LOGINChapter 295He knows he’s fuckin doomed when he couldn’t even maintain his distance from this woman. He knew he was screwed the moment he started considering her. He never considers anyone else except it’s Leone or Alessandro, but here he was doing things for her even while he was unasked.He couldn’t just get her out of his fuckin mind, like she had built a whole condo in there. He knows it’s stupid, falling in love and dragging her into his mess.Well, this was all new territory for him. He had sworn to never fall in love or any bullshit like that. This whole thing was still new territory for him.Leone would definitely laugh his lungs out if he had been here to witness this.He had tried running away from it, but it wasn’t working. No matter what he did, he still found himself helplessly drawn to her.To the point where he can’t stay a second without thinking of her.“Huh?” she fluttered her lashes over her big brown eyes like she had heard him wrong.“You should head back inside.”
Had she heard right? She wasn’t sure. Her heart raced in her ears as his hand glided down her arm, subtly pulling her closer to his big frame.For that moment, she couldn’t breathe. She felt the warmth from his body radiate to hers. Just being here, being in his hold, it made her feel some kind of indescribable relief. She felt safe and at peace, and these were words she was sure as hell she would never associate with this person.“Are you okay?” he asked her, and she found herself nodding.She did miss him. Miss was even an understatement when she had been thinking about him every damn minute since the last time they parted.His scent, his presence—those were something that haunted her, and the fact that he always showed up out of the blue anytime she was in danger made her heart twist.Was this what it felt like, to be seen and actually looked out for?“I…I should go back.” She stepped away from him, and he let her.His eyes still held hers in a heated gaze. She squeamishly looked d
Chapter 293Her heart caught in her throat. She hadn’t expected him to suddenly be here, and the way he was staring at her now—the fire in those black orbs.She gulped, her eyes reverting to the buff man who was now covered in his own blood.She suddenly felt bile rise up to her throat. Even after growing up in a mafia household, she could never grow accustomed to the gruesome sight of blood.“Massimo, that’s…”Her words hung in midair with the deafening sound of a bullet being planted into the man’s skull. A thick silence fell in the air, and no one said a word, like they knew who he was, like they knew saying a word meant craving their own death.Chiara stumbled backwards in shock, her eyes wide. At this point, even breathing felt like an impossible task.“You didn’t think I would keep him alive, did you?” She didn’t even know the time he came to stand in front of her.She clutched the backrest of the chair right in front of her.“You killed him,” she said, more to herself than to h
Chapter 292Chiara took a deep breath in once she returned back to the apartment. Her heart felt so heavy, she could barely breathe.Her tears flowed freely now, the tears she had tried hard to hold back but failed. She felt stupid for even crying when she knew it well that her aunty didn’t give two fucks about her, not before and definitely not now.She shouldn’t care, but she couldn’t help it; she could not deny the fact that she actually did.The following morning, she could barely concentrate on anything as she pondered on whether or not to just abandon things and leave this country.She couldn’t stand the fact that her aunt was here, she also grew restless, her trembling hands in her pocket.“Chiara, are you okay?” one of her colleagues asked, and it was then she noticed that she was actually crying.“I’m fine.” She quickly walked away from there.She needed something to clear her head, this wasn’t working, nothing was.It was evening, the clouds were painted with orange, the sun
Chapter 291“Aunty!!?”Her whole world came to a complete halt when her eyes fell on the woman standing right in front of her.“No, it couldn’t be.”She shook her head in denial despite her eyes and her own memory telling her a completely different thing, but why would her aunt suddenly show up in her life after all these years, and what was she even doing here? Last she remembered, she was residing in Italy.Her eyes then fell on the buff man, his gaze menacing, and then they retracted to the little girl who was in his clutches. She recognized her—Vivian.“Chiara,” the woman’s eyes widened as they took in her niece, whom she had presumed to be long dead.She swallowed, the weight of fear and shame weighing hard on her.Chiara tore her gaze away from her aunt with so much effort, and then she directed her gaze to the large buff man.“Let her go. What has she done?” she demanded, her heart wrenching as her eyes fell on Vivian, who was now crying in pain. So Vivian was her cousin…She s
Chapter 290Three weeks passed, and Chiara heard nothing about Cassandra or Josh. She knew Cassandra had been arrested, but as for Josh, she was still confused about how and why he had just disappeared into thin air.Speaking of disappearing into thin air, she hadn’t heard anything from Massimo either. There were times where she wished she could just run into him, as stupid as it sounded. What was even more stupid were the nights where she actually left her room window open, thinking he would drop by again, but he never did.It was then she realized she didn’t have his phone number. Boss Leone ought to have his phone number. If she calls Anna… and then what? Explain everything that had happened up to this point? It would just make her worry unnecessarily, and she would feel hurt about the fact that she never reached out to her to explain what had been going on.She decided not to; that would be foolish. Even if by some miracle she’s able to get his phone number, what then? What would







