𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝

32

Mila

I understand what and who Gio was, he was a killer, the fact that he killed Tobias shouldn't be as shocking to me as it is, I guess I'm just now realizing the reality of it all.

How effortless it is for Gio to kill someone, and he's the man I had children with, I know he would never hurt me or my kids or put us in any harm's way but it spooked me.

He killed Tobias all because of what I told him, how he used to drink and he would get really angry, the scary part about it is I'm sure Gio would kill someone simply if I asked, and I didn't know how to feel about that.

He went to take a phone call as I changed the channel, putting on one of my favorite movies and laying on the couch, curled up in my blanket.

I hear footsteps coming downstairs and I look up as Gio enters the living room. "Are you going somewhere?" I ask.

"I've got to go to the office." He says as he shoves his phone into his pocket and my brows furrow as I look up at him.

"Isn't your office here?" He nods.

"One of them, come on, you're coming with me." He says, I frown at that.

"I don't know if I want to."

"I don't want you here alone, put your shoes on." He says and I do as he says before following him to his car where he begins the drive to one of his many offices.

"You're quiet, I don't like it." He says and I look over at him biting my lip, not knowing what to say.

"I don't have anything to say." I shrug.

"Why aren't you fighting with me?" He asks. "You're coming with me with no argument, no talking back, no fighting, why?"

"You want me to fight with you?" My brows creased, I was confused.

"I'd rather you fight with me than you not talk to me." He says.

"I don't want to fight with you," I turn my head to look out the window as I watch all the cars pass, in all honesty, I didn't want to fight or be scared of who he was, but after what he told me earlier I feel a pit at the bottom of my stomach and I just don't know how to feel.

"You're that scared?" He asks. "Of me?" I don't respond to that and I guess he gets his answer, it's not that I'm scared of him, I'm scared of what he's capable of, not towards me and my family, but to anyone who tries to hurt us. "I would never hurt you Mila, I'm not him."

"I know that, I'm not scared of you," I say as my fingers pinch each other.

"Yes," he grabs my hands to stop me from pinching. "You are."

"I'm not scared of you Gio, but why kill him? Why do that for me?" I ask and he rolls his eyes as he focuses on the road.

"He deserved it." That is all he says and I nod.

"He did deserve it, but you didn't have to do it. He was out of my life and I was never going to see him again, you didn't have to do it, but you did... you kill people Gio, and yes it scares me, but I'm not scared of you." I tell him.

"He hurt you."

"People get hurt and they move on, I've moved on, please don't do that again, not for me."

"I can't promise that," he says as his eyes drag over to mine. "I won't."

-

I had to get over it, I knew what Gio was capable of, and what he did didn't change anything between us.