Chapter 2 Episode 2

MADE FOR EACH OTHER

WRITTEN BY SUNNY JOHN

CHAPTER 2

You should probably put some ice on that Fox. As for Chloe, if she ever says anything that any of you don't like you have my blessing to let her know her place. The three of you are in charge when I'm not around, no one else. You can do what you want."

Both Fox and Grey seemed satisfied with my answer but it was Aviana I was the most concerned about. She was the only person I ever wanted to please. She meant a lot to me, I didn't want her to be unhappy.

"You good with that?" I rose an eyebrow at her and eventually she nodded her head.

"Yeah." I stepped closer to her, pressing a kiss to her forehead before I left them, making my way up the two sets of stairs until I reached the third floor. Heading into my room, I stripped off before getting into the shower.

My thoughts instantly drifted to the number of meetings I had that particular day.

As the leader of the American Mafia or the mob as it was sometimes referred to in New York, it was very rare that I ever had time to myself. My organisation was originally part of the Sicilian Mafia who operated here but eventually, it became its own thing. So, although we're mostly Italian, it's sometimes just referred to as the American mafia.

It's confusing as shit I know.

Although my father was Italian hence my surname Agnello, I was born and raised in America by my mother Maya Chase. My father,

the great mobster Bruno Agnello, met my mother in New York, 26 years ago.

The fucker immediately got her pregnant with me and then twice more afterwards before he fucked off to God knows where. I didn't hear from anyone related to him again until he died when I was 20 years old - five years ago.

That was the phone call that changed my life.

From the moment he left us, my mother had spent our entire lives working so that she could provide for the three of us. As soon as I was old enough I got a job too so that I could help her. But when I got the call to tell me that my father was dead and I was the leader of the mafia by succession, it all changed.

We went from scrambling for pennies to stop the bailiffs repossessing our home one night, to living like royalty the next.

I guess that's what makes me different to other men who have ever had a similar amount of power and money afforded to them. I didn't care about the money, I wanted the best for my family and for my friends, that's all.

I didn't get lost in the fact that I was rich now.

But, that didn't mean I didn't enjoy it though, because I did. Along with this property where most of my important members lived in Long Island, I owned a penthouse in Manhattan, a house in Miami and a beach house in Los Angeles.

At 25 years old I'd learned enough to know I couldn't trust anyone outside of my three friends, my brother and sister and my mother.

I spent 20 years living in poverty, most of the time sleeping in one bed with my little brother and sister to keep them warm at night, hardly having any food while watching my mother go hungry just to feed us. The three of us got bullied in school, picked on in the streets and discriminated against in every aspect of life for being poor.

Then I became the leader of the mafia and suddenly everyone wanted to be my friend. Once we started dressing better and the food helped to make us look healthier, life changed.

It's crazy what money can do.

That's how I knew who was real and who was fake. Aviana, Grey and Fox stuck by me throughout high school up until I got that call when I was 20 years old and all the way to now. I didn't need anymore friends now that I was rich because I had them.

As for the mafia, it taught me a lot about backstabbers, liars and cheats. Unlike many before me, I didn't have my father to teach me the ropes of running the Mafia. I had to learn it all on my own with the help of my friends.

I guess that's what makes my story unique. I wasn't a cold hearted bastard naturally, the world just made me this way.

I let out a deep breath, shaking my head to rid myself of the thoughts from the past. Turning off the water, I grabbed my towel, wrapping it around my waist as I stepped out the shower.

Wiping the steam off the mirror in my bathroom, I let out a sigh when I saw my lifeless eyes staring back at me.

I was always very good at hiding my emotions in front of people, keeping a smirk plastered onto my lips and letting people see my confident front.

But in reality I was anything but confident.

I was just lost. I felt like something was missing from my life.

I just didn't know what it was.

"What were you doing in the shower that was taking you so long?"

I rolled my eyes as I came down the last few steps where Grey was waiting for me so that we could leave while Fox kept him company I guess.

"Jerking off to an image of you getting your balls kicked."

Fox's smirk dropped from his face causing Grey to laugh, as the two of us walked towards the front door leaving Fox there alone.

The house was more like a mansion. Situated in Long Island, this was the building where my top members lived, where we conducted most of our business and where we trained.

It was pretty normal for me to stay here since this is where my friends lived too although I did have my own penthouse an hour away in Manhattan.

