RECAP:
"What are we going to do boss?" Cosmo said with the same smirk.
Leon shaped his lips to say something when an angelic voice broke their dark trance.
"Daddy!"
………….
A seven-year-old girl came running inside, her bouncy dark brown curls shining under the light. Her gray eyes, similar to her mother, twinkled.
"Hey, Sophia! My princess." Leon stood from his seat and hauled up the little girl in his arms.
If someone would have seen the great Leon Svein, smiling like that. They would have surely washed their eyes with acid.
That was the thing about him, the only two people who mattered the most to him were her younger sister and only daughter. Even after the sad demise of her mother during childbirth, Leon made sure to never let her feel lonely.
"Morning Everyone!" Carina Svein entered the scene, swaying her effortlessly straight hazel-brown hair. Both Cosmo and Soren greeted her back along with Leon, though Soren instantly dug his head back inside his plate, afraid as always of giving away his emotions.
"Morning love, how is your preparation?" Leon asked, making Sophia sit on his knee and feed her a bite from the plate.
"Excellent as always!" Carina chirped, edging the glasses on her button nose. Though, she was beautiful, smart, and confident yet highly introverted and caring.
One could never say from her looks that she was the sister of the worlds most feared Mafia leader. The Mafia had always been a generation thing for Svein and despite being grown up in that, Leon made sure to keep her sister and daughter away from it as much as possible.
"I know you will ace it as always!" Leon softly said, patting her head.
"Ahem Ahem, too much love." Soren coughed up a bit.
"I wish people could see you like this, they would surely die from a shock attack," Cosmo commented next,
Carina glared at them both,
"Brother, dont these rotten carrots have any work to do!"
"We arent carrots, especially not rotten!" Cosmo corrected sulkily.
"Have you ever looked at your face, Queen Carina? Believe me, the mirror will break." Soren smirked, wiping his mouth with a napkin in a dramatic manner.
"Count to three, my daughter," Leon smiled and eyed Sophia who giggled in return.
1…2….3
"AAhhhhh, what the hell!" Sorens scream echoed through the hall as he lay on the floor clutching his shin.
"Thats why they say to think before you speak!" Carina sniggered, chewing her breakfast without a care.
Cosmo held his laugh while helping Soren who was busy glaring at Carina, a playful one.
It was an everyday routine in the Svein family, Billions of dollars to their name and a high reputation to uphold yet they still manage to behave like an average, everyday family.
"Okay, enough! Soren, stop your drama and get up. I have given you a task and I want it done by the evening." Leon commanded getting back to his composed manner.
Soren nodded his head,
"Consider it done boss!" he smirked, after days he got an assassination mission and he was so ready to get his game on.
"Daddy, you are going with me to my friends birthday party, right!" Sophia butted in making Leon sigh. Mentally, facepalming himself.
How could he forget that?
Today, he had an important cartel meeting to attend.
"Princess, Daddy is not free today." he made an excuse.
"But you promised daddy!" She huffed, her smile sagged a little.
Leon looked at her sister with pleading eyes, who shook her head.
"I would have definitely taken her brother but I have classes in the evening." She remarked, a bit guilty.
"Boss, if you want, I can go with Sophia to the party," Cosmo added, analyzing the situation, he knew his bosss concern for his daughter.
Leon seemed to think for a while before nodding,
"Fine, Sophia you can go with Uncle Cosmo but you would not run anywhere and stay with him all the time," he said, giving his daughter a pointed look whose expression had suddenly changed from disdain to excitement.
"Yes! Yes! Thank you, daddy." She chanted, smooching his cheeks with kisses.
Leon chuckled and kissed her forehead who hauled out from his lap and tugged on her Aunts arm.
"Lets go aunty, I am getting late for school!" she began jumping up and down.
Carina laughed at her excitement and stood up from her chair, grabbing her coat and bag.
"Go ace your exam." Leon smiled at his beautiful sister.
"Be careful!" He yelled as Sophia began dragging her aunt away.
Cosmo also took his leave, not before receiving a well-known resounding look from Leon.
"I will protect her with my life, boss!" he bowed his head and effused in the same resounding manner.
Leon stared at them as they moved away, thinking how his beautiful
life was. He had a sister and a daughter that he loved with all his
heart and a successful multi-billion-dollar company in his name. Men that he could trust his life with. A name and Mafia that the world feared.
But he would give his riches away in a heartbeat for his perfect little
family. He couldnt even begin to imagine without them in his life.
"Boss!" Sorens voice jarred him out of his thoughts.
"Lets get to work, Soren. We have a sleazy cartel leader to deal with," Leon smirked.
The look in his eyes even made the demons run away.
While fate sadly smiled at the resounding man who was going to get a hard blow from life.