The Twin Brothers

Someone shakes her body to wake her up. Liana just groans and snuggles her face more to her pillow. But that person wouldn’t stop unless she was awake.

“Baby, wake up. You don’t want to be late for your first day of being the next leader, right?” Enzo spokes. She only whines and continues to sleep. The guy chuckles. He knows this is too early for her. Usually, she woke up at 9 or 10 am like that. “I know it early, little baby. But, you have to wake up. Alfano will be delighted to know the news.”

When he said that, Liana immediately woke up. She sits up, rubbing her eyes with yawns. “Mmmm, w–why so early?” She asks.

“So that, we can plan our day out. Come on.” He picks her up and ushers her to the bathroom. “I’ll wait for you here and prepare your clothes.” Liana shuffles towards the bathroom lazily. If she has to wake up this early every day, she has to think twice before agreeing to be the next leader.

Enzo pulls out a crop top sweater and short sports pants. Seeing Liana wearing short pants will be very odd since she always wearing flowy skirts. Something that covers her skin up.

Around 20 to 30 minutes, Liana finally finished. She steps out of the bathroom with a fluffy white towel. Enzo looks away quickly since her white pale skin is so mesmerizing.

“Um… I have already picked out your clothes. Get dressed and have breakfast, can you do that baby?” He clears his throat and awkwardly looks away. Liana frowns in confusion.

“Ennie, a–are you okay? You look red.” She spoke.

“Yeah. I’m fine. I’ll be downstairs.” With that, he immediately went out.

Leo puts down the last pancake and tossed away the spatula. There’s tiramisu also on the table. Since Liana bake a lot before. Once in a while eating sweet wouldn’t hurt right? He took a seat at the same time, his twin walks in flustered.

It was so rare to see his twin blushing.

“What’s wrong with you?” Leo asks as he picks out the pancake.

“Tell me once again why Liana was not ours yet?” He huffs and sits on his chair.

Leo chuckles. “I see what’s going on here. Are you hard just looking at her in the towel? Or did she do something that made you turn on?”

“She is the towel and it so–ughh!!! I just want to mark her beautiful skin and feel her!!” He grunts, rubbing his face in frustration.

“Chill, dude. It is not the right time. After everything settles on, then we can make a move.” Leo took a bite of his cook.

Enzo is about to say something but the sound of people coming into the kitchen makes him stop. The door kitchen open reveals Liana, shyly peeking her head inside. Her odd appearance makes Leo arches his eyebrows at his twin.

“What? She can’t train in the skirt, idiot.” When Enzo say that, he mouthed ‘o’.

“Good morning.” Liana grins. Hearing she not stutters makes them smile. It was great progress.

“You do not stutter. Good job, little one.” Leo praises her.

The girl smiles sheepishly as she looks down. She took a seat beside Enzo and opposite Leo. Her plate was already filled with food. “What we are doing first?” She asks as she stuffs her mouth with food.

“First, we go to your clan and announced the good news. We can come along if you want? Since you will be the next leader of that clan, we can ask permission from you.” Enzo states.

Liana just nods her head. Is she thinking, about what kind of training she will have? Is she ready for shooting and fighting? Is she ready to kill… people? But this burden in her heart wouldn’t go away if she didn’t do this.

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She rings the bell. The guards outside of the mansion let them in so easily when saw Liana. Now, they are in front of the front door. The door opens a second ago, revealing Terry. His face become shocked at the same time happy.

“Darliana!?” He gasps. Liana smile at him and waved a little. “Oh my gosh!! You came back!!” He brings her to hug her. The twin hands twitch seeing it but manage to calm down.

“Hello, T–Terry.” She grins.

“Come in. All of you.” He opens the doors. Well, of course, he bowed down to the twin since they were more powerful than them. Bowed as respect. “What makes you come here? Alfano said… you… you wouldn’t come back.” Terry said in a sad tone.

“Where’s Alfano?” Enzo asks.

“He’s in his office. Lately, he has been stressing himself. He trying to find a good person to take over this clan.” Terry explains. Liana feels guilty for leaving him just like that. “Is it true… you wouldn’t be the next leader, Darliana?” He asks quietly.

“Before. But can you call him? I–I got great news for all of you.” She smiles.

The boy nods and rushes upstairs.

Alfano checked the papers with sighs every time he notice something wrong with it. The door bursts open and he almost snaps at that person, but when he sees the youngest member, he stops.

“Terry, you know it’s not good to barge in like this.” He scolds him slightly.

“Sorry about that. Big bro, someone downstairs wants to meet you!!” Terry grins.

“Tell them, I’m busy.”

“But big bro, it’s someone you wish to come.” He said.

“I’m busy, Terry. Go do your work. I have no time to mess around.” Al pinching his bridge nose.

“Okay. If you say so.” The boy shrugs his shoulder. He walks away but stops at the doorway. “I will ask Rosie to go home then.” When he said that, Alfano abruptly stood up.

He looks at the boy with wide eyes. “Rosie Thaver is downstairs!?”

“Yes. With the dangerous twin.” Terry said with a smile.

