THE CASE OF THE WEDDING DRESS

Ariana’s pov~

Silvio let me out on Thursday morning, to try on my wedding gown but I was heavily guarded, one was always with me, and I suddenly missed Alfredo.

He was much calmer, and Silvio's guards were more like watchdogs.

“Can you let me breathe? Will you also follow me to the ladies!” I exclaimed, kicking him.

I was insanely irritated, I didn't know if it was the pregnancy hormones or something that made me act out this way, but I was utterly irritated.

  “ I'm just following orders, I'm never to leave your side” he replied, “I'm going to wait outside the door for you” before gesturing toward the ladies.

“You and your boss are just fucking crazy,” I said, he was quiet, I turned and walked to the ladies.

I went in and locked the stall, I took a deep breath and felt the urine trickle out of Me.

“Mmmmm” the feeling sent a calm sensation through my body.

 

“Ariana” a voice called, fear ripped through my body, “who is there?” I asked, looking around my four-walled stall.

“It's me, Julius,” he said.

Julius? “What are you doing here?” I inquired hurriedly putting on my panties. 

“Listen, I don't have much time, Mateo couldn't make it, he is still too weak, but I'll tell you this, he is coming for you, he wants you to know that,” Julius said.

“Where is Mateo, is he okay?” I asked, but it was silent, he was suddenly gone.

The guard quickly burst into the main entrance, “Ma'am are you okay?” he asked, “we saw someone leave from here, did anyone try to harm you” he inquired, I opened the bathroom stall.

“I don't know where you trained to be a bodyguard, but I don't appreciate you ruining my private moments with nature,” I said switching the topic entirely.

“I apologise, but I'll ask again, was there someone in here with you” he asked looking at me intently, my eyeballs started feeling itchy as I looked back, “I don't see anyone else in here but you” I replied, “all right, it would be best if we head back now,” he said, and I nodded in agreement, I headed back to the shop where liana and her daughter Sophia sat waiting, 

“Don't tell me you had an ocean to pour out, did you plan to give birth in there?” Sophia laughed, “Sophia! What is wrong with you? What is wrong with my children lately” she asked herself.

“What we already know she’s carrying someone else’s child, you know there’s a rumour she had ungodly relations with her brother,” she said licking her lips as she looked at me, you could tell Sophia was messed up from a mile away.

She was chaotic and couldn't control her emotions, and everyone knows how badly she wants to fuck her brother, she only dates men who look like him.

“Sorry, I took so long, can we continue the fitting, I'd hate to keep Sophia away from actually settling down with one of her brother’s clones” I replied, Sophia glared at me hatefully, and her mother looked at me and started raising her glass of wine midway.

“We have heard the things they say about you, im not sure you are in any position to talk to my daughter that way, we know you are carrying Mateo's child but the rest of the world doesn't, we do not want to confirm the rumour now, do we? if my husband finds out that you are not the virgin bride that was promised to his beloved son, he will raise hell to destroy you and your entire fucking family” she finished.

 I was quiet, there was something more sinister going on, and I've been traded for something don Argento doesn't know about, a sudden flash of Silvio and my father’s conversation at the east wing popped up in my head.

“As it turns out Mrs Argento, I wouldn't mind that at all, im sure you know by now that my family is a pest to the natural order of things, cancer growing in Italy, so I think your husband will be doing us all a favour by wiping out my father’s proud and mighty name” I replied with a smile.

“Watch yourself, girl, we can only protect you for so long, it's all fun and games until you see his true side,” Liana said, “Silvio learned from the best there is” she finished.

“I don't like this dress, change it,” i said, the designer gasped and turned to Liana Argento, “Silvio picked that out himself” his mother informed, I laughed to myself, “Well i don't want to wear it, it doesn't suit me I want something simpler,” i said,” more revealing, i want him to see all he has bargained for, im not going in like fucking sweet princess”  i said, liana sprang up.

 “listen here, in case you havent gotten the memo, this is their world, whatever they want they get, if you dont give it to them they take it by force and sometimes they take it from your soul, so watch yourself, the dress stays” liana said.

 “this is the twenty first century liana! The world has evolved, its not just their world anymore!  I live in it and what i want should matter too” i exclaimed, liana stepped back, sophia looked like she was ready to lunge at me, i was ready, i had to defend myself and my child from these psycho narsistic men.

“Tell your son id rather die than wear this ugly fucking dress!” i yelled, someone immediately spun me around, i couldnt see who it was because i was suprisingly taken aback by the instant slap accross my face! 

“You should have been sent to massimo’s! Not my serena! You fucking inbred slut!” i landed on the soft rugged floor, i turned and looked up, my hand firmly on my cheek.

I saw my stepmother standing over me, beside her was my step sister luna and my little brother tomas who looked terrified.

“We meet again ariana, and everytime we do, i have every reason to want you instantly dead!”