THE MAFIA'S PENANCE

A NEW CHAPTER OF LOVE

My breath held for a while as I listened to all of Vernon's words. I even closed my eyes as she whispered and gave her kiss to me.

But I can't hold it anymore now. Immediately I got up and kissed her. I held myself back from doing so, but it was very difficult because somehow I realized that I love Vernon right now.

Vernon returned my kiss. This was my first kiss with her after I realized my love for Vernon. We kissed long enough until I realized what I was doing. Soon I pushed Vernon to stop kissing me.

"I don't want to go back to you." Answer me with a sharp look. "Six months ago I decided everything and you agreed, so I don't want to go back to you."

Vernon who was standing not too far away from me kept looking at me. His face was ordinary when I rejected his wishes.

"You're right, I'm a terrible woman. I've been living freely here without thinking of you and never once did I feel sorrow after losing my son. I always laugh and enjoy my life. Then why should I come back to you?"

"Because you love me." Vernon replied, his gaze was serious to me who was standing only a meter away from him.

Hearing him I snorted because he seemed to have forgotten what he said that would leave me when I loved him.

"What's wrong? Do you think that I forgot what I said that would leave you when you loved me?"

I turned my eyes away because Vernon seemed to be able to read what I was thinking. My eyes were only directed downstairs avoiding his gaze.

"What's happening now is that you're the one who's gone, not that I'm the one who left you." Vernon. "We'll stay together until you give birth to my son or I leave you. That's what's gonna happen."

"Why should I listen to you?" I asked with a sharp look.

"Because I'm your husband." Vernon replied after that turning around. "Until the divorce hearing hasn't decided our separation officially you're still my wife. Tomorrow we're going back to Sicily, get ready for it baby." While saying so Vernon walked out.

I sat back in the chair after his departure. A smile on my face, how not, seeing the presence of Vernon who came to see me made the defensive wall that I could not yet firmly establish had collapsed instantly just by looking at him.

My longing for her made my stance waver just hearing all of her words. Yes, I was willing to be restrained in order to be with him, even I was willing to hurt him to always be by his side.

"Now what, Viv?" My grandmother who came in immediately asked me the question.

"I'll be back in Sicily tomorrow... Along with him." I replied after that, drinking the warm tea that was in front of me.

"Will the madam come back to him?" Suddenly Esteban came in and asked me like that.

"Yes, I'll go back to him." I turned to Esteban who was standing far away, in front of the entrance.

"You shouldn't have come back to her, madam. He doesn't look like he's gonna make you happy. Stay here, I'll keep you company." The brunettes and gray-haired youth looked at me.

"Est, don't interfere with his decision. You're too small to understand and you're nobody." Grandma exclaimed and went straight into her room.

Esteban walked over to me and sat down on the chair that Vernon was sitting in, in front of me. His face looked irritated, it seemed like he really hated Vernon so much.

Compared to Vernon, I spent longer with the young man so that I could understand what he was currently feeling. For six months we've been together, and I've looked at Esteban like my sister and it feels like he thinks of me as his brother.

"I don't know what's going on between the mistress and the mistress' husband, but seeing her treatment of you shows that she doesn't love the mistress. He should have taken the lady's phone and not stepped on it. I'm not gonna let the madam come back to him." Said Esteban with his face.

I smiled in response to all of his words. It's the first time I've seen her upset all this time.

"What are you gonna do?" I asked a little mockingly.

"I'll take you away." Answer with a smile.

"Yes, you can do it but before you had to change your costume so that it wouldn't be your hindrance to take me away." I said as I walked towards the room and entered.

"This costume won't make me have any trouble doing it, ma'am." Esteban yelled a little in an annoyed tone because I mocked him about the carnival costume he was still wearing.

In the room, I thought about all Vernon said. Everything makes me happy now. His presence, his words and even his kiss. I've decided to live with him again, no matter what happens.

This time I will make him love me, I will make him bend his knees before me. I'm gonna make her forget about the woman named Wynetta and throw all the memories of that woman inside her.

"Yes, I will make you mine completely, my husband Vernon."

The day went by so fast and that's exactly what I wanted. I can't wait to get back together with Vernon to Sicily. I couldn't stop myself from making Vernon love me.

"Miss, when you came back to that house, what about me?" Esteban asked who was standing in the doorway of my room as I prepared all my belongings.

"Go back to your house, I'll give you a lot of money so you can go to college like you told me. You want to be a doctor, right? I'll cover all your needs." I replied after that looking at Esteban. "You happy now?"

"No, I'm not happy." Esteban. "I'm not going to college because I'm not leaving you. I'll come to that house and take care of you."

"You don't have to do it anymore. I don't need to be kept in that house, I can take care of myself and again I'm also with my husband. Even on the other side you don't take care of me because nothing ever happened to me." I was accompanied by a small laugh.

"I'll take care of you from your husband, I'm sure he'll hurt you. You always have a gloomy face when you think about it here." Exclaimed Esteban who was leaning against the doorway with his arms folded. "You must be lonely when you don't hear my babbling after six months of always hearing it."

I laughed even more at the young man's words. He is a very stubborn young man.

"I'll call you every once in a while when I want to listen to your babble." My smile.

It was not long before the sound of the helicopter landing in the yard. That must be Vernon. Immediately I walked past Esteban who was still standing in the doorway of the room, and exited.

Vernon got off the helicopter after his propeller stopped turning and walked towards me. He smiled at me who was just staring at his presence.

Esteban, who was carrying my suitcase, was behind me and Grandma was still on the porch looking at us.

"Are you ready to go home?" Vernon asked in front of me.

Suddenly I felt someone holding my shoulder from behind and I knew that he was Esteban. Seeing her the expression on Vernon's face turned ominous staring at Esteban who was behind me.

"Mrs, I'll come with you. Mr. Arthur asked me to take care of you and I will." Esteban's advanced voice stood slightly closer to Vernon.

...–NATZSIMO–...

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