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Mafia High CHAPTER 21
AlessandroI made it back to my dorm with enough time to shower the smell of sex off my skin. I lay down in bed and closed my eyes in exhaustion afterward. My fucking shoulder hurt. I heard the knock at our dorm and braced myself. Marino let him in. I couldn’t hear what was said but the knock on my bedroom door told me it was a very short conversation.I sat up slightly.“Come in.”Mr. Xavier entered the room. He’d been in here the last time I’d caused trouble. Hopefully this visit would turn out better. I never fooled myself about the cards he held. Where he got that power, I had no idea.Xavier always wore perfectly tailored, expensive dark suits. His muscles didn’t bulge but you knew they were there. He was a large man and made the room smaller. His face held the exact expression I’d seen each time I’d faced him.I know what you’re thinking.I swear he did. I’d lied during our previous meeting, and he’d immediately called me on it. His expression and voice never changed. It was har
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GiaI waited all afternoon with my girly bits neat and tidy. After several hours, I came to the conclusion he’d never planned to return. I fell for his game and knew I was a complete idiot.Maria checked on me several times.“He owns my V-card,” I finally told her after I figured out he wasn’t coming back and had gone into full sulk mode.“You think I didn’t know that?”Of course, she did. She wasn’t stupid. Tears built behind my eyes but I wouldn’t let them fall.“It was great,” I told her.“Why are you upset then?”“He said he would spend the day here.”“Maybe he can’t. We’re on lockdown.”It surprised me she made any excuse for him. Maria didn’t live with the guilt I had about Alessandro’s mother. She didn’t think I should be held responsible for her death. It was the price for the world we lived in and the biggest reason she planned to leave it behind after high school.“He could have called.”Her mouth twisted slightly. He could have called.We decided to spend our lockdown watch
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AlessandroI hadn’t planned to stay away from Gia the entire weekend but it worked out that way and it was good for her. She’d be pissed off but would come around. My crew came to my dorm as soon as the lockdown was lifted and we spent the time strategizing. We knew the shit with Matteo was not over.“What about off campus and completely out of town?” Andre asked. “If no one talked, they could never prove it.”“Do you trust his crew to keep quiet if I kill him? Each is almost as bad as he is.”“It’s a crew fight,” Marino interjected. “We end it with a crew fight.”“Every person involved won’t graduate, at least not this year. I won’t come back so it’s a death sentence for me but I’m sick of this fucker. Each of you need to decide.” This was my stand and if my crew didn’t back me up, I would go it alone.“Like we aren’t in this, fucker,” said Lorenzo. “Graduation is nothing but a sheet of paper and won’t change my shit when I leave.”“I’m in.”“Agreed.”“Got your back.”I looked around
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AlessandroI left her with her coffee and walked out.I may be half in like and all in lust with Miss Rossi. She would never know it though. She expected my cold heart and I delivered. She would be safer and that was all that mattered.The shift in my feelings about Miss Rossi made no sense and once again, I didn’t care. Our intimacy brought out my protective instincts and it would probably be that way with any girl in danger due to being with me. I’d tell myself that until my nuts dropped off because the alternative would drive me mad.Marino stayed behind and waited for Gia to leave, following her to the dorm.“Do you really need to keep fucking with her?” Marino asked when he returned.My gut tightened and I didn’t like it. I had to realign my thoughts quickly. Marino would never step on my turf. He simply had a soft spot for her. Hell, he had a soft spot for every underdog at the damn school.“Matteo will come after her now. She can’t stand up to him alone.”“You’re doing this to
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Gia Matteo was allowed back over the following weekend. Maria came in with the gossip and coffee on Sunday morning. It had been a nice break with him and his crew on lockdown. Maria had no idea where Matteo had been taken and it seemed unlikely he was flown back to Italy, then to school in one week. Like Rochester’s other secrets, we wouldn’t know unless Matteo talked and that was unlikely. Even for an ass like him, the code of silence was strong here.Alessandro was pleasant and an asshole in equal measures. I’d kept him away with the truth but extended it two days to escape the weekend. When the time came and I would never sleep with him again, I’d handle it. I may not handle another round of sex even though I knew I wouldn’t escape it.“Come to my room tonight?” he whispered before I headed to my next class after lunch.His voice made promises and his hand grazed my breast with another. I wasn’t that fucking strong and to top it off, I was always horny after my period.I knocked o
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GiaThere was a knock. It had probably been no more than ten minutes, but Maria hadn’t moved and I didn’t know what to do. She was still breathing.“Miss Rossi,” Mr. Caleb said from the other side of the door and I jumped up.He entered, the school nurse trailing behind him, carrying a bag. I stayed back when the nurse went to her knees to examine Maria.“Have you checked your rooms?”“No.”I hadn’t thought about danger since hanging up from the call with Mr. Xavier. Stupid and right now I didn’t care.Mr. Caleb marched off and checked the dorm. I even heard him opening our closets and bathrooms. Maria still hadn’t moved. The nurse took a cardboard contraption out of her bag and started bending it until it formed a neck support. She placed it on Maria.“An ambulance is on the way,” she told me. “I’ve stabilized her neck and I’m going to start fluids. You found her like this?”“Yes, ma’am. I was—” I stopped talking and realized it didn’t matter how much trouble I got into, I had to tel
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AlessandroMy room felt lonely when I got back to it and if that wasn’t pussy, I didn’t know what was. Marino’s door was shut so I would ask him about his misadventures in the morning. Exhausted, I fell into bed and continued thinking of Gia.I refused to play the what if game. I couldn’t get enough of her and it pissed me off that I’d wasted three fucking years. I had feelings for her and that pissed me off too. My thoughts were jumbled between revenge, lust, and something else I couldn’t define. It wasn’t good. There was no future for the two of us. That I knew as fact.Pounding at the door sometime later had me stumbling from my room and throwing the door open.Mr. Xavier stood there. I came instantly awake. This was not a social visit and my guard came up.“I’m here for Mr. Ricci,” Mr. Xavier said.Xavier was in his customary suit, his eyes hard, expressionless. I caught the fact he didn’t say talk to Marino. “Can’t stop you,” I said and stepped back.Fucking Marino got himself i
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AlessandroI lasted two hours. I was going crazy with worry over Gia. She would think I had this done. She would think my friend capable of doing this to hers. I had to see her.I didn’t bother trying the roof. If Xavier said it was locked, it was locked. What I did was trickier but my crew and I had done it before on a dare. I hadn’t broken my neck then and I would keep from breaking it now.The old buildings had three-inch ledges below the windows. After putting on athletic shoes, I climbed out my window and looked around. The sun hadn’t hit the horizon but it would soon. Senior suites were on the fourth floor of the main dorms. I didn’t need to go up or down a floor, just cross two buildings, each with a different set of problems.The first crossing had an old tree. There was a main branch that I had to jump for and then hike myself up and use weaker branches to gain the ledge of the next building. Tree bark ate into the palms of my hands when I caught the branch and swung myself u
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