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Gabriella He’s not kidding.When Dela Vin told me he’s keeping me by his side, I thought he meant sending more bodyguards for my protection. However, I underestimate him. How can I forget that he is a man of his words? That he meant keeping me by his sides means he’ll always drag me with him in every place.“ Are you fucking serious? How can you bring me to this place?” I whispered, holding his arm firmly on my side as I gawked at the event unfolding in front of my eyes. Guns and curious stares make my knees wobble as I stride faster. “You’re insane, Dela Vin.”He stopped walking.This bastard did not even attempt to bring more bodyguards than Ace. I am not dumb to know that this is a bar for his type. An underground bar were drugs and death are too common it became a norm.I press myself more into his body when out of nowhere, I heard a terrifying scream from the corner of the room. I’m not sure if it’s hurting, all I know is it’s disturbing.Dela Vin low-key chuckles beside me and
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Giovanni “Have a sweet dream, love.” I kissed Santoro’s forehead and stare at her angelic face. Her deep breaths and slow-paced heartbeat make me conclude she’s already sleeping. She looked peaceful except that there’s a trace of dried tears below her eyes.Santoro has been crying. Her soft sobs earlier make me want to undo what I had done. It took me good second to get forget how she looked at me when she realized what I did. Am I stupid? To kill for her sake is never stupid.I have killed men. Thousands of them but none makes me regret my actions. Nothing makes me regret spilling their blood with my own bare hands. But earlier, I wish I didn’t spill someone’s blood. I wished I didn’t do it with her on my side.She looked at me with disgust. I remember how my mother share the same expression when I was young. That shit stings like fuck.The car stopped in the parking lot of our penthouse. Ace has been quiet the whole time I rushed Santoro out of the nightclub because she passed out.
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Gabriella I grit my teeth, using all of my strength to escape Giovanni’s hold as he pinned me down to the table. It’s only a matter of seconds after I put the knife in his neck that he recovered. He was too strong to overpower and I am a fool believing I can beat him.“ You did so well,” he murmured. “ But it’s wrong to threaten me, my love.”I tried to kick him away. Giovanni had the audacity to laugh when I failed. Miserably failed from getting out of his touch. My bare cheeks felt the coldness of the wooden furniture and I felt his hard chest rubbing on my back as I struggle once again to go.“ I only did what you taught me to do.” My voice was strained as I remember him teaching me last night how to hold a knife. Because I couldn’t sleep at all, I asked him to teach me how to fight.“ To others,” he emphasized. “ I did not teach you how to kill me.”I frowned hearing the distrust in his voice. He sounded like being killed in my hands is the worst thing to happen in his life. It’
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Giovanni “ You know how crucial she was for our plan! We vowed patience, Dela Vin,” Kenzo muttered, pointing his gun in my head just after arriving back in this country.Ace inhales some of his weeds. “ I doubt he knows that.”I kicked his legs to stop him from intervening. “ Marrying her changes nothing. The plan will proceed just how we agreed on it to. Everything is all set, Kenzo. You are right,” I gulped the last sip of vodka in my glass and throw the glass on the floor. “ I vowed patience and I never dishonor my vows. Marrying Gabriella Santoro is the only security I can give her from the chaos we are creating. She is my safe vault and I totally locked her with me.”“ You don’t need to marry her,” Kenzo shouted, his eyes showing no submission to lowering down his gun. We are in the basement of our headquarters and I was told he wants a meeting but this was far more than that. I do not care about our connections. “The plan is to fucking stir the Santoro and made them crawl in th
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Gabriella I took my time drinking the wine my mother has offered me. She looks agitated seating on the other couch while I was busy looking around. This is the first time I have stepped foot inside of Santoro’s mansion after I was sold to Giovanni.My mother made sure I was properly dispatched after they get what they want. With Giovanni’s power and influence, they can live in peace. But people with sins don’t live in peace. They like to pretend that everything is going well. Live each day plastering fake tranquility. Walking each street with a pretentious glare of denial of what they had done. No one is truly pure in nature. Everyone is hiding. From the world. Sometimes, from themselves.“ Does your husband know you are spending the night here?” My mother, Felicia, asked me.Maybe it was the cold that made her voice tremble but it didn’t make sense to me. She was never a loving mother who would ask me anything. I lived a life where I was given everything. Except the attention of my
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GabriellaAnother sob came out of my mouth when my mother throws the phone in the coffee table. She had been contacting our men to locate my father’s whereabouts but there is no useful information about him. Mother sneaked in my direction; both of her hands grabbed my shoulders.“ What did your father tell you? Do you really not know where he is?!” Her voice was forceful and for a second, I was afraid she’ll hurt me if only the stranger didn’t caught her hands midway from slapping me. “ Let me go! This brat did nothing but to bring bad omen in the house!”“ Felicia!” The stranger protested, still stopping my mom from killing the shit out of me. I can feel her rage overflowing as she glared in my direction. My cries only made everything a mess for I cannot erase my father’s scream at the back of my mind.She rushed towards me. “ Tell me you’re lying! Did..” Her voice fell into despair. “ Did you really not know what’s happening to your father?”“ Mom!” I shouted, shaking my head. “ You
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Giovanni Kenzo didn’t move when I punctured his left thigh. A sharp scream echoes along the thick walls of the basement when I withdrew the long knife out of his flesh. Waterfall, it was told, fresh blood comes out rushing in the ground.“ Fucking hell, Dela Vin!” His voice was strained with pain. “ Motherfucker!”The door to the basement open and Ace stepped in, a deadpan look in his expression. I was disappointment because for once, I thought he will stop me from hurting Kenzo. But, he didn’t. Instead, Ace stayed in the doorway, mirroring my expression.Kenzo grunts. “ You told me I can do whatever I want with the Santoro’s!” He tried to struggle out of the cuff in his hands but I made sure he was genuinely bondage in the old metal chair. “ Fucking piece of shit,” he cursed once again.“ I told you to not kill him yet,” I said, clucking my tongue. “ Touch the mother, I instructed. But, you fool, killed the goddamn dad!”Ace started to head towards my direction. I gave him the knife
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Gabriella“ Did you really heard your father lose his last breath?”Giovanni shows me his last piece of card, it’s a diamond king and the last piece that he needs to win this game. I’d itched to rip the smirk off his face when he clasps his hands and stare in my direction.It’s already midnight. Almost morning, I should say but because I couldn’t find the strength to sleep, I pestered the only person in this house to calm my mind. Unfortunately, it was my husband.There had been chaos in my mind after what happened that night. I accepted my death, trembling but I accepted dying. But, instead of dying in his brutal hands, I received a warm embrace from the ruthless mob leader of New York.I don’t know how to wrap my head around that. I don’t know how to progress in our daily life thinking about that. So, instead, I avoided thoughts about him and concentrated looking for my father.Two weeks.Father has been gone for two weeks and there is still no single words about his whereabouts. M
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