All Or Nothing

Living with Mafia

Karine's POV

Two weeks ago I thought Giorgio and I were getting closer, but I don't know lately he's been closed off from me and I am not sure what to do either. Viktor has noticed I hardly come out of my room unless I know that Giorgio is in bed asleep or he is in his office working. If he's out in the kitchen with Viktor, I stay in my room away from them too. Viktor has told me he's stressed. Stressed or not doesn't give him the reason to be hot and cold one minute with me either. But it is what it is too.

I go grocery shopping with one of Giorgio's guards because with the threat of my father still being out of jail, he would try to kidnap me if I was alone. So at least Giorgio is doing this to protect me but I wish it was him that was protecting me and wanting to spend time with me. So you have probably guessed it by now, I have a crush on him but he obviously is shutting it down. I can't let it go though no mstret how hard I try my heart won't allow me to ignore him either. What is my life coming to nowadays?

'm in the kitchen unloading groceries and putting them away when I see Giorgio walk into the kitchen. This is the first time we've been in the same room together since the morning I made breakfast for them after they rescued me. I turn back around and continue to out everything away from the store. I feel his eyes on me but I refuse to let him see how hurt I am. This will never break me either. I just wish he felt the same way I feel about him but we can't always get what we want in life can we? I finish washing my hands and dry them off. I walk towards the stairs when I hear him in the kitchen.

~Giorgio~ Talk to me please?
~Karine~ I have tried talking to you Gio, but you have ignored me since the day in the kitchen for the first week I've tried. But you would leave the room as soon as I would talk to you. Then the week after that, I decided to avoid the situation and stay in my room until I knew the area was clear.
~Giorgio~ I'm sorry.....
~Karine~ I told you not to hurt me. You did. I got hurt you didn't. I'm going back to my room where I can't get hurt anymore.

I hear him punch the wall. Part of me wants to make sure he is okay but then again, I don't know what to truly do. As I reach the top of the stairs, I see Viktor leaving his room. He can tell I'm hurting right now.

~Viktor~ what happened?
~Karine~ I got hurt. This is why I don't open up to people. I'm the one who always gets hurt. Gio has shown he cares about me but he doesn't act upon those freaking feelings. I know I could act but again I didn't want to get hurt worse than I already did.
~Viktor~  Giorgio has never been good at expressing his feelings for anyone. But Sofia is trying to tell other mafia heads that he abandoned her when she needed him the most.
~Karine~What the fück does that even mean? She sent Aksana in here that day, she wanted me to catch them together in the house and me to leave so my father could kidnap me. Didn't think I knew all of that did you? Guess what your guards told me this last Thursday when I went with them grocery shopping. At least they were honest with me when I asked what was going on.
~Viktor~ we were going to tell you.
~Karine~ When Vik? When I was already taken back to that abusive dick of a father? Yeah I'll continue to protect myself thanks.

I storm past him to head into my bedroom. I always thought that Viktor would be the first to tell me anything and here I am the last to find out about shït. Before I am able to reach my room, Giorgio is upstairs..

~Giorgio~ When we took them down.

I turn around with a little more sass than I intended too.

~Karine~ You didn't think I had a right to know any of this? What would y'all have done if they killed me when they took me? Thankfully none of that happened!
~Giorgio~ I'm...

I walk to my room and slam the door shut to my bedroom. Am I overreacting? Yes. Should I let Giorgio explain? Also yes. Would it be my fault if he starts seeing someone else because of me walking away and ignoring him? Also yes but I can't blame anyone but myself. I must be exhausted because I slowly drift asleep.

Giorgio's POV

I knew I should of told her what was going on and why I was ignoring her for the last two weeks. She means absolutely everything to me and I pushed her away. If she goes to start dating someone else, this is all on me and me alone. All I have wanted to do was pick her up, pin her against the wall and kiss her lips. Now she wants nothing to do with me. This has me feeling absolutely awful. I need to fix this and fix this fast before it's too late and something bad happens to her.

~Viktor~ She likes you. Anyone with eyes can see it. Yes we should of told her but we wanted to keep her safe. She was smart and took guards with her whenever she left the house.
~Giorgio~ I know. The old me wouldn't of given two shïts and went out and found a chick to fück in the parking lot and left. But with Karine, she makes me feel things. Hearing her speak Russian does things to me. It's hot.
~Viktor~ Well you know exactly what you need to do then don't you.
~Giorgio~ I do

I go to my room and clean my hand. It was stupid of me to punch the wall out of anger. Not anger towards Karine but anger towards myself for doing what I thought was best for her. After I clean and bandage my knuckles, I go to Karine's room and I see she's asleep. I cover her up with a blanket and quietly exit her room. I go to my office and start planning out how and when I make the apology to her. Let's hope it goes smoothly for me.

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Yes Gio messed up, yes Karine shouldn't of gotten mad, but at the same time he should of told her what she knew to help better protect herself. But drama isn't over with yet... shït is going to go down before he makes the apology. This is how I felt the direction for this story to go.