God. My coronary heart was breaking. I wiped that tear away and sat nearer to her. “It’s all proper, Principessa.” I wiped one other tear. “We killed Grigori and his operations right here in Chicago. The Bratva gained’t dare return so quickly. You’re secure now.”

I had made positive of it. After that evening, I had Vitelli and all my males search out the Russians and gave them a selection, both depart my territory or die. I hated not having the ability to battle beside my males, however Francesca was extra essential now. She was my household and household all the time got here first—even earlier than the Outfit.

“What about Donato?”

I shook my head. “Lifeless,” I confessed, and he or she sighed, visibly relieved.

Francesca checked out her wounded shoulder after which at me. “Will Marco pay for my father’s errors?”

I had considered that. He had recognized about Donato’s conferences with the Bratva and hadn’t warned me, however he was only a child and on this I used to be biased. He was Francesca’s brother.

I shook my head.

Francesca sighed. “Thanks.”

“He’s your brother, I might by no means hurt him,” I confessed. I kissed her nostril and he or she grinned. It was the sweetest sight on this planet.

I closed in and kissed her frivolously. She tried to deepen the kiss, however I moved again, eliciting a pissed off groan from her which made me chuckle.

“I really like you,” I proclaimed. “I would like, no, I want you to be mine, eternally.”

Her eyes shot broad. “Is that this a proposal?”

Fuck that’s not how I deliberate this, however nearly dropping her had opened my thoughts and made me see that all the things I wanted and wished had all the time been proper in entrance of me.

I eliminated the field from my again pocket and opened it for her. “4 years in the past, I broke your coronary heart, and within the course of, I misplaced you. It was the largest mistake of my life, and I’ll remorse it eternally. I do know I don’t deserve this, otherwise you, however I’m actually begging you. I’ve lived these previous 4 years in darkness and distress. I’m solely alive when I’m subsequent to you. You make me need to stay. You’re the very air I breathe, Francesca. With out you I’m nothing.”

“Cassio–“

“Wait,” I ended her. “I want you to know that I all the time liked you even after I broke issues off. I by no means stopped, and I by no means will. You’re it for me, Francesca. Seeing you on this mattress unresponsive, made me understand that if I can’t have you ever then I don’t need to stay anymore.”

“Don’t say that.” Tears snaked down her cheeks.

“It’s the reality, my coronary heart beats just for you.” I confessed.

She reached for my hand, and I provided it to her. “I really like you, Cassio, and I forgive you. I’ve for some time now.”

These phrases hit me laborious like a baseball bat to the abdomen. I had by no means anticipated how a lot they’d have an effect on me and the way a lot I wanted to listen to them.

“I really like you.” I stood up “Will you marry me?”

She beamed vivid because the solar. “Sure, sure!”

“Thank fuck,” I positioned the ring on her finger and kissed her.

“Love you, too,” she mumbled by way of kisses.

I lay beside her in mattress and watched as she inspected the ring, a fats, glad smile on her face. The physician had come earlier and checked on her. Marie and Vitelli had been on their approach, which meant we had a few minutes to ourselves. Francesca lifted her head from my shoulder and seemed me within the eye.

“Why are you crying, Principessa?”

“I’m blissful, Cassio. I by no means thought I used to be going to have this,” she confessed.

“What?” I requested.

Simply then Vitelli, Marie and Marco stepped into the room. Once they noticed her awake and smiling, they entered and started to fuss over her. When Marie noticed the ring, she gasped and the 2 wouldn’t cease smiling. Vitelli got here subsequent and he hugged her, too, like a brother would. I noticed then in his eyes a promise that he would all the time defend her. Marco got here final, and all of us let the 2 of them discuss for some time.

“Congratulations, man.” Vitelli tapped my shoulder. I grinned. “So, marriage…who would have thought.”

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