Dome POV:"What do you mean something is not adding up?" Marco asked with a nervous voice.I stared at him long in disbelief, couldn't perceive if he was asking because he truly didn't realize it or because he was in a denial state. When he stayed silent while still looking at me, I finally explained to him my thoughts."After the attack on the Rossi's convoy, Carina said that it was dangerous for her to come home. So, she left her region without anyone to take over her father's place. In a situation like that, everyone assumed that the Rossi's mansion was abandoned. Mr Xavier thought that as well, that the mansion should be empty. But, just think again about what we saw before. The mansion was heavily guarded by the Rossi's men and Carina didn't seem scared at all to come home. Even Antonia was taking her order obediently. So, what is this, guys? Can't you guys see that this did not add up to what she claimed her situation was before? She's lying about her being in a vulnerable situa
Carina POV:As soon as the three idiots from the Xavier left, I went to the living room to make a phone call to Cristian. It had been a long time since I talked with him. I wondered how he was doing living inside the cabin in the woods for months now. I bet he would probably want to come home so badly by now.The call got through in less than five seconds. I guessed my little brother was really eager to get my call after all."Sis! Finally! Can I come home now?" Cristian sounded really excited."No," I replied fast and he sighed at it, which was really funny so I chuckled a bit."But soon... Our plan almost reaches the climax now. I have a specific job for you," I added. He made a delighted sound and I bet he must have all his attention on me by now."What is it? Can I go home after I do it?" He asked."Yup. You remember Cassandra Moore, right? You want a piece of her?" I said. Last time during the late Don Luigi's birthday party, I could sense that Cristian wanted to play a bit with
Cassandra POV:I had enough money to sustain my life now. But in order to survive, maybe I need a new name and a new face. I recently surveyed a few doctors who could perform plastic surgery in this country and reached them for the quotation price. For a whole face surgery, most of the doctors offered the cost within my budget, so I just needed to choose which clinic I wanted to go to later.This felt like a deja vu. I had left Ricky's mansion before and got away. I shouldn't have come back. Why did I make that stupid decision? Why did I have to break my heart like that? Seeing what happened at the mansion between him and Carina, was just savage. I didn't think I could recover from such betrayal.Just like before, when I reached the city area, I just abandoned my car by the roadside. But this time it was a different place than previously. Taxis could be found quite easily in a place like this because it was packed with humans. So, I had no problem moving from one place to another with
Cassandra POV:I walked out of the mall and just took another taxi. I gave the driver the address of Lydia's apartment building. She said previously that my new place was just nearby hers. I leaned my back on the backseat and just called Lydia to inform her about me going there."Gosh... Cassie... I thought you couldn't make it," Lydia sighed on the phone, sounding as if she had just got woken up from sleep. That put a pang of guilt inside my heart. I was supposed to be there like hours ago but the silly me just decided to come back to Ricky's mansion only for me to see a horrid show from Carina.Thinking back about it, my heart just slowly developed such an intense resentment towards Ricky. How could he let this happen to us? How could he claim to love me so much but made me see him naked in bed with that witch? The biggest resentment would be why I needed to run away to provide safety for our unborn child when it should have been his responsibility to protect us from someone as vile
Cassandra POV:"You don't know Ricky like I do..." I said and she sighed at the mention of his name."You know... I was once grateful to him that he let you use his black credit car and you ended up giving me a free car... But now... not anymore..." Lydia grumbled."I'm sorry about the car... I shouldn't-""Oh, stop it... I'm not even mad that I needed to sell it back. It was never mine, to begin with. I'm simply borrowing it from you. I had enough savings to buy a new one anyway. But this..." she pointed her hands at my body from the top slowly going down."How could he make Cassandra Moore cut her majestic hair and wore cheap clothes? It feels like you are an entirely different person right now. I couldn't even recognize you anymore," Lydia whined hard like she was my big sister."That's the intention... To be unrecognized..." I said calmly and she sighed again.Lydia gave me the paper bag she held before and just had her face frowning all the time. I guessed she really disliked it
Leonardo POV:I woke up in the morning feeling tired mentally. Cassandra called me last night and said she had left Ricky's mansion. But then she just suddenly cut the call abruptly and told me that she would reach me back. But she didn't and that had bothered my mind the whole night.I was so worried about her that I kept thinking of calling her back. I did that during breakfast while at the dining table but her phone was no longer in service. That instantly added to my worries. What if Ricky got her back and found the record of my call and my text messages from Cassandra's phone? Wouldn't that might worsen the situation?"Why are you looking so tense this morning? You had black eyes too. Did you not sleep last night?" My brother, Lorenzo asked. He was the middle child."He probably hooked up with a new chick and got into an argument with her. Then, she refused to call you back, isn't she?" Louis the last child teased.Lorenzo turned his head to Louis immediately and gave that little
Cassandra POV:Minutes later after the call ended, Leonardo sent me a location in a text message with the time he planned to meet up. It was far, almost at the border between the Xavier's and De Luca's regions. It probably took over an hour of driving to reach there.Should I go? I didn't know. Taking a taxi there? It seemed inconvenient to do that too because it was too far. Maybe changing several taxis along the way? Probably a good idea, but still, should I go?I could understand though why Leo didn't just pick me up again like how he did when he took me from the company before. I think Ricky probably had ordered some of his men to watch the border to see if Leo might enter Xavier's region again.Regardless, I found it strange that Leo think my place might have been exposed to the enemies. How? I had just stayed here for a day. It was kind of impossible that my place had been known that fast. I had changed my appearance too, so it should be harder for the enemies to find me, right?
Cassandra POV: I lay on the sofa and just stared at the ceiling emptily. How did my perfect life turn this way? I had a good job before, bought my dream apartment, had my first car, living my life comfortably with freedom and without fear of getting killed. Now, all those had gone. I was fired, my apartment was sold without my will, and I had to abandon my car because Ricky could track it and had to live my life in hiding due to fear of Ricky's enemies. Everything went downhill the moment Carina got into our life. It felt like falling into an abyss. My tears fell unexpectedly as I pondered over my fate, but then those sad feelings were shunned away by the ring from my phone. I wiped my tears immediately and took it. Maybe it was Leonardo. I stared at the screen and saw the caller ID. It was Lydia instead. Well, I needed someone to vent out anyway so I just took the call. Besides, I had no one else to talk to other than Lydia. I could have called Leo but it was just weird if I compla