“Let you go, huh?”He scoffed before he stood up from his seat and approached me.I felt Bruno grab my arms and pull me up, but while he did that, he was gentle, like always.
“Now why would we do that?”he growled, his face so close to mine.
I quivered and whimpered as I cowered my head low — I was too afraid to speak back.After Nicola left, I learned to stand up for myself; however, this man was taking all my courage away because of how intimidating he was.I felt myself slowly crippling apart as I wondered where Alessandro was.While all this happened, he was nowhere to be seen.I still couldn’t believe I saw him that day, and since I have, I refuse to believe that it’s him because I’ve only seen him that day.After that, he’s been gone, like I’ve never seen him.
Bruno, the other man, left me and joined him.My eyes traveled to him as I followed his steps.It seemed like he was preparing something before he walked back to us with keys jingling in his hands.
“Oddio, non smette mai di piangere?”Bruno began to stress, and I threw a glare at him unbeknownst to him.I understood everything they said, but I don’t think these people knew that — which is why they were talking about me like I didn’t understand them.I never spoke like that to people because mom taught me not to.If I didn’t like being spoken to in another language behind my back, I would never do it to others.However, these men had no limits, mainly because of the fact that they were mafias.
To be honest...I don’t care.
“S-sor-sorry...I’ll stop, but p-please let me g-go,” I pleaded again, but this time it totally caught them off guard.They glared at me like I had committed a huge crime, and that’s when I felt my stomach drop for the nth time today.
“She understands!”Bruno chortled.“See?I told you.”
“Shut the fuck up,” Salvatore spat.“Get the shit ready, we have places to be.”
Bruno continued to laugh as he nodded his head and walked off.While he walked off, I was still able to hear his laugh, but that wasn’t really important now.I needed to get out of here, but before I did, I wanted to see Alessandro again.I wanted to speak to him, touch him, and know what happened to him.
“Come on, fiore,” Salvatore grabbed my arms, startling me.“You’re coming with me.”
We walked away from where we were and walked a short distance around the mansion.We remained outside as the sky was becoming darker by the second.I roamed my eyes around the place and began to grow concerned because all I saw were acres of land.If I wanted to leave, where would I even begin?
After walking for a while, we reached something that looked like a small house, but I knew how filthy rich these people were, so I assumed that this house wasn’t small after all.I was right — when we walked in, the place was huge, though smaller than the mansion we had just come from.I gulped as the air was cold; it seemed as though this place was not occupied as much.The stark smell of bleach filled my nose, reminding me of hospitals.The color white was everywhere in this house — nothing other than white.
“This is where you’re going to be staying.”
My heart literally dropped as I turned around to watch him in shock; my head was unable to process this.
“What?”
Salvatore glared at me like I was the most hated thing in the world before he stalked toward me.
“I said that you’re going to be staying here from now on,” he repeated.“Do you understand?”
I felt myself shiver under his threatening voice before I found my own shaky one.
“No,” I shook my head and stepped back.“I want to be let go.Why this?”
“That’s not going to happen, Ariana,” his threatening voice reached my ears, which caused my eyes to well up.He suddenly pulled his hand out and pushed me so I was at the center of the damn house.“If we wanted to let go of you, you’d be dead by now.”
I felt so little, as though all these men were cornering me with their tall frames.My heart pumped crazily in my chest as I looked up at them, trying to get away from the small space they provided me — but that wasn’t my concern at the moment.As I felt like I was about to die, another presence made its way into the room, and deep down, I expected it to be Alessandro because I really wanted to see him, but much to my surprise, it wasn’t.
In fact, I was shocked at who stood in front of me.
Matt stood in front of us like nothing had happened to him.He was there, like the other day didn’t even happen, and at that moment, my concern wasn’t the fact that these men were threatening me — no.Right now, I was actually terrified at the fact that Matt was here because deep down, I knew that he shouldn’t be here.
