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
“Happy birthday Matteo,” Viso's four year old daughter wished her friend with a shy smile as she handed him the toy gun she brought as a birthday present for him.Matteo smiled at Rosa, his friend while taking the birthday present from her. “Thank you, Rosa.” Helena smiled over her son's manners. She was a proud mother of two handsome and chivalrous sons. Liam and Matteo. Isabel kissed Matteo's head. “How happy are you, Matteo? It's your fourth birthday.” she asked, pulling his cheek, while her friend handed her a glass of mocktail.“I am very happy, Isa, because you and Rosa came. She looks very pretty,’ He whispered, his cheeks turned pink as he blushed. Rosa too looked down shyly.The two friends exchanged a look and chuckled silently. Matteo turned to his mother. “Mom. I want to marry Rosa once I grow up.”Helena’s smile ceased as she froze and Isabel choked on her drink. She snapped her eyes to Matteo and Rosa. Isabel looked at her friend. “Don't you think your son is demandin
Antonio sighed after Evan left from there and turned to Richard. Their revenge was fulfilled, he was relieved for his one son while still worried for the other. “Still not gotten over her?”Richard’s throat bobbed up and down as he chained his emotions. “I don't know what you are talking about,” he muttered and walked past him but the old man stopped him and gave a firm squeeze to his arm.“You want her?” Antonio again asked and Richard closed his eyes in shame. “I know it's wrong. I should hate her but…”Antonio chuckled. “The girl regrets what she did.”“Her regrets meant nothing!” Richard snapped, opening his eyes. “Look how many people suffered because of her.”Even though Richard still had feelings for her but he knew it was his problem. This time he was not going to prioritise his emotions over his duty. “Yes. I can see who suffered the most,” Richard looked away and Antonio sighed. “Give yourself some time, Boy. Give Evan and Helena some time. I am sure things would work out f
“Dad, Mom is calling you, Zio Richard and Nonno for dinner. She made Pasta, pumpkin soup and almond cookies for dessert,” Liam chimed, opening the door of Evan's home office with a huge smile on his face.It looked like the kid had forgotten everything, he was happy with all the attention he was getting from his mother and Nonno. But Evan knew better. He knew Liam was still fearful to go outside. But he would overcome this fear. He had too because Liam was his heir. Heir to Evan's damn empire. He was going to the Capo Dei capi of La Famiglia once he turned twenty-five. “We are coming, ask your mother to set the table,” Evan responded with a smile. Once his son left He turned his attention back to Richard and raised his eyebrows in question.Richard nodded. “As per your order, Capo, he is tied in the cell, without food from the last two days. Crying and begging for release.”“Tonight. Giovanni Rossi is going to have the meal of his lifetime,” Evan said smirking before getting to his
“NO! Mom…wake up. Wake up!” Evan wailed like a broken wolf. “MOM!”“Capo. She is no more,” Ricahrd softly said from behind, making Evan freeze. He could only stare at the body of his lifeless mother. She was dead. She left him. Again! In the pin drop silence, Evan slowly rose to his feet not breaking his gaze from his mother’s lifeless body. Today He lost his last blood related family. He stepped back, face blank but eyes filled with unshed tears. The child inside him still craves that motherly’s love. They could have a normal bonding, She could have been alive and with him now that their misunderstanding was clear but… Evan's eyes went red with madness as He snapped his gaze to Giovanni before shifting them back to Richard. “Take this bastard to Milan. I want him tied up in our cell!” Giovanni was too stunned to react to his order right now. He also lost his family too. His wife got the shot to save his enemy. Richard nodded. “And what about…” He stopped and getsured at Nancy.
