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

Mateo was more level-headed now. He was still impulsive and sometimes even childish but he knew his priorities. He had a job and his people to protect while all Mona ever did was use everyone and anyone to get to him.

"CRASH INTO HIM!!" Mona screeched and forcefully turned the steering wheel so that the driver's side of the car impacted with Mateo's.

As the car crashed into the taillight, Mateo lost control and jumped out of his car as it rotated on the road two times before it came to a stop, crashing on to an electric pole

The woman really was fucking crazy!

"What are you waiting for? Get him!" Mona screamed at her injured driver, grabbing him by his hair and banging his head against the steering wheel while Mateo recovered from the fall, quickly getting to his feet and making a run back into his car when he realized his gun wasn't on him. Ugh, it was frustrating beyond tolerance because he really wanted to put a bullet through her head and call it self defense at that point. Because Mona didn't have an official position in the Mafia, she was only considered as family and the family was not to be involved in the Mafia.

Barely able to walk, the driver pulled out his gun and shot him in the thigh as a last attempt to catch him so that Mona doesn't take his head. Little did he know that her fucked up mind didn't tolerate anyone other than herself hurting her Mateo so with a scream of anger and frustration, she pulled out her own golden Glock and put a bullet through his head.

Though the bullet on his thigh had knocked him off his feet, Mateo got up and was back in the car and started the engine, driving out of there while Mona stood there in the middle of the road, screaming like the madwoman she was. She quickly fished out her phone and made a call to her younger brother to clean up the mess on the road and to pick her up.

She was angry and disappointed. It was not everyday she could find Mateo Adesso in plain sight and completely defenseless. And she had completely missed her chance!

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You know sometimes you feel like your life is running in circles.

Work. Home. Work. Home. Playground. Work. Home. Smoothie Planet. Work. Home.

Except for the occasional five minutes of fun and happy moments, everything is just the same.

I am always hungry, thirsty, sleep deprived, fatigued and sexually frustrated. There is no end to this.

Oh wait, that's what I guess being an adult means.

River sighed as she listened to her inner voice's monologue. The little bitch was getting more and more annoying day by day.

She rested her forehead against the cold metallic counter built in on the wall and closed her eyes.

Thirty three hours and counting.

She had been in the hospital for that long without going home. She wanted to hunt down and strangle whoever told her that residency was going to be the hardest. That looked like a walk in the park compared to this. Now she could relate to her professors and why they hated them as interns and residents. They were just jealous.

"Come on Dr. Johnson, down this and get up!" Jacqueline patted her back and she placed a cup of coffee and a croissant in front of her best friend.

Jacqueline and she had ended up working in the same hospital. She was a nurse and River, an orthopedic surgeon. And both their workloads were kind of the same – too much to handle.

But Jacqueline worked harder and harder every day. She was running away from her feelings. Cole Harris turned out to be a douche-bag who was only after the inheritance Jacqueline's late parents had left her.

She had come to the conclusion that, "Bad boy changing his ways and becoming a better person for you? Cut the crap! It's all just wishful thinking."

"What time is it?" River asked groggily as she dragged the paper cup over to her, pressing it onto her throbbing temple.

"Past one." Jacqueline sipped on her own cup of caffeine dose.

"Mmm, these taste way better than the ones we get during the day!"

River looked up at her to see her nodding her head as she took another bite from her croissant, closing her eyes as she savored its taste.

She sighed as she sat up, propping her head up on an elbow.

"I miss my babies." She pouted. She hadn't seen them in these thirty-three hours and that made her all the crankier and moodier and all of this all the more difficult to tolerate.

"My little babies." River hummed again as she took a bite of her own croissant. She turned to her best friend and nodded, "It's good. The new caterers know what they are doing."

The last ones were so bad, so freaking bad that the two of them had to make a trip to the bakery across the hospital every day to get something to eat. And she had been reluctant to try these out as well, but Jacqueline was on her night shift today and dragged her with her when she saw her best friend striding around the hallways like a zombie.

"Hope you didn't go anywhere near the children's ward. They will need psychological help if you did." That's what she had said to the surgeon as she grabbed her arm near the B-wing.

The day before yesterday was supposed to be River's off day but she was called in for an emergency surgery and because she was supposed to start her twenty-four-hour shift from one in the afternoon yesterday, she didn't see a point in going home so she stayed and all of it just collided and collapsed and exploded and she didn't know what the hell had happened but here she was.

Thirty-three hours.

River rolled my eyes at her own don't-know-what-to-call-itness. She had done a one-thirty-hour shift before. That's been her longest. Of course, she had slept three four hours while on-duty but in those hours, her brain was ready for that shit. They were bringing in patients after patients after a paint factory caught fire. None of the doctors cared about what their specialization was as they ran around from OR to OR trying to sustain the lives of the patients. That was one of the moments that taught River and many others in the hospital the importance of being a doctor. But today, she was cranky and moody because she had absolutely nothing to do other than watch people sleep peacefully, well not so peacefully considering they are in a hospital.