Chapter 55 - 54

As soon as the women were out of earshot, the men's conversation became serious. They knew the situation was not as simple as it looked. They've known him all their lives, and having a wife and a kid was not a story that came out from fairy tales.

The Aristocratic heirs were very calculating when it came to love, they were not your regular Cassanova's that threw the word love around casually. They were not skirt chasers, and they did not indulge in momentary pleasures because they knew none of those lasted forever. When they loved, they loved for keeps.

Blake started, "So tell me what really happened?"

"Is it as bad as I think it is?" Aiden asked.

"Have you been hiding this from us the whole time?" Tristan added. 

"Well, it might look bad depending on who gets the information. As for your question Tristan I will answer that at the end. 

Five years ago, I had a business deal out of town, and during dinner the person I met with had drugged me, it had a little effect on me but not enough to render me helpless. I met Aurora in the room the person booked for me, I still don't know what their motive was because Aurora had been drugged by someone else, and it was a total coincidence that she landed in my room," he took a sip of his drink.

The rest nodded for him to continue.

"We slept with each other, as you can see the evidence, but she vanished the next morning before I learned who she was. I searched for her like a maniac but it had been fruitless. I tried, but I could never get her out of my mind even after all those years. This is the reason why I hid this from you because I didn't even know who she was and if she was even real. 

Then last month, Gabe got into an accident, he was hospitalized, and Aurora was his doctor. I was very happy that I finally found her and couldn't wait to start our life together. But she was very reluctant to be with me, at first I thought she just didn't want me. But then I found out we had a son and I was shocked. I had mixed feelings about it. I felt cheated because I didn't get to spend all that time with him when he was a baby, but at the same time, I was also glad because I knew he could be my ally in keeping Aurora by my side. I needed every resource I could use to make sure that she would be mine," Dimitri explained.

"Is that it?" Tristan raised his eyebrow. He felt like Dimitri was hiding something else. 

Dimitri hesitated, but he knew it was only time before his brothers figured out what he was hiding. They have all grown up together, and except for Aurora, they knew each other's secrets. He clenched his fists and told them what he had been hiding. 

"What do you think will happen in the future?" Blake asked.

"Who knows, but I will make sure that nothing will happen to my family, and my wish will be granted," Dimitri smirked.

"But Aurora looks very innocent. Does she know you are the Mafia boss?" Aiden asked.

For the people outside their circle and people who didn't know them personally, all they knew was that the Santoris family was just another Aristocratic family. They did not know that they controlled all the underground operations of the mafia. They are one of the strongest, richest families that have been ruling the country for generations, they were the backbone for the other Aristocratic families.

Aurora does not know that there was a dark side to her husband. That his way of making someone pay was not to make them go into bankruptcy or take all their businesses and throw them to the streets. He does throw them to the streets, but they never come out of their punishments alive. 

Dimitri loves torturing people who have crossed him. Making them suffer for days on end until they beg to be killed because that was always better than crossing Dimitri and getting caught.

He knows that it would take Aurora to fall for him, and it was not the time to show his cards yet, so he only showed her his caring side all the time, which is why she was perplexed whenever people called her husband the devil.

The desire for her to fall completely in love with him and accept him for who he was was always at the back of his mind. So even if he was not a person that prayed to the heavens, this time he did. He could not bear to lose her, so he prayed every day that if ever the day came and she finds out who he is, that she would still choose him. 

"No, not yet. So what if she knows?" Dimitri said arrogantly.

"Will you force her to stay by your side?" Blake asked.

"Yes, because I won't ever give her a choice to say no," Dimitri replied.

"That just sounds wrong," Aiden said.

Dimitri let out an evil laugh.

"Who cares what's right or wrong anymore? As long as I have her, nothing else matters. She is with me now, and I have to protect her.

Don't act like you were saints when you were wooing your women. They didn't come to you on their own accord either.  Didn't you have to use force to get them too? You've trapped them in your love-cage, and they are blinded, they will never see the truth even if it bit them," Dimitri mocked.

"What? I didn't use force to be with her. I gave her a choice, to be with me or to be with me," Blake laughed.

"My little one is very innocent, and I'm the only one who can take care of her. She'll never survive in the real world," Tristan defended.

"You bastards! Trying to cover your controlling nature. Stop sugarcoating your evil deeds," Aiden complained.

"A bachelor like you who's never been in love before will never understand," said Dimitri.

"But one of these days, you'll see," Blake added.

"You'll get hit with the love bug and won't think our ways were archaic," Tristan finished.

"Oh, piss off! I'll prove you wrong. I won't be a bumbling, possessive idiot like the three of you," he countered.

The three married men chuckled. He will eat his words one of these days.

Blake turned his focus back on Dimitri, "How did your parents take it? Did they agree?"

"My father was a little skeptical, but mother was more than happy to meet her grandson. Aurora was very respectful towards my parents, so it was easy for them to see that I made the right choice. The past few weeks have been better, they've all gotten comfortable around each other, so it's all good," Dimitri boasted.