Chapter 76 Paulo

• She looks like an angel when she's sleeping. I've been sitting here waiting for her to wake up so I could tell her what I found. I don't know how she's going to take it. The arrival of her mother hit her hard. Combined with the past few days, I'm not sure she'll be able to take any more shocks but she has to know this before anyone else. By anyone else I mean Giovanni. I see all the things he's doing to try and get Maria... Carina to trust him. Fuck, it's going to be hard to call her that. Even though I've known all along who she was, calling her Carina is just weird.
• She told me everything after I rescued her from one of the guys she'd tried to blackmail for Lombardi. I'm not sorry that asshole is dead by the way. I hope he rots in hell or wanders around and sees just how strong Carina is now. The guy she was trying to blackmail was Russian and Lombardi wanted to force him to do business together. That Russian prick wasn't scared of Lombardi. He stuck Carina in the basement saying that if Lombardi wanted his daughter back, he could go and get her himself.
• As usual, Lombardi didn't care so it was up to me to get her out. I didn't understand what had happened to her until she told me why she hated basements. She narrated how Lombardi had forced her to act like Marianna and when she refused, he threw her in there, leaving her all alone for days. I wish I was the one who killed him that day. It would have given me immense pleasure to know he was dead because of me. But since he's gone, I can't do anything except protect Carina.