Chapter Three

Romance and Tragedy

Episode three

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Golden blings: Cabin

11:30am

Caterina stood Infront of Ryan with her head bowed, she has been standing nervously for about thirty minutes, her mind travelling to different horrible thought, thinking what punishment awaits her, she nervously bit her pink full succulent lips.

Moments later Ryan finally raised his head from his phone screen staring at the nervous girl Infront of him with an unreadable expressions, clearing his throat noisily brought Caterina out of her thoughts, she raised her head hesitantly and stared back at him. He stood up from one of the numerous chairs in the silent room and slowly poured out the whole content of his juice can on the dry sparkling marble floor and she wondered why he did that, then he went ahead to pour out the dirty soapy water from the mopping bucket on the floor and throw the bucket across the room and that action of his instilled fear in Caterina, he started going round her, taking each step cautiously, he stopped walking and stared directly at her before finally speaking

" I want you to clean this floor with this" he said and he removed a toothbrush from the back pocket of his trouser and placed it on her shaking palms.

She stared at him with both shocked and surprise.

"How does he expect me to clean the floor with a toothbrush" she said to her hearing alone

"I want this floor to be as dry as it was before" he said with finality… she looked at him trying to find a hint of unseriousness but she found none, he was damn serious. She stared at her hands and to the wet floor…

He walked back to his seat picked up his phone and started a live video on Instagram recording the moment, in less than a second it already has 1000 viewers

Someone already dropping heartbreaking and hateful comments…

" Start, you have less than thirty minutes to make this floor as it was before" He said as he placed his phone on the stood for people to have a clearer view, she stared at him with a troubled expression.

" How do I clean this place in less than thirty minutes even in an hour I won't be able to get quarter of the job done" she said to herself as she scratched her hair worriedly..

She slowly went on her knees and started to clean the floor, he then intentionally poured out water from his glass cup on the floor and she sighed painfully while he smirked.

Five minutes had gone by but still she achieve nothing, she sighed triedly, she slowly looked up to his phone which was still on the stood and saw thousands of laughing emojis and mean comments her heart sink to her stomach, she was already at the verge of tears, she wondered what she did to him that makes him to hate her so terribly or was it a sin of her past she wondered and at that moment the door flung open revealing a very angry Aurelio, his eyes caught a glimpse of Caterina kneeing on the wet floor and his anger double, he walked straight to Ryan who stood up in the process leaving only a few distance staring at him eye ball to eye ball

" What's the meaning of this Ryan" Aurelio questioned and Ryan stared at him blankly, Caterina rose up on her feet and watched the two friends fearfully

" What's it to you" Ryan answered him back with a question having a smug on his handsome face

" Seriously Ryan, why are you so heartless, ain't you tried already, your punishment are always the worst, I get the fact that your Father owns the school but that doesn't give you the right to treat a scholar student this way" Aurelio said half yelling at him,getting fed up of Ryan behavior

" Don't you dare yell at me son of whore" Ryan fired yelling back at him, Aurelio sent an unexpected punch across Ryan face and smashing Ryan phone which was still live to the ground ending the live video abruptly that took Ryan by surprise but he smirk instead of retaliation

" Don't you dare call me that Motherfucker" Aurelio said anger evident in eyes and in his voice and a satisfactory smile spread across Ryan face

Caterina stared at the two boys with fear not knowing what to do or say, she covered her mouth in surprise

" I guess you must have forgotten Aurelio let me remind you, remember you Father begged my dad for partnership because his damn business was already failing but my Dad refused Do you remember who pleaded with my Dad? Me right" Ryan said and Aurelio shoulder dropped

" You know I can ruin you Father with just a phone call" Ryan spoke again and Aurelio felt his throat dry

"Caterina go back to your class but remember we have an unfinished business" Ryan said diverting his attention to Caterina, she hurriedly left the room closing the door behind her..

