"I've missed being with you like this," Michael says to Whitney after they finish. He runs his hand along her thigh and sighs.

"I doubt that, Michael, you've been pretty busy with Carmen. She seems to keep you plenty satisfied. I don't think you've even been with John since before the prom."

Prom is long over and so is graduation. At least that is one less thing to deal with. After dealing with the upstart that dared to kidnap her and John, others learned to keep away and they were able to consolidate their power a bit more. Michael and John now have a solid hold on their mafia and they are more than a little feared.

Once John allowed the infidel to die, Michael made sure his body would be found. The other mafias understood and accepted the warning. Especially since only three of their mafia were killed but over a hundred of the other mafia were found dead and others are presumed missing, but since no one knows how many were actually in the mafia they just keep clear.

Snow made sure that his calling card was prominent on the dead body so everyone knew who was responsible.

Whitney isn't sure if that was brilliant or incredibly stupid of them. It has made the police look even harder for Snow and if they are ever able to connect Snow to John then the whole damn mafia will come tumbling down like a blown over house of cards.

Michael doesn't respond to Whitney's words about Carmen and that catches her attention. She puts her hand over Michael's to stop his caressing of her. "What's wrong Michael?"

"Carmen is cheating on me." Michael spits out.

His words are so shocking to Whitney that all she can do for some time is just stare at Michael. When she can finally speak, "Are you sure?"

Michael scoffs, "Not positive, but fairly sure, yeah."

Before Whitney can say anything else, "Before I supposedly left for the business trip," this is one of the times that John is substituting for Michael. This is a new client and they aren't sure how trusty worthy they are so they decided that John would go rather than Michael. "Carmen pulls me aside so she can talk to me privately. She seemed a bit nervous but I thought it was just because she was going to miss me. Nope, that wasn't why, not even close."

"Michael?" Whitney asks in concern when Michael goes quiet.

"She told me that she's just over two months pregnant. That would put her right before the prom." Michael manages to get out. He doesn't like being lied to. He understands if she wants to have other lovers, after all she's letting him have others, but she claims that he's her only lover. 

"Is there any chance at all that the baby could be yours, Michael? I know that your father did a number on you, but is there any chance?" Whitney says in concern. She had always rather liked Carmen, but if they aren't able to trust her then she won't be allowed to stick around for much longer.

"Of course there is always a chance, I didn't have my balls removed and they do still produce, it's just such small quantities of sperm that the likelihood is very slim. When I say slim I do mean slim, like a million to one odds. Hell, if this child is mine, I can't do anything to her until I know for sure."

"What the fuck do you mean, do anything to her? If the child isn't, then you will either accept the fact that she has other lovers just like you do or you break up with her. You won't hurt her." But Whitney is getting very angry at the distinct possibility that they've all been played.

Michael sighs and sits up. The sheet slides down showing off the majority of his body. "If that was the only problem I would just verify with her who her lover was and run a background check on him. Just to make sure that he was safe for her to be around."

"There's more?" Whitney asks starting to get sick as well as angry.

"Yeah, when she first told us that her father was mafia I had her give me all the information that she knew or remembered.

"We did have a man by that name in our mafia, but he died twenty years ago." Michael says and Whitney sits up ignoring the sheet as it falls to around her waist.

"That's not possible."

"Her story isn't adding up, Whitney. The man couldn't be her father because he would have died more than a year before her birth. There is no way that she'd have even the vague memories that she says she has. Hell it wouldn't even be possible for her to have been conceived let alone born. Then there is her mother. 

"She says that her mother is never home, being gone days at a time before coming home for just a few hours before leaving back to work. Yet, where they live, if her mother worked even forty hours a week, even at minimum wage, one check would be enough to pay for rent, utilities and all basic needs. Yet, for the hours she's gone she should be pulling in thousands a pay check. Carmen, before she came to live here, had just basics in food and just enough to live off of. There were no extras, not even internet. Her phone plan was as cheap as you can get and so was the phone."

Whitney is now more than a little angry as well. Either Carmen is shitting them or she is being shitted by her mother. For Carmen's sake she hopes it is her mother.

"What did you find out?" Whitney has no doubt that Michael wouldn't have left his background search at that. He wouldn't leave himself so vulnerable.

