"And what do you intend to do with the power that comes with being my consigliera?" She smirked. "Good. And just a little touch of treason." Died as a weakling, reborn strong and wise. Andrea's stepmother had played her for a fool and gotten them all killed. Until the day of her death, Andrea blamed herself for the demise of her family. Now, being reborn, she has to hold on to those she once lost — or she might loose them all over again. And she would do this and get her revenge with the help of her perfect mafia boss fiancé - Ryker Darius.
Lihat lebih banyakYear 2023, an unknown prison
In a dark cell, the sound of nail scraping on a wall echoed throughout it. It continued for a minute before it suddenly stopped.Inside it, a haggard figure dropped her shaky hands on the floor. Her unkempt hair was scattered all over her face. Almost immediately, the loud voice of the prison warder echoed throughout the corridor."There's a visitor for you, Andrea Accardo!"Andrea was so exhausted that she couldn't sit up, but her teeth grit in anger when she saw the shiny red shoe and the luxury handbags which dangled from the lady's hand.The lady walked towards Andrea and turned her over with one feet. She was quite satisfied by the wretched sight of Andrea; The once beautiful woman who had turned heads literally everywhere she went, now looked hideous. She looked like an AIDs sufferer thanks to her lack of flesh."Andrea, that's not how you welcome your big sister." This lady was none other than Andrea's stepsister, Valerie Griffin, and she is the reason why Andrea ended up in prison. Valerie pretended to be displeased and poked Andrea a few times with her leg."Where are my fiancé and daughter?" Andrea tried to say, but her voice came out croaky. It had been a long time since she last said a word and her voice seemed to forget what it was supposed to sound like."I'm sorry, I can't hear you." Valerie scoffed and bent towards Andrea a little, "What did you say?""What have you done, Valerie?" Andrea asked more loudly."Oh, that's what you said?" Valerie blinked her eyes innocently and straightened back again, "I helped you clean up your mess, sister. I buried the bodies you left to rot."Tears cascaded down Andrea's cheeks as she recalled her life a couple of years back.Andrea had lived with her mother until she was 4 years old. She still remembered the day when the police broke in and took her mother into jail, telling her that she had killed someone. That was when Andrea met her long lost father, a man she barely knew. But she never expected her father to be married to another woman, and they had already built up a family.Her stepmother and stepsister had bullied her in secret for a long while. But she had never blamed them and took a lot of work to get them to accept her. One day they finally showed her some kindness and she was fooled so quickly thinking that she finally became part of the family.They were so good at acting that they even fooled her to believe that her father was the one to blame for her mother’s imprisonment.Thinking of that, Andrea looked up at Valerie angrily.Her anger amused Valerie that she revealed an evil smile, "You, sister, you've been really helpful to my family and I. And we are really grateful for that.""What did you do to them?" Andrea asked again.This time, it warranted a sigh from Valerie."Father died of poisoning. Sadly, murdered by you who have been feeding him with this herbal drink you said was good for the heart but actually, you laced it with poison." Valerie began but was interrupted by Andrea."Your mother added poison to the herbal drink." Andrea gripped her leg.Valerie stopped and glanced down at Andrea. Then she kicked Andrea's chest and shook her hands off."But you have no proof." Valerie smirked, her eyes darkening in amusement. "Nobody will know that my mother paid a maid to do it. You will be the sinner that everyone knows for sure!""And yet you let the court sentence the maid to death by hanging. How cruel are you?" Andrea asked weakly from the floor."You're weak, Andrea and you make everyone around you weak as well. Take your fiancé for an example. Ryker Darius was every lady's dream man. Even some men wanted him as well." Valerie's eyes sparked with envy but then she became viscously pleased again, "But his life ended as well. All because he chose to be on your side."Andrea sighed and closed her eyes. Her thought drifted back to her adorable daughter. Anna was a sweet child. One that would make any parent smile just because she smiled. But Anna died because her mother trusted the wrong people. The thought of that haunted Andrea ever since she got thrown into prison.Her thoughts also drifted back to her time with Ryker Darius. She fought with him most of the time and had been too naive to see that after her father, Ryker was the second person who wanted her to be happy even If it would cost him. But she had gotten him killed just because she listened to the wrong people.Then her father who had been murdered by the Griffins and finally, her mother who had been killed in prison by Georgina Griffin.Andrea opened her eyes to look at Valerie. The Griffins won because she had trusted them with a life. Not only did she dislike her father and fiancé, she also made sure to inform them of whatever they