“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.”

the same answer 17 times,” I point

me the same question. Does it not warrant the

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

really an answer or more of a confession,” His jaw tightens but he says

and long winter vest, saying nothing to the silky bra he chose and

bun, 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 once, a

it on

bag

video begins playing and I watch the familiar face talking to

“Who is that?”

don’t know,” Something catches my eye and I pause.

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

said he

restaurant. 10 minutes go by before

where the hooded figure is jumping into the car with Mero, just as Jack Creston walks out. It isn’t

back and take in all that I have just

big

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 on the property, you

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,

But Deno would

I decided to go snooping around the place. He mentioned something about kidnapping Dylan Creston, and me helping with that. Talking

Gabriel is innocent

He isn’t loyal to me?” I question Salvatore, as I take in the cream walls, and brown wooden dresser with

notice this room

years back. This room belonged to Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of the first Godfather

I get to

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 with a hidden compartment. My mama said his journal still is hidden in that desk, and so is pictures

knows something about someone, which is why I think Deno gave him to me. A Holy man for his brother’s unholy

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