Chapter 47
Alessia Guzman.
Everything starts to move in slow motion, even my breathing.
“Alessia, look at me.” Leonardo’s voice sounded muffled in my ears. “Cazzo! Look at me.” I can’t! I scream in my mind.
That face on the ground would hunt me in my dreams. I did that to him. I took away his life! This felt even worse than when I realized I had lost my baby.
it down
Leonardo placed his hand over the g
gun in my l
y hand. I gripped it tightly. “Let go of the gun, amore” He says carefully. “Let me put
My chest shakes and I swallow harshly. I plucked my fingers away from the trigger and the gun slipped from my hands. Leonando takes it and places it on the safery laich, removes the ammunition, and places the gun on the counter, well away from me
I can feel my stomach begin to churn. Em suddenly sweating. God! I might be sick.
Leonardo takes my face between his hands, angling his head towards me. This time, I could see his lips moving but I didn’t hear anything. I just stared back at him. He frowns when I say nothing. My throat was beginning to close up.
Soon, Russo is beside Leo and I’m staring at them both with watery eyes.
I’ve just done something I swore I was never going to do, Something that would change me forever because it means that Dad was right afterall and Im one of them. I don’t want to be like them.
I want to be me. I want to be my person without this streak of violence.
My knees begin to buckle and Russo catches me between his hands, Leonardo takes a step back. I desperately want to sleep, I desperately want my own space, away from the blood that has now seeped through my toes and marked me a murderer.
Leonardo De Luc
I gave Russo and Alessia some space as he took her to bed after inspecting and attending to her injuries. He meets me in my office shortly after. I had the house and perimeter checked, along with people to clean up the mess downstairs.
I watched Russo as he ran a hand down his face, clearly frustrated that his sister almost got murdered.
I couldn’t help but feel proud of the way she handled the situation though, despite her bloody face and bruised body.
But inside, I’m burning with fury. Things could very much have ended differently and the thought of coming home to find Alessia in his position makes my stomach churn
Hasn’t she been through enough for fucks sake!! From Eniro and now that Landon won’t be standing for much longer, that’s all I can say.
I’ve already arranged for my men to keep a close eye on Landon, tracking his every move discreetly and reporting back to me with any suspicious behavior
The only thing stopping me from storming down his warehouse right now is that we don’t quite have enough evidence that it’s Landon’s attack.
But I just knew it was!
“How’s she?” I asked genuinely.
Russo shrugs. “I don’t know. She said a couple of things but I think she’s still in shock. Her injuries aren’t super bad. Her nose is pretty bust up but I don’t think it’s broken. She wants to be by herself but I don’t know if that’s what she needs right now
I twiddle a pen through my fingers. “She neeils to get a lot of rest. She’ll wake up tomorrow with a new thought process”
I fucking hopet
I saw the light dim from her eyes earlier and I am going to do whatever I can to get it back,
“I’m thinking about getting a doctor to come to see her first thing in the morning” Russo said after a few moments and I nodded. “What the fuck happened bou? He shouldn’t have been able to get into the house. We fucking tripled the security.”
My finger grazes along the stubble on my chin, trying to contain my anger. “He got through our security”
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“Fuck! That son of a bunch could’ve killed her!”
“I don’t think he was here to kill her.” I say calmly.
Husso’s eyes flare. “Then what the fuck was he doing
ng in our house, attacking her?” His voice began to rise but I ignored it. We’re all enraged right
“I’m suspecting it’s one of Landon’s initiation techniques. I lean forward in my chair and press my elbows to the desk. “You saw how young he was. Landon is trying to mess with us and we’re not going to stand for it this time. He’s going down, Russo and we’re going to get him back for this shit.”
“Too right we are.” He grits his teeth so tightly together.
I keep my eyes trained on him. It’s clear he’s struggling to contain his anger.
I was on the phone with the security company and they don’t seem to know what happened or how it was hacked but boy am I prepared to kill every last one of them until they give me a fucking answer. Landon has declared war on us and in going to end in a bloodbath.”
Russo curses under his breath. “I’m going to kill that motherfucker”
“Relax,” I say, standing up from my chair but he doesn’t glance my way. “We’re going to think of a logical way to get to him. I don’t have the patience to go through his gang. We need to be smart.”
“Then what are we going to do?” He turns to me with blazing brown eyes. Eyes that remind me of the beautiful vixen upstairs.
My back leans into the edge of my desk as 1 draw my arms crow my chest. “I’ve been thinking of new strategies. I’ll let you know about them soon enough.
Soon enough when you’re not so blinded by rage to think properly
The last thing we need right now is to be making decisions based on rage
Russo stared out the window. “Alessia mentioned that he was trying to grab her neck for her necklace”
“Landon probably wanted proof, a memento state. “Something to bring back to him to show what he accomplished.
Russo runs another hand down his face. I’ve never seen him look so tired. “I swore to myself that I would protect her, Leo. I didn’t care to do that when we were young and I wanted to make sure I made up for all those years.”
“You did protect her by teaching her what she needed to know to put up a good fight. She did better than I would’ve thought”
Russo shakes his head aggressively. “She could’ve been the one who was shot. I feel like I failed her
I sucked in a breath and walked towards him slowly, dropping my hands to my side. The major reason she’s here is because it’s
my responsibility
to protect her. She’s here because I assured your father that I can protect her. Don’t you think I’m the one who failed not just her but your father? It won’t happen again.“1 tell him. “I promise“”
“We shouldn’t have both been out.” I continued. “One of us needs to be with her at the house, or maybe even Anthonio.”
He nods in agreement. Then we shall do that,”
The next morning, the doctor came over to check on Alessia to make sure that she was okay, Russo wouldn’t rest until he knew that his sister didn’t have any serious injuries that we needed to be worried about
First a miscarriage a
e and now this, she’s got us all always up on our toek
The kitchen downstairs has been perfectly cleaned, literally spotless and to think last night that this place was covered in blood.
Landon is one sick motherfucker and I can’t wait to tear him down, along with his empire that will perish once I’m done with it.
Russo had quickly shot out of the house to arrange for new security all over the house. Guila made me a well–needed coffee and smiled a pitiful smile as she handed it over to mc.
Once the doctor gives Alessia the all–clear, she curls herself in a ball on the living room sofa, watching a show on the big–screen TV,
I raise my mug to my lips, staring from the kitchen into the living room. As the hot liquid seeps down my throat, I carry myself towards her. When she heard my footsteps, her head quickly whips to the sound. Her eyes are wide but when she spots me, she relaxes a little.
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The buses on her face made me want to kill somebody
One eye had turned completely purple and the other was swollen. Her nose is a litle red with a cut on the bridge.
“How are you feeling?” I asked.
Alessia’s eyes flicked towards mine. Those dark brown eyes stared into mine for a few moments too long. Then she glances away
way and pushes herself up on the sofa, wrapping her hands around her legs and resting her chin on top of her knee. She looks so small and vulnerable and my heart twinges at the sight.
“Will Lever get over it!”
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