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Into the darkness Chapter 36
Giovanni POV: That was the issue with war one side strikes, and the other reciprocates, and endless cycle until someone loses too much and can’t go on. I was playing with an uncaring and heartless man, and he knew what I cared about. The docks weren’t hard one call to my father, a simple donation to the judge's re-election fund and we were off the hook, the warrant was thrown out, but it was only a matter of time before Domenico threw something else at me. You had to try and get your opponent so tied up that they couldn’t move through all the bureaucratic bullshit so that when you landed the real blow they couldn’t respond. If he wasn’t above involving the sweet detective Mosley neither was I. I made an anonymous tip that there were drugs at one of Domenico's houses where I knew his little flunkies had their parties. Domenico was smart about hiding his shit, his men, well there were downsides to hiring from the cesspools of the world. He would have a harder time getting rid of th
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Arianna POV: I wish I could have seen the look on his face when he heard the news. The scene in my head was him throwing glasses, flipping tables, demanding blood. If he thought we’d lie down and take it he was wrong. I’m sure he knew we’d retaliate, but I didn’t think he thought we’d take it this far. We had him scared enough to involve the police while he was being investigated, which meant he was getting desperate. We wanted to keep our momentum, so we sent a couple of burn crews out to a few of his properties in neighboring areas. I should have been horrified at the damage we were doing but I wasn’t. I felt a burning satisfaction swell in me, he knew now what he had done was coming up to catch him. He had killed my mother and covered it up, tried to take me captive with his false heroism. I wanted him to slowly lose everything, his houses, his business, and then when it was all gone and there was nowhere left to run I wanted to see the light drain from his eyes. Perhaps then th
Last Updated : 2025-01-20Into the darkness Chapter 38
Domenico POV: It was never easy was it? Always some little rat trying to get away, some little nat buzzing in your ear, some big dog trying to claim the throne. He had left me impressed with the big swing he took. Hitting my drug shipments was smart, that was where I made most of my money and how I used my intimidation the most. My influence stretched far with the intoxication of my goods, leaving me without them meant people would get impatient. He had left me distracted, and weak. Or he would have if I were a lesser man. Luckily my drug factories were aware of our ongoing distribution problems and sought to quickly ship out a new batch. How very kind of them and in turn I let them live, they got my money flowing again and kept my investors happy. I knew she had something to do with this, she would be out for blood after learning what had befallen her mother. She was making it slow though, and wanted me to feel afraid. I had to chuckle with pride at that. There was a reason I saw
Last Updated : 2025-01-22Into the darkness Chapter 39
Arianna POV: We were in the car on the way to the office just another morning, I looked down at my phone checking to see if any emails had come through yet. I looked up as we neared the office Becca was waiting for us with my coffee. Nothing was out of the ordinary until the explosion threw Becca into the street. The driver slammed on the brakes, and my chest slammed into the seatbelt, making my head rattle around like a rag doll. I gasped as the air had been knocked out of my lungs and I yanked at the seatbelt trying to get it off of me. Eventually, I remembered to press the button and I opened the car door running up the street. “Becca!” I screamed for her as I ran my breath still not there. “Becca,” I ran up to her as she lay in the street the back of her jacket singed from the flames. She lay unconscious and I checked her pulse, she was still breathing I lay my head against her chest and she was still breathing. Her face had some serious road rash. I turned around to see Giova
Last Updated : 2025-01-24Into the darkness Chapter 40
Giovanni POV: *torture*He had come after my family. Again… It was as if I was back on the docks watching as my brother opened up the crate and saw him engulfed before I could even blink. The fire consuming his last moments, his last words, his last breath. Becca flew into the street gliding across the it was ice. I couldn’t look at her asleep in the bed, her breath so steady but her eyes unopening. I was a shameful man to have her pay the price for my battles. What made matters worse, though I had seen her launched from the blast, my first thought was the woman beside me in the car. I watched my flesh and blood push across the pavement, and all I thought of was her dark hair and honey eyes. If I couldn’t focus I would lose everything. I couldn’t let this stand. I wouldn’t make him pay with fire, we were gaining far too much attention with our explosive games. The detective had peeled up to the scene demanding to know what had happened. Asking me what I had done, what I had done
Last Updated : 2025-01-27Into the darkness Chapter 41
Arianna POV: I knew the toll of taking down my father would be a large one, and I knew some people I had grown to care about would leave us. I guess I had hoped it would take a little bit before that happened, or if I’m being honest…I had hoped we could all walk away unscathed, we were the good guys after all. That wasn’t the case, but I should feel lucky that it was only goodbye for a little while. Becca was refusing to go, but when I asked her to leave so that I knew she was safe, she didn’t have much of a choice. I could still picture her flying through the air, and the grin on my father's face. I hope the satisfaction he felt was worth it, worth every penny he lost when Giovanni stormed into his manufacturing plant, mowing down any lost soul that had wandered in. I wanted to see the fire in his eyes, hear the glasses thrown against the wall, and watch him start to undo the seemly man who controlled everyone's lives. The way they had left that day I had felt a deep pit in my s
