Chapter 148 - Salvatore And Isabelle's Truth

"You think I'm innocent?" Killian questioned her. He was quite amused by her behaviour. On a normal day, Emma line Palermo would never talk so violently. She was a fragile woman with a heart of gold. She could never speak badly about anyone. But hearing him announcing how she was going to kill those who hurt him brought indefinable warmth to his heart. 

In simple words, he hadn't met a woman so warm like her in his entire life. 

"Are you not?" Emma asked, furrowing her brows in question. "You are too innocent in comparison with what my circle of people do for a living. Trust me, Killian, you are the most innocent man I have ever met who thinks by his indifferent demeanour could pretend that he doesn't care. But I know better." 

Killian tightened his hold on her. "You are right. You know better." 

Only if Emma knew what kind of monster he was underneath the skin he was showing everyone. 

If Santiago was a villain, then he was no worse than him. 

In all honesty, he was not even close to the man Emma was thinking of. 

However, he chose to keep her in darkness. 

…

On the other side, a man was watching the interaction between these two people through the lens of his dark shades. He came when Killian pulled Emma into his embrace. He wanted to leave first but after seeing them expressing their adoration so naturally, he couldn't leave. His feet stilled on their own and his eyes refused to move from them. 

Even he wanted to know that the scene he was watching was natural or faux. 

From his expressions, it wasn't clear what he was thinking. 

"Why do I have a feeling that you are quite jealous of the scene unfolding before your eyes?" A feminine voice was heard. Sarcasm and a hint of curiosity were present in her voice. 

"What the hell do you want, Isabelle?" Salvatore turned his head to look at her in annoyance. Why must this girl appear where she shouldn't? 

Isabelle had a habit of appearing at all the places where she was not welcomed. For instance, Salvatore Marino's life. 

Isabelle snorted at his response. "Why cry on spilt milk now? You had several years to treat her well but what did you do? Not only did you not give her the loyalty she deserved but pushed her to hate you. Are you happy now, my dear husband?!" 

The last sentence was obviously spoken to get on his nerves as she knew too well that it would. 

"Don't call me that," Salvatore threatened her. 

He couldn't bear to see her claiming him as his husband when he certainly was not. 

"Call you what?" Isabelle questioned him in a mocking time. "Husband?" She scoffed at him. "Did you forget that you fucking threatened me to marry you? Not like I ever wanted to! I hate your existence and you know it too well. So, bear with it when I call you husband!" 

Salvatore looked at her. This time, he looked at her as he was looking at her for the first time. Truly, Salvatore never gives his attention to anyone. He was always in another world or in a hurry to reach somewhere else, far away from the world he physically was. It was as if he didn't have anything to do with these so-called his own people. People called him names behind his back and he didn't seem to care about it at all. He had no care of anything in this world except for himself. 

Thus, when Isabelle found him staring at her. She felt weird. No, it was not an attraction. It was fear of discovering something that she was not ready to. The feeling was as if he was suppressing his blood lusty aura. Suddenly, Isabelle had an inkling that he was a very dangerous man. Perhaps even more dangerous than Don Marino. But she had no evidence to support this argument of hers. And for some reason, she would keep their truce as it was. 

Today, she realized that Salvatore Marino was a man that she had never been able to decipher. 

"If I say you do not call me your husband, then I expect you to act on it," Salvatore said. His green eyes were glowing with suppressed rage."Taking insincere vows in front of a threatened priest doesn't make you my wife. Have you ever noticed why our marriage is yet to be legally licensed?"

Isabelle's eyes widened. She didn't know that they hadn't signed marriage certificates until now. 

Suddenly, she had a very bad premonition. 

"No, right?" Salvatore asked with a sneer."You are not the smart one only, Isabelle. Everyone present here is smarter than you think. It's just that their roots are so hidden that no one could decipher the real them. No, I will not tell you the reason why I threatened you to marry me then. You are nothing but my temporary armour and I am yours." 

Isabelle opened her mouth but Salvatore cut her off by saying, "Imagine what will happen when Nico will know how and why you killed his parents." 

With this said, Salvatore was gone from her vision and so were Emma and Killian. 

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Author Note: I wonder if Villain would be happy to know that his ex-brother is trying to pursue his sister. I wish you all the best Nash. 

I have been writing these current chapters and thinking...how can someone like Santiago! He is nothing but a bad man. I mean if he was a man I know in real life...I would never have liked him. 

Hihihi! Yes, these are the views of a woman who actually wrote the whole book. 

Oh, I wanted to tell you guys that I have been working on Callum's book. But I will slowly write it...It can take a few months as I chose to work on a completely different book. 

Last but not the least, the book will have less than a hundred more chapters. My target is to end it by February. 

Lots of Love

-Tanusam