needed to know about their businesses.Andrea finally accepted defeat. Everyone close to her all died because she chose to be lousy with the way she lived her life.What caused her heart to ache even more was that the last moments she had with each and everyone of them wasn't the best.She recalled shouting at her daughter the last time they met face-to-face, fighting with her father, her fiancé and finally her mother who had died in jail."You've been missing for one hundred days. And you'll continue to be a missing person. After all, you no longer have anything to live for." Valerie chuckled and reached for the gun in her thigh.However, before she could remove the gun from the safety lock, Andrea suddenly got up and hit her ankle. The gun fell and so did Valerie.Valerie's eyes flashed when she saw Andrea reach for the gun and she swung her foot towards the lady's abdomen which sent Andrea recurling into a ball as she whimpered in pain.She hadn't eaten for days and her body had weakened which raised the pain coursing through her body.Valerie immediately reached for the gun and removed it from the safety lock."Look at you suddenly putting up a hard fight now that you're dying. I think it's sweet but it's unfortunate I'm the one with the gun."Andrea slowly crawled to the wall and rested on it. Then she glanced up at Valerie with a vicious look in her eyes."You and your family will forever be hunted by those you had brutally murdered and I hope that I hunt you even in death or in the after life.""Silly Andrea. There's no such thing as those. But even if they were, good luck with that." Andrea chuckled and pulled her gun's trigger.Three months later Carrie and Andrea sat on the roof of Ryker's house overlooking that buzzing city. Life had gone back to normal for them. Or at least for the moment. Gabriel had taken back his entire after Andrea refused to take over it just like before. Elaine also bailed out of being the head of the Forbes and the mafia boss. And so did Andrea. Hence, it fell on Carrie's shoulder. Carrie held up the jug of coffee in her hand and chuckled sheepishly, "I've always hated coffee, but for the last three months, it's been my very good friend." "It must be hard finally being at the top of the pyramid, isn't it?" Andrea grinned. "Hard isn't the word you should use. I think difficult and impossible should fit just right. At the rate at which my life is going, being the boss will soon become an impossible task for me. How did you deal with it when you were there?" Carrie breathed out in exasperation. "As a woman, it was hard. Marco dared me, a lot of men in the mafia also dared. All I
"What do you intend to get with all of these, Aindrea? I mean, with me, father and mother gone, you'll have no one on your side. That's going to be such a sad and pathetic life, don't you think?" Andrea tutted. "I've been living that pathetic life since the day I was born because my parents thought my younger sister was the cuter twin. So they did a lot of things for her." "You always talk about being the firstborn and everything. The responsibility of being the first born is to be self-sacrificing. You certainly do not have such quality." Andrea chuckled, her eyes almost losing. Aindrea smiled and squatted beside her, "Do you think I care?" "I know you don't, which is why I'm offering you the best thing that could ever happen to you; take as much money as possible and go far away from us. Start up a new life with your son and live the luxurious life you've always wanted. You can start up your own empire and in the future, we will act like we have no idea who we are to each other.
The Accardo's Manor Gabriel glanced towards Andrea's room where Aindrea now occupied as he heard the sound of so many things smashing and breaking. "Does anyone have any idea what's going on?" He asked no one in particular, but his workers who were in front of him shook their heads. Even those in the mafia who had come into the house on Gabriel's order had no idea. They couldn't go up to check up on Aindrea as she was now their boss. "She's obviously upset and breaking things." Damon said walking into the house. Gabriel tilted his head to look at him before taking his eyes away. He no longer had any control over who came into the house and who didn't. And since Damon was with Aindrea, there was nothing he could do about his appearance. "You don't look surprised to see me? You probably knew I wouldn't spend the rest of my life in jail, didn't you?" Damon hissed, inching closer to Gabriel. "If you're working for Aindrea, you're making the wrong choice. A very wrong choice which
Presley rushed to the station less than ten minutes later, but to her dismay, she found Carrie seated beside Luca as they drank sodas. Luca squirmed closer to Carrie when he saw Presley. He recognized her to be the woman who led him to the warehouse. Carrie takes another can of soda beside her and extends it towards Presley. "I think he recognizes you." "And I think you should return him to me." Presley responded, sitting beside her. Luca held onto Carrie even tighter when he heard Presley. "You're scaring Ryker's son and you're actually admitting to have kidnapped him. Are you, perhaps, tired of loving?" Carrie hissed. "I didn't kidnap him, I only took him in and kept him in a safe place for his parents." Presley corrected. "You took him in without the consent of his parents and have kept silent all these while despite being aware that's one of Andrea's realism for coming to New York, a city she vowed never to visit." Presley snorted, opening her can of soda. "I don't care a