Last Updated : 2025-01-30Into the darkness Chapter 42
Giovanni POV: We had been driving ourselves crazy. I had been stretching every resource I had, calling in every favor. I was trying to keep people safe and protect us but none of it felt like enough. I was working hard to keep on top of him while he was in custody. Somehow our small victory had turned into a triumph, we had to keep the momentum. Watching her pace back and forth crouching in on herself as she stared at him, doing what she could but only going so far. I knew I had to get her out of there, it might be for the best too. Instead of sitting ducks, we were on the move, taking any threat out of the city. My men were protecting the house still and watching over any targets we thought Domenico might go after. If people had any brains they would get out of the city until this blew over, but most of them couldn’t. Kept barely surviving under the heel of a mad man most of them were still struggling to get by. I was taking her back to the coast, perhaps taking my mind off the wo
Last Updated : 2025-01-31Into the darkness Chapter 43
Arianna POV: Giovanni left in such a rush, with no goodbye or promise to return. I felt fear seep into my bones thinking of whatever was so dire it pulled him away instantly. If it was that serious I could only picture him covered in blood, punctured full of bullet wounds. I crawled up into my bed trying to drink some tea and watch something. Nothing pulled me away from the tales my head my head was spinning. Whether he was gunned down in the street, lit on fire in a car bomb, or tortured for his misdeeds. Each one worse than the last, gruesome and bloody details strangling me from any form of sanity. I spent the night staring at the ceiling wondering what was going on. Why hadn’t he called me yet The hours dragged on and with every passing second, I became increasingly certain that something had gone wrong. I was undone by the time I saw the sun creeping in through my curtains, I decided I might as well go get something to eat. I made my way downstairs feeling as lonely as I ha
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Arianna POV: “We need to use this now!” Mosley insisted. “He has more chance to get out of this if he knows it’s coming,” “No, I don’t want to move until Blake checks back in. If she’s out there or god forbid is captured, she’s in danger if we move,” I insisted, Gio rubbed my back as I stood my ground. Even though we had found the file, Blake was determined to find the new account. She was worried the past charge was too easy for him to wriggle out of. She wanted more, so she had gone out to find it tracking him just like she had before. It had been three days since she was supposed to check in and there was radio silence on her end. My father didn’t like getting caught twice, if he knew who Blake was from before I had no doubt he had gotten information on her. He may know how she operates and have people watching for her, he may have realized we reached out to her. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe Blake could survive him, it was that I knew the resentment my father felt for her.
Into the darkness Chapter 58
Arianna POV: The whirlwind that was Ryan Blake had flung into our lives and decidedly flung out rather quickly, I honestly hadn’t expected her to turn up again for months at the latest but after running out of the house the night before she strolled back in with a cup of black coffee and some pastries. “Okay,” she mumbled, her mouth full of croissant, “I went to your mom's house there was nothing there,” I could barely understand her as she spoke putting her boots up on the coffee table in the den. “You weren’t kidding,” she chuckled to herself. “They tore that place apart,” A wicked grin spread on her face. I felt my heart pang when I remembered the state of the home I had grown up in. Giovanni must have seen it cross my face as he set his cappuccino down and bit out, “The home your friend built being torn to shreds amuses you?” Blake didn’t miss a beat she took another sip of her coffee and with all seriousness explained. “Yes, the thought of Domenico going crazy looking for the
Into the darkness Chapter 57
*12 years ago* Ryan’s POV: It was late and I was getting nowhere on this hit-and-run case. I stared up at my bulletin board my mind numb from the hours I had spent trying to get this guy. The guy was a total creep but he had enough connections it would be hard to get a conviction. I didn’t like leaving this family high and dry though I’d find some dirt soon enough. A knock came at the office door behind me, hurried repetitive knocks, the only ones I ever got. I had tried the quiet life after retirement, but it made my skin itch seeing all the assholes get away with their dirty dealings, so I became a P.I. Sure my old comrades made fun of me, but while they protected freedom I protected the little guy. I walked over to the door slowly and the knocking continued all the way there. I opened up to see a fairly young woman standing there holding papers and her eyes were red. Her fist still raised she sniffled. “Hello my name is Vanessa Zeni,” she began her voice was hard and fierce. I
Into the darkness Chapter 56