Giovanni glared at Saint, not paying heed to his wife’s emotions. “Why did you let her down!” He barked and ordered him to take her back to the room. “Take her back!” “Nooo. I am not going anywhere!” She screeched and strode to him and pushed him hard in the chest. “I will kill you, Giovanni! I will kill you! You ruined my life. You killed my husband! You separated me from my son. You ought to die, you bastard!” She screamed, her whole life flashed in her vision. The horrible night. The horrible day she married Giovanni. The day when she sacrificed her love for Conan and accepted Giovanni in her bed.Everything about her life disgusted her today. “You cunning bastard, you deserve nothing but death!” She spit on his face and Giovanni’s eyes went wide in rage.Evan narrowed his eyes seeing her actions, her words and Giovanni’s reaction to her. It all looked too real to be an act. But again, He would be a fool to believe her. While Giovanni and his men were busy in the drama Rossi cou
“Any news?” Evan demanded Richard who shook his head and Evan's nose flared. “What the hell have you been doing till now? Give me my son's location, Richard. I do not have time!” Evan snapped before walking out of there to talk to mafia heads of other countries himself. Richard sighed and was about to make some phone calls when he received a call from someone he was not expecting. Vienna! His heart wished to talk to her but he ended the call. He was done with this girl. Forever! However his phone kept buzzing from her number. “Richard, I…” “I don't want to talk to you," he snapped, “Don't call me again, Vienna. I am done with you!” He snapped before listening to what she was saying and ended the call. Richard officially closed her chapter from his life. But soon his phone buzzed again, this time with a message and the context of the message shocked him. She was apologising to him and asking for another chance for his love. The picture she sent was proof that she was trying to c
“High blood pressure due to heavy stress. You are lucky, she didn't have a stroke. But there is nothing to worry now, we have given her sedatives. She is sleeping now. She will be fine but you have to be very careful with her now. Nothing should give her stress. Nothing,or this could be harmful for her.”The doctor informed Evan who closed his eyes in anger and exhaustion.Failures, Evan never liked them. Never! But regarding this case He had been failing every single day. He clenched his hands tightly and opened his eyes.He needed to find Liam before his wife woke up. Anyhow! He had to give his wife her happiness back. Her son back!“Capo.” Evan snapped his head at Richard who approached him. “Have you found out where he took my son?” Evan demanded before Richard could speak further. Richard looked at him apologetically. “It seems like he vanished into thin air, Capo. I have tried everything but he is nowhere to be found. Infact, he didn't even appear at his party meeting. His wif
“Giovanni, what you are doing is wrong! Leave the child, can't you see how distresee he is!’ Nancy tried to snatch Liam from Gabe but Giovanni held her arm, stopping her struggle. “Nancy. Don't make me hurt you. Your bastard son killed my son! And I am barely in control. Stop interfering or things could go very bad for you,’ Giovanni warned her in a cold tone. “Are you threatening me, Giovanni?” Nancy widened her eyes and demanded. Giovanni got into her face. “Yes, My dear wife, I am threatening you. So shut the fuck up and come with me!”He said pushing her in the waiting chopper which Elijah wanted to board to go to Fiji. But his location would slightly change.“No Giovanni, give me Liam please!” She lashed out ignoring his warning and once again tried to go to crying Liam. Giovanni, in rage, raised his hand and struck her hard. “Sit silently or you will see a face of mine you have never witnessed before!” He screamed and Nancy for a moment froze at Giovanni's action. The man who
Evan didn't say anything and was about to turn to go to his wife and child but the air of the place once again turned violent as They heard the landing of a chopper and the sound of bullets! Richard, who left with Titus before, came running. His eyes were full of tension. “Capo, We are under attack!” Viso gave him a questioning look. “What happened?” He asked pulling his phone out to call Titus to make sure Vienna was alright. “Sage called. Giovanni Rossi attacked us!”“Fucking Rossi bastards….” Evan snarled and Just then the sound of door breaking was heard and bullets started raining over them. Evan ducked his head and pulled out his gun to fight. Viso and Richard did the same as they got into the fighting stance with Giovanni Rossi’s goons which started invading the place. “Richard, Call Sage and ask him to protect my family with his life! If anything happens to them, I won't leave anyone alive!” Evan ordered in a grave tone while running to the safe point to fight. He was ten