**VITO’S POV**Hearing the gunshot and seeing Juno fall, at that moment made me freeze. I couldn't move my feet, it seemed like my heart had jumped right out of my body. In my eyes, it played like it was all in slow motion. One minute I was witnessing her smile the next she was dropping to the ground. The very one time she smiled at me was going to be the last? Being able to finally recover from the shock, I ran to Juno’s side and all I could see was blood which made my heart hammer in fear.Searching around for the culprit, my eyes suddenly landed on Hugo on the ground, apparently his legs looked damaged and he still had the gun in his hands. Without wasting any more time, I shot him straight in the head. Although it felt a little bit satisfying to get rid of that bastard, I wasn't feeling okay still. "Hey baby, just breathe okay, we're gonna get you to a hospital," I said trying to lift her. She was face down on the ground, not even moving and I could feel my blood growing cold se

Sitting on the couch, book in hand, I had to keep myself busy, but I was sat here carried away by my thoughts, basically staring into space. I had so many things on my mind, feelings I had to figure out and I looked like a shipwreck. Currently, I was home, still on bed rest, not like I needed it but Vito didn't want my ass out, something about not forgiving himself if something happened to me again. I was feeling so many things right now, confusion, shame, worry but most importantly, pain. Sure I've been shot before but right now, I doubt this was any physical pain. And well, shame because I didn't know how to act around him anymore. Any moment I get to be in his presence I turn into a blushing mess, like we almost kissed and I low-key wanted it to happen.Vito letting out the fact that he... liked me was something I never would have thought would come from him. Yes, I know at random, he says or does some things that make my heart beat fast, being so unpredictable regularly but that

"Look who is here…finally!" Vegas called out to the new face as he walked in through the entrance. Vito thought it would be best to have both Vegas and Tony here for when Laurene was ready to explain everything. It was only right they were included not just because they were his right-hand men, they also needed to know why their friend was killed."Hey, V," Laurene said excitedly as she was pulled into a bone-crushing hug by Vegas. I guess they were also close."Tony," Laurene said next with an unimpressed look as she just stared at Tony. "Laurie," Tony replied with the same energy as they just stood staring at each other.I could sense some kind of tension between the two of them and just concluded they probably didn't like themselves much. And besides I think he just called her name in short form, you can't just do that except you actually have history."It's high time…you both reconciled…c’mon it's been three years already…we aren't…!" Vegas said as he looked between the two."Pl

The rays of sunlight seeping through the curtains shone right in my face waking me up, after which I realized I had a weird dream. I felt a warm soothing hand gently caress my head, fingers weaving through my hair, that made me want to snuggle into it more. I never felt anything like this before but it felt so natural and nice…In the dream, I couldn't believe I was enjoying another's touch, which had always been so foreign to me that I'd thought I would never see the day I would long for a moment like that.But wait...who was it though? Finally deciding to check who, the face in front of me became blurry so I couldn't see the person at all. But why...? I wanted to know who it was. But that was a strange dream.Standing up from my bed to get a shower, I flinched when I caught sight of myself in the mirror.I had forgotten all about the changes that had been made to my appearance in the past few weeks. Going closer to the mirror, my eyes roamed over my new appearance. It was me lookin

"Dumb asses, I bet they didn't know this was here” She grinned as we both walked in and all I could do was feed my eyes because this was new to me. I could also bet my room back at my father’s house could fit in here. I saw her open one of the wider drawers and pull out a big bag with a silver combo lock hanging off of it.“Just where I expected it to be.” She stated "Yeah…that’s it, let's…" She started but froze and put a finger to her lips, pointing her other finger to her ear, signaling if I had heard anything. Listening closely, the sound of a car door being shut filled my ears and I slowly nodded."C'mon, we can go up to the attic" She whispered before guiding me to the hall. Quickly pulling it down, she ushered me up the steps before going up herself and pulling the stairs back up.Though faintly, we could now hear the men's voices as they entered the house, talking loudly. "...they have to be somewhere around," One of them said, his voice scratchy and annoying. He most likel