~GIA~ It was quiet in the car heading home. My guilty conscience about what happened in the club was slowly eating me up. It felt like I cheated even though my relationship with Mario was kind of awkward. I couldn't look him in the face. To think that he caught me while I was kissed in a public restroom by a stranger felt like I went there to hoe myself around. I didn't expect that Mario would retaliate by taking me to another club so that he would pretend like he was the other guy. I still wanted him. But I knew that I could not have him, not when I messed up. When we arrived outside the house, I went to my room and took a shower. It was now 9 PM. I checked the phone that Mario had given me and found texts from him when I was still at the club with Sofia and Sienna. And then I wondered what had happened to them. As I was about to call Sofia, the door of my room creaked open, and Mario came inside. He was angry. I could tell from the way his lips were straight. He wou
~GIA~ Again, today, Sofia and I went out with Mario's permission, of course. We had Dante and Andries watch us and report to Mario if we were up to anything "extra fun." I rolled my eyes when I turned around to see them following behind us at the mall. Today we did a little shopping and went to watch a movie at the cinema. It was so much fun, and I would catch Andries and Sofia winking at each other when we went to play some games. It felt like Dante and I were third-wheeling. I wanted them to get a room already and smash before we could carry on with any other activities. But I was not supposed to make it obvious to Dante that I knew about Sofia and Andries. "Sofia, do you mind going with Andries to see what movie is up next?" I said as I gave her a little nudge. She instantly knew what I was on about. "Sure. Don't you guys go anywhere," she answered as she looked at Andries for them to go. I picked out another game to play as Sofia and Andries left to check the
~MARIO~ "Guys, I think I found something," Marco said as he clicked on his keyboard. It turned out that we had found Elio Missoni with a man named Andrea Bianchi. Their names were written boldly on the screen. 'Andrea Bianchi... It can't be...' I thought as I looked at the screen. "Oh shit, is that?" "Andrea Bianchi. My right-hand man." I cut Marco short before he could finish saying his name. The room went silent. We were all staring at the picture on the screen. I was in so much disbelief at what I was seeing. It was as if my scariest nightmare was coming true. I'd never been betrayed by someone close to me before until this very day. It felt like the universe was repaying itself for all the sins that I had committed. Andrea Bianchi was more than just my right-hand man. He was my friend, my brother, and my advisor. I never trusted anyone's word more than his. He was always there for me when I needed a shoulder to lean on. When I needed someone to advise me. He w
~MARIO~ Two days passed, and Marco could not find Gia anywhere. It seemed as if she disappeared into thin air, and the signal of her phone could not be located anywhere. It was clear that whoever had her took out the tracking device on her phone when he found it. I was so stressed out about her. I wondered if she was okay wherever she was. Dante said there was a woman and two guys with her when they took Gia. He tried to fight them off, but they outnumbered him and beat him up. He was left outside the bathroom door beaten up, and Gia was nowhere to be found. He said that he could not even see their faces or have a chance to call for help as soon as he saw them because they attacked him. But he did notice that they were not from around here because they spoke French. "You have to try by all means to find her, Marco," I said as I paced up and down the room. I was restless. I sent Dante and Andries to search for her anywhere, but they came back with no answers to where
~GIA~ Elio ordered his maids to get me a better dress. They brought me a flower-pattern dress that hugged my body in the right places. It hugged my waist and gave me an amazing shape. The shoes were medium heels and were great to walk with and very comfortable. My hair was tied up into a bun, and strands of hair were hanging over my ears. My bleeding had stopped, and it turned out that it was just spotting, nothing serious. I was so relieved when Elio brought a nurse to check me out and to make sure that I was fine from the drug that they used to pass me out. When the nurse had left, he didn't lock me in the room, but he took me out to see his house and offered to take me for a little stroll around his town. I was miles away from Mario. I was even starting to miss him a little. I missed Sofia. A part of me wished to be in his house because I was so scared to speak to Elio. I did not know yet if I could trust him. Or if he was going to respect my condition and not kil
~MARIO~ "Gia? Hello? Fuck!" I punched the air when I could no longer find her on the line. She hung up the call on me before she could tell me where she was. "Did you get anything?" I asked Marco, who was trying to trace Gia's location through the call. He shrugged and answered, "I couldn't get her location. It looks like she used a banner phone." "She called me with her damn phone, Marco!" I snapped. I was frustrated that we couldn't find her location. Elio's whereabouts couldn't be detected, even though the call that Andrea made to him was a bit long. "My brother is a very smart guy. He could be anywhere," Andrea answered. Not helping at all. We needed to find the guy's location. "We need to try harder -" I got cut off by my cell phone ringing. I picked it up because I wanted to hear if the truck that I took from Bruno was not detected by the police and searched when heading out of Italy. "Yes, talk to me," I answered. "We've arrived at the destination, boss." "Yes,
