His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika novel Chapter 304

Chapter 304

Marvin

“She can absolutely not stay here. I don’t know what the hell Panter is thinking-

I entered the library, searching for my mom. Elena, who was exhausted, had decided to take a nap, which gave me enough time to think about my decision.

“Yes, I know Marvin.” My mom yawned, getting up from her chair. She threw her book onto the side table and walked closer. “So, what are you going to do now?”

It wasn’t my intention to let her stay here, but kicking her out was also not an option. I didn’t want her near the Castillo’s, and especially not in the lion’s den-as if one dinner wasn’t bad enough.

We were not an ordinary family, and anyone directly involved with us had to be prepared to their lives at stake. I took my distance to protect her, and this was not what I wanted.

put

I had to get her out of here, and I had to do it quickly.

“Are you done with the preparations for the house?” I asked. “Yes, you can move in next week.” My mom confirmed.

That was good news. That meant Elena could move in with me until we could come up with a perfect solution. “Good, Elena’s moving in with me.”

“Oh wow.” My mom frowned.

“Oh wow, what?”

“Nothing.” She smirked. “I’m sorry, but what is she exactly to you?”

“What?”

She let out a frustrated sigh. “Why do you want to take care of her?”

Why did I want to take care of her? She was the only regular person I could talk to. She needed my help, and she was my friend-so it was only normal for me to take care of her. “Just because.”

“I think you feel guilty because you couldn’t take care of Tiago-so you moved on to Elena instead.” My mom concluded. “Because you feel obligated to protect someone to make yourself believe that you’re a good person….that’s in your nature, and that’s who you are.

I didn’t utter a word. My mom had a point, and I hated it whenever she was right. I couldn’t

take care of my brother when he needed my help, but I could take care of Elena. “Since when did

you become a psychologist?”

“Did you see those bruises on her wrist?” I quickly changed the subject. The thought of someone hurting Elena made my blood boil. No man should hurt a woman, and especially not a father. We could say a lot about Mario Castillo, but even he would not lay his hand on

Women.

My mom lowered her head. “I did-”

“I should just kill her dad and her brother for being useless-”

“Marvin! “My mom’s loud voice cut me off, waking me up from my darkest thoughts. “We can’t just eliminate people because you feel like it!” She hissed. “You’re better than that.”

“I know, I know.”

“And lower your voice.” My mom whispered. “You know the maids like to gossip about everything.” She spoke as she made her way to the window. I followed my mom and watched as my dad and Victor stepped out of the car.

“You know, this is how I stalk you and Panther.” My mom shared. “Since I got nothing else to do other than taking care of Tiago, I made it my personal job.”

Well, then she wasn’t very good at it.If she were any good, she would’ve noticed the unfortunate atmosphere after my last encounter with Panther. I was still confused about my best friend being my nephew’s dad and did not know what to do.

The safest thing for both of us was to ignore it, so I did. I hadn’t told my dad, my mom-or even Karina that I was aware. It wouldn’t do any good.

Maybe that was the reason why I wanted to take care of Elena. She deserved it because she was one of the few who would never lie to me.

“Satan and Lilith are home. I better go talk to them.” I sighed, preparing myself to leave. “What did they do to deserve those nicknames?” My mom chuckled. If anyone knew why they deserved those nicknames, it had to be her.

“What didn’t they do?”

After leaving the library, I went straight to my dad’s office and knocked on the door. The door got opened by Victor, who was clearly not that pleased to see, and stepped aside so I could enter. Trust me. I wasn’t that happy to see him either.

My dad looked up from his desk. “Marvin, nice timing.” He greeted me. “We were just discussing what our next move should be.”

A mocking chuckle escaped from Victor’s lips. “This is what happens when you don’t do anything.”

I did everything in my power to ignore the sound of Victor’s voice and sat down.

“Don’t you think the Hernandez’ are too quiet?” My dad mentioned. Unimpressed, I shrugged my shoulders. “I don’t know. You told me Freddie has changed, so perhaps he had

a wake-up call after we hurt his son and decided to let it rest?”