Seventeen: Daniela Berni

Seventeen

Daniela Berni

This was why I had been hesitant to tell anyone anything. The Capaldi men were nothing, if not territorial over what they wanted. Now, I had all three of them glaring at me. Niccolo’s jaw twitched and I could tell it was taking everything in his power to freak out. The last time I had seen him this angry, it had been the summer before our senior year. The summer that we dated and it ended in disaster.

Someone put a hit on me, and that was when Giuseppe started talking about me marrying into the family for safety. I never knew what came of it because Niccolo went back to ignoring me right after we got back to the states. He pretended like I didn’t exist again, even after everything we’d been through that summer.

We’d been together for almost two months.

He’d been the first person I slept with.

Then, I was ignored and forgotten about. It got worse when my mom died and I had to move in with them. There w