Taken By The Mafia Lord

“Oh come on,” Mimi rolled her eyes towards heaven, “The color compliments your skin tone well and you feel like a princess already,” She bent and fluffed the tulle.

Arianna was wearing a long flowing lavender tulle bridesmaid dress. It had a double V neck and accentuated her narrow hips with its full skirt flowing down, she would not feel out of place running down castle steps in it.

But Arianna liked Mimi’s daring red dress better with that high split in the side or perhaps, Arianna was merely jealous of her best friend’s body. No matter what Mimi wore, even if it was a rag, she manages to pull off the clothing perfectly. Unlike her, who has to spend hours in the mirror to make sure she looked remotely as perfect as Mimi. It was tiring sometimes.

“Arianna, you are perfect. So now stop squirming like a fish and do not embarrass me in front of your sexy brothers-in-law!” Mimi whisper yelled at her while faking a picture of composure to the outsiders.

Arian glanced up at her.

Oh no.

Oh yeah.

She could finally see the problem.

.....

No wonder, Mimi decided to be civilized all of a sudden, she should have known. They were currently in the foyer alongside Eric’s brothers and relatives while the guest waited outside. The wedding was about to begin.

Arianna had earlier introduced Mimi to the rest of Eric’s brothers aka her brothers-in-law and to her shock, her bestie who had always been sociable, suddenly became mute. Mimi had not been able to say a thing, and she had to practically help her shut her jaw.

“Should I remind you that you have Victor,” Arianna told her, turning her eyes away from the brothers who gathered around and laughing at something she had no idea of.

Mimi faced her, “Well, you didn’t exactly tell me the Draven brothers’ beauty was on par with Victor’s. And it’s not exactly a crime to admire God’s wonderfully, specially and beautifully created creatures.”

“Mmmhmm,” Arianna nodded her head with her arms crossed on her chest. She didn’t believe her one bit.

“I love Victor,” She said, yet added, “However, I suddenly wish polyandry is still in practice.”

“Oh, I think it’s still in practice in certain states and countries. You just need to uproot your life here and move over there.”

“Stop being sarcastic Arianna, it doesn’t fit you, ” Mimi placed her arm around her shoulder and turned her to face the brothers who wore matching suits, “I mean can’t you imagine having these drop-dead gorgeous men warm your bed every night like the females in those reverse harem novels.”

“Well... ” Arianna swatted her hand away, there was no way she was letting Mimi fill her mind with such improper thoughts, “Those are novels and you are in reality, Mimi.”

“Yes,” Mimi nodded her head, “You are living my reality right now.”

“Trust me, I’ll give anything in the world to swap places with you.”

Mimi shook her head, “You are weird.”

“You are weirder. In fact, I can’t begin to comprehend how I became friends with you.” Arianna said and the both of them burst into laughter.

Mimi confessed to her, “All I can say is that I’m hornier ever since I became pregnant and Victor is up to the challenge, thankfully. Although, It would have been much easier if Victor was here to diffuse the testosterone in the air. I mean I could literally smell, and taste it on my lips, it’s choking,” She looked at Arianna asking, “Do you think that all pregnant experience this, or am I the only one?”

Yep, too much information.

“I won’t be surprised if you are the only one experiencing that,” Arianna muttered under her breath.

“What?”

“I can’t tell since I’m not pregnant,” She told Mimi with a tinge of regret in her tone. Arianna knew deep down that being with Marcel would be so much better if she was pregnant for him. Then, her mother wouldn’t have any choice but to accept Marcel and her grandchild.

“Maybe I should ask your mother, and since she doesn’t exactly like me because I’m associated with Luciano, we can take it as a bonding exercise. She can’t refuse to advise a pregnant woman young enough to be her daughter,” Mimi planned on using the sympathy card.

“Perhaps, you can do that after she’s done with her wedding and honeymoon,” Arianna could not imagine Mimi and her mother being besties before the wedding. It was just not possible.

“Although I have a question for your mother.” Mimi sure had a lot of energy today and Arianna sighed inwardly.

“What now?”

Arianna knew she prayed for a distraction to get through this, but it looks like she got more than what she asked for.

“How does...” She tactically pointed to Eric and Ephraim, “I mean both of them are identical twins. How does Natalie know not to do it with the wrong twin?”

By now, Arianna wished the ground would open up and swallow her up. Who knew Mimi would be so excited to meet her new family more than her?

She breathed,” For starters, they don’t live together and Ephraim is married and is growing out his beards for that same purpose.”

“Yeah, sexy beards,” Mimi swooned, staring at the man.

“Mimi,”

“I’ll have Victor try out a beard too,”

And Arianna could see Victor having a checklist after this was over.

“Alright, let’s look at it from this perspective.” Mimi continued, “Plot twist, it so happens that your mother fell for the wrong twin and it has been Ephraim all along,”

Arianna opened her mouth to speak but Mimi beat her to it.

“And I’m saying all of it happened while they lived together, before he got married and grew the beards. You did say she stayed with them and many things could have happened then. So what if Ephraim is really the one your mother loves and Natalie doesn’t know she fell for the wrong twin? ”

“In that case, we pray she never finds out,” Arianna answered smartly while praying in her mind that Mimi goes for a break. Pregnancy was scary.

And the break came in the form of an announcement, “The bride is coming out!”