Love That Kills •Massimo Torricelli•

T H R E E

Anastasia

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Massimo leaves and I turn back to Laura. She's prettier in person, I'll give her that, but she looks like every other girl he brings home. Dark hair, dark eyes. I'm the only woman he's ever been attracted to that didn't have darker hair or darker eyes.

"I can see why he's so obsessed with you." I tell her, "I don't understand it, but I see it." I add

She stand against the wall terrified, I don't blame her. The girl got kidnapped. I'd probably be scared to if I was in her position.
Probably.

She looks me up and down, "you're his wife?" She asks staring at my left hand. I nod.

"And you're just okay with this? Him kidnapping another girl, and making her fall in love with him?" She asked

I let out a sarcastic laugh, "oh god no. Not in the slightest, no."

"But me and Massimo, we don't have a regular marriage. We didn't meet, start dating, fall in love, he ask for my fathers hand in marriage, get down on one knee, do the hokey-pokey and turned himself around." I say and sit in the chair

I grab the glass of whiskey on the table and sip it, "No. Actually, we grew up together. And on my 15th birthday my dad said "I have a surprise you're marrying you best friend in 3 years, congrats." And 3 years later when I turned 18 we got married." I tell her she was still standing against the wall.

"And then we were kind of off and on, he liked me back, and then he didn't, and then he did. At least that's what it seemed like. Then 5 years ago when our dads died, when he saw you for the first time actually, he lost all interest me." She looks at me

"You can sit down. I'm not going to bite you." I motion towards the other chair, "look I'll give you a helpful tip to make your stay here a little less forceful, and more enjoyable. Don't run. It won't work out." She stares at me, "take it, don't take. I don't care what you do. But if you keep trying to escape, you're just going to keep making Massimo angry."

She slumps in her chair, "You've been here for a while, are you hungry? There's a pizza place like 20 minutes away." I say

She scoffs, "Like I'm going to be able to leave."

"You will. Another tip, if you ever don't want to do something that Massimo is trying to make you do, just tell him you don't want to do it unless I'm there. He knows how I feel about him trying to force women into doing things they don't want to do, and the last thing he going to want to do, is argue with me. Except for sexually, he would never force you to do anything sexual you didn't want to do." I nod as I finish

"So, do you want to go change or not?" I ask standing up, "Just don't run, if you run I'm not gonna chase after you, and then massimo's going to kill me, then he's going to find you and then kill you."

She nods and stands up we leave and she goes to her room to change.

When she finished she walked back out and we headed for the door but got stopped by Massimo, "Where do you think you're going? And where do you think you're taking her?"

"We're going to get pizza." I tell him, "Not alone, you're not. I'll go with you." He said, "No. Massimo, we'll be fine." I say, "Anastasia..." I cut him off, "Massimo, We'll be fine. We'll be back later." I tell him and walk off with Laura.

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When we get to the pizza place, we get two medium pizzas and sit at a table, "So what's the deal with you Massimo? Why are you still married if he's been trying to find me for five years?" Laura asks me

"Because we had an arranged marriage. We grew up together and our fathers wanted me to carry his heir and be his wife. Like I told you before we were on and off. Well, he was. I've always wanted him, I've been in love with him since I was 10. Problem was-is, he doesn't want me. I'd kill myself for him if I had too. And that is what scares me. I'd go...to the end of the world... for that man, no matter how many times he breaks my heart, or hurts me...intentionally or not. I'd do anything for him." I say staring at my hands.

Of course my feeling are gonna come back up when they need to be pushed down.

Laura stares at me, "it's okay to fall in love with him. I want him to be happy. And clearly you, are the person that makes him happy." I tell her

"What happens...what happens if I do?" Laura asks, I sigh, "then he'll ask you to marry him, and you'll say yes. And the ring on my finger, will be the ring on your finger." I tell her looking my wedding ring on my finger.

After eating the pizza we went back home. We stayed out longer than we would've, cause Laura wanted to go walk on the beach. She's not as bad as I thought she was.