Smitten: A Mafia Romance — Chapter 47

Sandy was a chatterbox. Korina knew it the moment she set eyes on her and she had no interest in making her acquaintance.

Apparently, Korina was right about her. All the girl did was talk, get things done wrongly and incite fight amongst other Co-workers.

The girl's mouth did all the talking and her brain did no thinking.

Korina would rather have molten larvae poured into her ears than listen to sandy's hearsay right now. The girl just didn't know when to stop.

Unfortunately for her, Mark wasn't around today, so it was she and sandy behind the counter. She wanted to let her know that she didn't care about what she was saying nor did she care about when she had her latest threesomes or who's friends got STD's.

Korina just wanted to enjoy the quietness of the noisy restaurant.

"So apparently James wasn't even into me." Sandy continued, making Korina roll her eyes, who the fuck is James now?

"He was into the girl from literature class and while banging her, he was still texting me and... Oh my, did I ever tell you about how my cat almost got roasted." Korina only nodded having absolutely no idea on what the girl was yapping about now.

"Is that a no or a yes?" She asked twirling her red hair.

"Look sandy..." Korina was Cut short when the girl started to talk again and her shoulders slumped in defeat.

"You know I never really wanted to work at a diner." She rolled her eyes at sandy's statement, why are you even here then? She growled internally.

"In fact, I detest working as a waitress." She added.

Korina palmed her face, Good then get the hell out of here.

"I just don't want to depend on my parents anymore or any of my boyfriends. I want to be an independent woman, get my own stuff and all that but it's really nice letting a man do that for you tho. Like, I wanna bag a rich guy someday, old preferably, he's just gonna keep spending on me while I give him all the sex he wants."

Korina wanted to vanish now.

"I need a fabulous wedding, let's say roughly forty six million dollars budget, a fabulous life style of jets and private islands. You know I am actually not set yet on pursuing my dreams of becoming a..." Korina wanted to peel her skin off, irritation coursing through her. She wondered if Sandy knew how stupid she sounded muttering blatant nonsense, not a single sentence made sense.

"I got to go pee." Korina finally finding a way to break free from her.

"Oh." Sandy said, "Hurry up, when you come back, I would tell you about how I lost my virginity in the school toilet."

She groaned as she heard Sandy's words while going to the bathroom, I don't think I am ever coming back, jeez!

Korina put the tap on, she took some water in her hand and splashed it on her face, she took a deep sigh as her skin absorbed the coolness of the water. She looked into the bathroom mirror and leaned over the sink, her hands grabbing the sides.

Korina gazed at her reflection in the mirror, drops of water still on her dark skin. She had bags under her eyes, her facial expression read stressed, she took in everything and sighed again, that's all she had strength for these days, sighing.

She hadn't spoken to Cole since their last argument, it's been two weeks now.

That morning after they made out and argued at night. He brought up the issue again and they ended up arguing and she left. He hadn't called her since then and when she tried to call him, it went straight to voicemail.

She picked her phone from her apron pocket and tried calling him again, it went straight to voicemail as usual.

She sighed in defeat and exited the bathroom making her way to the counter to hear Sandy blabbler all day.

Daniella rushed round and about the apartment trying to set things aright. She had to make sure things were perfect so that when Landon arrived home, he would be pleased and they would talk things out and be happy again.

She got prettied up and put on a knee length emerald colored dress, it had spaghetti straps and a plunging neckline revealing the right amount of cleavage. As she gazed at her reflection in the mirror, she smiled, definitely he would be happy to see her. She got her bun loose and let her blonde hair down her nape.

Perfect, She smirked.

The doorbell rang, Daniella jumped off the couch excitedly and rushed to the door.

She opened it and saw landon standing there. He was dressed in a suit and he held a brief case.

His facial expression read, not so happy and excited to see you Daniella, but she didn't mind, maybe he was tired, She reasoned before throwing herself on him and hugging him tightly.

"I missed you." Daniella said excitedly, "I missed you, blondie." She giggled using the nickname she had for him due to his very light blonde hair.

"I told you never to call me that." He huffed with a frown, he didn't hug her back either, he just pushed her away and made his way into the apartment.

"It's been months, Landon." Daniella said following him, "Aren't you happy to see me?" She asked.

"Look lady." He turned to her harshly, "I have had a long flight and I am tired." He fell on the couch, putting his brief case aside, he reclined comfortably.

"I am sorry." She mumbled, her feelings were hurt, why is he like this towards me? "I cooked dinner, your favorite."

"I am not hungry." Landon said taking off his shoes.

"You've had a long flight, surely you must be." She persisted.

"I had food on the plane. I am not hungry."

"Desert?" She asked.

"No Daniella, stop fucking pestering me." She watched him walk up the stairs straight to their bedroom, he didn't even glance back at her. She was fighting to keep back her tears, why is he being so mean to me? Is this even a relationship anymore?

She was about to follow him upstairs when she heard his phone ringing and suddenly he came rushing for the stairs, she acted on impulse and reached for the phone before he could get to it.

"Daniella." He growled, "Hand over the phone now."

"No." She shook her head, "Are you hiding something?"

"That's none of your business woman!" His words came out harshly, too harsh, "Fucking give me my phone."

"No." She tried operating the phone to see who was calling and before she could do that, he was before her and she felt his hand come down on her cheek.

The sound of the slap resounding in the room.