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Pietro managed to make it out alive once again.Despite of my careful plans and the long preparation that I had, Pietro still managed to make it out alive once again.I was looking forward for that party. I received a tip that he was invited to that party and knew it right then that it was my chance of finally enacting my plans to kill him.It was a great opportunity for me. The best place to kill a person where no one would highly suspect as murder.The place was well guarded with security and the media. It would be hard to hide things from the staffs of the party. It’s an easy place to rule someone’s death as suicide.All that has to happen is to drop Pietro’s body off that building so people would think that he killed himself.It doesn’t matter if his death is highly unlikely. It doesn’t matter if everyone would found no reason for his suicide. Murder in that event would be more impossible than someone jumping off the building themselveEROS I noticed how the room went quiet as soon as I entered, making me feel how unwelcome I am in here right now. Instead of turning back and leaving the room, I walked in and made myself welcome. I’m not going to leave this place not until I see how Pietro is doing. I looked around the room to find a place to seat. As expected the room is big. It looks more like a hotel room not a hospital room. It’s really different when a rich man gets hospitalized. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how Lucrezia gave his father a meaningful look. She thought I did not saw her, I have a very observant eye. “How are you? What do you feel?” I walked towards Pietro’s bed and sat on the empty wooden chair beside his bed. Lucrezia and her family were all sitting in the couch, leaving all the seats available occupied aside from this seat.“I’m fine. There’s just small pains around the body but I will be out of the hospital soon,” Pietro answered, moving his sh
PIETROI spent two weeks on the hospital before the doctor finally gave me the go signal and told me that my body has finally recovered from all the harmful effects of what was injected on me. Since my body has already been cleared, the doctor said that there is nothing else for us to worry about since my body has already turned back to normal.Hearing this, I couldn’t help it but feel downhearted. My two weeks in the hospital were the two weeks happiest of my life. Not only because I was able to eat delicious meals because Lucrezia couldn’t cook for me. I’m glad though, that she was too busy to cook meals for me in the hospital. I don’t think I would recover this quickly if she remains to be my cook while I recover in the hospital. Being able to finally eat delicious food really made a great effect on my health. Everything felt like it happened so fast and I don’t want this to end yet. In the hospital, I was able to live as myself. There was no
LUCREZIAIt was with a heavy heart when I left the hospital, and it was selfish of me to feel that way. I should be happy that Pietro has already recovered and he suffered no severe effects from what had happened, but why do I feel a sense of loss in me that I couldn't shake away?I wish him a speedy recovery, but why did leaving the hospital feel like leaving something important behind?Pietro did not have to tell me anything, but I'm sure he also felt the same way. I noticed how he was strangely quiet in the last days we were in the hospital and how absent-minded he has been. He must have been thinking about this part of the future, but he did not say anything, just like me. Our unspoken feelings slowly corrupted us and parted us away.The corners of my lips lifted slightly when I saw that flowers had bloomed in our garden. I did not know that these plants could bloom into flowers. We were gone for two weeks, so I couldn't witness the flowers bloom. The mansion was left to our hous
LUCREZIA Letizia broke eye contact and hid her face, afraid that our father would see right through her. It was too late. I already did. I already saw the conflict in her eyes, the secret she was trying to hide.I swallowed the lump that formed inside my throat when I saw how she was crumpling in front of our father and how she was hardly trying to pull herself together. That kind of reaction from her shows how much she doesn't want to take over the family business. All this time, she wanted nothing to do with the business. She never wanted to become a part of the mafia, more so to handle it.Why didn't she tell me about it? "I'm not ready. I'm not yet ready." Letizia spoke in an uneven voice. Liar!It wasn't because you weren't ready, but because you didn't want to make your hands dirty!Letizia has always been born with a kind soul. She is the white sheep of the family. She was the kindest, the sweetest. When our father was training us in the business, she always only acted t
LUCREZIAFirst, someone betrayed us and tipped our business to the authorities. Then now, we just received public news that someone burned down one of Leuzzi's warehouses. It turns out not only our family were attacked on the same day. My expression turned serious instantly when I heard the news from my father. Seeing the newspaper he was holding, I hurried towards him and snatched the newspaper from his hand.In the headlines, it wrote that a warehouse was burned to ashes, and they failed to save anything stored inside it. According to the news, the damage amounts to at least $14M. However, the report didn't state exactly what contents were burned along with the warehouse. I could only assume that illegal kinds of stuff were kept in that warehouse. Meaning, Leuzzi couldn't also apply for insurance even if he does have it. In just one day, Leuzzi's $14M was all eaten up in flames. I wonder how Tiburzio Leuzzi must be feeling right now.Even
EROSA sinister smile appeared on my lips when I received the call. "An emergency meeting? Interesting." I couldn't help but think to myself. Is this day not going to get any better?First, I received news that Raimondo's consigliere is under investigation, giving his business a handicap. Then Leuzzi just lost $14M in just one day. This day sounds too good to be true. Why am I getting too much good news all of a sudden?I couldn't help the laugh that escaped my lips as I imagined how Raimondo would be reacting to the problem he was facing now. Without his consigliere, it would be like he just lost the limbs of his business. What can I say? That man deserves it. He doesn't know how long I've been trying to be patient with him. He is too arrogant that he thinks he could push me around just because he has leverage over me. Now look at what happened to him. I did not have to do anything. The world already did me a favor. Serves him right.
