Nightly Confusion

Chapter 31

Chapter 31

“Elena,” Nick Giovanni said. “I’m very disappointed in you.”

“What’s the point to all of this?” I asked and held on tight to my mother’s hand. I couldn’t stand there and shut up and I hoped if I could get him talking we had enough time to find a way out of this.

“It’s business.”

“Bullshit.” I must be losing my mind but I didn’t feel like backing down or keeping shut. I was too damn angry. “It’s personal it’s always been hasn’t it?” I thought back to everything Joey told me about Giovanni and our parents, it’s been going on for years and if it was just business he wouldn’t have gone through all the trouble he has going through.

“You’re Linda’s daughter aren’t you, the one connected to De Luca? Hmm maybe this could turn out to be for the best.” His desire to hurt Joey was thick in the air.

“Leave her out of this.” Mom tightly spoke, looking at Giovanni with pure hate in her eyes. I had never seen her so pissed off but she had a lot of reasons to hate him.

“She got herself involved by coming here. They both did.” He looked at Elena again. “What were you thinking?”

 “I couldn’t let you kill my mother.” Elena said and I was proud of her for it, she wasn’t backing down either, she didn’t look scared or upset about the disappointment he had in his eyes.

“So you know the truth.”

“Art told me but he was killed before he could tell me why all this happened. Why don’t you tell me?” Elena looked like a lost little girl looking for answers, she learned her whole life had been a lie.

“You’re like a daughter to me so I’ll tell you what you want to know but I can’t let you leave here.” Giovanni explained with some mock hurt. “Art, Linda, and I were friends a long time ago but I fell in love with her and Art knew it. It damaged our friendship and business relationship, it became ugly and we were enemies because I didn’t give up on her. After she had you I knew it wasn’t going to be easy to break them up and there were rumors of a wedding down the line.” So many lives ruined because of one man’s broken heart.

“And that’s when you decided to steal my child?” Mom demanded. “What did you think? Were you hoping I’d be so hurt I’d leave Art and run into your arms?”

“You did leave him didn’t you? I didn’t get what I wanted but neither did he so I left everything alone because I had planned to kill Art then but Rosa had Elena and they were all happy so I left well enough alone except a few months ago Art began digging around.” Nick didn’t look too happy to explain how his plans fall apart. “And you know the rest from there.”

“All of this was because you were jealous?” I asked, I couldn’t believe so many lives were ruined because of something so simple but life changing to Nick and seeing how he was ruthless with an army on his side the little of problems became something like this. “You tore a family apart and now killed a father because you wanted the girl?”

“You should be happy I did or else you would’ve never been born. When it comes to the matters of the heart, Martiz, nothing is simple and men do extreme things.” Nick explained. “And then you have to do whatever you have to so that things remain somewhat ok. Elena, the family is going to be so hurt to learn of your accident.”

“Do you regret it?” Elena asked. “What you did to my real parents?”

“I wanted Art to suffer and for awhile he did but then he found love again and gave birth to the man making my life very hard right now, it’s never ending when it comes to the De Luca’s, I should’ve killed him back then. Elena you know me; I don’t regret anything.” Nick seemed like he was talking about some mistake on a test or anything else that didn’t involve someone’s life. He honestly didn’t care. “Trevor.” He called out and three very large men walked inside. “Take Elena and Linda’s daughter here upstairs into the study.”