Is this destiny?

~ Los Angeles, the Cliffside Villa ~

9:29 AM

(Note: At this time in Europe, Sarah and Aiden ended their talk with Angelo, and are on their way to their private island in the Adriatic Sea)

Emma is in the garden, talking to Sean and Ryan. She told them about Angelo and Bruno, the same thing she told Mike on the previous night.

As expected, Sean and Ryan are stunned while silently processing this newly acquired information.

"So, the creep from yesterday who is stalking you works for our father.", Sean said.

"And he came to seduce you into marrying him without our father's knowledge in order to take over his position.", Ryan continued after Sean.

Emma was surprised that instead of asking about the fact that their father is alive, her twin brothers are concerned about Bruno showing up and targeting her.

Sean glanced at Ryan before asking: "What does our father think about it?"

"I don't know.", Emma admitted. "But that is not the point. I told you everything I know and asking me anything else is useless. From here, I'm heading to talk to Bruno. Mike said that he is not interested to join, and I want to know if you want to come with me or not."

"No.", Sean and Ryan responded in unison.

"Aren't you surprised by the fact that our father is alive, out there? Don't you want to know who he is and what he is doing? Don't you want to hear his side of the story?", Emma rained questions.

"No.", Sean and Ryan said confidently.

Emma was surprised. Is she the only one who is curious about their father? "Why?"

Both Sean and Ryan frowned. They know that Emma is a kind person, but the two of them are angry.

Sean responded: "You said that he left us in order to protect us. Yesterday, his right hand man made his move to seduce you after watching you for who knows how long. How is that protecting us?"

Ryan continued: "He failed us when he left, and he failed us now. And between those two we have no memories of him, so that counts as a failure as well."

"If he wanted to help us, he would not allow mom to work two and sometimes three jobs at a time so that she can raise us.", Sean added.

Ryan nodded in agreement. "The five of us are a family: mom, you, Mike, Sean and me. We stick together, and we take care of each other. He is not included. He never was"

It was Sean's turn to talk: "We will be twenty years old this year, and so far we thought that our father is dead. Considering that the only thing he did for us was to leave us so that he can play his game of gangsters, we think that he should stay dead."

Ryan continued with irritation obvious in his voice: "Bruno is Angelo's man. Assuming that Angelo does not know how Bruno came her after you, if he cares about his children, he would be watching after us. I didn't see him or his men coming to your rescue yesterday. It was your three brothers, and Allen and Julius and Ron and Zula. Charlie, Anna, and Jeff included. Even Sarah and Aiden called from their honeymoon to approve for guys from the Cliffside villa to join. We consider them our family, not some unknown man who left us when we were born."

Emma lifted her arms, palm up to get her brothers to calm down.

"I got it…", Emma said. "What about mom?"

Sean snorted. "What about mom? She obviously knows about Angelo and she didn't tell us."

Ryan shared Sean's displeasure. "If we knew that our father is some Italian boss we would be more vigilant."

Emma exhaled. Well, considering that Sean and Ryan are both hotblooded, she should have expected this. Emma knows that the two of them will calm down in time and then they can talk again, but there is a thing which can't be postponed…

"Sean, Ryan, this is probably the only chance you have to talk to Bruno. If you miss it, I'm not sure if you will get a chance to find out more about our father."

Ryan waved his hand, indicating that he is not interested. "Unless I find out that he cares about us, I don't want to know about him."

Sean nodded in agreement with Ryan and added: "And even then, I might be interested to find out more about Nero armi, but that's it."

"Are you sure?", Emma had to ask again.

Sean and Ryan confirmed.

In Michael's and Oni's apartment…

Michael was checking his emails from Mason related to the White foundation when he got a notification that Emma left the property.

With Sarah and Aiden gone, Michael is overseeing the security of the villa. It's one more thing on his to-do list. He can't believe how many things Sarah and Aiden are handling when they are around. Sure, it's the two of them, but when the army of Chaos is active, there is a lot of things going on. Michael is happy that Genie is managing the house staff and things related to the villa, otherwise he would go crazy. 

Michael exhaled, happy that the issue with Bruno is settled and there are no more random missions.

"You are still here?", Michael asked Oni when she exited the bedroom. "I thought you are going to study with Nala."

"I will go in few minutes.", Oni responded with a smile and sat in his lap.

Her arms moved around his neck and she spoke softly: "Do you really think that I would leave without this?" In the next moment, her lips landed on his.

Michael is enjoying this bold Oni. She might be young and inexperienced, but she is catching up fast. Maybe too fast.

Without breaking the kiss, Oni slid off from his lap and moved back on, but this time straddling him.

With every passing second, their kiss was getting deeper and the room was heating up from their flames, urging them to remove their clothes.

Michael's hands found their way under her top and glided over the skin on her back.

Oni's hips moved in the need to get closer and she was grinding herself on his hot and hard rod, letting out small moans in the process.

Michael inched away and whispered into her lips. "I thought that you need to leave in few minutes…"

"Nala can wait.", Oni breathed. At this point she only wants to stick to Michael and never let go.

"You are making it very hard for me to hold back."

Oni felt that her face is on fire, just like the rest of her body, and her heart is beating wildly and she had to say: "Then don't. I don't need flowers and dating or anything else to know that you care about me."

Her words shook his core and he is already turned on like crazy… and he closed his eyes at the sound of his phone. "Oni, I need to answer that."

"Leave it…", she urged him.

"That is Aiden's ringtone."

Oni hugged him tightly. "I'm not letting go!"

Michael chuckled. "OK. Just be quiet."

He pecked her lips and touched his ear stud. "Yes?"

Five seconds later, Michael's face fell. "Oh… I see… OK… Got it…"

Oni exhaled when he ended the call. "Based on your expression, there is another mission…"

Michael rested his forehead on Oni's shoulder and responded: "Two of them. The first one is to arrange escort for Bruno to Sicily and the second one is to set up everything for acquisition of the new base for the army of Chaos."

"New base? I thought that we are defending until Sarah and Aiden are back."

"I didn't ask for the details, but Aiden is sending me blueprints of a base in Milan. It will be ours in three-to-four days."

Oni frowned. "You are going to Italy?"

"No. Noah will. I have three days to work out the details with him and then he will go there with a number of his subordinates while I will coordinate from here."

Oni was relieved that Michael will stay in Los Angeles, but… "That means how in the next three days you will be busy with Noah…"

"You should go and study.", Michael reminded her. "I will see who can take a day off for an escorting mission and then I will go to the main camp to talk to Noah. I will be back by dinner time..."

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