Warning: violence

Evanora knees Tito in his stomach as Michael watches the fight. Janet cheers for Evanora as she stood by Michael's side. Evanora could feel every bit of sweat that drips down her face as does Tito.

Tito rolls on the ground away from Evanora as she pulls out her pistol from the belt that she wore around her hips before she shoots the bottle that sat perfectly on the fence before the bullet knocks the bottle over. Tito stands up and shoots Evanora a smile before smirking at Michael who stood there unamused. "I've seen a better shot." Michael says coldly as he walks over to Evanora and Tito, Michael takes her pistol as he raises it directly at the target and shoots five times at the center without missing. Janet immediately glares at Michael.

"Michael! Evanora shot that perfectly. What the fuck is wrong with y-." Janet pauses as Michael glares back at Janet.

"Watch your mouth, Dunk before I get mother on your ass and Evanora-." Michael snaps back at Janet before he glances over to Evanora as he steps toward her. "You need to be quicker than your enemy. You need to think before your enemy or you'll be shot dead. Do you understand me?" Michael says sternly as Evanora nods her head.

"Of course..." Evanora says before Michael looks over to Tito. Tito glares at Michael as he crosses his arms against his chest.

"She did that perfectly, Michael." Tito says in annoyance. Michael rolls his eyes as he licks the backside of his teeth while walking toward Tito.

"I advise you to keep your mouth shut, Tito. What I say, goes. She did a poor job and accepted it so, you should do the same. The both of you." Michael says coldly as Tito glares into his little brother's eyes then Michael looks over at Janet with a glare as well.

"And as your older brother, I advise you to not speak like that to me otherwise, I will kick your ass. Remember your place. Just because you are the don, it doesn't make you any better than the rest of us. Before you were ever the don, you were just hiding away in London like the spoiled brat, you are." Tito says before Michael grabs Tito by his shirt. "Do it. I fucking double dog dare you, Michael to punch me. Do it!"

Michael raises his fist before Evanora pushes Tito away and stood between the brothers. "Enough!" Evanora demands as she glances at both Michael and Tito. "Enough with the fighting! Just stop!" She pleads. "You and your brothers always fight with each other so just for once, stop with the fighting and just get along especially, you." Evanora turns her body to face Michael as he glares at the ground avoiding eye contact with Evanora. Evanora steps closer to Michael. "Michael, please... control your anger and Tito-" Evanora pauses as she turns to face Tito as she glares directly at him. " stop fucking making him worse." She finishes her sentence while Tito glares back at her. "You are brothers who should be united, not at each other's throats now both of you get your shit together before I pop you both in fucking faces." Evanora says angrily. Janet crosses her arm as she nodded to everything that Evanora said. "You have an enemy at large and here you both are fucking arguing." She adds.

Janet step beside Evanora as she places her right hand on Evanora's shoulder. Michael and Tito stood there in complete shock that two women had spoken that way to them both. The only woman who was obligated to do that was their mother. Evanora glances at Janet as she gave her a smile. Tito steps toward the girls as he glares at Evanora. "How dare you demand us to do something, know your place especially in front of the man who provides you a home, clothes, jewelry, food, and warmth. Michael could have killed you and left your body in an unmarked grave. You are pointless to have around here, all you do is cause trouble. Michael, am I right?" Tito says as he turns around to where Michael stood as he held his arms crossed against his chest. Michael scratches his nose before he walks toward the girls and stood beside Evanora.

"You are not right. I do all of those things because I fell in love. I did all of those things because I love her. I gave her a second chance because she saved my life. She nursed me to health when I was gunned down. Without her-" Michael says as he glances to Evanora with a smile and looks down at her hand then grabs for it. "I wouldn't have survived and now I know what love actually means.. and Tito-" Michael adds before glaring at Tito. "The next time, you speak to her like that and that includes me not being there, I will kick your ass. Do I make myself clear?" Michael says angrily as Tito glares back at his brother and remains silent to avoid answering Michael. "Do I make myself clear?!" Tito nods his head before he angrily leaves and went back inside of the manor. Janet rubs Evanora's back.

"You did a great job. I'm proud of you, Evie." Janet says as Evanora smiles at her. They both hug one another. Janet was the first to pull away. "I gotta go and see Latoya. I'll send someone for you if she asks for you, alright?" Janet adds.

"Of course." Evanora replies as Janet smiles at her and walks back inside of the manor. Evanora looks up into Michael's deep brown eyes as she held his hand. "Thank you for defending me, Michael." She said as Michael smiles at her and lifts up her hand then pecks it.

"Anything for you... I have something special for you as well." Michael says before getting down on one knee and pulls out a long, purple velvet jewelry box. "And before you refuse.. your mother had sent me a letter. She told me that your twenty-fifth birthday is arriving soon and that most of your birthdays weren't spectacular due to your family's financial situation and that is when I took it upon myself to make your birthday special. Evanora.. what I am about to give you is my great grandmother's diamond necklace that was given to her by my great grandfather as a gift for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. When my great grandmother passed away, my great grandfather refused for it to be buried with her and instead gave it to my father which my father had given to me three days before he was... killed." Michael says as he felt his throat closing in on his wording. Michael opens the box and revealed a diamond necklace with an aquamarine teardrop stone with diamonds surrounds the beginning of the teardrop.
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Evanora's jaw drops as she stares at awe at the necklace inside of the purple velvet box.

"I meant what I said, Evanora. I truly do love you and I always will love you even if one of us were to be taken away from life. You were an angel in disguise." He says before standing back on his feet. Michael removes the necklace from the box as he walks around her and stood behind her. Evanora lifts her hair up from her shoulders as Michael places the necklace around her neck before he connects the chains together.

Evanora turns around to face Michael as she drops her shoulder-length hair back down. Her lips quiver before she embraces Michael.

"Oh, Michael..." she wept softly into his shoulder. "You are truly amazing... no matter how bad you try to portray yourself, you will always hold a soft spot for kindness and love in your heart. I love you, Michael. I don't deserve you." She cries before kissing his cheek.

"I love you, more.." Michael replies with a smile as a knock interrupts them both. They both turn to the direction of where the knock came from. Danny stood there with a vanilla envelope in his hand.

"Boss, we must go tonight. We just received news that a special delivery arrived to the warehouse." Danny says as Michael glances down at Evanora before he looks back at Danny.

"Can you inform the others? I need a few more moments before I leave." Michael says before Danny looks over to Evanora and back at Michael before he nods his head before turning around and leaves. Michael turns to face Evanora as he sighs heavily. "I'm just afraid about this attack.. it doesn't feel .. right."

Evanora smiles at Michael. "Everything will be the same when you come back home, Michael. Maybe, when you come back. I can meet your mother formally." Evanora said as Michael smiles for a little bit before his smiles fade away.

"Just promise me, you will avoid her while I'm away." He says as Evanora raises her pinky.

"I pinky promise." Evanora says as Michael chuckles as he wraps his own pinky around her pinky before their embrace. "We'll see each other in the morning." She adds before they pull away from one another. Michael smiles at her one last time before he goes back inside and to the men who were waiting for him at the front gate.