Libellula

Chapter 4 Betrayed

Chapter 4 Betrayed

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I hear some faint shifting in front of me, "Dante?" I whisper into the darkness.

"Aurora?" I hear Dante's rough voice finally ask.

"Yeah, are you okay?" I question him.

I hear him clear his throat, "My throat is pretty sore, but other than that they didn't beat me up too bad."

"Assholes." I state bitterly and hear the door open and bright light enters the room.

Leone walks into the room and smirks at me, "Ah, I hope you're not talking about me sunshine."

"Damn, you look like shit." Dante half whisper-yells to me.

I ignore him and shoot both men hateful glares.

"You mentioned something about sawing fingers off, so I came here to fulfill that promise." I watch as Leone brings a saw out from behind his back and glances towards Dante.

Dante gives me a horrendous look, "You told him to cut my fingers off?"

"I actually told him to 'saw' them off, and not yours, mine." I say rolling my eyes while adding, "You know Mr. Leone Stefano Lorenzo De Rita, you should really work on your own torture ideas instead of stealing mine."

He makes his way towards me until he's towering over me, "You know," He starts while lifting my chin up to meet his face, "I like the sound of my name on your tongue."

"Yeah? Well I like my arms and legs free, but we don't always get what we want." I scowl at him and he drops my chin.

"Sweetheart, I always get what I want." He motions for his men to hold Dante down.

I've been working on these ties for the past three hours and I'm close to getting my hands free. I just have to be careful that they don't see me moving my hands around.

"What the hell I'm already tied up you dipshits!" Dante headbutts one of Leone's "helpers".

Leone walks behind Dante and places a small saw above Dante's ear. "Tell me where the other half of the heirloom is, or your friend loses his ear."

Dante's eyes widen a bit before he calms himself down a bit. Props to him for being so brave to getting his ear cut off. He must not notice that I'm close to releasing my hands, which is good because maybe nobody else will notice.

"I see you changed your mind about the whole sawing fingers off," I stall, "I bet it was so brain racking to figure out what else to do, this is the best thing you came up with?" I begin rambling.

Dante gives me a sour look and Leone begins to dig the saw into his ear. Dante flinches a bit, but not very noticeably. Hold on Dante I just about have my hands free, just have to get my feet untied, which won't be hard once I have my hands.

"You are very stubborn mio dolce." Leone states and begins to move the saw slowly back and forth, which cause Dante to wince away.

"What's with all of the nicknames lately? Too hard to say my name?" I continue to stall as gun shots fire off in the distance.

The door to the room bursts open and one of Dante's men stands there out of breath, "Boss—" he breathes, "There's so many of Capello's men outside of all entrances. They are close to getting in."

This is the perfect distraction because I manage to untie my feet as Leone's men quickly leave the room. As Leone is distracted I manage to grab one of the knives on the floor that they discarded after torturing me.

Leone's attention whips back to me as he notices that I am now standing with a weapon, but instead of attacking me he grins.

"Aurora, Aurora, Aurora. What am I going to do with you?" He begins to stride towards me and I get into a defensive position.

"Don't get any closer to me Leone, I'm not afraid to kill you." I watch as he gets closer and closer, but I can't seem to move.

He chuckles and I quickly realize that I let him get too close to me. He swiftly pulls me against his chest and holds my knife to my throat.

"You seem to be very weak Aurora." I feel his hot breath hit my ear and I shiver.

Two familiar men break through the door and freeze as they take in my situation.

"Leave, or the girl dies." Leone states in a firm tone.

"Don't touch her." I hear my father step between the men in the doorway.

Leone deepens the knife into my neck, "Step back."

My father doesn't budge, but instead he steps forward. I give him a pleading look with my eyes to not walk any farther, knowing that Leone will do something to him.

Before I could even comprehend what is happening, I hear a loud gunshot and see my dad standing in place with a bullet through his head. "No." I whisper as I watch his lifeless body hit the ground along with his two men.

"NOOOO!" I scream and cry until the blade at my neck digs deeper before it's removed. I see Dante standing with a gun in his hands aimed at where my father and his men were standing. How could he betray us like this. He was like a brother to me! Did he plan for this to happen?

I run towards him ferociously and push him into the brick wall, making his head hit off it with powerful force. I grab the gun out of his hands and aim it at his head. I find myself not being able to pull the trigger as I look into his eyes.

"Why?!" I scream into his face over and over. I shove him into the wall again as I feel a tiredness take over me.

"Why?" I question wearily as I begin to stubble backwards.

He watches me with wide eyes as I fall into somebody's arms and I'm consumed in complete darkness.

Why?

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I can't stop seeing my father staring at me with a bullet through his brain. I shift back and forth and groan as I feel the soreness take over my body. I flutter my eyelids open and I'm greeted with a bright light.

"Look who finally decided to wake up." I hear a deep voice murmur from the corner of the room.

I direct my gaze to Leone and take in my surroundings. I'm in what looks like a master bedroom with large windows and a king size bed. He stands up and strides towards me leaving a trail of delicious smelling cologne.

"You passed out." He states.

"Oh really? I could've sworn that I was wide awake as I was taken to some strange room against my will." I reply in a raspy voice.

He leans in close to me so that our faces are only centimeters apart, "I don't take girls against their wills." He places a glass of water next to me.

I push him away from me, not only because he's an asshole, but I don't want to breathe in his face after just waking up.

"There's a bathroom over there," He points to a door to my right, "and there's clothes in there along with soap and toothpaste."

I don't respond as I watch him leave the room. I stick my middle finger up at his back and pick up the water next to me. This is going to be weird.

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WTF DANTE?! Do you think he betrayed Aurora, or do you think that he had a reason to shoot her father?