“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.”

answer 17 times,”

17 times you asked me the same question. Does it

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

is really an answer or more of a confession,” His jaw

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

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

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

I brought my laptop,” He gets off the bed and pulls the bag from underneath the bed and I wait patiently for him to set

the familiar face talking to the hooded

“Who is that?”

know,” Something catches my eye

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

there, he said he

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

Salvatore 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 black grab him

in all

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

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

asks

else, I would feed him to the wolves, but he is my friend, I can’t just sentence him to death without knowing

understand. But Deno would want

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

Capello, Gabriel is innocent but

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

notice this room seems old?”

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

And I get to sleep in

wife so much that he kept her here in this manor locked away for only his eyes alone, and if you

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

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