Forty-four: Emmilia Vitore

Forty-four:

Emmilia Vitore

Galileo took me to see my daughter. She was in the living room, talking happily with Donatello. Seeing her so close to the man that had brought so much misery to my family made me sick. She was too young to know anything was wrong about it and I didn’t want to scare her.

“Tori?” I called out, hesitant. She only knew me vaguely. She was aware I was her birth mother, but she had spent most of her time with another family. I didn’t even know if she would want to be with me permanently. That had always been the plan but I had always had the idea that I would have her back, but if she didn’t want to come, I would let her stay with the family that had raised her.

“Mommy!” she ran towards me. “Mommy, Daddy found me! He says that we’re going to be a family!”

I forced a smile on my face. “Yes honey, we are going to be a family.” I didn’t want her to know how terrified she should actually be. The men around here were so dangerous that she shouldn’t even be in the same