The Last Empire [Mafia and Roses #3]

PRELUDE 2

LUCY’S POV

As soon as Kiki, mistakes Alejandro’s room for hers, I slip from the wall to the tiled floor and whimper as I sniff. My shoulder aches from dragging Kiki and my eyes stings so bad too.

“If it was this hard for you, why did you let it happen?” Colton asks as he approaches me and I move my right thumb and index finger to pinch my nose .

“They have been separated for way too long. Drinks?” I offer and he puts out his hand.

Taking his hand, he pulls me to my feet and I mumble a grateful word before taking off my hat. Moving my free hand to the band holding my hair, I pull it off and shake my head to arrange my hair as we both walk towards the bar.

“Two glasses of Martini.” I order and pull out a stool for myself.

“Vodka for me.” He tells the bartender as he sits too and I shift my gaze to the scanty dance floor and empty tables.

“Here, you go.” The bartender returns after minutes and he takes out his wallet to pay for the drinks.

“You shouldn’t pay yet. We might have a lot to drink.” I say and he nods.

“Maybe you are right.” He replies and I raise my glass.

“Cheers to a drunk night of Martini and Vodka.” I make a toast and he returns my words with a small smile before clinking his glass containing vodka with mine.

Taking off the glasses, I move my half filled glass to my lips as he does the same.

“What was my sister like? Did you get a chance to speak to my brother and have you ever talked to my birth mother? What were they like?” I cannot refrain myself from the questions bubbling through my mind.

I know my birth mother never cared to check up on me despite knowing where I was. I know I couldn’t take it all when I found out, but is it bad for me to know what they were like? I just want to know how well they all lived without me. I wish they lived in as much pain as I have felt while growing up.

I wish I could wake my mother up just to question her. If my sister is alive somewhere I want to meet her just to ask her questions too and even my brother just to ask him how he felt when he saw me. I just what to know if he was aware of the fact that his sisters were twins.

“A refill.” I tell the bartender and he budges.

“Who is your mother?” He asks as I gulp down the content in my glass.

“I got to know her as Lady Tee, is she a nice person?” I answer and he sighs.

“I met her a couple of times, but I was only able to have quite a lengthy conversation with her once. She cared so much about Kiki. I once thought she was Kiki’s birth mother.” He answers my question and I sniff.

I still hate Kiki so much. She exists to take my place and it is just so hurtful. First, she came and took Alejandro from me, then my mother took her in as her daughter and she also had my brother as her best friend.

Maybe I shouldn’t have done what I did tonight. I shouldn’t have gotten her drunk and help her mistake Alejandro’s room for hers. Alejandro has promised to finally get rid of his feelings for her and everything that reminds him of her, but that is what he says always. He keeps on telling himself and reminding himself of how much she hurt him, but never seem to do as he has always reminded himself.

He is still very much obsessed with her and I am very much just there to pass time.

I need to get a life. I need to be happy, I need to make myself more important than someone used to pass time. I have been blindly in love with him for years, giving all the love I never had and filling my thoughts with positive words that everything would be fine again one day. I should have thought about this long before.

“Allison, was everything to me. My first love and we were together for years. She was a mix of sweet and strict. She always stood her ground no matter what. No one could make her back off easily, except if she really wanted to herself. She was hard on the outside and soft inside. All day she could hold in all of her pains and grieves, but when she finally gets to be in my arms later at night; she lets everything out. It was never only the s*x. She was my daily motivation and the woman behind my successful music career and I loved her to the point of death. I could die for Allison, I never let the thoughts of ever having to lose her cross my mind. I never for once imagined she wouldn’t be with me in this years. We talked so many times about how we were going to build our family, how many children we were going to have, the numerous vacations we were going to have; until she ruined it all.”  He tells me and I place down my glass for a refill.

“How? I mean how did you two end up apart?” I ask and he gulps down some of his vodka before shifting his gaze to me.

“She was screwing my older brother behind my back.” His voiced is laced with so much pain and anger, you could flinch from the depth.

She is truly my twin sister.

“You are still not done with her.” I mumble as I recall how he dragged me forcefully and unbutton my dress just to find a tattoo.

COLTON’S POV.

I still can’t refrain my mind from drifting to how foolish I was to let Kiki go. I shouldn’t have yelled at her. I should have waited for everything to be right. If only I was patient enough, I would have found out the truth without ruining everything we have built.

And now? I have Allison’s look alike right in front of me. Reminding me of every single sweet memory I have of her and most of all; every single pain I felt when she decided to screw my brother.

“I wish I didn’t listen to you. If I could move on from Allison and love Kiki as much as I do even till now, then why can’t Kiki move on. She was beginning to love me, she would eventually love me too and maybe if you had given Alejandro a little more time, then he might begin to love you. He would not be able to ignore you forever. You would shower him with more love and I would shower Kiki with so much love more than Alejandro ever had to offer.” I say and she laughs.

“Those two were made for each other and every other person that gets between them is used to pass time. If the two of them are still together in that room as we speak, then there are still some sparks between them.” She replies and place down her glass for another refill.

She is really trying to get tipsy or drunk. She is pain too, maybe she regrets helping them end up together too.

“Do I really remind you of her?” I know she is referring to Allison.

Yes, she does reminds me of Allison, but she isn’t Allison as someone who was once close to Allison I can tell the difference in their personality and a at a very intensive look, you can tell they do not really look alike, they have different eye colors and a slightly different nose.

“No.” I respond and she lets out a sigh of relief.

“You are actually very handsome. You know, I was really happy when I found out you were going to get engaged to Kiki. I was extremely happy, I thought that would take Alejandro’s mind off Kiki but as usual I was totally wrong. Let’s talk about something else. Let’s not talk about our past or Kiki or Alejandro. Let’s talk about ourselves or maybe…” I cut her off when I raise her chin with my fingers and look into her eyes before locking my lips with hers.

“You two can get a room.” The lady sitting at the far end of the bar shouts and I deepen the kiss.

“I am sorry.” I reply sternly and make a move for the exit.