Chapter 152
“Dad, that didn't look like a joke” Jacqueline groaned and Luciano laughed.
He dropped the gun on the center table in the room, walking to the couch as he sat down beside his daughter, Jacqueline stared at it gulping as she wasn't getting used to seeing guns every now and then. She was still trying to adapt to living as a ruthless mafia's daughter.
“Did I scare you, sweetheart?” She asked her Dad who was with a smile on his face.
“Yes, you did” she answered truthfully, narrowing her gaze and that made her Mom chuckle. She was fun to watch and with her age, they still found her cute.
Cecilia wondered how she would have grown up to also be a ruthless mafia princess if she had lived with them from the onset and right at the moment, nothing was also going to stop people from seeing her as one. She just needs some training.
Getting afraid of guns wasn't it.
“Alessandro, it was a joke, or rather a test” Luciano said, his face turning back to his emotionless and ruthless mafia king that people knew.
Alessandro chuckled, “I knew, I was just acting along” he said and Jacqueline sighed, giving her a cold yet tender glare.
“But if you ever hurt my daughter, I won't let you go, trust me, I will break all your bones till you can no longer walk again” Luciano threatened and there was a smile on Alessandro's face.
“Is that all, sir?” He asked.
“I will make sure you regret hurting her for the rest of your life and make you live in misery” Luciano added and the smile was still on Alessandro's face as he nods in understanding.
“I guess you should be able to say if this is a joke or not?” Luciano asked.
“It isn't” Alessandro simply said and Luciano nodded.
Alessandro really knew that he meant each and every of the words he had said right at the moment. Although he knew he wasn't going to hurt Jacqueline, if he did, he was sure Luciano would wage a war against him.
Jacqueline is his only daughter, his lost and found daughter to be precise. He wouldn't hear of her getting hurt or seeing her in tears.
“I'm glad you know, her heart isn't to be toyed with, I will kill you if you do” Luciano said, his gaze competing with Alessandro's who wasn't ready to be submissive to him.
He heard everything he had said and accepted them because he had no intention of doing them anyways but ending up being submissive to Luciano wasn't something he would do.
Jacqueline on the other hand, couldn't feel less loved, she stared at her father with affection gleaming in her eyes. She fought back the urge to tear up at the thought of being loved by a family.
Her father had just threatened the man she loved, or rather had been threatening him since a while ago but she wasn't going to care about that. Alessandro was strong.
She stared at her parents, silently offering thankful prayers to whosoever it is brought to her. To whatever god out there that must have brought them back together.
They love her, she knew that and she was glad for having parents like them.
Strong, powerful, caring and protective of her.
“You know, Alessandro” Luciano said, a voice erupting the silence that had been in the room, making her come back out of her reverie back to the room.
She stared at her dad wondering what he had to say to Alessandro again.
“When you guys left each other, while in France where we met her and since we got back here in Italy, Jacqueline had been broken, always reserved, silent, and having a lot of thoughts running through her mind” Luciano said and paused.
He earned the attention of everyone in the room and Jacqueline sighed. A father like him was rare, with the little time they had spent together as family, he was able to read her and even see through her. It could only mean that he care a lot about her.
“She would cry silently on some nights and I would be tempted to point a gun to your head like I had did earlier but trust me, if I had given in to the tempting thoughts on those night, I would have really pulled the trigger and not make a joke like this but if I had done that, it would only hurt her more and I wouldn't be able to stand that, I always wished she would just forget an asshole like you” Luciano explained and Alessandro chuckled softly.
He also could see that Luciano was a great father and a sensible mafia Lord, many Mafia Kings like him wouldn't care about their family as much as he does and for that he found the need to respect him.
“Promise me you will take good care of my daughter and won't make her cry” Luciano added. His gaze now stopped roaming the room like it had been doing but was now fixed on Alessandro.
“I promise, I won't hurt her, I won't make her cry, I will always cherish her” Alessandro said and Jacqueline's eyes were already filled with tears of love for all souls in the room.
“If you do hurt her, then I will skin you alive” Cecilia said, her piercing gaze more intimidating than Luciano's gaze.
Alessandro smiled before giving her a response. “Sure ma'am, my life is all yours if I hurt her”
Jacqueline couldn't hold back her tears as they exploded.
She hugged her parents as they patted her back.
“I'm so lucky to have parents like you,” she cried.
“You will always be lucky darling,” Cecilia said.
“We are sorry for keeping you away from us, we love you” Luciano said and Jacqueline hugged them once more.
“I love you too” she muttered in between the hug.
“You should know there is someone who loves you more here” Alessandro said, his tone appearing like he was jealous.
They all chuckled and Jacqueline ran to him trying to hug him too but he captured her lips for a kiss instead.
Luciano and Cecilia cleared their throats funnily before leaving the sitting room for the couples.
Jacqueline broke the kiss staring into Alessandro's eyes.
“I love you”
“I love you more”
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