One day.

That's how long it took for me to realize I fucked up, royally.

I fucked up when I let Angelo get in my head. I felt like such a dickhead. I don't deserve her, but she's all I want. I haven't even been back to the US because I would just end up right at her door and I've been staying longer so I can be here for Allison. I haven't been eating or sleeping right for the past week. Even with her unruly way of sleeping, I would still choose to sleep with her.

I seriously fucked up and I have no idea if I could fix it. Knowing her, she probably wants nothing to do with me.

I decided to call an old friend of mine. I was in dire need of advice and I couldn't get that from my brothers, because they kept clowning me. Allison doesn't know much about the situation but she dropped her two cents in, called me a moron. Even my own mother.

I deserved all of it.

The phone rang and he answered on the first ring.

"Now you wanna call me?"

"Adriano, it's been a long time."

"You should know how displeased I was when I heard my best friend who I haven't seen
in two years is back in Italy and I haven't heard from him. I called but no answer."

"It's been a hectic week, could you swing by? I'll explain everything "

"Yea I'm on my way."

On top of everything we found out that our father was the one who told Angelo of our arrival. Ale said he didn't even tell him about the mission because he knew he would've stopped us from going after Angelo.

The same way he stopped us from going years ago. I found it odd when Allison had gotten 'killed', our own father didn't want to go after Angelo and his men in fear of starting a war, but to our surprise daddy dearest knew Allison was alive and had a whole deal with Angelo regarding a shady trafficking business. The bastard set up his own daughter to be trafficked. He told Angelo to woo Allison, knowing she would fall for it. All that bullshit about using Allison for information was a front so we wouldn't suspect our father. Allison told us how Angelo couldn't go through with it so he just kept her at his estate the whole time.

Ale and his men have been working tirelessly trying to find where our father was hiding. I could just imagine his face when he found out we were all alive.

About 15 minutes later Adriano announced his arrival. I walked out to the foyer to see Ivan letting him in.

"You look like shit," Adriano walked over to me and gave me a hug.

"I feel like shit," I told him honestly.

"I heard about your run in with Angelo, how's your sister?"

"She's alright, it's like nothing changed."

"That's a good thing, I hope."

We walked toward the living room where Alessandro and Dario were.

"He's gonna be throwing up crying when he finds out." Dario snickers.

"When who finds out what?" I asked curious to what they were talking about. Dario just flew in from New York this morning so I had a feeling it had to do with me.

"Adriano, good to see you man."

"Adriano," Ale nods.

"Back to my question. What's going on?" I questioned again.

Dario kept his mouth closed and didn't say a word. Alessandro rolled his eyes at him then turned to face me.

"Samai was with a guy last night." He said before turning back to eat his cereal.

"I know you guys aren't happy with what I did, but you don't have to make up lies to make me feel worse." I was getting angry just by the thought of Samai with another man.

"I'm many things brother, a liar isn't one of them. Ask him for the proof." I turned to Dario.

"Show me," I demanded.

"Are you sure you wanna see? They looked pretty cozy,"

"Just fucking show me,"

"Okay, just promise you won't cry."

Dario fished out his phone, and searched for the proof before turning it to me. Samai was kissing a man outside her new apartment. It felt like a punch in the gut, I pushed the love of my life into the arms of another man. Dario swiped to the next photo and it was both of them smiling at each other. I was fucking pissed. Pissed at myself for pushing her away. Pissed at her for moving on so fast. Did what we have mean nothing to her? It's only been a week.

"Dario why the fuck were you creeping outside of Samai's house anyway." Ale questioned.

"I wasn't, I went to visit her to see how she was doing, but when I got there I saw the car pull up, he opened her door and everything. It was honestly romantic, they looked good together." I knew Dario was only doing that to get under my skin and it was honestly working. "Anyway, I saw them kiss and I took the picture to come show Ren what he lost."

Dario was pissing me off. If he wasn't my brother I would've shot him, right between the eyes. When he saw my murderous expression, he folded his lips inward to prevent himself from laughing. He found this whole thing amusing, I felt my chest rising and falling rapidly. My body is getting hot and I'm fighting the urge not to lunge forward and knock his teeth in.

"Alright that's enough Dario, Ren already feels bad enough. Stop trying to make him feel worse." Ale said to Dario.

"No, I don't feel sorry for him. He knows what he did."

"I already know what I did was fucked up-"

"Then why the fuck did you do it!" Dario got serious. "You ungrateful fuck, she saved your life. She killed Angelo and alerted us to come help you, she found Allison, she's the one who makes your job easier. And what do you do? Believe your fucking enemy and turn against her, embarrassed her when she told you she loved you in front of all of us, left her jobless and kicked her out. I wouldn't be surprised if she never wants to speak to you again. You didn't hear and see how broken she was when I drove her to the hotel and airport that night. Samai has become one of my good friends, she's a good person and she didn't deserve that."

I felt a tap on my back and I turned to see Adriano telling me to calm down. And eerie feeling fell over the room and I brushed it off. Dario was about to storm off when I head our bastard of a father's voice stop him.

"Now now, don't leave yet son. The party is just starting." We turned to see our father holding a gun towards us. "Ah Adriano you joined the party too huh."

"What the fuck is this about?"

"This is between me and my children, stay out of it. Now where was I. Ah yes, Lorenzo this is all your doing, you shouldn't have come here and you brought that bitch with you who killed Angelo and found Allison. YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING. And now you're going to pay, with your life."

He aimed the gun at me and I heard the shot go of before I could even move. I didn't feel anything but I heard a thud. I saw my father's body drop to the floor. My mother stood behind him with the gun.

"Vai all'inferno, fottuto bastardo!" (Go to hell, you sick bastard!)

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Me casually writing 1200-2000 words each chapter: 😁☺️
Professor: Write me a 1000 word paper on the following topic.
Me: *contemplating dropping out*