“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

it was 17 times you asked me the same question. Does it not warrant the same answer?”

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

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

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

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

you have it on

and pulls the bag from underneath the bed and I

playing and I watch the familiar face talking to

“Who is that?”

Something catches my eye

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

said he was going to train.”

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

further when he switches videos and the video changes to the outside where the hooded figure is jumping into the car with Mero,

in all that I

the big question. Am I? What was Mero thinking? Was he

questions that need to be answered. Tonight, keep yourself hidden. 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

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

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

Deno would want something.”

Deno that we need to worry 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 about helping, it is safe to

is

Salvatore, as I take in the cream walls, and

you notice this room seems

Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of the first

And I

he kept her here in this manor locked away for only his eyes alone, and

but Salvatore always knows something about someone, which is why I

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