Gianna Vitiello

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**Gianna Vitiello** (née **Scuderi**) (born August 1, 1997) is a main character in the Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, and is a minor character in the Camorra Chronicles, and Sins of the Fathers. She is the second daughter of Rocco and Ludevica Scuderi, sister of Aria, Liliana and Fabiano, and older half-sister of Rocco Jr. and Riccardo. She is also the wife of Matteo Vitiello and is the mother of Isabella.

## Physical Description

Gianna has red hair and cloudless summer-sky blue eyes, which she shares with her sister Aria. Her father sometimes calls her "witch" and it wasn't of endearment. As an adult she still has freckles but they're only noticeable when they're up close. She's noted by Matteo to be curvy with long legs.

## Personality

According to Matteo, Gianna's greatest quality is that she doesn't care what people think of her. She doesn't try to please others, because she knows it's impossible to make everyone happy. She can be tough as steel but beneath her bad bitch exterior she's a softie.

Gianna is sharp-tongued, witty, and rebellious. She hates the restrictions mafia life puts on her and is unafraid to voice her opinion even when it results in her father abusing her, only stopping when she sees Lily in tears. Throughout Bound by Hatred, she often masks her feelings for Matteo with anger and despite her bravado gets embarrassed easily. She was extremely prideful and it took Matteo almost dying for her to admit she loved him.

She tends to be pessimistic, like when Lily says that Matteo and Luca are not all bad she counters it by saying they're not good either. After accepting her feelings for Matteo, Gianna matures, though she maintains her pride, and comes to accept that she can be free while also being loyal and married to Matteo.

Like Aria, she has a deep love for her siblings and is open with her love for them. She is described multiple times as the type of person who very rarely cries or shows emotions such as anger or sadness openly. She is fiercely protective of her siblings and has even threatened Luca. Another example of her protectiveness is when she flew into a rage when she heard what Rick said to Aria after drugging her. From the first time she met Luca and Matteo, Gianna was unafraid of insulting them or sending them scathing looks, unlike her sisters who were terrified of them. She's very much a feminist, wanting women to have the same rights as men in her world but sometimes forgets that men have their own suffering too.

She speaks her mind and doesn't care what others think. She feels great guilt for the death of Sid throughout Bound by Hatred. It's unclear whether she ever forgives herself for his death. Despite her flashy bravado and big mouth, she didn't consider herself strong and thought Aria was stronger because she married Luca and lived with him. These feelings might have gone away in later books.

Gianna is quite emotional and is prone to panicking when she feels she is not in control or is generally uncomfortable. She panicked when Matteo tried to cuddle her and she almost asked Matteo if they could buy and set up a Christmas tree until, as she describes herself, "panic set in" and she doesn't go through with that. In the Bound by Blood Anthology during and after her pregnancy she is scared and snappy. Though she grows to love Isabella and is shown as a protective mother bear who doesn't want her daughter restricted she originally did not want to be a mother in general and because of the lack of freedom and responsibility and got so emotional after deciding against an abortion that she drove off.

Gianna also craves independence and being her own person. She's always hated the idea of being a mob wife and becomes a yoga instructor and a nutritionist, opening up a fitness center for the wives of made men. She finds learning about nutrition interesting and rarely eats unhealthy food and works out a lot. She was worried that after Isabella she'd be nothing but a mother and still wanted her own life and person.

Though hot-headed and rebellious, she is kind and caring and states that she's only rude to people she dislikes.

## Early Life (1997 to 2011)

Born into one of the leading Mob families in Chicago, she is the second child of Rocco Scuderi, Consigliere of the Chicago Outfit**,** and his wife Ludevica. She is the sister of Aria, Liliana and Fabiano, and then the older sister of her half-brothers, Rocco Jr. and Riccardo, from her fathers second marriage to Maria Brasci. Gianna fights to find live her own life in a world that is dominated by men.

## Born in Blood

### Bound by Honor

Before we even meet her, it is first noted that Gianna is the one who always broke the rules and got punished.

We first meet Gianna when she is trying to comfort her older sister Aria. She strokes her hair, as she lays her head in her lap and cries over her engagement to Luca. She is convinced that her father will change his mind or that their mother, Ludevica, will talk him out of it, but Aria is certain that neither will happen.

She and Aria then go and ask their trusted bodyguard Umberto about Aria's future husband and was horrified by what he told them. Umberto told Aria that Luca is a good catch, "He'll be the most powerful man on the east coast soon enough. He'll protect you." She in turn asked, "And who will protect me from him?"

