Fires Within Fires

The Decardo FamilyMafia Head: Hades (Hero)Consigliere: CarlosFather: Maximilian Niles DecardoMother: HeraStep-mother: LaraStep Sisters: Claudia and FloraClaudia's Fiance: XanderGrandmother: Sousanna DecardoUncle: ThanosAunt: RoxanaeIllegitimate son of Maximilian Decardo: AlexandrosThe Leventis FamilyHead of the family: Mario LeventisWife: Maria LeventisSon: StavrosSeph's FamilySeph Myrine AdrianFather: Adrian LeosMother: Isabella AdrianAunt Erca and Uncle Nico: Friends of Adrian and IsabellaDaughter of Erca and Nico: Ayla Minor charactersMaximilian Decardo's Bodyguard: PavlosHades' Friend: JaceJace's Assistant: JonasJace's Driver: CastorSeph's Friend: CoraUncle Philip: Brother of Nico

SEPH’S POVThe thunder roared in the sky making my heart rattle in the cage it is trapped in. I quickly clean tears from my face with the back of my hand. My hand unintentionally clutched my locket. On this cold night, I only have one thing to hold onto. The sweet little angel sleeping beside me. How easily she could get lost in the world of dreams. And may she continue to do so my heart prayed.But I cannot spend my life like her. Ayla can hide in her dreams from the past but I relive them in sleep. She is just a five-year-old girl. Her innocence makes me want to trust that in this world of fake actors some reliable people exist too. What will her future be? Will she continue to wander the paths of the earth in search of a haven?We are far aware of our home. Our city. we are strangers here. We can not ask for help from anyone. Humans tend to become hungry wolves. I can not trust anyone.Will I ever find a place to stop? To think that yes after this we will have no problems; Our past

Seph’s PovThe last five years have been nothing but suffering. Witch each step I have yearned for a helping a hand. A hand on my shoulder a hug anything something which could give me evena bit of hope courage. No such support was written in my face because I am stuck here. Away from them. I couldn’t even go to their funerals. Now I am too far to visit their graves. But in reality, my life became utter hell when he set his eyes on me. Eyes which I though had love. Everything in them was an illusion to trap me. He lured me in with his practiced hands. He is the sole killer of my happiness. Every moment I cherished, everything I held dear. He is the cruelest assassin of my everything.His family ruined mine. They showed no mercy.I cleared my face with the back of my hand. “Let him try,” I thought. I will never be his. He will never find me. I will run till it’s the edge of the world. For my sake and Ayla's. I will run and continue to hide. He must suffer from my disappearance. Time a

HADES POVThe funeral was a waste of time. Hearing the priest call out forgiveness for him. Telling that heaven awaits him and blah blah.We all know his soul must be already rotting in hell somewhere. The only thing I enjoyed was seeing him getting six feet under. Slowly and slowly. We buried him in our ancestral graveyard. The media was not allowed to pass the premises of the church. But they must have taken photos which with no doubt will be pasted on all the newspapers and news channels.It was evening when I got free at last. I took a ride back and returned to my room.I need to drink. To rejoice. Just when I was thinking of opening the mini-fridge to check which ones were here. I noticed a moment. Someone was on the terrace, sitting on the chairs.I opened the glass door. He was the one I was expecting to see. My childhood friend. How could he miss this moment?Jace turns around and holds the bottles he has brought “Sorry for barging into your room like that but the occasion wa

Flashback end I hope she can see the promise hidden. Or else I will make her remember it the hard way. I kicked Jace’s leg and he sits up straight.“You know the bástardos left with another problem”“What?” he sobers up a little.I went to my room inside the walk-in closet. Behind my set of white and black shirts was my locker. I had put the box inside it. Only I know the combination. In this house, Walls not have ears but pestering eyes too. So, it’s better to keep it safe.I opened it. A picture of a kid was the first thing that came into my hand. There was an address on it.There are some other things in the box. I will check them some other time.I came back to the terrace and handed the photo to Jace.“He is just a kid.” He says after looking at it.“Yes, a kid. A bastard kid from my father” I spat.He groans. “Now what? You want me to find and kill him? He hesitates and says “You know I do not kill….. ”He is the best person for this job. He knows how to find the people who a