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Act 7: Fork - Chapter 3
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SiennaDecember has always been a sorrowful month for me; but as I wake up to Christian’s face once more, I decide to pocket my hurt just for one day. I intended to rest my eyes for a few minutes, but I guess I was too exhausted after all.Yesterday was hard. I thought I was strong enough to face Dante and speak about Daniella. But hearing him brush her off as if she’s nothing has shattered my heart to pieces. I thought he would at least fight to see his own daughter, but I guess Allessio killed off the last remnants of Dante’s humanity.I shake my head and turn on my back, sighing; I won’t be sad today. Dante is being released; after today, he will no longer be my problem.Turning my head, I give Christian a peck on his stubbled cheek and then walk to my own bedroom. After a shower, I get dressed and head toward Daniella’s bedroom, but I don’t find her in there at all. Panic starts to bloom in my chest, and I rush downstairs as fast as my bruised body can carry me.“Daniella?” I cry
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SiennaI don’t think my heart will ever recover from what has transpired in the last twenty hours; my morning went from the best to the absolute worst. Nico somehow knew that Dante was being kept on the island and came to break him out even though we were just about to release him. A bullet is lodged in Daniella’s spine, and she will never walk again. On top of that, she lost a substantial amount of blood, and her brain was starved for oxygen for too long. She’s currently in a coma, and the outcome does not look good.As I sit by her bed, holding her tiny hand in mine, I can’t help but blame myself for what has happened to her. I brought her into this dangerous world, and now my lifestyle might have just taken her out of it.I can’t do this anymore; I can’t keep on fighting a war that is no longer mine. Dante can have his title back, and Allessio can have the mantle. I’m done leading the life of a mafioso; I’m done with bloodshed and violence and if I have to live this life alone, th
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DanteThe moment I saw how she looked at Drakos was when my heart turned to stone. She used to look at me like that; like I was the only person in the entire world. I know that I have no right to ask her to love me, not after the damage I inflicted on her body, not after I nearly killed her. I remember everything I did and everything I was subjected to at Speranzini’s fucking hands.I thought that I had hardened my heart to everything until I saw my daughter bleeding out in another person’s arms. My self-control nearly snapped, and I wanted nothing but to wrap my arms around Sienna and comfort her.But that’s not the role I get to play in her life anymore. I am no longer her Tempesta… I am merely a man brought back from the dead to kill her.Sienna cannot be in my life, and she cannot be the queen I once desired. I need to make the people responsible for all this pay with their lives - they ruined my life and completely turned it upside down for over ten years. And all for what?“D-D
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DanteNico takes up the driver’s seat of the SUV, and I am in the back with two soldiers on either side of me. My hands have also been shackled behind my back, but the key remains in my palm; we at least had to make this look legitimate since I am a supposed dangerous commodity.We near Speranzini’s compound, and I can see the nervousness radiating from Nico from the sweat on his brow. He spares me a sideways glance before entering the gates of the man deemed our enemy. Either way, today will turn out bloody, and only one family will be left standing. Nico brings the SUV to a stop and gets out before dragging me out by my bicep. He hasn’t been able to make eye contact with me since admitting that he shot Daniella by accident, and to be honest, I don’t know how I feel. I know I should be a lot angrier than I am now…perhaps it will hit later. If it does, he better not be in my way.“Ah, one of my favourite soldati,” Speranzini’s grating voice breaks through my thoughts, and I immediat
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SiennaVendetta Claimed.Two words, and I am left in disbelief. Dante killed Allessio a few hours after arriving in Italy, where I couldn’t even do it over the course of ten years. I look at the image of the bane of my existence lying dead, and I can’t even breathe out a sigh of relief.Because I gave up that fight as soon as those bullets hit Daniella.“Sienna,” I hear Christian’s voice on the other side of my bedroom door and sigh. We haven’t spoken since I came home from the hospital, and as I look at my packed luggage, I wonder if we will ever talk. Ah, I suppose now is a good chance, especially since I am leaving.“You can come in,” I say, and as soon as he opens the door and looks inside, my heart threatens to break at the look on his face. I know he’s taking this as hard as I am, and looking at him doesn’t make it any easier.“Hey,” he says with a forced smile, closing the door behind him. “I am about to have dinner, will you please join me?”I shake my head. “I-”“Please, Sien
