Chapter 27: Moonlight (Part 2)

Cecilia's POV

Cecilia and Julia are already back from their camping, and Julia's brother, He was still in the hospital. Mariano's condition is getting better, but Julia wants to make sure he doesn't have any complication. Mariano has been there for a week and he pondered.

He and Cecilia waiting for Julia to come back to her cosa Nostra. "Cecilia?" Cecilia hummed and straightened her body. "Are you and my sister will leave me alone?" Cecilia grabbed Mariano's hand.

"Why you have a thought like that?" Mariano hunched and sighed. Cecilia reassuring him and sat next to him.

"I think my ma doesn't love me anymore." Cecilia hugs him.

Mariano looks at Cecilia and hugs her. Cecilia reassuring Mariano. Mariano's thought blank. He wants to spending time more with his ma, but works comes first. Same as the rest of Salvatore's family, but Julia.

Cecilia should ask her wife before talking to her ma regarding about Mariano. She wants Mariano to feel affection because at this age, children need a guidance from both of their parents, but he doesn't get that. His pa went to jail, and his ma working as a full-time model.

"Don't say like that, Mariano. Your parents love you," Cecilia said as she tries to make Mariano feel better. Mariano pondered as he looks at the poster his friend gives him.

"I don't know. She spends much time in her workplace, rather than me," Mariano gives her a poster. "My friends came here, and they gave me this." Cecilia picked the poster and she furrowed her brow.

"What it's about?" Cecilia asked. Before Mariano could tell his answer, they looking at the door as Camelia slammed the door open.

"Where's Julia!?" Cecilia furrowed her brow. Cecilia did not know who was speaking.

Camelia stormed in and pushed Cecilia aside, Mariano shivering as she glares at him. Cecilia approach her and tapped her shoulder.

"Excuse me?" She glared at Cecilia and point her finger.

"Don't you dare to touch me!" Cecilia jolted as she . Camelia took a glance at Mariano. Cecilia grabbed her hand and pushed her aside. She should protect Mariano from Camelia's wrath. She approached her.

"I'm the wife of Lady Salvatore! D-do you have a business with her?" Cecilia wonders where is her henchmen were. She remembers that four of them guarding the door. Mariano hides behind her back. Camilia glared at them as Julia's henchmen stormed to get in.

Camelia walked towards her and glaring at them. "I'm here to send her an invitation, and I did not expect to see her filthy wife!" She handed her the invitation. Cecilia's heart beating so fast, and sweat all over her bodies. Temperature inside that room become icy.

Julia's henchmen snatched the invitation and dragged her outside of Mariano's room. Matthew approach Cecilia and he bows to her. "My apologize for being careless, Mrs. Salvatore," Matthew took off his hat and looks at Mariano. Cecilia stroked his head to calm him.

"It's okay, Matthew." Cecilia catches her breath to neutralize her heartbeat. It's a tense moment in her life. She can feel her blood running so fast in her veins. Cecilia put Mariano to bed, and she put her hand on his forehead.

"Don't leave me, please" Mariano hug Cecilia tight and looks at Matthew.

"Can you call the doctor, please?" Matthew nodded, and he ran to the doctor's office.

Julia's POV

Julia flipping her coin as Chester opened his eyes. He tied to the chair with Irene sit next to him. "You already awake?" Julia looks at her watch and sighed. "It's already 8 hours since both of you fell asleep." She said.

Julia stood up and grabbed her bow and arrow. "J-Julia!" Julia took a deep breath and looked at her henchmen can you put the apple on the girl's head?" Chester shook his head. Julia's henchmen put an apple on Irene's head and she struggles.

"Okay, okay!" When she was about to pick her arrow, she looked at Chester.

"I-I'm and Irene was a couple after the incident. Julia was waiting for him to continue his words. "I thought she was already dead." Julia smirked.

"Dad's debt, huh? What a cliche word." Julia stood up and smiled at Irene. "You can do anything to the girl, but make sure his watching." Julia walked towards the door.

She closed the door and closed her eyes. She took a deep breath and walked to her car. "Julia Salvatore?" Julia took a deep breath and looks at him.

"I'm officer Steve Hendrick. Do you have a minute?" Julia raised her eyebrow.

"To the point, officer. I have a meeting." Julia leaned on her car's door as she looks at his files. "you from IRS?" He nods.

"We investigate a tax fraud case and we need…" Julia sighed.

"Call my lawyer," she said as she gets inside her car. She doesn't need to pay tax anymore. Her net worth it's enough to make South Africa not starving anymore. Someone tries to frame her? Her thought interrupt by Steve knocked on her car window.

She start the engine and take photo his business card and flee from there. Julia wants to sit next to her wife and tell everything that happened. She also did not know that Chester took a big loan along with Irene's to her clan, and she got a call from Gianna that she has a meeting with some of the corrupt politicians.

She handles several contracts from the government, but she needs to keep her 'green card' inside her pocket to run her illegal business. Senate election campaign inside America already running since last month. A lot of criminal organization approach the corrupt candidate, who wants a campaign money and wins.

She did not approach them, but she was the leader of Union workers. They should make a good publicity while they freely run the campaign.

She stops her car and took a deep breath. She observed the sidewalk as she waiting the traffic light turned into green. It reminds her past. It's hard to keep one job or you will end up in the street and become a homeless person. She wondered what if she did not stop smoking or consuming alcohol and drugs? What if her Nonno dumped her? Will she meet Cecilia? Will everybody know her as the Queen of Salvatore? It should her mom, who takes the crown. Not her.

Julia took a deep breath and decide to reschedule the meeting. Everyone doesn't know that she was a Don or precisely a Lady Salvatore. She rules the most notorious mafia in the world. A sound of honk makes her realized she did not own this highway. "Shut the fuck up! I'm not deaf!" She turned her car to the right and parked a car on the parking sign.

She picks her phone and call Giana, but no answer. Probably she's in the meeting room. Julia send a text to Gianna and she took a deep breath, and wearing the mask. COVID-19 ruined everyone's life, including her.

Julia suffers an enormous loss last year, made a lot of investors sell her company stocks, but she quickly found a solution. She opened a laundering money service under shell company name. She opened her car, and she leaned her back on the car door.

A boy approached her with a box in his hand, and she looks at his cane. He was using a white can with a red color on the bottom. "Do you want to shine your shoe, miss?" Julia nods at him. She put her feet on the block and the shoe boy shine her shoe.

Julia picked her phone. "Are you an office worker?" Julia raised her eyebrow.

"Yes, how do you know that?" Julia put her phone inside her pocket and she observed her surrounding.

"Welcome to the slumber, miss." She hummed. She shook her head because she did not find any person wearing a suit and expensive leather shoe surround her.

She looks at a couple who fought in the alley. "Do you have any information about the building surround here?" Julia asked the boy.

He did not answer her question. Julia took a deep breath and picked her money clip. "It's on the corner of this road. There's an abandoned building, and they have already sold it for years." Julia looks at her shoe. "You want to shine your left?" Julia put her left feet on the block.

"Who's the owner?" She asked. She puts her hand inside her coat. He did not answer her questions. She took a deep breath and gave the boy a 100 bucks. "Keep the change." She gets inside her car and drives to the hospital to meet her wife.

TBC