Dante locked the door as he left. Making his way downstairs, he put on the shirt he was given by the maid. He looked at Alessandro, who walked in with Raffael behind him, asking, “Are you ready to take us to Angelica?”He nodded his head, defeated. “Yes.”“Alessandro, this is the second time you took Daphnee’s side. I hope it’s the last,” he warned him.Alessandro nodded his head. They climbed into the car that Gabriele was already waiting in and drove off.When they arrived at the house, everything seemed to be a mess.“What’s happening?” Raffael asked as he climbed out.The others followed him, with Gabriele right at the back, taking his time. Alessandro looked at the dead bodies on the floor then rushed to the door that was opened.He looked back at them, then saw that Gabriele was left behind while Dante and Raffael checked the bodies.“What did you do?” He asked.Dante and Raffael looked at Alessandro’s panicked expression, then at Gabriele’s calmed expression.Before he could an
Madam Bardi was in her private car as she stared out of the window at the passing scenery. “I am the eldest living representative of the Bardi Mafia and I’ve never been disrespected like this. What do you suggest I do?” She asked her driver, who was also her secretary and right-hand man.He looked into the rear-view mirror at her and saw that she wasn’t looking at him. Thinking about her question, he thought of Daphnee and all that she had done and how she came to be part of the mafia. He didn’t understand her, so he said, “I am certain madam has thought of how to deal with Donna.”“Correct. She is the Donna,” she said.*They arrived at Dante’s home, and he was waiting outside for her. He gave his mother a hug, asking, “Are you well?”Madam Bardi smiled at him, “Am I well? I am doing well. What about you? You look terrible.”“I didn’t sleep last night,” he said.She nodded her head. She received the report of everything from Raffael’s investigation, Alessandro’s betrayal. The dead b
Aurora watched Dante’s car drive off through the window. Sighing, she picked up her favourite stuffed grey elephant and made her way to the guest room to look for her mother.The door was slightly opened, so she didn’t need to knock. Pushing the door open, she looked around the room for her mother and saw Daphnee standing by the bed with the top lifted up over her breasts.Daphne was looking at her stomach and feeling around the blue marks.The smile on Aurora’s face dropped. She suddenly felt worried because the last time she saw her mother’s body, it didn’t have marks on it and she knew those marks were from getting hurt as she used to fall and bump into the furniture and have those same colourful marks on her body.“Mommy, did you fall?” She asked, rushing into the room and dropping the elephant on the floor.Daphne’s eyes widened. She quickly pulled down her top and caught Aurora, faking a brilliant smile.She sat them down on the bed gently and hummed, “Mn, mommy fell down but I’
Climbing out of the car with Giovanni in his arms, Dante looked at him and asked, “Are you excited about today?”Giovanni looked around them and saw the carnival ahead. He was curious as to what was up ahead and nodded his head. “What’s that?”“The carnival, we’re going to spend the day here. Just you and me,” Dante answered.He looked at the guards, saying, “Keep a lookout. I don’t want anything going wrong today.”They bowed to him.He walked off and bought tickets. Looking around, he felt confused. Growing up, he knew another side of life and that was spending money on things you didn’t need and his parents would buy him whatever he wanted. Now he wanted to spend time with his kid, but he didn’t know where to start.Giovanni looked at his confused expression and asked, “What is it?”Dante looked at him, saying, “I don’t know. Where do you want to go?”Giovanni saw the horses in the distance and pointed to the horse carousel. “There. The white one.”He put Giovanni down, who was wig
Opening the door to Gabriele’s hospital room. He stared at him until Gabriele opened his eyes. Walking over to the bed, he asked, “How do you feel?”Gabriele chuckled, but his body hurt. Sitting up, he said, “I’ve seen better days.”He nodded his head. “Daphnee told me that she forced your hand. Why didn’t you tell me?”Gabriele looked at his broken leg, asking, “Would you believe me? All I know is to do what I am told. I didn’t expect for my instruction to turn out like that.”Dante recalled Gabriele’s expression when they walked into the house, and he didn’t seem surprised.“You certainly looked guilty,” he said.Shaking his head, Gabriele said, “It’s because I knew the outcome once I saw the bodies in front of the house. Daphnee, she, overtime I saw the changes in her but I didn’t know it was to this extreme.”Sitting down, Dante thought about his wife thinking, ‘It’s my fault she is like this.’“Why didn’t you report this?” He asked.Gabriele glanced at him, then said, “I had no c
A few months later…Daphnee was sitting at a cafe drinking tea while she watched her children eat cake. Suddenly, a woman approached her and sat down at the table after pulling a chair over. Before Daphnee could open her mouth, the woman placed a hand over hers, saying, “Don’t panic, I don’t mean any harm.”Daphnee looked at the children, then at the woman and asked, “Who are you?”Slipping her wallet on to the table, she said, “I’m special officer Alessia De Luca. My badge is in my wallet.”Daphne didn’t need to open the wallet. “What do you want? I’m here with my children.”Special Officer Alessia looked at the children and said as she started speaking English, “I’m here to talk about your husband. Can you show me a wedding photo?”Daphnee stared at her, “And that has what to do with you?”Daphnee saw the guard approach them but put her hand up, telling him not to come over. Officer Alessia looked behind her at the man and said, “They listen to you. I’m surprised.”“I think you sho
Daphnee was sitting in her office at the club looking through documents when her phone buzzed beside her.Since it wasn’t a phone call, she ignored it. She had no friends, no relatives, and everyone around her was her enemy.She sighed as she drank from the glass of wine. Looking at it, she smirked, ‘To think I’d turn to alcohol after being upright in the beginning.’Looking at the door, she shook her head, ‘I guess this is what happens when you fuck a millionaire. Someone who treats you like shit and gave you children.’‘I shouldn’t have given in to him,’ she thought. Tears formed in her eyes, realising how stupid she was for going against him and accepting all of this.‘How would it have been if I were a prostitute?’ She recalled how life was for them and shook her head. ‘Who am I kidding? I would’ve killed myself if that was how I would turn out.’Taking a break while she finished the wine, she picked up her phone and looked through it. She had a message from a private number.Ope
Raffael walked into the room Dante was having a meeting in. Dante glanced over at him and gave him an ear to speak into.He nodded his head and turned to his guest. “Please excuse me while I take this.”The woman nodded her head.As Dante closed the door he looked at his friend and asked, “What is it?”Raffael sighed. “Dante, you need to be careful. Emilia is targeting Daphnee.”He stared at him for a moment as he thought of Emilia. He wasn’t happy being back in bed with her but he was still a man and he wanted to respect Daphnee as the mother of his children and he wanted to show his men that Daphnee wasn’t his everything–if he could, he’d find a better replacement but Emilia was an easy pick.“What happened?”“I was called and told that Daphnee handed her cellphone over with a link of files. In those files are videos and pictures of you and Emilia being intimate,” he said, handing over his phone with the proof.Dante looked down at it and as he watched the first video, his mind went