il mio primo e ultimo amore

Fabio's Last Wish

Milan, Italy A few weeks Ago

The Cassano family members were seated in the mansion. Vincenzo, Paolo, Cassandra, Fabio's wife Anotella and all the Cassano family's loyal. Mr. Martini, the trusted lawyer of the Cassano family was seated to handle the matters of Fabio's will, distributing his property, the next Capo and all other matters.

Paolo is Fabio's biological son whereas Vincenzo was adopted by him and his wife Anotella when they once went to Korea. As time passed by and both brothers grew older, Vincenzo had earned his father's trust. He was calm and patient and was Fabio's consigliere when he was alive. Paolo was quite the opposite, seeing Vincenzo being admired by his father, he was jealous and wanted to degrade him somehow. He even has tried to kill Vincenzo a few times, he hated him to that extent.

Cassandra is the youngest. She's the younger sister of Paolo but quite the opposite of him. She's a pretty, kind and lively soul and always tries to make his brother Paolo understand. She thinks of Vincenzo as an older brother and is her mother's support. She's known in the whole Cassano family for her active and fun-loving nature.

Anotella is Fabio's wife, she's a kind-hearted woman who treated all her children fairly, she knew about her son, Paolo's nature and his feelings towards Vincenzo, yet she tried her best to make them both get along. She loved Vincenzo sincerely and brought him up like her own child. She was accustomed to the mafia world and was a brave mafia capo's wife. Fabio and she had been in a loving and sincere relationship and his death hurts her a lot but she still stands strong. She knows her sons are strong enough but knows Cassandra, her daughter, as much as she's a happy soul, she is sensitive too.

The property matters and Fabio's will had been read to all, it was written in Fabio's will that he wants his son, Vincenzo to be the Capo and Paolo to be his Consigliere. Paolo had started an argument about that, but he knew there's no way but to agree. The family was leaving out from the hall and Vincenzo stood up too, to leave when Mr. Martini called him out.

"Signore Cassano?" Mr. Cassano?

"Si?" Yes?

"Tuo padre Fabio voleva che tu andassi in Corea, questa è una lettera che mi ha consegnato mentre presentavo il suo testamento e ha detto di dartela. Voleva che tu andassi in Corea, aprissi questa lettera e completassi il compito in essa contenuto." Your father fabio wanted you to go to Korea, this is a letter he handed me while submitting his will and said to give it to you. He wanted you to go to Korea and open this letter and complete the task in it.

He handed over the letter to Vincenzo while the latter took it in his hands.

"Perché non aprirlo ora?" Why not open it now? asked Vincenzo

"Io non ora signore." replied Martini.

"Grazie signor Martini, me ne occuperò io." Thank you, Mr. Martini, I'll look after it.

Martini left while Vincenzo was staring at the letter confused what would his father want him to do in Korea and what is actually in the letter.

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Now, here in Korea, Vincenzo is sitting at the hotel's study desk opening the letter which he brought all the way from Italy to read what task his father had wanted him to do.

Vincenzo, mio figlio,

I'm writing this as my last wish from you. Though, you aren't my biological son, you're not my blood but I firmly believe that you're a true Cassano by heart. I know that your childhood was filled with haunting memories, and I know that those wounds still hurt but I hope me and Anotella had never made you feel alone or unknown. We've always loved you like our own child and always will.

Mio figlio, I hadn't ever known anything about Korea until I adopted you. When I came back, I soon got to know a Korean man, Hong Yoo Chan, I might have told you about him several times,he came to Italy to be a lawyer. He came here to start a new life after his wife's death and had his little daughter with him who's a few years younger than you. We soon got along, suprisingly and he worked at one of our law firms here. We got so close that we told each other everything about us, I didn't tell him about my mafia background but he had opened up everything about his life with me after a few months of our companionship. I, however, had opened up to him after a few years, I told him about my job and the mafia world, the thing was that he was a true fighter for justice and I didn't wanted to ruin this companionship of ours, it was one day when we were drinking together that I decided to tell him everything, he listened me intently and somehow agreed on our faith on merciless justice, he was understanding enough to know that we believe in actions more than in the law and most importantly that we fight for our loved ones and our loyals and expect loyalty from each other, he knew that we had our ways to deal the evil, it was all shocking but after that night, he was a partner of mine in many businesses and I could openly talk to him even of the mafia matters.

He was way more vulnerable than me though, he was a man who loved his daughter a lot. I still remember him, fretting over his daughter. As long as we were together, I knew that his daughter is his everything. I have met his daughter once and I still remember that little girl Hong Cha Young, she was way different than you, my son. You were pretty composed while she was a sunshine of joy, I still remember her greeting me warmly. She was indeed Yoo Chan's whole world. You have met Yoo Chan too Vincenzo, a few years ago when you were old enough to handle a few matters. Years went by and another night came and that night he decided to open up to me and request me for something. He told me that he had been diagnosed a terrible heart disease recently and it was true, he had been on leave from the firm for a week and when he came back, he looked weak. He had requested me something I'd never expected, He wanted her daughter to be married to you Vincenzo. It was something unbelievable as he knew everything about me, he knew how dangerous and how dirty the mafia was, but I still remember him saying that "In this wicked world, your world is the safest place."

I know that I had no right to accept it Vincenzo, but I did. I know very well that you really haven't ever been interested in women. Even if I would have been in your place, I wouldn't be able to do it, but I know you can.

If not, then, mio figlio, be her guardian, keep her safe, if you meet her somehow, keep her away from all those demons out there. Vincenzo, I promised Yoo Chan that my son will take care of his daughter, the daughter which had been that man's whole world, I entrust that promise to you.

Stay happy my son, I know you can do it.

I apologize for this big responsibility.

Your father

Fabio Cassano~