EROS"Then…" Serrano spoke after Raimondo made his announcement. Everyone stared at him as they awaited his question. "What are you going to do now?" He finally asks when he realizes he is free to speak. Raimondo looked at me when Serrano asked his question.He doesn't know how to answer his question. He couldn't just leave his unfinished business with me behind. I still need him. for my plans, and he has to stay with his family to ensure that I wouldn't go back on my own word. We gave our word to each other and made an alliance together. He couldn't leave in the middle of our plans. "As of now, I still don't know. I can't completely leave the business behind to my daughters. I'm confident with my daughter's abilities to handle the business, but as long as I am still alive, I'm still effectively the head of the family.""You are not leaving the country like your consigliere?" I asked him. He shook his head. "I won't leave the country. I'm just go
EROSI stared directly at Pietro with a challenging look into his eyes.It's obvious who the person behind all these things was. Since there is no such thing as an outer enemy, and I was the person who made attempts on his life, then I could only think of one person that is behind the attacks. If I am not behind the attacks on Leuzzi and Rocchi's business, then Pietro must be the person behind it all. Pietro attacked Leuzzi and Rocchi to pin his attacks on the person who wanted him killed. So he could pin it all on me and add enemies to my list. Upon realizing this, I locked my jaw and fought the urge to spit out a dark laugh. Pietro just hit more than two birds with one stone. Pietro tipped the authorities and compromised Rocchi's consigliere so no one would suspect he was behind the attacks, without knowing that Raimondo Rocchi was actually one of his enemies. He also burned down Leuzzi's warehouse, thinking he was the most probable suspe
“Shit! Shit! Shit! You imbeciles! I’m paying you money and you can’t even kill one damn man!” Eros was agitated and he couldn’t stop yelling while staring at his computer. He had cameras all over his mansion so he could see everything that was happening. Eros had never seen Pietro fought anyone before. He didn’t expect him to be this good. He is like James Bond, taking down so many people at a time. Eros is not fully aware of Pietro’s past. He has no idea about the training that he got as a little child. Pietro was trained to be like a killer machine. His training could be likened to that of Black Widow, if only that character was real. Eros kept sending and sending all his people, but Pietro killed all the men trying to stop him from reaching his wife until Eros had no one else to send and stop Pietro anymore. Lucrezia had no access to the computer, but she witnessed how Eros was scared out of his wits as he watched what Pietro is doing to his men. Lucrezia could also fully hear
Lucrezia’s stomach turned. Even though they are criminals and big time mafias, they still have their own principles and things that they couldn’t bring themselves to do.Eros is just pure evil, a monster.He is a disgrace to the mafias. What kind of man could say those words with a straight face.“What does these things have to do with my father? What does it have to do with Pietro? Why do you have to kill him?” Lucrezia asks.“You see, your father and I share the same goal. We want to be the best in the Commission and Pietro is an obstacle stopping us from reaching that goal.Lucrezia felt more guilty upon hearing this. She thought Pietro was the one who was greedy. She thought he was the one trying to become the next capo di tutti capi.“If that is so, then why spare me? Why spare my father? I’m Pietro’s wife. Why not kill me with him?”“Because your father and I had a deal.” Eros answers taking Lucrezia by surprise.“A deal?” Lucrezia mutters breathlessly feeling like she just disco
“Vaffanculo! Vaffanculo!” Lucrezia curses repeatedly inside her car as she drove along with other Italian curses that she grew up hearing from their Italian helpers at home. Lucrezia pressed on the gas pedal, speeding at the almost empty highway at dawn to reach her husband at home who has no idea that his life is in danger. She shouldn’t ave gone to her home. She shouldn’t have told her father anything. She shouldn’t have stuck her nose where it doesn’t belong in the first place. She shouldn’t have opened the door to Pietro’s office and indulged herself in the secrets that he was hiding. No wonder why Pietro is keeping things from her. Just hours after she found out his secret and she had already placed Pietro’s life in danger. Lucrezia had no idea that her father is working with Eros Cassiano to get rid of Pietro. She should have known that in the mafia, everybody has their own dark secrets and hidden agendas to hide. The fact that Pietro has one, shouldn’t have surprised her an
