Faustini ✔️

trenta

Valentino watched Giuseppe keenly as he stood next to Dina. "Giuseppe's a weirdo, I'm just putting it out there. He's weird. I don't like him." Valentino uttered to Dina.

Dina looked to the floor. "We've been over this before, you don't approve of my choices, that's fine, but I would never get back with Diego-"

"You don't deserve Diego." Valentino joked. "No, but it's not that- well, at least for once anyways. Look at him. The way he's staring at Vittoria." Valentino turned his head towards her. "Is he having an affair?"

Valentino expected Dina to be offended, but Dina shrugged. "I don't know."

"Oh, come on Dina. You have more self respect than that." Valentino chuckled. "Do you want me to have Sebastian look into it?"

"No, I'm sure he's got a lot on his plate right now. I pray for him. Having to be in hiding because he can't stand a chance against Roman-" Before Dina finished her sentence, the two burst into a fit of laughter. 

Sebastian welcomed himself into Colette's apartment, Leo had his arms crossed as he looked out the window, refusing to make eye contact. Elena joined Leo as Sebastian went the other way to speak with Rita. "I've been meaning to speak with you for quite sometime, it's a shame it has to be on these terms." Sebastian closed the door behind him. 

Rita appeared disturbed. "About what?" 

"Your living situation." Sebastian uttered and Rita rolled her eyes and looked away. "Hey, I'm not meaning to be confronting but if you're unhappy you need to tell me so I can do something about it."

"Well yes, I am unhappy, but it can't be changed." Rita snapped. "I told my mother weeks on end that I didn't approve of those idiots moving in, but she didn't listen. She hasn't listened since!"

Sebastian waited until Rita quietened down. "Is there something in particular that they did or-"

Rita interrupted Sebastian. "See this is what I hate, everyone's acting like I'm some spoiled brat because I don't want them here, no, it's because Hilbert's a sicko." 

"I believe you." Sebastian blurted out and from that, Rita was calmed. "He gave me a weird vibe when I dropped by the other day. What exactly did he do?"

"He's been saying really disgusting things to Gio." Rita had her teeth gritted. "Things I don't even want to repeat." 

"That's fine. Why don't we focus on our other problem at hand." Sebastian said quickly in order to change the subject. 

Rita swallowed and led Sebastian over to the phone. "That." Rita pointed at the Polaroid. Sebastian helped himself to take it off the wall. 

"I don't remember this being taken." Sebastian mumbled to himself. "I think the main question to ask yourself is: how's this photo different to the others? Because the suspect's trying to send a message, obviously." 

"We can't escape him, pretty easy to tell. It is in English." Rita returned to her sassy state. 

Sebastian smiled, ignoring her sass. "No, it's something more than that. I know for a fact, however, the person is more after you than Elena. They knew you were coming back here. They're heavily monitoring you whereas they've loosened their grip on everyone else. I think that also means Landon Laiture's in the clear because he was with me the whole night- but let's not let him know that." He mumbled the last part to himself.

"What?" Rita tilted her head.

"Nothing." Sebastian sighed at handed Rita the photo. "I need you to recall every piece of information about this photo, anything to go off of. Where it was taken, who took it- anything."