Chapter 60
Leonardo De Luca
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My foot hits the acceleration, driving as quick as I can. I use my land that’s not on the wheel to grab my phone and look through the security footage inside the house this time. My stomach flips into my chest at the sight of Matteo drawing a gun and pointing it directly at Alessia.
“Russo, you fucking Idio”
I barely have a chance to rip my keys from the engine as 1 stumble out of my car, Russo right beside me. The guards are already on standby but I don’t want to irk Matteo any more than he already is. This needs to be something that we sought out between ourselves.
We draw our guns and head inside to find Matteo holding Alessia with a gun to her neck. Her eyes moved from her brother to mine, pleading for us to do something. To get her out of this death grip
She shrieks as he pressed the barrel into her flesh harshly, wriggling against his tight hold on her. Rage blasts through my eyes. My hand on my gun, ready to shoot but I didn’t because his finger was resting on the trigger a little too comfortably for my liking
“Matteo, what the fuck?!” Russo roars as we approach him. “Put the guns down!” He yells, causing Alessia to jump
She looked extremely scared, probably because she knows Mattep would shoot. I wouldn’t put it past him to put a bullet in Alessia’s throat just to prove a point.
“I said, put the guns down or I’ll blow her fucking head off! You know I’ll do it. Matteo’s voice booms through the kitchen and Ive never heard him sound so lethal.
Russo glances at me out of the corner of his eye, neither of us want to lower our guns because we know what could happen but at the same time, I don’t want to see Alessia’s blood splattered across the wall
I don’t even want to think of that possibility.
I can see Russo shake with pure hatred as he took in Matteo again and we both slowly lowered our guns at
we both lo
“Good,” Matteo sneers. “Now put them on the fucking floor.”
Russo’s hand twitches on his gun but Matteo notices.
the
same time
“On the floor!” He presses the gun further into Alessia’s throat, causing her to whimper.
“Okay, okay.” We quickly placed our guns on the floor.
Matteo takes a look at the gun and then shakes his head. “Kick them over to me. Now!”
Neither of us dared to ignore him, not when we could see the pad of his finger pressed into the trigger harder than we’d like
One jolt, one funny movement and that gun is going off and there’s no saving her.
“Let her go” Russo hisses through his teeth.
“If you’ve got a problem with Leonardo or with the fucking empire, my sister’s got nothing to do with it. Just let her go.”
Matteo’s eyes flare like a tormented monster. “And where’s the fun in that?” He drawls, looking away from Russo as he fixes hin gaze at me.
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“Father’s always treated me like the weakling and you the golden boy. Maybe after I take over your empire, he’ll finally see me for what I’m worth
Golden boy? He doesn’t know the half of it, does he?
1 narrowed my cold eyes towards him. “Is that what this is about
He tips his head back and laughs. “Do you know what’s so funny Is the fact that I’ve been planning this for months, got away with it for months and it took you and your lousy empire so long to figure it out. Or did you think I went back to Italy?” He said, laughing..
“You don’t have to do this. I keep my voice low and harsh.
Matteo twists his hand and flashes me a smile that has my stomach churning, the gun nudging into Alessia’s neck once more. She’s going to have a bruise but she doesn’t dare resist. A bruise is way better than her blood and brains scattered all across the wall.
“You even treated little Russo here with more respect than
than you did me!” Russo’s jaw ticked at his comment
Then Matteo’s hollow gaze turned to me and there’s nothing but hatred behind them. “You think the world revolves around you? You favored Russo over your own brother! No matter how hard I tried to prove myself to you and to father. Do you know how pathetic that makes me feel?”
I want to turn my nose up at his comments because if he thinks this way, then he has no idea what it’s really like to be part of a gang.
“I’ve known you way longer than this son of a bitch here!” He continued, saliva flying across the kitchen counter.
Alessia noticeably shakes in his hold, gripping onto his wrist that is forced against her chest.
“Russo understood what it meant to be part of a gang.” I say calmly, trying to avoid Alessia’s terrified eyes because I’m sure it would make me react. “And if you think I didn’t give him shit along the way, even more than any other person, then you’re mistaken.”
His face hardened to show that he disliked my comment. He shoves the gun into Alessia’s throat harder. She chokes at the sensation as he holds her there and Russo steps closer.
Matteo looked at him and flares his nostrils.
“Stop this.” Russo tries again. “Stop being such a coward and using my sister to get back at us. She has nothing to do with this.”
“Oh, you have no idea how much she has to do with this, do you? He chuckled, coldly.
“You’re doing this for what? Power? Recognition? You’ve just fucked up everything you could’ve had Matteo.” Russo states, lowering his tone.
Matteo keeps his eyes on Russo, sizing up his words.
I glanced at Alessia and I raised my eyebrow in silent conversation. My eyes flick from her face to until Alessia’s eyes move up and down, understanding what I’m trying to say.
“Ill take my chances anyway” Matteo laughs sourly.
Matteo’s crotch and again
With Matteo distracted, I slowly reached my hand into the back of my waistband. I pulled out the spare gun I had hidden in there, filled with bullets that could easily make this kitchen a bloodbath. I lowered it to my side carefully but Matteo wasn’t looking at me. His eyes still fixed on Russa.
