His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika

Chapter 22

“Serena, move in with me.” He pretty much demanded, surprising me by his choice of words. How couldup like that so easily? “Are you drunk?” I asked him and felt anger taking over. This time I wasn’t going to fall for any of his stupromises. “No, you don’t want to accept the check and I don’t want my baby to suffer so move in with me.” He spand all I could do was keep quiet. How could he say all of this when he was the one who told me to abor“Christian, do you remember what happened the last time when you said that you were going to take caand me?” I had hoped for him to refresh his memories, but instead, he acted as those words had never been spoke“Things have changed, if necessary I’m ready to fight for you and the baby,” Christian said, making me econfused. “Fight, seriously? What the hell are you even on about!” “Christian listen, I don’t trust you. I think it’s a bit shady to me that you’ve suddenly had a change of minthat you don’t care about me so who says this is not just some kind of sick scheme for you to kill me?” I was looking forward to his explanation. “Serena you’re carrying my baby, so I have no choice but to care for you until the baby is here-“ “So you’ll kill me right after?” I chuckled in disbelief. He had no shame whatsoever in telling me his true had no reaction at the word ‘kill’. “Listen, I’m not going to live like some sort of prisoner and wait for youtake away what’s mine after the baby is born. So I’m begging you, please just leave me alone!” “Serena…I wouldn’t let you live like a prisoner.” He tried to defend himself, doing the bare minimum. “Chhear yourself? You’re not even sure about what you want and you’ve already broken your promise once,no. I don’t trust you and I don’t want to end up in a ditch.” I tried my hardest to reject his offer in the capossible, but he just wouldn’t take no for an answer. “Then marry me!” He suddenly spoke and it took me everything I had to not drop my phone. “M- marry?“Yes, I’ll introduce you to everyone as my fiancée so you know that both you and the baby are safe and aborn we’ll cut off the engagement…I just want the baby to be safe.” His words came as a shock to me and were completely unexpected. It felt as if he never thought

things twent with the flow which was something I was extremely against. “Just so you know, killing fiancées is als“It’s not out here. If I’ll lay one finger on you or take away the baby everyone will disown me so you’ll hathat nothing will happen to you after the baby is born. All I want to do is make it easier for you, think aboHe spoke as if I was the bad guy. “All I’ve been doing has been thinking about the baby, but I can’t say the same about you. I told you notanymore.” I finished and hung up the phone before he could say anything else. Him coming back on this offer was extremely tempting, I was having a hard time at work and only havingthe pregnancy instead of money sounded like a good thing, but I couldn’t. Not after the disrespectful nacalled me, and not after he had already broken his promise once. Disown? Would his family really disown him for killing a knocked up stripper? If anything they would praise him foBecause of the phone call and Vincenzo dragging me to his office some time had gone by and I was pretwas close to missing the subway. Eager to get home as soon as possible to hide under my blankets and the cold weather I ran as fast as I conly about five minutes left and the next one would be in thirty minutes. After what felt like running for a couple of hours I had finally made it and took a deep breath while closinmore minute. Exhausted from all the running I leaned my head against the wall and closed my eyes as I tried to push adizziness I felt. My heartbeat was raising and I tried my hardest to calm down, but the sound of the train my ears, causing me to lose my balance. Before I could even realize what was happening I felt my eyes clinstinct had immediately covered my hands around my stomach before I was met with sudden darkness. I heard several footsteps rushing over and tried to focus on the voices I heard while all I could think of w‘Give her some space’ ‘Miss, are you okay?’ ‘Someone call 911!’ ……. Blurriness was all I could see when I tried to open my eyes and heard a beeping sound. That’s right,Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

I hadWith all the power I had, I turned my eyes and looked at a girl who was holding my phone. “My baby?” I whispered and saw how she had turned around to face me with a startled look on her face.“Oh my god you’re awake, your baby is completely fine, please wait here I’ll get someone to check up onspoke in a hurry and ran out. Hearing the news that my baby was doing fine made me feel guilty becauswas at fault. None of this would have happened if I had used my brains for once. I knew that all I had to do was listen to my body which was telling me that I was overworking myself, butignored it and only thought about myself while thinking it was in the baby’s best interest. “Hmm, you are awake!” The doctor smiled and walked over with the girl from before who still had my phhands. I looked from the phone to her face and saw her frown at me. “Oh, there was no one in the system so I contacted your two last contacts, I texted a guy named Vincenzsome other guy who I assume is probably the baby daddy, but I don’t want to assume anything… anywaytheir way and here you go.” The girl ranted and gave me back my phone while I saw my life flash in frontForget about Vincenzo, no one cares. She called Christian… He would not let me live for screwing up like this… While the doctor did a few more tests and checked up on the baby I prepared myself for what was aboutwas ready to accept anything Christian would throw on me, because I deserved it. If I had accepted his check, taken advantage of his money as he had offered, moved in with him— and sacouch the entire day, none of this would’ve happened. The only thing which made me nervous was that he was also not aware that I had been working my buttgrateful for the fact that he had also agreed that he was invading my privacy and ordered Marc to stop cme, but also bummed because if he never did then he wouldn’t have to find out about me working at a had even expected Vincenzo to tell him because they were friends, but for some reason he didn’t. Before I got a chance to properly thank the girl for sticking by me she had already left me alone with the“Serena!” I heard a voice call out as the door opened and my eyes met Vincenzo’s. He walked over to medoctor’s existence. “How are you doing?” He asked me and brushed my hair to the side. “She is fine and your baby is fine, so no worries.” He spoke and walked out of the room to give us

privacdoctor probably thought that he was the baby daddy. “B-baby? I-I thought you…” Vincenzo questioned and quickly realized what was really going on. “Serena.were pregnant I wouldn’t have let you work at all.” “It’s alright, it’s my fault and not yours,” I told him. No matter how pushy I might’ve seen him as he had was not his fault but mine instead for being so reckless. “It’s not, I should’ve known and I’m so sorry.” He apologized once again. “Are you really okay?” He askemy hair to the side with a sympathetic look on his face. Even though I didn’t want to see anyone in this sacted cold towards him, he had probably dropped everything on his schedule to make sure I was alright,could appreciate him. “I’m fine, I promise.” I smiled back and stared into his eyes, but the only thing I could find behind them wnever truly thought about how my actions could also hurt others. “Serena, I’m sorry for everything up unforgive me.” I started to feel bad about how I had been treating him and thought it would’ve been the best to probabAfter all, I was the one who lied to him, he asked me about the test and I told him that I was not pregnanit’s o-“ Just as I was about to accept his apology we got interrupted by the door getting slammed open by no oChristian