" Go boy, I love the way you look so vulnerable before me, remember I owned you, without me you and your family worth nothing, all your riches and prosperity is because of my intervention, never forget that" Ryan said and walked out and Aurelio folded his fist, he hates the way he felt vulnerable before Ryan…

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1:00pm

On the street of Sicily,

Near moonshine bar

Thompson lifelessly and motionless body laid on the sidewalk close to the gutter, his was bleeding badly and he looked unrecognizable, he face and neck shining purple and blue..

Flashback

Moonshine bar

"Spare him" The Don shouted and they stopped the murderous beating, Thompson was already in his pool blood, he laid lifeless on the ground.

"But why" Fire couldn't help but ask

" He still owes me and also important to me, his life is still useful to me, take him away from here drop his body near the road and call the ambulance'' Don said and they bowed in respect..

End of Flashback

The ambulance arrived shortly and the nurses came down and carried his half dead body into the van and quickly wore him the oxygen mask and quickly drove away to the nearest hospital

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Val di noto

Sicily, Italy

2:00pm

Caterina was walking down the lonely street, her mind travelling back to the event that happened in school, she couldn't help but feel guilty, her thoughts was cut short when she felt two manly hands around her waist and fear gripped her, the man brought his mouth to her ears and whispered words to her hearing alone, hearing the voice she already knew who it was…

" I'm glad I caught you before you got home, knowing fully well that your God forsaking Uncle did not warn you" Patrick said as he traced his hand drawing circles on her neck shameless, Caterina swallowed her saliva obviously so scared and afraid.. she suddenly found her strength back and began screaming but Patrick was fast enough to gagged her mouth and he dragged her into the nearest bush she tried struggling but he was too strong, he pushed her roughly on the grass and he impatiently started on buckling his belt while Caterina cried helplessly she tried using the opportunity to run but he was swift enough to hold her and push her back on the grass and slapped her in the process, he clasped her hands above her head and with his other hand he tore her uniform blouse revealing her breast still cupped in her bra, Caterina cried helplessly feeling dirty, Patrick on the other hand stared lustfully at her revealed cleavages and he was about removing her bra when a voice spoke from behind

" Leave or I Kill you, you God forsaking bastard" Aurelio said and Patrick turned his head to look at the person that interrupted him

"Who the hell are you kid" Patrick said as he looked at the highschool kid Infront of him with annoyance

"I already warned you" Aurelio said and dragged him away from her and before Patrick could understand what just happened Aurelio gave him a heavy punch breaking Patrick nose in the process causing him to bleed..

" How dare you kid, do you know who I am" Patrick spoke in annoyance

" I don't give a flying rat ass, if I ever catch you harassing any young lady again I will make sure I feed you body to my bull Dogs" Aurelio said and kicked him hard on his stomach and the then sent a flying kick to his face which sent him flying to the ground roughly…

Aurelio Walked to Caterina and covered her with his leather jacket, Caterina lowered her head unable to look him in the eye and mumbled an inaudible thank you but he heard her

" Can't you speak loud and look up" Aurelio said and Caterina looked at him before saying thank you louder than before and he stared at her coldly

" Where do you live, I will walk you home" he asked staring down at the nervous girl besides him

" Not to far from here just go straight and take a turn to your left" she said and he nodded

"Shall we?" He said and she nodded they started walking but Aurelio made sure he kicked Patrick who was still laying on the ground and instructed him to run home and never look back and he did as he was told, while walking her home, her unpresentable and almost damaged phone rang, she removed it from her skirt pocket and answered the call, hearing what the person that called her said, her phone slipped out of her hands crashing on the ground as tears webbed up in her eyes she slowly let it out and fell on her butt

" What happened" Aurelio asked bending down to her level

" Can you please take me to St Joseph hospital" Caterina said and continued her tears, Aurelio nodded, he picked her up from the ground and walked her to his car, they both got in and he drove her to the hospital.

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