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 will soon

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

fair I take from him too. An

and I don’t regret

wonder what he thought of the color white. Did he think it

if I stood on this very podium, with this man 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 I smiled with a warmth

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 face.

that wasn’t bold, or soaked with the whisper of revenge. My heart would have beat with love, and not in the threat that now lurks outside this Church walls, waiting with finite

folklore tale where the devil married his

the devil. The devil was once an angel. Marco Catelli has never

in this entire Church is my hate

a 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, over and over again. Marco Catelli is

Marco isn’t marrying me for the life he claims to breed with me in the foreseeable future. He is marrying me to avenge the one he has already claimed as his own. He is slipping this ring on my finger because I am the one with the

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

so in love with. Camilla Moretti was foolish and whatever led her to her untimely

am as evil

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