THE MARANZANOS
The Maranzanos – Episode 23&24
( For Her Sake… )
GENRE; Mafia/Dark Romance.
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“No!!!! No my leg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arggggghhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Mia screamed out as her hands grabbed the already bloody leg.
She could feel her leg splitting as the bullet penetrated deeply, and her tears did a rushing pilgrimage down her cheeks as she began gasping for breath.
Tears escaped Franklin’s left eye as he raised the gun to her left leg.
“No! No please!!!! No!!!! Don’t shoot again!!!! No!!!! Franklin!!!!! Please!!!!! Don’t!!!!” She cried desperately, still holding the bleeding leg.
This time, Armani and Aurora came down the stairs, and Armani’s eyes widened when he saw what’s going on.
“F+k!” He gasped.
Aurora turned back and left the scene.
Sergio was smiling devilishly as Franklin pulled the trigger for the second time, but surprisingly, no sound came out, it’s out of bullet.
He slowly brought down his arm, and Sergio made a call immediately, telling the hospital to start Serafina’s surgery.
“Leave her with the one leg for now, the second bullet will be for later” Sergio smiled and patted Franklin on the shoulder.
“Keep staying strong, weakness is a weakness here” he smiled, and Franklin slowly faced him with his teary left eye.
Immediately he saw Sergio’s smile, the urge to tear it off overtook him, but he had to fold his fists so tight to fight it, returning his smile with a piercing cold smile.
You can’t save the devil, it’d only come back to haunt you. Now he understands that saying.
He regrets saving him that fateful day, and he’s sure he’s gonna regret for the rest of his life unless he ends Sergio with his own hands.
He should have known, that the day he entered this castle is the last day of peace he’d have.
It’s better to be getting chased and disgraced daily by loaners than to fall in the pit of abyss like this. He’s in for a lot right now, and only a devil can face a devil.
If he has to become a heartless devil to be a match for Sergio, then so be it. Now is just the start.
The intense stare between him and Sergio finally ended, and Sergio patted him again before leaving.
“Franklin!” Armani rushed to him, but he didn’t say a thing to him before walking away without even bothering to look back at Mia who’s still crying and holding her leg on the ground.
Armani looked at Mia pitifully before rushing after him.
Headmaid Patricia appeared with some maids immediately, and they’re the ones who took her away.
“Not what I was expecting” Sofia said, coming downstairs with Ghost.
“I should have known. Sergio will rather hurt the people around that @s$h0le than hurt him, is that how much he cherishes him?” Ghost replied.
****
“Franklin! Franklin!” Armani kept calling after him as they entered the bodyguards quarters together.
Franklin hasn’t turned back since he walked away earlier.
“Franklin!” Armani called for the uptenth time, he finally stopped to look back.
“Franklin I’ve been calling…
“We can’t be friends. I’d love to be on my own in this castle. Thanks for the gun” Franklin cut him off and handed the gun to him before entering his room, shutting the door soundly.
Armani remained standing there till Aurora joined him.
“Don’t push it, he’s just getting used to the life here” Aurora suddenly said behind him, and he turned back.
“Why do you always appear at the least expected time?”
“I’m unusual” she replied, and he smiled as they left together.
Franklin went under the shower immediately he entered his room, and as the water washed down his pecks, he rested his palms on the wall, breathing harder than usual as he remembered the shooting scene from earlier.
Mia’s cried filled his ears, and he folded his fists on the wall as his body hardened.
****
MIA’S ROOM**
Doctor Luciano appeared ten minutes after Mia was dropped on the floor of the room, and the wicked looking man squatted in front of her as he got her leg treatments out.
“Why?” Mia suddenly talked, and he looked at her.
“Why what?”
“Why are you doing this to me? Why do you enjoy seeing me in pains before coming to treat me? Why are you as heartless as father!” She demanded tearfully, and he smiled.
“Are you questioning me now?”
“You can’t answer?” She replied, and he smiled again.
“You have no choice lab rat, the only choice you have is taking everything you see here, you won’t live long anyways” he said.
“Lab rat? What do you mean by that?” She replied, and he made to slap her, but she grabbed his hand surprisingly, and he gasped
“You can slap me when you answer my question” she said, looking straight at him.
“Seems going out of this castle built done sort of confidence in your little heart, let’s see how long it’d last” he muttered and took his hand roughly from her.
“I wanted to remove the bullet before, but not again. Let’s leave it to rust in your leg for three days, b+ch” he said and worked out.
Mia crawled to her reading chair and and got her jacket that’s on it, then she tied it on the wound to stop the bleeding.
She brought out a syringe from under her gown and smiled as she stared at it.
She actually stoke it from Luciano’s kit unnoticed earlier.
Potassium was written in small letters on the blue line at the base, and she carefully inserted the needle under the syringe.
According to her research, potassium stops heartbeats in three minutes after a person gets injected with it, and this is definitely for Sofia.
She tricked her into this, and she lost a leg in the process. It’s sure that she won’t be able to walk with the leg for life, but at least, she’d get her revenge herself.
