Union Of Death (Secrets of The Famiglia Part 2)

I go to my journal and pick it up and take it across the room where I move the rug on the wall aside and open my safe, placing the book in a more secure venue. I ignore Aliyana’s tantrum, because that is what it is, a tantrum.

This isn’t about the book; I see it now. It is about us and it’s time we talked.

“I love Camilla, Aliyana, but I’m not in love with her.” My voice is not raised in my confession, nor is it changed by the truth. Because for Aliyana this is news to her, but for me, I have said those words in my head every single day I laid my cursed soul in her path. Every time I stepped foot in her home I have said those words in my head.

She turns around and I see her tear-stricken face, “I don’t want to hear it, I just want to leave and stay gone, please Marco.”

“No, hear me out, if you still want to leave then go.”

“Leaving you when I did and how I did was the only option there was. Marrying me comes with a heady price tag.”

“Mischa?” She asks, and I nod as she moves into the room, further away from the door.

“Yes, and no. I come with an early death sentence. I have a lot of enemies, many of them. When I saw you on that rooftop you stole a piece of me, I didn’t want to give to anyone, and every day since, you took more. But like you, I made Ren promises, and one of them was leaving you to live your life.”

“What? But I only met you that day, and Ren died that night.” She comes closer to me and her eyes are so confused but wary.

knew you from the time you were a kid. Never meeting

“I don’t understand.”

But I didn’t want to put a child’s face to the woman who

you chose Camilla.”

me to have an heir and Camilla is one I initially chose to give me that, but I changed my mind a bit too late. My father agreed to Dante Moretti’s terms and the day

chose to hurt me instead? Do you

I’ll marry you in secret and keep you here just like Elladio did with his wife.” A tear leaks from her eyes and she

convinced myself that I wasn’t good enough, it took me months to get over you and now you want to

graze her arm which she moves and turns away from

left me there, then you announced to the entire world that your marrying Camilla. Now what? You finally see the bitch she is so decided that you’ll just have

and wrap my arm from behind her waist, “I’m sorry, so sorry, I was not strong enough to stand

and I willingly go with her to the floor as she sobs. I hurt her, and I’m hurting too, but spending this time with Aliyana so close to me and not having her be mine, has made me realize that I want her and my brother is

love you Aliyana, you can’t leave me, never again.”

things in her ear as

to be married to

man, like all of us.” I will kill him if I have to, she will hate me but eventually, she will learn to live with it. She lifts herself up from her position and