the unwanted twin

chapter 18

It had been another week. The twins had been living there for almost two weeks now.
Everyone saw how Emilia was getting more and more confident, they hoped she would talk soon...well almost everyone. Lexi had to put an to it today.

Fortunately for Emilia her brothers had bought her so many clothes she hadn't gotten around to wearing the ones Lexi had laced with a laundry powder type thing.

At least until today. Lexi had been getting annoyed and had even snuck into her room to add more to her tops.

She was allergic to one of the ingredients and when Lexi saw Emilia come downstairs that morning she couldn't help smile. Her plan had worked and she had to split Dante and Emilia up, he was protective over her, maybe more so than Damon. Nothing could get past Damon and even if it did, no one could call Damon out on it simply because he was Damon so she chose Dante. She had hidden the powder in his room.

Her plan at first was to make Emilia have an allergic reaction, it would only be a mild one but a reaction all the same.

Then Dante interfered.

And she figured why not break Emilia's trust of him, then she would break and not trust any of them. Damon would be angry and Dante would be too stressed to get suspious of her. He always watched her movements whenever she was in the same room as Emilia, she couldn't get rid of him. But now she could. Damon wouldnt let her near him after today.

She wasn't oblivious to Damon and Dante's relationship. She had heard them argueing last week then again last night. It sounded bad last night,she could swear they were throwing stuff against the wall too, something must have happened but it all went silent when Alessandro shouted at them. She figured he had heard it and went to the location they were arguing and stopped it.

Dante passed Emilia her breakfast like every day. She simply nodded. It seemed the top was taking effects as she rubbed the back of her neck.
"You okay" Dante whispered so only she heard.
Emilia nodded and removed her hand from her neck.

"Did you sleep well tesoro" Damon asked.

Emilia nodded in response, looking down at the food.

Alessandro had noticed her habit at not eating until told well most of the time she wouldn't. He hated it and it concerned him greatly. It hadnt even been two weeks yet so he had decided to watch her habits until he spoke about it with her.
That being said she needed to eat, he didn't want to make it obvious so today he went with "bambina you really do have to try my omelettes they are amazing I promise" he didn't out right say it but Emilia knew what he meant and she slowly stopped playing with it and started to eat.

"They are so good" Matteo said as he ate them.

Alesandro decided he really should make his other kids breakfast and not just Emilia so he had cooked extra today.

"Thank you Matteo " Alesandro replied, but what he didn't say was I'd prefer that from Emilia, you are only eating them because I felt generous.

Emilia quickly wrote down

He's right, they are really good. You are a brilliant cook.

This made Alesandro smile.

"Keep stroking his ego and he will cook more for us" Matteo whispered to her.

"I think you mean he will cook more for her" Damon had heard what Matteo had said and decided to jump in on the conversation.

"I'll always cook for mia bambina, would you like some more" Alesandro said.

Emilia shook her head, she still couldn't manage big portions.

Alesandro nodded "that's okay". He loved all his kids the same, but he did have a soft spot more for Emilia. She was just so innocent and sweet. He wanted to protect her from the cruel world. He knew he should probably think the same about Lexi, she was his daughter and he loved her but she had a rude and disrespectful streak that Alesandro didn't like.
He also noticed that they never spent much time together alone. What he didn't know was the only alone time they had as when Lexi threatened Emilia.