Into the darkness

Into the darkness

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After her mother's passing Arianna is thrust back into the world of her father, where her sister and family secrets await. Helping her sister with her wedding, Arianna meets a handsome stranger, a business partner of her father's. After a brief meeting with Detective Arianna uncovers family secrets, a mafia war, and horrible truths. Fearing for her life she turns to the only one she can trust and must work with him to bring her father down.

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Arianna POVThere are moments in life that don’t feel real you feel like you’ve slipped into a terrible dream and you rack your brain to wake up. You say to yourself no this isn’t real it doesn’t feel real wake up come on come on. Then it sinks in you’re awake and it’s real and you go cold. This has only happened to me twice when my mother ran with me in the middle of the night and the day she died. She’d had a heart attack in the parking lot at the grocery store. She’d never shown any signs of heart disease but the tests didn’t lie. She’d dropped and no one could have brought her back. When I got the call I felt the world blur and assumed I was in a vivid nightmare only to realize there wasn’t any other reality to escape too. She was all I had known for so long and now I was alone. Sort of. My father, an estranged ghost in the corners of my life, had swooped in out of nowhere. He took over and paid for everything the funeral, her arrangements, and the house even. I was taken aba...

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59 Chapters
Chapter 1
Arianna POVThere are moments in life that don’t feel real you feel like you’ve slipped into a terrible dream and you rack your brain to wake up. You say to yourself no this isn’t real it doesn’t feel real wake up come on come on. Then it sinks in you’re awake and it’s real and you go cold. This has only happened to me twice when my mother ran with me in the middle of the night and the day she died. She’d had a heart attack in the parking lot at the grocery store. She’d never shown any signs of heart disease but the tests didn’t lie. She’d dropped and no one could have brought her back. When I got the call I felt the world blur and assumed I was in a vivid nightmare only to realize there wasn’t any other reality to escape too. She was all I had known for so long and now I was alone. Sort of. My father, an estranged ghost in the corners of my life, had swooped in out of nowhere. He took over and paid for everything the funeral, her arrangements, and the house even. I was taken aba
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Chapter 2
Arianna POV: “So you two are brothers?” I turned and asked Marco not trusting the man beside me not to turn this into some form of foreplay. “Cousins,” Marco corrected me it made sense they were much farther apart in their coloring than me and my sister to be siblings. Marcos's blonde hair screamed Nordic not Italian. “But we’re as close as brothers,” Gio slapped his cousin on the back. “We’d do whatever the other asked,” I saw for a split second some agreement linger between the two but vanish as soon as it had appeared. “Can you believe this baby face is actually twenty-five he looks twelve,” Giovanni smacked Marcos's cheek. “No he doesn’t but it makes him fit with Guilia,” I raised my glass in my sister's direction and she pulled off the perfect blushing bride look. “Gio is actually a year older than you,” Guilia raised her eyebrows at me and sipped her champagne. I squinted at my sister now realizing her evil plot to see me and Gio get together. It was a little too cliche
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Chapter 3
Arianna POV:My life felt as boring as my father would describe it after that night and I fought the reasons why, it was only because my mother was gone not anything else. I knew he was charming in that sarcastic ass way, and I knew he was handsome, and I knew countless hearts had fallen victim to that combination before. I wasn’t about to join the ranks, even if his intentions were as pure as the snow I had just lost my mother, and I didn’t trust my heart right now. I was lonely, the loneliest I’d ever been and I didn’t want to give in to the desire for company. My mother had once told me that if you cannot be by yourself you can never fully be with anyone. So I stayed on my own and tried to fill my grey icy home up with light again, I put on music, and I danced with no one watching, I missed my mom horribly, in my own space I let it out when it hit, and eventually the sting of her loss wasn’t a constant companion. Gulia called me after too long and gave me the itinerary for the we
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Chapter 4
Arianna POV: “Darling, do you think you could help me out? I'm in a bit of a panic here,” My father sounded out of breath across the phone line. “Papa what’s wrong is everyone alright,” “Yeah yeah we’re all okay here it’s just my accountant he was pinching some money from us so I had to let him go,” He explained and I gasped I had never known anyone in real life to pocket money. “I know, what a crook,” My father replied. “Do you mind coming down and helping me for a couple of days? I just have this huge meeting coming. I need someone I can trust,” He asked me and I could tell he needed the help. I thought once or twice about it for a second. I definitely had the vacation time to help and it would only be a couple of days. I came down with a weekend bag and he opened up one of the guest rooms for me. “My hero,” he called me as I walked in the door. “Just helping you run your books for a few days Dad it’s not like I’m giving you a kidney,” I murmured as I set down my bags. “I’m
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Chapter 5
