ANNIE'S POV
After taking my shower, I went downstairs and I was shocked Leonardo was still there, he told me he was waiting for me. he kissed me on my lips which nearly broke another fight between my brother and him. escorted him to his care before returning to my brother's room. I intend to sleep in his room till Vicento gets back from his trip.
LEONARDO POV
I can't believe someone dared to come after me in a broad daylight. I left Andriano's mansion to one of my mansions outskirts of the city, where most of my men are and where I keep my hostages. I kept one of the men alive to interrogate him. my men were on guard, Jerome is one of my trusted men, he was standing at the entrance of the dungeon when I got there, Jerome were you able to get anything from him? "No, Don the man has refused to talk" he replied I walked to the cold dark room that smells of urine and blood, I don't care about the smells at all, I switch the light of the darkroom on and there sat a lean man tied to a chair and legs in shackles, whose face is almost covered by his blood. Wake him up, I commanded one of my boys to wake the unconscious man up. he left and came back with a bucket of cold water and poured the whole bucket of water on the man that brought him back to reality.
I took a chair from the side of the room and sat before him. Are you ready to talk? The man did not say anything, I saw the fear in the eyes of the man when he opened his eyes but he masked it up pretending to be tough, I asked Jerome to bring the instruments I use in torturing my prisoners, I have various way of torturing my prisoner and I have different type of instruments.
I took a nail ripper and tongue tearer from the numerous torturing tools, this is your last chance to talk otherwise I will not only kill you but I will kill your children and sell your wife to traffickers.
I will do no such thing, we don't harm women and children. I am going to start removing your nails from your left toe and end by removing your tongue, I don't see the use of your tongue if you don't want to talk.
I positioned the nail ripper on the left toe and ripped it off slowly, the man before me began to cry like a baby. I love to see my enemies cry. I. I... I will talk please, I did not even look up, I placed the ripper on the next nail.
Si. Sir," I was asked to kill the girl it has nothing to do with you, he said," what he said did not stop me, I removed the next nail, and the cry become loud and pleasant to my ear.
You are wrong it has everything to do with me. Then I moved to the third one, "I don't know who wants her dead.
The person called me with a private number and deposited money into my account. I don't know who the person please don't kill me" I placed the ripper on the nail and ripped it off with force. Please I don't know his name. I did not stop there, I removed all his nails and asked my men to stop the bleeding. I want the man alive. I asked Jerome to do a background check on the man and people he has had contact with and his band details.
Who wants Annie dead? This information is very disturbing can this attack be linked to the previous attack? because the other prisoner said the same and I've not been able to find anything on him. I am only keeping him because of vicento. He and his brother want to have their share of torturing the man. They are local criminal groups that have become a threat to people in a particular community in new york.
My man was able to destroy their hideout and killed all the criminals. There is someone out there hiring small criminal groups to do their dirty work. I need to get to the bottom of this matter, I called vicento and informed him about the threat to his sister's life. I called Mr Andriano concerning the happening and he said if I can't protect his daughter, I should return her to him. Mr Adriano is a man of few words and the only man I am scared of. In the mafia hierarchy, he is the boss of all mafia bosses, he is the Godfather of all mafia families in the world. I am the mafia boss of the American-Italian mafia family while vicento is the mafia boss of the Italian mafia but the old man has not fully handed over his position to him and my father has not fully handed over to me until I am married, my leadership has a condition, I can only be the mafia boss when I am married to Annie, no other woman.
If I allow Annie to go back to Italy because of a threat to her life, it means I am not fit to be a leader and I am not fit to be her husband.
The Dicosta family and the Andrianos are the same family, according to our history tracing back six generations, the Godfather of the Italian mafia had two sons, the older one took the position as the boss and the younger one travelled to America to establish himself but his brother in Italy became his boss, they both agreed the godfather position will rotate between their generations, the youngest's son became the Godfather after his uncle and we've maintained it till date. I am the next Godfather, before I can become the Godfather, I have to marry Annie.
Annie's mother is also a distant cousin of her father. I have to do everything possible to get to the bottom of all these threats. A few days ago, our ship was hijacked at sea, I've not gotten to the bottom of the problem yet.
It has been a week since the attack and we've not got any trace of the person behind the attack on Annie and aunt marks back in New York the attack on us in the restaurant is not a coincidence. I decided to keep my eye on Annie personally without letting her out of sight and I am doing well so far.
Bella called me yesterday that she will is coming to California and she will like to work with our company while she is here.
You might ask, who is Bella?
Bella is a family friend, she is like a kid sister to me, growing up, we didn't grow up around many females, our family is men dominated family but we respect family and we respect women. I have considered Bella as a sister and I have always protected her back in high school. She is a very lively person but my younger brother Devin hates her and I don't know why.
I don't appreciate men disrespecting women and I don't appreciate his attitude towards Bella.
Annie now spends some of her nights in my mansion, I wanted her to move in with me but I am also because her brother is still in California, she wouldn't move in fully knowing her brother is around. But having her around me all the time is satisfactory, I have spoken to Isabella and she is now ok and she has accepted to only give me pleasure when I needed to release. I give her a huge amount of money for her shopping in exchange for sex. I bought her a brand-new Lamborghini last week.
I also asked her to stay away from Annie which she agreed, I can't stay without sex, that's the only plan I can come out with since Annie has even refused to share a bedroom with me, I don't blame her, I plan to prove to her that I've changed.