THE MARANZANOS
The Maranzanos – Episode 29&30
( For Her Sake… )
GENRE; Mafia/Dark Romance.
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“Please…let me hug you for three minutes. Share your warmness with me for just three minutes” she whispered, hugging him tighter.
At first, Franklin wanted to pull away from her, but feeling her immense coldness on his skin made him stay still.
How could a human be so cold? Is she perhaps a mermaid who got chased away from the river kingdom? Or a cold-blooded animal who transformed to a human?
Different crazy possibilities started running through his head as she kept tightening her arms on his body, and he almost ran mad just thinking about everything.
Mia’s coldness began reducing, and the ice on her skin began melting, the water streaming down to the ground.
She closed her eyes and tightened the hug again, almost sucking breaths out of him as her slender arms caged him. She’s not ready to let him go, at least not until her condition gets better.
“Don’t go… please stay still…I just need your warmness, else I’d continue suffering… please” she muttered, resting her head on his broad chest.
“You’re suffocating me, dwarf” he muttered, and she even tightened it.
“Enough” he said, and she loosened her arms a bit.
“What are you?” He asked the question again, and she kept quiet.
“A f+king mermaid?” He said.
“I’m human, and Sergio is my father. My mum is dead” she replied shakily.
“Lies” he said.
“They’re not lies” she replied, and he broke the hug to look at the pool of her blood on the ground.
“You lost this much blood, and you’re still alive? Don’t give me crap” he glared.
“I dunno” she muttered, sitting back on the ground.
The rain stopped already, and her cold is gone. She stopped bleeding too.
He stood gallantly, and she looked up at him.
“Thanks” she muttered, and he turned back, walking out of the room.
“Tallest” she called, and he turned back with a scowl.
“I take the dwarf nickname you gave me, allow me to call you Tallest too since you’re so tall” she sat with a light smile, and he glared hard before going out.
He met Armani waiting in front of the room, and he blinked.
“You said it was forbidden to come here when it’s raining, why are you here?”
“I just couldn’t leave you alone. If you die, then we die together” Armani replied.
“You crazy?” Franklin frowned.
“This is just how I am. Once I chose a friend, then no backing down. You’re mine” Armani winked.
“Stupid” Franklin frowned again and started leaving.
“Luckily I was able to get Aurora to switch off the cameras of this floor, so we’re covered” Armani said behind him, and he stopped.
“The psycho?” He said surprisingly.
“Yes. I dunno but she agreed to do it immediately I told her, she didn’t mind the risk involved at all” Armani smiled, joining him.
They left the floor together, and the beep for tommorow’s mission sounded on Franklin’s phone immediately.
He checked and saw it’s drive-by shooting, then he sighed.
“It’s the simplest of the missions here, I went for drive-by shooting fifteen times already, so I’ll put you through, you can count on me buddy!” Armani winked with a silly smile, and Franklin shook his head.
“Let’s go, stone face” Armani laughed, walking to their quarters with him.
The first person they bumped into was Aurora.
“Thanks, psycho” Franklin said sharply, and she frowned.
“You’re gutsy, no one calls me psycho to my face” she said, and he moved closer to her.
Surprisingly, he stroked her hair like a kid’s, and she blinked.
“Well I can, cos you are” he said without smiling, and he left afterwards.
Armani followed him, and Aurora turned to stare till they went out of sight.
“That bastard” she muttered with a dry smile before turning to leave, only to bump into Ghost.
“Any probs?” She rolled eyes.
“Got any roll? I crave for smoke” he said.
“Seems Sofia’s death brought you back to lane” she said, and he nodded.
“Follow me, dirt” she said, leading the way while he tagged along.
*
ABYSS*
Rocco is practically dying right now, and the fact that it’s gonna be like this for three days is already hell.
His clothes are off, and he’s backing the wall as he sat on the ground, but even the wall is hot, no air in the room at all according to Sergio’s orders.
“Franklin is a lot better than you and Romeo!”
He remembered Sergio’s words earlier, and he folded his fists so tight before spranging up.
He punched the wall angrily, and blood erupted.
He fell back on his knees immediately, sweat pouring out of all the holes on his skin.
He was breathing hard as he rested his forehead on the wall, and he punched again when Franklin’s face came to his head.
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COSTELLOS CASTLE**
The girls are all kneeling currently, right in front of Anthony who’s busy smoking, sitting regally on his throne.
They finished reporting already, and they’re currently waiting for judgement which will obviously be a punishment order.
“Actually… Azura slacked off during the fight” Greta suddenly talked, and their eyes widened, but Azura remained unmoved as Sergio stood.
“Azura?” He said.
“Yes boss. I don’t know her connection with the driver guy, but she got weak when they were combatting, and I got distracted when I tried calling her back to track” Greta continued.
“I was the one who got distracted trying to call her back, and I don’t think Azura became weak cos of the guy, it was because of her wounded arm. She got shot yesterday” Neptune replied, and Greta rolled eyes.
