Janet’s POV
The glass wall of the walk-in shower shattered down with a loud boom as the bullet hit it instead. Valentino looked behind him then back at me, “I knew you won’t kill me,” He smirked, his eyes shining with grace.
“Yeah, your shining eyes says it all. But you know what?” I threw the gun away and smiled at him, “I hate myself that I can’t kill you!” His smirk vanished after hearing me. I sniffed and walked past him, towards the door. I lifted my hand and wiped my tear with the back of my palm as I grabbed the doorknob to unlock the door but my body froze on my spot when he said, “I love you, Charlotte!!"
Surprised, I turned around and he was still facing his back on me. “What did you say?” I asked, the shock could be notice in my tone. He turns to me and answered, “I said, I love you!”
“Since when?”
“Since the day I laid my eyes on you,” I blinked at him, not believing him because Valentino is capable of everything, but love! I threw him a mock smile, “So, that’s your ace card?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean when no trick of yours helped you get me back, you’re putting up this act of being in love with me?” When he stood in front of me and looked me in the eyes I litrally lost my voice coz they appeared fucking honest, “No! I won’t believe you,” I managed to speak, “You’re only and only fucking obssesed with me,” He looked down at my lips and brought his hand up, rubbing his thumb over my lips softly. I gulped, my body reacting diffrently to his touch. Was I scared? No! I’m anxious... Anxious that his words might be true.
“Yes. Yes, I am obsessed with you, obsessed with your lips, obsessed with your eyes, obsessed with your hair, obsessed with your skin, obsessed with your scent, I’m fucking obsessed with each and every single part of you except your heart because I’m in love with that!” He looked into my hazel eyes with his blue ones and smiled, “Infact, I’ve been in love with it from the very first encounter of us!”
“You’re manipulating skills won’t work on me, Val!” I jerked his hand away and turned around to go but he caged me between his hands by putting them on the door. He leaned so closer to me that I could feel his warm breath on my neck, giving me goosebums all over my body.
“I’m not manupilating you, Charlotte!” He rasped on my ear. I rolled my fists and faced him. Now, our lips are just inches away from each-other. He pulled himself a little back to look me in the eyes and added, “I finally am confessing what I’ve been holding in me for years!”
I narrowed my eyes at him, “You really think that I will ever EVER fall for your words?” He smiled and moved closer. I inahled with an open mouth and tightended my fists when he dipped his head in the crook of my neck and caused a shiver to run down my spine. I wasn’t getting intimidate with his closeness, of course, but his proximity was doing something to my brain. I couldn’t think straight. “Valen-
“Well, your eyes and this drumming heart tells me that you believe me but doesn’t want to accept it!” He pulled away and looked at my flushed face with a small smile, “I know, it’s hard but you have to accept that Valentino D’Amlio don’t want to marry you because you’re his some kind of sick obssesion but because he loves you... I love you, Charlotte, love you so fucking much that I could spend the rest of my life with you,”
I blinked.
Oh-My-God! Has he really fallen in love with me?
He cupped my face and threw me his sweetest smile ever, looking into my eyes with adortion, “I know, I sound unbelievable, but trust me babe, I-I want to have that simple life with you in which there would be you, me, and our children!” My eyes softened and I could feel that my heart is melting for him. A smile was about to make its way to my lips but I held it in when I remembered that he's master at manupilating.
Yes, Janet! Don’t fall for his fake words. He’s not in love with you. It’s just his another filthy trick to get you.
My eyes hardened and jaw clenched, “No!” I put my hands on his chest and pushed him, “You are not in love with me, Valentino because when one is in love, he do his best to keep the other happy, but you? You always finds a way to hurt me!”
“I never hurt you, Charlotte!”
“Yes, you do!!” I retorted aloud, “You hurt me all the time, Valentino. I mean, you know that I don’t want to marry you but you keep forcing yourself on me!”
“I love you, Charlotte!”
“That’s not love!”
“Then what is love?” He asked, “Define it for me!”
“If you’re in love, better prove it. Because love is not a noun to define, but a verb to be acted upon!”
He scoffed, “Then what do you want me to do to prove my love to you?” When I opened my mouth he raised his index fnger at me and added, “Do not dare to ask me to leave you because that’s not happening, Charlotte. Never!”
“Alright,” I brought my palm out to him and said, “Stay with me!”
He frowned, “What do you mean stay with me?”
“I mean stay with me here!” He shot his one brow up, making a face like I have said something so stupid. I nodded, “Yes, to prove your love to me. You have to break all the connection from your lovely mafia and has to live here with me for the rest of your life!”
“You gotta be kidding me?” He asked in his gentle tone. I shook my head, “No, I’m not!”
His jaw clenched, “I’m Valentino D’Amlio, Charlotte! A fucking king of Calabria. Do you really think it can ever be possible?” I could clearly see the frustration building in his eyes.
“You said you will do everything to prove your love to me. I’m giving you a choice to choose one between me or your mafia! Is that too hard for you?”
“Of course!!” He said aloud, “I have no idea how many cops and enemies are behind me and you’re asking me to stay with you here by abandoning Mafia! Are you fucking out of your mind?”
“I wasn’t the queen though but no less, Valentino. When I can survive then why can’t you?”
He let out a dry mock chuckle, “I’m sorry, but maybe nobody told you yet that it was your Lucas and me who has protected you from your enemies all these years. So, don’t think that no one ever tracked you down and tried to kill you!!” That surpirsed me but keeping my expression tough, I asked, “Do you love me or not?”
He replied, “Yes, I do.”
“Then stay!”
“I can’t!”
“Why?”
“Because I haven’t lost my senses like you, goddamnit!!” He yelled aloud and I muted. God! How stupid I was to think he love me and will do everything for me. He sighed, “Darling, you have to understand that mafia isn’t some kind of job that we can resign and get rid of it once for all. It’s something to what we are strongly chained. The only way we can escape it is by death!”
My eyes shooting daggers at his way before I said, “See, ou're not in love!” His jaw clenched and he looked away frustrated. I turned around, unlocked the door and walked out, leaving him with himself. I heard a shattering sound of some stuff and his scream but nothing could stop me, I kept walking away from him with bundle of tears in my eyes. I couldn’t understand why was I crying. I mean, I knew that he’s never going to pick me over his mafia then why does it hurt? Myabe because deep down in my heart somewhere I was expecting him to choose me!
I wiped my tear with my palm and grabbed the door knob of the main door and opened it, “Paxton?” I said, all confused and surprised to find him at my door at this hour of the night. His one hand was holding a bouquet of red-roses and other was raised at my doorbell. He smiled but when he saw my teary face, his smile vanished and a frown apeared between his brows, “Are-Are you crying, J-Jan-Janet?” The way he asked me was enough for me to realise that he’s hell drunk.
What the fuck??

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