Azalea's POV:

"Zane has been staying in Azalea's apartment ?" Noah says in disbelief. "For how long ?"

"Ever since he left from Dmitri's house. So...for maybe about three weeks." Elijah said.

"Well, what are you waiting for ?" I asked Dom. "Go there."

"I don't know, Azalea..." Noah said from beside me. "Look, I know that you want to meet him for a few years now but there's a chance that he doesn't want to.

I'm not telling you not to go there. All I'm saying is that you have to be prepared to what he's going to say."

I smiled and nodded. "Don't worry about me. I know."

I loved that Noah was always funny and weird, basically, the clown of the group.

But when it came to thinking logically and being there for the people who he cared about; he was the best person you could talk to.

An hour and a half later, I was outside the door of my apartment. At first, I thought of opening the door with my keys but that would just be rude. So I rang the doorbell.

Moments later, the door opened. "Look, I said that I didn't want any cookies. Please leave me alone."

Heh ? Suddenly, the person looked up at me. He had familiar features, like I had seen him before. Wait. I had seen him before, he was the same guy that I had bumped into.

"Azalea..." He whispered. Without a warning, he hugged me. As soon as he did so, Dom and Noah took a step in front. I slightly lifted my hand up in a way of saying, 'no'.

I hugged him back and rested my head on his chest. Feeling emotional all of a sudden, I felt tears stream down from my eyes.

He's finally here. I found him, my brother.

"I'm so sorry, Azalea." Zane said, his voice a little muffled because his head was on my shoulder.

"I hadn't known that I had a sister. I haven't been there for most of your life. I haven't been the big brother you deserve. I was afraid that you would hate me." He said.

I rubbed my hand on his back soothingly. "It's alright. And don't say that. We have each other now, I would never be able to hate you."

"I'm apologize for breaking this little reunion right now," Elijah says, "but we gotta go. It's not safe here."

I nodded and pulled away from Zane's hold on me; he did too. I slightly smiled. "Go get your things."

He smiled back and went inside. I walked into the apartment and sat on one of the couches.

Dom, Noah and Elijah also came inside, closing the door behind them.

"He looks like the male version of you !" Noah said, jumping on the couch opposite me.

I chuckled at his statement. Yeah, he does. The similar face features, the blue eyes; it's just that he has chestnut brown hair, like Elijah.

Looking around the house, I thought of so many memories that I had in here.

The first time that Dante came here and the sleepover and the water fight we had.

That one time that Kim and I had a pillow fight here. Ahhh...Patricia gives me so many memories.

"I'm ready." Zane said, holding a suitcase.

"Let's go then." Elijah said, opening the door of the apartment.

"How did you find this place ?" I asked Zane, who was walking beside me when we were leaving the building.

"I'm the best assassin and hacker in the Russian mafia after all." Was his response.

He's quite good. He found my apartment even though I had hidden it in the records of the cops. Guess I have competition then.

When we reached back to the warehouse, Dante was there.

"We found them !" Noah said, running into Dante's office.

If I'm being honest, I'm not sure how Dante's going to take this. There are two people who he has never spoken to, at least directly.

One person being the sole reason for the death of his parents and the other one being the son of his biggest enemy.

"Hi. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to sat this." Dante started. "Both of you might be the reasons for my unhappiness but you both make Azalea happy and I know this sounds weird but I forgive you both."

Wait...what ? This guy is serious ? He just said that he's going to forgive them...just because they're my family.

"But, if you ever even think about hurting my people, including Azalea, I will not hesitate to put a bullet through your skull. Do you understand me ?" He warned.

They smiled and nodded.

"Now get your welcomed asses out. I want some time with my girl." Dante said, shooeing them away.

Noah made a fake gagged. "Get yourselves a room, people."

"Well, we do. You're standing in it." Dante retorts.

"Let's leave." Dom said, pulling Noah out. They left but not until Dom mouthed, 'have fun' at me and winked.

I blushed and looked at Dante. "Heeyyy...." I greeted.

"Come here." He said, stretching his arms out. I went to him and wrapped my arms around his torso while resting my forehead on his and he wrapped his around my waist, doing the same.

"So, how was your da-" I was stopped mid-sentence when he kissed me. I kissed him back, feeling all my worries go away by the second.

Just being in his arms made me feel like I was safe and that nobody could come between us.

"It's better now that I just kissed the most beautiful woman in the world." Dante replied, a smirk playing on his face.

My heart fluttered at his compliment. "Why, thank you. You're the cutest person in the whole wide world."

"Cute ? I'm not cute." Dante furrowed his eyebrows. "I'm handsome. The most handsomest of all."

"Naaahhh..Damon Salv-" I was cut off, again, but his time by the worst thing a person could possibly experience.

This butt head started tickling me. "Don't you finish that sentence." He said, continuing to tickle me.

"No, stop." I said, panting because I was out of breath from laughing so much. "St-hahaha-no !"

"Who is the most handsomest person ?" He asks me.

"Youu !" I said dragging the word. He smiled like he had just won the lottery and stopped tickling me.

Slowly, walking away from him, I said, "Now that I think about it...it's not yo-"

When he came near me, I ran outside the room in search of someone who would keep me safe from this maniac. Dom.

I ran to him and then we saw everyone there, even the other members of the mafia, which made us stop playing the game.

For the next few hours, all of us spoke to each other and we learnt that Zane had moved from Dmitri's house because he had heard that he wasn't actually Dmitri and Sofia's son.

He also mentioned that he was always treated badly by both of them. They had only acted to be nice to him in front of Elijah.

During our conversation, I noticed two things. The first time when Noah joked about someone named 'Anna' but when he did, Dante's while demeanor changed; like a switch turned on.

The second time when I saw Zane and Noah stealing glances at each other. Oohh...

I ignored it, and looked at Zane. I still can't believe it. I found him. I finally met my brother.

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