Page 40 of Charity's Torment

“I want you to know just how lucky you are that I don’t have the stamina to take you out as you deserve. That doesn’t mean it won’t be utter hell for you, because it will be.” I pressed the blade over his other nipple and sliced it off. “This just won’t do. I need to see the blood run down your body,” I murmured to myself as he shrieked.

His chains rattled as he struggled to free himself. His pain mixed with anger as he pulled against his restraints. Even though he was a powerful man, he’d never stand a chance against Luca’s room.

I flipped the switch and blinked a few times. “Tell me something, Gio. Why me? What did I do to deserve your ire?” I walked around the front of him to admire my work. A small trickle of blood trailed down his waist. His boxers soaked up the trail.

Giovanni and I didn’t have a bad relationship, at least I didn’t think we did. I had known him ever since they welcomed me into this life, and he had always been kind to me. I guess maybe that’s why his betrayal stung even more.

He snarled and clenched his purple fists. “He loves you.”

I rolled my eyes. “You tried to have me killed because someone loves me? Someone explain to me why that makes any sense?” I mocked while looking at my nails.

“Luca, he loves you, and you’re too stupid to see it.” The muscles in his cheeks bulged as he grit his teeth.

“Wait… is this a jealousy thing?” I laughed. “Because, if it is, I’m going to make you scream even more so for your ridiculous reason.”

“Ugh, you are so thick sometimes. Hurting you was how I hurt him.”

“Well, I am a valuable asset, but to say that he loves me is a bit of a stretch.” I rolled my eyes. “Hell, he just told me he’d put a bullet in my head if I fucked up one more time. That’s not love.”

“Like I said…idiota.” He averted his eyes.

“Okay, I’ll entertain the thought. If what you say is true… why would you want to hurt Luca? What did he do, other than taking care of you?”

Giovanni narrowed his eyes and sneered with hatred. “Arturo killed my girl.”

“Arturo is in prison… surrounded by men… I doubt he’d have access to a woman even if he wanted to, and if he did, he’d fuck her, not kill her.”

“Ugh,” he roared. “You are so infuriating. I don’t know what they see in you, you fucking cunt.”

“Honestly, me neither.” I grinned. I knew he meant before they locked Arturo up, but I needed to have a little more fun with him.

“When he killed Paulette, he killed her lover and her lover’s wife. Are you following?”

I nod, shrug, and urge him on with my hand.

“I was seeing Francine, John’s wife. I was in love with her. She was going to leave him. We didn’t know he was fucking Paulette.”

I imagine the love triangle or… square. Paulette was Arturo’s wife who was having an affair with John. John and Francine were married, and Francine was having an affair with Giovanni. Can’t people just keep it in their pants? My head spun just thinking of the complicated nature of that bullshit.

“Okay, so why Luca?”

“Fuck you.”

“Tsk. Tsk.” I put my knife to his boxer shorts and sliced them clean off his hips. His flaccid cock hung between his legs, and I tapped my knife against his ball sack. His thighs shook. “Don’t make me ask you again.”

“Okay. Okay.Fuck. It wasn’t about Luca at first. I tried taking care of Arturo in prison, but thatcoglionefailed. So, then, I went to ICF, but they didn’t want to start a war. It’s never been so impossible to take someone out in my life.” He shook as I ran the blade higher up to crease his balls. “Oh, God, stop!” he begged, and I laughed then held my side wincing. “I went to Tom’s wife. I knew she would want revenge, so I told her who ordered it. Nora was more than willing to kill the killer, but she didn’t want to get involved with the head of the Moreno family.”

I dug the tip into his nut, and he shrieked.

“Why Luca?”

“He was the next best thing. It was hard enough getting Karen to convince her husband to whack Arturo,” he said, trying to get his words out fast before I could slice his nutsack.

There went my moral dilemma of offing Karen. She was complicit and guilty like the rest. “And then tried to kill me to get to Luca?”

“You have a special place in Arturo’s black heart. Just as you do with Luca.”

I swayed side to side, taking in his words. “Why go through all this trouble when you had numerous opportunities to take me out yourself.”

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