Matteo Vitiello

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	+ Marcella Vitiello (niece)
	+ Amo Vitiello (nephew)
	+ Valerio Vitiello (nephew)
* Marcella Vitiello (grandmother) †
* Gottardo Vitiello  (paternal uncle) †

	+ Gottardo Vitiello Jr.  (paternal cousin) †
	+ Angelo Vitiello  (paternal cousin) †
	+ Demetrio Vitiello  (paternal cousin)
* Ermano Vitiello  (paternal uncle) †
* Unnamed aunt †

	+ 2 unnamed male Vitiellos  (paternal cousins)
	+ Kiara Falcone  (paternal cousin)
* Egidia Rizzo  (paternal aunt)
* Felix Rizzo (paternal uncle)

	+ Christian Rizzo (paternal cousin)
	+ Giulia Moretti (paternal cousin)
* Criminella Vitiello  (paternal aunt)
* Durant (paternal uncle) †

	+ Cosima  (paternal cousin)
* Flavia Barese  (paternal aunt)
* Brando Barese (paternal uncle) †

	+ Cara Trevisan (paternal cousin)
	+ Talia Armani (paternal cousin)
* Adalberto Vitiello  (paternal great-uncle)
* Unnamed Vitiello  (paternal relative) †
* Alessandro Vitiello  (paternal distant relative)
* Livia Vitiello  (paternal distant relative)
* Rocco Scuderi (father in law) †
* Ludevica Scuderi (mother in law) †

	+ Liliana Cancio (sister in law)
	+ Fabiano Scuderi (brother in law)
* Maria Scuderi (stepmother in law)

	+ Rocco Scuderi Jr. (brother in law)
	+ Riccardo Scuderi (brother in law)

**Matteo Vitiello** (born March 12, 1993) is a main character in the Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles. He is the younger of two sons born to Salvatore Vitiello, former head of the New York Cosa Nostra, and his wife Agnesia and has an older brother Luca. He is also the husband of Gianna Scuderi and is the father of Isabella Vitiello. He is currently the Consigliere of the New York Famiglia.

## Appearance and Character

He is described as arrogant, fun-loving, and very powerful.

Gianna describes Matteo as being able to make people easily forget he is a Made Man. While just as brutal as Luca, and perhaps even more bloodthirsty and sadistic as Luca stated in *Bound by Love* Matteo likes torture more than him. Matteo is also genuinely fun-loving and takes things less seriously than the other male protagonists.

Like Luca, he has strong morals and hates any kind of domestic abuse, rape, or sexual assault and he prefers to spare women and never touches children.

Also like his older brother, Matteo is both possessive and protective of Gianna and later, his daughter Isabella. He does differ from Luca in other ways. While Luca often says he knows Aria deserves freedom and a better man than him, he is too selfish and possessive and won't allow it. Matteo throughout *Bound by Hatred* repeatedly thinks in his inner narrations that Gianna belongs to him, even stating she should be grateful he protected her from her father and still married her, ignoring the fact that he captured Gianna and brought her to her father in the first place. This shows a sense of self-righteousness that Luca doesn't possess. However, by the end of the book he accepts that he can't keep forcing Gianna and holding onto her leash, and lets her go, deciding to let her choose her feelings.

While Luca vehemently denies the ability to love a woman throughout his book Luca Vitiello and resorts back to believing love is a weakness during Bound by Love, Matteo never denies his love for Gianna or his ability to love and care for her. The only reason he did not say "I love you" first was because he wanted Gianna to finally make the first move and he didn't want to make his heart vulnerable only for her to stomp on it. Given his interactions with Liliana, how he was fine holding Marcella, and how he is shown to be a playful and affectionate uncle, he shows not only a soft side towards kids but also fondness towards them and innately being good with them. He didn't fear breaking or polluting Gianna and Isabella like Luca worried about Aria and Marcella.

He is still traumatized from his childhood and general experiences as a Made Man, being generally distrustful and still hearing his mother's cries in his nightmares.

He has a teasing and witty sense of humor and enjoys making jokes, especially when trying to lighten the mood. When he goes too far with his jokes in *Bound by Temptation*, he is able to give his form of an apology.

After Isabella's birth, he tells Romero he still likes killing and torturing, unlike Romero who prefers the domestic life almost entirely. He is very loving and protective with his wife and daughter and like Luca would stop at nothing to protect them. Like other made men with daughters, he loathes the idea of his daughter being with a man but for the sake of Gianna and letting Isabella live her life how she wants, he agrees with giving Isabella the freedom Gianna never got from her own father.

Before getting married, he enjoyed the thrill of the conquest, liking to chase a woman who plays hard to get as he found it more fun.

From a young age into more recent books, Matteo has consistently been vain about his appearance. He frantically feels his forehead when Luca lies about him having a zit, constantly looks at himself in the mirror, and tries on lots of different outfits and Luca states that it wouldn't surprise him if Matteo carried around a newspaper solely for aesthetic purposes.

He is fiercely loyal to Luca and has never had any desire to be capo, much less kill Luca to achieve that, and while he has no trouble sharing his opinions with Luca (whether Luca wants them or not) he almost always agrees with Luca's decision in terms of the Famiglia and said he'd be by Luca's side if Luca decided to spontaneously kill their father.

