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Chapter 22: Maya Returns
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2026-05-05 17:51:54
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IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 48: Outside
I asked him what they talked about while they waited. He said they did not talk. I asked him what that was like, four people who barely occupied the same world under ordinary circumstances, standing in a corridor together for forty one minutes without speaking. He thought about it for a moment the way he thought about things that he had not yet found the precise language for, and then he said it was the most honest room he had ever been in. I understood what he meant. Because the silence in a room full of people who are afraid is different from every other kind of silence. It does not perform. It does not pretend. It is simply what it is, which is people stripped down to the one thing they have in common at that specific moment, and in that corridor the one thing they had in common was me, and so the silence was honest in a way that none of them would have chosen if they had been given the option of something easier. Maya told me her version later. She said she sat on the bench b
IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 47: Emergency
"We are moving to emergency C-section. Now." Dr Reyes said it the way she said everything, without softening it, and the room responded to her voice the way it always responded, immediately and completely. Nurses moved. Equipment was repositioned. Something was added to my IV that made the edges of the room go slightly soft while keeping me present enough to understand what was happening around me. I understood what was happening. My body, which had already been through more in the past three days than most people experienced in a lifetime, had reached its own limit. The twins at thirty four weeks, the stress and the trauma of the warehouse, the hours of labour that had been building since my water broke, all of it had accumulated into this moment, this decision, this room reorganising itself around the fact that waiting was no longer an option. I was frightened. I want to be honest about that because I spent so much of the past months learning not to show fear in rooms that requi
IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 46: Choose Me
The door burst open hard enough to slam against the wall behind it, and Luca walked in first with Bryan directly behind him. For one strange second everything in the room froze around the sight of them standing there together again, both visibly tense, both breathing hard, both carrying completely different kinds of fear across their faces, and then another contraction hit me with a violence that ripped through my stomach and forced a cry from my throat before I could stop myself, and the entire room snapped back into motion immediately. “Natalie,” Luca said, and he crossed the room instantly, panic overtaking every other emotion on his face the second he saw me bent forward against the hospital bed gripping Maya’s hand hard enough to hurt her, his expression losing all color in a way that made my chest tighten. “What happened?” he demanded sharply. “Labor happened,” Dr Reyes replied without looking at him. “And unless you can stop biology, you need to get out of my way.” Luca
IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 45: No More Waiting
The room stayed silent long after I said it. I remember, It was Selene. The words seemed to settle heavily into the hospital air, pressing against everything around us until even breathing felt difficult. Luca had gone completely still beside me, his hand still resting against my face from the kiss, though now the warmth of it felt different somehow. Tense. Focused. Dangerous. I could actually see the shift happen inside him. Not emotionally this time, but strategically. The mafia heir in him was waking up. “Tell me exactly what you remember,” he said quietly. I swallowed hard, trying to steady the sudden racing in my chest. “I didn’t see her face properly before. That’s why I couldn’t place it.” My fingers tightened around the blanket instinctively. “But after she left just now, after hearing her voice again…” Luca’s jaw hardened immediately. “It clicked,” he said. He stared at me carefully, studying every expression crossing my face like he was trying to determ
IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 44: When He Chose Her
The silence after Selene’s words felt unbearable. But I will be if you take what was supposed to be mine, she had said, and the sentence lingered heavily in the hospital room long after she stopped speaking, settling into the space between all of us like something alive. I could still feel it pressing against my chest while the monitors beside my bed continued their steady rhythmic beeping, cruelly normal against the tension swallowing the room whole. Luca went still beside me. Not ordinary stillness, but dangerous stillness, the kind that felt like the sharp inhale before something exploded. “Selene,” he said again, quieter this time, though somehow that made it worse. “Enough.” But Selene did not look at him. Her eyes stayed on me with a calmness that unsettled me more than anger would have. “I’m only being honest,” she replied smoothly. “Everyone keeps pretending this situation appeared from nowhere, but it didn’t.” Luca moved before I even realized it. One second he
IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 43: Her Place
The room felt wrong after Bryan left. Not empty, wounded. I kept staring at the closed hospital door long after it clicked shut behind him, my chest aching with the kind of guilt that settled into bone instead of passing through cleanly. Everything still felt suspended in the aftermath of his voice, his expression, the devastating softness of the way he had looked at me while his heart quietly broke in front of both of us. I really thought it was gonna be me someday, Bryan had said, and the words refused to leave my head. They replayed endlessly beneath the steady beeping of the monitors around me, threading through every exhausted thought until even breathing felt heavy. Luca stayed beside the bed without speaking for a while after Bryan left. His hand remained wrapped loosely around mine, warm and steady, though the silence between us had changed shape. It no longer felt tense in the way it had before. Now it felt sad, not because of us, but because Bryan mattered to both of
IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 4: Always Real
I heard it before I understood what I was hearing. Luca's voice first, low, controlled, with that particular edge underneath it that I had learned meant something had interrupted a plan he'd already made, and he was deciding how much it was going to cost whoever was responsible. Then another vo
IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 3: The Wolfe's Den
Five minutes. That's all Luca Wolfe gave me, five minutes to say goodbye to the life I had before he walked through my door and detonated it. I stood in my bedroom doorway staring at the duffel bag he'd packed, at my clothes folded inside it with the kind of ruthless efficiency that made my chest
IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 2: Plural
The front door opened before I could breathe. Heavy footsteps. Not Maya's. Not my roommate's. The kind of footsteps that didn't apologise for themselves, deliberate, unhurried, belonging to someone who had never once in his life walked into a room and wondered if he was welcome. Bryan heard it t
IT'S COMPLICATED: THE MAFIA'S HEIRS Chapter 1: Two Pink Lines
They say your life can change in two minutes. Mine changed in two pink lines. I'd been staring at the pregnancy test for so long that the word "positive" had started to blur at the edges, like if I looked at it hard enough it would rearrange itself into something less catastrophic. It didn't. It
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