The Decardo Family
Mafia Head: Hades (Hero)
Consigliere: Carlos
Father: Maximilian Niles Decardo
Mother: Hera
Step-mother: Lara
Step Sisters: Claudia and Flora
Claudia's Fiance: Xander
Grandmother: Sousanna Decardo
Uncle: Thanos
Aunt: Roxanae
Illegitimate son of Maximilian Decardo: Alexandros
The Leventis Family
Head of the family: Mario Leventis
Wife: Maria Leventis
Son: Stavros
Seph's Family
Seph Myrine Adrian
Father: Adrian Leos
Mother: Isabella Adrian
Aunt Erca and Uncle Nico: Friends of Adrian and Isabella
Daughter of Erca and Nico: Ayla
Minor characters
Maximilian Decardo's Bodyguard: Pavlos
Hades' Friend: Jace
Jace's Assistant: Jonas
Jace's Driver: Castor
Seph's Friend: Cora
Uncle Philip: Brother of Nico
HADES POVToday my father will die a new era will start. My era will start. Although it started way back today, he dies and officially I become the owner.We do not need his sign or stamp anymore. My reign will start.The whole family has been called to the oldest mansion of the Decardo family. We are back in our homeland Greece. Although we are scattered around the world. The head has the power to summon them.Not only I oikogéneiá mou but the ones dealing with us, working with us will be here too. To mourn his death and to celebrate my ascending. (my family)Our family is not ordinary. Caught in the web of lies and deceives; Such in our family. No one appears to be as he is. Each one of them wears masks and for the world, they put on a show.Everyone will be here for their benefit. Putting up with facades. Yearning for their evil desires to come true. It is up to tome to find the loyal between the deserters.The Decardo family has the biggest chain of clubhouses and beverages in the
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
HADES POVOne person from my family is not here. Theía Roxane is not here. It is forbidden to take her name here. As a betrayer, she remains locked somewhere. She is the only one my father could never get himself to kill. So, she is caged somewhere. Her boyfriend who helped her in all this was not so lucky. He is six feet under now. Her location remains unknown. Only the people closest to my father know. (aunt)Soon I will unveil all secrets. I will see that all cards are dealt nicely. All mysteries become known to me. So, my enemies find no open windows.The room is quiet except for the fading harsh breaths of this animal. I just want to get over this as all this drama is wasting my time. While I have to attend a shipment deal worth billions.His breaths grew shorter and shorter and suddenly his faded blues strikes my blue ones. He beckons My grandmother to come closer with a shake of a hand.Lara stands up to give space to my grandmother. Next with a shake of a hand, he asks everyon
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 POVHe is dead so there is nothing that can make me stay here. I went out of his room. My next step would be to jump on our jet and go to that country my pouli has been hiding in. People here can take care of the funeral arrangements. They do not need my assistance with such things. Moreover, they damn well knew that I was least interested in offering my help for such a task.I still have the box in my hands and I can see people eying it in my peripheral view.Just when I moved towards the staircase to get to my room a booming voice stopped me.“Na stamatísei” she said. (stop)Of course, it had to be my giagiá. No one else could dare to stop me. They all know that I have been waiting for this moment. They all know that it wouldn’t take me a moment to leave all this and go after Myrine. They all know that I was waiting for his end to gain what I have ever wanted.“Den boreís na fýgeis” she said. Her face is devoid of any emotion. (You cannot leave)“Giatí” (why) I said walking to
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
This time Jace tried to say something. I stopped him with the hand gesture of stop. He reluctantly did. I knew that he wanted to interrupt, it was written on his face. It is his nature. But the fact is We both know how messy it is to get involved with the civilians. they do not know our rules. they do not know how to survive in our circles and so on. They fell prey to the spiders. But even when she hasn’t said a word. Even when I had not gotten a taste of her. She already has my full attention. I want her. She is not like other whores I usually fuck. I want to cage her. I want her for myself only. I want to smell myself on her. I already feel possessive about her. So Jace has to shut up his calculating mouth and let the scene play. Let her fall for me. Let me approach her and take her. She must have surprise written on her face. But suddenly her body tensed. I could sense it from the tightness of the dress at her back. The waiter points towards me telling her that I am the one who
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
Two days have passed since the night I saw the dream. I had been quite since that dau and PAvlos had noticed this. He had asked me the reason but I told him there was none. I was waiting anxiously. Mark must have also uploaded the video.It was around five when I left the bed because I had to throw up. I had left my pills back there in the mansion. I could sense the headache coming, and I rubbed my forehead, willing it to go away.There was no use of laying down and trying to sleep knowing it wouldn’t come. I made coffee and stood in the kitchen looking outside.The road was empty as expected. I think I have developed a habit of getting up and staring outside. How many times has this happened?Each time I was looking at life through a new window, each time a new perspective. But every time with wondering about the complexities of life.There was a time when I was scared to look outside in that foreign country. Then Hades came keeping me out of that and forcefully pushing me into his.
