Two pink stripes mean positive. Helena kept staring at the pregnancy test in her hand and her eyes welled up with tears. She was crying and smiling at the same time not believing she had a small life inside her. Her happiness couldn't be defined in words at this moment. She figured it out when her menstruation was missed for the last two months. But now she was sure of it. Helena placed her hand on her flat belly and sighed. The dream of a beautiful future welcomed her vision.Enthusiastically, Helena left early from her business trip to go back to her fiance. She was going to surprise him with happy news today itself. It was almost a three-hour flight but it felt like an eternity to her. Nonetheless, the moment she reached Milan, Helena didn't waste a second, she hired a cab and directly went to meet Elijah in his office. She smiled at everyone who greeted her on the way. Her happiness was shining in her eyes as she reached the CEO’s cabin on the twenty-first floor. “Miss Gelati
“So what's the problem? You should go and apologise to Elijah and your sister.” Rita, Helena’s stepmother said, crossing her hands across her chest and levelling a glare to Helana. “You finally realise your place. You were the one who was running after Elijah and never gave him space with your clingy behaviour. So now he knows what's best for him. Now let Victoria and Elijah be happy, Helena. They both love each other and it would be cheap to come in between two lovers. Let them live their lives.”Helena looked at her step-mother stunned. Did she hear her right? “Apologise to them!” She sneered at her stepmother but what could she even have expected from that woman? Helena held her father's arm and questioned him. “Dad, are you hearing what she is saying? Won't you say anything to her, Victoria and Elijah cheated on me. They took Mama’s land from me, Dad. Help me get that land back. It was Mom’s dream to open an orphanage there.”Just then Victoria arrived there with a crying face.
Helena stood like a stone in front of her mother's grave while someone’s last rites were being performed behind her. Her eyes welled with tears and her mother's name blurred on the gravestone but she controlled her emotions. She came here to ask for strength from her mother, not cry out like a weak girl. “I have hired a lawyer. Your dream will come alive, Mom,” She said firmly. The betrayal from her family and fiancee destroyed her but they couldn't break her spirit. Helena was going to fight back every single one of them. “I'm sorry, Mom. I couldn't protect your last inheritance but now I have decided to fight back, Mom!” she inhaled sharply when a cold breeze touched her skin. “I love you,” she whispered and bent to put the flowers in her mother's graveyard but stilled when she heard someone’s grunt followed by heavy breathing. Helena frowned when the sound came again, it was from behind her mother's grave. She clutched the flowers tightly in her hands and stepped forward to check
****SEVEN YEARS LATER****The room was thick with tension. The scent of smoke and expensive liquor hung in the air of the hotel's cabin which Evan Conan Hemsworth came to take over. His cold blue eyes stared at the owner of the hotel frostily. “My time is precious, Carmine. Your Hotel caught my eye and It became Hemsworth property. The price I am offering you is good and fair,” He stated authoritatively, leaning back in the chair comfortably. “But…But I don't want to sell my Hotel, Mr Hemsworth,” Carmine stuttered, this Hotel was his bread and butter and he had no plans of selling it anytime soon. But he was also scared for his life, the man sitting in front of him was not only a billionaire businessman. No, He holds another identity. There were dark rumours about him, rumours that everyone in their world knew were facts. Under the expensive tailor-made suit hides the brutal lethal Mafia head who ruled the crime world of Italy with an iron fist. The man who had risen from the stre
Helena wanted to scream in pain but words didn't leave her mouth. The smell of gasoline and blood filled her senses and it was becoming hard for her to breathe. She wanted to move her hands but everything was aching in her body. She managed to peel her eyes open but shrieked when she eyed the blood all over her body. “NO..”..Helena gasped loudly, snapping her eyes open and sitting upright. Her body was sweating badly as she looked around the familiar room. “It was a nightmare, Leena. A nightmare,” She whispered and wiped the sweat off her forehead. After a long time she had this nightmare again because Helena slept thinking about that horrible incident which that man with cold blue eyes reminded her of. He opened her old wounds once again, the pain of this nightmare was still raw. Physically, her wounds might have healed but her soul was still bleeding. That ugly night was still fresh in her mind.She still remembered waking up in the hospital bed feeling empty and barren. “We ar
Instinctively, Helena took a step back as fear clutched her senses. Everything she went through in the last seven years passed through her memory lane. The pain, the fear, the struggle, the humiliation and not to mention the baby she lost. They killed her baby and they did all this to snatch her mother’s land from her. “You?” Giovanni Rossi’s eyes hardened, recognizing the girl standing in front of him. Although she had plastered thick makeup on her face, and her body too grew like a woman now, nothing could be hidden away from Giovanni’s sharp eyes.“Helena, is that you?” He asked in a grave tone. She averted her gaze from him, not responding as her legs turned weak suddenly. Was Evan really connected to Rossi? Giovanni eyed her from head to toe. She was supposed to be dead so how come! Helena was wearing an ugly attire worn by waitresses here. “What are you doing here?”Elijah told him that she was dead. But she was clearly not and this could be a problem for Giovanni as this girl