Arianna POV: “I heard you were looking for me,” a woman called in our bedroom I turned on the lights looking between Giovanni and the woman. The two in a standoff my head rushing with adrenaline, the sound of a heartbeat pounding like a base in the back of my brain. Then it all went clear she hesitated looking over at me inquisitively. “Vanessa?” My mother's name floated from her lips and I stopped standing straight up. “How do you know my mom?” The woman put her gun away and put up her hands. “I’m Ryan Blake?” she gave her name and Giovanni put the gun down with a thump and turned to the woman with his eyes lit with fire. “We have a front door most people tend to just knock,” He scoffed going over and putting a shirt on. She eyed him with a mischievous grin. “Yeah, and most people haven’t been tailed by FBI agents or had their tax records pulled in the last 48 hours, not to mention the relentless calling,” she turned her attention back toward me. “Nice by the way my friends ha
Into the darkness Chapter 55
Domenico POV: “I don’t care if the cops aren’t on our side anymore get it done!” I shouted slamming the door behind me. The whole pack of fools had begun to question me ever since I released them on this city. I had given them what they wanted let them settle whatever small petty grudges they held with the insignificant ants on the street, and they had the audacity to say we had gone too far. For so many years, I had left them chomping at the bit and now, now that they’ve had their chance they feel the pressure of their actions. Perhaps there was a reason then why I didn’t let them do whatever they wanted. To be fair my risk hadn’t paid off in the way I wanted, my daughter for some reason concerned herself with the lives of those scraps. She wished them all to be fruitful and successful in their own right. Most of them didn’t have the wherewithal for that, not enough ambition is many men’s great folly. I had wreaked havoc upon the city to show her how meaningless it is to care, th
Into the darkness Chapter 54
Giovanni POV: After our one night into the world of normalcy, we were pulled back to our daily duties. Looking for cracks in her father's foundations, and plastering over our own. I had to hand it to her, she was a remarkable strategist explaining where she believed he might go, giving clever and devious answers as to why. She would be heartbroken if I ever told her but I understood why Domenico wanted her to take over. If anybody here knew how he thought it was her, her own mind ticked in the same way, her saving grace was that she had a conscience. We sat at our desks and worked over the problems that could arise, seeing what we could find on her father. It wasn’t the blood she had originally wanted but I think life in prison was still satisfying. The most grueling task of the day came when we called the Detective he would sit there and tell us how he had nothing more than we did, and still hadn’t found that P.I.If I didn’t know any better I’d say he was useless. “I have made so
Into the darkness Chapter 53
Giovanni POV: I hadn’t any idea what just happened, one moment we were discussing plans with the Detective and the next she had gone cold, in a way she’d never done with me. She was rigid and firm, her voice trembled with fear. I wanted to grab her and hold her, ask her what had made her so upset, but the look in her eyes strayed my hand. She went off without another word, it wasn’t my intention to ever see her in that state. We hadn’t told her about Marco simply for his protection, we didn’t know who could be listening in so it was only ever discussed in my home, in my room which was swept for bugs daily. I didn’t dare mention it at the office where anybody could walk inside. I waited in my office unsure of whether to follow her, part of me screamed that I should run after her and apologize even though I didn’t know what I had done wrong. The other part of me stayed put, hoping she would calm down and speak to me rationally. I went over and poured myself a drink as Luca walked in
Into the darkness Chapter 52
Arianna POV: With the detective on our side, he became an everyday occurrence in our lives much to Giovanni's irritation. He was convinced the detective had a thing for me, which I couldn’t see at all. I tried to remind him that I was with him, but all he said was. No man likes another to covet the thing he holds most dear. We had returned to the city a week after that horrible night, I hadn’t told Gio, but I could still hear their screams the glass shattering. It was some atrocious demon repeating itself to me over and over. I tried to push it from my mind and focus on what we were doing but every day I found it clawing at my ears, drawing up the images from that night whenever I closed my eyes. There was only one reason for my father to have made such a reckless move. He was furious I had gotten away from him, and he wanted me to know that those innocents I held over his life, over Guilia’s, they were the ones who would pay the price. You had to hand it to him, he was ever the tac
Into the darkness Chapter 51
Giovanni POV: We got out of the city and headed west, away from the coast. Most of the night, she was staring out of the window, haunted by what she had seen. I don’t regret taking her out of there, away from those horrors, but I do hope it won’t weigh on her. She was too good a soul to come from such a psychopath. I doubt the reality of what he had done even entered his mind. I wouldn’t take her back there for a while, it was too dangerous, not only for her body but her mind. He would no doubt continue to play these mind games until she cracked and came back to him. The only issue with his plan was me. I refused to lose this fight. It was ironic how he had brought Arianna into the fold in an attempt to distract me, but instead, he gave me the greatest motivation I had ever experienced. Every breath was for her, and every choice I made now was to ensure her survival. I made sure that I was updated on the damage done that night, I wanted personal accounts of every single deed. I h
