CHAPTER 19 : MARIO

Nat's POV

It was early morning and the image of Nick smirking and telling me about his motive doesn't seem to get out of my head.

What ifs start popping in my head and I try my best to let go of them but they too don't seem to budge.

What if he gets to know who I am ?

What if Marco is lying and this is just a sick game of his to kill me?

What if it's true?

All these what-ifs are giving me a migraine.

But no matter how much I want to not think of these, I just can't seem to let go.

I search for a jug of water but then recall its not my room but Leo's.

Ahh last night, it was so calm and peaceful. I slept better last night than I had all summer.

Being with Leo feels so safe.

My head upon his chest, the thumping of his heart and his hands slowly caressing my hair, it's just where I want to be forever.

That's ironic because if he know who I was, he wouldn't hesitate for a second to kill me but I don't know, it's so different compared to what I felt for Nick.

Am I falling for Leo?

Yeah, I really seem to do have a death wish.

I go down to his kitchen and start pouring water from a bottle for myself.

Suddenly, I see a man I vaguely remember, coming in from the front door.

I stand on my toes and squint my eyes to get a better view of who this person is.

The kitchen is facing a room and not the drawing-room so the guy couldn't see me but I could see him.

I see his face sideways and my glass nearly falls from my hand.

It was Mario the guy who killed Luca.

My blood starts boiling and it takes every ounce of my willpower not to go and beat the shit out of him. This usually happens every time I see the sick face of Mari and the fact that he's Leo's uncle doesn't really help.

Mario even tried to kill me, it was just that Luca stepped in front of me to save me and got killed himself.

Poor Luca.

I wish he'd let me die and not get himself killed.

It was really horrifying watching him fall into my arms after five gunshots were shot into his body.

He fell into my arms with a pool of his blood covering us both.

He died five minutes later.

Marco couldn't say the last goodbye to his brother, he got to know later as Luca and he was supposed to go together with me. It was Marco's job to protect me not Luca's but at that, someone was about to shoot him so he went after that guy and killed him but by the time he came back Luca was already dead in my arms and I was crying so bad.

He started blaming himself that if he hadn't gone after that guy, Luca would still be alive.

Then after a while, he stopped blaming himself and started blaming me. I don't blame him myself, even I think it's my fault.

But seeing Mario again I feel like killing him.

I've never felt such a rage for someone, not even Marco.

Such a rage where I actually want to kill him and end his life for good and just be done with it.

I wish I could do that but I don't think I can actually kill a person with a switchblade.

I should start keeping guns for better protection.

They'll come in handy in such situations.

"Leonardo Alfonsi ! Prendi il tuo culo qui" he growled .

Mario goes up the staircase still yelling his name.

I take that as my cue and get out of the house.

As I am going out, Marco barges in and looks at the back of Mario.

What is happening here and why are my worst nightmares coming to life?

He recognizes him and starts towards him.

I grab the end of his jacket and pull him outside.

He starts growling, "No leave me, Nat, I want to send this fuckhead to his rightful place "

As much as I want to see both of them die, I don't let him go because I don't want to see bloodshed once again.

Marco doesn't listen to me and continues walking towards the house.

"Don't move!" I grit my teeth and say and Marco finally stops and looks at me.

"He's Leo's uncle," he says as though that justifies anything.

"I know," I tell him and he looks at the ground.

"Look, Marco, you don't kill Mario right now! How can you even think of committing two murders in less than 48 hours?" I ask him and he huffs.

"Why were you even at Leo's house?"

"I had some business with him"

"Like?"

"None of your damn business Nat," he growls and I roll my eyes at him.

"You know what?" he says after some seconds.

"What?"

"I am going to leave Marco for later"

"Good," I say and turn around to leave.

As though on cue, Leo opens his front door and gets out of his house and he spots me and Marco and his eyes widen.

Marco looks at Leo and steps forward and swings me around and kisses me.

I back away and I slap him but it's too late and Leo goes back inside.

"What the actual fuck Marco?" I yell at him and he smirks in return.

I'm so angry at him that I step forward and he looks at me with a confused expression.

"You really wanna play games, Marco?" I ask him and he nods.

I take out my switchblade and slice his hand with it and don't feel any guilt.

"Ow! Fuck!" he screams as blood gushes out of his wrist.

"Remember you started this and be ready for the fucking consequences," I say with a smirk and leave him.