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Chapter 40
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Cleo
There are times when I feel like fate has played a cruel trick on me ; that what's happened the past three years has been a dream, and that one day I will wake up and be the same Cleo I was before I met Angelo... That is just a dream .
What is not a dream however is the continuous attacks I've been getting from my mother in law who seems to be using my husband's old girlfriends against me , without moving. I walked straight into a trap when I went back to work on Monday. Whoever ransacked my office and vandalized it wanted to get their message across. It had to be someone who had been around me for a while to figure me out. I was in a hospital room and I knew it wasn't a hospital either own by the Luca's or the Massa's . I took a deep breath and took in my surroundings . My body was in a bit of pain and it wasn't inflicted by my husband in a fit of rage and jealousy.
Everything came back to me while I
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AngeloI've always been relaxed when it came to my love life . It was always about sex at some point and wherever possible I'd have it on the daily. I was addicted. A year after rehab I met Cleo and our relationship made sense we had the twins and they were my first biological children. Giovanni wasn't mine ; he was someone's child . This has just been the toughest year on me and it's gotten a whole lot complicated with what had happened.Mia blew up the whole office floor of the communications department. She was the one who was responsible for the leak and security breach. Cleo was innocent from the get go and I don't know what came over me . I was just so angered by seeing pictures of Cleo with other men and all those wounds that Nina had inflicted on me opened up and bled profusely. Cleo was caught in a crossfire she didn't start.
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AngeloI can't do anything right . I really can't win. Once I mess up I can't stop messing up no matter how hard I try and clean up my mess. I wanted to see my baby girl but I forgot that in order to access the family wing I need authorisation from Brent even though I own half the hospital . It was a security protocol we put in place after the twins were born . I tried to call him and it went straight to voicemail . When I reached the wing; security started giving me a hard time.I hadn't shaved and even though I groomed my beard I knew that it made me look a bit scary because my son was traumatized when he saw me . When Cleo walked out and I locked eyes with her my whole world stopped. She is emotionally strong and she's the strongest person I know... She put up with me and I put her through hell . I want to treat her right and I don't know where to star. I don't want to lose her. I got so angry that I threw a vase
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CleoYesterday I went to church to celebrate Daniela's Mass . Ava was well behaved and she was actually a bit tired because of the trip she was asleep for most of the service. I thought I had put my scarf and Ava's unicorn toy in the baby bag and I didn't .I couldn't find it this morning and it was Sunday. I woke up at nine in the morning which meant that I would be late for mass, and Father John had invited me for lunch last night after mass because I told him I was tired from the road trip and Ava too started getting restless. Lunch was at twelve and my own body was fighting me on top of misplacing stuff that had sentimental value to me .I got up during the night feeling dizzy. I hadn't eaten so I went downstairs after checking up on Ava to go make myself a cheese sandwich. I only decided to switch my phone on at three in the morning, and I didn't expect the drama that ensued after I switche
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AngeloI looked at Cleo and she gently took Ava it of my arms and I followed her upstairs. She had the twins rooms done and Ava's room was gorgeous it was pink with shades of blue . It had butterflies and clouds including unicorns. I needed to talk to her and I understood why she was feeling insecure. I've given her more than enough reason over the past couple of weeks and I haven't been behaving like a husband should.As soon as Cleo put Ava down she headed to the kitchen and poured herself a cup of coffee. She knew she wasn't supposed to be drinking it but she was . She looked a bit pale and although she tried to hide it I knew she was not well . I sat across her on the kitchen island and she looked me mad as hell. I got up without saying a word walked over and took her cup . I chucked the coffee out and put the cup in the dishwasher." What did you do that for?"" You're
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Chapter 48CleoOn Sunday afternoon after talking and finding conflict resolution with Angelo I found out that his own mother had cut him off completely for actually being with me . Claudio had sent me a text with a link and a DNA test leaked to the press showing that Luigi was actually Angelo's brother and that she wasn't his real mother . Claudio in actual fact was his uncle . Angelo like Daniel and Luigi was a Luca. He had a twin brother which was mind blowing. Claudio still loved him as a son, but the one thing his ex wife held over his head was out for the world to see. After I had payed for for lunch Angelo was still in denial . When we all had lunch with our baby girl he was fully present . I knew he had missed Ava and he was missing the twins even more. We both woke up early to talk to the twins who were very excited talk to us . After talking to them Angelo decided to go make breakfast while I got Ava cleaned up and ready for the day.
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CleoThe past two weeks have been a blessing. After thinking that I had been abducted by Rosa, it turned out that my brother was behind the whole incident.Daniel has been unavailable and Salvatore has been keeping an eye on me . The beach house property was big enough and apart from the amazing ocean view I had from my room , my kids were with me but it came at a cost. I couldn't call Angelo to tell him anything and all I hoped was that he uses his brain and figures out that something just doesn't add up. Rosa was easy to track down; she always left bread crumbs . Her attack style has a trait... She wants to scare me to the point where I am afraid of being with my husband to point where I break up with him for the safety of my children. She even used Mia to make me doubt choosing Blue . She didn't know we were married until Angelo opened his big mouth and she amped up the threats . I am at peace for a change.
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AngeloThe past couple of weeks have been hard on me and it's not because the weather has changed from cooler temperatures to warmer weather. It's the first week of spring but knowing Cleo like I do she'd say ; " Spring only starts on the twenty second of September ."Part of me always knew that she was correct because it was; wet cold , cloudy and grey on the first of September. The weather matched my mood and the way I was feeling. The twins and my baby girl are the only reason I get up in the morning. I had used all of the resources I had to track down Rosa and she said she wasn't responsible for Cleo being abducted. I have never lost my cool at an old person however; I had lost my cool at Rosa , breaking windows and furniture till she gave me an answer.Truth be told I was hurting and she didn't understand the extent of how hacked and broken I felt. Daniel was around and Luigi was stay
