EPISODE 54

ELIANA

“When my mother died, it broke my father and that result turned my brother into an even colder maniac.” Rina voiced and I felt an overwhelming pressure clog around my heart. “I was fifteen at the time and Luca was seventeen.” Her voice was heartbreakingly sad as she spoke as though the wounds of her past were just a recent memory.

I could only listen while she spoke in a pained toned even though she tried to hide the sadness in her voice, her warm brown and green eyes that held flickers of gold within them, reflected the stale grief in her heart as she reminisced through her words. But I wanted to know more about Luca’s past—who he used to be.

“Then a year later, my father gave me away on an arranged marriage to Carmine’s family. The ordeal was to strengthen our family’s force in order to retaliate against the family that had killed my mother.” She says, looking down at our interconnected hands. “Luca wasn’t pleased with the idea, he caused a huge fucking scene,” Rina smiled as