The Mafia's Babies by Kaycee Romano (little readers TXT) 📕

Mateo pushed the wheel chair on which River sat, looking lost and traumatized. The woman was playing her part to get that long leave. He had asked if she couldn't just resign and get a job when all of it settled down, to which she replied, "And be treated like an intern? No thanks."

He got to see new shades of this character every day.

An amazing surgeon.

A concerned, loving and a delicate mother.

A badass biker.

A dangerous ex-gangster.

A shrewd mastermind.

And now, a crazy drama queen.

"I just realized something.." She whispered.

"What?" He asked as he wheeled her into the elevator. His car was parked in the basement.

"Doesn't it mean the twins will have to skip school too?"

He hadn't thought about that.

"We will just home school them then." Mateo said.

"That sucks." She chuckled. "Ki's going to miss her Flynn."

"Excuse me?" He slightly turned the wheelchair to the side so that he could see her face.

She rolled her eyes. "Not you too."

"Who's Flynn?"

"The kid my- our little Ki got a crush on."

"Crush?"

"Can't blame her though. He got the cutest blue eyes, just like his dad."

"His Dad?"

"Yep. Aaron somethin" River nodded to herself.

"Excuse me?" River could see that Mateo was getting riled up, for no particular reason.

"Calm your titties, Capo." She chuckled.

"You don't even know what a Capo means!" Mateo rolled his eyes.

"I do now, if Google is right." She stuck her tongue out at him while he shook his head.

The elevator door opened with a ding.

River and Mateo looked at each other for a few moments like two complete idiots before he pushed the wheel chair out as River hopped off of it.

"Where is your car?" She asked as she speed-walked towards the rows of vehicles, swinging her duffel bag, while Mateo pushed the wheel chair to where the rest of them were.

"The silver Bugatti Divo." He said, tossing the key at her. She caught it with her free hand and unlocked the car, getting in the driver's seat while he got into the passenger's. She slapped her bag of essentials to his lap, revving the engine.

"You need to change your car." She stated as she pulled the car out of the parking lot.

"What? Can't handle the speed?" Mateo smirked. But he was impressed at the ease with which she drove the car. As if she has been doing this for all her life.

Who knows? She was capable of anything.

"You have two kids now, Mateo. Five-year-olds. You need a bigger car which can hold two car seats." She rolled her eyes.

"Noted."

Mateo stared at her intently, waiting for more instructions. But none came.

"That's it?"

"Huh?" She glanced at him for a second before turning her attention back on the road.

"That's all I need to do as a dad?"

River looked at him like he had grown a horn and then back at the road. She was driving quite well, and quite fast though she kept to the speed limit.

She sighed as she as she took a sharp turn.

"Lucas is six minutes older than Kiara. They are both allergic to seafood."

"So am I."

"And Kiara is acrophobic."

"So am I."

"What the hell dude?" She looked at Mateo with her nose scrunched up.

"What?"

"Aren't you a Mafia man?"

"Woman, what does me being in the Mafia have to do with my allergies and fears?" Mateo raised a brow.

"Touché."

"What else?"

"Nothing much. Lukey is mature beyond his age. Kiara is the little princess and she is very naïve and too trusting but equally curious."

He nodded.

There was so much more that he needed to know about their children. He had missed out on five years of their lives. Then again, he did have the rest of his life to make up for it and catch up on it.

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"You!"

"What are you doing here?" River asked, ruffling their children's hair. Their hands were wrapped tightly around her waist, their faces pressed on to her tummy.

"River, do you know him?" Susan Johnson asked, taking River by the arm and pulling her and the kids away from Mateo's side, throwing him a cautious look.

What the hell did the motherfucker feed her with?

"Babies, go to your GG." River said and the kids whined complaining they wanted to be with their Mommy.

"Pretty please? Mommy got a surprise for you."

"What surprise?" Lucas asked.

"Can't you come with us, Mommy?" Kiara asked.

"I will, in a bit and it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you Lukey. You know that."

"Okay!!" The babies sang in unison, skipping away to their room.

"All of these men are in the Mafia. And Mr. Adesso turned out to be in the Sicilian Mafia. I thought he was helping out because he was indebted to you for saving his life!" Susan said as soon as they were out of earshot. Mateo didn't think she was really trying to be discrete.

"I know."

"What?" She sounded manic. "And you are letting him near our babies?"

"Mom, why did you even let this guy in?"

"He's here to help."

"No he isn't." Mateo spoke up and turned to the son of a bitch who now had a smirk plastered across his face, and he was staring at River like she was some exquisite art work he wanted to own.

"How dare you come here?" Mateo glared at him. He pulled out his CZ 75 and pointed it at him.

Susan and Mrs. Marley gasped while River said, "Mateo! Put that away!"

"I am here to warn them, against you and my sister." Dmitri told Mateo and turned to River. "These two are going into war and I hope you know where your kids stand in all this."

"Thanks for the heads up. Now leave before he blows your head up." River cocked her head in the direction of Mateo's gun.