That particular morning, we had a few meetings with the owners of our clubs where we laundered our money. After that, we had meetings with the main guy who distributes our weapons in Spain to cartels and gangs there. After that we spent time trying to come to an agreement with Hiroto, a Japanese mobster who wanted to purchase drugs off us but didn't want to pay the asking price.

The fact we worked in so many areas of business and all over the world meant we were pretty much always busy.

Thankfully, I had men who were in charge of the day to day minor business while I focused on the important shit with Grey.

Aviana was always busy monitoring the activity of other mobs and gangs in New York and neighbouring states and cities. She was also the one who maintained our connections with international organisations like the Japanese Yakuza, Mexican cartels, Russian mafia and the Irish Mob.

Fox on the other hand spent most of his time at the house training our men in the gym and also teaching and training them to use guns and shit. Even our experts still practised with him almost everyday to make sure they were the best.

"McKnight is making noise again."

I glanced over at Grey as we sat on the black couches in the basement of the house later that day. We were having a drink with Fox after finally finishing our last meeting of the day.

"Noise?" He nodded his head, letting out a frustrated sigh. "Aviana just messaged me to say he's trying to get himself a deal with Hiroto."

I couldn't help but laugh at this causing Grey to frown. Those Irish fuckers move fast.

"We don't need Hiroto's deal, pull out of it, let McKnight have it. Hiroto is messing us about anyway, that meeting was a joke."

Grey nodded his head, taking his phone out to do as I said.

Atticus McKnight.

That son of a bitch was always sniffing around in places he didn't belong. The Irish Mob was getting weaker by the day, he was trying to build it up again. The only issue was that he was making the wrong fucking enemies.

"What are we going to do about him?" I shook my head at Fox's question as I looked down at my glass of bourbon, running my finger along the rim.

"I don't know. The fucker is trying to take all our deals but if we put a hit out on him all hell will break loose. The Irish Mob aren't weak enough yet, especially with the money coming in from the deals they're hijacking from us."

"If you kill Atticus, his brother will just take over."

"Oh yeah, he's got a little brother. Ayden, right?" I turned my head to look at Fox as he typed something into his phone, probably pulling up Atticus's information.

He was always the one who could get information for me when I needed it.

"Yeah. Ayden McKnight, he's 23 years old and lives in Manhattan. He's been working with Atticus ever since he turned 18. Oh and he has a hot girlfriend called...Daniela."

When he gave me a smirk, wiggling his eyebrows I just rolled my eyes.

"I already knew about his girlfriend, you didn't need to mention that."

"But she's hot, look." Fox held his phone out to me, showing me a photo of a couple. The man who resembled Atticus with his blonde hair and blue eyes was stood next to a girl with long dark brown hair, brown eyes, plump pink lips and sharp defined features.

I'd seen her quite a few times before from a distance. The most recent time was when she was hanging off his arm at a dinner event a couple of weeks ago where this very picture was taken.

She was wearing a black dress, hugging her figure in all the right places.

"So? I don't care. When I kill Atticus and Ayden, I'll kill her too."

"Okay you can kill them but she's too hot to die."

"You're an idiot Fox. It doesn't matter what she looks like, she's involved with them, so she dies, it's that simple. When we kill Antticus, the aim will be to wipe out the Irish Mob for good - wives and girlfriends included." Grey just rolled his eyes at the random turn of the conversation while Fox let out a dramatic sigh.

"You should at least fuck her first. Maybe do one of those cuckold scenes like in porn, you can tie Ayden up and make him watch yo-"

"Shut the fuck up." As soon as I cut him off both Fox and even Grey burst out into laughter.

Only these idiots would laugh at something like that.

"What's so funny?" Hearing Aviana's voice, we turned to look at the door both Aviana and Chloe came into the room. The entire time they walked over to us, Aviana was glaring daggers at the back of Chloe's head.

Probably sensing the potential for drama when Chloe sat down on my lap, Fox smirked at Aviana although his next words were aimed at Chloe.

"Carson is going to fuck this hot chick called Daniela-"

"No I'm not." I sent him a glare but he just smirked knowing the damage was already done.

"Daniela? What is he talking about?" I gave Fox a cold glare before I turned to look at Chloe who was frowning at me.

"Nothing Chloe, I'm not fucking anyone but, you know, we're not actually togeth-"

"Don't worry, I trust you baby." When she cut me off, she wrapped her arms around me causing Fox and Grey to smirk in amusement.

