A message pings on my phone and I slip it out as I poke my finger on the elevator button.

Marco: In one month from now you will marry me, Aliyana. I suggest you use that time to get used to the idea.

I want to walk back there and punch his face. But I don’t. My father’s words ring in my ears. I know the extent of his crimes, and I know I am overpowered. In one months time I would marry Marco Catelli.

Xander and Salvatore come to fetch me, my father must have told him where I am.

I jump into the Bentley, my heart racing at how my life has turned. I am cursed because I committed a sin the day my lips touched Marco Catelli, and I dug it deeper when I walked into that library and gave him my body, only to leave when I did. A man I once loved.

We both did.

“We need to meet with Aleksie tonight,” Salvatore says from the front.

“Is that pair of clothes still in the boot?”

“Yes Miss Capello.”

by, doing their thing, clueless of the bloodshed that

enemy. Soon I will have to marry him. Marco Catelli was once the man I loved, but he took from me,

fair I take from him too. An eye for

Camilla Moretti and I

of the color white. Did he think it was a sign of purity? Or did he too look upon whiteness as a false brightness, a lie?

similar to the way I am now. The white dress hugging my body then a promise of

wrapped in genuine joy, because then I loved him. At that stage in my life, he was my world and I would have laid myself on the floor where he walked with his blood-stained soles. And I would have done it naked, ready to bare myself to this one man with a smile on

My heart would have beat with love, and not in the threat that now lurks outside this Church walls, waiting with finite patience that would sooner be over.

the perfect imagery of a great folklore tale where the devil married his

that this man is not the devil. The devil was once an angel. Marco Catelli has never known a day of what it feels

Church is my hate for this one man,

PEOPLE happy about this union are old and might think Marco’s hand over mine means he loves me. But I assure you, love is not the case of point. He is squashing my hand, his cynical eyes are stabbing me to death, over and over again. Marco Catelli is showing me he will soon have power

claimed as his own. He is slipping this ring on my finger because

true, Marco Catelli’s only obsession is feeding his addiction to power. It has blinded

and whatever led her to her untimely death was her own doing. She

Queen status. I am as evil and

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