Arianna POV: “Do you have a moment to discuss the numbers,” He asked me. If this was him in his day-to-day life it was no wonder he gave off the persona of a ladies' man, he looked striking in his black suit and gray striped shirt. I was taken at the sight of him but brought myself out quickly. “Yes,” I gestured to the seat across the table. I’d read over the paperwork on the proposed deal, there was one final block that neither had a business on and they had been squabbling over it for years so instead of continuing fighting they joined forces. It screamed that they were trying to destroy each other from the inside out, I didn’t plan on being the fuse for either of them. He quickly picked up the chair, giving me a challenging smirk and setting it down beside me. “This will be easier,” he offered before sitting and gesturing for me to continue. “It looks like we have more than enough to participate, our projections for this quarter alone outperform our last year's earnings,” I
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Chapter 6
Arianna POV:The mob. The mob, mafia, crime syndicate. Often involved with money laundering and racketeering. I had wound up in some parking lot my mind a swirl of information. My father had clearly been hiding something from me, all the hidden messages I hadn’t been able to catch. He had been very good to me after my mother's passing but that didn’t mean I knew the man in fact looking at it I knew nothing about him at all. There was only one person I could go to for information but she was gone… But her things weren’t. I started my car and drove the three hours to my house. I hadn’t touched her things at all since she passed. Everything was just as she’d left it I had intended to keep it that way but now I needed answers. I remember in her closet the things she kept hidden under her floorboards. I had only seen her pull them out once when I had gotten out of bed in the middle of the night. I can still picture the dark expression she wore as she pulled the box out. It scared
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Chapter 7
Arianna POV:I drove to my father's house, a cold calmness powering me there. I wasn’t going to let the charade continue any longer, but I needed to be safe. I didn’t know how my father would react if he would lash out. The surety Gio spoke with about my father being dangerous, flashed into my mind as I turned my car off. I found my palms slick with fear, a feeling of retreat attempting to grip me. I shook it off remembering my fury at the ongoing deceit. I wouldn’t do it any longer, I had to open the door. I forced myself into the house, I didn’t focus on my unsteady footsteps, or my shuddering breath as I moved down the hall to his office. He was sitting at his desk going over paperwork. I was about to enter the office when a thought entered my head. I don’t know why but I turned around and went to the kitchen taking photos of everything in the file. Something in me warned me against handing over the information to him. I put the file back out in my car underneath my floor mat.
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Chapter 8
Arianna POV: I went into the office the next day my mind fuzzy from the night before. I only had one drink but I felt hungover. Replaying the story my father told me again and again. I started questioning here and there if he ever really wanted to get out. By now I knew he never would, he wanted it all. He could claim it was for his family, I saw through it after all this time this was for him and his greed. I wanted to sink into my work that now seemed tainted I holed up in my office with a black coffee hoping its bitterness would cheer me up. Unfortunately, my desire to slink into the shadows of the machine was ignored. Instead of strolling in, he knocked on the door and asked if I was available. Leaning back in my chair contemplating whether or not to open the door I waited with a grouchy set jaw. I let him in and he walked over sitting down once again like he had every right. “Oh please sit down,” I exclaimed in false cheer as he did what he wished. Closing the door keeping m
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Chapter 9
Gio POV:It was already complicated enough doing business with the devil as we had to. For appearance's sake, we were in business together purely to make sure neither of us went to the cops to take the other out. It was too sticky of a situation and now, she was involved. The only genuinely kind, and moral person in the whole pack of them and she appeared when I least expected it. She saw the world with open eyes and still chose to look on the bright side of things, she had a wicked sense of humor and she was breathtaking. It was bad enough that she was a good person, but I was also attracted to her beyond belief. I was holding myself back from making a pass at her and failing every time we got close. She could see through the bullshit covers we had and called me on it with a ferocity that only pulled me in further. I had to take her father down, he was filling the streets with drugs, pressuring small business owners to make shotty cuts to benefit him. Using honest people as fronts
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Chapter 10
Gio POV: Every time I entered the office, I had to occupy my mind with any other thoughts that it could form. Think about the ceiling fans, and don’t watch her. She pulled her hair to twist it out of her face. That would make me think about what it would feel like my fingers through her hair and then the afternoon was gone. I tried to drown myself in business meetings and arbitrating who got a say over what. We created more and more hiccups so that we could drag this out. We both needed more time so that we could get info on the other, desperately trying to get the upper hand. Who had more say over the building, who had more say over the spending, how we filed our taxes, what we agreed upon for who made day-to-day decisions? All of it was bull shit. None of it compared to the way she straightened her spine when she focused. I wondered what I could do to get her to arch it. Foul filthy thoughts plagued me whenever I saw her. Not just those but worse thoughts followed, every time
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