"Fucking bitch," Max groaned exactly twelve hours later.
"Oh goody! you can move," I exclaimed taking my feet off his kitchen table and putting the bag of popcorn I found in his cupboard down.
"You coul
Leo's Point of ViewTwo weeks ago,"Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!" Cato squealed jumping on the bed. "Wake up!"
Ella's Point of ViewThree months later,I had spent months with Max now and at first, we felt like we were making fast progress. It didn't last long though. We soon found ourselves hitting a hard rock
"Let's skip the whole 'who are you? What are you doing here thing?'. Been there done that. All you need to know is I am looking for the Chiaramonti Hereditarium and this is my occasionally useful sidekick," I said kicking open the door that the guard had directed us to after Max had been almost strangling him to death for five minutes straight.What can I say? We get shit done.
Chapter 6When we had retrieved the hefty book, we headed back to Max's little house on the edge of Naples.The book was incredibly thick and the pages as thin as Max's chance of success in life. The writing was minuscule making it hard to read the thousands of tiny names and dates of birth on each page. The first 500 hundred pages were hardly legib
A few days later,"We could go back to the Mafia archive," Max suggested as we continued to walk, exasperated from the heat of the exposed countryside and completely out of ideas of what to do about Milly. I can't remember how we even ended up in this particularly dry sunflower field but the strong powdery aroma was irritating my nose and the thick itchy stalks were getting on my last nerve as we tried our best to wade through them.
"On that hilltop, you will find an elderly man with a carved wooden staff. My pack refers to him as the Oracle and he has been able to help in many of our times of need. He may know how to help you too," she said gesturing to the peak of an inclination in the relatively flat land about a mile away. "Good luck on your quest," she added with what appeared to be almost a smile and in a much less solemn tone."Thank you Alpha..." I began before realising I didn't even know her name.
Three days later,It took us three days, two buses, four taxis and a horse to get to Venice meaning we had plenty of opportunities to formulate a plan."One more button," Max said looking at my shirt as
We ran along the rooftops of Venice. Leaping over alleyways and jumping various walls and obstacles as if we had been doing it our whole lives.And I was having the most fun I've had in three months.Th