,Isabella Russo's POV*I keep my eyes closed, pretending to still be asleep while I listened to Nico's conversation, my heart beating wildly in my chest due to fearWhat does Andrew want with me? I don't have anything. He's after me because I am with Nico. Oh Lord.Nico won't let him take me right?Nico curses when the line goes dead and I know he is angry and wants to smash something, but since I remain on his body he is unable to do so.I try to calm myself down and control the fear I felt at the moment."Wake up Bella" Nico taps my arm lightly and I stir still pretending to be asleep."Wake up" He taps me once again and I open my eyes, stretching out my arms and faking a yawn."Hi" I greet smiling up at him and he smiles back. A smile I notice didn't quite reach his eyes."Where did the meeting go? Meetings like these are meant to last for hours aren't they? Did I sleep for that long? " I ask rubbing my eyes and pretending to have no knowledge about what really happened."I didn't
*Domenico Perez POV*I had finished discussing with Mario, who was one of my father's close men when my father was still the capo of our mafia.He had come to report something to me and was already on his way back home. He could have waited for me to come home before he gave the report, coming here wasn't necessary.I looked the way Bella ran to see if I would see her but I didn't.She left? I feel bad for snapping at her the way I did but ever since she got together with me her life has been threatened numerous time and I don't want that kind of life for her.I don't want her to live in fear just because she decided to be with me, I don't want that kind of life for my family too, so I think it was better if she left me and found someone else.Maybe she would be at home packing her things to leave or something.I really hurt her this time and I don't think she would stay after this, but I couldn't help it, I need her to leave.My phone rang and I brought it out of my pocket looking at
*Domenico Perez's POV*Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."They lost them, Rafaello couldn't follow the van, and he thinks they changed cars at some point" Andrei said looking at me with a grave expression. He understood what it meant for Andrew to have Bella at his mercy, he understood that her life was at stake."They had help from the inside, there is no wah they would have gotten her without any help from inside. One of our own helped them kidnap Bella. Fuck" I scream kicking a trash can next to me and it skids away."It wasn't the can's fault that Andrew got her Nico. It was yours, all your fault. You were supposed to take care of her. What were you thinking Nico? You let her leave? " Andrei asks me angry but the fear he felt for Bella was also obvious."I… I thought that if I made it seem as if I didnt care or something, then Andrew would forget about her and not think her necessary or important to me* I say realizing how stupid that sounded."You thought he would… Are you dumb? How stupid can
*Unknown POV*I was filing my nails out of boredom when I hear Domenico's voice from down stairs yelling at everyone to come out and he seems really angry.What happened now?Dropping my nail file on my table and blowing my fingers clean, I stand up walking to the door and peeping out.Domenico would definitely find a way to blame me or something for the kidnapping attempt on that girl if I go down, I should probably just stay in my room as long as he doesn't scream my name.Hopefully he won't.I was about closing my door quietly when Domenico screamed my name and demanded I show my self. I knew he was going to scream my name, I just had to go jinx my self by thinking about it.Sighing, I swing my door wider preparing myself to deny everything he claims and every blame he throws at me.A wise man once said "no matter who accuses you, no matter the amount of evidence they have against you. As long as you deny it, you are innocent."And that is what i was about to do.I was half way dow
*Domenico Perez's POV*My men and I were doing everything we could to find her. From scouting places in the city to trying to track Andrew's location with his last call. We were doing anything we could think of.But it seemed useless because none of it worked."We lost the connection" Roman who was one of my tech guys said removing his headphones and running his hands through his hair."What do you mean you lost the connection. How could you lose it?" I screamed at him and Andrei holds me back, preventing me from coming any closer to Roman."Woah. Chill man. It wasn't our fault we lost it. It seems like they are letting us track their phones and when we get closer to finding out their exact location we lose them. It's that way all the time. An we have to start all over again. It's really frustrating" Roman says raising his hands and I pull myself free from Andrei's hold.I know it's not their fault they haven't found her. They were obviously trying their best. I was just looking for w
"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck" Andrei cusses banging his fist against the table. How did he know about Roman? How did he?"Tell me you at least got their location" I tell Roman staring at him with a pleading look.He removes his headphones, throwing it on the table and looks at me with a disappointed look."I'm sorry. I couldn't get their location. I tried to. We almost got them. But they already knew we were onto them. They were just playing with us. Some one here already told them." He says sinking back into his seat and realization sinks in.Someone here told them. Someone here betrayed us. We have a traitor among us.But who? I treated them all as my brothers. I never treated any of them wrongly. Then why?"Andrei lock the doors. Everyone form a line" I order bringing my gun out from my holster and cocking it. We need to get rid of the traitor today."The mafia doesn't need traitors" I watch as Andrei locks the door and everyone else joined the line. They didn't seem to have an issue with i
