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Aria made me believe those words to be a lie

With her kind smiles, her innocent eyes and unparalleled beauty she lured me in, and I fell into her trap I still re day

“You are good, Aria You are innocent I forced you into this” Aria had taken a bullet for me, had risked her life to save mine My life, which orth so much less than hers

Her blue eyes held mine Those eyes, always full of so many emotions I could hardly understand “You didn’t, Luca I was born into this world I chose to stay in this world Being born into our worldborn with blood on our hands With every breath we take sin is engraved deeper into our skin”

I shook my head “You don’t have a choice There’s no way to escape our world You didn’t have a choice inme either If you’d let that bullet kill e”

“There are few good things in our world, Luca, and if you find one, you cling to it with all your s in my life”

How could she say so like that? I killed so many, and enjoyed it If there were a Heaven and a Hell, there was no doubt where I’d end up “I’ood”

“You’re not a good ood for me I feel safe in your arms I don’t knohy, don’t even knohy I love you, but I do, and that won’t change”

I closed aze Aria loved me She’d toldshe’d seenthat from her “Love is a risk in our world, and a weakness a Capo can’t afford,” I murmured A truth I believed all ht to take into the grave with me

“I know,” she whispered, resigned

Didn’t she knohat I felt? Couldn’t she see? Even Matteo knew, though I’d tried to hide it from him, from everyone

I stared at her, ht with eh nothing really scaredpain, had tortured and inflicted pain myself, had seen so many die, had killed many of them, and here I was scared ofyou is the only pure thing in my life”

Aria froze, eyes filling with tears Crying and begging had never softened my heart, but with Aria they spoke to a part of me I hadn’t known existed “You love me?” she asked, eyes full of hope and disbelief

“Yes, even if I shouldn’t Ifto get their hands on you, to hurtyou The Bratva will try again, and others will too When I becalia first, and I reinforced that sah I kneas lying My first choice should always be the Falia But you are my first choice, Aria I’ll burn down the world if I have to I’ll kill andfor you Maybe love is a risk, but it’s a risk I’ to take and as you said, it’s not a choice I never thought I would, never thought I could love soht it It’s the first battle I didn’t ”