For a few minutes, they sit still and be with each other embrace. The only sound in the room it's her quiet sobs. Matteo keeps rocking her back and forwards while stroking her back slowly.
She is still stuck in her mind, thinking that she's wrong that she can't help the poor man. Other than that she still feels that she's wrong for being comfortable with him, the murder. She knows that in the beginning that he's a murder but that thing never bothers her until she sees with her own eyes that Matteo kills a person in front of her.
"I. I need to go... I can't... I can't be here. I'm wrong. I'm wrong." She starts to tell her mind and start sobbing again.
"Ssshh .. I understand bambina. But I can't let you go. Never baby girl. Can I do something to make you stay?" He speaks softly, tries to make her understand.
"N .. No .. I need to go home. I can't be here anymore. Please, Matteo." She pleads while staring at him with determined eyes.
He clenches his fist behind her back, but he still needs to keep his emotion in check. He can't push her to become more scared of him.
"Why Leora? You already know I need you in my life. And you already promise to never leave me, remember? You won't break your promise, won't you?" He speaks in a calm and persuasive tone. He tries to manipulate her, and until this time it's always working on her.
"I'm wrong Matteo. I'm wrong. I need to stay away from you! You don't understand it..." She speaks more loudly try to make it clear that she needs to stay away from him.
"Try me. Explain to me. I can't help you if you don't tell me what is wrong baby girl." He speaks more persuasively. He's more desperate now, he hates when she keeps denying him.
"I'm wrong. I'm wrong to feel comfortable around you while you keep killing someone. I need to report you but I don't want you to be locked away. I know you deserve it but... but I hate the thought of you alone somewhere in cold dark places." She holds him tightly and listening to his heartbeat.
"Ssshh.. It's okay. I'm not going anywhere. I understand bambina. La mia bella ragazza gentile." He says, he understands how much guilt she bears. He is always amazed by her beautiful personality. (my beautiful kind girl)
"Bu.. But I'm guilty to not report you. I don't want to be bad. A.. And you.. you need to be the judge. It'll be fair, isn't it?" She says looking for his eyes. She doesn't want to be a bad citizen and she needs to bring justice but she knows deep down that he doesn't really mean it. If he lives a normal life since childhood then he will never kill someone.
"You're not bad bambina, you'll never be bad. How about this. You can report me to the cops or CIA or whatever you want, but promise me to never leave me and don't interrupt in my business again?" He tries to negotiate. He is never scared about the law or the police, he can just kill or corrupt them easily. Well maybe there'll be some stupid cops that will after him, but he's pretty sure that he can get away from them easily.
"Can I?" Ask Leora doubtfully.
"Yes, you can. But you need to be careful. You can't let my men caught you while you report me or else I will have to punish you even when I don't want to. Understand?" He asks seriously.
"Yes. Thank you, Matteo." She says to try to smile at him.
"Now let's go back to sleep okay bambina." He tries to coax her gently to go back to sleep. When he tries to get up with her in his hand.
"Can we do something else? I don't want to sleep. He will come in my dreams again if I sleep." She whispers under her breath, scared about the memory that haunts her.
Her words make him stop his walk and look at her face adoringly. She looks up and meets his eyes looks at her intently makes her blush. She tightens her hold into his neck and securely locks her legs in his waits.
"What do you want to do bambina?" He asks.
"Can you let me down first Matteo? It's embarrassing." She blushes and hides her face in his neck.
"Why? It's just you and me. Nobody else will see you like this." He whispers teasingly in her ears, makes the girl whimper.
"Please." She pleads to make him laughs.
"Alright." He sighs, reluctantly releases her from his hug.
"What do you want to do?" He asks.
"Hmm... I.. I know it's weird but I really want to try it." She mumbles, tries to explain her bizarre idea. Her shy demeanor makes him chuckle slightly. He takes her chin up so he can see the blush on her cheek.
"Speak clearly bambina. What do you want to do?"
"Before all this happen I found your indoor swimming pool. I really want to try it. Can I?" She asks while peeking at her eyelids.
"It's yours too bambina. Of course, you can swim there. Wait I'll tell the staff to turn on the heat." He says.
"There's a heat? So the water will be warm?" She asks clueless.
"I won't let you swimming in the middle of the night if the water is cold, non è vero?" (isn't it)
"Si." She tries to answer even when she doesn't understand the words, makes him chuckle at her amusingly.
"Let's prepare some swimsuits for us." He walks to her closet. She stands behind him looking at him clueless.
"But I don't have any swimsuit." She says and tries to catch him.
"Are you sure?" He asks while opening her walk-in closet. She peaks behind him and is awestruck at so many clothes inside the closets.
"It seems you haven't opened these gifts for you, bambina." He was always entertained by her expressive face. He finds it cute to be able to read all her emotions.
Leora still standstill gapes at a lot of elegant and expensive clothes inside the closet. She never thinks that someday she will have something like this, in her entire life. She finds that all these expensive clothes its a waste of money. She can use the money for a lot of better things than buying all these expensive clothes.
While his girl was still awestruck at the clothes, he went inside to search for her swimsuit. He is pleased that he hasn't found any bikini in her swimsuits. The butler seems to understand his preference well enough to not buy any revealing things for his girl.
"C'mon bambina, you can change to this swimsuit and the bathrobe while I change my clothes." He says waking her up from her thoughts. He laying his choice of clothes in the bed so that she can change.
"You'll be swimming too?" She asks while taking at the clothes to change.
"Of course I won't let you swim alone. After swimming I'll prepare some hot chocolate for you before sleep. Sounds good doesn't it." He smiles before left her room, to let her change her clothes.
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