𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫

𝟎.𝟒

We were currently sitting down at the dinner table, the food was finally ready, and almost everyone was here. I was sitting in between Ethan and Mateo. Ethan didn't seem to mind sitting next to me, and we even made small chat whereas Mateo completely ignored me, not that I minded.

Everyone was here except Noah and Alexander, they were going to be late for dinner. Roman was sitting in front of me next to Alexandra, who was still busy on her phone and to her right was Wesley. Roman was talking to Mateo about a safe house, they started speaking Italian thinking I wouldn't know the language. Ha jokes on them I speak it fluently.

"Quindi sei seduto accanto all'impostore."Roman said smirking at Mateo. ("So your sitting next to the imposter.")

So he seems to think I'm some kind of imposter who's here for money or some type of share in their family heritage. But little do they know I'm so much richer than them. But I just kept quiet and carried on listening to their conversation. Because one, I'm nosy and two they're talking about me, so I have the right to know.

"Lo so e non lo sopporto, cazzo" Mateo replied rolling his eyes. ("I know and I can't fucking stand it.")

Okay then move bitch, I don't want to sit next to you either. I couldn't help but mentally sigh, I just got here and I already hate it. Now it was my turn to speak, I wasn't just gonna stand here and listen to their sorry asses trash talk me.

"Bene, allora muoviti, nessuno ti ha incollato il culo al sedile" I looked down at Mateo, pointing to the chair next to Roman. ("Well then move, no one glued your ass to the seat.")

Mateo's eyes went wide, he wasn't expecting that, he looked taken back for a bit but then recompensed himself.

"Mind your business no was talking to you"Roman growled, he seemed quite upset, and you could see the crease in his forehead.

"Well it became my business the moment you started speaking about me" I challenged, Alexandra's eyes brows went up, probably not expecting that. What she was trying to do was question my actions. Too bad I know what I'm getting into.

"How'd you know Italian anyways?" Mateo questioned, his face showing some slight interest in my knowledge of the language.

"I speak it obviously, I do have some type of interest in our origins" I added, with a bitter smile on my face looking down at Romeo at that last bit.

Since I heard footsteps coming towards us, I looked around to see Noah and Alexander following after him. Noah took his seat at the head of the table whereas Alexander sat next to Roman. Straight away on cue maids came in carrying the food for today's meal, and started laying out in front of us. And older my man stood out, from all of them he was standing there watching it all, he didn't seem that old, maybe in his late 50's.

"Well Zoella, that is Alfred, he's the head butler, if you ever need something and any of us are busy, you can ask him" Noah told me, and I simply nodded my head showing I understand.

After all of us being served, and the maids had left, we all started eating. Mateo, Roman and Alexander had a conversation between them, talking about cars, Wesley and Noah started conversing between them. I however simply ate my food in quiet, not looking forward to any conversation.

...

Halfway through dinner though, when I was almost finished with my food, I felt my phone vibrate. To be honest I had completely forgotten about it with all that's been happening in my life recently. The phone said No Caller ID. I pushed my chair back and got up.

"Excuse I have to take this real quickly" not even waiting for anyone's response I went up to my room, to answer the call. I closed the door behind me, not knowing if the walls had ears around this place.

"Hello," I said as I answered the call.
"Hey it's me" I recognise that voice anywhere.
"Zaiden?" I asked in doubt, obviously very much confused.

"Operation 259 went down-" I didn't even let he finish his sentence. "What, why? You were supposed to wait until Camilla gave the signal"I was furious but I still kept my temper in check and my voice low. "Things weren't going as planned so we had to speed things up." I understand maybe things weren't at their best but war was not what we needed right now.

Wait we, what did he mean by that. "Don't tell me Camilla was in it too" I replied groaning. "Yea she was, and I've got bad news" Zaiden sighed at the end. "Well spit it out already" I was now getting anxious. "They were able to get into our safe houses."

Well of course they did, operation 259, was something very specific that was meant to happen in case of emergencies. This however consisted of very few steps.

1.) Get me out of the country

2.) Lockdown mode initiating

3.) All money was supposed to be distributed evenly between safe houses (in case of us needing to disappear for some time)

4.) Allies being protected by our best soldiers

And well if anything were to happen to Camilla, dad made sure to split everything between us two, so Camilla was the CEO of Knox Enterprise and I was the COO in training. Plus she even had built one in America for me to administrate while I was here.

I couldn't help but look down to see Lola, who jumped into my lap wanting some scratches. I hugged her unsure of what would happen next.