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SiennaSomewhere in the background, I can hear my cell phone ringing, and Marla picks it up and smashes it against the tile floor. “Incessant thing,” she grumbles.“Why are you doing this?” I ask while looking straight into Christian’s tearful pained eyes. It’s almost as if his body is being forced to do something that his mind is unwilling to do. Right now, he’s nothing but a puppet for Marla to use, and she’s the one pulling the strings.Come to think of it, she’s been the one pulling the strings this entire time.She places a hand on her hips. “Hmm, let me see. Well, for one, I can’t stand you. I mean, why did the great Dante Dragonetti choose a timid lamb like you when he could have had a queen like me at his side?” She says, then rolls her eyes. “And now my incompetent nephew seems to have fallen for you as well; I just don’t get your charm.”I raise my eyebrow at this. “All of this is because of Dante?”“Partially. I crave nothing but power, and now with Allessio and you out of
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ChristianI have no right to follow her, not after what I discovered about myself. To be honest, I should have felt something was off with my aunt when she told me to come to an accord with the Dragonettis. I know she had hated the family since Dante turned down her request to marry years ago, but I didn’t think her hate ran this deep.She used me to get close to Sienna; she used me to hurt the one person I would have died for.I look at my aunt’s dead body and order the guards to take it away and dispose of it before letting the other Greek crime families know that I will be taking over as their leader. Yes, I am very much aware of the questions my aunt’s death will raise, but I don’t give a fuck about that right now.There’s a pressing matter at hand, and Sienna is at the center of it. I won’t face her again, though, especially not after what happened this evening and especially not after what happened to Daniella. She’s made it clear that she wants out of the mafia world, and no ma
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SiennaThe pain I felt two and a half years ago doesn't even come close to how I feel as I walk out of that hospital. Daniella never recovered; in fact, she regressed, and a few minutes ago, I was forced to make the worst decision of my life.I held onto hope even after the two-year deadline, but the doctors brought me right back down to Earth.For the last two years, I’ve been living in a small cabin off the coast close to the hospital. Oddly enough, Dante didn’t cut me off from the Dragonetti funds, but I have a feeling it's so he can keep track of my whereabouts. I haven’t seen Christian since I left his estate after his aunt tried to kill me; this is even after I tried to call and visit when I found out he paid for Daniella’s hospital stay.He’s cut me off, and I understand why; it was easier for both of us to move on. I’ll always love him, just not as deeply as I have before. As for Dante… I don’t even want to think about him. Serena and Sylvana have been in constant contact with
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Sienna“Come back to me, mia regina. I need you,” I can hear Dante’s voice as if my head is being held underwater, but where I am feels safer, so I don’t try to bridge the surface. It’s warm here; there’s no constant thoughts or overwhelming feelings… there’s nothing. I haven’t felt ‘nothing’ in ages, and right now, I am content.“I’m so sorry,” Dante’s voice comes again and forces me to pay attention to him. “You saw the scared side of me trying to forget about you through using women. I shouldn’t have fought what I felt for you, I should have been open about everything from the start. This is my fault; yet again, you end up close to death because of me.”I try to frown, but my face feels stiff; in fact, everything feels stiff right now. Does Dante still love me? That fact alone should make me happy, but I think that I am past feeling anything for anyone. He crushed me when I walked into his office and shattered my heart like those plates I dropped.Will we ever get past this, thoug
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Dante“Find her!” Fuck, fuck fuck! What just happened? It’s well after nine; why the fuck was Sienna not in bed? I pace the floor and drag my hands through my hair in frustration; there’s no way she could have gotten far, not with the men after her.A few seconds later, I hear the gate to the villa crashing open, and when I rush out to see what the fuck is happening, I see an SUV speeding away. Dario comes running towards me, with a concerned look on his face, and he hands me his cell phone.“She took my SUV,” he says, and I can see the little blip that is Sienna rushing to what I assume to be her cottage off the coast. I hand my little brother his cellphone back and give him a nod of thanks before deciding to follow Sienna.Why did she even run out like that? I thought we were through, I thought this is what she wanted! So why did she look so fucking shattered when she saw what I was doing with another woman?“Fuck, Sienna,” I growl while looking at the GPS and seeing Dario’s SUV co
