First, I just want to make it clear that Ray and the Bonferroni family talks in Italian while Mike in Spanish. They all understand each other perfectly because they know both languages. I wanted to point it out so that you guys know they're not all speaking Italian.

Second, I have three covers here. Two of them are made by some very lovely people that I love and the third one is mine. I want your guys' opinion so just vote for the one you like best and I'll change it to that or just keep the current one.

1) By~ AngelinaRoseLee

2) By~ ButteredBums

3) Same Old

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          After seeing off Mia Regina, I headed back inside with my heart fluttering over the woman I could never get enough of, but Ray was waiting and I really needed to get my injured hand examined.

          His face was red in pain as an ice pack soothed the pain in his groin that my love caused. Chuckling at that, I sat beside him on the couch and slapped his shoulder. "How bad does it hurt?"

          "Really bad, I guess considering I've experienced that pain," Mike chimed in as he entered the office and closed the door behind him, snickering to himself.

          "Someone kneed you?" I asked curiously and fixed my gaze on the man who helped himself to some rum.

          "Wendy!"

          "Like niece, like aunt," I laughed out and heard Ray trying to stifle his chuckles.

          "No shit!" He took a swig of his drink and strode towards the rolling chair, pivoting carefully around the glass shards on the floor along with other things. "I took her to a club one day because she said she hadn't been to one in more than a decade and this sweat fuckbag tried touching her on the dance floor while I was getting drinks. So, I immediately head over to be her knight in shining armor, but the feisty woman had it all covered. She was about to knee the man and I idiotically interfered, pushing him out of the way only to meet the impact of her knee on my balls. She was not gentle, let me tell you that. I saved that boy from the cracking of his dick."

          Cracking up, I cocked my head back while Ray let out a bark of laugh only to stop abruptly. "Don't make me laugh, it hurts."

          Simmering down our chuckles, I slightly slouched in my seat and closed my eyes. "What was so important that you couldn't wait?"

          "And I got something for interrupting."

          "They were having a good time, Ray," Mike rolled in his chair and waved at all the objects scattered on the floor. "You got that for cockblocking."

          "Shut up, stronzo (asshole)," Ray scowled at Mike.

          "Say that again, puta madre (motherfucker)!" Mike spat back and slightly lifted himself off the chair, placing his glass down onto the desk, ready to give Ray some ass whooping.

          "You both shut up, idioti!" Glaring at the two immature dumbasses, I shifted back to Ray causing them both to zip their mouths. "What's so important?"

          "Party without me?" Gus stormed in with a grin on his face and pulled a rolling chair next to Mike, snatching his drink from his hand and downing it at once. "Thanks, Mike. I needed that."

          "Get your own fucking drink, puta. Don't be stealing mine." Mike hissed at him and crossed his arms. "Go make me one now."

          "Fottiti! (Fuck you/Go fuck yourself!)" Gus quipped back and the two men narrowed their eyes at each other as Belle decided to join the party too.

          "I'm going to remove each one of your fingerprints from the scanner. Walking in here like it's a damn party all the time." I yelled in frustration and looked at Belle who was clearly furious with me due to what happened earlier. "Close the door, please!"

We all watched her stomp towards the door to close it when Federigo and Amelia made an appearance. "Just what we needed," Belle rolled her eyes and walked away from the two as Federigo closed the door behind him after Wren strode in as well. This really is a major family reunion.

"I need you all to be calm when I tell you this," Ray said with fear clinging onto his shaky voice, clawing deep within.

"Just spit it out, boy," Federigo's voice scratched my ears like nails scratching a board, forcing me to shudder internally with the hate I was experiencing for this man at this moment.

"Sì, zio, (Yes, uncle,)" Ray straightened his spine and threw the ice pack to his feet, wincing slightly as he leaned forward in a serious manner. "Wren told me that the search party found her in a state of unconsciousness in that warehouse with no one around."

          My fists clenched at the imagery of her in such disgusting state. Whoever is responsible will have the worse fate. I'll burn each one of them in hell fire itself.

          "She was laying in a puddle of muddy water, so I had my team check her out for internal injuries or diseases as soon as I got here." He swallowed hard and looked up at me. "You guys should take a look her state for yourself later. My team found something."

          "What did they find?" Belle asked instantly and stepped forward behind Mike's chair, digging her long nails into the leather in anticipation.

          "Th-they..." he coughed, unable to finish his sentence.

          "They what?" Mike asked frustratedly and leaned his body forward while each entity in the room waited for the man to finish up his sentence.

          "Ray, they found what?" Mother jumped in front of Ray and kneeled down to grip his hand.

