The Twin Brothers

Hearing Alfano’s stories, makes Liana finally realize. This whole time she’s hiding from the real world. She comes back here by herself and not by force. How stupid she is. Her real parents are the mafia and one of the round table members.

“Your parents love you. But for your safety, they have to leave you behind and sacrifice themselves. You must ask yourself, why they don’t bring you along when they kill themselves.” He stood up and puts away the dishes in the sink. “Your parents told me… they want you to have a great future, great family, great school and college, great life. They don’t want to take away that stuff from their princess.”

“W–Why you come here then?” She asks.

“We need a leader. Like we said just now, our clan needs you.” Al answers.

“What… are you t–trying to say?” She frowns.

“Come back, Rosie Thaver. This is not your clan.” Al words only make the twin fume in anger. “Yes, they have been taking care of you but you don’t belong here. You belong on your father’s throne.”

“You have no right to tell where she belongs!!” Enzo slams the table.

“She always belongs here. She has been our princess while you watch her from afar like an idiot.” Felix agreed.

“She is Thaver’s daughter!! You can’t just take away people’s property!!” He raises his voice.

“But she is also ours!!” Enzo fight back.

Liana stood up abruptly. All attention is on her. “I’m full.” She went out of the kitchen and Alfano rushed after her, and so did the twin. The two guys were left behind with food in their mouths.

“So… should we join too or… not?” Adam arches his eyebrows.

“Nahh~ Let them have their drama there. We will join later. Besides, we have a lot of food left.” Felix smirks and scoops more food onto his plate. Adam rolls his eyes.

“It not like we starve, Felix.” He mumbles.

Alfano stops in front of the girl, “Rosie, please. We need you. We need you.” He pleaded.

“B–But…” She fiddled with her fingers. “All of this… t–too much.”

“I know. Can you at least check our clan for a bit at least? Maybe… with that, you can come up with decisions.” He suggests.

Liana gulps. She turns to the twin and they already looking at her. Their eyes showed scared and angry. Scared to lose her and angry at Alfano. She turns to the guy, “C–Can you leave for today? Tomorrow, I–I will decide whether go or n–not.” She states.

“If that’s what you comfortable with then… okay. I will come back tomorrow.” Alfano gives her a sad smile. He went towards the twins. “Thank you for the lunch just now. I will take my leave now.” Before he could turn around, Enzo grabs his arms. “What?”

“Any decision she makes, you have to respect it.” He spoke darkly.

They have a staring contest. But Alfano broke it after a minute. He sighs and pulls his arms back before walking out of the door. The door slams close making Liana flinches at the sounds. Her real parents died and left the mafia clan for her? She doesn’t even know anything about them. She is just a normal girl.

“Little one.” Leo hugged her from behind. “What your pretty head thinking about?” His hands slowly caressed her waist.

“I–Is Thaver my father?”

Enzo stood in front of her making her stand between them. “Yes. Do you remember the house you go? You scan your hand and you can go to that house. No one can except family members.”

“W–What if it just malfunctions?” She looks at him with her doe eyes.

“If you don’t believe it, we can go check the DNA.” He suggests. Liana sighs looking down. “We know this is too much for you. As much as I hate that guy but… he was right. They need you there. At the same time, you have the right to reject it and hand it over to someone else you can rely on.” His hands came to her cheeks, caressing them.

“I–I’m scared…” She is at the edge of crying. “Everything… i–is mess u–up. I–I didn’t sign for this.” Her bursts out make the twin looks worried.

“Hey. Everything will be fine. I know everything turns upside down. But, trust us. Everything will turn great if you stay stronger.” Enzo bends down to her height. “We always are there for you.”

Liana crying on his shoulder with the twin hugging her.

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One punch hit Alex’s face. He groaned in pain holding his jaw. The guy stops when Damien holds his shoulder. “That’s enough for today, dude Thank you.” He said and usher the guy to walk away. Damien kneels in front of hurting Alex. “Now you see how important that girl is to me. Without her, I wouldn’t be able to take over Thaver’s clan.”

“It happens so suddenly, Dam.” Alex clenched his fist. “The twin found out about it and I don’t know why and how.” He states.

“You stupid. I know I shouldn’t have relied on you.” He sighs.

“Listen. I help you with everything. Without me…” Both of them stood up. “… you wouldn’t know anything about Darliana.” He states the truth.

“But. You mess things up. I’m sure if I’m the one who does that work, Rosie will be here already.” Damien scoffs and sits on his office chair. “Now, because of your dumb act, we have to face the twins. Even worst, Darliana is now probably being surrounded with a lot of protection.” He grunts.

“We need a plan. I don’t think that girl will sign up to be the next heir. She will be freaking out and need some time to think. It will give us time.” Alex explains still rubbing his jaw.

“Tell our men to locate her and watch her from afar. Watch every move of her.” He demands.

Alex just nods and went out. Suddenly, his phone rang. He knows who is it, and with annoyance, he picks it up. “What, dad?” He sighs.

“You ungrateful child!! How dare you betrayed everyone!? HOW DARE YOU BETRAYED YOUR FATHER!!” Matthias yells.

He rolls his eyes. “Yeah, whatever. Is there something important you want to tell me? No? Okay bye.”

“Alex Matthias. You have to stop this!! Betrayed would never give you anything better. Damien just using you and you know that!!” His father snaps at him.

