Diego Vitallio

***Diego** **Vitallio** (born March 1996) is a main character in the Born in Fire Mafia Chronicles. He is the Second of three sons born to Salvatore Vitallio, former head of the New York Cosa Nostra, and his wife and has a older brother Ezra and a younger brother Alessandro. He is also the husband of Gianna Valentini and is the father of twins Livio Vitallio, Isabella Vitallio. He is currently the Consigliere of the New York Mane Nera .*

## *Early Life (1996 to 2014)*

*He grew up in New York under the brutal hand of his father. He is described as arrogant, fun loving, and very powerful.*

## *Bound By Fire Series*

### *Diego is first introduced when he went to with is brother Ezra and Alessandro*

*Along with bodyguards Marcus and Romeo, two days before Ezra's engagement party to Aria ValentiniWhen Aria, Gianna , Lyana andAntonio Valentini were playing around, , when three men appeared in the corridor. One of them being Diego. This is also the first time Diego meets Gianna. He jokes about the warm welcome they receive, a, saying that he is happy his father convinced him to come. Ezra corrected him saying that Salvatore ordered him. She led the others away, and Ezra 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 Ezra and Aria's engagement party, Aria notes his presence with Ezra and Salvatore.*

*After dinner, the men all convene in the longue to drink and smoke and discuss whatever else needed to be discussed. After some time Valentino Cavallo, Leandro Scudelli and Salvatore convene elsewhere to discuss details leaving only himself, Ezra, Romeo, and Marcus in the lounge. Diego 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 Ezra. When Ezra comments that she is a child, Diego responds that she didn't look like a child to him. He then turns to Romero and Cesare for there 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 Marcus to fetch Aria's bodyguards Roberto and Raffaele.*

*When he returned, Leandro 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 Leandro insists they are both good soldiers. Ezra 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 Ezra is not a member of the Fashion, that nobody would tell him anything even if he raped Aria. Going on to say that he could break her in for Ezra, and even offered to film it for him. Before Aria could even blink, Ezra 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 Ezra held him fast. One of Ezras hands gripped Raffaele wrist while he reached under his vest with the other, pulling out a knife. Ezra looked at Leandro, honor demanded he get permission form the Consigliere since Raffaele wasn't one of his soldiers, Leandro gave a nod and Ezra brought the knife down and cut Raffaele pinky off. Gianna screeched and then threw up, alerting the men to there spot behind the secret door. When they came out Leandro slapped Stella across the face and then went to do the same to Aria when Ezra stepped in. Leandro was enraged, and everyone in the room, with the exception of Raffaele whom was huddled on the floor, whimpering over his hand, had their weapons drawn. Ezra then proclaimed that Aria is no longer Rocco's responsibility. That he no longer had the right to punish her when he made her Ezra'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, that he will have to find another way to make Aria obey him. He then slapped Stella again, telling Aria that for everyone of her wrongdoings, Stella will get the punishment in her stead. Umberto then took them both back to their rooms on Leandro's orders, with Stella proclaiming her hatred for all of them along the way.*

*Diego is seen again when him, Romero and Cesare accompany Ezra when he goes to talk to Aria at her suite at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan, Lya answers aft Ezra knocks and Aria then allows, Diego and Romeo into the suite, while Cesare stands guard outside. Matteo goes over to Stella, who sneers at him, while Lya asks to see his gun, to which Aria responds that she cannot. Ezra could not keep his eyes off of Aria, to which Stella gave her a I-told-you-so-look. Stella notes that the men should not be alone with the sisters, that it is not appropriate. Ezra then questions where Roberto is, with Aria saying he must be in the bathroom or having a ciggarette. Ezra is upset that they were left without protection, and asks how often that happens, to which Stella snipped and says that they are left alone all the time, and that they sneak away very weekend and bet on how many guys they each can pick up, which made Lya laugh. Ezra just looks at Aria with a cold stare and tells her that he would like to have a word with her. Stella snaps at Matteo to let go of her, or she will break his fingers to which Matteo grinned then released her. Ezra led Aria to her bedroom in the suite, with Stella screaming that he can't and that she will call her father, but her threats fall on deaf ears, as Ezra jut shut the door.*

*Stella smirked, catching Diego eyes locked on hers. She asked him what he was looking at to which he responded her hot body. Roberto told him to stop, then Ezra informed him that Romeo would take over the watch duties until the wedding and that he could watch the door. Matteo invited him to the stag party, but Roberto declined. Ezra, Diegoo and Marcus then left and Roberto took up his post outside the door while Romeo stayed and started his guard duty.*

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

*However he is most famous for his snarky comments and chase after Stella.*

### *Bound by Hate*

*In Bound by Hated, the story picks up after the marriage of Ezra and Aria, from the alternating point of views of Gianna and Diego In the beginning it is reveled that Diego in secret ask 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 Stella runs away with the help of Aria, and for four months Diego hunters her down, He finds her in an apartment in England kissing Stan. He instantly kills him on the spot and takes her back to Atalanta. Matteo assumes that Stella has given up her virginity and did not save herself for him.*

*After meeting with Chicago Capo , Gabriel Cavallo, and the agreement of her father, Gianna is forced to marry Matteo. She is shunned by the Fashion and most people in the Morte Nera 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 she cries out in pain the realization hits Diego, that stella 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 hate the lifestyle and the things he does she accepts it because she has no other choice.*

### *Bound by Blood - A*

#### *Diego and Stella Novella*

*The Novella takes place when Gianna and Matteo are in their early thirties. As they continue to live their wild lifestyle they regualry forget about the consequences. When Gianna finds herself pregnant they both are torn on what to do. Stella is aginst 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, Ezra and [|Aria]] agree to adopt it and raise it as their own,but Diego is upset about not getting to raise his child.*

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

*reveals he feels the same.*

*Not long after Stellaa 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 Ezra and Aria to do the work to deliver the baby. When the baby is born the ambilocal cord is wrapped around the babies neck, Ezra quickly works to cut it and unwrap it from around the babies neck. The baby is fine and it is revealed it is a twins . Later in the hospital as Matteo is still in shock they name they Livio andIsabella.*

## *The Camorra Chronicles*

*Due to the aliance between the Camorra and the Morte Rossa, there are many times when Diego is mentioned throughout the series. However he does make an appearence in Twisted Pride, when Leandro Scudelli is handed over to The Camorra for the return of Sarafina and Deigo and Romeo go help Remo and Alessandro torture and kill him, because of what he did to his children.*