“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

is, he holds a towel open. I

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

pants and long winter vest, saying nothing to the

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 know

me see it. Do you have it on your phone?” I ask him,

He gets off the bed and pulls the bag from underneath the

I watch the familiar

“Who is that?”

my eye and I pause.

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

was he doing there, he said he was

of the restaurant. 10 minutes go by before he

jumping into the car with Mero, just as Jack Creston walks out. It isn’t long when a group of men

sit back and take in all

going to show Deno?” Salvatore asks and that is the big question. Am I? What was Mero thinking? Was he tied up

Find out where Mero is sleeping and check if he brought anything with him. He is

asks the question I

feed him to the wolves, but he is my friend, I can’t just

But Deno would

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

Capello, Gabriel is

I question Salvatore, as I take in the cream walls,

you notice this room seems

room belonged to Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of

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

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

his free time writing about her?” I find the story hard to believe, but Salvatore always knows something about someone, which is why I think Deno gave him to me.

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