Smitten: A Mafia Romance — Chapter 68

Korina didn't get rid of Jace on the first date as she vowed, in fact she had gone on many other simpler dates with him after that and she had taken more than a liking towards him.

"So are you guys like a thing now?" Daniella asked as she watched Korina apply extra mascara on her lashes.

"No Dan!" Korina sighed, "We are just two friends hanging out and having lots of fun."

"But you like him uhn?" She was smiling at her teasingly.

"Not deep feelings idiot but only as a person I love to hang out with." Korina rolled her eyes at her cousin, "And quit trying to get me into admitting my feelings, I do not have feelings for him."

"Uh uh... Whatever you say girl." Daniella stood up from the bed as Korina signalled her to come help with her zip, "Why haven't you made Anne and I formally meet him yet?"

"You haven't cause there is nothing between us, we are just friends." She let out an exasperated puff and grabbed her hand bag, "Drop the issue dear."

"Fine! Fine!" Daniella raised her hands, "Have a nice and safe day at work."

"Thank you." They air kissed.

She bade her cousin farewell and rushed out of the house.

Korina walked into the restaurant and groaned, a long irritating groan.

Mr.Russo was right there waiting for her with a bunch of what she knew not in his hands.

"Good morning beautiful." He said in a sing song voice that sounded like nails being scratched on a black board.

She cringed and walked right past him behind the counter and into the kitchen.

"He is here again?" Mark asked on seeing Korina enter the kitchen with a scowl on her face, she was literally huffing and puffing.

"Damn yes! He is." She growled, "I have to come every morning and see his annoying ass face, like who the fuck does he this he is?"

"I wonder myself." Mark shook his head.

"Men!" Korina shrieked, "So damn annoying."

Mark rolled his eyes, "Me included?"

"Oh come on, didn't mean it like that." She reached out and playfully ruffled his hair, "you are never annoying to me."

"Yea, right." He scoffed, "Jace dropped by earlier and stay away from my hair, it gets me my girlfriend all the time." He warned putting his hair back in place.

"He did?" She looked up at him and he saw the way her face lighted up at the mention of his name, "What did he say?"

"You don't like him huh?" He snorted, "Just look at your face at the mention of his name."

"Ughh! Not you too." Korina frowned, "Would you all stop it already?"

"Your face literally lighted up when I said he dropped by." Mark said, "Stop denying your feelings for him already."

"I do not like him." She sighed, "We are just friends and what did he say?"

"He brought flowers and a box of chocolates." He said, "I placed them in your locker and hmmm..."

"Hmmm...what?"

"I ate a little of the chocolate."

"Glutton!" She growled and smacked him before leaving.

Korina got to the locker room and went straight hers, putting in the key combination, she opened the locker.

In there sat a small bouquet of yellow roses, they were are favourites, she smiled, how did he know?

The last time she had received yellow roses was when she still had her stalker on her neck, she shuddered at the thought and bent to pick up the box of chocolates.

Mark ate a little out if it alright, he ate twelve pieces out of fifteen.

Jace really felt like pulling the trigger and shooting Russo right between his eyes and also on his mouth cause he talked too much.

He wanted so badly to have the man dead at his feet, he riled him up way too much.

"Waoh! Waoh! Waoh!" Russo said, "Calm down Jace or should I call you your real name?"

"What the fuck are you doing here at my work place?" He growled still holding up the gun, I should just shoot him, finish him up and be done with his ass, He so wanted to carry out his thoughts.

"I came to pay my best rival a visit and hang out with him." Russo stated calmly taking a seat, he crossed is legs and relaxed comfortably, "My greatest rival in the mafia, business and now in a woman."

"Stay the fuck away from her." Jace growled knowing fully well he was talking about Korina, he knew about Russo's plans, his moves on her even tho she hadn't mentioned all about it to him, he knew it all, he had eyes on her always.

"Hmm...should I?" He stormed his chin thoughtfully, an act that irritated Jace, "What do you say I tell her about you?"

"What the hell do you mean?" Jace growled.

"I will tell her the whole truth about you and she would like to know about her dead mother too, yunno?" He was getting more on Jace's nerves by the minute.

"You wouldn't fucking dare me Russo." He growled at him, "Don't fucking push me."

"Does she know how filthy rich you are? Does she know you are a murderer and you run one of the deadliest mafia organization?"

"Why can't you fucking stay out of my business?" He had dropped the gun now, his fists were balled by his sides with strained knuckles and his face was red with anger.

Russo smirked enjoying Jace's reaction, "How about I tell her how daddy passed you around and used you daily as his sex toy?"

That statement pushed Jace to the edge, he leapt over the office table to where Russo was and tackled him to the ground, he wrapped a hand around his neck and landed a punch right in his face.

Russo screamed, he knew he was no match for him as each punch descended , Jace's fist got red with blood.

He was ready to beat the living day lights out of the man.

"And what's his explanation for not wanting to see me?" Korina asked, she was hurt.

Jace had ignored and cancelled all their dates, he hadn't texted nor called nor did he pick or reply hers.

She was happy that she hadn't seen Russo's face in a while but Jace ignoring her ruined everything.

"Is he...yunno...done?" She asked.

"It's not like that Korina." Ade tried to pacify her, he didn't know how to explain things.

He looked at his best friend on the bed, fast asleep and still confined with the metal clasps.

"He's just going through hard times now." He said.

"And is that why he hasn't spoken to me or anything for days?" She asked.

"Look..."

"Save it Ade, I know, I get the memo, he's done." She growled, "I don't ever want to see you or that piece of shit that calls himself Jace ever again." She put an end to the call and fell back on her bed.

Korina curled up and sniffed, this was exactly why she didn't anything to do with a man.

Now another fool she had begun to like had stood her up again.

She should have stuck with her vow on her mother's grave but she didn't and here she was crying over man.