“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.”

gave me the same answer

asked me the same question. Does it not

is, he holds

or more of

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

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 long time ago, by mistake and has never killed since. He is loyal,

it on your

off the bed and pulls the bag from underneath the bed and I

begins playing and I watch the

“Who is that?”

my eye

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

doing there, he said he

the back of the restaurant. 10 minutes go by before he

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 black grab him and throw him

in all that I have just

show Deno?” Salvatore asks and that is the big question. Am I? What was

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 would need to break into his room.”

we going to do to him?” Salvatore asks the

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

But Deno

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

Capello, Gabriel is innocent but he

Salvatore, as I take in the cream walls, and brown wooden dresser with an oval mirror.

notice this room seems old?”

Berenice Antonella DeMarco,

“Serious? And I get

and his scar stretches, as his face 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

I find the story hard to believe, but Salvatore always knows something about someone, which is why

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255