Two days before Aria's engagement party, as preparations were underway, Gianna, Aria, Liliana, and Fabiano were playing around, with the girls chasing Fabi when three men appeared in the corridor. One of them is Aria's future husband Luca. Gianna gasped with her gaze frozen on Luca, and when Aria tried apologizing, Gianna snapped and said its not their fault that Luca and his bodyguards take up so much room in the corridor. Everyone else thinks they need to blow sugar up his ass because he is going to be Capo, but is cut off by Aria. She tells her to take the other upstairs, Gianna tries to argue but Aria won't hear it. She then quickly leads the others away, leaving Aria alone with the three men.

The next time we see Gianna is when Luca leads Aria to the dining room at their engagement party, and she pretends to admire Aria's engagement ring and gives Aria a look but says nothing, possibly due to threats to keep her in line.

After a while of the men drinking and smoking in the lounge, Aria decided to creep downstairs through a secret passage that led to the hidden door behind the wall of the lounge. When she arrived, she found Gianna with her eye pressed against the peephole of the disguised door. Looking through the second hole, they saw the only ones left were Luca and his entourage, including Matteo, Cesare, and a second bodyguard Romero. Luca decided he wanted to have a discussion with Aria's bodyguards and sent Cesare to find them. When he returned with Umberto and Raffaele (Aria's cousin), Rocco was a step behind them demanding to know the meaning of the summon. Luca just wants to speak to those who will protect what is *his,* but Rocco insists they are both good soldiers. Luca says that he would like to decide for himself whether or not to trust them. He questioned Umberto and decided he was a good choice. He then moved on to question Raffaele, to which Raffaele proclaimed that Luca is not a member of the Outfit and that nobody would tell him anything even if he raped Aria. Going on to say that he could break her in for Luca, and even offered to film it for him. Before Aria could even blink, Luca had thrown Raffaele to the ground, dug a knee into his spine, and twisted one of his arms behind him. He struggled and cursed but Luca held him fast. One of Luca's hands gripped Raffaele's wrist while he reached under his vest with the other, pulling out a knife. Luca looked at Rocco, honor demanded he gets permission from the Consigliere since Raffaele wasn't one of his soldiers, Rocco gave a nod and Luca brought the knife down and cut Raffaele's pinky off. Gianna screeched and then threw up, alerting the men to their spot behind the secret door. When they came out Rocco slapped Gianna across the face and then went to do the same to Aria when Luca stepped in. Rocco was enraged, and everyone in the room, with the exception of Raffaele who was huddled on the floor, whimpering over his hand, had their weapons drawn. Luca then proclaimed that Aria is no longer Rocco's responsibility. That he no longer had the right to punish her when he made her Luca's fiancée, and that she is his to deal with now. Rocco agreed, but then said that since she will be living under his roof until the wedding, he will have to find another way to make Aria obey him. He then slapped Gianna again, telling Aria that for every one of her wrongdoings, Gianna will get the punishment in her stead. Umberto then took them both back to their rooms on Rocco's orders, with Gianna proclaiming her hatred for all of them along the way.

Two and a half years later Aria, Gianna, Lilliana, and their mother go dress shopping and Aria unenthusiastically picks out the most expensive gown in the shop's collection, a dream of brocade; the bustier was embroidered with pearls and silvery threads made from platinum that formed a delicate flower pattern. Aria notes that over time, Gianna had finally learned to reign in her outbursts, most of the time.

The book again skips to the wedding six months later, which is being held in the vast gardens of the Vitiello mansion in the Hamptons. The Scuderi family stayed in a suite at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan, Salvatore suggested that they live in one of the many rooms in the mansion until the wedding in five days, but Rocco declined, as even after three years, they still did not trust each other. The three sisters share a suite, while Rocco and Ludevica have another. While there, the sisters decide to go shopping under Umberto's and another guard. While out, Aria receives her first message from Luca, instructing her to meet him at her hotel that evening.

Aria was nervous about meeting Luca for the first time in so long and was worried over her choice of outfit for which Gianna soothed her, saying that women have their own weapons and that she will have to start using them if she wants to survive her marriage to Luca, adding that even cold heated bastards like him have a weakness, and it hangs between their legs. Then a knock sounded at the door, and Lily rushed to answer the door. There stood Luca, Matteo, Romero, and Cesare with Umberto nowhere to be found. Aria allows Luca, Matteo, and Romero into the suite, while Cesare stands guard outside. Matteo goes over to Gianna, who sneers at him, while Lily asks to see his gun, to which Aria responds that she cannot. Luca could not keep his eyes off of Aria, to which Gianna gave her an I-told-you-so-look. Gianna notes that the men should not be alone with the sisters, that it is not appropriate. Luca then questions where Umberto is, with Aria saying he must be in the bathroom or having a cigarette. Luca is upset that they were left without protection and asks how often that happens, to which Gianna snipped and says that they are left alone all the time and that they sneak away every weekend and bet on how many guys they each can pick up, which made Lily laugh. Luca just looks at Aria with a cold stare and tells her that he would like to have a word with her. Gianna tried to step between the two, saying she was just joking, but Matteo gripped her wrist and pulled her back. Lily looked on with wide eyes and Romero stood against the door, pretending this didn't concern him. Gianna snaps at Matteo to let go of her, or she will break his fingers to which Matteo grinned and then released her. Luca led Aria to her bedroom in the suite, with Gianna screaming that he can't and that she will call her father, but her threats fall on deaf ears, as Luca just shuts the door.

