Chapter 41
LEIGH-ARI
The party was well in full swing, and funny because nothing serious was actually done. We just arrived
here and started drinking from expensive, bling wine sses with gold linings, then the ssic music
came along and we all began dancing. I guess the event was more of a social event than anything else.
So Laura and I went with the flow.
I was sipping on my champagne when Valerie stormed to our table looking so flushed. Her mask was
slightly tipped to the side and she was shoving something in her purse. 1
“Are you okay?” I asked leaning towards her. She looked up at me and smiled,
“Yah sure. Why are you asking?” She breathed out and pulled a ss of wine from the collection in front
of us, and chugged the whole thing down.
“Ahhhhhh… You don’t look fine.” She fixed her mask and began ncing around as if she was afraid to
be seen.
“No. No shit. I am good. really.” She insisted and I decided to let it slide. I knew she would eventually spill
the beans when she feltfortable so I wasn’t going to force her.
The twins walked from the small group they were mingling with and stood protectively behind my chair,
silently announcing to the world that I was off-limits.
“Tesoro?” Enzo called me, I looked up to find them staring down at me through their masks,
“Yes?”
“Want to dance?” He asked with a small smile and I looked at therge dancefloor. It was in full swing
and people were swaying gently to the ssic piano touches, It really looked fun.
“Yeah sure,” I eximed and they pulled my chair back, then each took my arm and let me to the dance
floor.
“So… How do we do this?” I asked when they both let go of my arms,
“Easy!” Verzi called out from my back as heid his hands on my waist ever so gently like he was holding
something that would break at any moment. Enzo drew closer, took hold of my arms and looped them
around his neck, and thenid his just above his twins. Then we began swaying to the music.
I found myself smiling to nothing in particr, but the unhurried swaying was just so calm I felt like I was
about to die. Not that I knew how dying felt like, but I am sure it was something close to this, calm,
peaceful, and pure bliss. It felt calm and serene, the quick drumming of their hearts, against my back and
front, the heat resonating from their bodies, that was all so peaceful. In some weird way.
Minutes ticked by and eventually, the whole world disappeared, only me, the twins and the music
mattered
Enzo pulled back and turned me gently with his hand, passing me to Verzi. Upon looking at him, his
furrows deepened as he pulled me to his body, his twin taking his ce at my back. I had thought it was
going to be hard trying to dance with them, but it was natural, so natural that it felt like I have done it
before.
“You look amazing.” Heplimented and nipped the skin behind my ear. Enzo brushed his hips against
my butt, his bulged crotch making me very aware of how hard he was.
“Thank you. You look great too.” I replied with a smile, very aware of his crotch that was brushing slightly
against my front. Can someone tell me why they were horny?
“About yesterday, sorry.” He said and everything seemed to have stopped for a second. I looked up at
him to find him staring down at me, through his ck mask,
“You’re apologizing.” I pointed out and he took a big gulp of air.
“Yes. At least I am trying.” He said and his twins kissed the back of my head lovingly.
“We‘re terribly sorry, Tesoro. We truly are.” Enzo added up and I really had no idea what was happening.
“Okay.”
“No really. We are sorry for everything, for stealing your life and forcing you to live this, for being with us.
We love you, Ari, so much. You are our everything and I know it’s crazy because you don’t feel it, but we
do. We just don’t know how to love you. We are toxic, ruined, unworthy of you, and this isn’t the first time
we try to force ourselves on you. But that’s because you mean the world to us. All of this, the empire
we’ve built, is all because we want t o give you the whole world. So please, don’t give up on us. Show us
how to love you, because w e want to be better for you.”
Wow!
It was then I realized that the music had slowed down to a painfully slow song, that our swaying had
decreased also, we were barely moving, but the rapid drumming of their hearts and their quick breathing
against my neck was all that showed that time was ticking, and the earth was still spinning in its orbit.
“Please say something,” Verzi begged in his deep voice, I was really out of words. I didn’t know what to
say to them right. Because even Vernero the angry guy was down to earth at the moment.
