“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

same question.

my body and like the good man he is, he holds a towel open. I look at him, so human,

if your answer is really an answer or more of a confession,”

saying nothing to the silky

as I jump on the bed patting 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

Do you have it on your phone?” I ask

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

playing and I watch the

“Who is that?”

my eye

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

said he was going

the back of the restaurant. 10 minutes go by before he walks back out and leaves just

video changes to the outside where the hooded figure is jumping into the car with Mero, just

take in all that

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

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

him?” Salvatore asks the question I

him to the wolves, but he is my friend,

understand. But Deno

need to worry 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

Gabriel is innocent but he is very

me?” I question Salvatore, as I take in the cream walls, and

notice this room seems old?”

years back. This room belonged to Berenice Antonella

up and smile, “Serious? And I get to

locked away for only his eyes alone, and if you go to the library downstairs, there

the story hard to believe, but Salvatore always knows something about someone, which is why I think Deno gave him to me. A Holy

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