Snapping Point
Spotting Xenia at his inauguration, Romano De Rossi put his prying eyes on the unassumingly beautiful woman that shouldn't have been in the TIF Estate. She wasn't family, she wasn't a whore, and a rule of the TIF was never to let a soul that wasn't their own step foot here with hopes of leaving alive. He calculatedly watched what she was after and found nothing but innocence. And after a long night of catering, Morelli, his Don, finally spotted her. His first and only instinct to kill. Fortunately for Xenia, Romano, who barely took interest in the women that were either tagged whores by Morelli or threatened by him, had found her worthy of the emotion he never felt-pity. He saved her at the lurking cost of his own life, leaving a simple piece of souvenir: he never wanted to set eyes on her again. But a few weeks later, Xenia's back in the deadly picture as a woman he never in a million years would have guessed she was, and this time, Romano knows exactly what to do about her.--------------------------------------------"For me, favors do not exist. Just tit-for-tats and equivalent retribution. Protecting you from a man like Morelli and the entire TIF comes with its own detrimental effects, and I can't take the risk twice."…