"She isn't working any legal jobs or at least not being paid legally. If she is working a legal job they are paying her under the table and they are screwing her over big time when it comes to money."

"You don't know which it is?"

"We haven't been able to find her yet, but when we do, we'll be pulling her in for questioning, you can be sure of that." Michael says and Whitney goes to him and holds him to calm him down. She doesn't like it when either of the brothers get the tic in their jaw, it means they are very angry and shit is about to go down. With dead bodies usually all that is left when the anger is spent.

Whitney was an unfortunate witness to one such event and she was terrified of both brothers for a week afterwards. Wouldn't even talk to either of them and had moved into her apartment for a week before John finally convinced her to give him another chance. 

That had been just the Monday following prom. She shudders just remembering it.

"Hey, you should get back under the covers, John will kill me if you get sick because of this." Michael says holding her arms around him.

"I'll talk to her and get the truth." Whitney promises Michael.

"Thank you, I'm afraid that if I question her that I'll just get a bunch of lies and then make her lose the baby. If that baby is mine, she will be having it, she just might not be keeping it." Michael says with determination.

"I'll find out for you, Michael. What if the child isn't yours?"

"That will all depend on what you find out. She's walking on really thin ice, Whitney and I hear it cracking."

Whitney gives him a kiss. "We'll see if the ice breaks or holds up under her. Why did you want to sleep in here?" 

It's actually the first time they've used the bedroom as such. Whitney just never got around to taking out the bed when she converted her suite into the dance area she needed to practice her pole dancing. John didn't like her practicing where the other whores worked the pole, down in the gym.

John doesn't like the men looking at her while she does her usual workout, but nearly loses his temper if the men watch while she works the pole. He almost killed one of his men when he saw him watching Whitney and he made an inappropriate comment. After that the men didn't say anything but John didn't want to take any chances and so had the dance area set up in Whitney's unused suite.

"I know that the room isn't bugged. I've been sweeping my office and other areas that might be bugged and finding them. If Carmen isn't guilty then I have a mole in my group. I don't know just who to trust at this point."

Whitney holds her hand over his mouth as she hears something outside the door.

"I'm going back to John's room. You stay here." Whitney says then gets the gun she keeps hidden in that room.

If Michael hadn't known about the secret passageways that John had installed all along this floor he'd wonder how she was going to get across to her room without being seen.

Michael just kisses her and gets himself dressed as Whitney hurriedly slips on His shirt and some underwear before going to the secret passage. 

As Whitney slips inside that he goes with his gun drawn to the door and opens it.

"Carmen? What the fuck are you doing out here at three A.M.?" Michael asks even more suspicious of her than before.

"Yeah, that's what I would like to know? Are you trying to sleep with John?" Whitney asks opening her and John's door. 

Carmen just stands there in a sexy pajama set and just opens and closes her mouth. She looks shocked that she's caught.

"Well?" Michael demands. Carmen doesn't know that it's him and not John. She thinks that Michael left on that business trip earlier that day.

Whitney comes over to her, "Or maybe you wanted to join John and I in some bed fun?" Whitney had never gotten any kind of vibe of Carmen wanting to be with her or females in general, but she thought she'd have a bit of fun with her just then.

"No!" Carmen squeaks out as Whitney comes closer to her, boxing her in between her and Michael.

"Then why are you here?" Michael is fast losing patience with Carmen.

"I had a nightmare," Carmen says lamely once she is able to speak once more.

Michael loves playing John and does so now to the fullest. He stares at her the way he knows makes people feel uncomfortable.

"So you came over to Whitney's suite when you know that she and I use my room?" Michael says in disbelief. Whitney finds it a little unbelievable as well.

"I was going to dance for a bit and hope it would make me sleepy enough to go back to sleep."

"I don't think so, I think you knew John and I had a fight and John was going to sleep in my room tonight. Are you trying to take my boyfriend away from me just because yours also shares my bed?" Whitney demands and starts her seduction of Carmen. 

Carmen responds far more than Whitney had expected. Michael watches with his arms crossed and glaring at his girlfriend like John would. He hides his smirk as he watches Carmen get turned on by Whitney. He wouldn't mind some girl on girl action between his girlfriend and his mistress.