Tormented✓

Chapter 5

"Can I know your name?" Asks Leora when they are finished eating the food.

"You'll be scared of me if you know." He says. He has a bad reputation. Everybody will be scared after hearing his name.

"Try me. I'm pretty sure I can handle a name." She says with determined eyes.

"Matteo Denaro, but people call me Diablo. Are you scared of me?" He asks to know that his nickname and reputation will scare her.

"Surely I know you're a bad man. I don't know you're him, the famous silent killer. You have some kind of reputation you know. The creepy one. But I can't imagine you are him. You seem nice to me." She mumbles the last part. Wondering if he's the man who killed innocent people.

"But, I don't believe what people say. I'll always try to see the good in everything, including you. So I'm not scared of you. But I'll be scared if you kill people in front of me. But not scared of you but more of your doing. So do you kill innocent people like what they're said?" She asks, really curious about his side of the story.

"No. I don't kill innocent people. But yes, I kill people. Believe me, the people I killed are bad men. Either they are rapists, killers, corruptors, or so many other dirty men out there. I don't kill for no reason." He says try to explain that he is not a cold killer like people say.

"Even so, you can't kill other people you know. Is not right for them. It's God's job to bring justice and punish them. We as part of human beings can just forgive them." She tries to explain to him her principles.

"Well believe me that they deserve to be killed and don't deserve any forgiveness from a little girl like you. This has been my life since I was little. The darkest side of the world." He says while remembering his memory of when his father made him heartless and his first lesson to kill someone else.

"I can show you another side of the world. Hopefully, I can try to persuade you to do something good." Leora says to try to reassure him. She grabbed his arm and squished it. He chuckles lightly.

"What makes you think I want to change, bambina?" He asks daring her answer.

"Well, firstly you won't kidnap me if you don't want to change. You seem so desperate to feel like a human. Being happy and such. That's why you are obsessed with me. After all, if you don't want to change I won't be here. I'll be just a burden if you don't want to change. Am I right?" She asks him back, knowing her answers are right.

He laughs hysterically. His deep desire is known by some little girl. He feels so pathetic. Never in his life, anybody can know what he feels and what he wants. Even not his right-hand man, the closest human being that he can consider a friend.

"I won't say you are wrong." He says admires her cleverness. His girl seems to know him until deep down his darkest secret.

"Right. So here I am trying to help you know my world and enter it with me." She smiles so sweetly at him, makes his heart clench with something weird.

"With pleasure, I'll come with you la mia bambina." He says while kissing her hands. He feels slight happiness when she tries with all her might so that he can enter her world. A world without the darkness that covers his life. A world that seems foreign to him, until he finds his girl helping him in a hallway.

"So... Can I know what kind of job you have as a mafia? I'm kind of curious." She never knows anything about the job. She always reads this kind of job in her novels or in the movies she watches. So she is curious about the real mafia jobs.

He sighed loudly. Talking about his dirty job to his girl makes him uncomfortable. He doesn't want her to know what kind of job he usually does. So he takes a cigarette to calm him down. Usually, cigarettes or drugs help him to calm down.

He took the cigarette from his pocket and lit it up. Before he takes the cigarette into his mouth, her palm covers his mouth. He was shocked by the girl's fast move. He takes her palm away from his mouth and looking at her tries to ask for an explanation.

"I don't want you to ruin your own body. You know cigarettes can kill you, and it is just a waste of money. Nothing good comes from smoking this cigarette. I don't want you to die." She says sternly takes his cigarette from his hand and puts down the fire.

She takes the box of cigarettes from his pocket and starts to check another pocket for another cigarette. She takes out all the things inside his pocket and finds a lot of things she doesn't know. Including some small knives and guns. He chuckles slightly when his girl rummages his pocket.

"What are you doing bambina?" He asks, finding her trying to take all the things he has amusing. She's the only human who can do this without losing her life.

"I'm trying to take all the things that will harm your body. And what is this white thing? It looks like salt." She asks while observing the white things.

"It's a drug. Don't open it." He says sternly. He doesn't want his princess to try bad stuff like that.

"Are you an addict too?" She asks more to tell herself than asking him.

"No, but sometimes I do drugs to relax my mind." He says while taking the dangerous white powder from her.

"I can't believe it. Can you live without taking some toxins into your body?" She asks sternly at him, making him chuckle at the girl who tries to be stern like a cute little kitten trying to be vicious.

"I can if you ask me nicely." He gives her a smirk.

"Can you please take care of yourself and not take these toxins into your body." She pleads to comply with his request.

"I'll try as long as you're with me, bambina." He says and takes all his belongings back to his pocket. While taking the cigarette and drugs to the garbage in front of his girl.

"And I'll try the best I can to help you." She says while giving him her two thumbs.

He laughs at her childish reaction. He never tasted any childhood happiness, so looking at her childish reaction made him feel weird, and doesn't know how to react. But with her charming smile like that, he can't help but laugh at her silly smile. He always feels more like a human whenever with her, he doesn't feel like the monster he is.