“Me too,” he says softly. “We’ve all misplaced her, however we now have one another to get by means of this, proper?”

I nod, smiling to myself once I understand the one factor I ought to have mentioned all alongside. “Il mío sole. That’s what you might be to me.”

“Sunshine, huh?” he raises a forehead.

I increase my hand to the heavens opened up above us. “Sunshine on this storm.”

He smiles at that, like my phrases have introduced the faintest hint of happiness to our morbid actuality.

The area between us is suspended in silence, a second the place it’s simply us, wanting into one another’s eyes. I see all of the lightness begin to return in his eyes, I really feel it as I shut the gap. After which I crash my lips to his, letting the rain wash away the newly fashioned tears from my face.

He cups my face, pulling me in more durable like he can’t get sufficient of this straightforward change. Our tongues tangle, our ardour burning by means of the kiss, our emotions pouring into it. The rain pummels louder round us, and though our garments are soaked by means of, there’s nowhere else I might moderately be than proper right here. I do know I can’t get by means of this ache with out Levi, and I feel he feels the identical.

Finally, Levi pulls away, the fireplace in his eyes burning vivid as he strokes my cheek along with his thumbs. He’s staring so adoringly into my eyes that by some means, all my concern and doubts are swept away in that second, the depth of our kiss reminding me of what we now have. Of what I’m so fucking afraid to lose.

“Come on, fairly boy,” he says, pushing as much as his ft. He holds a hand out to me and I search for at him suspiciously.

“Fairly boy?”

Levi rolls his eyes, heaving me up in order that I’m chest to chest with him. “On the times when the skies are grey, you’re what I wish to have a look at. When the skies are blue, I’ll nonetheless be you.”

My chest constricts with one thing unfamiliar. It’s not a ache, however a lightness, a featherweight brush of one thing liberating.

“Now come on, we must always dry off.”

I comply, following him again inside the place the heat of the home makes me shiver from the temperature change. We rid ourselves of our garments, wrapping up in blankets earlier than wrapping ourselves in one another’s arms on the sofa within the den.

The place nonetheless smells of Sera, and Levi should know that that is the place I really feel most comfortable. It’s the one factor reminding me that she remains to be with us. The one factor maintaining me considerably sane on this chaos.

I shift in Levi’s arms, not even perturbed that the sofa can barely match us horizontally, and relaxation my head on his chest. I nonetheless really feel the burden of Sera’s absence. I don’t suppose that can cease till she’s right here with us, however till that day comes, I do know I nonetheless have Levi, and he has me.

With the hope of my ideas, I let the week’s price of unforgiving exhaustion take me beneath, pulling me into the darkish the place guilt and concern can’t get to me.

Giovanni

The ache is available in waves, my consciousness warring with the darkish. I want I might keep there within the abyss, the place the ache can’t attain me, however like clockwork, I’m woken up by the chilly assault of water splashing over my face.

Luciano repeats the ritual, chopping and slicing, stabbing and slashing. Each time I hear Sera’s screams for Luciano to relent, I lose just a little extra of myself. That is her ache. Whereas mine is bodily, she has to battle it mentally and emotionally, and I personally know which one is worse.

Cuts and bruises heal, however the emotional torment by no means goes away. When all of that is over, she’ll must dwell with this, whereas I’ll be someplace the crows can decide at, by no means to search out my household once more.

Sera’s sobs have change into nothing greater than croaks on this frigid room when Luciano reappears. Her ache is clear, however he gained’t relent till she abdicates her place. That’s what he desires out of this. He is aware of he can’t kill her as a result of there must be a physique to search out and solutions to questions from the Elders.

What’s worse is how the sick fucker will get off on this shit, so killing her doesn’t appear to be an choice anyway. At the least I do know she will be able to get out of this. If solely she would give Luciano what he desires.

I don’t understand how lengthy we’ve been down right here. There are not any home windows or clocks to inform the time. The one fixed is the torture and reduction when Luciano sends his troopers to patch me up, just for it to start out over again as soon as I’m safely confined in my very own thoughts.

But it surely’s not protected in any respect. It’s the place my demons discover me.

I want I might cease this. I want I had the facility to guard Sera, however I don’t. I by no means had the facility as a result of it was taken from me the day Gabriella was stolen. And now, I don’t suppose I’ll ever get her again.

The silence is deafening on this room, the unhappy rigidity thick and suffocating. It’s darkish and damp in right here, the scent of blood and piss leaking from each crack and crevice on this place. What’s worse than that’s the truth that Sera hasn’t spoken to me instantly for the reason that torture began, she’s solely begged Luciano to cease.

“Sera?” I pressure out. My throat is dry from the ache, my voice cracked and damaged like my physique. “Sera, I have to ask you one thing.”

“I don’t owe you shit.” Her voice is void of all emotion. I do know she hurts for me, however that’s so far as her forgiveness goes. There’s no getting back from what I did to her. There’s no getting back from any of it for me. I understand how this ends and I’m at peace with that.

“Please,” I cough. “You’re going to get out of this. And if you do, I want you to search out her.”

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