"Love Me Like You Do"

You're the light, you're the night

You're the color of my blood

You're the cure, you're the pain

You're the only thing I wanna touch

Never knew that it could mean so much, so much

(Ellie Goulding: Love Me Like You Do.)

The song is beautiful and inspired me to write this chapter. 

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Giovanni Leone Santorini's POV

                  I QUICKLY shut my eyes off, trying to clear off my head. Shaking off all that confusion starting to envelop my whole system, with my heart rate picking up a pace, and jaws tightening.

The disturbing sound vanished and I realized Sai turned the player off. 

"Seems like there are some things we don't know, yet." I heard Sai's frustrated voice mixed with sympathy.

"Such as, how long were your mom and Carmine had been cheating?" Vito muttered coherently. I snap my head in their direction, opening my emotionless eyes. Sai pinned Vito with his eyes, sending him a warning. 

"I don't know and there's only one person to know the truth!" I said through clenched teeth. At this moment, I don't know what to think.

I'm starting to doubt everything that I gathered. "I want that old man, ASAP. I needed the truth. Watch the rest of the videos and keep everything that we could use against Salvo. I will come and pay him a visit tomorrow. I will end this, once and for all." 

"Vito can stay with you. I'll bring Tristan with me, tonight." Sai stood up and pulled his phone out of his pocket.  "You and Vito will take care of Salvo and we will take care of Carmine," He added on.

"No," I responded shortly. Sai and Vito's head whipped to my direction. There are a lot of things I need to know. It seems like he knew a lot that I never thought he did. 

"I will deal with him. Get him to me, and I'll take matters into my hand." I said darkly. My tone held nothing but, lethal. 

"Copy," Sai nodded.

"I'll go ahead and you two can finish watching the video. I'll call my pilot to arrange the schedule of your flight tonight." I shoved my hands in my pockets and headed to the door. I stop before the doorframe and turned to see the two who was still watching my back. "You two, take care." With that, I left them.

                      MY HEAD suddenly snaps out from the ringing of my phone. A smile broke out on my lips and my eyes automatically pinned the phone, vibrating while playing that sound I loved. 

Ah yes, right there, Gio. Faster baby... ahh...  *moaning loudly* Fuck yes, bambolina. You are an amazingly tight, baby... Yes, cry out my name. Beg it, bambolina... Ahh.. yes.. fuck.. yes... AHHH, I'm cumming... *panting and breathing raggedly*

I listened to the ringtone with my smile broke into chuckles as I shook my head in disbelief. It was one of our lovemaking and I just thought to record it without her knowledge. If I got bored, I listened to it and it gives me warm in my stomach and smiles always finds its place in my brooding face.

The tone replayed again and I decided to connect it before I will suffer from blue balls again. 

"Speak!" 

"It's clear. He's alone in his office," Vito reported and the smile on my face withered.

"The guards?" 

"He's one of us."  Vito exclaimed and I nodded involuntarily.

"I'm coming," I answered shortly and hastily got out of the car, stuffing my phone into my pocket. My eyes visibly scanned the area. Men and women in suits, obviously off from work and couldn't wait to get home. They don't seem to care about their surrounding except some teenagers who are obviously giving me an eye, discreetly inviting me. My head tilted up, and the sun is hiding behind a thick cloud, couldn't wait to set either. Thick heavy clouds starting to loom over the horizon, threatening a storm warning.

My eyes darted to the entrance building where my subject was awaiting. I ignored the glances I get from the hungry sex predators, and casually strode to the entrance of the building with confidence and dangerous air radiating from me. 

The guard tips his head lightly as he welcomed me in and locked the door with his eyes discreetly scanning the area.

I walk quietly to the elevator and shortly, I welcomed myself into his office. He was holding his phone  facing the glass wall with his back facing me. He was talking animatedly to the other line with his fingers twiddling the cord.   

"I'm sorry, babe, but I can't right now. I promise I will come see you in another day," he promised. 

"Ehem!" I fake and he suddenly pivoted his swivel chair and the phone made a soft thud on the gray carpet. His eyes bulging, but then he promptly recollected himself. He casually picks up the phone and silently places it back on its receiver.

