstairs" she admitted, watching Luca understand that right now she wasn't playing or joking around with him.

"That's fine Tesoro, how about I run you a bath and you can relax?" He offered, walking towards her

Kiana didn't say anything as he guided her back into the bathroom, running the water for her.

"I must admit I didn't expect today to go as it did, but I apologise for the lack of time I've given you to process everything"

Why is he being so sweet? I feel like a terrible person for using him

"But I want you to know that I'm here Tesoro" he whispered, as he began to strip her of her clothes so she could get into the bath.

But I feel like you're going to leave me...