          "They found multiple samples o-of..."

          "Quit fucking stuttering and say it already," I finally roared and yanked on his collar. "Stutter one more time and I'll send your ass back to nonna in Italy."

          "They found multiple samples of semen in her," he blurted out and shut his eyes as he whispered out the next words loud enough for everyone to hear. "She was raped by them."

          My heart sank to the floor of my chest, hitting my other organs with a loud thump. The sweat on my palms and forehead began to shake my entire body with anger. Mother's sobs started to fill the room as she tried to muffle her cries in her palms. Looking around, I noticed Mike pinching the bridge of his nose as a lone tear cascaded down his cheek and Belle was crimson in fury, not shedding a tear as she stared at the wall in a tortured silence. Wren's mouth was gaped open, his brows furrowing to the max, creating a unibrow while Gus raked his fingers through his hair with his head hanging low and tears dripping onto his pants at a steady pace.

          My eyes finally halted at the man who was partially responsible for all this. His stubbornness and ignorance against my order caused this. Red flooded my vision as I glared at the man who paid no attention to me, instead paced towards the bar and slammed his fists onto the counter. Scorching anger burned through my veins and cells, forcing me to mount from the couch to rush towards Federigo and finally give him something he deserved, but Wren's question stopped me for a second.

          "Please tell me this is a joke," Wren's voice was just above a measly whisper.

          "I really wish it was, brother," Ray rolled the words out slowly. "I sent Vince along with half of my team to test out the samples. As of now, I know there're only five samples, but don't know who they are."

          Rage getting the best of me, I laid a hard slap across Ray's face, knocking him out on the spot, his body plopping onto the sofa. "No one asked for a fucking count on the men."

          "Leonardo!" Mother stood up and glared at me.

          "Mother, don't!" I warned her and stepped away from her hand that tried to reach for mine. "You supported father and look what happened. If you would have told me sooner regarding the fucking training, this wouldn't have happened."

"Son, please..."

"I said don't!" My voice roared out at the woman that it had never been raised at. "I can't even look at you right now. That's how much I'm disgusted." I glanced away at my one and only father who still had his back to me in shame. "I want you both to get out of the country immediately because if I see you guys again anywhere close, I will lose it and do something that we all will regret, something Belle will dearly enjoy. When I'm ready to see either one of you, I'll let you know."

          Belle scoffed and shook her head, her eyes shoving daggers in mother's chest. "No one follows me. I'm going to go check up on Lina. Other than Belle and Mike, I don't need anyone else in there."

"But, Leonardo..."

"I said no!" I yelled at my mother once again and walked towards the door, opening it to head in Lina's direction. How is she going to be? How is she going to be feeling? How am I... I have always made sure that my little sister was safe no matter what, never letting the waft of our problems ever get to her and then all of a sudden she doesn't only get kidnapped, but gets raped by five different men.

          My chest constricted at the thought of those bastards hurting my sister, touching her, bruising her in the worst way possible, breaking her strong soul and throwing it to mere nothingness. All I could see was red, crimson color of the blood which I would lay rivers of once I get my hands on those involved and each one of their family members. They'll regret ever even thinking about touching my family, especially my sister.

          Faint cries and shouts penetrated my ears, forcing me to bolt in that direction. Stopping at the door of Lina's room, I noticed two women trying to pin my crying sister down onto the bed by her shoulders. "What the hell is going on?"

          The two nurses immediately stood up and glanced at me before lowering their heads. "Sir, we're just trying to inject the medication into her."

          I was too occupied looking at my heaving sister to listen to these two talk. Fat tears from her tired and swollen eyes streamed down her wounded cheeks in a rapid manner, stabbing my heart and ripping it right out. All my life I had seen her get angry, mad, sad, happy, and all the emotions, but she never cried. She had always been my strong little sister just like Leona. A fiery little lion in the family was what Lina was until now. Various spots on her face were covered in purple bruises from hard beatings. My eyes could hardly recognize the girl sitting on the bed who was dying inside.

          "Leo," she cried out, her lips quivering and her eyes almost shutting due to the swelling and dark purple, almost black blotches around them.

          My throat couldn't muster up the courage to say anything to soothe the unimaginable pain she was in. All I could do was glare at the two unknown women, forcing them to scurry right past us with a bow before I near the sobbing little girl that was huddled under a blanket. Belle hastily walked ahead of me and embraced Lina immediately right on the bed.

"Little birdie," Belle's sobs tangled with Lina's as they began echoing off the wide walls of her room.

