Page 11 of Always Yours

Liliana is in the hallway talking to Stone and laughing. I’m sure that the look on my face isn’t friendly, and Stone fucking smirks at me before raising his hands and walking away.

Liliana turns and looks at me. Her eyes widen at the look on my face, and I try to smooth out my features.

“Hey, you’re back,” she says softly.

I nod my head.

“Yeah, just got back. Not in the mood to party. Going to have a drink in my room. ‘You want to join?” I ask, walking towards my door.

“Oh, I’m sure you want to be alone,” she says.

“If I didn’t want you there, I wouldn’t have asked,” I say turning back around to face her.

“Alright. Though I’m not much of a drinker, so you have been warned,” she says, smiling at me.

“Let’s go,” I say, opening my door and walking in. I leave it open hoping she will follow me.

I smile when I hear her footsteps and the door closing behind her. Thank fuck because I didn’t want anyone to get any ideas about joining us.

“Do you want a coke to mix with it?” I ask as I grab two glasses from my dresser and walk to the mini fridge.

“Oh, you have regular drinks in here?” she asks, surprised.

I let out a chuckle. “I had to get a mini fridge. You can’t keep anything around the brothers. Food or drinks. They do not care who brought it in; it’s theirs for the taking.”

“That makes sense. Yes, I’ll take coke with it,” she says, sitting herself at the headboard of my bed.

I get her a can of coke and bring everything to the bed.

“Do you regret leaving?” I ask when no one speaks for a few minutes.

She shakes her head. “No, I’m going to miss my brothers and parents. They aren’t bad people. I think maybe they were being threatened or blackmailed to have done what they did. Still, I can’t contact them because anything can be traced, and I don’t want the DeLucas to find me,” she says with a shudder.

“Are they that bad?” I ask, curious to hear more about this family.

“Definitely. Matteo has a bad rep around school and has forced himself on more girls than you can imagine. The only reason I didn’t get attacked was because of who my father was, but it seems they found a way around that,” she says with a sigh and gets lost in her own thoughts. “Whenever I saw their women around, they wore blank expressions on their faces, almost like they were broken, defeated, and had no hope. They were scary thin, and they would flinch whenever their husbands were mad, which was obvious to everyone. That’s not a life I would ever let myself live. I’m just lucky I have Nikolai. He got me out and taught me how to defend myself if I ever needed to.”

“Shitty situation, babe. You are lucky to have a friend like Nikolai. Are you guys together?”

I can’t help but wonder.

She gags and lets out a laugh. “Oh god, no. He’s like a brother to me. I don’t think I could ever see him in that way.”

I feel instant relief at her words.

“So, what’s going on with the baby?” she asks, trying to change the subject.

I let out my own sigh. “Fuck, I thought maybe she was fucking with me or something but, after we got the due date, I realised that the signs lead to me most likely being the father.”

“And you know that it’s not one of your brothers?” she asks.

I shake my head. “They have all come and told me that she stopped fucking them almost two months ago. She has been trying to fucking pin me down.”

“You don’t want that?” Liliana asks softly.

I turn my head to look at her. “No babe, she was and is a club bunny. I never wanted anything more from her than a woman to fuck. I sure as shit don’t want to settle down with someone who has fucked all my brothers.”

“Well, you’ve got experience going for you. I haven’t so much as kissed anyone. Everyone was scared my father would kill them for touching me,” she says quietly.

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