Chapter 47 FAVORABLE TWIST
SOFIA
Blood.
Red everywhere.
How much more ofnthis can I digest into my tiny mind and still survive?
I guess I am stuck to this world of bloodshed, crime and violence.
It's crazy how I am not nauseated by its sight. My gender would totally be scared of what I have become.
I froze on my stance. My eyes widened in utter shock.
This was the least I was expecting to come back to see. Mario's head laid there like it had been severed.
His eyes staring blindly into the air and blood covered him up…
What a horrible sight……
Fear gripped me….My whole body was in shock.
But on the other hand, I think I just might have been saved.
Mario didn't have a good plan for Roberto and this could have resulted into chaos and more bloodshed.
Maybe killing him was he best option to save me at this point.
Suddenly, Roberto's hand circled around my waist as I stood there. “How.long are you going to stand there and watch a dead man dream in his own blood?”
“You should be inside…Allow the men pack his body..”
“He didn't do anything,” I said in a low tone even though I wasn't sure I was saying the right thing.
“No man dies without being guilty of an offense or the other. It is ignorance that makes us think otherwise. Your father's boy trespassed and he has been killed for that reason…no foul!!” He uttered.
“That reminds me….what message did he bring for you? Cause I was watching you both from the windows, it seems like you both was in an argument,” he voiced out.
My heart raced, “What do I say?”
How do I say it so he doesn't suspect??
“I'm talking to you, Katherina. What did the young man say to you?” He repeated in a loud tone.
“He was here to tell me my father wants me to.come see him back in Russia, my love but I wasn't ready to listen…”
“I was just telling him you won't allow that. I can't leave the man I am in love with and go back to that cage called a house. Moreno, going back there only tears apart the agreement between the Mafia unless you both agree to it..” I explained with a stammer.
My breath got heavy and I just couldn't imagine what next he might ask.
“Hmmmmm…..” he smirked.
“So your father thinks he could just bring a man to take you out of here and I'd let him?!” Roberto protested angrily.
“Its nothing to worry about. I think my Papa just wants to see me but not to worry, love, I am not leaving for anywhere…” I uttered.
“Oh of course, you are definitely not doing that. If he sends a thousand men to get you, I would kill them all. You have no business with anyone there anymore not even your father. If he wants to see you, let him come down here himself…”
“Or Is he scared of coming into my country?” Roberto bursted into laughter.
I laughed as well but on the inside. That exactly was befitting of my Papa. He was always making others do his dirty job for him and going scot free.
Mafia Boss, my foot!
If he is certain of the power he wields, let him come to Sicily and face the DeLuca…these people are mad dogs!!!!
Roberto paused.
“Sit here and let me call your father..” he ordered.
My heart almost jumped out….”Oh shit.”
Would my father sell me out? Of course not, he would understand I have to lie to protect myself. After all, the plan already failed and Mario is dead.
He rang up my Papa's phone and after a few seconds, Papa picked…
Papa was the first to speak and his voice was loud like he was agitated to see the call in the first place.
“Roberto, where is my boy?”
“I have sent there for an errand and he ought to be back by now!!!”
“Sent him on an errand, uhn? For what?” Roberto asked again.
At this point, I knew I was about to get into trouble. Papa wouldn't hold back, now with that tone.
“Papa…..!” I shouted, interrupting the conversation.
“Shut it, Katherina…”
“I'm sure you must thinknyour boy is bringing your daughter to you as you told him to but sorry to burst your bubble, nothing of such is happening!!!”
“I wil be sending him back to you so don't worry, little Dimitri. You would see your boy very soon..”
“I assure you,” he added.
“What bullshit are you talking about and how come you are stilll….”
“Papa!!!” I interrupted again.
“Dont let me get on you, Katherina. Else you will end up just like him!!” Roberto threatened.
“Don't you dare threaten my daughter, Roberto cause I can hear you from the call!!” I heard my Papa shout from the phone.
I was shocked.
Was that my Papa calling me his daughter? Defending me?
Oh please, it is definitely for the rivalry. It can never be for me.
For the most of it, I just needed Papa not to implicate me cause he doesn't even know Maria isn't alive anymore.
“Send my boy back to me!!” Papa finally spoke after some minutes of silence on the call.
“Oh yeah, I will…but know this, don't you ever try sending anyone to my house unless I approve of it!! It never ends well!”
“And if you need to see your daughter, you can come see her yourself right here in my mighty mansion!” Roberto boasted.
“Why the fuck would I want to see her? You can keep her for as long as you wish. Just send Mario back to me right away, you piece of shit!”
Roberto wouldn't stop laughing as he ended the call.
“Your father doesn't have any regard for you and he is stepping on my toes. We signed a deal and he is misbehaving. If he continues this way, I would kill your father!!” He blurted out.
“Kill Papa??”
A part of me would have said ‘all high Yes’ to that but then again he was my Papa and I have no parent left but him.
“Please don't. I'm sure he wouldn't try it again, my love!”
“Hmmm…how true is that?”
“I can show you, my love..” I said in a low tone.
“How?”
I knew the best way to calm him down so I raised my dress up to expose my thighs and he smacked his lips.
“That is a lovely view, my darling. Go to the bedroom. I wanna fuck the anger and frustration I feel for your father, out of me, this minute!!”
“But, my Lord, what would happen to Mario's body and my father?” Inasked out of curiosity.
“Oh that, no fuss. I'm gonna send a box with his head in it to your father!”