AND THUS IT BEGAN

CHAPTER 1

This book will be needing major edition and I'm sorry about the future errors, just enjoy the much you can

Catherina had lived the past nineteen years of her life in the watchful eyes of very judgemental parents. attending the most Prestigious boarding Academy, wearing the highest building clothes, being at the right place at the right time, avoiding what they classified as low class people and most importantly being the perfect daughter who awaited her twentieth birthday just so she could be handed over to the highest mafia family in marriage.

To any other person, her life seemed perfect and well planned but she knew that it was just a cruel joke, one that she wasn't particularly interested in participating in but she had absolutely no choice.

Over the months she had learnt the art of avoidance perfectly well, she would hide  at the library when her mother was home and whenever they would invite her to chill with the parents she would feign interest in acquiring more knowledge about her future husband's businesses and family.
It didn't exactly save her all the time but she knew it was worth it whenever it could.

Five months to her birthday she had taken a lot of liking that soon developed into love for the Italian servant her mother had purchased in one of their saddening auctions.
In fairness, how a man like Marco Romano became a servant was beyond Catherina but still she never insisted on knowing or prying further than necessary. 

The beautiful man had been sold from one mafia family to another in an endless circle till he landed in the claws her mother who never for once hid her attraction for the male.

In truth, he was a handsome man, probably more  beautiful than any other man she had ever come in contact with, embodied with the aura of one who ought to garner vast wealth, command absolute attention when he entered a room, a man who should be sunbathing in the Bahamas, switching between female like his sheets and swimming in gold like some emperor, sadly life had happened and there was only so much he could do.

Life had now placed him at a place as low as bringing juice to her mother, accompanying her to useless functions and just making himself available whenever she pleased, yes it was a sad way to live but Catherina's only consolation was he seemed like a man who wanted more out of life and she had a feeling that soon enough he would make it happen.

Over the months Catherina had began to make subtle advances towards Marco who in turn reciprocated those advances seeing as he had always admired the young princessa of the Maliz household.
In his eyes she was too pure for the world around her and no one else was worthy of been in the presence of such perfection.

He saw her purity and perfection but he was too selfish to just let her go, he was willing to taint the young woman as long as she would allow, he knew she would anyway and he couldn't wait to make her hes even if he knew the consequences of his actions.

A month to Catherina's she realized how much she wanted Marco, she realized that she was ready to give her innocence to the man who had captured her life and soul, she knew without a doubt that she was ready to give her all to him and she knew he was too.

True to her imagination, it had been a night of priceless Euphoria, a night of more pleasure than one could forget in a life time, a night of pure passion and bliss and also the night young Catherina had professed her undying love for the beautiful Marco Romano.

It should have remained blissful, it should have remained perfect but like all good things it decided it had to come to an end before it could even reform into anything worthwhile.

Marco never professed his love for her if at all he felt any, it hadn't bothered her cause he came back to her every night and never failed to carry her through endless nights of passion and bliss.

A few days later he had snuck into her room as it was in their usual manner to do, kissed her senseless and began making work of undressing her but was cut short by a gun aimed directly in his head by none other than her mother who in turn ordered the guards to drag Marco to the dungeon.

That night Catherina had prayed, sobbed and begged for her mother to be reasonable about it and possibly give her a chance with the man she wanted, all her pleas had gone to deaf ears instead all she had heard were Marco's cries and screams that was soon accompanied by the sound of bullet that silenced everything.

In her heartbroken state and endlessly mourning of a love that could have been, her mother had brought a letter that had been written in the beautiful cursive handwriting of her lover and it had stated how she had been nothing but an easy release of his pent up frustration, it had seemed as though he planned to leave her behind with a plan to escape except he rather came to his unfortunate end, Catherina made the choice to move on in hopes that his soul found rest even if he had hurt her terribly.

Heart break, sorrow and unfathomable pain had become her companion,  she was no longer herself and she couldn't blame anyone but herself for the outcome of events.

Unfortunately the past three weeks hadn't been the best for her, she had felt sick and she needed a quick fix seeing as she didn't want her supposed husband and his people to see her all pale and unwell.

Quickly she had made a quick visit to the family clinic where she had realized that all those nights of endless passion with the love of her life had actually yielded results in form of the child that now grew healthily in her womb.

In that moment Catherina knew already exactly what she was going to do and there was no way in hell she would let anyone stand in her way.

With that decision in mind catherina had made the doctor  swear never to alter a word of her pregnancy to anyone, of course he had agreed seeing as he was her Godfather and he understood everything she was going through.

she proceeded to withdraw down to her last cent but still it wasn't enough, she was planning on relocating to Italy, that choice had been mostly because she didn't know anyone out there and no one recognised her, besides for the first time in her existence her sheltered life was about to prove useful.

next she had gone to her mother's safe and stolen hundreds of thousands of Dollars, yes she knew what she had done wasn't right but she needed to survive till she found stability out there on her own.

Once she the finances were taking care and she was ready for her big move, she had written a really long letter apologizing for bringing shame and disgrace to her family and wishing them the best of life without her and to her brother she had wished him a successful reign as the next mafia boss.

That night she had timed the shipment truck that was leaving for the next town then slid into the back, it was dangerous yes but she needed to do it for herself and her child.

Finally  they had stopped to possibly take a piss or whatever it was they were doing while she took the opportunity to slide into the bush in the cover of Darkness, some hours later she had arrived at an old family friend who had unfortunately a falling-out with her parents but still favored her,  paid the right amount and in the space of twenty four hours she was no longer Catherina Maliz, she had now changed her name to Adriana Keys, a young orphaned American girl who was in search of a fresh start in a new environment in hopes of forgetting her past.

It seemed like a good idea to her so she took it, allowed his stylish to dye her once black air blond, gotten a piercing in her nose with a dotted earring there, something she wouldn't do ordinarily, then she proceeded to change from her usual formal outfits to normal wears girls her age would wear on a normal day before going ahead to collect her new means of identification and stuff.

Life had happened, she had to deal with it.

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