“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

good man he is, he holds a towel open. I look at him, so human, but his

answer or more of a

vest, saying nothing to the silky

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, beastly looking and once you get to know

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

the bed and pulls the bag from

begins playing and I watch the familiar face

“Who is that?”

catches my eye and I pause.

“Is that...?”

“Yes, Mero,”

doing there, he said he was going

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

the car with Mero, just as Jack Creston

take in all that I have

the big question. Am

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

him?” Salvatore asks the question I

to the wolves, but he is my friend, I can’t just sentence him to death without knowing for sure.”

But Deno

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

Capello, Gabriel is innocent but he

me?” I question Salvatore, as I take in the

this

belonged to Berenice Antonella DeMarco, wife of the first Godfather

“Serious? And I get

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 his journal still

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

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