"Jesus Christ!" I yell as Catarina stalls again. She smiles sheepishly at me before restarting the car. I motion to the clutch and guide her hand to the next gear. The car hums nicely and goes a couple of feet ahead before Catarina tries to switch the gear without clutching. "You have to hit the clutch!" I yell and point to where her foot was resting. She groans and hits her head on the horn. I look back and notice how we barely made it out of the parking lot.

"I think that's enough for today." I say and Catarina puts the car in park. She gives me a soft smile before opening her car door. "Damn, Kitty. Look at how far you got." I heard Tej say to Catarina as I lock my car. Catarina groans and hides her face in her hands. I smile at her embarrassment and she tries to use me as a shield from embarrassment. "Tej, be nice." I warn and he puts his hands up in surrender.

"Wassup, Scar." Brian said catching my attention. I smile and run up to him. He picks me up with ease and spins us around. "Gag." Catarina says while fake gagging. I roll my eyes at her as Brian sets me down. "Your car ready to race yet?" Brian asks as he walks over to my car. I groan, "nope."

He laughs and pops open the hood. He laughs harder at the engine and I flick him on the head. He rubs his head and sets the hood back down. Suki comes out with two beers and hands them to Brian and I. Suki and Brian say hello before Suki was called over to her little group of girls.

Catarina was on the phone when Brian and I walked over to the couch. "Okay, bye!" She says and hangs the phone up. I look at her weirdly and she gives me a sweet smile. "Sup, Ro." Brian says as Roman comes through.

"Rome." I say as well and he gives me a smile, "what are you doing here?" He asks and takes my beer from me. I gasp at his action and he smirks. "Business, you know how it is." I answer him and he shakes his head while drinking the rest of my beer.

We all fall into a conversation about cars and whatnot. The sound of car engines fill the air causing us to stop mid conversation, "who the fuck is that?" Tej asks standing up and looking out onto the road. We all get up and i look out as well. "Catarina!" I yell and she skips over to me.

"Who were you talking to on the phone?" I ask calmly and she bites her nails in hesitation. I grit my teeth awaiting for her answer, "I called Bill." I close my eyes and let out a sigh. The cars come to a stop and Tom, Bill, Georg, and Gustav step out.

I snarl and sit back down purposefully on top of Brian. "Hey, Kitty." Bill says as he walks in. I groan seeing Tom come in behind him. He had a girl on his side which meant he wouldn't be bothering me for the day.

"Tej, let's do some jet ski racing!"

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My bikini was all black with small rhinestones on it. Catarina had the same one in red. I hand some money to Tej before getting onto the jet ski and speeding off so the next person could get on. And just my luck, it was Tom with his bimbo. "I didn't realize we could bring dogs to Tej's garage!" I yell loud enough for them to hear me and Tom hid a smirk while the girl gapped at me.

Tom and I took off in the same direction, me in the lead. The water was choppy causing the jet ski to be bouncing off of the waves. I grip the handle bars and make a sharp turn cutting Tom off. I faintly hear him scowl before picking the pace up again.

Tom cut in front of me and ended up splashing me with hella water. "Asshole!" I scream and turn up the speed to catch up. No doubt that he was smirking. I swerve on the water making waves. I watch as they go towards Tom's jet ski and it gets blasted up in the air. The girl on the back gets launched.

"Holy shit!" I laugh watching her smack the water. The crowd makes an 'ooh' sound as I park the jet ski back by the dock. Tej helps me out and onto the dock as he gives me my winnings. I split the stack evenly and give him the other half, "and this is why your my favorite racer." He says with a smirk.

I kiss his cheek lightly just as Tom makes an appearance behind Tej. Tej turns around and walks away without saying anything. I look Tom up and down, and damn he was attractive. "Like what you see?" He asked with a smirk. I point in the direction of his little dog that was still out in the water. He shrugged and turned his attention back on me. It was his turn to look me up and down, "like what you see?" I said and he scoffed. "You would look better on my bed."

My eyes go wide at his boldness, "I'm not some bimbo who sleeps around." I tell him and before he has a chance to respond I turn on my heel and walk towards Brian and Roman. "You got a new car?" I question as we crowd around the purple car. "Yo, you the master mechanic. Why don't you just yank that shit out?"

Jimmy looks at Roman, "I'll try, but this ain't LoJack. The DIS box, the engine management system, hell, the main harness, the GPS is spidered into all of that." Jimmy explains to Roman. "Shit, what did you get yourself into Brian?" I mutter out and he smirks at me.

"Hey, tell me something, man. Do I even want to know where the Skyline is, dawg?" Tej grills before I push Jimmy over to look at the engine. "These rides are hot, they wired these so hot that whoever's tracking these things will know if you don't wear your seatbelt."

My phone vibrates in my pocket and I excuse myself from the group, "Armani." I say into the phone. "We've located the money." My lips curl up into a sickly smile at Alessio's words, "where."

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My hand grips the steering wheel and the other rests on the gear shifter. "When will you teach me how to drive again?" Catarina asks as she turns the music down. I shrug, unable to think of the next possible time to go to Tej's garage. She groans and I laugh at her. I turn the music back on and Catarina breaks out in song.

I join in on the singing and Catarina uses an imaginary microphone acting like she was on stage at a concert. We continue singing until we reached the house. I open the garage and park my car in my designated spot and Catarina doesn't wait for the car to be at a complete stop and was rushing inside.

I turn the ignition off and step out of the car, "took you long enough." Dante says as he leads me down to the basement. There stood Alessio, shirtless, with a guy strapped to a chair with blood running down his nose. "Alessio! You never let me have the fun." I groan and he rolls his eyes as he put his stained white shirt on.

I walk up to the guy and grip his hair to look at his face. He groans in pain and I drop my hold on him. I wipe my hand down my pants to get the sweat off of them, "so who is he?" I ask as we leave him in the room.

Marcello hands me a file before I sit down in the chair, I open the file to see he was part of one of our rival mafias. I tweak my eyebrow at his file, we didn't have much on him. "Gio, try and get information out of him." I demand him as I throw the useless file on the table. Giovanni nods and walks back into the room where the beaten guy was held.

Dante scoops up the file and puts it back, even though we'll never need it again after today. I look down at my phone to see the time, it was 7:29 pm. "I'm gonna go get started on dinner." I say and put my phone in my back pocket.

"But I thought we were going to that fancy restaurant tonight?" Stefano asks with a questioning face. I think about his words, he was right. "Okay, be ready soon. Go tell Catarina and Damiano." Stefano does as I say and I head to my room to get ready for dinner.

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