PROMISE

Two little kids tip toe their grandfather's office to scare him but the older man was smart enough to recognize who made entry in his office as he kept his gaze on the computer working.

He decided to let them have fun knowing if he stop them now they would keep doing it in repeat till he had to get tired of it and pretend he was scared and shocked.

The twins grinned at each other in victory as they thought they successfully thought they made it inside the office without their grandfather's attention.

"one, two, three", they both whispered in unison and jumped at the old man with a loud and cute "bow".

The old man gasped and held his hand on his chest faking to be afraid of the two little monsters of his elder daughter.

"oh mon dieu, you guys scared me", he complains in his gruff voice trying to sound it more softer for the children.

"Yeahhhh, we scared you, we scared you", twins sang jumping up and down in happiness and the older man admired their every feature.

The guards at his office door were always surprised thinking how could a cruel man like Andre François who is French mafia boss could be this calm around his grandchildren.

Andre chuckles at them shaking his head and asks them "where is your mother?".

As he spoke those words his elder daughter aurora came into the room tiredly and plopped her self on the couch making her dad laugh.

"Am here dad, am alive", she tells making him laugh more.

"I see you guys are troubling my daughter a lot", andre tells narrowing his eyes on the twins who looks guilty.

"yes dad, they didn't let me rest whole flight asking when we will reach for every minute and their father was however busy in his mafia stuff", aurora tells whining tiredly.

"by the way where is Dimitri?", andre asks his daughter.

"meeting with his new clients, told he would be back by the time party starts", she replies tiredly.

There was a knock on the door which made andre get back to his cold self.

"Master, princess oddete isn't waking up, she dismissed and threatened to kill if anyone disturbs her sleep", the maid said with her head down.

Andre sighed heavily, without his wife it was hard for him to raise his two daughters, one of them was easy to handle and the other was a brat.

Aurora was always the girly one who behaved as a high class French lady and wore dresses as a princess of French mafia would, for making allies with Russian mafia andre married her off to the Russian mafia boss and now she has two sons with him.

She was well fitted in the Russian family who hide their women as a prised possession. All she had to do was stay at home, pleasure her husband, bear his kids, handle disputes between women of mafia families and attend parties as a trophy beside her husband.

But oddete was rebel, her first choice of studying feminism made andre mad for the first time, the other day she got some piercings on her lower lip and ears are studded with multiple piercings. What got him hyper was the tattoo she got engraved on her wrist, waist and neck.

Literally who wouldn't be mad who's has a daughter who wears leather jacket, short shorts and skirts with kinky stockings and all when she was born in a mafia family who was supposed to carry the dignity.

"Am losing my head", andre groans tiredly tilting his head back.

"Do you want me to take care of her?", aurora offers looking at her old father in sympathy.

"please, also take her for shopping, buy her some clothes in which she look presentable for her engagement, you know how Italian men wants their women to be", he tells sighing to which aurora nods her head pressing her lips together.

"Don't worry dad I will take care of it", she assures him kissing his cheek softly then leaves the room with her twins following her behind.

"aunt oddy wake up", a little boy jumped on Odette making her groan.

"please wake up we are bored", another kid wined as he made himself comfortable on her legs.

"What the hell, go to your mama", she groans pushing them away and covering her eyes with her arm draped on them.

"Time to wake up, it's your engagement tonight and we have so many things to do", oddete's elder sister, aurora spoke in chirpy voice as she pulled the blinds away and let sunshine peek into oddy's room making her groan.

"I don't want to do anything today, so please get the hell out of my room with your twins", oddy groans covering her face with the pillow.

"Paul, Peter, go and play in the garden, I will tell someone to send you muffins in few minutes", aurora tells smiling at her twins to which they clap their hands excitedly then run away from their without a word.

"oddy, you need to get up, we have so many errands to run before your engagement party starts", auroa tells pulling the blanket off her sister making her kick her legs in air trying to attack aurora.

"are you mad?", auroa gasp madly.

"Yes I am mad, because I don't know why am getting forced to get engaged to a Italian mafia boss when am just seventeen!", oddete growls angrily throwing the pillow away and getting up from bed.

"I don't even know his name nor I have seen him", she screams at her elder sister.

Odette was mad because everytime she tried to adjust into her family environment they enlarged their expectations which she had to fulfil but one day she just snapped turning off her ok dad card and became a bratty bitch. But inside she is still the one who cares for every worker in her mansion, every animal who gets hurt, even the plants in her garden which she grew with so much love and care.

Tears started slipping from oddete's eyes and she hugs her sister tightly.

"Am sorry, rora, I didn't mean to speak to you like that", she apologies quickly sobbing on her sister's shoulder.

Aurora bites her cheek to stop crying and tries to be strong for her sister but deep down she knows what her little sister is going to. But they have no other option instead of listening to their father.

"I know...oddy", aurora tells sniffing embracing her sister tightly in her protective hold.

"Oddy... trust me... if you fight this it will hurt a lot, just accept this baby, I know he will love you and treat you as a queen", she assures her sister with her own experience.

"You know I can't do this", oddy cries shaking her head.

"shhh stop crying, last time when I met you, you made your four bodyguards cry which was more like you", auroa tells chuckling sadly.

"They deserved it, they weren't letting me go inside to meet you", she complains wiping her tears as she snorts.

"Am afraid...", oddete tells looking at her sister who's face is tear stained.

"why? Because you don't know him?", Aurora sighs sadly.

"Trust me oddy, I didn't know Dimitri too before I got engaged to him, but when we did he became close and took care of me and loved me", aurora tells making oddy shake her head.

"Dimitri was a kind man that doesn't mean this Italian guy would be the same, consider you got lucky", oddy tells her sister rolling her eyes.

"he would be happy to hear this", aurora tells making her chuckle.

"Am not afraid because of it", oddy tells sadly biting her lower lip tugging her ring of her lip which is at the corner of the lower lip to the right side.

"You know how Russian and Italian mafia hates each other's guts, am afraid they will not let us meet anymore", oddete tells sadly.

"Don't worry, I will talk to Dimitri about this", aurora assures her sister sadly knowing well that Dimitri would never let her close to Italian mafia not even when his sister in law is married to the mafia boss.

He is here just because she is his sister in law and andre requested his presence as he is his elder son in law. But when she gets married she is nothing more than wife of his enemy.

"now let's go and have some girls time", aurora tells pulling her sister up with her and push her into her washroom making oddy chuckle.

Oddete strip her night dress and stands under the shower letting warm water fall on her tired body. Last night she wasn't able to sleep. Who would when their dad tells she has to marry a Italian mafia boss who is just a stranger to her.

She fists her hand angrily pulling her pain to her rage. She clench her teeth and seeth.

"all these happened because of you, I will never forgive you, you aren't taking a wife but your own destruction home", she growls fisting her hair madly.

"I promise".