Chapter 31Lisa looks up at Mr. Lombardi “What the hell do you want, and where is my sister?” She demands to know. She refuses to display any sign of fear toward him. Mr. Lombardi begins to laugh, sending shivers down her spine. “You stupid little girl, you should have listened to me the first time, and as for your little brat of a sister, she is fine... for now.” He tells Lisa and walks closer to her. “Now, as for you, TSK TSK TSK, what should I do with a pregnant woman? You will be no good as a sex slave.” He taunts and continues, “But we can keep you here until you deliver, or maybe we should just get rid of the little bastard inside you?” Mr. Lombardi laughed evilly as he looked at Lisa. He wanted her the first time he laid eyes on her, and now she is right here with him. “Don't you dare touch me or my child; Alessandro and I are getting a divorce!” Lisa shouts at him, trying not to show her fear, but deep down inside she is afraid of what he will do to her. Mr. Lombardi slaps h
Chapter 32Lisa woke up all sore, and when she looked down, she saw blood. She instantly holds on to her stomach, hoping that nothing has happened to her children. The door opens, and one of the guards opens the door and walks toward her. “Get up; the boss wants to see you”. The guard notifies her. Lisa looks up and then tries to stand up, but her body is sore all over. The guard helped her up and put his arms around her to help her walk. “Don't worry, I will let Mr. Mancini know where you are; you just need to be strong for a few more hours.” He whispers into her ear. Lisa looks up at him; she can't believe what she is hearing—someone is willing to help her. She just hopes Alessandro will be in time to save her and Lilani; she doesn't know how much longer she can be strong for both her and her sister. Lisa noticed they stopped, and the guard knocked on the closed door. “Come in”. She hears Mr. Lombardi's voice. The guard opens the door and pushes Lisa gently inside. “Look at you.
Chapter 33Lisa woke up when the door opened, and she noticed the guard she talked to walking up to her. “Get ready; Alessandro will be arriving in ten minutes.” The guard says. He looks at Lisa and notices how weak she is, and then he notices the blood. He bends down and picks her up. “I'm going to put you in this corner so if somebody wants to get you, they won't find you, I will tell your husband where you are”. He talks softly and puts her down gently. Lisa nods weakly. She doesn't have any energy left in her body. She just wishes Alessandro would hurry and rescue her sister. She doesn't think her body is strong enough to escape. Lisa closed her eyes, praying her sister would be fine."Is everyone ready? You all know what to do. We need to ensure a safe and swift evacuation for Lilani and Lisa.” Johnny tells his guys. “We are going in five, and the driver is ready. Let us know when you find them.”. He continues. Alessandro's impatience grows as he yearns to swiftly retrieve his w
Chapter 34The next morning, Lisa woke up feeling someone's hand around her. She carefully moves, looks over her shoulder, and sees Alessandro sleeping next to her. Lisa closed her eyes and recalled everything that happened the day before. She holds on to her stomach and remembers the doctor telling her that she lost the baby. She hastily grabs Alessandro and shakes him. “Wake up; you need to get me to the hospital, please.”. Alessandro opened his eyes and asked, “What happened? Are you okay?”. He asks Lisa, now fully awake, and moves closer to her to look for any signs of injuries. “No, the doctor told me last night that I lost the baby. I want to get checked by my doctor to know for sure. Please, take me.” Lisa begs him, then gets out of bed and walks to the bathroom. Alessandro doesn't have a clue what's going on but decides to get up to take Lisa to the hospital. Lisa takes a shower and realizes she doesn't have any clothes whatsoever. She wrapped the towel around her body and w
