Episode 9

Pietro.

After we returned to Italy, Valentine avoided me at all times. A week had passed, and whenever I was in one place, he would leave. I had finished my fight training and went to take a shower before going home. The bathroom was empty, I went to one of the stalls, took off my clothes and started to shower. The water was at an excellent temperature. I was in the middle of my shower when I heard the bathroom door open and some footsteps. I didn't pay much attention and continued my shower. When I left the bathroom I came face to face with Valentine, also leaving with a towel wrapped around his waist. I was left open-mouthed looking at his body; he had several tattoos all over his body, you could barely see his skin.

Valentine: Close your mouth, and stop looking at me like that.

I turned my face and pretended I didn't hear him speak. I was putting on my underwear when my cell phone rang and I answered.

🟢Call on.🟢

☎️Pietro: Hi Iago.

☎️Iago: Hi angel, I'm in Italy.

☎️Pietro: Are you serious, you're in Italy?

☎️Iago: Yes, I came to give a medical lecture, I wanted to see you.

☎️Pietro: Of course I want to see you, I'm dying to see you.

☎️Iago: And how are you and the beast?

☎️Pietro: Same old, same old, I think you were wrong, love.

☎️Iago: He's there, isn't he?

☎️Pietro: Of course he is, honey.

☎️Iago: Where are you guys?

☎️Pietro: I'm in the bathroom, just got out of the shower.

☎️Iago: Say something to provoke him.

☎️Pietro: What?

☎️Iago: Tell him you loved the nudes I sent you, and that you want to see them in person later.

☎️Pietro: I loved the nudes you sent me, I'll see them in person later, not just see them, of course.

(As soon as I finish speaking, I hear Valentine's thick voice behind me, "Pietro hang up the damn phone, I'm going to need you for a mission today.")

☎️Iago: Don't give in easy, play hard to get.

☎️Pietro: It's my job, love.

☎️Iago: I know, make a little drama first, or you'll make it up to me some other way.

☎️Pietro: I promise that as soon as I get off work I'll go to your hotel and spend the whole night with you.

☎️Iago: Great, good boy, I want details later, go with your beast.

☎️Pietro: See you.

🔴Call off🔴

Valentine: Get dressed, we're going out on a mission.

Pietro: What mission?

Valentine: Don't ask me questions, just do what I tell you, work comes before your personal life.

Pietro: Okay.

I start to get dressed and I see him looking at my body but always looking away, could it be that Iago is right and Valentine is bisexual? The question stays in my head and I don't know if I should ask. Valentine seems to loathe me. I finish getting dressed and pack my things.

Pietro: Ready.

Valentine: Let's go.

Pietro: Where to?

Valentine: No questions, Pietro.

He started walking towards the garage and we went to his car. He started it without saying anything and called someone, I looked closer and saw it was his father.

🟢Call on: 🟢

☎️Heitor: Talk, son.

☎️Valentine: I'm going on the mission you mentioned.

☎️Heitor: I thought you weren't going, you said you weren't going.

☎️Valentine: I changed my mind, I'm already on the road.

☎️Heitor: The place is a nightclub, I want you to keep an eye out, see if there's any strange movement, women have been disappearing there.

☎️Valentine: I'm taking Pietro with me, I need someone to do the report.

☎️Heitor: You guys are going to have to share the apartment, I just booked your room and it was the last one.

☎️Valentine: Are there at least two bedrooms?

☎️Heitor: No, but it's only one night, one sleeps on the sofa, or you guys share the bed.

☎️Valentine: I'll sleep on the sofa, I'm hanging up now.

☎️Heitor: You see, Pietro, put some sense into that man's head.

☎️Pietro: I'll try.

🔴Call off🔴

Valentine hangs up the phone and looks seriously at the road, this man must have some problems.

Pietro: Where are we going?

Valentine: Mission.

Pietro: I have a commitment tonight.

Valentine: You had, now you don't.

Pietro: I can't cancel on Iago.

Valentine: Don't, let him make a fool of himself waiting.

Pietro: With that bad mood you're never going to win anyone over.

Valentine: I don't need to, when I want something I go there and get it.

Pietro: I'm not a thing.

Valentine: I don't want you.

Pietro: That's not what it looked like when you kissed me.

Valentine: That was a mistake.

Pietro: A good mistake.

Valentine: Not for me.

Pietro: Why did you really kiss me?

Valentine: I was drunk.

Pietro: You're a terrible liar.

Valentine: Because I wanted to, are you satisfied?

Pietro: No, I'm not.

Valentine: Your problem.

Pietro: Are you bisexual?

Valentine: Not your business, now shut up.

Pietro: If you didn't want to answer, it's because you are.

Valentine: Or simply because I don't want you taking part in my life.

Pietro: You could have gone on this mission without me, and I could be with Iago right now.

Valentine: Are you two together?

Pietro: Not your business.

Valentine: Answer my damn question.

Pietro: No, you didn't answer mine, so I'm not obligated to answer yours.

Valentine: Answer my damn question, Pietro.

Pietro: We're getting to know each other, but we'll probably be dating soon.

Valentine: Your father won't accept it.

Pietro: Why not?

Valentine: Nothing.

Pietro: Because I'm gay? Does that make it so no one can love me? Can I not love a person of the same sex as me?

Valentine: It's not that, it's that maybe the mafia won't accept it.

Pietro: If they don't accept me for who I am, even with all my qualities, I'm out.

Valentine: You can't leave.

Pietro: Give me one reason why not.

Valentine: You're good at what you do.

I didn't say anything else. We went all the way in silence. After almost an hour we reached our destination, a seemingly ancient hotel. Valentine took the key from the ignition and we went in alone, no one said anything else.

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