Andrei's POVI was walking to the kitchen in the dark, the lights in the inn were all turned off. But I didn't mind it, it was better that way, I was already used to walking in the dark. I was currently hungry and I really needed to eat something. Hopefully I remember where the kitchen was. We had sent to someone scout around the inn earlier and he had mapped out all the rooms, which included the kitchen, lounge area and all the exits in this inn. The inn has about four secret exits and I wondered why, but it wasn't any of my business, right now all I needed was food.I opened the kitchen door quietly, careful not to make any sound. No I'm not stealing anything, I just don't want to wake anyone up. Unsurprisingly the kitchen was dark with no lights on, making it hard to really see anything.Do they have to turn off all their lights?I was about turning on my phone flash light when I heard a sound from a corner of the kitchen, making me pause.Is there someone inside the kitchen? Or d
*Domenico Perez's POV*I woke up to a telephone ringing. Groaning, I cover ears with a pillow, trying to shut out the noise. When I'm unable to, I decide to call Andrei to shut it up."Andrei, shut the stupid phone off" I say irritated, pressing the pillow tighter into my ears to block out the noise. Can't I sleep comfortably here without disturbance?"Andrei!!!"When he doesn't reply, I stretch my hands to the table, pushing the telephone down from the table and it hits the floor and stops ringing. I hope it never rings again.I was about going back to sleep when our room door opens and I open my eyes to see Andrei walking in with a plate of pancakes."Good morning sunshine." He greets sarcastically and I flip him off, turning my head over on the bed."You should get up. Let's plan and know what exactly we are doing" He says and the smell of pancakes wafts into my noise, making my stomach grumble.I'm hungry."What time is it?" I ask sitting up slowly on the bed."Twelve pm" Andrei s
"Isabella Russo's POV*I wake up to find my hands once again chained to the ceiling but this time my feet were on the floor and not dangling like before.I couldn't see anything and everywhere was pitch black, making me panic. Was I blindfolded? But I can't feel any blind fold on my face.Why can't I see then? Did something happen to me? Did I go blind? Did they do something to me?I felt fear as I tried to search for a source of light anywhere but I came out fruitless.I hear footsteps coming from my right and I turn my head to the direction it was coming from but I still couldn't see anything, the person stopped moving and I felt goosebumps on my arms when no one says anything."Andrew? Is that you?" I ask but I don't receive an answer making me question what I heard.Did I really hear anyone here? I'm sure I heard someone walking to me. I couldn't be imagining things."Hello? Why can't I see? What did you do to me?!" I screamed into the dark but my voice echoed, coming back at me a
*Domenico Perez's POV*We had searched the whole village, searched every corner, every building and yet we couldn't find her. Angelina and Martins had watched us leave the inn, and the stare they gave us while we were leaving made it seem as if they knew were she was."They would know" Andrie said and I looked at him.We were currently parked at the back of the inn. "What?" I ask him. "The father and daughter would know where she is" Andrei says and I know that. "Would they be able to speak though? Tell us where they kept her? Do we have to torture them to get them to tell us? Andrei, each passing second that Bella stays with Andrew has my mind racing on what he is doing to her and all he can do to her. He would break her to the point of no repair. And I don't want that to happen." I say breaking down and he just listens, he doesn't have to say anything or do anything. He just listened.We has searched everywhere we could think of and I was getting frustrated and really angry. Wher
*Domenico Perez's POV*I marched down to the inn, completely blinded by rage. Martins was standing at the entrance of the inn, the same way he was the night before when we got here."I heard the explosion and I see you here. It seems she took you there earlier than she was supposed to" He tsked and I look at Angelina who was standing behind him, she lowered her head, unable to meet my eyes."You knew about it all these while" I say and he didn't bother denying it."Yes I did. I had a job to do. Kill the men coming to my village. And I had to perform this job." He says and I once again look at Angelina." Oh no, don't look at her that way. It wasn't her fault really. The girl just has a kind heart and wanted to help you even if it meant going against her father. I was just expecting her to hesitate a bit before she decided to disobey her father" He says and I see the tight grip he has on her wrist."So you were working for Andrew. You lied and said you were not working for him" Andrei
*Isabella Russo's POV*My entire body went rigid with fear when I saw the bomb tied around my waist. It was ticking fast and had two minutes left before it went off."I don't want to die Nico." I cried holding him tightly. The bomb started to count after nico had shot his father dead. That is to say that he was the trigger."Don't worry, I will not let anything happen to you," Nico comforted as he looked at the bomb thinking of how to diffuse it."I'm so sorry, this is all my fault. If I had grown stronger or listened back then, none of this would have happened. I'm so pathetic for causing you all this trouble. Maybe if I hadn't left your office then I wouldn't have been taken." I muttered forgetting the pain I felt on my cheeks. "Don't say that, I'm the one who should have protected you. I let my guard down after I had promised to never let anything hurt you. You don't know how worried I was when I couldn't find you. And seeing you brusied and bloodied, makes me want to beat myself.
Isabella Russo's POVI froze in shock when Andrei dropped the bomb on me. "He lost a lot of blood and before we could save him...""You are lying to me. That's an on obvious lie Andrei. Please tell me you are joking. It's impossible, Nico can't leave me here alone," I held his shirt tight hoping that he would tell me that it was all a joke. But he didn't, instead he held me in his arms and let me cry on his chest.I got angry when I wasn't let to see his body. I wanted to confirm his death and and actually believe that Nico left me but Andrei didn't let me. He carried me away from the hospital and drove me back home.For two weeks, I refused to eat or talk to anyone. I couldn't believe that Nico was no longer with me. And the longer I waited, the more I felt his absence.He was gone for good and I couldn't get myself to accept it. I was fully healed and able to move on my own thanks to my consistency intake of the medicine. Andrei handled most of the activities in the mafia while I tr
Isabella Russo's POVThe funeral took place at the Perez's burial ground. As usual, everyone wore black and stood in line waiting for me to place the last flower on his coffin and say my final wordsNot that I was ready to say my final words to him, I wasn't ready to let him go.I was not allowed to cry because it would be a sign of a bad omen. In the mafia, Don's were to be respected till the very end. Crying would only mean that he was weak and didn't live a good life. I held my tears back and stood in front of Nico's coffin. Inside, his face was covered I couldn't even see his face for the last time. This was the part where I hated the mafia tradition. I couldn't see his face as I said my goodbye. And Andrei safi wasn't even allowed to say my farewell here to me. The mafia rules are against such. I really felt pathetic doing this, my tears were pending and the mourning crowd was waiting for my words."You have to speak Bella, the time is ticking," Andrei stepped to my side prompti