“Doesn’t change the fact that the family was already gone when you girls arrived. I was payed for the job remember? I received millions for it but you blew it up!” Anthony yelled, throwing her pipe at them.
The smoke store hit Azura’s forehead, and she began bleeding immediately.
“Exit” he ordered, and they all left immediately.
Anthony fell back on his chair.
“Sergio, till when are you gonna torment me?”
**
BODYGUARDS QUARTERS*
Neptune landed a punch on Greta’s face when the girls arrived, and when Greta tried returning it, Azura blocked it and caught her fist.
“You have no right to f+king punch me!” Greta yelled as Azura threw her hand off.
“Same way you have no right to tell on Azura! Are you insane?” Neptune said angrily.
“You’re the insane one here Neptune, seriously” Tomboy talked.
“I never said you could interfere” Neptune glared.
“Same way you have no right to punch Greta cos of Azura! Be careful, I’m on Greta’s side” Tomboy rolled eyes and left with Greta.
“Neptune” Azura faced her.
“Don’t talk to me! Your softness is making me sick!” Neptune shouted at her and left too.
Azura walked to her room dejectedly, and she sat on the bed, remembering how Franklin was wounding her emotionlessly earlier during the fight, he wasn’t even looking at her eyes.
She sniffed tearfully and wiped her coming tears. “Yes, that’s how it should be” she muttered, remembering Anthony’s words when she joined this organization
“The biggest rule for y’all is to cut off every relationship you have outside this castle, either romance or friendship, it’s forbidden!”
The warning rang in her ears, and she eventually let out her tears.
*
ELETTRA’S VILLA*
Elettra calmed down already, and the guy is currently sleeping beside her ok bed, her head on his chest as he stroked her hair.
“I’m sorry I had to leave like that, I was just scared, of my brothers and father” he whispered
“Coward” Elettra said, and he looked at her face.
“You were asleep” he said.
“I couldn’t, you might leave if I sleep off” she replied, and he smiled.
“I already promised not to leave till dawn, so chill”
“Why are you so scared of Romeo and Rocco? Why are you scared of your father?” She whispered.
“They’re all beasts, and you know it. Yeah I was brought up in the castle with Romeo and Rocco, and we’re brothers, but that doesn’t dispose the fact that they’re stronger, and they can kill me” he replied.
“Aren’t you worried about Mia? You love her a lot” she said.
“I believe Romeo will protect her, he’s definitely doing that” he replied.
“You trust that scum? Royal, you’re…
“You worry too much” Royal cut her off, and she sighed.
“What’s your plan about the baby in your belly?” He asked.
“I’m gonna birth it, it’s mine after all” she replied, and he smiled, pulling her closer.
*
HOSPITAL*
Luciano’s severed toes just got treated by his nurses, and it was getting wrapped with a bandage when Sergio came in with five guards.
Luciano sent the nurses out immediately, and Sergio gave a deadly smile.
“The lab” he ordered, and Luciano led the way, limping his way to the lab with difficulty while Sergio followed him.
He opened the lab with a secret code, and they both went in.
He put on the light, and Sergio smiled when he saw the progress of the liquids in glasses.
“It’s progressing” he said.
“It rained, so the cold air enhanced more balance, I believe she bled more than she normally does” Luciano replied, and Sergio sighed with a nod.
“Perfecto”
*
PILGRIMS HOSPITAL, SERAFINA’S WARD*
Franklin stepped out of the ward with Armani, and he sighed.
They’ve been with her since thirty minutes, and she has been sleeping without waking as a result of the surgery aftereffects.
“You can come back tommorow morning, she’d have woken up by then” Armani said.
Franklin was about to reply when his phone chimed, and he checked to see a message from ‘Dwarf’
• Headmaid Patricia told me you stepped out of the castle, could you get me yogurt? Warm one.
He sighed, and Armani looked at him.
“What?”
“Any yogurt place around?” He asked, and Armani blinked
*
TWENTY MINUTES LATER, MARANZANOS CASTLE*
Franklin went straight to Mia’s room immediately he arrived.
He knocked, and he heard her voice before opening the door to go in.
All her blood is gone, wiped by the maids under the headmaid’s supervision, so the room is back to clean, and Mia is back on her wheelchair.
She cleaned up too cos she’s wearing a new gown.
“Thanks, Tallest” she smiled as Franklin handed the small bag to her.
She quickly took out the yogurt and opened it hastily, making some pour on her fingers as usual.
“This again” she muttered, taking the finger into her mouth to lick slowly.
Franklin squeezed his face immediately, and she looked up, her finger still stuck in her mouth.
“Can you stop being extra already? That looks like another thing in your mouth” he said, and she blinked.
“What? Lollipop?” She smiled, bringing out that finger, but she immediately slid in another finger that’s also stained with the yogurt.
“A p£nis” he replied bluntly, and she choked on the finger as she started coughing.
TBC.