The following morning, Carrie walked out of the ward's bathroom fully dressed to meet the doctor in charge of Cheryl inside the ward. Cheryl was still fast asleep."She seems a whole lot better now." Carrie was the first to comment. The doctor agreed with her as he nodded. Then he pushed the file in his hand towards her, "Her vitals are stable and we've monitored and checked her numerous times to see if she'd have any relapse in the future, but our system states she won't. However, we'll require her to come once a week for regular check-ups until we deem her fit to return back to her normal activities." "Okay, sure." Carrie mumbled, taking the file. He handed her a file and she took and signed on it. Afterwards, they were ready to leave the hospital. Carrie sat on a chair waiting for Cheryl to wake up. Cheryl woke up an hour later, prepared and they were ready to go. The ride back to Carrie's place was slow and silent as none of them wanted to talk about the events of the past few
One hour after Ryker left, two lawyers had been summoned; one for Gabriel and the other for Georgina.Georgina stood defiantly on the other side of the room, her eyes locked with Aindrea's. "I want what's rightfully mine," she insisted, her voice laced with anger. "I deserve half of everything Gabriel owns.""Georgina, you have to understand that Gabriel doesn't have anything anymore. He gave it all to me. There's nothing left to divide. Frankly speaking, since you're the richer spouse, you should be the one giving to my father." Aindrea tutted. Georgina's face twisted with disbelief. "How can that be? He was wealthy. I won't walk away empty-handed. I won't allow it!"Aindrea didn't expect Georgina to understand, so she could only nudge at the family's lawyer to draft out a divorce agreement which would favor both of them.The lawyer quietly began drafting the divorce agreement, carefully outlining the terms and conditions. The pen moved swiftly across the paper as he kept a blank fa
The Accardo's Manor Early that morning, Valerie heads out of the building to jog within the vicinity. Two hours later, she turns and jogs back. However, she is forced to stop when she sights a familiar figure standing in her way. Taking off her earpiece, she tuts silently and asks, "I didn't know you were out of jail. Did Gabriel release you?" "No, he didn't. Aindrea did. She even brought me to live here until I get an apartment." Damon responded, taking slow strides towards her. For each step he took, she took two steps backwards. Seeing this, he scoffed and stopped walking. "Why are you moving away from me? You don't think I'm going to hurt you, do you?""I heard people pick up bad behaviours in jail. I don't think we should continue our relationship. I think it's best if we both go our separate ways." She stated in a righteous voice. "Go our separate ways? Are you trying to abandon me now that I'm worth nothing?" He hissed and continued walking towards her. "Don't take it pe
The Forbes' Manor The next day Elaine walked down the stairs the next morning and straight to the dining room to see Andrea seated already and enjoying her breakfast. "I didn't know you were still around." "I'm not leaving until I find what I came for." Andrea stated, forking a pancake into her mouth. "Why do I have a feeling you're about to do something crazy? Maybe like, umm, snatch my empire from me?" Elaine chuckled, taking her seat opposite Andrea. "I have no business with your empire." Andrea thought she should clarify. "And you're not also upset that the more you hesitate to do what we talked about the other day, the more things you hold dear will keep getting snatched from you?" Elaine inquired, and raised her phone provocatively. She tapped a few things on it before sliding it over to Andrea. "Seen it?"Andrea dropped her fork and took up the phone. When she saw the heading of the news, she paused the video and slid it back to Elaine. "I watched the live broadcast.""
The Forbes' Manor Andrea slipped her phone out of her pocket when she felt it vibrate. It was a text message from Ryker. She read the words on it with a blank face before slipping back into her pocket. "You should respond to his messages." She heard Presley say behind her, but didn't turn to acknowledge her presence. "I'll talk with him when I've organized my thoughts." Andrea breathed out. Presley chuckled and walked towards her. She stood beside her and sighed. "You think you know Ryker Darius, don't you? What if I tell you there are a lot of things you don't know about him." "I'll believe you." Andrea replied almost immediately, catching Presley off guard. "Then you should know better than to believe any word that comes out of his mouth." Presley admonished, getting a grip on her emotions. "Thank you very much, aunt. I'll do well to keep that in mind." Andrea turned to her and smiled. "You're welcome." Presley nodded, returning the smile, "I also know you've been snooping
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