PIETRO/ANDREI
Pietro will never forget the first time he met the Don of the Carusso crime family, the person who forever changed his life.
When Andrei was born, he thought he knew what his future would be after he was born out of a poor but loving family. You see, Andrei’s abusive father hasn’t always been like that. He wasn’t abusive, he wasn’t an alcoholic and he was definitely not a type of man who would hurt anyone physically. Andrei’s life was peaceful and perfect until his father was introduced to illegal gambling where he instantly fell addicted too. When Andrei’s father felt what it’s like to win money so easily, he gained an uncontrollable desire to gamble again and again in hopes of satiating that desire of his to see his money grow double or triple and hopefully help his family and pull themselves out of poverty. However, as Andrei’s father got more addicted to gaLUCREZIAI couldn’t believe my ears when Pietro, or should I say Andrei, finally opened up to me about his past. I could see the pain flash in his eyes as he reminisced his childhood memories, during the time when he was still called Andrei Cavalieri.Seeing how being vocal about his real identity brought out unwanted emotions in him made me feel bad in forcing him to tell me everything, placing him in the uncomfortable position that he is in.I could see that Andrei Cavalieri was a dark past, something that he wanted to forget. I would never have thought that all this time, Pietro wasn’t really who I think he was. Who would have suspect that Pietro Carusso doesn’t have the Carusso blood running in him, that he was just adopted into the family?Even I couldn’t believe what I heard right now. If the situation wasn’t serious, I would have think that Pietro is lying to me, that instead of telling me his true secret,
LUCREZIAI woke up naked under the bedsheets with Pietro sleeping naked behind me. For the first time, I woke up earlier than him.I rolled on my stomach and raked my hand across his soft silky hair. I was careful, not wanting to wake him up from his peaceful sleep.I want to be able to stare at his peaceful face much longer, memorizing ever detail and just admiring how he is beautifully and wonderfully made.Yesterday, we just shared a wonderful time together. Who would have ever thought that we will consummate our wedding on the day I asked him for divorce.After everything was out between us, I finally broke the tall walls Pietro built to guard his heart. He finally fully welcomed me into his life and into his heart.I blushed as I thought of the things we shared together. I’m still over the moon to finally have Pietro’s heart.Pietro’s brows furrowed and he slowly stirred underneath me when he w
LUCREZIAI bit my lip and hug my knees, my back resting on the headrest as worry consumed over me.Pietro doesn’t want me to get pregnant. He doesn’t want to have a baby with me.How am I supposed to tell him that I want to have children of my own? How am I supposed to convince him that having children is a blessing to a family?As a woman who always wanted to take the married path, I always dreamed of having children of my own, to take care of little babies who looked like me or who looked like my husband.I always fancied raising kids of my own and having a huge family of my own.I haven’t realized that Pietro doesn’t want the same thing as me.I placed my chin on top of my knee as I thought of what I should do. After all, Pietro and I haven’t even talked to each other about our opinions and plans on having children.I just had to hear his side and let him know that I want children. Maybe once he finds o
PERICLESI woke up at the strong smell of food and because of the sound coming from the kitchen. My apartment is small, so my kitchen and living room are located just outside my bedroom.I don’t live alone inside a mansion just like Pietro. Even if I could afford a mansion, I don’t want to live in a huge place with so many rooms and spaces that I wouldn’t even use.Living in a small place where you only have to take a few steps to reach the bedroom and then the kitchen and the bathroom is way better than to live in a huge space where you will utterly feel all alone.I stood up, my eyes squinting from sleep. I did not even care if my hair looked like a bird’s nest. I immediately peeked my head outside the door to see what’s happening outside.“Sorry, did I wake you up?” Bianca asks me with an apologetic smile on her face. It’s so early in the morning and she’s already rummaging through
PIETRO“Why are you late today?” I ask as soon as I saw Pericles enter the office.For the first time, I arrived at the office earlier than he did, not only that he also arrived with a deep frown on his face which is very unlike him.Before, I used to come to office wearing his frown. He always came to work with smile on his face despite the workload that he has to deal with.Today, it looks like the world has turned upside down for we had exchanged expression. What a strange day it is for us. Pericles looks at his wrist watch knowing too well that I wasn’t referring to his time of arrival, but the fact that I arrived at the office first before he did.“What do you mean late? I just came right on time,” Pericles answers me still with the frown on his face.I stared at him for a minute wondering if I should ask why he is upset. I know if I asked him that he would thrown back
PIETROTo be honest, Pietro has the same doubts as Pericles also. He is also not sure whether he did the right thing of telling him his true secret or if he should have just chosen to lie to her again instead.Pietro trusts Lucrezia, but there re a lot of things that Pietro had to consider aside from the trust that he had given her. Of course, he also had to to take her background into consideration and the fact that she is born from the Rocchi family.Pietro grew up thinking that there is nothing good that should be expected from the mafias. Mafias are all powered by their money and greed. They wouldn’t hesitate to kill or to betray when it comes in exchange of money or power.Pietro’s secret holds a lot of power above his head. This means that if Lucrezia is like the others who is motivated by their greed for money and power, she would just have to share this secret he told him to someone and she would have the other things
LUCREZIAI couldn’t hide the smile on my face as I sit at the passenger seat beside Pietro. Pietro looked so serious, his eyes were trained on the road and both of his hands were clasped around the steering wheel.He is just driving a car, but he looks like he was driving a plane for the first time as if he was afraid that he would get us into accident and put my life in danger.I dug my hand in his hair, slightly pulling it to massage his head. I don’t know what got into me to suddenly do something like that.He just look so serious and I wanted him to relax.“Hmmm,” Pietro let out a soft sound, liking what I was doing.His face finally relaxes as he lets me massage his dead. My lips curled up seeing how he liked what I was doing.“You look so serious. Were you thinking of something?” I asked him, since he has been quiet during the whole ride.Pietro had promised me that he w
LUCREZIAPietro and I had finally arrived at our destination, but I still hadn’t forgiven him for the tricks he pulled against me.The whole ride was eerily quiet as I ignored him. Everytime Pietro would take his chance to defend himself, I would interject and make him fall silent with my sarcastic answers.Since he was driving, he couldn’t also fully place his attention to me. He is torn between focusing on me or focusing while he was driving, but in the end, he chose not to say anything anymore since I always flipped him off with my sarcastic words.My ears are not yet ready to listen to what he is going to say, and he knows that. He chose not to waste his efforts on me knowing that his words will only fall to deaf ears.I find it hard to easily forgive him in my heart. I couldn’t accept that he just told me he is going to replace me if I died first before him.Even though I know that he didn’t m