Whispers in New York - Book Two

~Chapter 37~

Chapter Song

Without You – Oh Wonder

Dedicated to @TheWarsOfStars for the lovely chapter song... Thank you =)

_______________✏

"Baśtardö!" (Baśtard!) Adriana raged in Italian pacing back and forth within the living area of her apartment. "After all we've been through!" She continued to pace grumbling to herself while waving her hands around frantically. "I change my life around, I agree to work for him, I move into this apartment so he can practically watch over my every move, and this is what I get in return?"
Looking over to Luca for answers, she received nothing but a sympathetic look in return. "He can probably see us right now!" She whipped her head to the left then right sharply looking frantically around the room as if the thought had never dawned on her before. "Can he!?" She questioned irrationally suddenly entering a new level of paranoia.

Luca shook his head unsure of how exactly to tackle the situation. His loyalty lay with his boss, but Adriana had become accustomed to confiding in him. They remained close friends and their friendship only grew when he was temporarily exiled from the family.
"What will this deep and meaningful require? Ice cream or something savoury?"

"You're joking right?" With her hands on her hips, she raised an eyebrow and shook her head. "That aśśhölȅ ruined our dinner plans! I'm starving!"

"Got it, burger and fries it is. I'll have it delivered."

_______________✏

While Luca took the civilized route of sitting on the couch while attempting to keep his burger contents within the packaging, Adriana did quite the opposite. He had suggested they sit at the dining table but she was in no mood for such formalities. Instead she sat on the floor practically tucked into the coffee table facing Luca as she hungrily devoured her double cheeseburger.

"I can't believe him!" Throwing down some salty fries she began to feel the aggravation once again. "Things were going great! I slept with him, did you know that? We're sleeping together now." Placing a firm grip around her cola she sucked up the fizzy treat before going back in for another burger bite.

"Nope!" Luca responded surprisingly unfazed.

"Well things were going great." She stated in confirmation, "I actually thought we were a normal couple." Chuckling to herself, she felt stupid for even thinking it. "I mean even though he shot my ex boyfriend without explanation, I thought we were doing surprisingly well."

"You probably didn't have to throw your cell phone at him though..."

Scrunching her nose up excessively she responded with a look of complete and utter disbelief, "are you serious right now?" She questioned, "did I mention he shot my ex boyfriend?"

"I'm just going to go right ahead and ask." Luca boldly announced, stopping her from placing her next round of fries in her mouth. "Did you sleep with that guy?" Looking her dead in the eyes anticipating her next uproar.

"No I didn't." She revealed taking a napkin from the delivery bag. As her eyes lowered to her greasy fingers, she wiped away the excess salt and oil slowly, thinking very carefully about her next words.
Without looking up at him, she began to elaborate. "Something almost happened, but it didn't."

"Hmm?" Luca's interests suddenly peaking, he too wiped his hands disposing of his burger wrapping and empty fries carton in the second delivery bag. "What do you mean almost?"

"I was going to tell him, ages ago actually, but I couldn't do it. And tonight he was acting crazy! I didn't want to just spit it out mid-fight."

"Ade?" He raised a suspicious eyebrow, "you're not doing yourself any favours prolonging the explanation here."

"You know Salvo's controlling right? Sometimes it's suffocating... I know he doesn't mean to be, but at times he is." She paused momentarily before taking a breath and starting again. "Wait. This sounds all wrong, I'm not making excuses, this wasn't about him. It was about me." She knew she had to be honest, this really wasn't about Salvatore. It was always about her and her own insecurities. Sure, it certainly didn't help that her only two relationships were with a rapist and an at the time aspiring mob boss. But she couldn't blame her boyfriend, it had been her decision after all to be with him. As persistent as he was, she knew ultimately she alone made her own choices.

"So you did something with him?" He prodded almost reluctantly, he wasn't sure if he wanted to hear the response. How much of this could he possibly keep from his boss? He certainly wasn't comfortable with keeping anything from him.

"I was messed up, I didn't know anything about relationships. Hell! I still don't know anything about them! After I left I was more confused than ever." Shaking her head reliving the moment through her story. "I needed to prove to myself that it wasn't me, I was in total denial really. In my mind it was easier to blame Salvo for my leaving, so I almost slept with this guy."

"But you didn't?"

"No I didn't." She looked up at him sheepishly. She wasn't proud of herself, but she was being honest and coming clean. Like she should have done months ago.
"I was so close to doing it Luca, it was awful." Pulling her knees up to her chest, she covered her eyes with the palms of her hands. "I said Salvo's name... Right before we were about to... You know?"

"You're joking right!?" The look of disbelief dominated his face, there was no possible way he could even disguise it.

"No! Why would I tell you such a fückéd up story?" Mortified, she rose to her feet disgusted in herself.
Just as quickly, Luca also rose to his feet holding out a hand before him indicating for her to stop for a moment.

"Wait!" His voice firm but quiet. "Look that wasn't the best story, not gonna lie." Lowering his hand he continued. "But it's not the worst story either. Go to bed, don't try to contact him tonight, and talk to him in the morning when you're both a little more level headed. Don't be spontaneous or irrational tonight, sleep it off, trust me it's the best thing you can do right now." Picking up both burger delivery bags he made his way to the kitchen disposing of the items in the trash. "Besides," he began once again. "I'd say he's beyond drunk right now, he wouldn't be able to comprehend basic issues, let alone that story!"

_______________✏

FINALLY WATTPAD HAS ALLOWED ME TO UPDATE! HOORAAAY!!! *throws glitter*

Yeah yeah... I know it's short, but this wasn't really a chapter I was going to draaaag out, we'll leave that to the exciting stuff... If I feel loved and up to it I'll send out my next update sooner rather than later =D

So... Someone is being honest! Not toooooooooo much to say here, this is just a necessary chapter to not only reveal what Ade kinda did but didn't do and how she felt about it... We will get to Salvo's behaviour in the next chapter, I'm sure you're all wondering how he's processing the night and what he's up to while Ade is stuffing down burgers and having D&M's!

Don't forget to comment and vote to praise your hard working authors =)

x