My Mafia Man

Chapter 25

A/N: this author's note is to address the people who may not like how the story will end. Giovanni is the male lead and Camila is the female lead. They are going to end up together that’s just how I want it to be. He was toxic and really terrible at the beginning of the story which I've always wanted to go back and change anyway because that’s not what I want his character to be defined by. Anyways he’s going through character development and isn’t the same man he used to be even though he has his reasons for being so cold. To conclude this rant it’s my story and characters will end up with whoever i want them to if you don’t like that don’t read or change it in your head i don’t care. I’ll delete comments saying things like “if they get together i’ll be mad” and so on.

Anyway enjoy chapter 25 expect to have this book cap out at 30 then start a sequel much better and fleshed out than this.

Chapter 25

camila’s pov:

I have a big decision to make, to let Giovanni like me or not. The way we met was less than ideal and he certainly did not treat me the best at first, with the tourture and peeing on me. Those are inexcusable I know, he knows, and he isn’t off the hook for it all either. But I don't want to be hung up on it, especially when he apologised already and still carries that guilty look in his eyes. He rescued me from his father who did so much worse to me making me realise where he got his cold calloused exterior from. Neither of us grew up in stable healthy homes, he grew up thinking women had no value and that violence was the answer. While i grew up with the notion that everyone is just one step away from falling into that toxic abyss of insanity, my mother fell into it and almost cost me my life.

Both growing up in abusive households with no real proper role model to look up to, neither of us could be really expected to make the right choices all the time. We are truly products of our messed up environments and learning as we go what the right way truly is. Giovanni’s past isn’t an excuse for what he did to me but it certainly explains a lot. Can I truly condemn a man who is trying to right his wrongs and become a better man for me and his family, I don’t think I can. He wants to break the cycle and not let his son grow up the way that he did. How can I blame him for how he treated me? At first he thought I had seen something that I shouldn’t and was a threat to his family. He didn’t owe me any remorse or decency in how he dealt out his mistrust, I certainly didn’t do myself any favours sticking my nose in other people’s business and then cursing out my captors.

But now the ball is in my court, he's letting me decide how I want us to move forward, as friends or more. I know the latter is what I want but I need to make sure that he doesn’t slip back into old habits and shut me out. He wants to grow but I don’t think that he can on his own or with my help, I'm broken too and need my own kind of help. Two broken traumatized people don’t make a whole or healthy relationship, I can’t flinch every time he raises his hand and he can’t get so angry every time something doesn’t go right. So i sat him down and told him all of this, he nodded along agreeing with all that I was expressing to him. “For this to work we have to get therapy, maybe individual and couples so that we will be able to do this right.” It was hard telling him this since I thought that maybe he felt I didn’t want to be with him and was softening the blow.

To my surprise he understood where I was coming from and agreed to try the therapy. I was so thrilled because this truly showed me that he was willing and wanted to make changes to himself for our and all of his other general relationships. We set up times for our individual therapy sessions, this truly did feel like a fresh start. I was hoping that I would be able to express all my traumas and better myself. Will all of this over and done with Giovanni told me that some special people were coming to meet me today. I wonder who would want to meet with me? Nonetheless I wanted to look my best, so I decided to wear a navy colored dress with black flats. I put in some medium sized silver hoops and my favorite necklace that my grandmother had given me long ago.

I did the bare minimum of makeup not wanting to over use it and look like a clown, then to finish off I sprayed on my favorite cherry blossom fragrance and was ready for whatever would happen next. Around 1 oclock Giovanni came to pick me up from my room and brought me to his office. I’d of course never been in here before so I was excited to see how he liked his rooms to be styled, it was beautiful and filled with different tones of wood. I was broken from my admiration when I noticed a guy that looked to be about two years older than me with a woman in his lap that looked to be my age. Last but not least a man sitting on Giovanni’s desk that looked to be about 45-50 years old, who were they?

“Hello my child, so nice to finally meet you.” I gave him a smile looking over to Giovanni with questions swirling through my mind, “don’t be so shy Cammy, this is your father and brother accompanied by your brother’s fiance.” To say I was shocked would be an understatement, after all this time of wanting to see who my father was here he is before me. And now I have a sibling and a sister in-law, this is all so surreal. It has to be a dream, right? I take a step forward looking around at all the people in the room not knowing what to say. The only thing that slipped from my mouth as I was pulled into this man's arms was, “dad?”

So there you have it, chapter 25 on a little bit of a cliff hanger! Comment, share, and like if you want.

See y'all at monday’s update!~ 

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