Maid for the Mafia Boss

With limping foot, I ran towards Zeke’s room.

When I arrived at his door, I repeatedly knock on it in a panicked manner thinking someone’s chasing me.

Tears are continuously falling from my eyes.

” Okay, okay! I’ll come out. Just wait a sec!” I heard Zeke shouted from inside his room.

I anxiously waited for him to open the door.

And when he finally opened it, I immediately went inside and wrapped my arms around him.

” N-Nass?” He shockingly and tensely asked.

He closed the door as he returned my hug.

I just want to be with someone. Someone who has trust in me…

I cried on his shoulder.

Memories from earlier kept on coming back to my mind.

Zeke patted my back.

” Nass? What’s the problem?” I shook my head indicating that I don’t want to recount what happened.

” Okay, Nass. You’re alright.”

With him still hugging me, he lied down on the bed causing me to lie down too.

” Shhh…” I followed the pattern of Zeke’s patting on my back to calm my heart down and breathing and also to stop crying.

Until I didn’t notice that I was able to sleep in Zeke’s bed…

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Third Person’s POV

Zeke carefully sat down on the bed to not wake up a sleeping Nass who is lying on his bed right now.

‘ What happened to Nass?’ Is what’s bugging his mind while staring at the figure of Kei’s maid that he now considers as a friend.

The fear in Nassandra’s eyes gave him shivers when he saw the girl outside his door.

” What happened Nass?” He mumbled in the silence of the room.

After a few minutes, he saw a tear fell from her eyes so he gently wiped it away.

His hands remained on Nassandra’s cheeks.

Zeke’s mind returned to the first time he saw Nass.

Yes, it was quite entertaining to see Nassandra become annoyed, for him. But he really wanted to help Brylle. He remembers a particular child like Brylle.

And when he saw Nass in the hospital, his want to help the mother and child grew. He’s not sure on why he did that but he felt that something’s going to happen in their life if Nassandra is there.

And he was right. Bringing Nassandra into this mansion changed their lives. Especially Kei’s.

His dear friend is a terror, but he knows that Keiranz has a really deep and kind heart.

Just like Kei’s mom.

Not to mention that he sometimes notices Kei smiling to himself when he’s alone.

Zeke really hid in Keiranz office just to see his dear friend smiling when no one is around.

And he doesn’t regret doing it though he was caught by Kei.

Because on his mind…

‘ Kei’s going crazy, he’s smiling alone. It’s done. He already fell hard for a certain woman.’

And he finds that very entertaining, as a matter of fact, he has a video of Kei. Do you want to see it???

Zeke chuckled to himself as he remembers Kei’s face at that time.

His smile disappears as a question came back to his mind. What happened?

Zeke sighed and completely stayed away from the sleeping Nass so he won’t disturb her.

Zeke has a feeling that Kei has a knowledge of what happened to Nass, so he’s going to ask him.

He walked towards the door as he glanced in Nassandra’s direction before holding the doorknob to open the door.

He was surprised to see Keiranz outside his room, seemingly restless.

Zeke stilled at Kei’s expression.

While Keian looked through the small gap in the door, causing him to see Nassandra lying down on his friend’s bed.

His expression darkened straight away.

” Kei? What happened to you?” Zeke asked. Kei just gave a glare to his friend.

Zeke’s hands raised as if dodging Kei’s look.

” Woaahh. What’s with the glare? You look like you’re ready to kill,” he joked, but his smirk suddenly disappeared when he saw how serious Keiranz is.

” Why is she in your room?” he asked in emphasized words.

Zeke’s brows furrowed. Suspecting if Kei is the reason why Nassandra was so afraid.

” Wait, why are you finding her? It shocked me that she’s suddenly at my door,” Kei’s expression got cold as he tried to get inside the room.

” Move aside.” Zeke swiftly closed his door and put his hands on Kei’s chest to push him away.

” What are you going to do?” he asked in a worried tone.

Kei stared sharply at Zeke. If it’s the time when they are training or when they have a mission, he would be scared of the way Kei looked at him because his glare is so serious.

But not now, he cares for Nassandra because he’s the one which involved the woman in this mafia mess.

Kei slipped his hands to Zeke’s shoulders and gripped it tightly.