We had dinner and then we went to sleep. I loved the guy. Mark. He invited me to his home but I refused because I thought it would make his family get involved also. He assured me that it was not a problem but still I politely declined.I closed my eyes and willed the peaceful sleep to come. A soft piano tone fell on my ears. I have heard this various times before.It was dark all around and then I found myself in the Decardo mansion. The tune was all around me engulfing me in a beautiful trance.I looked all around madly. I wanted to be immersed in it. Music like that I have a beard before. I had listened to it in another dream of mine.“Come here” Someone called and I felt the voice all around me.I had listened to this voice various times now. It is too familiar now. It was not before. I followed the voice and searched for the person in every corner.It was as if the walls were singing and dancing. Such was the effect.Then I felt that I was coming from upstairs. I climbed the stai
Pavlos said it is better than the friend that will be helping me come here. The doorbell rang and Hades came inside with a middle-aged man. He was big but not the intimidating type.“Seph this is Mark, Mark Seph” he introduced me to Mark.I shook his hand. “It is nice to meet you” before I could say anything Pablos said “We will say this in return if you help us to get our work done”“I will try my level best,” Mark said.I hope so. Because if doesn’t work out I do not know what other way will I choose.“Do you have an empty room here? I need to set up the camera”“Yes, this way” Pavlos guided him to the room in the basement l. I followed him. It was quite large but empty. A white sheet was draped on one wall.“It has been used for such purposes before” mark commented looking at Pavlos.“Yes and No”He set up the camera took out his equipment and Pavlos bought a stool from upstairs. He set up his laptop on a table that was the only piece of furniture in the room.“he has told me your
Pavlos took us to another car and then got inside it with us. “Mama, where are we going?”Ayla asked me. “I will explain everything to you Ayla do not worry”“You are not hurt?”“No baby I am not” I kissed her forehead. My sweet angel got so much worried. But if things will go right this will be the last time, she will see me worried. Pavlos drove the car and took us to a house. There were many houses around. It was not a secluded place.I was glad otherwise I would have been scared. “Come out seph” I did as he told me. He took me inside a house. This house belongs to my friend. I did not take you to my house otherwise they would have located you easily.“Where is your friend?” I asked because there was no one inside. I hope he leaves me with someone good.“He died a long time ago”“I am sorry” I said.“No. He was actually a friend of my father. He never married and had no children of course so he left it to me. He was my Godfather”“I am so sorry” I said again. The people that lov
He went his way and I turned towards the other way to go and search for Ayla. We have lost whatever we had in the last few weeks. We are strangers to each other again.I dnot think he love dme for even a single second . It was all me that thought he had the guts to provide a woman will all the love and cherishment.What can a person do? Survival with this kind of man is impossible. People must have always listened to the story of Billionaire Maximilian Decardo marrying college crush but it is only a few know what was the reason behind.It is such a humiliating and horrific truth. How could one know what was behind the smiles and their actions. Hera was never loved noe was Lara. It also passed onto the next generation. Hades hates his father and so does Caludia.Wht did they even got in the end. cOntempt breeds contempt. Love breeds love. This is it.I asked the gardener and he told me that the playing was on the other side.I followed the directions he gave me. I came across the most
“He kidnapped seph because I did not respond to this threat before,” Hades said.What? This is why I was kidnapped. Hades blamed me because of me Alex was taken. He made me feel so bad that because of me that boy was also taken.It means if I had not run that day this man had found another way to take me. fuck! I fisted my hand because otherwise, I will scream. I will scream so loud that their cores will be shaken.I promise you hades I will do you irreparable damage. I will do it and then I will see you cry. I will laugh after seeing your tears. That day I will feel contended to the core.“If you need help, I am here” Caludia offered. “I know” Hades answered. What kind of help can caludia offer? Is she mafia and fires guns like her brother? I want to laugh but I refused to show any emotion.“Flora you must be thinking that's why I called you in this matter.”“Yes Adelfos”“You have grown up. You should also know what is happening but the main thing was to make you stay alert. Do not
I did not look at him instead I kept looking to the front. I have nothing more to say to him and nothing to search for in his eyes. A few days ago, these were he eyes that I wished I would always find familiarity. Now I do not want to even take a glance in them because I will only see the torture his family has been doing to us.Lara and Thanos took their seats and then Caludia came. The breakfast was served. Ayla is not here. Did she even take it. I slightly turned to Flora to ask but she instantly squeezed my hand.“Adelfos asked the children to not come. Alex and flora will have together”I nodded.Hades montioned the amids to leave and now only his family was left. “Where is your fiancé?” he asked caludia. Surely, she was not expecting this because she choked on her water.“What?”“I am asking about your fiancé” Hades said each word clearly as if talking to a child. It was to embarrass her. I want to feel bad for her because she had a trouble childhood but I will not give sympathy
I am left speechless at the betrayal my family has also done to me. I had the right to know about everything. After Hades forcefully asked me to marry him and created a ruckus at my home my father should have told me right there.I am a sinner. How could I fall n the trap of these snakes who suffocated life for us? I was adamant that I would never have a relationship with Hades because he was wronged by my family now when I know how much things are escalated How can I live with him?Sometimes life takes you to places you have never thought about and when I look back on my life it seems that mine has been unpredictable from the very start.How could they know what it is like being the victim? My father was the victim yet in all those years he kept it inside his heart. His life was destroyed. He carried the shreds in his heart. His eyes cried yet he never told me that we have been at the receiving end of these cruelties.They say forgetting is the best revenge but I know my father never
Seph’s POV“Caludia wait”She stopped and raised her eyebrow in question. “You know I did not do anything”“I know Seph. But my knowing would do you no good. In the end, the weak suffer just like your parents”Yes, this is what I am afraid of. Hades will ask for proof. Roxanne will never tell me that she was the one who tricked me and set up all of that.I know my parents suffered because of this family but I have to know what exactly happened. I am sick of staying in the dark.I went to her and clasped her hands. “I do not know what is happening to me. Caludia if you know anything that is hidden from me. I am begging you please tell me. I want to know what happened to the. What was their relationship with your family?”She looked at me for a moment then her face became sad. “I understand you seph” she gave my hands a small squeeze.“Come with me. We can talk in my room. I do not want anyone to eavesdrop.”I followed her because I don’t know what to do now. She closed the door behind