Riccardo POV: That was it! I couldn't stand this woman. I signalled the waiter to bring me the bill. I paid for it and just left her hanging. I didn't have the desire to bicker with her right now. Besides, I already got the information I wanted. I told Luffy to drive Lydia back to the company. I didn't want to sit in the same car with her because she was just too irritating. Who the hell she thought she was, dared to criticize me regarding my relationship with Cassie? She knew nothing about it, what my intention was and the problem that I needed to solve between the Rossi and the De Luca. I got into the car and told Dome to drive slowly. I just needed some time to think right now. Leo must have had her right now. If she couldn't be contacted any more, there were only two possibilities, either Leo disallowed her to use her phone or she already left the country. Regardless of it, the only way I could find her again was if I meet Leo personally. He held the information of her whereabou

Leonardo POV: It was after dusk when Luther came to my study at the mansion. "Sir, we found the spy. It was Adriano," he said. I nodded in understanding and just looked dejected for a bit. It felt like my heart got a pang at the information. All this time, I had treated Adriano like my own flesh and blood, just like Logan. He had been by my side, knowing all my plans and I never once would have thought he would betray me. "Take him to the torturing chamber," I ordered and Luther concurred immediately and went out to carry out my demand. I took a moment to process this and sat on my swivel chair behind the office desk. I opened the drawer under the desk and took out a red file containing all the evidence that linked Carina to Nicola's death. I didn't know when Adriano started getting close to Carina and how it happened. But to be betrayed this way and got my beloved Nicola killed was unforgivable. Slowly my hands trembled. I could feel an immense amount of rage filling my heart. T

Cassandra POV:Cristian took me. That was the last thing I remembered. When I regained consciousness again, I found myself being taken to this abandoned factory in the middle of nowhere. Yet, my ears were able to hear the sound of water rushing the shore. So, I assumed this place might be by the sea and probably very secluded and far away.I didn't know how many days I had been here, but it felt like forever. My hands and my feet were chained to the floor and I had been lying flat like this for days. They only feed me water, no solid food at all. It was just plain water that honestly tasted like shit. It was probably drugged and not even clean because I felt like having hallucinations the entire time I was here. I couldn't keep track of the time at all. All I knew it was either daylight or night.Today, Carina finally showed her face in front of me. Previously, it was only Cristian and his men that attend to me. She entered the upper part of the factory, where I was held captive whil

Riccardo POV:"We're here," Dome said and my eyes gazed up instantly.The sight of this abandoned factory just piqued some of my dark memories. My late father went here a lot in the past. Although the building was closed, he had used it as a place to dispose of bodies before throwing them into the sea. I didn't think it was just my father who did that. I think all the Mafia Dons had done the same thing, using this place for that purpose and I bet the Rossi siblings probably had this thought in mind regarding Cassie too."The lights are on upstairs. So did the ground floor. There must be people in there. Get ready with your weapons and stay calm," Leo advised.All our men began to get off their cars and held weapons in ready-to-fire positions. I and Leo got off too and we took the lead to march towards the building slowly. I signalled the rest to find someplace to hide first since we were planning of ambushing them silently. As I, Leo and Dome reached the closed entrance door, we sudde

Riccardo POV:I felt like an idiot. I couldn't explain the agony that I felt right now. It was just killing me inside as I knew this was all my fault. If only I have listened to Cassie, if only I have trusted her hunch a little and reinvestigated Nicola's death again, maybe none of this would have happened. I was just too late to see through who Carina really was and Cassie had to face the consequences of my mistake.Slowly, what Cassie said to me before came rolling back into my mind. 'Are you waiting for me to die before you could believe me?' Things just happened precisely how she predicted it. She almost died today and I just stupidly found out about Carina's wicked scheme, even worse from Leo, the man that I had disregarded all this time.A while later, some nurses came out of the ICU while pushing Cassie who lay on a bed stretcher. They were about to transfer her to a normal patient ward but I requested them to let her have a VIP patient room instead so she could recover in priv