Bitten With Lies Book 1

Chapter 2

Caterina

I made my way upstairs to find Valentina showered, with her soaked hair she was pulling the wet covers from her bed. I walked over to the other side of the bed helping her remove them "Who is my to be husband then" she said without looking at me.

Of course, she knows with all my whining downstairs. "Volkov's" as soon I said that caught her attention "Papa is sending us to hell" she said looking at me with wide eyes "I'm too pretty to go to hell, that and I'm too pretty to marry a devil. Papa can't do this to me" she said flopping herself on the carpet we have in the middle.

I chuckled a little flopping beside her as well. "Well at least we would be in the same house right" I said looking up at the ceiling, we had those glow in the dark stars stuck up there and though some had fallen quite many were still there. "Who is getting who?" she asked and I frowned.

"Good question, I didn't ask that to papa" I said as I heard her sigh "I bet Luca for $100" she said earning a chuckle from me "You can't put money on a guy you haven't seen, how would you know Luca is not the devil of hell you were talking about" I said and I felt her twist to face me

"At least I won't have a trained assassin sleeping next to me, Dmitri is known for his silent jobs haven't you heard those gossips, what if he kills me in my sleep nope not risking it you can have him" she said as she sat up. Though we have been hidden from everyone we still do hear gossips from Damon, Ruslan (our head bodyguard) and also some of his guards too sometimes, they are our source of not dying from boredom.

"So, you're letting your sister marry Dmitri so I can be assassinated in my sleep" I asked then heard a chuckle from the door. "The things girls talk about, I will never understand" Damon said as he walked in sitting on the dresser I have across my bed.

"I have been assigned to take you both shopping with..." he said then pulled something out of his jeans and dangled a smooth matte black credit card in front of us papa's card well more specifically the card with no limitation which in my opinion shouldn't exist because without budgets girls are bound to go crazy.

I heard my sister squealed as she got up trying to take the card from him "Nah uh" he said standing up pulling the card up above his head and he knows we are to short enough to reach it.

Tina and me are quite similar in height which I try to say more often because in reality Tina is a whole foot taller than me but that doesn't stop me from saying we are similar heights.

"Come on my little urchins, I'm leaving in 10 and if I don't see you out by then I'm using this card all by myself" Damon said as he made his way out of our room. Tina was the first to disappear into her bathroom while I still sat there thinking what will happen tonight.

I made my way towards my bathroom and yes we have our own bathroom and closet in our rooms because Tina clearly takes longer time to get ready and I don't have the patience to wait on her. I took a longer shower than usual as I washed my hair and shaved because God knows I don't have the patience to do it later before dinner.

After all that I quickly made my way into my closet picking out a simple black jean with a white top which had chains for the straps that lead through behind with a cross leaving an open back.

I walked towards my vanity drying my hair and turned towards Tina's bathroom and she is still not out what does that girl do in there, a pool party? I thought as I dried my hair leaving it to my natural wavy hair, I took a little section of my hair and made a messy bun in the middle making it look like I have half hair up and half down.

As I started my make up I heard Tina's bathroom door open "Always so fast, how do you even do that?" she mumbled as she got out "I'm coming to realise you might actually have someone in there and every time you shower you have..." I lowered my voice a little "Dirty hot sex" then raised to normal voice "and that is why you take so long" I said continuing my makeup.

I heard her shuffle in her closet as I finished my make up "Like Ruslan and his big scary guards will let anyone let alone male in the house without papa's knowledge" I heard her speak from the closet making me chuckle "Yea I think Ruslan is the reason we are singles but it's not like we meet new person every day now do we"

I sighed thinking of all the times Ruslan scared the guys we tried to date over the years. Well, when I mean tried to date, guys that we chatted on Tinder with random names and no pictures. Our identity has been as steel as fortress from the time me and Tina were born.

Ruslan is our head bodyguard and also our personal guard who basically goes everywhere we do and make sure that we are hidden from everyone's eyes. "Should we try using him in dinner today, maybe Luca and Dmitri would run away the moment he gives them that 'don't you dare look'" she said making me laugh. 

We got ready and quickly made out way downstairs and saw Damon there looking at his watch "I was just about to leave you both" he said the mumbled "Girls always take so long, I wonder what they even do" under his breath which I heard

"You'll know when you have a wife one day brother" Tina said loudly as we followed him. I turned to see mama in the seating area doing her crocheting "Bye mama" I said before I walked out.

I found the dress I wanted relatively quick but Tina made me get extra 5 other dresses saying that we should in case we spilled wine on them which was ridiculous, who could possibly spill wine on themselves 5 different times.

I anyhow bought them anyway because she was so excited to shop. I think I saw Tina get a total of 7 dresses but we had 1 for tonight as our picks. I picked a silk black below the knee dress that had diamonds as straps that leads around my neck almost like a necklace.

It made me look older than I look which I thought would suit better because I wasn't sure how old the Volkov's are but I knew they were much older and I didn't want them to look at me as a child. I've been told quite a few times that my height makes me look small so I even bought strapped black 5-inch heels to make myself look taller.

Tina on the other side bought a dark blue dress also knee length with matching heels. Papa was very particular we were presentable and he always liked us to dress modestly and not show much skin which I was comfortable with most of the time but Tina liked to show a little cleavage here and there without papa knowing but I mean she did have the perfect breast size whereas mine was a little smaller but I didn't really mind about it, I loved my body the way it was.

Before Tina could get overboard I dragged her out of the mall and we went home. As soon as we reached home I could smell all the food that was being prepared for tonight's dinner. I heard the click and clang of pans from the kitchen and knew the cooks and maids were there preparing for it with mama.