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SiennaI feel like an idiot. Not only does Dante not truly want me, but I’m a product of an affair my mother had years ago. A mafia bastard; not a true Vincenzo, and the fact alone makes me hate myself even more.No wonder my mother never cared for my father’s infidelities; she had been unfaithful right at the start of her marriage. Did my father know about it? No, if he did, then I would have been killed a long time ago along with my mother.I sigh and sit up in bed; it’s been three weeks, and Dante hasn’t been back into this room. After he told me about everything, he took it upon himself to turn into a ghost, and we haven’t seen one another since.Dario told me that the day Dante ‘kidnapped’ me, there was a sniper stationed at the cemetery, but they took care of him before he could fire his rifle. All this time, I thought he came for me because he wanted me, or he still loved me when in fact, I’m simply here for my own safety. But even so, why am I here? Why try to keep me safe if
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DanteThat wasn’t supposed to happen; that wasn’t supposed to fucking happen!I slam my fist against the tiled shower wall and let out a frustrated growl when I see blood against the ruined tiles. How did we go from arguing to fucking? There was nothing intimate about what we just did, nothing at all, just a raw, primal need for me to claim what’s mine.But Sienna is not mine, not anymore. She’s only here because of the hit on her life, anyway. But then a-fucking-gain, why do I even care that she has a hit out on her? She wanted to be stupid and step back onto Italian soil, so she should face the consequences.Fuck, I need to get out of here for a few days to clear my head.I’m about to turn the taps and get out when I feel Sienna’s arms wrap around my waist. She’s naked against my body, and I can feel every dip and curve of her against me. I breathe out a sigh, then she kisses the scars on my back, and I lean my head back.“What are you doing, Sienna?” I ask, fighting the comfortabl
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SiennaIt’s late evening, and Dante’s scent teases me when I amble into our shared walk-in closet; a shiver shoots up my spine, causing goosebumps to pucker all over my skin. As much as I hated to admit it, Dante still had the same effect on me as he did back when we lived in New York.Slipping on a silk camisole and shorts, I sigh as everything hits me at the same time, and I leave the walk-in and head straight to sit back on the bed.I thought that my feelings for him had died; I thought that I had replaced him with Christian, but the truth is that Christian was simply a scab forming over an old wound in my heart. And once that scab fell off, what would have been left of me? What would have been left of Christian?Those scars on Dante’s back sort of brought me down to earth, and I remembered that he wasn’t just this monster who kidnapped me. He went through literal hell at the hands of Allessio Speranzini, and somehow I still blamed him for almost killing me.I blamed him for doing
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DanteI knew that getting Sienna back here would cause her to push back, but I didn’t expect her to be this fucking stubborn. The look of disgust in her eyes when she looks at me bothers me a fuck ton, but I can’t force her to love me again.She’ll see that being here is in her best interest. I finish up in the shower, dry off and walk across the bedroom to my closet, but I can feel her eyes on me. When I turn my head to face her, she quickly looks away. I can’t help but grin at her reaction because even though we’ve been apart for over twelve years, I still know Sienna.After throwing on a pair of boxers, I head to the bed, and her eyes widen when she sees me. She sits up in bed with a horrified expression on her face and a trembling hand over her mouth.“Wh…what happened to you?” she stutters as her eyes take in the long thick, jagged welts all over my torso. “Speranzini’s favorite toy was a barbed whip,” I say as I get in bed and turn off the light on the nightstand. “Staring at
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SiennaI sit on the once familiar bed and draw my knees closer to my chest. Never in a million years did I think that I would feel this hopeless again; trapped in my own home by my husband like some prisoner. That Sienna died a long time ago, and now she seems to have returned.Dante hasn’t been back since he brought me here, and I didn’t hear him lock the door, but I am still too apprehensive to leave this bedroom. There are a lot of memories here, some that are threatening to choke me with their traces of Daniella, but I push them down. Hopefully, I don’t snap soon.A movement at the bedroom door gets my attention, and I jump up, fully expecting Dante to come back after what happened this afternoon. What I didn’t expect was Sylvana and Serena to be standing at my door with Sylvana holding a tray of food.“Seems like deja vu, just flipped around,” I say, recalling that I did the same to them when they were taken by Dario and Nico.They’re both wearing sheepish smiles as they approac
