The Preacher's Daughter (Christian/Mafia Romance)||Completed||✔️

Chapter forty

He stood infront of his father, his gun fully loaded.

'After giving it some thought, I think it's a waste of time to keep you alive till the end of the week. The goal now would be the same as then. So, good bye Donovan', he corked the gun and raised it to fire.

The first shot was to his leg, them thigh. As he moved to deliver the third bullet the door to the dungeon was pushed open and there stood Sarah in just her nightwear.

Earlier on...

She'd jerked awake, the sun was barely rising. Urgency filled her, she needed to move and she needed to move right now.

Only dressed with a nightie she didn't bother with anything else. She trudged and followed the leading of the spirit. All the guards and maids she passed none said a word to her.

She heard her name as she stumbled outside the building but she wasn't stopping. She couldn't stop till she reached her destination.

Not knowing where she was going either but she kept moving. Her feet hurt as she'd lost her slippers somewhere along the way.

The guards at the gate had tried to stop her but the look she gave them had them moving out of her way. She pushed the door she had the strongest urge to push and saw Donovan with a gun pointed at his stomach, bleeding already from the ones he'd received.

He was a mess, but no one deserved this.

Without a word she walked in, taking in the scene infront of her.

'What is this Luigi?',

'How did you get here?',

'I walked, what is this Luigi?',

'Taking out the trash',

'That is a human being Luigi, why are you doing all this? What is the point of all this?!',

'The point is that nobody! Absolutely nobody! Gets to hurt you and get away with it-'

'Then what would your punishment be?!',

'Pardon?', his voice dropped dangerously.

'Yes, what would your punishment be? I saw you',

'You saw what?', he asked suspiciously

'Don't think I'm daft. I simply put it together this morning. That day of the breakfast you forced me to have and watched me bleed! Yes, that day as I lay in bed hovering between consciousness and unconsciousness. You gave me the poison, hand delivered by yourself! So I asked again what is to be your punishment?',

He let out a sigh.

'I don't know what mother said to you-',

'Asides from praying by my bedside she has said nothing else to me. Not that she had the chance, you made sure I was asleep ever since that day. And before your mind focuses on the good doctor I have neither seen or heard from him in the last three days.

Your plan was clever, but if we're going by your logic then answer me!',

Luigi started laughing.

Dread filled her but she wasn't moving. He didn't kill her for saving Hosea, but now her chances were slimmer. Especially with the gun now pointed at her.

'Move',

'If you so desperately want to kill him then you'd have to kill me first. But you're not killing your father, not now not ever-',

'Step aside girl, it's a family tradition that the son kills the father-',

'Well it ends now!', she interrupted Donovan shocking him.

'Sarah you are my Donna, nobody hurts the Donna and lives to tell the tale',

'True, but I'm not your Donna am I?', that stunned Luigi.

Was she rejecting him?

'What?',

'I'm not your Donna. A girl, lady or woman can only be the Donna after she's been married to the initiated Don. We're not married and you my dear Luigi are not initiated after the old ways. Yes I did my research in my spare time.

Your position is unquestionable because as it says, it's the old way. But mine was never mine to begin with. So killing your father won't be because of me, but because you want to. And either ways I won't stand for it', she said firmly. Eyes on Luigi who was breathing heavily.

'Please Don, metti fine a questo per favore', she begged

(put an end to this please )

He sighed.

'Didn't I warn you at breakfast that if you ever interfered in mafia business that it'd be the last thing you did?', he cracked his head from side to side.

'Its a yes or no darling ',

'Yes you did', she said not breaking eye contact

'But here you are. Because I fancy you I'd give you one last chance, get.out.',

'No, put a stop to this',

'Should have taken that chance', he pulled the trigger.

'Careful now son, you're turning into your grandfather's grandson through and through ', Donovan laughed as Sarah's body hit the ground.

Luigi watched as well, but Donovan's words hit him.

He threw the gun away and looked at his hand that pulled the trigger.

What did he just do?

'Sarah? Amore?', he went to kneel beside her

'Gideon', she whispered his christian name.

'Gideon, it's okay ',

'Shut up', he said as he lifted her off the floor and straight to the doctor's house which was conveniently close to the dungeons.

He dropped her without a word and walked back to the house. The doctor immediately got to work, wondering how much more the girl's body could take before it shut down for good.

The bullet had missed all vital organs and it was easy to locate.

Patching her up he set her up in his bedroom and waited by her side cause anything that happened to her equals the life of him and his household.

****

'You can't do this Clarice -',

'And why not Severus? You don't have my loyalty anymore ',

'I am your family ',

'No you were my family, my family is the Russo's. And if you weren't such a daft person you'd have weighed your thoughts properly before implementing them ',

'I can't let you go just like that! I can't give you away-'

'I am not yours to give Severus! Never was, this infatuation has gone on for far too long. Thanks to your stupidity the Italian Mafia can retaliate and kill us all. It'd be a disservice if I don't try to remedy this before a full blown civil war is on our hands', she closed the briefcase she was going to ride with and turned to leave the room.

Hosea would pick her up at the port.

'No don't go, I love you Clarice. Please ',

'No you don't Severus, and as for leaving I was already gone from that meeting where your voice was one of those that signed me away.

Never mess with my family again Severus, or you'd be surprised that it's my knife that kills you',

With that she shut the door behind her to go look for Hosea.

Hopefully she wasn't too late.

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