*Domenico Perez's POV*I stare at Mario's dead body on the floor, his lifeless eyes staring up into nothing.I never really expected this, truth to be told.Sure, I never trusted him, buy I never expected him to be a traitor and betray our mafia, going to work in secret for a rival mafia, but for what?Money? He was probably the richest out of my men here, my father pays him enough. For revenge? My father treated him as his son, even treated him better than be treated me so what could he have needed revenge for? To get back at me for stealing his toy? That was one time and we were kids then why??? Unless he is working for someone else who is in this mafia, I see no reason for him to betray us.Was that why he came by my office today? To distract me?The rest of my men stand by, doing nothing as they wait for my order.I know none of them really expected Mario to be a traitor. But there's another one here amongst us, another one who is probably the main person we should be wary about,
*Bella's POV*I tried to figure out whose voice i heard, who betrayed Nico."Why don't we just show you instead of you bothering and stressing who I am" the person says before my blindfold goes off.I blink a bit to get used to the bright light, before raising my eyes to meet his.I gasp when I see who it is."It's you…" I whispered and he nods smiling widely."Yes. It's me. I'm the mole, I'm the traitor. I'm the one going to cause your end" He says and I stare at him shock. That sounded like something that came off a villain's script.I know he disliked me. Heck, I knew he hated me to the core, but I didn't expect him to be working with Andrew about…. Okay maybe I did. After all, he was the one that told Andrew about me, he was the one that told him that I had gotten married, if you would call that a marriage, to Nico.I stared up at Nico's dad as he stared at me evilly."You must be wondering why I am doing this" He says and I shake my head, ignoring the pain that comes through. "No
*Warning. This chapter contains a little bit of smut.**Isabella Russo's POV*I was walking down to class when someone yelled my name from behind."Hey Bella! Wait." Pretending like I didn't hear the person, I increased my pace, hoping to avoid whoever didn't want to leave me alone."Bella. Stop" He placed his hands on my shoulder and unfortunately I couldn't fake being deaf or unable to feel his hands on me so I stopped and turned."Hey Charlie. What's up" I say with fake euthusiasm. Charlie is one of my classmates, who apparently likes me since first year. But I've been avoiding him my whole time since then because why not?Everyone expected us to date because apparently the 'queen' and 'king' has to be together. But no thanks. Don't even know why they tagged me as that."What do you want Charlie?" I ask again when I notice he has been staring at me without saying anything. My cheek hurting because of the fake smile I had on for too long. He shakes his head snapping out of whatever
I stared at the car which stopped a few distance away from my house, it stayed there for a while, before it drove off once again.It's been a few weeks since I started seeing that car around me, at first I thought it was a coincidence, maybe a student with a car staying around. But it has been showing up everywhere and anywhere I go. Maybe it was Andrei asking someone to keep an eye on me, but for some reason I wasn't bothered and wasn't about to panic.I opened the door, walking into my house and shutting it behind me, making sure it was locked.It's been two years since I left Italy, two years without Nico and two years since I started all over in a place no one knew me.Andrea decided to go to fashion school at the last minute so we were separated, not that I minded.It was nice to be in a place without anyone staring at you with pity at every minute, waiting for you to break down so they could wrap their arms around you and tell you everything was going to be alright.It was sicke
*Isabella Russo's POV*Prom day went by fast, which I obviously missed and finally it was graduation day, the day everyone has been waiting for to come. Everyone except me of course, I just wanted to be over and done with all these. I sat on my own waiting for Andrea to arrive. She was the only one I could lean on today.I was wearing my graduation gown over a plain shirt and baggy jeans.Andrea talked about it all she could, but I didn't care that it was "D graduation", I want it done.l s I could start a new beginning.I didn't bother telling Andrei it was today because he would be busy and things like this didn't interest him, I don't want to bother him. But it didn't matter along as I was finally leaving this place. "Why are you looking so lost? You should be happy that finally we are leaving this school" Andrea said, sitting beside me and snapping me out of my daze. She held m e tightly, gluing her sweaty body to mine and I wondered what she did to be that sweaty."You do know tha
