Un/Traditional ( dark mafia romance)

Lessons learned.

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"Leon! Calm down" I say with a slight tremor in my voice.

"Calm?" He says as he looks at me, with the gun still aiming at the maid "oh mogile! I am calm but you on the other hand are trembling. I would ask the maid to get you some water but as you can see she is a little busy right now. So maybe you should calm the fuck down.
Sì?"

Nodding furiously I try to calm my heartbeat down. I didn't want to see someone else dying today. One death was enough.

"W-what.. exactly are you doing?" I asked even though it was clear that he was about to blow the maid's brain out.

I was this close to losing my shit. Sounding every bit like a person scared shitless.

You see there are some unspoken rules that one learns in order to survive. Like never question the person holding a gun. But I seem to have forgotten that or maybe I am just fucking stupid. Who knows?

"You know what a once powerful man is without power?", Leon asks bringing my thoughts to an end abruptly. I shake my wet hair showing him clearly that I didn't know how to answer his random question. I could see a few drops of water fall around me, out my hair.

"He becomes dead weight" he answers his own question, telling me this as if he was a teacher teaching his pupil a lesson. "A burden, a pathetic and helpless burden", he continues, "Nothing hurts worse than knowing that the power he once yielded, he no longer has. He has now become insignificant. He has nothing, is nothing, he is trash. Do you understand?"

I didn't.

But I also understood that saying no wasn't an option that I could entertain.

So I nod my head slightly.

Feeling as clueless as I did in 11th grade physics. I just hoped that I didn't get the same results as I had gotten then.

I didn't dare to look at the girl who could be dead meat if Leon pulled the trigger on his gun.
And I also couldn't look at Leon without peeing myself.

So I focus on the clock hanging on the wall in front of me. It's a common digital wall clock. I focus on its metallic blue colour not even bothering to look at the time.

My brain was furiously working on making sense of what Leon was saying as well as thinking of saving the quivering girl on floor as well.

Thinking wasn't my strong suit. But I had to try.
I had to save the girl, to remain sane, because every murder that I had witnessed,took a part of my sanity with it.

Leon was a man of few words and he as well as I avoided talking to each other like the plague. But here he was telling me all this.

Why!?

I couldn't figure it out. So I ask.

"W..wh-why, why me? I mean... why tell me all this? Do..y--, No,what I mean is what does this have to do with me? Or us?" I say this all in one breath, quite impressed with the fact that I hadn't started crying midway.

I look away from the wall clock to face Leon expectantly. He assess my face for a moment.

But then he walks suddenly towards the entrance of the house, leaving me and the girl hanging.

I hear voices, one of Leon and the other, familiar yet I could not identify it.

Someone must have knocked on the door but I was too focused at Leon that I hadn't heard it.

I look at the poor girl who hasn't moved an inch. I want to comfort her, to tell her that everything would be alright.

But I can't. Because I know it won't be.

As the voices and the sound of footsteps grow close. The girl finally looks at me with her tear filled eyes, her nose and eyes both are red and she suddenly looks so little in front of me.

Her doe like eyes beg me to help her.

My heart clenches.

"Si--signora ... Por favore... Por favore.. s-salvami!! Por favore salavmi" She says in a cracking whisper.

And I look at the ground unwilling to make promises I couldn't keep. I had learned my lesson to never do that again.

Not even a second later Leon walks back in followed by an expressionless looking Igor.

I just know something terrible is about to happen. And I am not sure if I would come out of it unharmed.

And that's a wrap!

Translation:-

Mio mogile: my wife

Signora per favore salavmi: Madame please save me.

These are from Google translate I don't speak Italian, so if there is a mistake blame Google and feel free to correct it.

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