Chapter 35Alessandro decides to check up on Johnny. He just hopes that Lisa will find it in her heart to forgive him. “What happened to Lisa? Did I hear her crying?” Kevin asked Alessandro as soon as he went into Johnny's room. “It's something that I did,” Alessandro says with a sigh. “What did you do, and how did it go at the hospital?”“Well, the good news is we didn't lose the babies, and the bad news is Lisa needs to rest and stop stressing, otherwise she will lose them. As for what I did, Lisa asked if I slept with Bianca.” Before he could finish his sentence, Jake interrupted. “Did you really sleep with her? It's no surprise that Lisa is in tears!" Jake shouts. How could Alessandro be this stupid? “I didn't sleep with her; I only kissed her.” Alessandro defends himself. “Still, you cheated on your wife. Goddammit, Mancini, we told you to stay away from Bianca.”“I know, I messed up big time,” Alessandro says, defeated. He knows what he did was wrong, and he doesn’t need hi
Chapter 36Alessandro went back to the mansion and went to Lilani's room. “Hey princess. How are you feeling?”“Good, thank you. Where were you?” Lilani asks him. “I quickly went to Aunt Sophia to ask them something,” Alessandro tells her. “Okay, Lisa is sleeping if you want to know. Is she alright?”“Thank you. Yes, she's alright now. Why do you ask?” Alessandro asks, his voice filled with confusion. “She's crying a lot,” Lilani says. “Don't worry, I think she's just glad to be back.” He assures Lilani. Lilani nods then asked, “When are we going back home? And when is Nonna coming?”“Soon little one very soon, Nonna will be back one of these days, I promise,” Alessandro says. Alessandro spends a few more minutes with her. Then he goes to Lisa's room. When he opens the door he finds the bed empty. Just as he was about to leave, the bathroom door opens, and Lisa walks out with a towel around her. Lisa watches Alessandro and sees the lust in his eyes. “I'm sorry, I should have knocke
Chapter 37I would love to go away for a few days with you.” Alessandro is relieved when he hears her say those words. Sophia winks at him, then says to Lisa:. “Remember what I told you.” With a nod, Lisa gracefully makes her way towards Alessandro. He takes her hand and leads her to the waiting jet. “Thank you for agreeing; you don't know how much this means to me. By the way, you look absolutely stunning.” Alessandro compliments her. “I think I know how much this means to you,” Lisa tells him. The flight attendant warmly welcomes them. Lisa noticed it was a new one. “I wonder what happened to the other one.” Lisa thought that until she heard Alessandro’s answer. “I fired her just after we came back from South Africa. This is Aurora. Aurora, this is my wife, Lisa.” Lisa looks at Alessandro. “Did I just say that out loud?” Lisa thought. “Yes, you did.” Alessandro smiles. Lisa blushes because of her stupidity. “Pleasure to finally meet you, Lisa; the guys talk about you a lot.” A
Chapter 38Lisa comes out of the bathroom and notices that Alessandro's place is empty. She decides to go down and start making breakfast. Lisa went down the stairs and smelled pancakes. Silently, she tiptoed to the kitchen and discovered Alessandro, shirtless, completely absorbed in preparing a delicious meal. She starts to drool at the sight of her sexy husband. What she will do to him right now is touch his abs, kiss him all over, and then make sweet love to him right here in the kitchen. “Take a picture; it lasts longer.” Alessandro brought her out of her dirty thoughts. “I wasn't staring at you.” Lisa plays it off. “That's not what the drool from your mouth shows.” Lisa wipes her mouth and finds him laughing at her. “Wasn't staring my ass.” Alessandro laughs. Lisa throws him a dirty look, but her husband only smirks at her. “So what are we planning for today?” Lisa changes the subject before she embarrasses herself more. “I was thinking maybe we could go down to the beach an
