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Act 8 : Hanging Pawns - Chapter 1
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DanteNico takes up the driver’s seat of the SUV, and I am in the back with two soldiers on either side of me. My hands have also been shackled behind my back, but the key remains in my palm; we at least had to make this look legitimate since I am a supposed dangerous commodity.We near Speranzini’s compound, and I can see the nervousness radiating from Nico from the sweat on his brow. He spares me a sideways glance before entering the gates of the man deemed our enemy. Either way, today will turn out bloody, and only one family will be left standing. Nico brings the SUV to a stop and gets out before dragging me out by my bicep. He hasn’t been able to make eye contact with me since admitting that he shot Daniella by accident, and to be honest, I don’t know how I feel. I know I should be a lot angrier than I am now…perhaps it will hit later. If it does, he better not be in my way.“Ah, one of my favourite soldati,” Speranzini’s grating voice breaks through my thoughts, and I immediat
Mafia's Vendetta Act 8 : Hanging Pawns - Chapter 3
SiennaVendetta Claimed.Two words, and I am left in disbelief. Dante killed Allessio a few hours after arriving in Italy, where I couldn’t even do it over the course of ten years. I look at the image of the bane of my existence lying dead, and I can’t even breathe out a sigh of relief.Because I gave up that fight as soon as those bullets hit Daniella.“Sienna,” I hear Christian’s voice on the other side of my bedroom door and sigh. We haven’t spoken since I came home from the hospital, and as I look at my packed luggage, I wonder if we will ever talk. Ah, I suppose now is a good chance, especially since I am leaving.“You can come in,” I say, and as soon as he opens the door and looks inside, my heart threatens to break at the look on his face. I know he’s taking this as hard as I am, and looking at him doesn’t make it any easier.“Hey,” he says with a forced smile, closing the door behind him. “I am about to have dinner, will you please join me?”I shake my head. “I-”“Please, Sien
Mafia's Vendetta Act 8 : Hanging Pawns - Chapter 4
SiennaSomewhere in the background, I can hear my cell phone ringing, and Marla picks it up and smashes it against the tile floor. “Incessant thing,” she grumbles.“Why are you doing this?” I ask while looking straight into Christian’s tearful pained eyes. It’s almost as if his body is being forced to do something that his mind is unwilling to do. Right now, he’s nothing but a puppet for Marla to use, and she’s the one pulling the strings.Come to think of it, she’s been the one pulling the strings this entire time.She places a hand on her hips. “Hmm, let me see. Well, for one, I can’t stand you. I mean, why did the great Dante Dragonetti choose a timid lamb like you when he could have had a queen like me at his side?” She says, then rolls her eyes. “And now my incompetent nephew seems to have fallen for you as well; I just don’t get your charm.”I raise my eyebrow at this. “All of this is because of Dante?”“Partially. I crave nothing but power, and now with Allessio and you out of
Mafia's Vendetta Act 8 : Hanging Pawns - Chapter 5
ChristianI have no right to follow her, not after what I discovered about myself. To be honest, I should have felt something was off with my aunt when she told me to come to an accord with the Dragonettis. I know she had hated the family since Dante turned down her request to marry years ago, but I didn’t think her hate ran this deep.She used me to get close to Sienna; she used me to hurt the one person I would have died for.I look at my aunt’s dead body and order the guards to take it away and dispose of it before letting the other Greek crime families know that I will be taking over as their leader. Yes, I am very much aware of the questions my aunt’s death will raise, but I don’t give a fuck about that right now.There’s a pressing matter at hand, and Sienna is at the center of it. I won’t face her again, though, especially not after what happened this evening and especially not after what happened to Daniella. She’s made it clear that she wants out of the mafia world, and no ma
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SiennaThe pain I felt two and a half years ago doesn't even come close to how I feel as I walk out of that hospital. Daniella never recovered; in fact, she regressed, and a few minutes ago, I was forced to make the worst decision of my life.I held onto hope even after the two-year deadline, but the doctors brought me right back down to Earth.For the last two years, I’ve been living in a small cabin off the coast close to the hospital. Oddly enough, Dante didn’t cut me off from the Dragonetti funds, but I have a feeling it's so he can keep track of my whereabouts. I haven’t seen Christian since I left his estate after his aunt tried to kill me; this is even after I tried to call and visit when I found out he paid for Daniella’s hospital stay.He’s cut me off, and I understand why; it was easier for both of us to move on. I’ll always love him, just not as deeply as I have before. As for Dante… I don’t even want to think about him. Serena and Sylvana have been in constant contact with
Mafia's Vendetta Act 9: King's Gambit - Chapter 2
SiennaI sit on the once familiar bed and draw my knees closer to my chest. Never in a million years did I think that I would feel this hopeless again; trapped in my own home by my husband like some prisoner. That Sienna died a long time ago, and now she seems to have returned.Dante hasn’t been back since he brought me here, and I didn’t hear him lock the door, but I am still too apprehensive to leave this bedroom. There are a lot of memories here, some that are threatening to choke me with their traces of Daniella, but I push them down. Hopefully, I don’t snap soon.A movement at the bedroom door gets my attention, and I jump up, fully expecting Dante to come back after what happened this afternoon. What I didn’t expect was Sylvana and Serena to be standing at my door with Sylvana holding a tray of food.“Seems like deja vu, just flipped around,” I say, recalling that I did the same to them when they were taken by Dario and Nico.They’re both wearing sheepish smiles as they approac
Mafia's Vendetta Act 9: King's Gambit - Chapter 3
DanteI knew that getting Sienna back here would cause her to push back, but I didn’t expect her to be this fucking stubborn. The look of disgust in her eyes when she looks at me bothers me a fuck ton, but I can’t force her to love me again.She’ll see that being here is in her best interest. I finish up in the shower, dry off and walk across the bedroom to my closet, but I can feel her eyes on me. When I turn my head to face her, she quickly looks away. I can’t help but grin at her reaction because even though we’ve been apart for over twelve years, I still know Sienna.After throwing on a pair of boxers, I head to the bed, and her eyes widen when she sees me. She sits up in bed with a horrified expression on her face and a trembling hand over her mouth.“Wh…what happened to you?” she stutters as her eyes take in the long thick, jagged welts all over my torso. “Speranzini’s favorite toy was a barbed whip,” I say as I get in bed and turn off the light on the nightstand. “Staring at
Mafia's Vendetta Act 9: King's Gambit - Chapter 4
SiennaIt’s late evening, and Dante’s scent teases me when I amble into our shared walk-in closet; a shiver shoots up my spine, causing goosebumps to pucker all over my skin. As much as I hated to admit it, Dante still had the same effect on me as he did back when we lived in New York.Slipping on a silk camisole and shorts, I sigh as everything hits me at the same time, and I leave the walk-in and head straight to sit back on the bed.I thought that my feelings for him had died; I thought that I had replaced him with Christian, but the truth is that Christian was simply a scab forming over an old wound in my heart. And once that scab fell off, what would have been left of me? What would have been left of Christian?Those scars on Dante’s back sort of brought me down to earth, and I remembered that he wasn’t just this monster who kidnapped me. He went through literal hell at the hands of Allessio Speranzini, and somehow I still blamed him for almost killing me.I blamed him for doing
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