"So did you came to end my life?" he asked calmly, a smirk slowly crept over his lips. He stood up, and paced around his chair and stood behind it, his hands resting on its top.

"NO, no ..." I said shaking my head as I kept my blank face. The smug in his face starts to trigger the anger I've been holding it at bay. 

Though he showed an unfazed stance, my threatening appearance silently triggering the fear he kept slamming it back down. 

My ominous eyes pinned him darkly. "I wonder how will your wife and kids, react when they watch those videos of you and your mistresses." I started trying to get him surrender to me, and to the cops voluntarily, and plead guilty of killing my family.

I walk closer to the shelvings of books, on one wall and my fingers trace the edges of the books. I could feel Salvo's eyes boring into me. "If you're trying to blackmail me, Santorini, then fuck off! I'm not surrendering to your lies," he seethingly sneered smugly at me.

I snapped my head in his direction and shove my hands in my pockets, with tightening jaws. "VITO!" I called behind his door. His head snaps in the direction of his door. I heard footstep coming to my direction and stood behind me. I felt his hand on my shoulder. I reach for it without looking and felt the small device, place on my palm. 

I played the digital audio recording with my eyes trained on him. He was staring at the small black machine on my hand with his eyebrows pressed tightly together, lips in a thin line.

"Oh shit, baby. Fucking sweet tits." A sounds of table squeaking where it rubbed on the floor.

"Fuck, Salvo. You're a real slammer, baby! Oh yes ... fuck this pussy, baby! Yes, right there. Harder!"

I turned the recording off and gave it back to Vito. 

"Does that sounds familiar to you?" I asked. His face now painted with a deep shade of red. Now fear is visible in his gray orbs. Those orbs who painfully reminding me of my bambolina. 

Those orbs I adored and fell in love with, and now, I'm staring at it, but owned by the man who I passionately detest. I look away and Enna's face flashed through my head. Her bright smile, her eyes twinkling with the same wickedness, and shimmered when mad.

"What do you want from me? I will not press any charges against you, just give me back all the videos you stole from me!" he suddenly resigned and I stared at him, concealing the shock in my face. I didn't expect him to give in so easily. 

He plops down on his swivel chair and clasp his hands in his lap as he stared at us blankly. "Let's just forget everything that happened, and think, it didn't go down. We can go back to our normal lives and let's pretend we didn't even know each other, and leave my daughter alone." 

My muscles tightened, and my anger rose swiftly. His last words took me to the edge. I strode to his direction with calculated steps. From the glass window wall, the darkness looms over the horizon. I stood in front of him against his desk darkly. I propped my hands on his desk and leaned forward, looming over him, lethally. "ENNA IS MINE!" I growled gruffly. My sinister voice thundered around the room, almost as loud as the thunder that just struck the horizon, sending fear to everyone. "AND NO ONE, I MEAN NO ONE, CAN EVER TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME! ESPECIALLY NOT YOU!" I gruffly said and then stood upright, fixing my tie, I turned around.

"If you don't want your videos to flood the internet, I want you to surrender to the authority voluntarily and plead guilty of killing my family, and I will take your daughter as a lifetime bed warmer. And a lifetime mother of my children." I want to silently kill him with anger and regrets of his repulsive actions. He will die slowly from guilt and shame.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" he bolted up and headed straight to me. Vito stood in front of me, blocking me from him, with his gun pointing at his head.

"I will blow your brains out, and I don't care. He should have done this a long time ago, and you are one lucky bitch!" Vito growled and I tap his shoulder lightly beckoning him to step aside. 

He moved to my side, but the gun is still pointing at his head. I shot him a warning look and he clenched his jaw before acquiescently dropping his hand with the gun on his side.

"You know I am, but you still mess up with me, Salvo." I sneered sinisterly. "You surrendered to the cops or you will be the next day porn sensations of the netizens." I stared into his eyes and his eyes held anger and submissions.

"You will leave my daughter alone," he negotiated.