~MARIO~ The jail I was sent into was by far the worst unhygienic and inhumane one I had ever been into. My first night there was so horrible. There were cockroaches everywhere. Some were even crawling up on me while I was sleeping. Mosquitoes bit me all night. It was torture that never allowed me time to think of my next plan. The windows were open and could not be closed. The night cold breeze made sleep impossible for me. I kept tossing and turning on the little mattress that I was provided to sleep on. The blanket could not even do me any good as it had holes and was not warm. It was so ironic how I was in such a place that was similar to my dungeons. The realization of it broke me to my core. I was certainly sure that Gia was happy wherever she was. She finally got revenge for the death of her parents, and that of Anna I shot in front of her. She might have been rejoicing with Elio that I was looking at a life sentence in here. I wanted to curse the day I met G
~GIA~ "You had a miscarriage," Sofia said. "What did you just say?" I asked her. That couldn't be. I didn't even know that I was pregnant to be told now that I had lost the baby. "You had a miscarriage, the doctor said that -" I interjected before she could finish her sentence, "I am pregnant?" "You were, and then you lost the baby," she answered. Ignoring my question altogether. "Am I pregnant?" I asked again. "You were, Gia, and then you lost the baby," she replied. I didn't want to believe her. If I was pregnant and then lost it, I would have known. But there were no signs that I had lost the baby. They were wrong. This baby was all that Mario and I would need to mend our relationship. It was the only way for me to make up for betraying him when he wanted to avenge his unborn child for being killed. I was the only person who could determine that I was pregnant and had lost the baby because this was my body that we were talking about. If it meant us running a
~GIA~ A week later. I was asleep in my bed, still mad at Mario, for carelessly ordering his man to kill someone else when I thought that he had changed. I didn't want to utter a single word to him even after we moved to the new house. When I heard a door knock early this morning, I groaned, sat up on my bed, and told the person outside to come in. It was Mario. "I hope I didn't wake you up." He said when our eyes met. I didn't want to pay attention to the pace of my heartbeat. So, instead, I looked him in the eye and pretended that I was still mad at him. Seeing him did not make me want to jump out of bed and bury my face in his neck, and let him kiss me until we were both out of breath and lusting for one another. "No. But what do you want? Are you here to ask me when I am leaving your house?" I folded my arms across my chest. "No. I am here to give you this," he came forward and handed me a document. 'Conti Logistics' was boldly written on top of the document. I to
~GIA~ I woke up from Mario's chest and looked at him sleeping. He looked so peaceful and beautiful. I remembered the first night we spent together, and I could not get over how peaceful he looked when he looked angry and annoyed almost all the time. I wanted to touch his face and lean up and kiss him. "Why are you not sleeping?" I almost jumped out of the bed when he asked me. He startled me. "Why are you spying on me? I thought you were sleeping." I got off the bed and put on my gown. He grabbed my hand and pulled me back to the bed. "Where are you going?" He asked. I giggled. "I'm going to bathe and then go and check up on Bella." "I didn't hear Sofia complain that Bella needs you to check up on her," he kissed my neck. "I'm sure she misses me and trying to be a good girl to Sofia!" I giggled while Mario turned me on with his neck kisses. "Then let them bond!" He stripped off my gown, covered us inside the sheets, and then whispered. "I have plenty of surprises fo
~MARIO~ "Where is she?" Gia asked beside me. "We will find her," I took her hands, trying to get her to calm down and not panic. "Someone took Bella, Mario! What are we going to do?!" Her eyes looked terrified and were filled with tears. "I need you to trust me. She's still in the house," I answered her. "Is it Charlotte? Is she back?" She cried. I kissed her forehead. "She's not going to take Bella from us, okay?" She gave me the tiniest of nods. I turned towards the door and ran down the stairs and was stunned when I saw a woman holding my baby in the living room. The guards had guns on their heads. We were surrounded by Charlotte and her men. I could only wonder how she was able to get inside the house and hold all my guards at gunpoint. "Charlotte," I said her name as I walked slowly to where she was sitting with Bella in her arms. She chuckled when I said her name. "Surprise, surprise, Mario. I told you we would meet." I walked closer to her. Bella was sound
