The Don's Daughter: Love & Betrayal

Eleven

De Luca

Everything is driving me insane. I want to kill someone, anyone will do right now. I'm at the gym trying to work out all the anger I feel and I can't remember the last time I was this angry. Normally when someone pisses me off I just put a bullet between their eyes. But this time the culprit is nowhere to be found so I can't do anything except wait until they come back. That is if they ever will. I hate that Fausto put me in this position. It doesn't matter if I find him or not, I will have to trust a complete stranger with my books. Finding someone I can trust again will be a pain.

He used to be one of my rival's accountant. The guy tried to steal from me in a deal and I finished him off. Fausto pleaded with me saying he could be useful and I believed him. He has never let me down until now. I hate traitors. I would prefer you try to kill me rather than betray me. If he's not dead yet, I won't feel good killing him. After all he's served me well. But what has to happen will happen. Even if he decides to give me back the money he stole, he'll still have to die. That's how it works.

Pushing my legs to go faster, I run like someone who's preparing for a marathon. Every part of my body is burning but I don't care. I have to release some tension and I'm hoping that while I'm at it, I can forget Marianna's eyes. I managed to see her for a few minutes before Paulo found me in her room and told me to leave. Thing is even if he hadn't told me to, I still would have left. I can't stand seeing her that way, knowing I am the cause. Have I mentioned how much I want to kill that fucker Paulo too? I feel like I've been pouring money down the drain. What's the use of paying someone for information if they don't give you the most important bits?

Years ago, Paulo walked into my house asking for a job. He was cocky, a pretty face and told it like it is. I thought he would be a good informant so I sent him to the Lombardi household. His job was to get any kind of job so he could be my spy. I thought I was lucky when Lombardi's daughter hired him to be her bodyguard. Over the years he's been giving me bits and pieces of how Lombardi's organization works and I got almost nothing about Marianna. Every time I asked him about it, he'd tell me to be patient. That he didn't want to tell me anything that might lead to him being exposed. It was only yesterday that I realized he had switched sides. He pockets my money but his loyalty is with Marianna. I still don't know how that makes me feel.

On the one hand, now that I've met Marianna, I can understand why he would pick her. She's gorgeous, probably pays him a lot of money too and once in a while he gets to have her in his bed. I'm not blind to that fact. If a man protects a woman the way Paulo protects Mari, it's because he has feelings for her. Before she came to live in my house, that wouldn't have bothered me. Now? I admit I'm jealous of him. Aside from being her most trusted man, he knows everything about her. Everything I've been paying him to tell me but hasn't.

What I do know though, is that I want to wring his neck for not telling me that Marianna was scared of the basement. Scared isn't even the right word. I've never seen anything like it. When I saw her, she was lying in bed curled up with her eyes wide open. Empty eyes was more like it. It was as if she wasn't in her body, like her soul had left. That is the only way I can describe it. That was yesterday. I think she's still that way because her maids haven't left her room. I also don't want to think about her because it's just going to mess up with my head again. I have no idea what's going on but after I'm done here, I'll have to chat with Fausto's wife. Let her try to lie to me again so I can curve her into pieces. I so regret letting her go home but I'll find her and make her tell me why she was lying.

Since Marianna is out of commission, I can't figure out how Lombardi's men got to that location. Nevio set it up so that it would look like a real shipment but those cases were empty. We managed to get Lombardi's guys and left one alive so he could pass a message on to his boss. From that moment his daughters weren't guests in my house but prisoners. If he tried to rescue them, I would hunt him down and finish him off. He was to do nothing until I got to the bottom of everything. Now Carina handed her phone and laptop over without asking why I was taking them. Marianna's? They weren't easy to get. I had to point a gun at Paulo's face in order for him to comply.