Liana and the others sitting in the living room, waiting. She keeps trying to reach out for the candy on the coffee table but Enzo keeps pulling her back. Leo grabs it and pulls the candy from her. She whined and Enzo tried to stop her.

“Just one, p–please!!” She pleaded.

“No.” Leo firmly spokes.

“You eat tiramisu this morning, baby. If you keep eating sweet, you will end up with bad teeth.” Enzo agreed.

Liana is about to say something but the living room door opens. There’s he is. Alfano standing there, looking at her with shock. She clears her throat and stood up.

“Al.”

“You… You came back.” Al slowly steps forward.

“I’m sorry f–for leaving you.” She looks down.

“It’s fine. We shouldn’t have forced you.” He smiles.

Liana smiles back. “Can I–I know the first thing I have to do with being a mafia leader?” Her question makes Alfano and Terry shocked. Seeing their shocked expression makes Liana frowns. “I haven’t t–talk about it?”

“Little one. You haven’t told them.” Leo calmly spokes behind.

“Oh yeah.” She giggles. “I agreed to be the next leader.” Her statements only give sparkling joy to their body. The guards who were eavesdropping also jumped in happy.

“Are you fucking serious!?” Al yells. She just nods. “QUEEN IS BACK EVERYONE!!!!!!!” All her people yell in happiness meanwhile she and the twin just watch. But smiles appeared on their face.

“I’m sorry for t–taking too long.” She apologized.

Al just smiles and goes towards her. He slowly held her hands. “It’s okay. We know how it felt with all of this so sudden. It must be too much for you. But don’t worry. We are all here to help you, my lady.” He bowed and follow the all men behind.

“Thank you.” She smiles. “But no need to bow. I’m uhh… a–awkward.”

“Get used to it then,” Enzo smirks. She pouted.

“After we sign everything, we will tell you what the thing you have to do.” Al spokes. He took out a knife and one guard bring a small bowl towards them. “You want to be the next leader?”

“Wait. We do it now?” Terry asks. He nods.

“Knife?” Liana frowns.

Enzo holds her shoulder. “This swearing part. You have to swear for your life that you will take over this clan, be the next leader, and take responsibility for it.” He explains. It reminds of her when the twin cut their skin to use blood as a promise to her foster parents. It means, it is serious if involves blood.

She took a deep breath and let it out. Al holds her one hand and presses the knife on her palm. The blood starts to come out and slide down, dripping into the small bowl.

“Say anything you want to swear for.” He said.

“I swear to be the great leader of this clan, take responsibility and take care of my people. I also swear I will stand for my parents and end the people who kill my loved one.” When Liana say that, everyone was shocked except the twin. Well, who expects the soft women to be this bold.

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“Stop. I’m t–tired…” She fell to the ground.

After so many boring papers to sign and read, they finally do. But not before Liana did her swear with blood. The progress seems to go well but not with her training. They had just finished their jogging and it was only three laps.

“Come on, little one. It’s not that bad. We only had three laps.” Leo kneels. His white polo shirt was drenched in his sweat making it see-through. Oh well, of course, his abs can be seen. His wet hair dripped to his face.

“T–Three laps not enough?” She asks.

“Nope.”

Terry finishes his three laps. “Alfano always force us to run 30 laps when I first time came here. When I think it again, why did I stay and still alive?” He talking.

“30–what!!??” Liana yells.

“See? Even they got 30 laps. You just three.” Leo states.

“But L–Lili. It’s too much…” She whines.

Leo sighs. He should train her body early when the time she lives with them. “Okay. We make it like this. We start slowly. First, we will jog five laps every day. Then, after you feel like five laps you are still not tired, we will add five more. And so on. Deal?” He shows his pinky.

Her lips become a thin line. But that is not so bad as being forced to run 30 laps on your first day. She wrapped her small pinky around his. “Deal. W–What I got?”

“If you can finish five laps and so on, I will give you one sweet food every time you did it. Not more than one sweet.” He bribes her. Even it will get a smack from Enzo.

Liana stood up. She pulls Terry’s hands and starts running. “Let’s go!!!”

“Wait. Why did I come along!? I’m tired!!” Terry yells.

“Y–You said you run 30 laps so no complain from you!!” She giggles.

Leo chuckles. He turns toward Enzo who just watching them from afar. He’s in charge of fixing Liana’s physical strength. While Enzo is in charge of her mind and how she fights and shot. He shows a thumbs up to Enzo before running along with those two.

“She really strong girl.” Alfano appeared beside him.

“She is.” Enzo smiles.

“Is Damien making any move yet?” He asks.

“No. There’s nothing coming from him. I’m afraid he plan something. Especially knowing Liana already sign up to be the next heir of this clan.” Enzo sighs.

“How about Matthias’ son, Alex.”

“Matthias didn’t get any news from him. Besides, my men still find the location area of them.” Enzo took out his phone to check if Kelvin was found it or not.

“I’m willing to help if that’s what you want.” Al offers.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“Great. I will ask Kelvin to send the phone log to you. We just need to find his location area.” Enzo explains. The guy just nods. “Just get ready. Damien will make a move anytime, anywhere. As long as he got what he want.”