“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

you asked me the same question.

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

an answer or more of a

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

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 him,

Do you have it on your phone?” I

laptop,” He gets off the bed and pulls the bag from underneath the bed and

watch the familiar face talking

“Who is that?”

don’t know,” Something catches my

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

there, he said he was going

go by before he walks back

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

in all that

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

anything with him. He is sentimental and untrusting, which means whatever could implicate him would be on him. He won’t stay on

to him?” Salvatore asks the question I don’t know the answer to.

he is my

But Deno

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

Gabriel is innocent but

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

this room seems

many years back. This room belonged to Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of the first Godfather in America, Elladio Gaspare DeMarco.”

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

transforms into a carefree version of himself, “Yes, he loved his wife 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

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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