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

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

from him

and I don’t regret

anything. I wonder what he thought of the color white. Did he think it was a sign of purity? Or did he too look upon

across from me, I would have been smiling, similar to the way I am now. The white dress hugging my body then a promise of honesty and trust as

been comfortable, 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

threat that now lurks outside this Church walls, waiting with finite patience

once had the potential to be the perfect imagery of a great folklore tale where the devil married his angel. But I am not

devil. The devil was once an angel. Marco Catelli has never known a day of what it feels like to be

the only greatness in this entire Church is my

Catelli. The few 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,

as his own. He is slipping this ring on my finger because I am the one with the tools he now needs in his arsenal to start a war. I am the last choice. His last step into the darkness. And my inevitable early grave is the only solace he offers.

the idea of me. But I know that is not true, Marco Catelli’s only obsession is feeding his addiction to power. It has blinded him to the extent that he can’t see, that I, Aliyana Capello his future bride,

and whatever led her to her untimely death was her own doing. She wanted to play a game with the wrong

Queen status. I am as evil and

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