“You’re right. You guys took everything from me, then forced me into your world which I am not familiar
with. I don’t know what it is you guys do, and when I get something wrong, I get locked up in the steam
room or I get spanked till I can’t sit. But at the same time, I have realized how much you guys care for
me. It’s fucked up because you’re denying me my
freedom, but at the same time, you guys can burn the whole world for me. I am also trying, to b e what
you guys want. To be ustomed to your world, I am really trying.” I poured my heart o n the tter for
them, they decided to open up, and if this is where we were going to do it, so b e it.
“Our world is dark Tesoro.” Verzi was the one who replied.
“Very dark,” Enzo added up.
“I kill people like swatting a fly. To me, life is nothing. And no one is worthy of living except you. Only you
deserve to have the world.” Verzi said and I was actually surprised that he himself, went out and spilled
his heart.
“It’s okay. I can’t say it makes sense, but I will try to be out of trouble. Be a bigger person in all of this…”
“You guys should get a room.” A very unfamiliar voice boomed not far from us and I felt Verzi tensing.
They slowly untangled themselves from me and stood protectively by my side, inching closer and closer
to me. I nced up at the intruder who busted out the bubble to find a guy in a three-piece grey suit with
a red mask on. His eyes were a very deep shade of blue and I am sure he had contacts, there are no
such blue eyes in this world. He was lean, a bit shorter than the twins who were bulky, and hand an
eagle tattoo protruding on his neck, its wings spreading right from his Adam’s apple. That must have
hurt.
“Mydy, nice to meet you. I am Xander.” He made a small curtsy and extended his hand. I tried to pull
mine from Verzi to shake his, but one re at him had me refraining my hand. The silent warning was so
loud I could literally hear the sirens going off in their heads.
“Xander.” He said in a gravelly voice.
“Oh! I didn’t see you there. The Cattanio twins.” He mocked sarcastically and I made up my mind right
there, this guy was bad news. Exins the alpha mode and sudden shift in the twins’ behavior.
“Yeah, I am very sure you didn’t. Because we are that invisible.” Enzo spat stepping forward while
pushing me towards his back protectively. The tension quickly shifted and I swear someone was going to
die in a second.
“I know right. But it’s not my fault that no one can see you. I just want to talk to the prettydy behind
you.” He informed taking a step forward. Verzi stepped forward and the two literally covered my small
frame from Xander. I didn’t want to question them, they mentioned that everyone here was their enemy
so I wasn’t going to be smarty pants and try to be a big girl. Nope! Not this time.
“You sure are protecting her well. This makes her more intriguing. I mean, one would think she is not just
one of the manyys you guys have. So I have heard.” Xander continued pressing the wrong buttons. I
felt a violent tremor coursing through Vernero, and knew that if we spent any other second here, well,
things were going to head south.
With that, I pulled on their capes to gain their attention. Enzo half turned to me with his eyes still glued on
the Xander guy like he would do something very vile if he took his eyes off him even for a split second.
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“I want to go home,” I whispered so that my voice can reach only him and Verzi.
“Okay, Tesoro.” He said smoothly before turning back to Xander.
“Give it up to Xander, you lost the East, and now you answer to us.” Enzo taunted before turning without
much further ado, then took my hand in his and began pulling me out of the hall. Verzi stayed behind in
the heated stare-down with Xander before he left without a word and followed us.
By the time we stepped outside, our ck Limo was right insight and we quickly hopped in. A s soon as
the doors closed us in, Verzi shifted in his seat until heid down, with his head in myp. Enzo on the
other side ced his head on my shoulder.
I tangled my fingers in Verzi’s silky hair while Iid my own head on Enzo’s. For the first time ever since I
met them, they looked vulnerable, they were human. Not some insanely Greek gods that had everything
in the world.
For the first time since the beginning of forever, they were weak, and they bared their weakness in front
of me to see.
I don’t know what tugged at my heart the most, but just holding them, while the limo stretched through
the city at the ghostly hour, made me swear to be with them. They were fucked up, so fucked up that
there was no redemption for them, but if I was that piece that held their sanity together, then so be it.