Bella Mia by Mandy M. Roth

Author:Mandy M. Roth
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Vampires, Adult
ISBN: 9781603942065
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 2008-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

I sat wrapped in a blanket on my bed. Caleb had seen to my needs after the shock of what had just happened had sank in. I had tried to kill Malita. I’d killed before and I hadn’t felt bad about it. But almost killing her was bothering me. I wondered if it was because she was telling the truth or the truth as she knew it.

Giovanni came and wrapped his arm around me. I looked up into his dark eyes

and shook my head.

“What just happened?”

He kissed my temple. “You just received verification I am truly the monster Pallo depicts me as.”

I pulled away from him a little. I was confused and wanted to be comforted not concerned that when I woke up he’d be gone. “No, don’t do this … What? You think because you told everyone that you know the baby was a boy that makes you a monster in my eyes? Giovanni, you took note of the fact he was a he. I’ve seen a vampire in a rage before … they don’t stop and take inventory. You did, which means you cared.”

A soft knock came on my door. Giovanni touched my leg and went to answer it.

His body language told me that it was someone he didn’t necessarily want to be opening the door for. That didn’t tell me much, half the damn house was against him—against us.

He pushed the door open and stepped aside.

Pallo stood there. His white shirt was unbuttoned and his chest was showing. His normally perfectly put together outfit looked like he’d slept in it for days. I wasn’t sure I wanted to know what he’d been doing. He glanced at me and then at Giovanni.

“May I come in?” he asked dryly.

“I thought you guys could go anywhere you wanted once you’d been invited in?”

Giovanni stared at Pallo and then at me. “We can.”

Pallo was being polite, and I had totally missed it. I looked at his head of brown, wavy hair and his dark brown eyes and wondered again how all of this had gone so very wrong. Was I doomed to spend this life cleaning up the mess I’d made in the past?

Karma wasn’t getting me—it was biting me in my ass. I nodded at Pallo and he stepped in.

“I would like to speak with you, privately,” he said.

My gaze flickered to Giovanni as he headed out the door. “No, wait!” He stopped and turned to me. “I’ll go back home with you, Giovanni—to Tuscany. I don’t belong here anymore.” I knew that what I said was the truth. I was ready to give up my life here to be with him.

Giovanni’s face lit up as he walked out of the room.

Pallo came to me and dropped to his knee in front of me. “Gwyneth, now you are thinking about going home with him for good?”

I pushed his hand away. “I told you once that I couldn’t do this anymore and I meant it. Pallo, you’ve broken me down with expectations of having what we had before, so has Caleb.

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