All Chapters of Into the darkness: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Arianna POV: It felt like I had woken up from a nightmare, I went back to my house, and I sat in my bed, reading my books, and watching the news. I ate the same dinners I always did and the time away started to heal the wounds inflicted on me. I had become completely undone by the way my father was constantly inching further and further into my life, asking this and that, little things that shouldn’t have mattered, asking about this person and that person what they did, what I thought of them. Each question was a double-edged sword, how did I Judge them, would I do the task, how well did I pick up on things, was I compliant? I was being evaluated from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to sleep at night, he wanted to see how much use I could be to him. I didn’t know which way I wanted to go, be absolutely useless and incur his wrath, or be useful and lose all control. I was too afraid of him to play dumb at the end of the day, When Gio came in and told me he would fight the b

Arianna POV: I felt like I was overstepping when he insisted upon me doing something to change the room and make it more to my taste, but waking up this morning and seeing the dark white bed and couch, dresser, nightstands, and gray walls I felt like I was living in an insane asylum. I suppose it was my mother’s fault that I grew up with so much and now already being on edge seeing all this blankness made el uneasy. The way he offered it too, so freely, so sure that it was what I needed. I didn’t like that he knew me so well we were strangers, but he knew exactly what would calm me down. I was already a stranger in my own family. I didn’t need this stranger to see me so wholly. He was clear in his intentions too, that’s why I knew coming here was safe. I had been surrounded by liars, crooks, and con men. In all of them, he was the only one to be honest, and even though he fell into the same category he also had a good heart. I got myself together and made my way downstairs deciding

Guilia POV: I huffed down the street stomping, but I stopped when I realized I was being too hard on my new boots. I looked down and pouted licking my thumb and taking out a smudge. Daddy wouldn’t be happy about this, he told me to get her alone so we could get her home. I still don’t know everything that happened but I know that Risci bastard stuck his nose into our business. Dad said he was in love with Arianna, why she is his type I’ll never know. I’m younger and it is a known fact that men are supposed to like younger women. I crossed my arms and growled marching over to my car and slumping into my seat. I guess I still had some hard feelings about him turning me down, which was ridiculous, by the way. I had been flirting with him all night and he seemed into it, buying me drinks, dancing with me, having his hand on my thigh then poof he disappeared. I guess he figured out who I was, my dad didn’t let me go around flashing that I was his daughter because he figured out I was pre

Arianna POV: I hate to admit it but following my sister's attempt to bring me home, I stayed inside. The shelter his home provided for me was warm. I enjoyed at first spending my days reading and watching TV. I found myself relaxing when I really needed it. I felt more comfortable after spending more time in his home, curling up in the den and wandering to the fridge as I would have at my place. We found ourselves in a familiar routine. He would come home to me cooking a tradition I had come to cherish in a short time. He would be ragged from whatever treacherous path he had lurked down. I would make a meal and by the end of it, we would be laughing and worry free. I had asked him more and more questions about himself getting to know him more every day. He wasn’t what he looked like at all, very well spoken and intelligent with a softness behind his very dominating exterior. He never wanted any of this but he didn’t like a villain so he became one to take my father down. “You sai

Giovanni POV: ***InterrogationI just wanted a peaceful evening, it had made my day when she came to the office. I knew she’d get bored staying in the house all day, there was only so much to do there. Work was stressful enough trying to get everyone who came to me the protection they needed, all without giving up any ground for Domenico to take back parts of the city. I was playing chess with a mastermind who didn’t like a rulebook, I only felt at peace around her. Even today just knowing she was in the same building as me I felt better and more assured. It didn’t matter though, we had a chasm of complication between us that neither was willing to jump across. She didn’t want to give her father any more reason to target me and I didn’t want to drag her further into this mess. I hadn’t expected her father to do so, but he appeared desperate. I felt horrible, there was a slimy part of myself that was proud of this I had gotten him cornered enough that he had dragged his other daught