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1 gestured with my eyes to Alessia again.
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I watch as Matteo’s grip on Alessia loosened a tiny bit as Russo stips forward, holding out his hand. “You could’ve talked to Leo about this instead of stabbing him in the back like this.”
The gun on Alessia’s neck has now slipped off and it’s angled at the wall, I stare back at her, those dark brown eyes filled with terror but she knows what she has to do,
She’s strong.
I gave her the smallest nod and my thumb subtly flicked against the safety latch of my gun as Matteo started talking again, muffling the sound.
“Dad can’t even trust me to manage things over there.” He bellone again. “And here you are, parading this goddamn mansion of yours and those goddamn cars. Yo-
Alessia’s hand flies from Matteo’s wrist as she kicks the life out of his balls, until Matteo is screaming from the pain. I raised my gun towards him, taking a second to aim and shoot.
Father would forgive me for this. He has to. It’s either him or me right now.
But then I hear two gunshots.
Two, gunshots
I only fired
once.
Matteo and Alessia clutter to the ground in a loud struggle. Ales releases a loud cry as they hit the ground.
My hands shook terribly. Everything is now moving in slow motion as Russo yells, picking up his: the scene. Red blood pools around the corner and bile rises in my throat. I have no idea who’s hurt,
gun as he rushes over to
I don’t know who’s bleeding out on my kitchen floor. I don’t know if Matteo hit Alessia
I don’t know if I hit Alessia.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck!
Alessia Guzman
All I could hear was the loud ringing that vibrated in my ear drums. They ached. Oh God. They ached so much.
Pressure begins to build inside my head and everything slows down, so slow that I can only see a fraction through my blurry
Matteo’s body collapses on top of me and we both hit the floor with a heavy thud. Blood coats my hands, my face and I wondered where they all came from
I blinked rapidly, over and over to try to get my vision to clear because I couldn’t see a damn thing except for the splatter of blood on the floor.
My stomach knots inside me and I resisted the urge to vomit. I feel my heart beat rattle inside my chest like an animal trying to get out of its cage and I still don’t know if I’m hurt yet.
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Two gunshots went off. Leonardo had the gun aimed straight ar datten but Matteo’s gun was still pointed slightly at me
Matteo’s body feels stupidly heavy on top of mine, noticing that After a few moments, I can hear the muffled sound of someone
qum has now shid across the floor and is out of reach. outing in clear distress.
This is the second time that something like this is happening in this fucking kitchen!
I twist my head to glance at Matteo Crimson blood is pouring from his mouth and he is barely able to move and he’s attempting to clutch his stomach or his chest. I don’t know which
The ringing in my years and shouting continues and I see a pair of legs beside me.S Someone slides their arms underneath my arms and tugs me from underneath Mattes, smearing ruby red blood across the marble floor.
A face appears in front of mine. Russo
His li
His lips moved but I could hear a thing he was saying
Russo frowns and then looks down at my arm, where I was weaning that cardigan. He peels it from my shoulders and he exhales a curse word because I can work out the words from his lips.
I attempt to glance over my shoulders at whatever he’s cursing my face, keeping it in place before he glanced at my arm again.
Did I get lut?
“A” He says as my eyes fall heavy. “Deep breaths”
but be swipes my cheeks so I don’t look. His eyes roamed couldn’t even feel anything. My whole body felt numb.
I didn’t even realize that I was breathing rapidly and heavily until he said so and now I realized that my chest is about to explode. He swipes his hand along my cheek bone blood now coating his hands and I wondered if the blood was mine or Matteo’s
“Alessia look at me.”
Did he kill Matteo? Is he dead?
That cool barrel of the gun that was pressed to my neck. I squeezed my eyes shut as Russo bundled me into his arms
“It’s okay.” He whispers. Tve got you. I’ve got you.”
I don’t know how long we stay like this but enough for the ringing to stop and the room to stop spinning. Finally moving back to a normal pace and my breathing has calmned. Russo smothes back my hair.
Someone stands besides us but I don’t glance at whoever it is because Im shaking against Russo, shaking with confusion and frustration and even guilt.
1 caused this!
I shouldn’t have opened that goddamn door!
I may not know much about Matteo but he was Leonardo’s brother. They grew up together. Why would he do something like this!
the urge to blame myself because I know he would we killed me in one second without blinking an eye. I shivered at the thought and closed my eyes again.
“Where’s he?” Russo asked calmly. “He’s gone.”
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My teeth clamped down on my bottom lip and I buried my head into Russo’s neck.
He’s dead. He’s dead. My stomach lurches and twists again and force myself not to throw up because I need to keep it together. I really need to keep it together.
“Alessia got hit.” Russo said.
“What
Leonardo kneels down beside me, the fabric over his knees now loaked with blood.
“Where
“Her arm. Russo said with a harsh whisper. “The bullet grazed her arm.” “Just a graze?”
Russo hums m response. “Just a graze
I peel my eyes from the floor, feeling a single tear roll down my cheek. What’s happening? How did I get myself in the middle of this mess? A mess first created by my father.
1 just wanted things to go smoothly. No violence.
No guns.
No aggression
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