Franklin told her to stop acting stupid earlier, and following Sofia’s suggestion just proved how foolish she is
She lost a leg as her punishment already anyways, and it’s fine, but maybe it’s time to step up her game.
She might really die in here if she fails to wise up.
She looked at the injection again before getting her phone to dial Romeo, but as usual, he didn’t pick.
He never picks her calls, and he’s always not here anytime she needs him, he only comes through beg with yogurt after weeks of abandoning her in the claws of Lucifer here.
She dropped the phone and his the syringe again, and though pains is currently harrowing her leg, she still has to do the needful right now.
She called headmaid Patricia to bring her the wheelchair.
*****
COSTELLOS CASTLE**
“You lost her?” Anthony said calmly after the girls finished reporting to him
“She was taken by the driver from the other time. Sergio recruited him as suspected” Greta replied, and instead of punishing them for their failure as usual, he dismissed them.
“Leave, y’all. Go prepare for tonight’s protection” he said, and the girls left his palace surprisingly.
Anthony was holding back his tears as he opened a glass safe and brought out pictures of Mia.
He has never seen her for real since he was born, Sergio only sends him pictures of her every year on her birthday to show him the growth of the daughter he stole from him.
His tears fell on the picture, and he even cried more as he remembered their past.
<FLASHBACK, YEARS AGO>
It’s a dark spring night, and chilly air was blowing peacefully as a car stopped in front of a bar.you are reading from www.mhiztaemy.com.ng
Anthony came out of it and met Sergio waiting for him already.
“Buddy!” He grinned.
“Took you long enough” Sergio replied.
“Don’t get crossed, had to take Beatrice to the hospital” Anthony said.
Beatrice is Anthony’s wife.
“Hospital? Is she fine?” Sergio asked.
“Of f+king course, it’s a good news cos my heir is finally here, she’s pregnant” Anthony announced, that Sergio smiled.
“Congratulations buddy, finally someone to take over your organization”
“I wish for triplets like you, three boys too” Anthony said.
“Don’t be impatient” Sergio replied, and they both laughed as they entered the bar.
FLASHBACK ENDS**
Anthony went on his knees in the middle of the palace as he resumed crying bitterly.
“Isn’t it hightime you let go of the past? I’ve suffered enough Sergio, and it wasn’t intentional, it wasn’t….”
***
A BAR**
Rocco was seated in the dark part of the bar already when five rogues joined him, so hefty and well built like him.
Their muscles were breathing in their arms as they waited for what he has to say.
He suddenly dropped an envelope on the table.
“Twelfth house, Central campania, her picture is in” he said, and their leader grabbed the envelope.
They left without another word, and Rocco sat back.
“Planning to kill Elettra already?” Romeo’s voice made him sit up, and Romeo settled in front of him.
“What are you doing here?” Rocco smirked hatefully.
“And you think you have the motherf cking right to ask me that?” Romeo replied, and Rocco stood.
“How’s Mia doing? Father is not trying shit with her again, right?” Romeo spoke, and Rocco scoffed .
“Between me and you, we both know you hate her as much as I do, take off your disguise and stop pretending!”
*****
MARANZANOS CASTLE**
Patricia brought the wheelchair , and she helped Mia get on it.
“Thought doctor Luciano came to get it treated earlier? Why is it still bleeding?” Patricia asked.
“I’d like if you don’t ask me any question, Patricia. Take me to Sofia’s” she replied.
“Sofia’s room?” Patricia said, and Mia remained blank.
Patricia pushed the wheelchair out of the room, down the guarded walls of the corridor.
Franklin suddenly appeared from the other end, walking towards them.
He’s actually on his way to call a particular guard at Sergio’s orders.
Mia didn’t look at him, and he didn’t look her way either as they moved last each other in a slow mo.
Patricia got her into the elevator, and they rode to Sofia’s floor where she helped her in.
Sofia was preparing to go for the final briefing of the fumigation mission tonight when they arrived, and Patricia left immediately.
“You look cuter on a wheelchair!” Sofia laughed, dropping the singlet she was about to wear.
Mia remained unmoved as she continued laughing, and when she finally stopped laughing, she walked to her.
“Here to fight me with one leg?” She mocked.
“Thank you” Mia replied, and Sofia stopped laughing.
“That’s new, you’re thanking me?”
“Though I lost a leg, but I still got to go out and see the streets of Campania, so I’m grateful, and I’d forever be grateful for that” she replied, and Sofia smiled, bringing her face down to her level.
She rested her palms on the armrest of the wheelchair and placed her face right in front of Mia’s.
“Of course you should thank me, you can never get out of this castle anymore anyways, now that you even have one leg” she whispered mockingly and started laughing again.
Mia hardened her jaws as she watched her laugh, and she smirked.
“Same way you won’t live to see another day, b+ch!” She spat and without waiting anymore, she raised her hand from under her gown and sank the needle into Sofia’s neck, releasing potassium into her system.
TBC.
