Adriano kneels down next to me and grabs my hair, pulling my face up to face him.

'You know what I love?' He asks.

'I don't care if I'm being honest,' I snarl.

'I love how you tense up under my touch,' he says, trailing the blade of the knife down my jawline. 'I love how you say you hate me, but your eyes say so much more.'

He's just trying to manipulate you Dilara.

Don't let him do it.

Dominico warned you about him.

Just get your job done and get out of there.

'You don't know shit about me.' I snarl.

He places his lips on my ear, the blade still trailing my jawline.

'I love how I still have an effect on you after two years.' He whispers. 'I love how I know just how to get under your skin and you hate it.'

'Fuck you.' I spit.

I bring my head forward and bring it back to Adriano's face, causing him to yell out in pain.

I grab him from the back of his collar and hit his face against the glass cabinet, smearing blood on it.

I pull his head back and put my lips to his ear.

'If you ever come that close to me again, I'll kill you.' I snarl. 'And I'll enjoy doing so.'

I take his blade and press it roughly against his throat. He starts bleeding.

Someone grabs me from behind and places a gun to my head.

'I didn't think we'd bump into eachother, especially like this.' A familiar voice says.

'Nice to see you again Xuan.' I reply.

I try and wrestle out of his grip and he presses the gun harder into my head.

Alessandro and Lorenzo burst in and stare at me.

'Long time no see boys,' I say, smiling.

They glare at me and walk behind us to help the unconscious Terzo, Zoya, Matteo and Jasmine.

'I always have a back up plan.' Adriano smirks, crossing his arms.

Xuan pushes me to him and Adriano grabs my arm.

'Your gonna make me bruise.' I mutter.

'That's the least of your problems.' He replies.

Alessandro walks over to me and hands Adriano a blindfold and a cloth.

'Good night.' Is all I hear before he presses the cloth to my mouth and everything goes dark.

************* My eyesight is blurry and I look around at the dark, room I'm in. It reeks of blood and I squint my eyes to get a better look.

There's a singular window high up and a metal door on the side of the room. Other than that it's empty.

I look down at my chained hands and try to scream but my voice is muffled by a cloth in my mouth.

That asshole kidnapped me.

The dim lights flicker on, not making any much of a difference.

Alessandro walks in, glaring at me. He comes over to me and lowers my gag.

'I never thought we'd be in this position.' He says.

I stay quiet, glaring daggers at him.

'I'm surprised you have nothing to say,' he laughs dryly. 'I need to know what you were doing at that cafe.'

'I want to talk to Adriano.' I snarl.

'You don't have the luxury of negotiating.' He replies.

'Well then we can sit in silence and stare at eachother's faces.' I reply.

His jaw ticks and he sighs.

Alessandro gets up and leaves the room. A couple minutes later Adriano walks in.

'Wow you really can't get enough of me.' He says.

'Says the man who kidnapped me.' I reply, raising an eyebrow.

Adriano's grey eyes, examine my face as if he were searching for something.

'You know I have a proposal.' I smile up at him.

'You're in no room to negotiate.' He replies.

'See if you let me go I might reconsider this whole killing you thing.' I continue, ignoring him.

'Wow, when I thought you couldn't get anymore thoughtful.' Adriano says dryly. 'You manage to surprise me.'

'Well, I am very thoughtful.' I roll my eyes.

'I'm not letting you go.' He says. 'But I'll give you better living arrangements until I decide what to do with you.'

'Christianto will come looking for me.' I say.

'I doubt it,' he replies. 'Alessandro will come here and blindfold you, while we take you to your new room.'

'Wow, how can I ever repay you?' I say batting my eyelashes sarcastically.

'You're annoying.' He mutters, rubbing his forehead.

'I'm not extremely fond of you either.' I snap.

Adriano walks towards me and takes a key out of his pocket. He kneels down in front of me and takes my chained hands into his.

He unlocks the chains and I immediately go to punch him.

He effortlessly catches my hand.

'Careful pazza.' He says. 'It's not good to attack the heir of a mafia.'

'I think we've passed that stage already.' I reply.

Adriano suppresses a smile and looks up at me. He hasn't let go of my hands yet, and I don't think I mind.

Shit, what am I doing?

I stand up and straighten my ripped shirt.

He clears his throat and gets off his knees.

'I'm surprised Vittoria hasn't burst in here and tried to kill me.' I say.

'Don't be too happy.' He replies.

As if she heard us talking about her, Vittoria bursts into the room and walks up to me.

She lands a slap on my face, and my hand immediately flies to my cheek.

'I should kill you.' She snarls, taking out her gun.

'Do it.' I reply as she places it to my forehead.

Adriano comes between us and pushes her away.

'She's valuable to us,' he says. 'We can use her for information and ask for a ransom.'

Vittoria eyes him wearily.

'Don't let your past feelings get involved with this.' She snaps, before walking out.

'There are no past feelings,' I mutter.

Adriano hears me and his expression wavers for a second.

Only a second.

Alessandro walks in holding a blindfold.

'The room's ready for her.' He says.

*AUTHORS NOTE* I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Have a nice day!