Isabella Russo's POVThings were becoming a bit better and Andrea always stayed with me and made me forget the pains I suffered earlier. School was going well and my finals were coming up soon. The days of my high school was coming to an end. And I could remember vividly when Nico promised to attend my graduation. What a jerk, I had come to accept his death and live a free life but doubted loving again."Bella, can I see you for sec," the principal requested as I was crossing the hallway with Andrea. "Thank you for your audience, I was wondering if you would like to be the valedictorian of the year. It's like I'm imposing it on you. But you have the highest grades so far and I don't know if..." She starts, staring at me and hoping I would accept. S"I will take it, the speech, I will say it. After all I earned it for myself. It would also be a great start for me in college," I smiled easing her tension. Everyone in school knew about my tragic story. They were avoiding me mostly and
Isabella Russo's POVThe funeral took place at the Perez's burial ground. As usual, everyone wore black and stood in line waiting for me to place the last flower on his coffin and say my final wordsNot that I was ready to say my final words to him, I wasn't ready to let him go.I was not allowed to cry because it would be a sign of a bad omen. In the mafia, Don's were to be respected till the very end. Crying would only mean that he was weak and didn't live a good life. I held my tears back and stood in front of Nico's coffin. Inside, his face was covered I couldn't even see his face for the last time. This was the part where I hated the mafia tradition. I couldn't see his face as I said my goodbye. And Andrei safi wasn't even allowed to say my farewell here to me. The mafia rules are against such. I really felt pathetic doing this, my tears were pending and the mourning crowd was waiting for my words."You have to speak Bella, the time is ticking," Andrei stepped to my side prompti
Isabella Russo's POVI froze in shock when Andrei dropped the bomb on me. "He lost a lot of blood and before we could save him...""You are lying to me. That's an on obvious lie Andrei. Please tell me you are joking. It's impossible, Nico can't leave me here alone," I held his shirt tight hoping that he would tell me that it was all a joke. But he didn't, instead he held me in his arms and let me cry on his chest.I got angry when I wasn't let to see his body. I wanted to confirm his death and and actually believe that Nico left me but Andrei didn't let me. He carried me away from the hospital and drove me back home.For two weeks, I refused to eat or talk to anyone. I couldn't believe that Nico was no longer with me. And the longer I waited, the more I felt his absence.He was gone for good and I couldn't get myself to accept it. I was fully healed and able to move on my own thanks to my consistency intake of the medicine. Andrei handled most of the activities in the mafia while I tr
*Isabella Russo's POV*My entire body went rigid with fear when I saw the bomb tied around my waist. It was ticking fast and had two minutes left before it went off."I don't want to die Nico." I cried holding him tightly. The bomb started to count after nico had shot his father dead. That is to say that he was the trigger."Don't worry, I will not let anything happen to you," Nico comforted as he looked at the bomb thinking of how to diffuse it."I'm so sorry, this is all my fault. If I had grown stronger or listened back then, none of this would have happened. I'm so pathetic for causing you all this trouble. Maybe if I hadn't left your office then I wouldn't have been taken." I muttered forgetting the pain I felt on my cheeks. "Don't say that, I'm the one who should have protected you. I let my guard down after I had promised to never let anything hurt you. You don't know how worried I was when I couldn't find you. And seeing you brusied and bloodied, makes me want to beat myself.
*Domenico Perez's POV*I marched down to the inn, completely blinded by rage. Martins was standing at the entrance of the inn, the same way he was the night before when we got here."I heard the explosion and I see you here. It seems she took you there earlier than she was supposed to" He tsked and I look at Angelina who was standing behind him, she lowered her head, unable to meet my eyes."You knew about it all these while" I say and he didn't bother denying it."Yes I did. I had a job to do. Kill the men coming to my village. And I had to perform this job." He says and I once again look at Angelina." Oh no, don't look at her that way. It wasn't her fault really. The girl just has a kind heart and wanted to help you even if it meant going against her father. I was just expecting her to hesitate a bit before she decided to disobey her father" He says and I see the tight grip he has on her wrist."So you were working for Andrew. You lied and said you were not working for him" Andrei
*Domenico Perez's POV*We had searched the whole village, searched every corner, every building and yet we couldn't find her. Angelina and Martins had watched us leave the inn, and the stare they gave us while we were leaving made it seem as if they knew were she was."They would know" Andrie said and I looked at him.We were currently parked at the back of the inn. "What?" I ask him. "The father and daughter would know where she is" Andrei says and I know that. "Would they be able to speak though? Tell us where they kept her? Do we have to torture them to get them to tell us? Andrei, each passing second that Bella stays with Andrew has my mind racing on what he is doing to her and all he can do to her. He would break her to the point of no repair. And I don't want that to happen." I say breaking down and he just listens, he doesn't have to say anything or do anything. He just listened.We has searched everywhere we could think of and I was getting frustrated and really angry. Wher