"NO!" I responded shortly. 

"You don't get to negotiate, Salvo. You know I'm winning this battle." I told him flatly. "I have all the evidence of killing my father, and your little dirty secret. I can file a complaint against you for murder, and see if who will rot in jail." I challenged him. 

His unfazed face now morphs with fear and uncertainties. He looks defeated and I knew I got him, cornered.

"You don't deserve my daughter. She doesn't deserve a devil like you," he grits out, clenching his hands into balls.

I glared at him menacingly. He steps back. "Yes, she doesn't deserve me, and I don't care. All I need is my slut," I cringed at the last word. I don't want to refer her like that, but I knew, that's the only thing to get on his nerves. "She will be my lifetime slut. You should be grateful that I'm not like you. I won't be bedding any other woman since she can be my whore. Isn't that something to be proud of?" I sneered smugly.

His face distorted in all-consuming anger. I gave him one last lethal look and then pivoted and headed to the door. 

"I will make sure, she will never see you!" I heard him said before I completely left his office.

On our way to the elevator, Vito finally spoke.

"Enna just landed today. What do you want us to do with her?" 

"I'll take care of her," I said. Vito nodded.

                   TWO DAYS since the negotiation with Salvo. I was watching Enna on my computer screen. She's talking animatedly on the phone, with her skimpiest short that almost drove me to insanity. She's swimming on her bed as she smiles and grimace, with all these cute facial expressions that give warmth to my heart. 

My hand occasionally reach the screen and ran my finger on her face. I wish everything is settled and I could touch her like I always do. Hold her and just cuddle her, smell her addicting scent that always give me a hard-on.

Ah yes, right there, Gio. Faster baby... ahh... *moaning loudly* Fuck yes, bambolina. You are an amazingly tight, baby... Yes, cry out my name. Beg it, bambolina... Ahh.. yes.. fuck.. yes... AHHH, I'm cumming... *panting and breathing raggedly*

The ringing of my phone snaps me out of my trance.

"Speak!" I started as soon as the phone connected, with my eyes trained on the screen in front of me.

"Carmine is dead," Sai's words bolted me upright on my feet. 

"How? When?" I asked continuously. 

"Yesterday. He was shot in the head and dead on the spot. We were following him as he headed for an old diner when he just suddenly fell on the ground. Someone had assassinated him."

Mixed emotions crawled within me. I feel sorry for his life and at the same time, I feel somewhat happy. I don't have to kill him with my hands. I don't want to add another blood from what I've already taken.

"But, I have something that would surely give all the necessary information that we couldn't extract now with the dead Castellano," Sai added on with confident and ecstatic tone.

"What?" I asked, lost in my thoughts. I was staring into oblivion, feeling lost. 

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Athena Giudici's POV

            I thought I saw Dirk waiting at the arrival waiting's lounge, but when I look again, he wasn't there. I heaved a sigh and pulled my luggage and headed to my car, at the parking lot.

Not long, I was driving back to my condo. The loud music blasted inside my car, trying to get rid of the nostalgic emotions slowly crawling in my gut as the thought of seeing him again. 

I shook off the thoughts and sang with Ellie Goulding. 

You're the fear, I don't care

Cause I've never been so high

Follow me to the dark

Let me take you past our satellites

You can see the world you brought to life, to life

But, the lyrics just brought sadness to my heart. That pain that I forget for a week, courses throughout my system, like a wave persistently slapping the shore, reminding me all over again. Fresh and burning my heart, overpowering my head.

"For everything you lose, you gain something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else. You don't have to like it, but it's just easier if you do." Bell's words rang in my head again. "I lost Rafael, but I have my son. I may not win his heart, it doesn't matter. My son will. I don't like this, but I have no choice but accept it with my heart."

Sometimes I envied her tenacity in life. She's strong and solid, and even with all these things happened to her, she has a positive outlook on life.

I felt my eyes moistened and as I tried to stop it, the tears stung around my eyes. 

