“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

you asked me the same question. Does it not warrant

washing the soap suds off my body and like the good man he is, he holds a towel open. I look at him, so human, but his restraint is exceptional.

wonder Salvatore, if your answer is really an answer or more of a confession,” His jaw tightens but he says

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

While he is

it on your phone?”

bed and pulls the bag from underneath the bed

watch the familiar face talking to the

“Who is that?”

know,” Something catches my eye and

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

he doing there, he said he was

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

kills me further when he switches videos and 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

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

hear Mero and Michel are downstairs. Find out where Mero is sleeping and check if he brought anything with him. He is sentimental and untrusting,

to do to him?” Salvatore asks the question I

anyone else, I would feed him to the wolves, but he is my friend,

But Deno

about kidnapping Dylan

is

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

you notice this room

belonged to Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of the first Godfather in America,

“Serious? And I get to

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

Salvatore always knows something about someone, which is why

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