It is been a week since I received the news of my family’s demise. I can’t still wrap my head around the idea that I am never going to see them again. The pain of their loss is excruciating, the emptiness I feel in my chest is indescribable, most days it makes it hard to even breathe. Dimitri has been trying to cheer me up but I have barely paid any attention to him. I know this is technically not his fault, he didn’t have them killed himself, but that doesn’t mean he hasn't played a part in all of this: our marriage meant that my family would be safe. They weren’t. Dimitri failed me. Besides, they claim the Esposito gang did this, but in my heart, I know Lucas would never allow something so heinous to happen to me. I have to hold on to the belief that there are certain limits people would never cross, especially people that claim to love you.

Someone knocks on the door. For a moment I think it's Dimitri, but then I realize he wouldn’t knock to come into his own house, he would just open the door. I get up the floor and I get the door. Outside I find Anastasia. She lets herself in as if she owned the house. “What do you want?” I ask, my voice shakes, my eyes are reddened from all the crying and she is the last person I want to see right now. “I need to talk to you,” she replies as she takes a seat in the living room and then gestures for me to come to sit next to her. “I was thinking about my attitude from before and I realize that I was very rude to you. What is said was hurtful and I regret it, but it doesn’t make it less true. My son and Tatiana were together for a long time, she was his whole world, he planned to marry her before her

(Dimitri P.O.V.)I drive like a maniac back to the complex. I am fuming. If what Victoria said is the truth I am the biggest idiot on the planet. I always had the feeling that there was someone else between me and Tatiana, but Vincent Esposito? This is too much. The humiliation is too big. I guess she was wise to fake her death because if I had known the truth I would have sought revenge and I wouldn’t have stopped until I killed Vincent. Once I get to the residential complex I go straight to my house, I run upstairs to the empty room, it takes me about two minutes to find the loose floorboard Victoria was talking about. I lift it and look inside, the box with the letters is here, just like my wife said. I feel my stomach burning with rage. I take out the box out and start reading the letters. Every word feels like a

(Victoria’s P.O.V.)My head is killing me, I open my eyes slowly. It takes me a while to focus, my vision is blurry. Once I am able to see what’s around me I draw my breath in. Vincent and Tatiana are looking straight at me, they regard me with disdain and hate. “Look at that! The latin princess has finally woken! Good, I thought she was going to miss all the fun!” Vincent exclaims with a wicked smile. I remember hearing his voice, he is one of the men that forced me inside the van, he was wearing a ski mask. He kidnaped me! Cold sweat runs down my back as I realize how vulnerable I am right now. I am tied up to a chair, so tight that the ropes hurt my flesh. I look around me, we are in some sort of cave. I am cold or maybe it’s my fear that is causing me to shiver. Several lamps hang from the

We go back inside the cave. The first person we see is Kirill. “What are you doing here?” Dimitri asks. “Did you thought I was going to let you have all the fun? No way! Once you started to act weird I decided to follow you,” Kirill explains. Dimitri shakes his head with disapproval, and then he gives his cousin a hug. “Thank you, Kirill, you saved my life,” he says gratefully. “Anytime, cousin.” Kirril says as he winks at Dimitri. “Can you cut it out with sentimentalities?! This isn’t over!” Nikolay shouts.