It had been a week since Damon and Alesandro left. Alesandro had business meetings regarding his restaurants and Damon had to personally go and rectify the business deal, since the papers were destroyed, he looked incompetent so he had gone there in person.

Mason was left responsible for his younger siblings, mainly the twins because Dante and Matteo could look after themselves. That being said, they were irresponsible at times.

Dante stuck to Emilia, Damon had even warned him not to leave her alone.

It had been around a month maybe just under since the girls got here so they were still unaware of what Lexi was truly capable off.

Lexi had been quiet, maybe she had learnt her lesson especially after Damon's warning before he left.

"Sleep well" Damon asked when he saw his sister open her eyes. He had gotten a call in the early hours that he had to go to London so he made sure to warn Lexi again before leaving.

He had warned her a day or so ago and she had been afraid to even look at him since.

There dad had left late last night, it happened so quickly that they only had around 10 minutes to say goodbye until he left for the airport.

He had chosen to wake the girls up whilst his brothers were having breakfast downstairs.

Lexi's eyes widened at the sight of her brother in her room

"You shouldn't be in here"

"Why not, I'm only here to wake you up for school" Damon said.

"It's weird and creepy " she stated but one look from him shut her up.

Damon was well aware of the boundaries and stuff like that, after all since the girls came he no longer carried too many weapons around, only a select few, but he didn't see a problem with waking his sister up for school.

He ignored her comment and started "I hope you did sleep well because it's the only place you are safe, see I'm going away for a few days and I would hate to find out you ripped another document up" he said as he opened her curtains.

His actions came across as normal, like he was just waking her up but his words promised no good intentions.

"You have such lovely things Alexia" he said as he looked at her desk.

The words may appear as a compliment but his tone only held the promise of bad intentions.

"It would be a real shame if something happened, don't you think" he asked as he looked through a little photo album she had.

They were all of her, Alice and Henry. It concerned him how there was none of Emilia. He didn't know what had gone on with Emilia, he didn't really know she had been abused to such extent, he knew there was some hatred there and some trauma but he was unaware how bad.

"You can't do that, I'll tell dad" she said.

"Oh yeah watch me" he picked a random photo up, he was about to tear it when she rushed over and grabbed it off him.

He menacingly got closer to her, looking at her with no love. "Must I remind you that you can't win. Dad isn't here and look how well it turned out for you a few days ago. He was here, he didn't do shit. I can do whatever the hell I want" Damon said and again he brought out the knife.

"See you're up now my dear sister so let me tell you this. I can get to you wherever you are, even in here, your 'personal space'. You cross me and we will have trouble. If whilst I'm gone and you touch what is precious to me, I won't hesitate to destroy what's precious to you. Maybe I'll let you watch up close as I burn that album, although we will have to be careful, accidents happen all the time when you get too close to a fire " his voice laced with venom, his threats were no joke and it would be wise to listen to him.

This time he held the knife against her upper arm, her face was too visable especially since he slightly pierced the skin

"a little reminder not to cross me, whatever you do I will find out and you will be sorry, I will make sure of that"

"You hurt me, I can tell dad and he will...." Lexi whined.

Damons anger rose "he will do what? Isn't your dad in prison"

He left after that and had gone to get Emilia up.

He knocked beforehand, but knowing she always opened it for him, after a few minutes he hesitantly entered. He smiled when he saw she was still asleep.

He was about to approach her to wake her up when she woke up.

"Rise and shine" he said cheerfully.

"How long have you been here for" she asked.

"Just came in" Damon told her.

"Sureeee or maybe your just being a weirdo and a creepy stalker"

See when Lexi called him that, he was pissed but Emilia said it and he was amused.

Before he could even comment on it or tell her to get up since her face as still planted into her pillow, she threw a pillow at him. It hit him straight in the face.

He was mildly impressed since she had thrown it with no effort and wasn't even looking.

He had never been hit by a pillow before, after all who in their right mind would throw a pillow at the Mafia boss.

"That wasn't very nice, you could have blinded me"

Emilia turned hearing this, a look of guilt made its way onto her face, she never meant to hit Damon with it.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you like that, I'm so sorry Damon "

"It's okay I'm only messing, I caught it. But Emilia we need to talk" Damon lied knowing she would feel worse about hitting him in the face.

"Okay" Emilia couldn't help think the worst.

"I have a business trip, it should only take a few days but I need to sort out that deal, I can't be loosing a £25 million deal so I need to go "

"But you can't go"

"I have to"

"I don't want you to go"

"I know, I'll be back before you know it though"

For the first time he didn't want to leave, he hated leaving her.

"Come here" he opened his arms and she was quick to hug him.

"Mason will be in charge but I want you to stick with Dante"

"Kinda ironic considering you didn't want him near me last week" she muttered.

Damon laughed "well we put aside our issues"

"Who's going to stalk me now that you're gone" Emilia said, she was really commited to the whole stalker thing.

He gently swatted the back her head playfully, making sure it was barely a tap. In fact he made sure the only thing she felt was her hair moving.

"Did you just..."

"You were being mean" he stated with a smile so she knew he had no bad intentions.

"I see how it is" she whispered and pushed him away.

"Hey don't be like that, im sorry" he said and made the mistake of crouching down to be at her level.

She knew he would do this and her sad expression dissapeared and she quickly did the same as what he did to her.

She left the room after that and Damon was in shock for a few minutes. After recovering he left the room also. "brat" he called. He caught up to her and since it was still just the two of them she whispered "stalker"

They both laughed and Damon pulled her into another hug "I'm going to miss you Emilia"

That all happened a week ago and things had been going okay. There was no arguements or anything. Dante was always with her despite Lexi not doing anything.

Today Damon was suppose to be back and Emilia was looking forward to seeing him. She had missed him which she hated knowing because that meant she had gotten attached and that meant if he snaps it would hurt more.