Adriano and Xuan have been placed in two separate sides of the house. Alora is upstairs with Rory as Mimi, Alessandro, Matteo and Zoya try to calm Adriano down.

Me, Amira, Lorenzo and Terzo are trying to calm down Xuan.

He lets out a cloud of smoke and looks at me.

'Dilara I'm sorry for pushing you.' He says. 'I was overcome by anger and needed you out of the way.'

'It's alright.' I smile.

'We know you and Adriano butt heads, but we need you two to be on the same side.' Terzo says.

'Yeah, but that's kind of hard when he's accusing everyone of doing some fucked up shit.' Amira sighs.

'He still needs to apologise to both Amira and Terzo.' Lorenzo adds. 'It's clear that there's no trust between us all.'

'If this shit carries on like this, then Dominico and Vittoria will have an advantage and destroy us from the inside - out.' I say. 'We all need to fucking fix up.'

'We can't afford to be split up like this anymore.' Terzo says.

Xuan puts out his cigarette in the grass.

'The house is a fucking mess,' he sighs. 'I don't want to be near Adriano for a while.'

We all nod and I look at everyone.

'I think it's best if I check on Adriano.' I say.

I walk through the house to one of the spare bedrooms where Adriano is being held.

He looks at me when I enter the room and Mimi smiles.

'Maybe you'll be able to talk some sense into him.' Alessandro says.

'Let's give them some space.' Matteo adds.

They walk out of the room, leaving Adriano and I alone. I clear my throat as Adriano stares at a spot behind me.

'You should know not to trust Christianto.' I sigh, sitting next to him. Adriano stays silent for a while after that.

'Pazza,' his voice is quiet. 'I'm scared.'

'What?' I ask, surprised. I know Adriano, and it's not like him to suddenly open up about his feelings, especially feelings like these.

'I'm scared,' he says, his voice still quiet. 'Christianto told me their plan.'

I'm silent, my eyes analysing Adriano's face, the concern in his eyes.

'They're going to kill you Dilara.' He says. 'They're going to kill you and there's nothing I can do.'

'Adriano don't say that,' I reply. 'We can work this out.'

'Dilara they're coming for us.' He says, my heart breaks as I see his reaction. 'They will not rest until they have spilt both of our blood.'

'But why?' I sigh. 'Why us.'

The silence that follows tells me that neither of us know.

'Pazza, I will not let them lay a hand on you.' He cups my face in his hands. 'They'll have to kill me to get even close to you.'

'If we die,' I say. 'Who will-'

Adriano cuts me off and shakes his head. He movies a strand of hair behind my ear.

'If we die.' He repeats. 'We die together.'

'I won't let us die,' I reassure him. 'We are not giving up, we're going to plan.'

'I'm letting you lead this.' Adriano says. 'Because I don't know how much fight I have left in me.'

I don't know how much I have left either.

Adriano pulls me into his arms and hugs me. For once I wish I could freeze time, stop it just to this moment, forever.

********** 'I'm not playing anymore games Christianto .' I snap, shaking my hand.

Christianto's nose drops with blood after I've repeatedly punched it.

I pull out a knife and angle his face towards me.

'Who is the traitor?' I ask.

'I don't know!' He exclaims. 'I swear I don't.'

He's been saying this every time I ask him and it's starting to piss me off.

'Then why did you blame it on Xuan?' I snap, I punch Christianto again and he groans.

'So I could get Adriano off my ass.' He spits out blood. I go to hit him again when Mimi calls out to me.

'Dilara I think he's telling the truth.' She sighs, rubbing her temple. 'This isn't getting anywhere.'

'You didn't have to lie to Adriano.' I snap.

'I can easily get under his skin.' Christianto laughs. 'Especially when he hears my thoughts on you Di.'

'You have no right to call me that.' I punch him again and press the blade of my knife to his throat.

'I killed your sister, don't think I won't hesitate to kill you too.'

'You need me.' He spits.

'We'll fucking see about that.' I snap. 'Let's test how valuable you are to me.'

I take out my gun and cock it. I shoot a bullet through Christianto's left calf and then his right thigh.

He screams in pain and I cock my gun again.

'Let me show you another example.' I snap.

'No stop!' He yells. 'Please stop.'

'I thought you would've learnt to not underestimate me.' I snap. 'But I can remind you again.'

'No please stop,' Christianto begs. 'I'll do whatever you want.'

'Whatever?' I ask, raising an eyebrow and he nods vigorously.

I turn to mimi and she watches Christianto carefully. She throws me a cloth that I use to clean up my bloodied and bruised hand.

'There's one thing I need.' I say, my voice low.

'Anything.' Christianto coughs.

'You're going to tell us Dominico's plan and help us figure something out against him.' I say.

Christianto's eyes widen and he stares at me.

'I may be desperate,' he snarls. 'But I'm not a traitor.'

'You motherfucker.' I snarl.

I punch his face again before pressing the blade of my knife into the bullet wound in his thigh. His shrieks in pain.

'Dilara calm down,' Mimi says, rubbing her arms. She looks nauseous at the sight in front of her.

I press my knife down harder.

'Fine I'll do it!' He yells through gritted teeth.

'Good,' I smile. 'I'll get a doctor here in a second.'

I kneel down so that I'm face level with Christianto.

'If you even think of fucking me over,' I snarl. 'I will be more than happy to let Adriano rip you apart.'

*AUTHORS NOTE* I hope you guys are enjoying the story! Let me know who you think the traitor is.

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