ARIANA’S POV~
By morning Don Argento knew his wife was dead, i expected him to call me with threats, send emails with threats or even assassin to my doorstep.
But it has been a very calm morning, I woke up to Becky’s nonstop questions about Mateo’s health.
“Shouldn’t you be by his side, you are still his fiance, aren’t you?” I mocked.
“Of course I am!” she exclaimed, “I was told that I couldn’t leave” she retorted.
I looked around the room, but no one was in sight.
“No one is stopping you, you are free to leave anytime,” I said calmly before anxiously staring at my phone.
When will the threats come?
“I know you think you’ve got the power here, acting high and mighty, when Mateo gets his memory back, you are out of here, you and that bastard inside you” she almost screamed.
I was angry, she could call me names but not my child, I got up and moved closer to her.
“You can take out your frustrations on me, I should have known better, but this will be the last time you are going to call my child a bastard, as you can see” I started before raising the finger with the diamond ring Mateo put there.
“Im the wife, and you?” I said before raising hers to her face, “Are not, so I’d be careful how you address the future heir to this estate, Mateo may not remember who I am right now but I can assure you we are stuck together for a very long time, understand?” I stated.
She stepped back, she was visibly angry and she wasted no time to vocalise it.
“I hate you Ariana, I knew you were a self-serving bitch the moment I met you, acting so full of yourself to my man, I saw the way you looked at him, you wanted him and you stole him, you are nothing but a cheap fucking home-wrecking whore!” she exclaimed loudly before storming out.
“The hospital is that way Becky, the guards can take you, Mateo needs you” I mocked as she went, she flashed me an angry frown “I’ll make you regret the day you laid hands on him” With that she slammed the door behind her.
“Good riddance,” I said under my breath.
As her lingering Asian scent lingered in the air I thought about Mateo, the guards stationed at the hospital had not called, which means he was still in surgery.
I thought about his chances, I wondered how he would react when he found out I chose to save his legs.
Julius came in not much after to give me good news.
“Luna has made an emergency landing, I was able to install two of my best agents, they will be in the air soon, but there’s someone else with her” he started.
I recalled that Serena didnt tell me if she had company or not.
“Manuel is with them, luchi was recently promoted to caporegime, and his son is consigliere now” he reminded.
Luchi had served my father for years, Manuel and I grew up around each other, and his father would bring him for visits.
But we weren’t allowed to talk to him, my sisters and I, papa reminded us he was beneath us.
“What’s the plan, Ariana,” he asked.
I sat on the sofa and rubbed my belly, deep in thought.
“We need to hijack the plane before it gets to Colombia, we hold Manuel ransom, this way my father backs off, luchi will make sure of it,” I said.
“This plan Ariana are you sure you want to interfere with your father’s trade?” he inquired politely.
“She’s my sister, Julius, I can’t let them sell her off the way I was, she’s just 20, she has her whole life ahead, and she’s been through a whole lot Julius a whole lot, im not letting them go through with the marriage, no matter whatever the fuck it may cost!” I exclaimed.
He nodded in understanding, “Mateo isn’t out of surgery yet?” I asked, I was very worried for him.
I thought about him, the Mateo on the cliff, the one who told me he was falling in love with me.
Would I ever see him again?
An hour later I got the call I’d been waiting for, “Don Ariana Donatelli, safe to call you that aren’t I” he started.
“I didnt kill your wife, my father did” I said immediately.
“He did? CCTV surveillance shows your caporegime cutting off her head and stuffing it in a box” he said.
I was horrified, I looked around to see if Julius was around the corner.
“That’s a fucking lie!” I exclaimed.
“Then take a look” he said and seconds after I got a message on my phone, i checked it and it was footage of a man as big as Julius slicing Liana’s head and when he turned I saw Julius.
I gasped in horror and I couldn’t believe it, I heard Don Argento’s voice next.
“It seems you have an enemy in your camp and you are not aware” he paused, “I never cared much for Liana and I don’t mourn her loss, but she was my wife so I have to avenge her” he paused.
“Hand Julius over to me by midnight, or I’ll find you and your miserable family and I will expunge them” he said before hanging up.
What the hell, I can’t even trust my caporegime. Is he working for my father, everything confused me greatly.
I needed answers, but I needed to be careful.
“We’ve got Manuel and Luna, the plane is in our control” I heard Julius’s voice say behind me as he walked into the room.
So fast? Could he be involved? Is he the mole?
I turned around, horror still evident in my face, did he plan all this from the beginning?
And the story he told me about being Mateo’s uncle are lies to get me on his side?
“Ariana, what’s wrong? You look white as a sheet” he asked moving closer, I was horrified by the image in my head.
I couldn’t unsee it, I was terrified to be in his presence.
I moved toward Mateo’s desk slowly. I reached for the drawer below and stuck my hand in.
He reached for his gun, “Ariana, what the hell are you doing?” he inquired.
I was visibly shaking at this point, for the longest time I had looked to him as my protector and now it turns out he had been working for my father.
“Ariana ..” he roared, simultaneously we pulled a gun on each other, almost instantly.
“What the hell are you doing Ariana!” he asked in a shrill voice. I cocked the gun and held it like my life depended on it.
Soon guards who had heard the altercation rushed in, armed and confused about who to point their weapons at.
“you tell me! I saw you! I saw a video of you slicing off Liana’s head! How long have you been working for my father!”