” MOVE,” Kei said in a deep and demanding voice.

Zeke shook his head. He cares for Nassandra more than for himself. That’s why he’ll never let Keiranz inside his room without the guy calming down first. He needs to know what happened.

” No, Kei. Tell me first what you did to Nassandra?!” Zeke’s voice got louder since he’s starting to get irritated.

” I said. Move!” Zeke’s eyes widened when he was pushed hard by Kei.

His dropping on the floor caused intense pain, but he endured it and quickly stands up to pull Keiranz away from the room while punching his friend in the face.

” Hahahaha!” Zeke was about to attack Keian again, but it suddenly laughed like a… devil.

Keiranz spits, and blood oozed out from his mouth.

He looked at Zeke with a smirk on his face as he slowly gets up.

Zeke suddenly felt afraid at Kei’s change of emotion as he can’t do anything and stood still on his feet.

Kei held his jaw and to his cheeks that had a violet bruise.

The two of them stared at each other.

Zeke hid his fear and boldly looked back at Kei.

They didn’t know that Clara can hear their argument, so she decided to get out of her room and saw Kei was about to punch back his brother.

” Kuya Kei! No!” she shouted in concern.

(Kuya – term for older brother)

The two siblings didn’t expect Kei to change his punch’s direction causing him to smash his fist on the wall behind Zeke.

Zeke closed his eyes and sighed while Kei’s breathing suddenly speeds up.

With his head lowered, he withdraws from Zeke. Not minding his bleeding fist.

” Sorry,” Kei’s voice can hardly be heard as Zeke had to think carefully about what Kei whispered.

The mafia boss silently went down the stairs, so Clara went to check on his brother.

” Kuya, you okay?” Zeke looked at his sister and held her shoulders in reassurance.

” Kei’s clearly the one who does not look okay.” He smiled and followed his friend.

He went to the living room and saw Keiranz is sitting on the sofa while covering his face with his hands.

” Just tell me what happened,” Zeke calmly said.

Kei looked at him with a pained expression.

” I-I, I’m such an assh8le.” Zeke bit his lower lip to not laugh at the serious situation he’s in right now.

What can he do? This is the only time Kei admitted that. Ha!

Kei looked at him meaningfully.

” Don’t tell me…” Kei breathed deeply before nodding.

” I hurt her,” Zeke’s expression became cold while clenching his fist.

” W-What?” he wanted to make sure, he might have hurt wrong.

” I was in the gym then I saw her. I asked her to be my sparring partner. After that, I was unable to control myself.

Zeke gritted his teeth as he looked at Kei with disbelief.

Zeke’s POV

I can’t believe him! My ghad!

He really hurt Nassandra?! Is he out of his mind?

” What the hell?!” I tackled him to the ground.

I was about to punch him continuously when someone stopped me.

” Hey! Stop it!” I send a deathly glare in Devon’s direction whose forcefully separating me from Kei.

” You know what?! F— you! You can hurt us. You can hurt me or anyone of your men in the mafia, but you can’t hurt innocent people! You don’t hurt them. And I’m f—ing sure that Nassandra is not involved in what’s happening on our mafia!”

” Zeke!” Devon shouted.

I let him pull me entirely away from Kei with a clenching fist.

” What’s happening?” Katie asked, swiftly climbing down the stairs with Theo following behind.

No one answered her as the room stayed silent.

My glare stayed at Kei while my arms are crossed across my chest.

” Oohh. Drama,” my gaze turned to Dale, who just also went down from upstairs.

” Dale, shut up.” Katie scolded then she looked at Kei and me.

” I heard shoutings, what happened?” Erick and Maxence went down at the same time.

While Steven arrived from the kitchen and Laiza from the front door.

Great! All of us are here.

” Kei? Nic? What?” I’m pretty sure Katie’s getting irritated at our silence, and I’ll gladly tell what HE did.

” He hurt Nass,” I stated, then returned my gaze to Kei, whose eyes are on the floor.

” Why are you defending her? She’s not even your girlfriend.”

What?

I faced Max while biting the inside of my cheeks.

” She is my friend,” I uttered. His eyebrows just furrowed.

