There was a knock on Emilia's door, she was going back out anyway, she suspected it was Damon but when she opened it she was a little suprised to see Dante.

"Weren't you talking with Damon" she whispered.

"Yes, he just wanted to check in with Matteo and Lexi"

"How come" Emilia asked, knowing he never usually did.

"Well there was a bit of bullying today" Dante shrugged, he and Damon had been the ones to start it.

The truth was, Damon had to act like he cared so his father wouldn't discover it was them who were responsible, it was easier for Damon to track down who sent the messages but their dad could do it if he saw nothing was being done.

And Damon wanted that email sent before all was revealed.

"Let's go watch TV, Damon will be back soon"

And he was, not long into the TV show, Damon joined them, he didn't say much.

After they finished watching TV, Alesandro who had come home about an hour ago called them for dinner as it would be ready soon. "Go wash up for dinner" Alesandro told Emilia, he wanted a word with Dante so he had to get Emilia out of the room.

Emilia went to her room like instructed but she was shocked to see one of Damon's work files ripped up and scattered over the floor.

She thought of how angry he was at Dante and her eyes widened "he's going to kill me" she muttered.

She picked it all up and placed it in a box on her desk. She started to panic not knowing what to do.

There was a knock on her door and she dreaded opening the door, thankfully it was Mason and not Damon.

"Dinner is ready" he said bluntly.

He paused for a moment as he turned to leave. "You look like hell, are you not any better, I can get Damon if you want"

Emilia quickly grabbed her notebook and said she was fine. She wasn't fine. Damon would get angry and hurt her.

They went down for dinner and Emilia couldn't help but smile when Alesandro placed a plate of pasta in front of her "enjoy bambina" he whispered and took a seat.

"Where's Alexia" he asked no one in particular.

"I'm here, sorry I was late dad, the pasta looks amazing" Lexi entered the dinning room much to her two brothers displeasure.

"What the hell is that" Alesandro asked, he was more concerned about the bruise around her eye.

"Oh. It's nothing, I'm sorry I tried to cover it " Lexi said.

"Don't be sorry, I want to know who did it and don't even think about lying" Alesandro was pissed. Sure his daughter was a little....well it didn't matter, she was still his daughter

"Damon"

And that's when the commotion started.

"I didn't touch you" Damon defended.

"I'm not lying I swear" Lexi cried.

"Are you hurt anywhere else" Mason asked this time.

Lexi hesitated but nodded and lifted her top up slightly to reveal a bruise on her ribs "he kicked me" she whispered.

"Bullshit" Damon said.

"Maybe you got so angry you didn't realize what you were doing" Alesandro said sharply.

"Yeah, you do get pretty angry at times" Dante muttered. He hated Lexi but as much as he did, he knew he couldn't bring himself to get physical with his own sister but he knew when seriously angry, Damon didnt consider family a issue stopping him.

Emilia looked over at Damon. He was so nice and friendly but she couldn't ignore the fact he had anger issues. Maybe he snapped when he went to talk to her earlier. But he was so nice, he didn't ever show to have any malicious intentions but she had seen and heard how angry he could be.

She caught Damons eye and as they made eye contact, Emilia shuddered as she remembered his ripped up file in her room. She got up quickly and ran out. He would be angry when he realized.

Would he hit her too?

Emilia heard the shouting from her room, she couldn't help pace her room. He sounded angry, he would most likely take it out on her. It wasn't hard to see that he was alot stronger than Henry. He could hurt her worse.

Downstairs, Mason had taken Lexi out of the room, he was going to bandage her stomach up for her ribs but Lexi had told him she didn't feel comfortable with him doing it and so he respected her wishes and let her do it.

Matteo and Dante had been sent out whilst Alesandro spoke with Damon.

Damon had enough of his father and was getting angrier. Eventually he walked out, something he had never done before, he respected his father to much to walk out on him but this time he did.

Dante decided to check on Emilia.

He knocked on the door and a reluctant Emilia opened the door. When she saw it was just Dante she sighed with relief and pulled him inside.

She was freaking out. Not knowing what to do or how she would face Damon again.

"Do you think he did it" Emilia whispered, she was scared of the anwser.

Dante honestly had no idea.

"I don't know" he had no remorse for Lexi if so, but he knew what Damon was capable of.

"He's going to kill me then" she said. Damon got angry at Dante even if it was just a bottle found in his room. He didn't do it but clearly that didn't matter.

"He definitely wouldn't. You could become a serial killer and he'd still be there fussing over you, in fact he'd blame one of your victims and insist you did nothing wrong. The point is, you could do the worst possible thing and he would still not hurt you" Dante said.

"Besides you haven't given him a reason to be angry at you have you" he added.

"I swear it wasn't me but when I came to my room before dinner, I found it scattered over my floor. He's going to be so angry"

Dante was concerned and a little curious, Emilia slowly produced the little box and Dante's expression hardened when he saw it.