Helena shook her head. “No. We can talk here, out of the car if you want but I am…” Before she could even finish or react Gevin pushed her inside the car and closed the door. “Open this door right now, Mr Rossi or I will scream.” She screeched, hitting the window. “Shut up and sit silently. This is not Evan’s office and he is not here to protect you!” Giovanni hissed. “It won't take me a minute to finish your life, Helena.”“Mr Rossi.” She tried to act brave.Giovanni nodded curtly. She had something he wanted and he was going to take it from her anyhow. When he asked one of his spies to find more about Helena, he was expecting her to be in a relationship with Evan but to his shock this woman was living with a kid, her child. Giovanni’s heir. His blood! His grandson! Giovanni was jolted at the news. But it was something that peaked his interest. “Now listen to me clearly, Helena. You have something I want. And from the past experiences you must know to what level I can go to take
“She has a child, Boss.” Evan who had his eyes closed, gripped the marker in his hand hard and his body went rigid hearing Richard’s reluctant words. “A child?” He demanded in a sharp tone before opening his eyes and throwing a cold gaze to Richard who gave Evan a nod before placing the file in front of him. Evan snapped his eyes to the file and was stunned to read that she lives with a six years old kid. “And surprisingly she is friends with Isabel Ruiz.” Isabel, his best buddy’s wife! Evan looked at her pictures with her son and one of them was from his friend’s marriage which Evan attended but only for an hour. Damn his life! So He couldn't see her there! Evan silently clenched his jaws reading this new piece of information about the woman who turned his nights sleepless for the last seven years. And a child! He didn't understand how to digest this news. He closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair, the woman once again brought restlessness in him and Evan didn't know how
Giampaolo's eyebrows furrowed together in confusion. “What are you talking about?” He asked, his eyes suddenly turned calculated at his question. The icy coldness in Evan's eyes could bring avalanches to shame. With a lightning speed, He grabbed Giampaolo's jaw in a tight bruising grip and got into his face. “Old bastard, Where is my son, Liam?”Giampaolo's eyes widened. “Liam? What happened to my great-grandson!” He enquired instead. Evan's grip on his jaw turned bruising making him hiss in pain. “Leave me…”“I will. Once you tell me where my son is? He was kidnapped yesterday and I know that you know where he is so stop pretending because I am already tired seeing your daughter acting the same as you.” Evan nodded. Giampaolo tried to push Evan away but Evan blocked all his attempts and grabbed his hand using his other hand. “Don't. I am barely controlling myself here. Barely. Ten minutes, as I mentioned, so bark out the damn truth, Giampaolo before I lose my cool and end your Pat
Vienna made sure her voice sounded hoarse and painful with the motive to trap Helena in their plan. “If you are not alone then don't react or say anything please. Just listen, Helena. It's about Liam. They have a gun pointed at him right now and forced me to call you.” Vienna whispered. “Leena, who is it? Is everything alright?” Isabel asked Helena, seeing her shocked pale features. Vienna heard her sister-in-law’s alert voice in the background and clenched her jaws tightly. She was always with her, always. Isabel was the reason her brother didn't fulfill her wish. The only reason she had been tolerating this woman in her life was because Viso loved her or else, she would have wished death for her!Vienna ignored her angry thoughts regarding Isabel and focused on the task at hand. Entrapping Helena! “They have us both, Helena,” she cried on the phone. “Liam and me. The man who kidnapped us is an old enemy of Evan and Viso. I am trying to protect Liam as much as I can but they ar
“What?” Isabel was stunned. “Vienna is nowhere to be found?” Viso was pacing around Evan's penthouse, madly. His sister was once again kidnapped! The past painful memories of her kidnapping hit him like a bullet. “He said you talked to him, Isabel!” Viso demanded as he came to a stop in front of his beloved wife and held her shoulders. “Did you call anyone?” He asked in a grave tone. “I know you love Helena and can do anything for her. Vienna was a threat to Helena's happiness in your eyes. Did you vanish her so that she couldn’t harm Evan's married life or…”“Viso!” Isabel snapped, interrupting his senseless talks. “Are you even listening to yourself? Why would I kidnap your sister? She is no threat to Helena's happiness. Didn't you see how much Helena and Evan loved each other? How happy are they together?”Viso's nose flared in anger. “Then where the hell is she?” He asked in a loud voice, making her jump in fear.The look of madness on his face didn’t go unnoticed by Isabel's ey