Chapter 50Two years later,.“Alexander! Gabriele! And JP!” Lisa shouts when she sees the mess in the kitchen."Please, come and tidy up this chaos!" She yells when they walk into the kitchen."Mommy, it was Alexander." Gabriele points his little finger at his brother."Nah, it was actually JP," Gabriele retorted.“I don't care who it was because we all know the three of you did this together,” Lisa says with her hands on her heaps.“What's going on here?” Lisa hears her husband's voice.“They made a mess with flour and eggs.” Lisa sights. Alessandro looks at the mess the boys made.“We sowwy daddy. We wanted to surprise Mommy and Lilian with a cake.” Alexander explains with his head down.“That was a nice gesture, guy, but you must clean up this mess and get ready,” Alessandro says sternly.The triplets quickly start to clean the kitchen. “I'm going to get Lilian ready for the party; please make sure these three are ready before everyone arrives,” Lisa tells him, walking out of the ki
Chapter 49Alessandro tells Lisa that he will be back late. “I'm going to meet up with the guys. Go and take a rest.” He kisses Lisa and then leaves with Kevin.“They are waiting for us with everything we need,” Kevin informs him. The drive to the house feels like an eternity for Alessandro. When they stop in front of the house, Johnny and Jake are already waiting for them.“Where are they?” Alessandro asks as soon as he climbs out of the car.“Follow me,” Jake replies, looking at Johnny. Alessandro notices how angry and disappointed Johnny looks but decides not to ask. They walk inside the basement, where three chairs stand with lights showing each one.“Alessandro! Baby! You came!!” Bianca shouts as soon as she sees Alessandro.“You thought that I would come to rescue you?” Alessandro sneered.Bianca looks confused at him. “What are you talking about, baby? They called you to come and get me!”Alessandro starts laughing. “You think that I will come to you? Haha! This was all part of
Chapter 48Alessandro takes Lisa into his arms and whispers. “Why didn't you tell me where you were?” Lisa didn't answer, too afraid.“I'm asking you a question! Why didn't you tell me where you were when you remembered who you were?” He asks in a low, dangerous voice. Lisa shook her head and opened her eyes. Alessandro was now staring down at the triplets.“I'm sorry, baby,” Lisa whispers and notices he is still not looking at her, and it hurts so bad.“Lisa?” Sophia broke the tension between them.“O my! It's you!” Sophia ran to Lisa when she saw it was Lisa. Lisa hugs Sophia while keeping her eyes on Alessandro.“We missed you so much.” Sophia cries.“I'm sorry, Sophia. I wish none of this ever happened.” Lisa whispers with tears flowing down her cheeks. Sophia let Lisa go and stepped aside, so the others could greet her. Lisa hugs everyone and cries out of happiness."Hello, my dear; you don't know how much we have missed you," Grandma tells Lisa as she hugs her."I have missed you
Chapter 47Everyone sits around the dining table, curious why Alessandro wants to talk to them so urgently. “Ali!” Lilani greets him as soon as he enters the dining room. “Hey, little one.” He went and kissed her on the head, then looked around the table and noticed everyone he cares about was there. “Thank you, Maria; this looks delicious.” Maria smiles at her boss. This was one of Lisa's favorite Lisa has shown her how to make “vetkoek” and mince. No one talks during dinner; everyone is wondering what Alessandro wants to say.After dinner, Alessandro asks them to follow him to the living room. “Thank you all for coming. What I'm about to say will come as a shock to you but no one must know about this.” Alessandro looks at them, and they nod. "Well, first thing, I'm taking you all to a safe house. Bianca wants to hurt everyone close to me.”“What are you talking about?” Gabriele interrupts. Alessandro gives him a look to shut up. “As I was explaining, Bianca hired someone to kill
Chapter 46Johnny and Jake soon arrive at the bar. “Hey, guys, what's so urgent?” Jake asks, his eyebrows raised. Alessandro shows them to sit down. “Can we get you something to drink first?” Kevin asks nervously because he knows they will have his head. Alessandro watches as Kevin gets nervous. He realizes he's trying to buy some time before dropping the bomb. A waiter brings more drinks and as soon as she leaves, Johnny asks, "Okay, will one of you tell us what's going on? Kevin looks like he's going to faint any second now.”Kevin laughs nervously. “Well, then the short version is... um, Lisa. She's still alive.” Johnny and Jake exchanged looks and then looked at Kevin as if he had just grown two heads. “What are you talking about?” Jake asks, breaking the silence. “I found out Bianca wanted to hire an assassin to take Lisa and the boys out, so I asked one of my guys to pretend to be an assassin. We got a body out of the mortuary and made the body look like Lisa. On the day of t
