Irina:“Can I come in?” Lea asked, taking me off guard as she stood by the door.She didn’t say a word for a while, and I shook my head in question, waiting to hear what she was going to tell me. She knew very well that I didn’t want to see her, and the idea of her being in front of me wasn’t one that I wanted to deal with. The woman has done enough damage as it was, and I knew that she wasn’t dumb, even she knew that.“Are you coming to talk to me about the nonsense that you told me about the other day? If that is the case, please, spare the two of us the fuss of it. I have other things to take care of, and the last thing that I want to deal with is you.” I said, and she took a deep breath.“Do you think that it is easy for me, Irina? To know that I had a sister that I didn’t know of, and to know that she hates my gut…”“Then as long as you know, you can leave. The last thing that I am going to want or need is another problem to deal with. I have enough on my plate as it is.” I said,
Kai:“Are you sure that she’s here, Viktor?” I asked, looking around the place that was filled with both roaches and rats.The smell of piss, shit, and vomit filled the air around us, and I could swear that there was no other living creature within the walls of this place. It seemed to have been abandoned for a very long time by now.“The men say that they saw Cosimo coming in and out of this place more than once. It is the one place that he keeps visiting and has literally no one else inside. It is our best shot…” I let out a low growl as I took sight of something moving in the distance. The creature, whatever it was, neither moved nor reacted. Its bare body had more cuts on it than should be normal. Some bruises were healing, others not. And I couldn’t help but feel my heart drop when I took sight of Irina’s mother.Her body was weak, she had lost so much weight, and the abuse that she was in was evident. She didn’t even wake up nor react when I turned her to face me. Her face itsel
Irina:“I, Irina La Rossa, vow to take your revenge,” I said, looking at my mother through the surgery room’s window.Kai was tending to whatever he needed done, and I had everyone sent from here. I wanted, no, I needed to be alone, and I knew that everyone saw that. They saw my pain in my eyes, I didn’t need to tell them that I was hurting.“You need to drink something,” Lea said, handing me a glass. I didn’t even know when the woman arrived, but she took a deep breath, clearly worried that I might throw the glass. The water would burn her and me, and the glass would most likely cut out skins. But right now, this was the least of my concerns, not when I had to worry about my mother like this.I took the glass from her and took a sip, the warm liquid burnt my tongue, but I didn’t care. It was a reminder to me that I was alive. Something that I knew I needed.“Do you want to talk about it?”“What do you expect me to tell you, Lea?” I asked, putting the glass on the floor beside me. “Th
Kai: “Are you sure that this is a good idea, Kai?” Diego asked as we sat inside the plane. “I am going to ask you this question, and you are going to be very clear with your answer.” I said, turning to look at him. “Couldn’t you think of asking before we got on the plane?” “He is not going to change my mind, Kai. You two can stop trying.” Irina said, and I shook my head. I knew that this wasn’t something that I wanted to do. And I had to admit, I didn’t even know how Irina was really feeling. All I knew was the fact that she wasn’t okay. In truth, I knew that she wanted to be anywhere but here right now. She was just good at hiding it. “You know, this wasn’t supposed to be something that you heard.” I said, and Irina shrugged. “Things are going to get harder from here, Irina, and Cosimo is not going to stop…” “He has crossed the line when he killed my father in the first place. And trust me, had it been up to me at the time, I would have killed him. He might have done it too, b
Irina:I woke up to Kai running his finger over my shoulder, gently massaging it, as I felt the plane land.I knew that things were going to hit rock bottom from here, and though I didn’t understand what this prophecy was about, I knew to keep it in mind. It was going to be what we depended on. At least, I believe that it was the reason why Cosimo wanted things the way he did.“Do you believe in a word that Diego said?” I asked, voicing out my thought.“For this to be the first thing that you can think of when you woke up, I am surprised.” He said, and I smiled, looking up at him.“You know that this is harder on me than I am letting out, and the idea of it being true is not one that I want. I don’t want him to think that he can…”“Cosimo is going to play all his cards, as they have been exposed. The one thing that he doesn’t know is the fact that we are onto him this time. He has harmed us all more than anyone before, and I think that it is time for us to start with defeating him the
Kai:To say that Cosimo was scared of facing us would not be a lie. The man has been sending his pawns and dogs to fight for the past three days, and even approaching the colosseum was impossible at this point. But I knew that we got half way through. We were getting in tonight.“Are you sure that you are going to want to do this, both of you?” Ezra asked, looking at both Irina and Lea. Irina shook her head at the man. They knew better than we did when it came to this, and something inside me tells me that we are going to be dealing with more than what we are ready for. I just know for fact that we are going to have to deal with it as it is. The man is going to have to pay for what he has made us live through, and it is not going to happen if we don’t react against him and what he’s doing.“I am not going to back out after everything that I am learning. The man killed my father, and I am still calling him father because he raised me. I am not even sure that what you are telling me is
Anastasia:I stood, watching from a distance, knowing that tonight was going to be the longest night of our lives.My brothers, if I could call them that, were not even aware of my presence here. Diego was foolish enough to think that their men could hold me back. It was a shame, that just like his beta, they had to die. Only this time, I knew that I would pay the price.One way or the other, I knew that tonight was not going to be one that I survived. It was one that I would use to find redemption to everything that I did. The one thing that pained me most was the fact that I never got to look her in the eye, speak to her as a daughter would to her mother.“Mama…” I whispered. It was the one word that I wished I said to her. The one word that I knew Cosimo took from me, deprived me of.I wiped the tears that fell from my eyes, knowing not to let anyone see them. I didn’t want to catch anyone’s attention in this place. The number of wolves that were around told me that they expected m
Irina:“What is going on?” I asked, frowning at the sight of the place getting evacuated.Women and men were running, the cries of children filled the air around us. And it wasn’t until the smell of blood filled my nostrils that my eyes widened in surprise.“You need to leave the building, ma’am. There is a woman whose been hurt, and we are going to need to evacuate tourists who haven’t been on this side. There are others who are being questioned, but do run along, there is nothing to see her.” A man dressed in a security suit said, making me frown. The man was no human. He seemed to be too calm to be one. Plus, the way he spoke and kicked us out, in Italy, told me that he wasn’t one of the security men.I looked at Kai for a moment, and he shook his head, silently letting me know that even he didn’t know what was going on.The two of us turned to leave, we were going to need to find a different path inside. “Could Cosimo really have done this to ensure that we didn’t…?”“I don’t know