Animalistic Desires

AHaCaS Part 6

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"I love you too." Gabriel replied as he was taken aback by what she said. In reality, she was probably the only who could ever get away with talking to him like that.

"Stop it!" She exclaimed, as she shot him a look of disgust.

"I don't understand." He said, in confusion. "You've been nagging me for years, asking me constantly as to when I was finally going to settle down. Well now I am, I thought you'd be happy."

"Oh, I don't know." She replied in sarcastically. "I guess I thought you might date someone first."

"Maybe we've been dating for years." He told her as he folded his arms. "Maybe I just didn't tell."

"Lies to yourself all you want, Gabe!" She yelled. "But don't lie to me! She's from New York! You and I both know that you've never been outside of Europe! Now where did you meet her?"

"I heard her singing outside a local petrol station yesterday." He explained. "It was almost as if I could look into her soul, and I knew she was the one!"

"Oh my god!" She cried, as she covered her forehead with the palm of her hand. "So you just took some poor girl off the street? Like father?"

"I am nothing like father!" He replied angrily. "Our father used to beat our mother! I will never raise a hand against my songbird!"

"That's what you used to say about joining the mafia." She replied with a look of disapproval.

"I didn't have a choice." He growled. "I had to avenge our parent's deaths. But even then I didn't do it for father, I did it for mother. But once I dealt with their killers, there was no going back. I was thrust into my new role as head of the Esposito family. As a woman, it's different for you. You don't have to be a part of it."

"I'm not a part of it?" She exclaimed while furrowing his brow at him. "You have body guards tailing me all the time! I can't leave my house without being followed!"

"That is for your protection!" He stated firmly.

"And as for finding a husband, well forget that!" She cried. "No man would dare come near Antonio Esposito's daughter, and they wouldn't dare come near Gabriel Esposito's sister either. Maybe if I'm lucky, one day some maniac will just grab me off the street.

Gabriel looked at her, and sighed. "Believe me, I had every intention of trying to get to know her the old fashioned way. But sometimes fate can intervene."

"What happened?' She asked.

"I went to collect a $10 million debt, from an old man who resided a few miles outside of Palermo." He told her. "It turned out he was her uncle. I had every intention of sending her back to the states, but she threw herself in front of her uncle. I almost shot her by accident. She held him, and begged for his life. I had never seen such loyalty before. All that did was prove to me that she was the one I had been searching for all this time. So I made her a deal. I would spare her uncle, if she would agree to be mine."

"Do you have nay idea how fucked up that is?" She asked, as she crossed her arms in judgement

"I didn't have a choice." He replied solemnly

"Yes you did." She quipped. "You could have spared her uncle, and let her go." He then placed gently placed his hand on her upper arms, and looked into her disapproving eyes.

"Listen to me, Rosy." He said. "I run a tight organization, but even I cannot stop all leaks. I know that there have been traitors here, and there. And I am doing my best to find them, and have them dealt with. But no organization, especially one such as this, is one hundred percent fool proof. You and I both know, that our family has enemies. Enemies who would do anything to destroy me. Even if I wanted to, you and I both know they would come after her just to get to me."