## Early Life (1993 to 2011)

He grew up in New York under the brutal hand of his father.

## Born in Blood

### Bound by Honor

Matteo is first introduced when he went to Chicago with his brother Luca along with bodyguards Cesare and Romero, two days before Luca's engagement party to Aria Scuderi. When Aria, Gianna, Liliana and Fabiano Scuderi were playing around, the girls chasing Fabi when three men appeared in the corridor. One of them being Matteo. This is also the first time Matteo meets Gianna. He jokes about the warm welcome they receive and is very entertained by Fabiano's remarks about Luca, saying that he is happy his father convinced him to come. Luca corrected him saying that Salvatore ordered him. She led the others away, and Luca then introduced the other men to Aria. She then quickly left to join her siblings, scared to be u alone with the three men.

He is seen again in attendance at Luca and Aria's engagement party, Aria notes his presence with Luca and Salvatore.

After dinner, the men all convene in the lounge to drink and smoke and discuss whatever else needed to be discussed. After some time Fiore Cavallaro, Rocco Scuderi and Salvatore convene elsewhere to discuss details leaving only himself, Luca, Romero, and Cesare in the lounge. Matteo comments that the night could have gone worse, that Aria could have been ugly, and also comments about how beautiful she is as if trying to provoke Luca. When Luca comments that she is a child, Matteo responds that she didn't look like a child to him. He then turns to Romero and Cesare for their opinions, to which they both declined to comment. He then jabs at Luca, asking if he threatened to cut off their dicks if they so much as even looked at Aria. Luca simply says she's mine. Luca then sends Cesare to fetch Aria's bodyguards Umberto and Raffaele.

When he returned, 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 onto 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.

Matteo is seen again when he, Romero, and Cesare accompany Luca when he goes to talk to Aria at her suite at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan, Lily answers after Luca knocks and Aria then 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 shut 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.

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

However, he is most famous for his snarky comments and chase after Gianna.

### Bound by Hatred

In *Bound by Hatred*, the story picks up after the marriage of Luca and Aria, from the alternating points of view of Gianna and Matteo. In the beginning, it is revealed that Matteo in secret asks Gianna's father for her hand in marriage when she is seventeen, in order to win the ultimate chase. However Gianna is devastated as she hates the life of the mob.

During this time Gianna runs away with the help of Aria, and for six months Matteo hunters her down, He finds her in an apartment in Germany kissing Sid on the couch. He instantly kills him on the spot and takes her back to Chicago. Matteo assumes that Gianna has given up her virginity and did not save herself for him.

After meeting with Chicago Capo, Dante Cavallaro, and the agreement of her father, Gianna is forced to marry Matteo. She is shunned by the Outfit and most people in the Famiglia hate her and call her a whore.

Assuming Gianna is not a virgin, on their wedding night as he beds her he does not do it gently. When Gianna cries out in pain the realization hits Matteo, that Gianna lied about not being a virgin and in fact had saved herself for him.

Matteo loves Gianna and eventually she learns to love him as well. While she hates the lifestyle and the things he does she accepts it because she has no other choice.

### Bound by Blood Anthology

#### Matteo and Gianna Novella

The Novella takes place when Gianna and Matteo are in their early thirties. As they continue to live their wild lifestyle they regularly forget about the consequences. When Gianna finds herself pregnant they both are torn on what to do. Gianna is against being a mother, while Matteo likes the idea of being a father. When Gianna can not get past the idea of getting rid of the baby, Luca and Aria agree to adopt it and raise it as their own. Gianna and Matteo agree but Matteo is upset about not getting to raise his child.

As the pregnancy progresses, Matteo starts to get hostile against Luca about the thought that he will raise their child, after a physical fight between Luca and Matteo, Gianna and Matteo talk and Gianna confesses she wants to keep their baby. Matteo reveals he feels the same.

Not long after Gianna goes into labor and ends up having the baby in the car on the way to the hospital. Throughout this Matteo is frozen in shock, causing Luca and Aria to do the work to deliver the baby. When the baby is born the ambilocal cord is wrapped around the baby's neck, Luca quickly works to cut it and unwrap it from around the baby's neck. The baby is fine and it is revealed it is a baby girl. Later in the hospital, as Matteo is still in shock they name her Isabella.

## Camorra Chronicles

Due to the alliance between the Camorra and the Famiglia, there are many times when Matteo is mentioned throughout the series.

### Twisted Pride

He makes an appearance in Twisted Pride, when Rocco Scuderi is handed over to The Camorra for the return of Serefina and Matteo and Romero go help Remo and Fabiano torture and kill him, because of what he did to his children.

## Appearances

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

## Trivia

* Matteo's favorite food is Bourbon Glazed Short-Ribs with Cheesy Grits (with Gouda). His favorite southern food restaurant in Washington makes them.
* His hobby is riding his bike.
* Matteo and Isabella play chess as a hobby to spend time together. Matteo tried to improve for her so it wouldn't be boring but Isa always wins.
* Matteo thinks Gianna would have run even if he proposed to her before going to his father and Rocco Scuderi.
* 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.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cora Reilly's 08/18/2022 Newsletter
2. ↑ Cora Reilly's 02/14/2023 Newsletter