LOGINWe waited for hours for at least an update on what was going on with Giulia. No doctor came out of the surgery room and no one went in.The nurses wouldn't tell us anything. All they said was that Giulia was in bad condition when she came in. She was bleeding heavily and they had to give her an emergency transfusion.Emilio was making calls to try to figure out what happened to her. Raffa was in no position to call or ask questions. He wouldn't even speak or look at us. I couldn't imagine what he was feeling.He was probably blaming himself for leaving her on her own. But no one could have anticipated what happened that night. Giulia didn’t want him to stay with her so he respected her decision.When the doctors and the nurses came out, Raffa and I jumped out of our seats to get updates. “Are you her family?” The doctor asked.“I’m her boyfriend. She has no living relatives.”That was a lie but it was a necessary one. Giulia I didn’t get along with her family. They treated her like s
Raffa went to pale almost immediately. Whatever he heard on the other side of the call was so bad that he could barely speak.And he snapped out of it. He got off his seat at the speed of lightning and rushed out the door.“Where are you going?” Emilio asked him, but he didn’t even bother answering the simple question. He was too busy looking for his car keys so he could leave as soon as possible.It was like you couldn’t see or speak. Emilia had to slap him so that he would snap out of whatever state he was in.“Fuck, man. What’s going on? Who called you?” Emilia asked.I grabbed his phone from the floor, where he had dropped it and looked at the caller ID. It was the police. I couldn’t exactly call them back because I didn’t know whatever trouble Raffa had gotten himself into.“It’s…it’s Giulia…”I immediately went alert when I heard that and I found myself not caring whether or not I was just going to be arrested for asking, but I had to know.Raffa wasn’t shocking fast enough so I
Raffa looked like shit when he came over to our house. Emilio had been relaxing for the past few weeks since the Russian mafia boss wasn’t even in the country.With the other two mafia bosses eliminated, there was no chaos or confusion in Italy. Things had settled down well, and everyone was doing their due diligence. I would have loved to meet the godfather, but Emilio told me he was private, elusive, and an introvert.He didn’t want to come over for dinner, which was understandable. He was single and had offered to marry the Irish princess, but she explicitly stated that she wasn’t someone to be pawned off to numerous men. She only wanted one man, and if she couldn’t have him, she didn’t want anyone else. Her father insisted that she didn’t marry someone out of obligation but out of love. I didn’t understand how she could’ve fallen in love with Raffa just by seeing him in photos and videos. That was mostly sexual attraction and infatuation. Once she got what she wanted, and she fi
I went to work after my talk with Giulia. I felt conflicted on what to do because she was my friend and at the same time, she wasn’t thinking about what Rafael wanted.While her boyfriend was the least of my concerns, I was worried for her and where their relationship was heading because they weren’t on the same page. I loved her and I knew from the start that she was struggling to accept life in the mafia. I kind of thought she had gotten over it, but I realized how naïve I had been to believe such a thing. She was against it from the start. There is no way she had magically come to affect the kind of life we lived.It was sad because if she didn’t agree with Raffa in terms of lifestyle and if one of them didn’t compromise, they sadly weren’t going to last.So sad to see their relationship deteriorate in such a way when they had been so in love at the beginning.To think all those issues had been brought about by a woman they both had never met. All the Irish princess had to do was
We were back in Italy, and Lev was back in Russia as far as we knew. He told me I wouldn’t see him in the near future, which I assumed was because I ran away after he professed his attraction for me. He must have felt intimidated by how much Emilio beat him up. He probably didn’t expect our bond to be that strong, but it was. We respected and loved one another, and it scared him. He thought he would come and get between us.Emilio didn’t have any empathy or emotion when it came to other people. But when it came to me, he showed me his undying dedication. He was able to get out of a war, just to come and keep me safe from a man like Lev.He would do anything for me, and I would do anything for him. Emilio was winning the war with the Godfather. whose name I had just learned was Antonio. Emilio liked to keep all the details of working with the godfather to himself because he claimed the man was just as dangerous as him.But if Lev knew who he was, then he wasn’t as elusive as he would
With the dirt I had on Lev’s victim, I was able to coerce him into accepting his medical bills to be paid and nothing else. Sometimes I felt bad for doing something like that, but then snapped out of it when I realized some victims were not good people.My investigation has uncovered the fact that the same man who had victimized Lev had also targeted other rich men and forced them to pay hefty fees. He did that to people for a living. It was disgusting to say the least.“Thank you for this. Without you, I would have spent a lot of money.” He said.“Don’t thank me. I don’t even like you one bit. I did this because it’s my job.”“And you’re good at it, so accept my gratitude. I probably would have paid a lot of money to that person.” He stated.I was at least glad that it hadn’t been a set-up. For a moment, I had begun to think that maybe that madman had been paid by Lev to orchestrate the whole thing so that I would go to New York.I was surprised when I was proved wrong. At least he d







