Chapter 16 Alessio
ALESSIO
“Who is the girl?” I asked Klaus as we waited for someone named David, who owed Matteo money, to come out of the bar. We’d agreed to give him one hour before we went in and got him ourselves. We had men waiting at the back in case he tried to slink out that way.
Matteo had gotten weird after Sylar left a few days ago, but lately, weird had become an everyday occurrence, so we let it slide. If Matteo trusted, then we had to as well.
It didn’t help that Sylar had come back for a meeting we’d had to endure sitting through with him and his random ramblings.
“Simply a woman,” Klaus said, looking around outside.
“Simply? If so simple, then why have you been rushing off to her every night and neglecting your brothers?”
“No offense, Sio, but she’s prettier than you and Teo.”
I chuckled at that. “I’ll let you have that one. Teo says she cooks. Is she better than Teo?”
He fidgeted for a moment in his seat in the SUV. “She is better.”
“Does he know that?” I laughed again. Matteo was fairly uptight about his cooking.
“Not in so many words,” Klaus muttered.
I shook my head. “What else? Give me something to go on here. You’ve been starstruck by her for weeks now.”
“I have nothing else to say. She is a beautiful, intelligent woman who seems to like me back. That is all.”
“Care to share her?” I asked, studying him for his response. We often shared women. He’d never said no before. This would help me figure out where his head and heart really were.
His hands tightened into fists. That’s all it took for me to know my friend wasn’t falling for a girl. He’d already fallen.
“No. Not this time,” he answered in a soft voice. “She is… mine.”
I raised my brows at his proclamation. I’d never heard or seen him this way before.
I found it… intriguing. And oddly terrifying.
Klaus didn’t love. He fucked. We all did.
It was an unspoken pact. We’d lost the women we loved, at least Matteo and I had.
Klaus loved his wife in his own way, I was sure, but it wasn’t true love.
It was a duty. In the end, it didn’t matter because all we had was each other.
Knowing Klaus had developed real feelings for someone scared me. I didn’t want to lose my brother. I didn’t want to see him get his heart crushed.
“When will we meet her?” I asked.
“I don’t know if the relationship will go that far.” He looked out the window, a muscle thrumming along his jaw.
“Tell me,” I pressed. “You are worried.”
“Of course I’m worried,” he muttered. “What can I offer a woman in the long term? Sh-She’s practically the age of Levin.”
I blinked at this information. I had not considered that she was a younger woman. I assumed she was our age.
“Have you talked to her about how you feel?”
He blew out a breath. “I do not do well with feelings. I don’t like to think about any of it. I simply want to enjoy my time with her while I have her.”
“While you have her? Do you think it won’t last?” I frowned at his words and the way he looked down at his hands, his big shoulders sagging.
“I do not believe it will last. Eventually, she will wake and realize I am a monster. She deserves better than a monster. She is… an angel.” He scrubbed his hand down his face.
“Klaus, I think you should talk to her about how you feel—”
“There he is.” Klaus threw the door open and got out, effectively ending our conversation.
Fucking David Pierce. Of course, the little prick was ruining shit. I followed Klaus out to the dark street.
Typically, we grabbed these shitheads and left with them. Klaus seemed to have other plans.
With his massive hand, he wrapped it around David’s throat and shoved him against the wall.
“You owe Matteo De Santis money,” Klaus snarled.
“I-I am trying to g-get it,” David choked out as Klaus loosened his hold for a moment so he could speak.
“Trying doesn’t work for us,” I said.
I reached out and emptied David’s pocket. His wallet contained two hundred bucks and an old condom in a package. I tossed the wallet back to him after pocketing the cash.
“You still owe nine thousand eight hundred,” I said.
“Take off your clothes,” Klaus snarled, releasing him.
David stared up at him in confusion.
“Take off your fucking clothes!” Klaus shouted, making David jump.
With trembling hands, he rushed around and took his clothes off. Klaus nodded at me to get the clothes, so I did, having no idea what the hell he was doing.
“I want your boxers too,” Klaus said.
David licked his lips. “I’ll be naked.”
Klaus pulled out his gun and pressed it to the center of David’s forehead.
“Naked or dead. You choose.”
The man trembled so hard he gagged.
“Choose,” Klaus snarled. “I have more important things to be doing tonight.”
David fumbled with his waistband before getting his underwear down.
I watched as Klaus glanced at David’s cock.
“I’d be embarrassed to be without my boxers if my dick was that small, too,” Klaus said, backing away from him and lowering his gun. “One week or I’ll be back and will hack off your cock and feed it to you. Don’t try to run. I love the fucking chase.”
He put his gun away and grabbed David’s boxers in the process. He nodded for me to follow. I did, holding the rest of David’s clothes.
We got into the SUV, and Klaus threw the boxers at Frank. They landed on his head. He quickly pulled them off and cursed at us.
“Fucking dickhead prick!”
I laughed at that and dropped the rest of the clothes to the floor as I closed the door.
“That’s because you weren’t paying attention, and Alessio and I had to touch his fucking shit,” Klaus said.
“No one told you to put your dick in his ass,” Frank grumbled back.
“What?” I wrinkled my nose.
“He’s touching his shit. I assumed it was with his dick. Big fucker is probably into that,” Frank muttered, putting the SUV into drive and pulling away from the curb.
Klaus scoffed. “When we get out, I’m going to make you eat those fucking boxers, you little pissant bitch.”
Frank gave Klaus the finger, which only made me chuckle.
I looked over to see Klaus pulling his phone out, his thumbs flying over the screen.
“Are you going to her?” I asked softly.
“Yes,” he replied, pocketing his phone. “I will always go to her.”
I nodded.
He’d definitely fallen. He just hadn’t felt the pain yet.