Cassandra POV:Ricky was extremely mad. I knew I ruined his plan after following Leo today, but then, that too was crucial for me to know better the situation. My eyes felt hot and teary as this helpless feeling slowly lurked in my heart. I glanced at Carina for a few seconds and saw her rolling her eyes away from me, daringly glaring as if I had made a huge mistake.She was probably mad because her plan might get exposed after I met Leo today. But then, Ricky refused to believe me and thus this witch still could act confidently in front of everyone. Suddenly, I was the one who became the black sheep. How could I win this battle if I was all alone? No one dared to back me up or supported me since Ricky, the head of everyone chose to side with Carina.I remembered Leo mentioning Coral Island before. How that island was important and Carina tried to get access to it to smuggle weapons and overthrow Ricky later. But she couldn't do it now since that land was inside the De Luca's region.
Cassandra POV:I didn't dare to speak again after. I just went into the bathroom, washed my face and sat on the closed toilet bowl to take a moment of thinking. Ever since we came home, I had been memorizing Leo's phone numbers in my head, repeating them one by one until it had become a habit. The paper he gave me that contained his phone number had been destroyed. I burned it as soon as I had the chance. Ricky shouldn't find out about it because I bet he had that number too in his phone. He would freak out again if he knows I had Leo's number in saving.Not long after, I suddenly heard some people coming into the bedroom, so I came out from the bathroom and saw two men beside Ricky. One was Sergio and the other one looked like a computer technician. The technician was looking at Ricky's laptop, probably fixing something. The three of them all gazed at me as they heard me close the bathroom door behind me."What's wrong?" I asked and had my eyes on Sergio. I knew Ricky wouldn't want t
Cassandra POV: The next morning, I woke up feeling numb. Ricky had long gone to the company and he meant for real that I was really fired. He didn't even wake me up for work today. I rose from bed when it was passed ten with the sun had risen up flashing its rays into the bedroom through the gaps between the curtains. There was only one word that popped up in my head. Trapped. Now that I lost my job, I was damned to be forever trapped inside this mansion. I bet Ricky won't allow me to work somewhere else. Yet, I still kept Leo's word in mind and the promise I made to him. I needed to try finding a way to make Ricky see through Carina no matter how impossible it seemed. Leo's phone number was still in memorisation and it helped me feel relieved a bit to know that someone out there would have my back in case I need to leave Ricky later. At least I knew, I was not all alone in this battle. The De Luca was on my side. I went to take a shower and cleaned myself up before going down to f
Cassandra POV:My head was just confused right now. I knew I should hide this matter but I guessed my brain stopped functioning for a while as the fear I had over Carina suddenly emerged again inside my heart. When you realized that you had to live inside a house with a real murderer who was after you, the last thing you wanted was someone who needed to rely on you. Right now, that someone happened to be my unborn baby. This child needed to be protected as he or she was innocent.I spaced out for a bit as my mind pondered on what I should do next. Maybe nothing? Just pretended as if nothing happened and acted like I was not pregnant? But how long could I pull that up before my stomach gets bigger? How much longer would Ricky stay in a marriage with Carina? Another few months? Should I start planning my escape from Ricky's mansion? Should I tell Leonardo about this? Would he help me escape if he knows?Amidst all those thoughts, my phone suddenly rang and that instantly snapped my mind
Cassandra POV:My heart just could feel that things were slowly getting out of my hand. If Carina dared to attack me now, who knows what she might do to me later? I no longer work so I spent most of my time at the mansion with her. What if she does something to harm me unintentionally? Like maybe offering me food that she poisoned or even drinks. It was possible and if I reject such gestures from her, I had a hunch she would use that to gain sympathy from Ricky again, maybe accusing me to ignore her when all I did was be careful.Paranoid? I couldn't help it. I'm carrying another soul inside my belly right now so I had no choice but to be extra careful with Carina. She probably would even try to kill me slowly without me realizing it. What if she poisons the air inside my bedroom and slowly causes me to die of suffocation? I didn't know why those kinds of thoughts just filled my head right now. I just felt like I was going to get murdered by that witch sooner or later.Oh God, I reall
Riccardo POV:As soon as I returned from work, Carina came running to me, having her eyes in tears. I was bewildered to encounter this kind of situation as this woman had never cried before when I came home. Carina was a strong lady, so I assumed whatever it was that managed to make her cry must be something so awful.I made her sit in the living room with me and slowly asked her what happened. Then she just told me everything. She said that she invited some of her friends over today and I knew it because she had asked my permission about it this morning. She said that Cassie was getting uncomfortable with it and started insulting her friends. They got offended, then some confrontation happened and Cassie just suddenly pushed her into the pool. She was so embarrassed by what happened that she needed to tell her friends to leave. How could Cassie do that to Carina? Was she jealous that I let Carina have her friends over but not hers?The story that Carina told me just made my blood boi
Riccardo POV:My body just turned stiff with no words able to come out of my mouth. Did I really had misjudged Cassie? Verona saw me being pensive and she just excused herself, doing some chores inside the kitchen.Cassie did cause a lot of trouble before. So when Carina told me about the pool incident, I didn't even hesitate to think that she might be lying. I immediately judged Cassie as the problematic one. Now Verona was telling me a different story and siding with Cassie. It just made me feel so awful inside that I had pushed Cassie aside and provided comfort to Carina instead. That kind of attention should only be exclusive to Cassie.My heart just didn't feel good as if there was this malaise feeling suddenly lurking in me. A suspicion just abruptly appeared inside my head. I had a hunch that Carina was secretly trying to break me off with Cassie. Yet I couldn't help but still pitied her because she was a woman who lost her entire family to the De Luca. She was all alone now an
Riccardo POV:I didn't know why my heart was so stubborn to look through again on the case of Nicola's death. Maybe because part of me knew I was responsible for her death. She was inside my region when the killing happened. That just reminded me how incompetent I was as the Godfather. I guessed it was my ego telling me that I had investigated the case thoroughly and the only explanation I could find to explain her death was that Leo's men were not pleased with the changing of power inside the De Luca region. I refused to believe that my judgement was wrong even though Cassie tried hard to change my mind.I just couldn't accept such a thing as Carina killing her own father as the truth. She was a loving daughter to the late Don Renato and he had lavished her with everything he could during his lifetime. With such care from her old man, why would Carina want to kill her father then? It had been three months since I was married to Carina. Yet, until today, Leo still stayed quiet and sa