CHAPTER 76 - HIS LIFE. HIS HEART

Sicily.

“Nico, wake up!”

Nico hissed when he felt a numbing pain on his back as cold water splashed on his head.

His partially opened eyes took on the surroundings around him.

He did not know how much time had passed. All he knew was that he had to endure somehow.

“What time is it?" He asked his tormentor, ignoring the pain in every part of his body.

“It’s time for your punishment.” His tormentor stated before hitting him with a whip.

“Ugh!” He grunted.

One hundred lashes every day. That is what he has endured since returning to Sicily, but he does not regret everything.

He gritted his teeth as he felt another pain hit him.

Not long after, Don Leo came in. “Is he still at it?” He asked Nico’s tormentor, who nodded in assent.

“He still wanted to leave.”

Don Leo looked at Nico’s back. It was full of welts. New wounds were forming from the old ones.

“Will you leave us, please?” He told the whipper.

When he heard the sound of the door closing, Don Leo walked to the front