~GIA~ I was up all night. Contemplating the idea of going back to Mario. It sounded absurd that I came all this way to keep Bella and me safe, and yet, I found myself wondering every single minute if it was the right thing for me to do. I didn't want to keep Bella away from her father, even though that meant keeping her safe. I wanted him there. I wanted him there with me. It bugged me every single day that we were miles away. And so, I needed to make a choice. To leave Milan and go back to him. "Well, after everything you've told me about your baby daddy, I think you should stay as far away from him as possible. For Bella's sake, of course," Aurora voiced out her opinion after I ran to her to ask for her advice. But I knew that was just going to be impossible. I loved Mario. I didn't know why or how, but I fell in love with him and could no longer be far away from him. It felt like I was being torn from the inside when I had to imagine my life without him. "He needs to
~MARIO~ "I will give you 48 hours to get here, or I will kill the last of the men you sent to take my daughters away," she answered. I was about to speak when she hung up the call on me. "FUCK!" I snapped and punched the steering wheel. I slipped my cell phone inside my pocket and thought of what to do for a second. It was true that Charlotte had outplayed us. We underestimated her, and now, we had lost men to her. Andries was one of my best men, so I had to find a way to save him. But first, I had to go and get Gia. Without thinking or hesitating, I pushed the key into the ignition and drove to Milan. I didn't know where or how I was going to find Gia, but I knew in my heart that I could not go any longer without her. It was a long and tiring road trip to Milan. I was alone in the car and just thinking about how I was going to feel to see her and our baby. I was, of course, going to be mad at her for leaving without thinking that I had every right as she had to be
~MARIO~ "Did you find the kids?" I asked on the phone. I was talking with Andries. "Yes. But we have a problem," he stated. I sighed. "What kind of a problem?" "We are going to be outnumbered. There are so many guards here than we estimated," he explained. Of course. We should have known that. They were Charlotte's kids, and she would place the kids' safety first, considering that she knew that we were after her and knew who she was. "I will send more men to you. We need those kids by the end of the day," I provided a solution. "Yes, boss," Andrea answered. I hung up the call and turned to Marco. "What do we do now? We need more men. Andries and his guys are outnumbered," I folded my arms across my chest. Marco sighed and scratched his head. "I see. Okay... I guess I will have to talk with Vince and see if he won't be able to organize about 30 men to join Andries. What do you think?" Well, it was better than less than 30. "That's a great number," I bit my lower lip, try
~GIA~ No one told me that my whole life would have such dramatic events. I wished that my parents had told me how life out there was. I was always cooped up in the house because it was not safe. My father believed that there were people out there who were after him and would use me to hurt him. Of course, I loved my father so much and could not imagine him being hurt all because I wanted to be a part of the real world and go to school like every normal kid did. Besides, I was fond of my home-school teacher. She made it easy for me. I was able to use my wild imagination and see myself in a real school. With kids and making friends, having a silly crush on a boy who was not interested in me, but in my friend. It helped to imagine those scenarios because I felt like I was not kept away from the real world. My teacher would always bring pictures of people in the mall, movies, and dates. It was that bad for me. Talking about being the daughter of a serial assassin. But my ho
~MARIO~ "Boss, Gia ran away," Dante said after I answered his call in the morning. "What?" I sat up straight on the bed. "She left a note that she was going to give Bella a better future elsewhere. Away from all the chaos going on," he explained. I sighed. Shocked. I was relieved at the same time that she was not kidnapped. I thought that Charlotte had taken her away. "Thank you for the heads up, Dante," I answered him and then hung up. I threw myself on the bed and released a sigh. "Do you need me to take away all the tension, Daddy?" The hooker next to me asked. I had forgotten that I bought one last night when I went to the club to clear my mind. I looked at her, smirked, and pushed her head underneath the sheets to my dick. I wanted her to suck it until I released myself inside her mouth. She giggled when her mouth finally met with my dick. When she started working her mouth around it, I groaned. She was so good. "You taste so good, Daddy," she gagged on it. I
~GIA~ Two months later, there was still no word about Charlotte. Dante tried to keep us out of every detail about her until he was able to confirm with Mario that she was gone. For good. Mario sent Dante money every other week to buy us groceries and to also take us shopping. During those two months, he did not come to see his daughter because he was trying to protect her and keep Charlotte from finding out where we were. I didn't complain. I thought and believed that Mario and I were better off without each other. We only brought out the worst in each other and put each other in danger. If we were going to reconcile, Bella would be caught in the middle and get hurt. And that was not what we both wanted. “Are you okay, Gia?” Debbie asked in the car. We were on our way to shopping. I smiled. “Yeah, I'm fine. I was just thinking that Bella would be 2 months old tomorrow.” She squealed. “We should definitely have a little photo shoot today,” she looked at the rear mirror a