“Would you like me to take your warm clothes out?”

“Yes, and a bra and panty too. What did you tell Papa you were doing?”

“I didn’t say anything, Miss Capello, your father got some news about one of his shipments, seems like there is still someone killing the Catelli’s soldiers.”

“Any idea who it is?” I ask him as he goes about getting my clothes ready and I hop into the bathtub, soaking up the heat that scorches my elbows.

“No, I think Deno is working on that. I’ll let you know if I hear anything.”

“Your cousin seems nice,” I say to him as he brings my clothes to the bath area.

His stare is harsh, as he scowls at my naked flesh under the water.

“She is nice to your face, but remember she still sees you as a minor. She has yet to know you are the root to a rose with deadly thorns.”

My skin flushes and I turn my back to his wandering gaze. That was enough torture for today. Because that is what it is to him, torture.

“Salvatore.”

“Yes, Miss Capello?”

“Have you always chosen God over everything else?”

“Yes. Though I must admit Miss Capello, you tempt me at times.”

“But doesn’t that make your faith stronger?”

“I, I, yes, it does.”

“What would you do with your freedom if it were granted?” I ask him for the seventeenth time since he told me about his Catholic upbringing.

“I would be a priest, and serve God until my last breath.”

the same answer 17 times,” I point

it was 17 times you asked me the same question. Does it not warrant the same answer?”

soap suds off my body and like the good man he is, he holds

is really an answer or more of a confession,” His jaw tightens but he says

the black track pants and long winter vest, saying nothing to the silky bra he

temptation to hell. While he is a made-man, he killed once, a long time ago, by mistake

have it on

He gets off the bed and pulls the bag from underneath the bed and I wait patiently for him to set

I watch the familiar

“Who is that?”

catches my eye and I

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

he said he was going

to the back of the restaurant. 10 minutes go by before

switches videos and the video changes to the outside where the hooded figure is jumping into the car with Mero, just as Jack Creston walks out. It isn’t long when a group of men covered in black grab him

in all that

is the big question. Am I? What was Mero thinking?

where Mero is sleeping and check if he brought anything with him. He is sentimental and untrusting, which means whatever could implicate him would be on him. He won’t stay

going to do to him?” Salvatore asks the question I don’t know

feed him to the wolves, but he is my friend, I can’t

But Deno

about, it’s Marco. I heard him talking to a man earlier when I decided to go snooping around the place. He mentioned something about kidnapping Dylan Creston, and me helping with that. Talking about helping, it is safe to say Gabriel is innocent which means we should let him in on our little side

Gabriel is

to me?” I question Salvatore, as I take in the cream walls, and brown wooden dresser with an oval mirror.

you notice this room seems

lived here, many years back. This room belonged to Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of the first Godfather in

and smile, “Serious? And I get to sleep

he kept her here in this manor locked away for only his eyes alone, and if you go to the library downstairs, there is a desk with a hidden compartment. My mama said his

Salvatore always knows something about someone, which is why I think Deno gave

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