“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.”

same answer 17 times,”

was 17 times you asked me the same question. Does

suds off my body and like the good man he is, he holds a towel open.

or more of a confession,” His jaw tightens but he

black track pants and long winter vest, saying

the other side. Salvatore is my little slice of heaven and I am his temptation to hell. While he is a made-man, he killed

have it

bed and pulls the bag from underneath the bed and I wait patiently for him to

watch the familiar face talking to the

“Who is that?”

catches my eye and I

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

he said he was

the restaurant. 10 minutes go

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

sit back and take in all that I

and that is the big question. Am I? What was Mero

questions that need to be answered. Tonight, keep yourself hidden. I hear Mero and Michel are downstairs. Find out 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

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

it were anyone else, I would feed him to the wolves, but he is my friend,

understand. But Deno

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

Miss Capello, Gabriel is innocent but

me?” I question Salvatore, as I take in the cream walls, and brown wooden dresser with

you notice this

belonged to Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of

I get to sleep in her

his wife so much that 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

story hard to believe, but Salvatore always knows something about someone, which is why I

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