"How dare you do this to me?!" Berardo yelled while Erica stood there unfazed. For the first time, he put his trust in a woman, and in return, she stabbed him in the back. Ardo should have known better. Erica was too invested in his rival with Giuseppe, but he was too blind to notice he was being played. Something about the woman made him trust her. Plus, they had been seeing each other for over a year, maybe longer. "How long?"
"What?"
"How long have you been working against me? I cared for you, and this is how you repay me." He spoke as Erica and Regenia laughed. At this time, he was feeling like an idiot, but nevertheless, he was ready to kill both women who stood in the room. So, quickly, Berardo reached for his gun when he felt a sharp pain travel through his leg.
"I don't think so," Regenia smirked as she continued to point her gun at him. Everything happened so fast that Berardo didn't even see her pull her weapon. "Kneel before your fucking Queen bitch!" Erica screamed as she kicked the back of his knee, causing him to fall before Regenia. Berardo felt humiliated; he was being manhandled by two women, and he felt that was nothing he could do. There was no way he was about to lose his life to Regenia or her little goon. As he had stated many times before, he would kill himself before letting one of them take his life.
Therefore, without a second thought, he reached for his gun again as Erica swiftly kicked it away. "You think I would allow you to take the cheap way out, Ardo? Hell no! The Romano Famiglia will serve your death, but not before I beat the shit out of your bitch ass." Regenia said as calmly as she could. Something about her tone scared Berardo, which was weird because nothing hardly scared him, but the look Regenia was giving him at the time was frightening.
"Regenia, what I did to you may have been a little over the edge, but I was trying to make you see that you were with the wrong Romano. You and I—"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP BERARDO!" She hollered, hitting him with the butt of her gun. Berardo had to hold back his scream since there was no way he would show any weakness to Regenia. "Do you really think this has anything to do with how you treated me? Muthafucka, the only thing you did was open my eyes. This here is payback for everything you have done to my family. All the times, you touched, beat, or raped someone. How you killed innocent people to get on top and took things that didn't belong to you. Berardo, you could have had everything, but you chose to turn against your family. And for what?"
Berardo sat there staring at Genia as if she lost her mind... which she had. He couldn't have had everything if the Romano Mafia didn't belong to him. Ardo was second to no one. That was the problem: he couldn't be second to his little cousin. Giuseppe was meant to follow behind him. Berardo was meant to have everything that was his at the moment except for Regenia. Still, he thought if he could change her mind, he could have had what Giuseppe had.
"You know nothing of what you speak about. They have lied to you, Regenia, and painted me out to be the bad guy because I didn't want to accept Giuseppe as my Don. I did what I did because this was supposed to be mine. You should understand me more than anyone. You were also torn away from something you should have had— your mother. Think of it this way: if I had never killed..."
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Romano's Queen
Mistério / SuspenseTwo months after Regenia was taken, she's finally back in her lover's arms. The question hangs over everyone's head. What happened to her during her time away? What happened to the Romano Famiglia? All will come to light, but they are hit with a tra...