” Ow, okay. Then why are you shouting? I was playing games upstairs.” He blankly said to me that caused me to raise my eyebrow.

” She’s my friend, and I care for her. What would I expect from you? You don’t give a care to anyone! That’s the reason why your family left you when you were still a kid, right?!” Yeah… I’ll regret later what I just said, but I’m too angry to give a damn right now.

He walked towards me, so I did the same.

” Nic. Stop” I ignored Laiza.

” You have no right to say that! You don’t know me, especially on what happened to me! So don’t be such a—”

” Hey! Stop, you two!” Katie shouted that I didn’t listen to. When Maxence holds me by my collar, Erick immediately approached me. At the same time, Steven went to Maxence to separate the two of us.

” Zeke Nicolas. Calm down,” Erick coldly said. I struggled from his hold, but his body is much bigger than mine, and he’s much stronger.

So I breathed deeply to calm down.

” It’s unreasonable to bring that up, Nic.” I glared at Devon because of what he said.

He raised his hands.

” What? It’s true.”

” He did it first!”

” F— you,” Maxence cursed to me while his head is lowered. ” I’m going upstairs. I don’t even care. Why did I even come down?”

I snickered.

” Coward.”

” Nicolas! Stop! Why don’t you calm down first,” I looked at Steven in disbelief.

So she didn’t care about Nass?!

Okay! Great. Yeah, I’m a sarcastic person.

I watched Max, smirking, turned around to climb upstairs, but we all didn’t expect what happened next. So Maxence stopped walking and looked at Kei.

” K-Kei?” he painfully looked at Laiza.

There, in the middle of our imperfect circle, is a kneeling Kei.

” I’m sorry.” My blood boiled at what he said.

” Why are you saying sorry to us? Say sorry to Nas—”

” I’m sorry for hurting you all.” After hearing the words that went out of Kei’s mouth, we all went silent.

” I’m sorry for what I’ve done. I’m sorry…”

My grip on my fist loosened as I looked at him irritatedly.

” Stand up, Kei,” I said to him. But he just looked at me and shook his head. Sadness is all over his eyes.

” I’m sorry… I-I”

” We are your men. You found us. You’re our boss, and we work for you. We know that it’s your punishment, and we accepted that” we all looked at Theo.

” We didn’t run away, we didn’t leave you alone. Because when we joined this mafia. We know the consequences, and we accepted them. We are still here, and we’ll never leave you even though we don’t show it. You did more good than bad.”

S I L E N C E . . .

” Hahahahahahaha!” The silence broke when Dale laughed loudly. We all looked at him and glared.

When he noticed, he stopped laughing.

” Uhmm. We–This is serious? Like really, serious serious? Ow okay. It’s just that baby Theo is not a baby anymore. Sorry.” Theo rolled his eyes at Dale with matching red cheeks.Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

” Shut up,” Dale laughed once again, then he approached Kei.

” Come on, boss. Stand up. YOu’re freaking me out. It’s making me feel that you’re not you.” I sensed that Dale’s trying to lighten the atmosphere, so I slightly smiled and went near to Kei as well.

” Oh, trust me, he can be like this” despite his confusion, Kei glared at me.

” Need an extra hand?” we looked at Erick, who approached too.

” Ahh. So this is the time where all will be okay? Okiii!” we brace ourselves as Steven jumped on the three of us.

” Uhhh. Love you guys” I smiled at Katie.

Love you too, though you don’t lab me back:(

” We don’t,” the seven said at the same time, then went to Kei.

When I didn’t say anything, they all looked at me.

” What?” I asked, confused.

” You should have said we don’t with us, Alexandre,” Laiza sarcastically said.

” Do you…?” I widened my eyes at Theo then looked at Katie, who is blushing.

” Ohhh, let’s not talk about me. Kei?” I said to change the topic. Kei looked up at my reached-out hand.

The others followed.

Kei smiled, so I smiled too.

His head lowered, then his expression suddenly changed to cold.

” I don’t have nine hands you know. Keep your hands to yourselves. I’m not injured or anything.” he said, irked.

The nine of us looked at each other then we simultaneously slapped the back of his head.

” Bastard” he glared at my direction but I know that he doesn’t mean it…