I saw the building and I blink the tears back. Shortly, I was dragging my luggage inside my condo. I swung the door shut and headed straight to my room dragging the luggage up the stairs, not really caring with the loud thuds the small wheel of my luggage created as it hit the edge of the stairsteps each step. 

I quickly hit the washroom as I feel sticky after a four hours trip. It's almost eight at night. I left Austin around seven. 

             THE NEXT day, I didn't go to work. I decided to sleep in, and think what to do next. Definitely, I won't be testifying against Giovanni. I needed to talk to my dad. I want to know if that girl who answered his phone was one of his mistresses if he had been cheating on mom and how long. 

 I powered on my laptop as I made a sip of my coffee, occasionally, waiting for the bread, toast. I check on our website and I didn't see any news being published regarding that charges filed against Giovanni. 

My eyebrows scrunched up and I went through my email again and read that news Dean sent me. 

That's when I realized, it was just a sample before it will be reproduced. Probably it was my father's order.

I decided to call Dean.

"Hello,"

"Hey, it's me."

"ENNA!" He squealed like a girl. I rolled my eyes, but a smile curled on my lips. "I'm glad you're back. Is it true?" 

"What do you mean?" I feigned innocence. I don't want to share what happened on that day.

"That Gio attempt to murder your dad?" he asked with full of curiosity.

I heaved a sigh. He knew something now, and it's pointless to lie. With a lengthy pause, I approved. "He killed Gio's dad, Dean. That's why Gio wanted to kill him if I didn't interrupt Gio." I explained tightly. 

The memories of that day flooded my skull, Gio beating my dad like a wild beast, dad shot him in the chest, and I watch him fell on the floor with fear. I froze at the thought and I quickly shook it off before I lost myself again.

"You were there?" I could hear the surprise in his voice.

"Yes. I saw dad shot him in the chest," I added, absentmindedly as the scene replayed in my head and tears are slowly welling up in my eyes.

"So, you are testifying against him? Your dad accused him of murder, yet he shot him in the chest?" He asked incredulously.

"I'm not testifying against him! Not ever!" I said. My head snaps to the direction of my toaster as the two bread popped out. I stood up with the phone in my head, when suddenly, I felt spinning. My hand quickly reach for the table and balance myself.

"Enna, you're still there?" Dean ask. 

I closed my eyes and tried to relax. The sudden dizziness slowly dissipating. "Yes. I'm sorry. I just felt suddenly light-headed." I answered softly.

"Oh. Did you get enough sleep last night?" he asked with worries. 

"Yes, I did. Actually, I sleep in. I just woke up several minutes ago," I chuckled.

"If you need anything then don't hesitate to call me. I can come to accompany you," he said. 

"Thanks, Dean, but I'm okay now. I think, I'm just hungry." 

"Okay. Anyhow, I just want to know if that's the truth because I don't want to reproduce a copy of that news if it's not legit. Your dad could possibly get in trouble and not only him, some of us." He stressed out and I agreed.

"So it wasn't contributed yet?" I asked to confirm.

"No," Dean confirmed.

"I gotta go, Dean. I'll talk to you later." With that, I hang up the phone and place my phone beside my laptop. 

I walk to the kitchen counter and took the two pieces of toast bread from the toaster and place on the plate sitting beside the toaster. I rummage through my pantry and found my skippy crunchy peanut butter that I love. 

I unscrewed the lid and the smell assaulted my nose. My stomach feels churning and nausea hit me like a tornado. I felt the warm putrid feeling rising up my throat. I quickly ran to the sink and throw up every content of my stomach. An acidy bitter taste left all over my mouth after, with a tingling and almost burning sensation left in my throat and mouth, after a choking feeling. I quickly wash the disgusting liquid down the sink and then threw the peanut butter in the garbage, holding my breath, avoiding to inhale the smell of the thing. Then, I quickly head to my room and had a shower, brush my teeth and got change.

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A/N: Here you go, ladies. I'm sorry for the very slow updates. I hope this Chapter will make it up to you. Thank you!

I would also like to thank, acheairs, for the very useful information. It was very helpful and I can't thank her enough for that. I'm learning a lot from her. :) :) :)

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