Alessandra I killed my father. And I haven't slept all night, it's all I see. I don't see the blood or the way that my hand trembled when I pulled the trigger, I see the way that he looked at me before he died. He wasn't angry with me, he wasn't afraid or disappointed he looked neutral, like he didn't believe I could pull the trigger but somehow knew that I was always going to betray him in the end. I've stopped crying now, I think I ran out of tears or realised that none of my tears can fix what I’ve broken. My phone stares at me from the table as I try to eat while Igor watches me. I had put it on silent after the first message I received from Gianna this morning, after that, I've received so many calls and condolences that I don't know how to react anymore. I can't bring myself to reply to anything when Father's last message is still fresh in my mind. “You’ll always be my daughter. Even when you think you're not.” — Father That message makes no sense, he didn't th
Enzo The clock is nearing one and I'm tired of driving in circles around the city, I can't go back to my house. Without Sasha home, our house is nothing but walls with tainted silence and I don't know where to go, I'm mad Alessio and my men couldn't keep her in the house but I understand they had to when she threatened everyone with her life. But I'm more angry with myself than anyone else, I let her kill her father for me, I could have easily pulled the trigger on Don Romano but I didn't want her to watch me do it, I didn't want her to hate me for his death and that still happened anyway. I don't know how but I end up at my parents' house, the security has to double-check to verify my identity because I shouldn't be here, and certainly not at this time of night. Mother is living room, sipping wine in her robe as she stares eagerly at the door. My father's men must have woken them up when I made my way through the first security point. Her jaw drops when she sees me, “Enzo.”
I drive to Father's house with immense pain and speed. I try to get to the house as quickly as possible because I don't know how long ago Enzo left. Igor and Marcello were right behind me until I took a shortcut they don't know of, and I think I lost them. Enzo's car is parked in the driveway, and I leave mine there too, the door unopened as I step out. None of the guards here ask me what's going on despite my being barefoot and covered in blood, they watch me. When I push through the doors, I come face-to-face with Reina and Sofia. They're sitting there looking at something in a magazine like everything is fine, and maybe it is because they wouldn't be so still if Enzo were here. “Oh my God,” Sofia gasps. “Sasha, and what happened to you?” “Where are they?” I ask, still holding Enzo's gun in my hand, except now it's hidden behind my back. “Where is Enzo?” I swallow, worried that the calm I'm seeing could be because Father has gotten rid of him already. “Father's office,”
Alessandra My shoulder hurts, and everything on the top half of my body feels unbelievably sore. That’s the first thing I feel as I stir awake with a whimper. I'm thinking Enzo must have spent the night on top of me but the pain is different, the more I shift the more it sharpens, and when I feel a soft and gentle hand against where the pain mostly exudes from? My eyes snap open and I come face-to-face with the ceiling. I immediately know I'm not in the bedroom, but I'm still in the house, I'm in one of the downstairs guest rooms, that much is obvious from the ceiling pattern. A woman is touching me, she doesn't notice me looking at her because she's busy saying something to someone, my memories are a blur but when I look down at where she just injected something into me, that's when I remember. The rooftop, the gunshot, the ringing in my ears, the blood and Enzo. I quickly sit up, making the woman gasp when I do. Pain shoots up to my shoulder and I nearly scream murder. “Ale
“I think you'll need a few drinks before this, it's—” “Go on.” I urge, my patience wearing thinner with each passing second. “I know Ale,” he says, once again stating the more than obvious. My mind is running miles trying to see what he could be on about, because whatever he wants to say must be bad. “Alessio, get to the point. You know my wife, that much is obvious to anyone.” “No, what I'm trying to say is that we both know Alessandra, and not from the Romano household, we've known her before this life.” I frown, shooting him a warning glare, if he's about to start some psychotic rant on past lives, he has picked the wrong time. “Just think, we have met her before. Don't you recall?” “No,” I instantly retort. I had not met Alessandra anywhere, I knew there was another daughter but no one knew her, she wasn't around for any public social events.“Non quella scuola,” Alessio sucks his teeth. “Intendo la vera scuola, quella dove abbiamo imparato qualcosa di utile.” (Not tha
Enzo I think I just had the longest ride of my life. The ten-hour flights and six-hour drives I have had to endure in the past are nothing in comparison to the forty-five minutes it took me to drive home today. Doc has been with Alessandra in the guest room for the last minutes, which feel like hours to me, but Alessio swears it couldn't have been more than ten minutes. He keeps saying that, and even though he never lies to me, I'm inclined to believe that I'm being lied to right now. I don’t pray again. I already gave God everything I had in the car. He knows the deal. He can have us both or none at all. I wanted to be in the room while Doc fixed her up, but he kicked me out because he didn't want me giving orders, and now I sit here cluelessly, hearing echoes of him giving orders to his daughter, the next him. “She is going to be fine,” Alessio says, cutting through the raging storm in my head right now. Will she? I don't know for certain that she will be just as she was