9 Chapter 9

Maya Pov

I blinked slowly as they removed the blindfold, the light glaring of the window was too bright. I saw a blurry figure in front of me. Lifting my head, I opened my mouth to talk but it was so dry. Looking up at the blurry figure, I saw ahead and suit. The person was standing in front of a huge window, I knew it was Lorenzo. I remember them dragging me out of the place I was before.  Now I have tied against a pole again. Eagle spread.

"Water" I whisper, my voice was hoarse. My mouth was dry of saliva.

I felt something wet on my lips, I felt the cold water. I drank it quickly, feeling some drop on the shirt I was wearing. I finished it in seconds, breathing heavily.

I looked at him, he had a grin on his stupid face. "Fuck you," I tell him "how long have I been locked in there"

"Just a couple of days," he says resting against the wall next to the window

"Just a couple of day!" I yelled moving my tied hands. I wanted to kill him. I know I was locked in for a long time but to hear him say it so causal.

"I had a few things to take care off" he was smiling. He let me in a dark room for days because he had a few things to take care off.

"Why bring me out now?" I ask him "need a new toy to play with"

I know he was about to question me. I know what would happen if I don't give the right answer, I will probably lose a few fingers nails today.

"What do you know about your mother?" I stopped breathing when he asked that. What does he want with my dead mother?

When I didn't answer him he moved and I flinch. I thought he was going to hit me but he didn't, he saw my face and froze. He ran his hands through his hair looking frustrated.

"I'm not going to hit you Maya" he scoffs

"That's very hard to believe" I rolled my eyes

"Just answer the fucking question. What do you remember about your mother!" He yells in my face. He placed his big hands on my neck.

I clock my head to the side admiring his face. I could see tattoos pecking from his neck. I wonder if he was covered in them.

"Nothing," I say "all I knew was that she spoke Italian to me" I smiled "but that was because she couldn't speak English"

"That's all," he asked

"Yes," I looked at him weird "why are you asking about my mother. She is dead if you were planning on using her against me"

"I know," he said sounding frustrated

"What do you know about Mia and Matteo Lastra" his voices went cold

I freeze as I heard the name. I knew they were his sister and father. They die at a restaurant in New York two years ago. It was a sniper shot. They were all over the new that day. The biggest mafia dead in New York. The case was classified, my level didn't give me access to the case files.

"They are dead," I tell him. I felt for him. He lost his father and sister that day. Even though he was a mobster, he still lost his father.

"I'm sorry" I whispered. I knew the CIA has something to do with it. But killing the daughter, that shouldn't have been part of the mission. She was innocent.

"Who was in charge of the mission," he asks

"I don't know," I tell him honestly "it was a classified case, I don't have access to it"

"Lies" he yells suddenly making me jump

"Veronica, come in," he says moving back

"I don't hit women, but she doesn't mind"

I looked behind me and saw a woman standing in all leather. I laughed out loud.

"Where is she from, the Matrix" I chuckle

I hear her heels clicking on the floor. She was standing in front of me. They looked very expensive, the leather pants hugged her legs perfectly. I looked at her face. She was very pretty, her black hair was in waves and her red lipstick completed her look. I left like the ugly duckling in the room.

"I'm Veronica, you can think of me as you fairy godmother" she spoke with a thick Russian accent.

I look at Lorenzo in disbelief, he brought in a woman to torture me. How very sexist. I opened my mouth to speak before I saw her hands coming towards my face. My head fell back, throbbing.

"I believe I didn't say you could talk"

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Lorenzo Pov

"Just tell him what you know and this will stop," Veronica tells her

I look at Maya's bloody face. Her beautiful face was swollen and bruised. I think her nose is broken. It was Alessio's idea to bring in Veronica. She is a trained assassin and I knew she would hesitate to hurt her. But I was starting to regret it.

We have been at this for an hour now. I almost told her to stop when she started pulling her nails but I didn't want to show her weakness. The black shirt she was wearing is now soaked with her blood. I thought she would have given in and told the truth by now. But I guess I was wrong.

I waited for a few days to question her because I had to deal with the Mexicans and it took longer than expected. I was always watching her from my laptop. She didn't move a lot just to collect the food they gave her and water, which was once a day.

The reason I was interested in her mother was that there was an Italian capos wife that went missing years ago. And the years match the same with Maya mother arrival to the US. Too much of a coincidence.

"What do you know about there death," Veronica asks her again. She walked towards the table filled with torture equipment and picked up the baton.

"I don't know," Maya says for the fiftieth time. Her head was hanging down.

I moved from the window towards the door. I needed to leave, it was affecting me seeing her in pain.

"Fuck!" I yelled once I was out the door. I hear her screams, I wanted too match in here and kill Veronica.

"You have the power to stop it you know" I look up surprised seeing Aria.

"You know you aren't allowed down here" I warn her

"I know but Enzo told me you called Veroni...." she paused when she heard Maya screaming through the door.

"What did she do to deserve this Lorenzo. And don't give me the bullshit I know she wasn't a thief"

I took a deep breath and looked at her. I knew I could tell her the truth, she was family. She came from my mother's side, her mother was my aunt.

"She is a CIA agent," I tell her

"Lorenzo, No" she looked at me with a horror look

"She might know what happened to Papa and Mia"

"How do you know that I know you want revenge but do you know if she was the one," she asks me

"No, but she works for the people who do," I tell her

"So you're punishing her for a crime she didn't commit, don't blame her for something she didn't do. Mia wouldn't want this"

"I know you think you have to justify their death, I want that too. But don't let revenge blind you. That girl in there didn't kill them" she says before walking away.

"Fuck!!!" I screamed hitting the wall. I knew want she was saying was right. Maya didn't kill my family. I needed to stop this.

"Stop," I say opening the door. Veronica pauses with the baton in the air. "You can go," I tell her. She looked at me speechless.

"But she hasn't answered" she protests

"I said, go" I warn her. She scoffed and cursed in Russian under her breath. But made her way to the door.

"It was nice meeting you" she addressed Maya who I think passed out.

I walked to the pole and started untying her hands. I did it slowly so I wouldn't hurt her already bleeding fingers. She is going to be in a lot of pain tomorrow.

I caught her before she fell and her face contracted in pain. My suit had blood on it as well, not that I cared. I carried her against my chest looking at her face. Her hair was a different kind of red. God, I fucked up big time, she will definitely kill me. I walked with her in my arms out of the basement.

"Oh god" I hear, I walked into the living room. It was filled with Aria and some of her friends, also Enzo and Alessio, who was shaking his head at me when he saw Maya.

"Who is she" I hear the girls whispering

"Call the doctor" I tell them carrying her upstairs to my room.