“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,” I point
the same question. Does it not warrant
washing the soap suds off my body and like the good man he is, he holds a towel open. I look at him, so human,
answer is really an answer or more of
the black track pants and long winter vest, saying nothing to the silky bra he chose and
little slice of heaven and I am his temptation to hell. While he is a made-man, he killed once, a
you have it on your phone?” I
off the bed and pulls the bag from
playing and I watch the familiar face talking
“Who is that?”
know,” Something catches my eye and I
“Is that...?”
“Yes, Mero,”
doing there, he said he was going
the restaurant. 10 minutes go by before he walks
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 and throw him in
and take in all that I
show Deno?” Salvatore asks and that is the big question.
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
do to him?” Salvatore asks the question I don’t know the
he is my friend, I can’t just sentence
But Deno would want
earlier when I decided to go snooping around the place. He mentioned something about kidnapping Dylan Creston, and me helping
Miss Capello, Gabriel is innocent but he is
What? He isn’t loyal to me?” I question Salvatore, as I take in the cream walls, and brown
you notice this room seems old?”
many years back. This room belonged to Berenice Antonella
And I get to
only his eyes alone, and if you go to the library downstairs, there is a desk with
the story hard to believe, but Salvatore always knows something about someone, which
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