The last chapter of THH is here. Hope you all enjoy it.....

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I felt no piercing of the bullet in my flesh, no oozing out of warm blood, no pain. Breathing heavily, I slowly opened my eyes to find Adele lying lifelessly on the ground. Blood rushing out from where her heart was supposed to be.

He shot her?!

He killed his own wife!

Sweat beads trickled down my forehead as I looked up at him, to find an amused smirk sitting on his face.

He was happy to kill his wife?!

What a deranged psycho he was!

He spoke, “See! I killed her, so that no one could use her as a leverage over me. She thought that I loved her and that was why I married her. But what an idiot she was. She was a pawn in my game, who gave me every information about you, and what was going on around you. She dreamt of becoming my queen,” he laughed hysterically and continued, “She is not worthy enough to become Luca Martinez’s queen.”

He then, aimed the gun back at me and spoke, “Now, dear cousin, it is your turn to let go of your weakness. And I would readily help you get rid of it.”

Everything happened too fast. Before he could pull the trigger, Ermanno bent and pulled out a knife hidden in his socks and aimed it on his wrist. The weapon hit it’s target, sticking out clearly and he dropped the gun, screaming in agony.

Ermanno lurched towards the revolver and kicked it aside. He launched himself on Luca and began beating him into pulp. Luca tried to defend himself, but clearly Ermanno had an upper hand.

Amidst all that, loud noises of firing of gunshots rang throughout the environment. It scared me, seeing so much violence all around me.

I sat there frozen, watching the two men, trying to kill each other, while the sound of gunshots continued to echo in the air.

It must be Ermanno’s men who were supposed to arrive there shortly.

I prayed with all my heart, for all of that to end as soon as possible, along with ofcourse, Ermanno’s victory.

The door of the room barged open and in came, many armed men. My heart sped up seeing them. I didn’t knew whose men were they? Ermanno’s or Luca’s?

I had not seen much of Ermanno’s men. He knew that his business made me uncomfortable, so he used to deal with everything away from me.

But soon, my confusion cleared when Ricci came inside. When his gaze fell on the corpse of his sister, pain reflected in his eyes, but he masked it quickly and averted his eyes from the scene.

My heart hurt to see his pain. He must be so much hurt. His sister turned out to be a traitor and lost her life due to it.

A brother had lost his sister!

Ermanno’s men came and held the beaten and bruised Luca. Ermanno ordered them to take him to the basement in his mansion and rushed towards me.

As soon as he came near me, I broke down. His face contorted into that of agony as he gently wiped away my tears with the pad of his thumb and said, “Shhh! Amore mio, it’s all over. There is nothing to worry about now. You are safe.”

Saying all the soothing words, he opened my ties. My sobs refused to cease as tears continued to make their way out of my eyes.

Even I didn’t knew why I was crying when everything was fine now.

Maybe they were all the suppresed emotions and fear I had felt of loosing him, which had finally found an outlet.

As soon as I was free, I launched myself into his arms, and he easily caught me. Tightening his hold on me, he cradled me back and forth whispering soothing notions.

Finally, after being done with my crying session, I calmed down due to exhaustion and parted from him.

He wiped my face with his hands and gently asked, “Feeling better now?”

I meekly nodded at him and said, “I am so sorry for putting you through so much trouble.”

He tenderly spoke, “No baby, you don’t need to say sorry.”

I insisted him, “But I have caused you so much hassle. If I had not left the mansion, then nothing of it would have happened. I am sorry for everything. I swear I didn’t run away with him. He had found me on the way when I left the mansion. I don’t feel anything for him. I had left because of what Adele told me.”

He reassured me, “I know, sweetheart. I know everything. Don’t stress over anything. I am aware of everything. And now their chapter is over, we don’t need to discuss over all of this, okay?”

“Okay,” I nodded at him.

He gave me his heart-stopping and spoke, “Good. Because I have to tell you something important. I know it is not the proper time or surrounding, but I think it would put your as well as my heart at ease. And more importantly, you wouldn’t ever think again about going away from me.”

I looked at him in anticipation.

Looking directly into my orbs, he confessed confidently, “Rosalia Romanno, I love you.”

I was shocked at his confession. I didn’t knew how to react.

Ermanno loved me?!

He loved me!

He further confessed, “I have loved you from the moment I saw your beautiful face. I fell for you at that instant, and I fell really hard. And I have been falling deeper for you each passing moment. I love you so much that I am ready to destroy myself for you. You have changed me in more ways than I can comprehend and I am happy for it.”

He looked at me tenderly and spoke, “Because you made me feel that I too have a heart and it can also beat. I have realized that I am not heartless after you graced my life. You are the light in my dark life, and call me selfish or controlling, but I can’t let you go away from me ever. I love you, amore mio.”

Tears formed in my eyes as my heart soared high at his confession and I confessed my love back to him, “I love you too, Ermanno. Only you and no one else. I can’t think my life without you. I was so heartbroken when Adele told me that you love her and wanted to marry her. But I can’t express my happiness after knowing that it was all a lie and you love me. I love you so much!

He strongly spoke, “You are mine, amore mio. And I promise I won’t ever let you go away.” Then scratching the back of his neck, he continued, “I know that this is too soon, but will you marry me next week. I don't want to delay any further and risk of loosing you. So what do you think?”

Nervousness was clear on his face.

The Mafia King was nervous!

Smiling goofily at him, I answered him to release him from his tensed state, “Yes. I will marry you whenever you will say!”

And it marked the beginning of our beautiful journey together.....

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