Elucidate: To make something clear or explain.
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Vincenzo storms into my office, slamming the door behind him and locking it.
"Why do you keep ignoring me?!" he yells in my face.
"BECAUSE YOU WERE USING ME!" I shriek right back.
He walks up to my desk, places his hands on it and takes a deep breath.
"No, Emma, I wasn't. Valerio was forcing me to, but I didn't want to," he explains.
"Yeah, right. Like I'm going to believe that BS," I scoff.
Noah looks me dead in the eye and says, "But, it's not BS. He forced me to do it, and I would take it all back if I could."
"You seriously mistook me for an idiot, didn't you?" I ask, honestly a little hurt.
"No, Emma. I always knew that you were - and still are - smart," he sighs.
"How am I still in love with you?" I murmur.
He gazes at me with a look of pure confusion on his face and I immediately cover my mouth when I realise what I just said.
"I-I didn't mean to-" I stutter, but Vincenzo interrupts me.
"It's okay, Emma," he sooths, "I love you too."
As I listed to Vincenzo explain about the Mafia, I can't help but notice his eyes. A beautiful emerald green.
"Are you listening?" he asks, bringing me back to reality and out of my thoughts.
I quickly nod and gesture for him to continue.
"As I was saying, your mother is the leader of the American Syndicate. My mission was to get you to fall in love with me so that I could infiltrate it. But, now that I think about it, you don't really seem like the type of person to be involved in such crimes. Are you?" he interrogates, to which I immediately shake me head.
"Okay, good. Anyway, the Italian Mafia has been trying to destroy the American Syndicate for years, but to do so, we need to know where your mother is, and we can't find her. Will you help us?" Vincenzo pats my arm as I take all of this information in.
"Of course I want to help, we are going to eliminate my terrible mother!" I hold my fist up and giggle, forcing Vincenzo to laugh along with me.
"Emma, I have a question," Vincenzo confesses.
"Yeah?" I say, curious.
But, curiosity killed the cat.
"Will you be my girlfriend? For real this time," he mumbles, blushing.
"Of course, Vincenzo," I giggle.
He sits across from me, smiling. He leans in and gives me a peck on the lips.
"People are going to ask what happened to us, Vincenzo," I point out.
He furrows his eyebrows and taps his chin, in thought.
"Maybe we could say that we just had a fight? I mean, it is the truth," he says, and I agree.
"Every time I say your name, I feel like I'm going to mess up," I say as Vincenzo looks at me with his eyebrows raised, "I'm going to call you... Zozo. Yeah, that sounds good!"
He bursts into a fit of laughter. "Zozo? Really? I've heard Vince, Vincent, Zo and even Cenz but never Zozo!"
I giggle again.
"You seem to be giggling around me a lot," he tells me, like I didn't know that already.
I playfully roll my eyes.
God, I love this man.
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Damn, you guys, that was quick.
Question: How do you feel about this new-found love and relationship?
Should I do Valerio's POV, or maybe even Vanna's? If so, what should it be about?
- Sorry about the short chapter :( -
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