          I sauntered over to them with a heavy boulder resting upon my shoulder and I didn't know how to lift it. Placing a hesitant hand on Lina's shuddering shoulder, I attained her attention. She slowly pulled away from her older sister and looked up at me through her hazy vision, her barely visible eyes drowning in misery and her soul being ripped apart slowly.

          "Leo," her voice was hardly hers as it passed through her swollen cheeks and out her busted lips.

          My eyes welled up as her head helplessly fell against my torso in defeat against gravity and sanity itself. Putting my arms around her, I tugged her closer and rested my head upon her as her body quaked under my hold. Her cries got louder by each second as she finally gained some strength to wrap her arms around me. "They ruined me, Leo."

          "Ant," I sat down next to her and lightly loosened her grip on me to study her. The swollen purple and black bruises fueled my anger even more as my fingertips lightly brush over them. Brown vibrant color of her eyes used to light up any room, filling it and everyone in it with happiness, now it only seemed dead set on ruin and misery. Wiping her tears away, I frowned at her appearance. Rope marks on her wrist reddened them immensely while other red marks all over her arms along with whip bruises traveled all around.

          What did these monsters do my baby sister? What hell did they drag her through? I was known to be ruthless, but I never hurt an innocent little girl. What demons of purgatory were they to do something such as this to her?!

          "You should rest, Lina," I tried to lay her down. "We'll talk later. Take some medicine and sleep it off."

"No," she rebelled in frustration and pushed my hand away that rested upon her shoulder. "I need you guys to know what happened, so you can hunt those assholes down and kill them for me." The way those words flowed out of her mouth cleared one thing up for sure; she wasn't going to be the same Lina that we knew. That Lina died along with her innocence when those men decided to strangle her will to live. She grew up way too fast in the worst way.

"Okay," I rasped out and waited for her to begin.

"They took me somewhere blindfolded and when I got there, they ripped the black cloth from my head and tied my hands up to two pillars using ropes. I lost track of time after a few minutes of those men taking turns whipping me with their belts. They would jerk me awake with their fists on my face." Salty tears pooled down her face and dripped on my hands that rested above hers in her lap. Belle's fingers dug into my shoulder as I could feel her anger radiating off her and fueling my own. From the corner of my eye, I could see Mike ready to slam his fist into something and I was ready to wipe out an entire city to find those who wronged my sister.

          "This went on forever until I guess they got tired and finally left me alone for a while as I passed out on the spot due to the injuries. I was later woken up by the same five men. They took turns raping me and making me bleed brutally as hard and as badly they could." My eyes drifted away from her in shame that I couldn't protect her from such horrendous experience. In guilt of not being the best brother, I wanted to punish myself. I deserved it for being the worst brother who couldn't even shield his own little sister.

          "When I would give up and close my eyes, waiting for the darkness to take me, they'd beat me again and again, treating me like their personal punching bag until a blonde woman finally walked in with a mask covering her entire face except her unusually blue eyes. She freed me and cut the ropes. My body fell to the ground and later the men threw buckets upon buckets of ice cold water on me to wake me up completely, but I had no strength left to fight back so I just laid there in the puddle of my own filth, my dress drenched completely. The woman kneeled down and pulled on my hair to say 'this should be a lesson for your family'."

          "Did you notice anything about them at all?"

          "The men had the Aguillard family crest tattooed onto their wrists like Astor and Alicio while the woman had the small Bonferroni tag on hers."

          My anger toppled over the volcano, erupting it within me. Astor was behind this. He stooped to the filthiest level of hell and that's where I'd burn him and everyone that worked for him. His men had the family crest on their wrists while each and every one of my workers, legal or illegal, had the Bonferroni tag imprinted onto the side of their wrists. It was just a little circle that had lealtà (loyalty) engraved in extremely small and intricate letterings within it. Anyone that broke the pact of loyalty to the family met the worst fate.

          Belle shouted into her phone, "I want all of the present and past blonde, blue eyed female workers from this country only in the warehouse in downtown Manhattan. I don't care if there're thousands, I want them all in by tomorrow morning or the tigers will have your head as breakfast, yeah?"

          Mike did the same into his phone, instead it was for Astor. "Get all the dirt on him in here right now. I'm done playing games."

          "Leo," Lina gripped my hand and forced me to look at her busted face. "Kill them all."

          "Anything you want, little sister. Absolutely anything."

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I hope you enjoy this chapter. I literally cried writing a few parts in this. Ugh! That bastard Astor took it way too far with hurting Lina. Leo is going to go beast mode on those filthy bastards when he catches them one day.

How do you guys think Lina is going to cope with this?

Who's Leona?

And who do you think is the blonde traitor?

Much love ❤️
~Reet