"Well, pick it up already!" Josey yelled almost splitting my hair in her excitement."What do you want now?" I answered angrily putting the on speaker to satisfy Josey."Oh sweetie, that's no way to talk to your brother-in-law. Hope you're ready?" Rossi's voice came through.I looked at Josey through the mirror. Her once lit up face had turned into visible disgust.She looked at me and mouthed, "Is that Rossi?"I nodded back in response."Are you ready?" Rossi roared, causing me to flinch."You said you'll pick me up by ten, right?" I asked, trying to muster courage so he doesn't sense that something was amiss. "No sweetie. I'll be too busy decorating my cute face and body. My boys will come pick you up. And don't you worry, no one will touch you before I do." He said the last sentence like it was a threat."We'll see at ten then. Bye!" I said and quickly hung up.I didn't want to act too scared or too confident and give myself away."Rossi, right? That's why you weren't smiling aft

"But that would be absurd, wouldn't it? You both are supposed to march into the Hall and not just emerge from one of its changing rooms. Why don't we rather go to an eatery or bar or something and have ourselves relax there until it's time?" Alfred objected, to the delight and relief of Gabby."Fine." Leone conceded.She couldn't bear to think of spending more than thirty minutes in a closed space with this man. She had escaped this one. But what about tonight? The wedding night?"Yeah sure. We'll be waiting outside, by the car." Josey said pulling Gabby by the arm out of the Hall."Why did you do that?" Leone whispered."Do what? And why the hell are you whispering? They're gone already." Alfred said the last sentence with a chuckle."Why did you object to what I said?""The lady is already very uncomfortable around you. Give her some time to be free with you before trying to... you know?" Alfred said with a wink."I don't care whether she's comfortable or not. You of all people shou

It had been a long day for the newlyweds and even more stressful for the bride as she figured out that the contract that Leone had signed was nothing but a showoff. Merely something to convince her into marrying him. Leone stopped his car in front of a tall, black building which from Gabby's guess, was Leone's house. Who paints their house black?There were so many rooms in that mansion so why would Leone want her to sleep in the same room as himself?Gabby watched as he searched around the car for something. Wasn't he supposed to horn and let the security open the gate? What was he looking for?A gun maybe?It would be better off for her if he uses it to shoot her then."Finally." Leone muttered as he held a remote in his hand. He pressed a button and the gate slowly started moving to the side.Leone drove the car straight into the house and tapped another button on the remote causing the gate to close on it's own.Leone turned the car off, got out and started walking towards the ho

She shut the door tightly and pushed it with all her weight as if someone was going to barge in."He'll come back. He'll definitely come back to finish what he started." She kept making a mental note in an attempt to get herself ready for whatever was coming.She ran back to the bathroom, took off her towel and began to take an actual shower with the cold, freezing water. Gabby scrubbed her body like there was stubborn dirt stuck on it that had been there for years. She felt very dirty after Leone touched her and with tears in her eyes, all she could do was scrub herself until she sustained a bruise on her left arm. The left arm that Leone had tightly grabbed when he pushed her on the bed. She rinsed herself clean with the cold water which left goosebumps on her skin as she was freezing. Her body was cold but her mind wasn't even focused on that. She wanted to escape, she wanted to make Leone suffer, she wanted revenge, she wanted to die, she wanted to go back to her former way of li

"Are they the ones?""Yes.""Alright. Call my accountant and inform him that we'll be sending something to each of their families.""Sure. But what next, Leone?" Alfred asked, crossing over one of the corpses."Rossi is biting more than he can chew and I'm not even joking." Leone said, folding his fists.Four of Leone's watchmen were shot the previous night at one his warehouses by Rossi's goons.It was a gory sight."What do we do, Leone? These men today, more tomorrow.""We strike back. I don't like talk. I like action." Leone said, looking over the corpses once again."What do we do?" Alfred asked."Put Rossi on a call." Leone ordered cracking his knuckles."Sure." Alfred said, taking out his phone and tapping on the screen for a while."Put it on speaker." Leone said and almost immediately, Rossi spoke up,"Hello, my dear. Did you like my gift? You weren't forewarned, eh? Get it? Fourwarned? Cause I killed four of your men.""You need help." Alfred spat in disgust."Help me then."