LEO's P.O.V.

"...I mean...that it was..."

Leo was left flustered as he finally realized that he had just confessed two things.

One, that he never baked the cookies in the very first place and Second, that he was the one behind the poisonous cookies that everyone ate last Christmas.

"Listen guys, it was just a little prank. I was not expecting you all to eat the cookies that Domenic especially ordered the chefs to prepare. I thought he wanted to eat them. I had no idea that the cookies were for us. I swear!"

Leo hurriedly tried to explain as he looked at both of his brothers with a terrified look in his eyes.

He was just thanking the Heavens that it was Simon and Daniel in front of whom he blabbed out his secret.

If by any chance Mark and Crist were also there to listen to his confession that he just made in his shock, then he was really done for.

The two of them would have made him eat all the cookies that were filling the plate that was currently sitting on the counter, to exact their revenge.

Not all of his brothers were sensible human beings after all. To be honest, not a single one of his siblings could be called a human being.

If they were living in Hell then Domenic would be the Ruler of Hell with his cold, indifferent, powerful, and ruthless personality.

Daniel was more of a mama bear than a human brother. Crist was probably a koala as he was the laziest one in the family and if given a chance he would spend the entire day sleeping off.

Simon was definitely some lost alien baby that somehow ended up in their family.

Leo had a great urge of one day making the alien brother of his take a DNA test. He was a hundred percent sure that it would not match with the rest of the Alessandro brothers and it would also be revealed to everyone that he indeed was an alien.

If Domenic was the Ruler of Hell then Mark was the gatekeeper of that same hell. The three-headed hellhound that was described in the myths completely matched with his personality.

In short, according to Leo, not a single one of his brothers could be called a human. He himself was probably the only one out of all the Alessandro brothers who came as close as to be called a human.

And the last but definitely not the least, his baby sis. There was no doubt that she was not a human at all.

Just one look at her and Leo could tell that she was actually an angel, a princess who was trapped between demons and the evil world of hell.

All he wanted to do was to protect her from all the evil that would one day ruin her purity, but the presence of the darkness that could be seen around her was making him hesitate.

And he knew that he was not the one who was hesitating. He could feel the same feelings in his brothers, even in Mark and Simon.

He had caught Mark standing outside the door of Domenic's bedroom which was currently Emily's safe place.

He knew very well the reason behind his brother's daily visit to her room around ten or eleven in the night even though he never tried to walk into the room, not even once.

Probably because he never heard her screaming in her dreams again after that night of the fire incident.

As for Simon? The fact that he was always seen around or in the kitchen every morning for the past ten days was enough for his brothers to understand that no matter how much he tried to look indifferent, even he cared about her.

He even went as far as talking about her even though barely for a few minutes, but that too was something new for their always silent brother.

He would never accept but the only reason behind his presence in the kitchen during the breakfast timing of Emily was to make sure that she was eating properly.

They all knew about the plan of looking into Emily's past and her fears that Domenic had constructed with the help of Sam and Jackson.

And even though most of them did not like the idea of that plan where they would be spying on their sister's personal life without her knowing about it, but they still agreed.

None of them had any idea about how to approach her, how to make her feel safe and loved, or how to make her open up on her own.

They all had been a bunch of boys in their late teens, early and mid-twenties, who had been living together for the past ten years.

Emily's presence in the house was making everything different. It was not like the brothers did not want her to be a part of the family, the thing was that they had no idea how to do that, how to make her feel like she was a part of the Alessandro's.

"Earth to Leo! Are you even paying attention?"

Daniel's loud voice brought Leo out of his thoughts and he realized that he had been staring at the plate of cookies for a long time as he had been lost in his thoughts.

"Oh my! Do you think he has been traumatized after eating those cookies? Maybe we should..."

Leo was about to give Simon a piece of his mind as the alien once again started teasing him.

However, before he could make even a single word leave his mouth, his attention was pulled towards the soft chuckles that filled his heart with a kind of happiness and relief that he never knew existed.

His eyes found his baby sis who was laughing sweetly as she tried to suppress her laughter as best as she could as she filled her mouth with the pasta that probably had gone cold.

His brothers were no different. Both Simon and Daniel were looking at Emily in a daze as their expressions filled with amazement.

It was the first time they heard their little sister laughing ever since she returned and it was the most beautiful and musical sound they ever heard in their lives.