“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.”

me the same answer 17

it was 17 times you asked me the same

he is, he holds a towel

more of

change into the black track pants and long winter vest, saying nothing to the silky

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 once, a long time ago, by mistake and has never killed since. He is loyal, beastly looking and once you get to

it on your

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

and I watch the familiar

“Who is that?”

know,” Something catches my

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

he said he was going to

see Mero walk to the back of the restaurant. 10 minutes go by before he walks back

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 all that I have just

is the big

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 on the property,

do to him?” Salvatore asks the question

it were anyone else, I would feed him to the wolves, but he is my friend, I can’t just sentence him to death

Deno would want

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

agree Miss Capello, Gabriel is innocent

as I take in

notice this room

This room belonged to Berenice Antonella

smile, “Serious? And I get to sleep in her

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

always knows something about someone, which

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