"Chloe we need to talk, this is-"

"Good, let me go first. I want to tell you in front of your friends so that they know how serious I am." I frowned at her words as she spoke in serious tone while the guys next to me waited eagerly to hear what she had to say.

"I love you Carson."

My eyes widened at her sudden confession as she grinned happily while Grey and Fox struggled to contain their laughter.

I glanced over at them as Fox hit Grey's arm repeatedly before forcing the words out. "The bitch said I love you."

As soon as he said those words, the two of them burst out laughing while I just sat there in shock.

"Uh, Chloe..."

"Say it back Carson." She frowned at me, especially when I took her hands off my shoulder and gently pushed her away, causing her to stand up off my lap.

"Chloe we aren't together, you're not my girlfriend. This thing...it's casual, that's all."

When her eyes as expected filled with tears I stood to my feet, watching her carefully. I knew what she was like, she was a loose canon.

"I've already told you this."

"Carson what are you saying? We've been together for a year, you know that."

Before I could try to tell her that she was very, very wrong, Aviana spoke.

"No you haven't. Carson has never had a girlfriend and you're not his first Chloe."

We all turned to look at Aviana who was glaring at Chloe, showing her protective side towards me. When it came to it, Aviana was extremely protective over the three of us. We'd all known each other since we started highschool so it made sense. "Oh shove it Aviana, you know nothing about our relationship. When was the last time you even held down a stable relationship? Before or after you let two guys take you at the same time?"

The room fell deadly silent as Aviana stood their with wide eyes looking absolutely stunned at the bomb Chloe just dropped. At first I thought she made it up but when tears rose up in Aviana's eyes I could tell it was true.

She looked at me and then at Fox and Grey who were still sitting on the couch but were no longer laughing.

"Get out, slut. This conversation doesn't concern you." Chloe spat the words at Aviana, breaking the silence as she stepped closer to me. Aviana's eyes shifted away from Chloe and then to me probably expecting me to say something but honestly I was just so shocked.

"Is it true?" When Grey was the first of us to speak she turned her attention to him.

"I was drunk, it only happened once." The tears slowly fell down her cheeks as she stood across from us.

Seeing her tears fall seemed to be the thing that brought me out of my shock and I suddenly found myself walking towards her.

She watched me through tearful eyes as I took her hand, pulling her into my arms. She took a second but soon she wrapped her arms around me.

"Why are you crying? Don't cry." When I spoke in a soft tone she let out a sniffle.

"I didn't want you guys to know, it was a mistake. I felt so disgusting after and-"

"We're not going to judge you Avi, you know that." This time it was Fox who spoke as he stood up, coming over to where we were standing. "You're our girl and you always will be."

She pulled back from me slightly, turning to look at Fox with a soft smile.

"You won't?" When he shook his head, she looked over at Grey who was still sitting on the couch. When they made eye contact, he stared at her for a moment with an intense gaze before he eventually shook his head.

"Of course not Aviana."

Her smiled widened and I tightened my grip on her again, pulling her in for another hug.

"You should have just told us, although I understand why you didn't. You can tell us anything though."

"I kissed a girl once. I liked it but her lipgloss smudged with mine and she ruined it." When she said this the three of us burst into laughter causing her to giggle in my arms.

Finally when I released her from my hug, I turned my attention back to Chloe who looked extremely nervous under my gaze.

"You made her cry." The cold tone I used caused her to speak up instantly to try and defend herself.

"Carson please-"

"You'll never be my girlfriend Chloe. I don't date, I fuck and that's it. For the past year I've been fucking many, many other women apart from you so don't think that you're special to me."

Her eyes widened at my words but the hurt in them didn't faze me in the slightest. There were only three women I cared about - my mom, my sister and Aviana.

No one else.

I took a threatening step closer to her, dropping the volume of my voice for effect.

"If you ever speak to Aviana like that again I'll make sure that you'll be picking up trash in Central Park for the rest of your life."

She nodded her head before quickly scurrying out of the room, leaving the four of us alone. It fell silent as Aviana dabbed her eyes with a tissue Grey handed her while I was busy talking to Chloe.

"So you kissed a girl? That's kinda hot." Fox wiggled his eyebrows at Aviana causing her to scoff.

"Idiot."