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I walk into the meeting room that is now filled with intimidating dons and donnas that all snap their eyes to me.

I give them a shy smile and wave before taking my seat.

They all give me a nod in return.

"This is my donna, Lila Naomi Melennia." Enzo introduces me as he holds my hand.

I mindlessly trace patterns on his hands while he plays with my fingers.

"It's nice to meet you all!" I exclaim.

"Oh, ella es adorable. I'm Alejandro, don of the spanish mafia." Alejandro introduces himself from the far right of the table.

"I'm Nhung, donna of Vietnamese mafia." Nhung states from from my right.

Introductions of other mafia members go around the table and I greet all of them with a smile.

"All of you know we are here to discuss the plan fully now that Lila is present." Enzo begins as he gives me a reassuring squeeze.

"What do you have planned capo?" I ask as I sit up straighter and look at him with a cheeky smile.

Enzo sends a playful glare at me as the others let out small chuckles.

"I've already severed all ties and alliances with the Millas. As we are speaking many mafia alliances have been following our footsteps and severing their ties. Those that have not are considering it.

By now the Millas are already furious. They will try at everything to bury us and put us beneath them or try to overthrow me so they can take over Barachi Mafia."

"So we are planning to use their desperation as an advantage?" The don of the british mafia speaks up.

Enzo nods, "They've always wanted my power so now that they've been put down at a lower position, their desperation and ego will be their weakness."

"Wouldn't that mean they would attack me?" I ask.

Enzo tenses from beside me before looking over at me.

"I won't let that happen amore." He says softly.

"So what would we do with Jaxon and Divante?" Alejandro asks.

I involuntarily flinch at his name.

"Sorry Lila." Alejandro apologizes as he catches himself.

"It's okay, but wouldn't we just throw them in some mafia prison or something?" I ask.

I frown as many of the dons and donnas look at each other then at Enzo with concern.

"In the mafia world we don't give chances amore. Once war starts and whoever loses will officially be stripped of their mafia title and the winning side chooses to do what they must." Nhung explains.

I take a sharp intake of breath. I don't know how I feel about torturing anyone.

"I don't care about what you do with the Millas. They also did you guys wrong, I'm assuming, so do as you please. But I'll appreciate it if I can step out of this involvement." I explain.

Nhung gives me a side hug in response.

I like her already.

"Of course." Enzo says without hesitation.

"I will be enforcing more guards around the perimeter and you are to stay inside. If you want to go out, I have two personal bodyguards that will go along with you for safety."

Enzo continues to answer different questions and concerns while I drift my mind else where to see Damon sitting across from me.

He catches my eyes and gives me weird looking expressions. His eyes bulge out and his cheeks are puffed. He makes slight hand motions.

I mouth, 'are you okay?'

To which he responds with a confused and exasperated expression.

I let out a giggle and Enzo look over at me with a curious look.

I give him two thumbs up which makes him shake his head and go back to the conversation he was having.

After a few more minutes, the meeting was over and now it was only the Barachi families in the room.

Everyone seemed to be lost in their own thoughts and the air around us seemed tense and awkward. They seemed to be trying to deliever something to me.

"Lance," Lance glances up at me nervously, "Whats going on? Why are you so tense?"

He sighs before asking, "It might be too early to ask, but Lillies do you remember how you told me about your father's name?"

I nod.

"Well I did some research into him and I couldn't find any form of record on him. It was as if he never existed. It was the same with your mother." Lance explains.

"How is that possible? They seemed to be pretty wealthy considering the house we lived in." I said.

"Do you know about the Xingyun family?" Lance questions.

I shake my head.

"A while ago there use to be a chinese mafia empire led by Zhi Xingyun. He had found his donna, Genji Yang. They were both powerful and made a power reputation in their positions. Eventually though, they had a child and they had changed their child's name and kept records of them erased. They were strict on leading a normal life for them." Zion speaks as he drums his fingers on the table.

"It was only a few years after the birth of their child that they had completely gone off the radar. Nobody knew what happened to them. No one could even contact their child because everything was so well hidden. The Xingyun members spent years trying to find their missing don and donna only to fail. Eventually they crumbled from fighting each other for the new position and the empire was completely destroyed." Damon finishes.

"Why does this relate to me then?" I ask, confused.

"Because we believe that you are the missing child." Enzo speaks up.

I blink.

Blink again. And again.

"We think that maybe the they named you completely different from their surnames and made sure to keep the mafia life away from you. They wanted to protect you." Lance explains softly.

"They disappeared the same year you lost your parents. At the time they also had a lot of beef with a small gang in China.

Although I couldn't get anything on the incident that night, I was able to retrieve some files from Xingyun empire." Lance slides a stack of files my way.

I open up the first one and flip through the pages.

"I didn't open them yet because I thought you would want to look through it first."

"How did you get your hands on these?" I ask quietly.

"Since Barachi empire is the most powerful and controls all others, all files on every empire is in our hands including those that were destroyed."

I nod in understanding before beginning to read through the pages. Most of which was basic information about the Xingyun. I suddenly stopped on a page with a photo hidden beneath it.

I tear away the covering of the photo only to feel my eyes sting from tears. A lump begins to form in my throat as I stare down at my mother.

I trace over her familiar features with my finger as I watch her comforting smile.

Name: Genji Yang Xingyun

Position: Donna - Xingyun Empire

Birth: June 17th, 1987

Place: China

Death: Unknown

I turn the page knowing who I would find next.

My father.

Name: Zhi Xingyun

Position: Don - Xingyun Empire

Birth: October 5th, 1984

Place: China

Death: Unknown

I close the files but keep the photos of both of them. I continue on to the next file.

Upon opening it, I realized this one doesn't have a photo. In fact everything was blank.

Name: Unknown

Position: Heiress - Xingyun Empire

Birth: Unknown

Place: Unknown

Death: Unknown

"Is this s-suppose to b-be me?" I stutter.

I glance up to see everyone looking at me with sympathy before nodding their heads.

This is too much to take in at once.

I stumble to my feet. My legs fail me as they buckle beneath me and I fall back onto the seat.

"We'll talk about this another time." Enzo declares as he scoops me up in his arms.

My legs wrap around his torso while my arms hang loosely around his shoulders.

Enzo walks out of the meeting room without another word.

We are back into our room as Enzo places me down on the bed.

"Enzo." I whisper as I look up at him through my teary eyes.

His eyes soften and he reaches up to wipe away my tears.

"What do I do?" I ask even though it seemed more of a question for myself.

"We'll figure it out together bambina." He says as he opens up his arms, signaling me to hug him.

I lean forward from the bed and lean against his. His warmth and cologne engulfs me as he rubs my back while his other hand plays with my hair.

Where are you papa?

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