Chapter 45A few months after her funeral, everything seemed lifeless for him. The house felt empty without Lisa's presence. Alessandro could smell her everywhere and still can. In the kitchen and their bedroom. The pillows cover everything that smells of Lisa.After that day, he saw the SUV outside the graveyard He called Johnny to tell him, but Johnny just told him that he imagined that he was seeing things. Maybe he's right; he needs to focus on the children instead of making assumptions about who visits the graveyard.Alessandro sits in his office, looking outside from where he can see Rome. What is life if you lose the one person who made life worth living?“Mr. Mancini?” He slowly turns around and looks at Leonardo. He has been quieter than ever. It's starting to worry the people close to him. Alessandro has been walking around the house and office like a ghost.“Yes?” Alessandro replied.“It's been three months, Sir, and we are worried about you. You must...”“Yes, it's been thr
Chapter 44“Miss? Miss, can you hear me? What is your name?” A woman in white asked.“Her name is Annabelle Jackson, like I told you.” A man she's never seen before tells the nurse. Why can't I remember my name? The young lady thought."Sir, may I inquire if you two are related?" The nurse asks again. “Yes, she's my sister.” The man tells the nurse while looking at the girl. “Okay, you almost died on us, but the doctor managed to pull you through. You have been in a coma for a week now.” The nurse tells her. “The doctor will be here shortly to check on you.” With that, the nurse left, leaving her and the man alone. “So you are my brother? Do I have any other family?” She asks him. He nods and says, "Yes, your older brother." We have a younger sister too; her name is Ariana Jackson she's 23 years old. My name is Sebastian Jackson. I'm thirty-five years old. Our parents died over ten years ago in an accident. I am the one who raised you and Ariana.” Sebastian tells her. The young
Chapter 43Everyone came. Alessandro had Lisa's family come with his private jet. His family and their friends—everyone came. Sadly, this is the day of Lisa's funeral. Minutes later, three limousines arrive at the mansion. Everyone steps into the limousines. Alessandro and Sophia have triplets with them. Alessandro dreads this day. He wishes Lisa was here with him and the boys. How will he raise them without her? How must he continue without her? He never thought he would love someone as much as he loves Lisa. She was his sunshine during the stormy, dark days in his life. She's the reason he wakes up every morning, but now it all seems impossible without her by his side.The family arrived at the funeral location where the funeral would take place. The atmosphere not only looks gloomy but also feels gloomy. Everywhere he looks, there are no smiles. “I hate this. Why did she have to die.” Alessandro was tough as he went to sit in front. The flowers are white Lilies, as this was Lisa's
Chapter 42Three months have passed since Lisa gave birth to the triplets. Everything has been going great; the boys are angels. Lisa thought it would be hard to have triplets, but they proved her wrong. Alessandro is a loving father and helps Lisa a lot during the night. He will help Lisa feed and change diapers. Lisa is grateful for a husband like him. Lilani couldn't believe that her sister had three babies in her belly and wanted to know if she had stolen the other two. She fell in love with them instantly. The guys mocked Lisa, and she's got problems coming when they are all grown up. She must admit she's outnumbered by the four Mancini men in her household. Grandpa was excited when he heard that all three were boys and promised to come and visit soon. “Maria I'm going to go to the shop to get milk and diapers for the boys. Will you be alright with them alone?” Lisa asks her. “Si, Mrs. Mancini, we will be alright,” Maria assures her boss. “I won't be long; Mr. Mancini will be h