Chapter 110

Katerina:

I stood in my father’s arms, smiling at the men that were around us, waiting to be noticed by me.

It amazed me what a smile could do to them. They were easily fooled, just like he was.

The one thing that I always ever wanted was to find her. Was to understand why she gave me up. My mother. The woman who every child would look up to, a mother. And that woman let me go on the day that I was born. I never understood why, but I didn’t plan on leaving this world without finding her. Even if it was the last thing that I would do.

I had to understand why she chose to keep her sons and let me go. I couldn’t have been an abomination to her that much, right? I mean, she was a woman herself. The idea of her seeing me as wrong for being a girl was something that didn’t make sense to me. But I knew better than to question Cosimo. The man was my father and he chose to raise me, keep me safe, and I knew to be grateful for that.

“I never knew that you had a daughter, Cosimo. She was ne