She had tied her red hair up in a messy bun and had her body covered with her fluffy ash-colored bathrobe while she stands in her bathroom, in front of the mirror, and looked angrily at her beautiful appearance.
‘Those freckles are bad’ she thought to herself as she kept looking at them and wondered when or how she could get them off her face as she has always wanted to when she was a little girl.
… “They are ugly on you and you should be cursed for having them on your face” …
Those words were followed by a round of laughter from her supposed bullies when they looked at her face and the freckles scattered non her nose and cheeks.
Those words made her angry at the freckles that stained her not too perfect looking skin and there was nothing that could be done to get them off so she had to hide them with makeup that her step-father would buy for her when he felt like she was being a good girl.
Her mum was against it even till her death and would always remind her of how beautiful she was but she didn’t pay heed and felt some kind of relief when her mother passed.
“I don’t get to be reminded of the stupid stain I will carry for the rest of my life” were her words on the day her mum was laid to rest.
From that moment on Daniella Copello and her step-father, Dickson Sawyer became a team and would do nasty things like mess with people and get away with their money, use people for their good and when they don’t seem deem enough to be used, they would get dumped like their other victims.
It was a routine for them, they were crazy and once lived in slumps before Daniella realized that she wasn’t that crazy to live in slumps and somehow deserve the good life her mum failed to give her… even after marrying the sick head she calls her step-father.
She decided to live it big and chill with the big guys so that she can keep it big… Sawyer loved wretchedness even up to this date so she just let him be except when she needed his help for something she didn’t want to get stained with.
He was the one to do the dirty job while she just relaxed and get things done in the way she could.
Moreover, she had Earl and his little brother who she sends once in a while to do her job too.
Those two look so much alike, that it can be hard to decipher who is who. Their only difference is in how they laugh, Earl’s slightly bigger and an inch taller.
Aside from that everything was the same about them like they were twins but they aren’t actually twins because Earl is older by three years and he was the mature one in some sense while his younger brother seems to be the scared one.
It could depend on the situation.
When she sent Sawyer to end Audriana’s life by running her over, Alberto who is Earl’s younger brother was there to save her from what was supposed to be an accident, that was why she needed to kill him and get it done with.
But his older brother who gives her comfort in her own kind of way pleaded with her and stopped his brother from going out or running errands for her to avoid her from wanting to kill him off.
Even when she assured him that it was fine, she tried her best also to end Alberto’s life but Earl being the older brother he is, pleaded with her and knew just how to appease her so she had to let him go for a while but with a promise to get back at him when she can.
She doesn’t let go that easy that was why she is hell-bent on taking Dimitri back even though she was the main cause they got separated.
What was hers stays hers and there is nobody who can or must contradict what she wants.
She closed her eyes to reminisce on the moments she and Dimitri shared and how sweet he was to her.
… “They are beautiful, I like them,” he stopped her from applying the foundation on her face then cleaned the foundation she put with some wipes as he smiled down at her.
“Those freckles make beautiful, you don’t need to use makeup to cover anything… just see them as your beauty mark. Its natural so appreciate it”…
He would always tell her.
“You are beautiful with them and I so wish you would stop using makeup to cover it… you don’t need to do much to be beautiful”
She smiled at the thought of hearing his voice say that to her and with arms wrapped around her and jaw resting on her shoulder… her morning couldn’t be any better.
Leaning back on him, she felt lips press against her neck and couldn’t help but smile at the familiarity of those warm lips on her skin. She let out a soft sigh and slowly opened her eyes to see that who she was daydreaming about wasn’t even any meter close to her.
The red-haired man who seem to be enjoying how close they were and how luscious the moment was for him mostly, tightened his hold around her and snuggled her neck.
“Earl…” she let out and he raised his head to meet her eyes with his in the mirror and they just stay like that then a smile spread across his face and he turns her around so that she was facing him.
“You are really beautiful” he commented the caressed her cheeks with his fingers.
It wasn’t Dimitri talking to her after all, instead, it was this man who seeks her attention more than anything in the world.
She misses him a lot and doubts if he misses her too… she wasn’t supposed to be bothered since she has a man right in front of her who wants a desires her as she has always wanted to be.
Dimitri did in the past but what she did to him destroyed whatever feelings he had for her back then and with how he reacted to her the last time they saw, she was sure he wanted to be anywhere that she didn’t exist in.
She should forget about him and focus on this man right in front of her so she can enjoy being happy again and everyone can be in peace but no, that isn’t a path she wishes to pass through so instead of leaving things okay and without worry, she was ready to cause chaos to have him back.
Even if it meant hurting someone… she did it in the past, although it was what cost her relationship with him and if she wasn’t going to get burned by whatever steps she takes to get to him, she didn’t care at all.
“I wish you could treat me like your equal and let us be official, I know you feel something different for me but find it too hard to let go of the past that is why you feel hung” he leaned closer and kissed her forehead before resting his forehead on hers.
He was right and she hated that he was right.
Damn, did she feel something for him? Yes, she does but is she ready to let go of Dimitri and face her future? No, he stays her and no one can have him if she can’t.
Audriana must go. She decided.