LUCREZIAI stared at Pietro with surprise fleeting in my eyes when my mind had finally processed his sudden confession.“Y-you love me?” I asked, my voice weak and stuttering feeling like I was living in a dream. Hearing Pietro say that he loves me was a dream that I thought would never come true. “Yes, Lucrezia. I love you. I always had.” Pietro spoke with all his heart. I stared deep into his eyes staring at the pool of sincerity in the depths of his irises. My heart turned erratic inside my chest and my breaths turned faster as tears sprang up my eyes. “I love you more than my heart and mind could comprehend. I love you more than I could realize. I love you so much that I couldn’t breathe at the thought of losing you.I know I am a jerk for lying to you and not showing you how much I love you. I do not deserve to be with someone like you, but I beg of you…Please do not leave me. Don’t demand me to let you go.” Pietro spoke in a broken voice. Hearing the pain in his voice als

PIETRO/ANDREIAndrei’s father is doomed, unless he brings out money and pay the man in front of him he could come out of this alive. Paying what he owes is the only way for him to live. However, everyone knows how impossible that is.The men in front of him will never hesitate to kill him if he fails to bring them the money. Its seems that Andre’s father is going to die today. Andrei doesn’t know what to feel about that. Since his father had been abusive to him, with his father dead, there would be no one out there to hurt him anymore. However, if his father died, that would leave him fatherless. “Come on guys, you have to meet me halfway here. I don’t have any money right now. Even if you go inside my house and check, you won’t find anything.” Andrei’s father explained as he opens his door wide showing them the inside of his house.The men’s eyes landed on the little kid watching

LUCREZIAI 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 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

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