Raimondo was silent for a long time as he listened to his daughter as she confides into him about Pietro’s secret. Raimondo earnestly listened without questioning her daughter’s words or interrupting her. Raimondo just stared into her daughter’s eyes as she went on with her story as if he was listening to her because he was worried about her. Lucrezia is supposed to tell her father about what Pietro’s secrets that she had just found about, the secrets that she discovered in Pietro’s office, but she changed her mind last minute because she thought it was a very important secret and it could implicate Pietro’s life, so she couldn’t rashly share those things to her father. Additionally, Lucrezia knows that her father would react negatively if he founds out bout that. Even she reacted so negatively when she finds out that her husband is planning something against the Commission. Unless she had ensured everything, unless she had everything straight with Pietro, nobody can find out abou
PIETRO woke up because of his nightmare. For the first time, ever since he slept in the same bed as his wife, he woke up with the same dream, the same nightmare again.Ever since Pietro was a child, there wasn’t a night when he had not woken up haunted by nightmares. He always dreamed of the same thing, the friend that he killed. Every night, he would jolt up awake and the last thing he could remember was the picture of him pulling the trigger and killing his friend. His dream is very vivid like it all happened again. It was always exactly how he remembered it happen. Saying that Pietro was traumatized would be an understatement. Pietro was broken by his past, and only Lucrezia was able to piece him together. Through the love and kindness that she showed him, Pietro was able to forgive himself and see his value. Pietro calmly sits up, his breathing was rash and heavy like he had just ran a marathon. When his racing heart had finally slowed down, he opens the light beside him caus
It’s already evening when I arrived home which means Pietro must be waiting for me at home. I wasn’t planning to stay outside until evening, but I had to travel between two different cities because Agrippa’s house and the place where I am going to get the key are located at two opposite cities. I wore a huge smile on my face as if I had the best day of my life as soon as I entered home. Just as I am expecting, Pietro is waiting for me at the living room just like how I always wait at the living room for him to welcome him home. Pietro’s eyes dropped on the shopping bags I’m carrying as soon as I entered the door. Seeing this, he did not dare ask where I went. He just assumed that I went for a shopping spree. On the way home, I stopped at a mall and shopped random things so that Pietro would think I spent the whole day at the mall. “You had a great day?” Pietro asked me as he walked towards me.I grinned at him. “I bought everything that I wanted.”“Good, you own all my money. You
Agrippa sighed at the other side of the door, the loudest that I have ever heard her sigh. She knew that there is no way I’d leave this place. Even though my foot is hurting, jammed and pressed at the foot of their door, I wasn’t willing to remove my foot and let her go.No, I won’t leave this place, not until I find out everything that is happening, and not until I have given all the help that I could give her. No one deserves to be abused like that. No woman or no wife should live in the same house with her husband abusing her. My face softened and my heart ached inside my heart when Agrippa finally opened the door, revealing her inside. Agrippa refused to look at me on the eye. Her head is lowered in shame even though she had nothing to be ashamed about. I swallowed hard, not saying anything. You wouldn’t know what to say once you saw a hurt person in front of you. I’m afraid that if I say something it will only make Agrippa close herself from me even more. Asking her if she’s
LUCREZIALife was back to normal when Pietro had arrived back home. Our life routine is back, and things got pretty boring for me once again as a wife who is always left at home without anything to take care of.If only Pietro gave me kids to take care of, then I wouldn’t have to feel so bored and I would stay all day at home without any complaints.I have sent Agrippa a message that I would visit her today. Although I haven’t received any reply from the heads up message I sent her, I decided to still just go. At least I have given her a heads up. Wheteher she replies or not it’s actually out of my control.With the help of Pietro’s driver and bodyguard that he had hired specially for me. I went to the mall first to buy something for Agrippa and her three little kids.I do not want to go there empty handed. Besides, I rarely go to their house to visit and I don’t give gifts to Agrippa’s kids often. 
LUCREZIAI stared at the ceiling as I lay on the bed with my eyes wide open as Pietro softly snores beside me. While Pietro is having the best sleep of his life, I couldn’t sleep because of I couldn’t stop thinking about the conversation we had in the car.For some reasons, Pietro’s words doesn’t sit well with me. I really don’t believe that Orenzio is the man behind all of this. I don’t think it’s possible that Orenzio knew about his father’s disease beforehand and that he was the one who told Serrano about it.I couldn’t forget the surprised look on Orenzio’s face and the anger that he felt as Serano stood on the stage making accusations against his father and telling everyone that he was hiding his dementia.Even if that was all just an act, I don’t believe that Orenzio could pull all that off so perfectly. A person always leaves a hint when he lies, and his eyes always tells