Titus pulled his knife against the spa owner’s neck. He needed to fucking know where his Capo's sister disappeared. She said it would take her a full day at the spa. He stood in front of it the whole day but in the evening he found Vienna vanished just like that. He was terrified. He knew if Viso found out about it, death would not be his punishment but a favour. He tried to contact her, but the bigger problem was her phone was turned off too. “I asked you like a gentleman but you didn't help. Now tell me where Vienna is or this will be your last breath!” Titus gritted out making the owner of the spa whimper in pain. “You can't kill me. I pay your security money to your Capo. If he finds out, he won't like it.” the owner tried to threaten Titus who chuckled at him. “For the crime you did, my Capo will annihilate you himself! Now don't waste my time and tell me where the fuck is Vienna!” He asked, piercing the tip of the knife into his skin making the manager cry like a pig. “He
“Have you found him? Where is Liam?” Helena asked her husband the moment He stepped into the living room where she was sitting with Isabel. Both the friends were crying for hours, Isabel kept cursing herself for Liam's kidnapping. She was praying for her friend’s son to return safely home so that the guilt she had been feeling could leave her conscience and she could finally breathe freely. Evan's silence was killing Helena like a slow poison. “Evan, Where is my son?” she demanded as she held onto his arm for strength. Evan forced himself to look at her. He was angry that his wife was shedding tears because of his failures. This was supposed to be the best time of her life, she should be smiling in marital bliss right now. But instead, here she was shedding tears. She was crying for her son's safety. “I am trying Helena. I…”“What is your trying worth?” She questioned him, her eyes hard and accusing. “I do not want you to try! I want you to bring my son back!”Her distressed voice
Nancy sharpened her eyes, accusing her father who remained unaffected as if he didn't care at all. She shook her head at his silence. “It was you! It was you who ruined my family. It was you who tried to kill my son! There was no accident. You really sent killers after my husband and child, Didn't you? Tell me?” Nancy grabbed her father's collar and screamed in rage. Giampaolo’s eyes went wild at her assault and he couldn't feign it anymore. He couldn't tolerate the insult so he barked, “Yes I did that! And I will do it again until I end that Conan's bloodline from this earth!” Nancy's mouth hung open, eyes turned red in rage. Without knowing what she was doing, she left his collar and struck his face hard! “You murderer!”Giampaolo’s face turned abruptly to the other side and he froze. He never, even in his worst nightmares, thought that his daughter who used to get scared of his angry eyes would slap him one day. He rested his hand on hi
Giampaolo's eyes blazed, he was about to scold his daughter for barging like this and behaving childish but Giovanni interrupted him. “Nancy, is everything alright, Darling?” He asked, before standing and walking towards her. He held her hand which she pulled back from him.“No!” She snapped at her husband and moved to her father. “I want to have an urgent conversation with my father, gentlemen,” she said, turning to the men they were having this important meeting with. “So I request you both please leave.”The men glanced at Giampaolo who was fuming inwardly but outside, he flashed them an apologetic smile. “Gentlemen, we will continue this meeting after a short break.”Once they left, Giampaolo grabbed Nancy’s arm and turned her to him. “What is the meaning of this immature behaviour!”She snatched her arm from his grip. “You will not raise your voice at me father! Today, you will not raise your voice but answer my question only!” The anger in her eyes made Giampaolo frown. Giovann
Her son? Ethan!Nancy blinked once, twice and thrice not absorbing the news that upsided her world. “Shocked?” Evan mocked her once again seeing her ashen face and stepped near her again smelling her stiff aura. “Etha...” “Are you shocked that how could I be alive, Mother?” Ethan chuckled lowly and that tone brought back the sanity Nancy Just lost a few seconds ago. She was about to touch his face but his words snapped her mind.Her breathing quickened as his words rang in her ear. She stepped back in astonishment but He stepped forward. “Are you shocked that you failed….“Stop!” Nancy screamed at the ugly accusation. She looked up into his eyes. Her son’s eyes, who was staring at him with a murderous glare. Her Son was alive. He was really Alive. But how? Where have He been all these years? Number of questions were eating her mind but the accusation He was throwing at her stunned her to the core. She just couldn't accept it. “Stop accusing me of such a hideous crime! Do you rea
“What is the meaning of this, Mr Hemsworth?” Nancy Rossi reprimanded when Evan blocked her way from the hotel’s washroom, stopping her from returning to her friends. Evan gave her a heated glare. “I am not here to listen to your talks, Mrs Rossi. I am here to ask you where the hell is my son!” He demanded in a threatening voice which made Nancy frown her eyebrows. “What do you mean where is your son? How would I know that?” She asked with confused eyes but in an irritated tone. Evan's anger rose tenfold. Viso and Richard stood behind him silently but both were ready to take every step for him.Evan took a step forward and got into Nancy's face, invading her personal space. “Mrs Rossi, I do not have the patience to see your acting. So stop acting innocent and tell me where Liam is?” He demanded in a deep and low voice, raising his finger at her accusingly.Nancy eyes his pointed finger at her. “You should be the one answering this question, not me. Where is my grandson, Mr Hemsworth