“Dad. He better than you who keep abandoning me just because of that stupid twin.” He spits out as if it was venom.

“I would never abandon you, son. I know you feel like I have been throwing you out but son, I just want the best for you. But you never give me a chance–”

“Chance and chance!! It is always a chance!! You never once praise me for whatever I do or ask what I like!! You just keep telling me to be like Leonardo and Lorenzo!! But did you ever ask me what I want to be!!??” Alex yells.

Matthias froze by his sudden burst out. Now, he realizes it. He too absorbs to make his son the perfect one how he wants. But now, he ruin it. “Now you see, dad. You never love me. You never did.” With that, he hangs up. He let out a sigh and goes to do his work.

“You think he’s hiding somewhere?” Enzo asks, standing in front of the bathroom door, waiting for Liana to finish whatever she did in there.

Matthias sighs. “Kind of. What I’m sure of is he staying with Damien.”

“Can’t you detect his phone log or something?” He asks.

“I wish I can but he was smart enough to get rid of the phone before I could detect her.” Mat grunts, rubbing his forehead. Can’t believe his son involve in this.

“If that so… send Kelvin the phone log,” Enzo said.

“I told you he–”

“Just give Alex a phone log that he used this whole time with you. Doesn’t matter the new one or old.” He immediately said. He can hear Matthias typing on his laptop. “You got it?”

“Yes. I will send it to Kelvin.”

“Great.”

Matthias clears his throat. “I’m sorry if I keep denying Alex. I should have believed you guys.” He sighs.

“It, fine brother. If we were in your shoes, even we wouldn’t believe it was our son.” Enzo chuckles. Then, he heard something drop in the bathroom. His concern washed over his body.

“Still, I’m sorry. Anyway, how was Darli–I mean, Rosie?” He asks since he hasn’t heard the news about her.

“She’s… fine.” Enzo frowns, pressing his ear on the door. “Hey, Mat. I have to go. We will talk later, yeah?” He asks.

“Yeah. sure.” With that, they hang up.

Enzo slid his phone back into his pocket and knock on the door. “Baby? Are you okay? I heard something fall?” He asks. But nothing. There’s no response. This just makes the guy worried. “Baby!! Can you open the door!!” He starts banging on the door.

When there’s still no response, he decides to knock over the door. Enzo kicks the door over and over again. The door bursts open. “Darliana!?” He looks around. There’s the little girl sitting on the ground with a toothbrush in her mouth, biting it. “Oh no, baby. Are you okay?” He rushes to kneel in front of her.

Instead of answering, she just laughed. It makes Enzo confused. “Oh. Are you in little space?” He asks. She just blabbered, like a baby sounds. Somehow, it sounds so cute. “I don’t think… you are in toddler space.” He mumbles.

“Daddy!!” She reaches out her hands. “Up! Up!”

The guy stiff when heard the word. Daddy? Did this girl just call him daddy? Seriously? Enzo’s jaw dropped and his eyes wide open in shock. They never talk about this daddy type even though they are dominant. But never talk about it.

The sounds of crying make his snaps out of his thought. She cried because she thought Enzo don’t want to pick her up. “Oh baby, I’m sorry. I just… stunned a little moment.” He picks her up to his hip.

Liana sniffs and puts her face on his neck. “Let’s go downstairs. But before that…” He tries to pry the toothbrush out of her hand but it just makes her grip tighten on it. “Okay fine. You can keep it but don’t put it in your mouth. Understand?” Enzo uses his firm voice.

The little girl just looked at him with her innocent eyes. He can’t imagine this girl handling one mafia clan. Not going to say she’s weak but just couldn’t imagine. “I take that as understand.”

Leo looks at the file. Darliana’s profile that he took from Damien’s place before. He got everything about her even her picture. When he compared the picture with Thaver and his wife, they sure look alike. His phone vibrates. When he looks at who messages him, he sighs.

“Great. The news reaches him already.” He mumbles.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

“No. No. You can’t put that in your mouth.” Enzo’s voice makes him turn his head. There he is, holding their girl on his hip. “Dude, help me here.” He sounds so desperate.

“What’s going on?” Leo walks towards them.

“I think she is too tired with all the information she got so she age regressor. Not toddler this time. Maybe even younger.” He explains trying to stop Liana from biting the toothbrush. “She didn’t talk. She just… blabbered some baby words or something.”

“I see.” Leo took her from him. “Is my little one feel younger?” He tickles her stomach and makes her laugh. Look like, she wants to take a break from everything first. “Adam!!”

Adam appeared with an apple in his hand. “What?” He arches his eyebrows. Leo handed over Liana to him. The girl was distracted by Adam’s hair. She keeps pulling it. “Ouch!! That’s hurt!!” He whines.

“Watch her for a minute. I need to talk with my brother first. Oh!! And she is little space. Not toddler but even younger.” He said. Before Adam could reply, they were already out of the living room.

“Great.” He sighs. “Ouch!! Liana!!” He pulls away from her hands from his hand. The action makes Liana start to cry. “Oh my gosh!! Peanut, I’m sorry. It’s just you pull it too hard. Um… you know what… let’s find Felix.” Adam bounced her on his hip making the girl giggle.

“You know he got a beautiful hair more than me.” He whispers and smirks. It seems like he got an evil plan for his friend.