“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 times,”

you asked me the same question. Does it not

up after 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.

answer or more of a confession,” His jaw tightens

saying nothing to the silky bra he chose and grab

temptation to hell. While he is a

Do you have it

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

begins playing and I watch the familiar face talking

“Who is that?”

don’t know,” Something catches my

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

he said he

the back of the restaurant. 10 minutes go by before he walks back out and

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

back and take in all that I

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

I 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, which means whatever could implicate him would be on him. He won’t stay on the property, you would

are we going to do to him?” Salvatore asks the question I don’t know the answer

wolves, but he is my

Deno would want

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

Miss Capello, Gabriel is innocent but he

question Salvatore, as I take in the cream

you notice this room seems old?”

to Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of the first Godfather

And I get

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

find the story hard to believe, but Salvatore always knows something about

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