His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika
Chapter 22

Chapter 22

“Serena, move in with me.” He pretty much demanded, surprising me by his choice of words. Howcouldup like that so easily?

“Are you drunk?” I asked him and felt anger taking over. This time I wasn’t going to fall for any of hisstupromises.

“No, you don’t want to accept the check and I don’t want my baby to suffer so move in with me.” Hespand all I could do was keep quiet. How could he say all of this when he was the one who told me toabor“Christian, do you remember what happened the last time when you said that you were going totake caand me?”

I had hoped for him to refresh his memories, but instead, he acted as those words had never beenspoke“Things have changed, if necessary I’m ready to fight for you and the baby,” Christian said,making me econfused. “Fight, seriously? What the hell are you even on about!”

“Christian listen, I don’t trust you. I think it’s a bit shady to me that you’ve suddenly had a change ofminthat you don’t care about me so who says this is not just some kind of sick scheme for you to killme?” I was looking forward to his explanation.

“Serena you’re carrying my baby, so I have no choice but to care for you until the baby is here-“

“So you’ll kill me right after?” I chuckled in disbelief. He had no shame whatsoever in telling me his truehad no reaction at the word ‘kill’. “Listen, I’m not going to live like some sort of prisoner and wait foryoutake away what’s mine after the baby is born. So I’m begging you, please just leave me alone!”

“Serena…I wouldn’t let you live like a prisoner.” He tried to defend himself, doing the bare minimum.“Chhear yourself? You’re not even sure about what you want and you’ve already broken your promiseonce,no. I don’t trust you and I don’t want to end up in a ditch.” I tried my hardest to reject his offer inthe capossible, but he just wouldn’t take no for an answer.

“Then marry me!” He suddenly spoke and it took me everything I had to not drop my phone. “M-marry?“Yes, I’ll introduce you to everyone as my fiancée so you know that both you and the baby aresafe and aborn we’ll cut off the engagement…I just want the baby to be safe.”

His words came as a shock to me and were completely unexpected. It felt as if he never thought thingstwent with the flow which was something I was extremely against. “Just so you know, killing fiancées isals“It’s not out here. If I’ll lay one finger on you or take away the baby everyone will disown me so you’llhathat nothing will happen to you after the baby is born. All I want to do is make it easier for you, thinkaboHe spoke as if I was the bad guy.

“All I’ve been doing has been thinking about the baby, but I can’t say the same about you. I told younotanymore.” I finished and hung up the phone before he could say anything else.

Him coming back on this offer was extremely tempting, I was having a hard time at work and onlyhavingthe pregnancy instead of money sounded like a good thing, but I couldn’t. Not after thedisrespectful nacalled me, and not after he had already broken his promise once.

Disown?

Would his family really disown him for killing a knocked up stripper? If anything they would praise himfoBecause of the phone call and Vincenzo dragging me to his office some time had gone by and I waspretwas close to missing the subway.

Eager to get home as soon as possible to hide under my blankets and the cold weather I ran as fast asI conly about five minutes left and the next one would be in thirty minutes.

After what felt like running for a couple of hours I had finally made it and took a deep breath whileclosinmore minute.

Exhausted from all the running I leaned my head against the wall and closed my eyes as I tried to pushadizziness I felt. My heartbeat was raising and I tried my hardest to calm down, but the sound of thetrain my ears, causing me to lose my balance. Before I could even realize what was happening I felt myeyes clinstinct had immediately covered my hands around my stomach before I was met with suddendarkness.

I heard several footsteps rushing over and tried to focus on the voices I heard while all I could think ofw‘Give her some space’

‘Miss, are you okay?’

‘Someone call 911!’

…….

Blurriness was all I could see when I tried to open my eyes and heard a beeping sound. That’s right, IhadWith all the power I had, I turned my eyes and looked at a girl who was holding my phone.

“My baby?” I whispered and saw how she had turned around to face me with a startled look on herface.“Oh my god you’re awake, your baby is completely fine, please wait here I’ll get someone to checkup onspoke in a hurry and ran out. Hearing the news that my baby was doing fine made me feel guiltybecauswas at fault. None of this would have happened if I had used my brains for once.

I knew that all I had to do was listen to my body which was telling me that I was overworking myself,butignored it and only thought about myself while thinking it was in the baby’s best interest.

“Hmm, you are awake!” The doctor smiled and walked over with the girl from before who still had myphhands. I looked from the phone to her face and saw her frown at me.

“Oh, there was no one in the system so I contacted your two last contacts, I texted a guy namedVincenzsome other guy who I assume is probably the baby daddy, but I don’t want to assumeanything… anywaytheir way and here you go.” The girl ranted and gave me back my phone while I sawmy life flash in frontForget about Vincenzo, no one cares.

She called Christian…

He would not let me live for screwing up like this…

While the doctor did a few more tests and checked up on the baby I prepared myself for what wasaboutwas ready to accept anything Christian would throw on me, because I deserved it.

If I had accepted his check, taken advantage of his money as he had offered, moved in with him— andsacouch the entire day, none of this would’ve happened.

The only thing which made me nervous was that he was also not aware that I had been working mybuttgrateful for the fact that he had also agreed that he was invading my privacy and ordered Marc tostop cme, but also bummed because if he never did then he wouldn’t have to replace out about meworking at a had even expected Vincenzo to tell him because they were friends, but for some reasonhe didn’t.

Before I got a chance to properly thank the girl for sticking by me she had already left me alone withthe“Serena!” I heard a voice call out as the door opened and my eyes met Vincenzo’s. He walked overto medoctor’s existence. “How are you doing?” He asked me and brushed my hair to the side.

“She is fine and your baby is fine, so no worries.” He spoke and walked out of the room to give usprivacdoctor probably thought that he was the baby daddy.

“B-baby? I-I thought you…” Vincenzo questioned and quickly realized what was really going on.“Serena.were pregnant I wouldn’t have let you work at all.”

“It’s alright, it’s my fault and not yours,” I told him. No matter how pushy I might’ve seen him as he hadwas not his fault but mine instead for being so reckless.

“It’s not, I should’ve known and I’m so sorry.” He apologized once again. “Are you really okay?” Heaskemy hair to the side with a sympathetic look on his face. Even though I didn’t want to see anyone inthis sacted cold towards him, he had probably dropped everything on his schedule to make sure I wasalright,could appreciate him.

“I’m fine, I promise.” I smiled back and stared into his eyes, but the only thing I could replace behind themwnever truly thought about how my actions could also hurt others. “Serena, I’m sorry for everything upunforgive me.”

I started to feel bad about how I had been treating him and thought it would’ve been the best toprobabAfter all, I was the one who lied to him, he asked me about the test and I told him that I was notpregnanit’s o-“

Just as I was about to accept his apology we got interrupted by the door getting slammed open by nooChristian