The Capo's Vow

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an make a poem

k I can't

on,

Like I said, I do not like wasting my t

ed. "Ex

l? Get on top of the La Archante organization? Give

taken

antic. It did not give you what matters,"

they just wouldn't

you're in

's notion that women

onteval has soldiers who are women. I despise the man but I will let his name slip from my lips to p

go from poe

on your own!" my breaths were heavy with anger. In my rage, all I could see was t

been a long time since we last met. You don

ters, I would have done it already. But it would

re to enter the mall and go to th

and I already had my dose of winning. Don't

s spot yet. It made him laugh even harder. I would have turned aroun

poet?" he

n't believe I let myself be under him. I let him order me around. I believ

e feeling guilty too fast; are you going home already? Why n

r with La Archante, but that doesn't mean Czar wouldn't hesitate to hurt me

He was born with a small brai

id my English homework back then. All other subjects were just my

ut why do I feel nothing but annoyance towards hi

cting is so childish. Isn't it r

poet. Much worse," he replied i

all the living and the dead," I c

laughed. "Want me

nt to annoy Dad. You know he'll go mad if

d you

off,

too much. A random foreigne

ve found it creepy if I didn't see t

itching," Czar warned me, a

ust having some..." My head swirled to

he didn't want to leave me beca

ur concern, sir. Welcome to Ye

t, I faced

this way," I pointed towards the road home and then across th

ties?" h

r my skin but I had no intentio

marriage is happening because I said yes. If I had refused, it wouldn't

efore but with a hint of teasing be

oulders for the rest of your life, poet. Wh

hiv

sked. I've been observing and listening for several days. Papa thre

the girl with him. They were

eplied snappily. She pouted an

cratched

rl. "I'm outta here.

didn't teach me this dialect. I only know English, Russian, and Petersburgisms. I didn't have any problems at my old school.

ust need to understand them, then we'll all be good. This school year will be great. Miscomm

lphone. I think I saw her in our cl

amed with fri

onded to me in English, I thought that would be

ly smile turned into a confus

Are we foreigners?" she laughed lightly

tness in my chest from earlier due to anxiousnes

t spoken here. I'm new here in

ou're the new stud

wouldn't remember unless I introduced myself. With so many acquaintances, may

" I awkward

ct towards her, just like my schoolmates be

w how to speak Russian. They really only use Petersburgisms when they fight..." She lean

what she said. I

th each other since their first names

and fighting? I wanted to ask but we weren't close enou

er hand on her forehead. "I didn't even tell you m

mistic now that everything will go smoothly for me. If I managed a conversation with her, it won

just Ava for short." I grimaced at myself; I almost pull

bbed the cellphone that Lian left on my side table. W

ey