THE MAFIA'S PENANCE

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Vernon kissed me on his lap. Why would he do that? It really pisses me off. I strongly encouraged her to stop her kissing.

He took me off with a grimace from the pain of the gunshot wound on the left upper shoulder. I stood up straight away very annoyed.

"Why is it that you're still like that to me?" My anger was very upset and did not run out of thought. "Fuck you, Vern!!"

After saying that so furiously, I walked out of the room, and down the stairs. Vegard, who was sitting on a sofa with a cell phone in his hand, turned to my presence.

"Viv, sit down, we can talk for a minute." Vegard.

Honestly, I was lazy to respond to him and prefer to leave the house to get fresh air. But who would have thought, Vegard followed me who was walking into the park.

"You don't remember me at all, Viv?"

Vegard's question made me stop walking and turn to him when I was almost on a terrace in the garden.

Vegard smiled at me revealing wrinkles around his lips that indicated how often he smiled. But I don't understand what he's saying. Whatdoes thatmean? This is the second time he's told me that.

"It seems you don't remember."

"What do you mean, Veg?" I asked by frowning because I did not understand his words.

"You know, everything I told you yesterday was true." Replied Vegard who was standing at a distance of two meters from me. "You should marry me."

I heard him laugh in disbelief. What does it mean that I married her? Why does he think that?

"Looks like you don't know, we were supposed to get engaged when you were 17. That means seven years ago."

"Veg, don't brag." I just don't believe his words. "Why should I get engaged to you? seven years ago? It's been a long time, if what you said is true, then why didn't it happen? You must be bragging, right? I'm not surprised, there's been a lot of men who have said that to me before."

Vegard laughed at my babbling. I don't understand which part of my words made him laugh. I don't think what I'm saying is a joke because it's all true. As the daughter of the biggest mafia family in the country, a lot of men tried to approach me by tricking me, even at first I thought Vernon was one of them.

Suddenly Vegard walked over to me and immediately kissed my lips with his hand holding me back from letting go. But with all my might and all my soul I pushed him and landed my right fist on his face.

"Don't you dare mess with me!! Why are you doing it?" I was upset while rubbing the lips of Vegard's kiss. "Fuck you, you son of a bitch!!"

Surprisingly the man laughed at my annoyance and it made me even more upset that I was lazy to respond to him and preferred to leave Vegard and walk back into the house to enter the room.

When he got to the room, Vernon was not in bed. I don't know where he is, not even outside. Where the hell is he going?

Because I was tired I chose to go to bed and lay my body, but I had not closed my eyes, the phone I put on the bedside table shook. Sesya called.

"Viv, you're okay, right? You're not hurt, are you?" Sesya's voice sounded very worried. "I just heard about the shooting.

"How's Vernon? He got shot, right? Is the wound bad?"

"He's fine too."

"Thank God." Sesya sighed. "Where are you now? I'll see how you are. Is it still in the hospital?"

"We've come home." My word. "Today, I'm tired. You can come tomorrow."

After receiving a call from Sesya I tried to close my eyes. But I again remembered the question of two people who felt strange earlier. Renata and Vegard. Why do they ask like that?

I remembered what Renata asked. One day after my 14th birthday. Why do I feel weird? All I remember is the words of my parents and Arthur. A few months after my birthday they showed me pictures of my birthday. I even remembered the women named Wynetta and Olivia because they were in the pictures. They also told me about the night after the celebration after my parents took me to my grandfather's house and stayed there for three months.

Then one day after my birthday celebration I was at my grandfather's house in Venice. The problem is, why don't I remember anything about it? All I had in my head was the words of my parents and the photos they had shown me. There's not a single memory I really remember right now. It made my head hurt trying to remember it.

Out of annoyance I took a breath with a slight scream. This made me upset because my memory was only limited to the words of my parents. Is it because it's been so long that I don't remember a single thing?

Vegard's words came back to me. Engaged to her 7 years ago? Even I have never met him how could I possibly be engaged to him? But actually it's possible, because I just met Vernon three days before we got married. But his words about me not remembering disturbed my mind. There's no way I don't remember an eccentric guy like Vegard.

I once again exhaled with a slightly bigger cry than before as my head became more and more painful at this moment

Suddenly the door of the clothing room opened and Vernon appeared. I didn't think he was in that place. For a moment Vernon looked at me, and I looked at him. Somehow it seems like I felt that Vernon had just let out his tears because his eyes were red at the moment.

"I thought you were out." I said as Vernon walked into the bathroom and closed the door by slamming it. "What's wrong with her?"

Unknowingly I fell asleep until the night. When I opened my eyes, all I saw was Vernon's face right in front of me. She was asleep, and even her hands were holding me.

For a moment I looked at her because it seemed like I was a little bewitched by her handsome face. It felt strange, before I hated him half to death for his arrogance towards me, but now, even I let him hug me while sleeping. Vernon's attitude has always confused me. He always looked at me with hate and treated me harshly, but not infrequently I felt his attitude was different and plus his words that sounded impossible to say to me.

My throat feels dry right now. I want to wake up to drink water. Immediately I tried to get rid of Vernon's arm encircling my body. But Vernon was getting closer and closer to me. He didn't let me get out of his arms.

"Wynn..."

Vernon's words made me look back at his face. He called the woman in his sleep. Does he think I'm that woman? The woman he loves?

Suddenly Vernon staggered to sit up. Breathing gasps. He looked at me with a confused look. Even though it was dark, I could see tears welling her eyes.

"Wynettaa..." Call Vernon when you look at me.

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