"You can't tell him. If he knows he will kill me"

"You didn't do it though so why does it matter"

"You didn't cause that allergic reaction, he still blamed you. He's going to blame me,you can't tell him"

Just then the door opened and in walked a very annoyed Damon. He heard the last part "you can't tell him"

"Can't tell him what" he asked. His facial expression showed nothing but annoyance.

"So come sei, Damon, quindi te lo chiederò una volta. l'hai picchiata?" Dante said seriously.

"no, pensava che avessi qualcosa a che fare con il bullismo, quindi l'ho chiamata paranoica"

"se lo facessi non ti biasimerei"

Translation:

"basta, non devo risponderti ora cosa non vuole che io sappia"

It was obvious, Damon was getting angry, furious even.

Dante looked at Emilia, she was terrified. She didn't know what the conversation was about so she had presumed the worse.

"I think it's time you sent that email" Dante said not taking his eyes of Emilia.

" cosa le ha fatto quella puttana,è ferita?"

"Damon" Dante causiously said causing Damon to start on a rant about how much he didn't like Lexi with tons of curse words thrown in. All this was in Italian so Emilia had no idea what was being said, she just knew Damon wasn't happy at all.

"Damon enough, Emilia has no idea what you're saying, it's scaring her" Dante said.

"Ok fine, what happened Emilia" he switched back to English but his tone was still void of emotion. It was much more authoritive and Emilia shuddered.

He was angry and she thought once she told him, he would lash out at her.

"I swear I didn't do it" she whispered. She knew there was no point hiding it because Damon would find out, he was just giving her a chance to tell him before he got the anwser himself.

"Okay, I just walked in earlier and found this" she whispered. Dante who had hold of the small box handed to Damon.

Dante and Emilia watched their eldest brother, waiting for a reaction.

He ran his hand over his forehead and through his hair and sighed "this was a business deal worth 25 million" he stated.

Emilias eyes widened. That was a lot of money. Just how rich was her family? Surely he would be angry loosing that much.

He walked towards her and she couldn't help but flinch away stumbling back in the process,she would have fallen to the ground if it wasn't for Damon who grabbed her stopping her from falling. To her suprised he was gentle about it and had a look of concern.

Damon and Dante both shared a look of concern. Dante figured it was just from today's events but Damon knew it wasn't just that. Deep down she was scared of him and he hated acknowledging it but she flinched to much for him to pass it off as an individual incident or that she was naturally jumpy.

"If you wanted to destroy my work you would have done it when I left you in my office all morning. Now can you think of any reason it could have ended up here "

Emilia shook her head although she knew it was probably Lexi. She didn't wasn't Damon lashing out at her for a second time.

Damon sighed. Of course she wouldn't tell him. She feared him to much.

"Okay, I need to go make some phone calls and try rectify this" Damon said, he was more stressed than angry now.

It was a very important deal worth 25 million, if he couldn't convince them that this was some sort of accident, he would loose 25 million and any additional profit he made from the deal.

"What are you going to tell them" Dante asked.

"I have no idea, I had that file here because it was too important to keep in the office at work. If they spread the word about this, then I'll be loosing alot more business "

"Don't you have it on your laptop " Damon asked knowing all his work was backed up digitally in case files went missing, it was easier to access too.

"Not the full file, i have my parts on it but the parts were sent over in paper form"

"In sorry Damon, please forgive me, I won't do it again "

Emilia whispered, she was so used to being blamed for her sisters mistakes that she had started to believe it was her doing at times. Henry had taught her that she should pay for Lexi's mistakes the hard way.

Lexi knew this and always fucked up and blamed Emilia, sometimes Emilia wondered if she took pleasure in seeing her in pain.

"Didn't you just say you didn't do it" Damon asked.

"Yes but aren't you going to punish me " Emilia asked. Henry always did.

"Dante can you leave us" Damon said. Dante was hesitant but he knew Damon wouldn't hurt her so he left.

Once the door was shut after he left, Emilia backed away.

"You have done nothing wrong Emilia, i hope you know I would never raise my hand to you"

"But you did hit Lexi"

Damon was taken back by this "what did and did not happen between Lexi and I is non of your concern"

Emilia couldn't help notice how he did not deny it.

"I really do have to go and sort this out but Emilia I won't ever hurt you and it concerns me that you think this way. I am aware today's events are no help and I know how scared you are but please believe I wouldn't hit you Especially since we have established you have done nothing wrong. If you need to talk about it please do. Some secrets do need to be shared" he said in a tone that was less cold.

"Okay" she accepted his anwser.

"Okay. Go finish your dinner, I don't like you not eating, it's not healthy. 3 meals a day remember" and with that Damon left.

He had two tasks to do, the first, he sent that email and the second he had to try and sort the file out.