“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.”
answer 17 times,” I point
me the same
like the good man he is, he holds a towel open. I look at him, so
or more of a confession,” His jaw tightens
winter vest, saying nothing to the silky bra he chose and grab
his temptation to hell. While he is a made-man, he killed once, a long time ago, by mistake and has never killed since. He is loyal, beastly looking and once you get
see it. Do you have it on your phone?” I ask
brought my laptop,” He gets off the bed and pulls the bag from
video begins playing and I watch the familiar face talking to the
“Who is that?”
my eye and
“Is that...?”
“Yes, Mero,”
was he doing there, he said
minutes go by before
hooded figure is jumping into the car with Mero, just as Jack
in all that
you going to show Deno?” Salvatore asks and that is the big
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 on the property, you
to him?” Salvatore asks the question I don’t know the answer to.
anyone else, I would feed him to the wolves, but he is
Deno would want something.”
mentioned something about kidnapping Dylan Creston,
agree Miss Capello, Gabriel is innocent but he is very
I take in the cream walls, and brown wooden dresser with an oval
this
to Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of
up and smile, “Serious? And I get to sleep in her room?”
a carefree version of himself, “Yes, he loved 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,
always knows something about someone, which is why I think Deno gave him to me.
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