When Aria and Luca emerged from her room, Umberto was there beside Gianna and Liliana, looking annoyed. He questions Luca on why he was there, to which Luca admonishes him for leaving them and tells him to take fewer breaks in the future. Umberto insists he was only gone for a few minutes, and that there were guards on the other doors. Gianna smirked, catching Matteo's eyes locked on hers. She asked him what he was looking at to which he responded her hot body. Umberto told him to stop, then Luca informed him that Romero would take over the watch duties until the wedding and that he could watch the door. Matteo invited him to the stag party, but Umberto declined. Luca, Matteo, and Cesare then left and Umberto took up his post outside the door while Romero stayed and started his guard duty.

They begin asking him questions and he reveals that he is 20. Gianna then asks how long has he been working for Luca, and Romero says for four years, being a made man for six. She points out that he must be good if Luca trusts him enough to protect Aria, Romero says not only that, but that Luca knows that he is loyal and that he can trust him with what is his. When Gianna pushed and asked that if Aria came out of her room naked and Romero got a hard-on, because he couldn't help it, Luca wouldn't cut his dick off? Romero just stared at Aria, like he was actually worried that she would do that, to which Aria assured him that she never would.

They move on to questions regarding the stag party, with Gianna berating the differences in rules for men vs. women in their world, pointedly that the men can go out, but they cannot. Romero contends that he did not make the rules. He also points out that he is protecting Aria from the men who do not know who Aria is, as Luca would kill anyone who dared to touch her. Gianna says that Luca is not her fiancé, but Romero says that her father would do the same as Luca since he would not want anyone spoiling his most prized possessions. It dawns on Aria that just because she has been married off, that does not mean that Gianna won't be forced to marry someone else. Aria and Valentina are talking, but the conversation was cut short when Ludevica and Gianna came into the room, and more guests arrived after that.

While in the shower, Luca's cousin Cosima mentions how embarrassed she was when it was time for the presentation of the sheets. When Aria asks what that is, Nina patronizes her and says that didn't her mother, Ludevica, explain it to her? Aria looked at her mother, who just pressed her lips together, two red blotches appearing on her cheeks. Nina explains that it is a Sicilian Famiglia tradition that they have proudly upheld for generations, that after the wedding night, the women of the groom's family come to the bridal suite to collect the sheets they spent the night on. Then those sheets are presented to the fathers of the bride and groom and whomever else wants to see proof that the marriage has been consummated and that the bride was pure. Cosima added that it is also called the tradition of the bloody sheets for that reason. Gianna exclaims that it is barbaric and that Ludevica can't allow it, but she simply responds that it is not up to her. Nina adds that they do not abandon their traditions and from what she knows, the Scuderi girls have been well-protected from male attention, so Aria has nothing to fear. The sheets will prove her honor.

The day before the wedding the Scuderi moved out of the Mandarin Oriental into the Vitiello Mansion in the Hamptons, where workers were busy setting the pavilion that would serve as the church for the ceremony the next day. Aria and Gianna insisted on sharing a room, not caring if it made them look immature, Aria needed Gianna by her side. She mentions that Luca would not arrive until tomorrow, so they would not cross paths on accident before the wedding, as that was deemed as bad luck.

***To be continued...***

## Appearances

* *Bound by Honor*
* *Luca Vitiello (novel)*
* *Bound by Duty*
* *Bound by Hatred* (protagonist)
* *Bound by Temptation*
* *Bound by Vengeance* (mentioned only)
* *Bound by Love*
* *Bound by the Past* (mentioned only)
* *Bound by Blood (Anthology)*
* *Twisted Loyalties* (mentioned only)
* *Twisted Pride* (mentioned only)
* *Twisted Bonds* (mentioned only)
* *By Sin I Rise: Part One*
* *By Sin I Rise: Part Two*
* *By Fate I Conquer*

## Trivia

* For Valentine's day 2023 a naked Matteo woke Gianna with a bow around his cock. Gianna didn't want the present at first, then accepted it after all. After sex, Matteo gifted Gianna a voucher for the yoga retreat she wanted to attend for a long time.

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Model: Bella ThorneModel: Bella ThorneModel: Tania ShkliarenkoModel: Katherine McNamaraGianna's gold and diamond skull toe ring that Matteo gifted her on her birthday
## References

1. ↑ Cora Reilly's 08/18/2022 Newsletter
2. ↑ Cora Reilly's 02/14/2023 Newsletter