Faro

**Faro** is a minor character in the Mafia Standalone, *Sweet Temptation*.

#### *December 27th, 2017*

Faro receives a text from Cassio Moretti, asking him to come with a doctor for his wife, Gaia. He tries to get more information, but gets no more response from him.

He arrives soon after with a trustworthy doctor, and lets himself into Cassio and Gaia’s home. As he enters the lobby he sees Cassio leading his bleeding brother-in-law, Andrea, down the stairs. Cassio sends the doctor upstairs to Gaia, warning him to not let her out of his sight.

He and Cassio then take Andrea to the basement, shove him down the stairs, and then tie him to a chair. He reveals to Faro that he may or may not be a rat, but is a man who has sex with his own sister. Faro’s eyes shoot wide open as he scans Andrea, and then tries to offer Cassio compassion, to which he quickly shoots down.

Cassio begins to interrogate Andrea and reveals that he and Gaia had been together since she was 15, and had been having sex since she was 16 with their parents being aware. When pressed further on how that was possible as she had bled on their wedding night, he says that there is a doctor for everything, insinuating that Gaia has a hymen repair surgery, also known as hymenoplasty, a procedure that repairs a torn hymen that allows for women to tear and bleed the first time they engage in intercourse after surgery. He then continues and says that if Cassio wants an heir, he is going to have to keep Gaia alive, because Daniele and Simona are not Cassio’s, but are Andrea’s.

In a rage, Cassio beats Andrea to death with his bare hands. Faro reminds him that they need info on the bikers, and tries to get him to stop, gripping Cassio’s shoulders, but he shoves him away with a roar, Faro colliding with the wall and crumpling to his feet.

When he is done, Faro asks if he is alright, helps him up, and tells Cassio that Andrea may have just said things to provoke him. He then asks what Cassio is going to do with Gaia. Cassio is unsure, but asks Faro to call his father, Mansueto Moretti, and ask him to come over.

He continues and says to not alert anyone else, that they will cover up the affair and mark Andrea a traitor. Faro points out that he can no longer trust Gaia, but Cassio just walks back upstairs.

Back in Gaia’s room, they find her sedated by Dr. Sal and he proceeds to tell them that Gaia had struggled, and that it was not ideal for the baby, but that he had no choice and that she may need to be restrained when she wakes as she was hysterical beforehand. When asked if the baby can just be delivered then, Dr. Sal says that theoretically she could be, but waiting two or three weeks would be beneficial for the baby. Cassio tells the doctor to stay with Gaia while he showers and changes.

He waits for Mansueto while Cassio showers off the blood and changes, and once he arrives goes with him to meet Cassio in the corridor. Cassio wishes that he could have kept this all from his father. Mansueto limps towards Cassio, looking pale and weak, greets him, and tells him that no one will blame him if he wants to make Gaia disappear after the baby is born, least of all him. Cassio responds that he doesn't want her to disappear and that he is not worried about his life, but the life of his children. Mansueto tells Cassio that he doesn't even know if they are his children, and that he should get a paternity test as soon as possible, continuing to say that if they are not, they can send Gaia and the children away to live with her family and then he can find a new wife who can give him legitimate children and an heir. Cassio says that they are his children, end of the story, and that anyone who claims otherwise will pay the price. Mansueto implores Cassio to remember who he is talking to, and he says that he does not forget, that he respects him, but to not destroy their relationship by saying something that he cannot forgive. He agrees.

He then tells Faro to get rid of Andrea’s body.

#### *May 2018*

Faro goes to Cassio after he finds Gaia’s body when she commits suicide. He and Mansueto go into Gaia’s bedroom, and he tells Cassio to not blame himself, that it is what Gaia wanted, adding that the marriage is not what either of them wanted, that they were both thrown into it, and that he is not any guiltier than she is. Cassio asks them to deal with the mess, and that he has something to deal with.

*To be continued...*