Bitten With Lies Book 1

Chapter 3

Caterina

"Mama we are home" I said as we walked in "Oh good, I was worried you were going to be late, go get ready you know how long your sister takes to get ready" she said towards me while Tina was already dancing with her bags in her hands going upstairs.

"Okay mama" was all I said as I followed Tina upstairs. I saw Tina pilling all the things she bought on the bed as I heard music playing in the room "Aren't you excited to get married" I say as I walked in placing my bags on my bed.

"We already knew this was bound to happen, being positive is the only way we are going to make it out alive" she said as she took some items making her way towards her bathroom to get ready.

She is right, I mean what's the worst that could happen, papa knows better than anyone and if he picked these men then they should be right. I thought and then decided to get up to get ready also.

I changed and got out first as usual before Tina then started to put on my makeup. I wasn't so big in to make up ever since I started using them, foundations always made me feel heavy and those eye shadows always made me feel as if I am older than I usually am. My usual makeup consisted of my skincare then a powdered foundation, sometimes a little concealer if I needed, nude-coloured lipsticks and eye liners.

I could go out without anything but never without my eyeliners that was for sure on the must wear list. Just because this dinner was important I decided to wear a little rose gold eyeshadow that had a little shimmer on them and I added a wing liner to complete the look. I added a light shade of maroon lipstick by dabbing them with my finger so the colour was not so bold.

I turned to see Tina just started with her makeup "Well you must be eager to meet your future husband, this is your earliest record of getting out the shower" I said as I pulled out my curling iron setting the heat to wait for it to heat up.

"I'm not excited that's for sure I just want to get this done and go back to my comfy bed" she said making me chuckle "You're about to meet the man you're marrying and all you could think is sleeping?"

"It's not like we do anything else here other than studying and sleeping here" she said in a knowing tone making me hum in agreement. We pretty much were lucky in having an education as not many women in our world were allowed to do so. Papa was made sure we studied well and gave us everything that was needed for it.

"If the girls wanted to study they will be allowed to have their education, my daughters are not to be dumb and stupid, they should be smart, loyal and know how to help their husbands if they need to" was what papa told us ever since we were younger.

We grew up learning that we are allowed to be smart and we should be proud that we are but working was a whole different thing, it's too dangerous to work outside of our area. So basically, we had learnt every knowledge as possible to help either us or our husbands in the future. If you ask me I think papa wanted the later, he always took pride in image so it fits.

Nobody outside knew nothing about us, how we looked, how old we are, everything was hidden and kept a secret from everyone since we were born, papa never wanted anyone to use us against him so he made sure that we did everything privately at home – school, studying, college, extra classes, piano classes, dance and every sort of classes were done from the comfort of our home.

Though there are a number of people who knows papa has two daughters, nobody knew how we looked like. Damon on the other hand was the son and the oldest, so he was bound to take over one day. He was the only one who was allowed to follow papa to all those parties, meetings and all the other fun dangerous stuff while we stayed at home. He did come back to give us the gossips though which was good.

Once we both were ready wewent down to help mama while she could get ready in peace without worryingabout the food preparation. Though Tina wasn't much of help she sat at theisland picking at whatever she could eat. After I helped few of the maids, weplaced everything on the island so that they could bring in to the formaldining room later.

 I turned towards Tina "It's almost time" I said as I picked at the nuts she was munching on. She jumped off the table "Mr Devil here we come" she giggled walking out of the room. I realised that I didn't pin my hair up properly as it was falling everywhere, I decided to go upstairs and adjust it. I walked in to my vanity and tried to pin my hair away from my face but my pins kept slipping off without a grip.

Frustrated I decided Tina would have a few pins that might help, so I walked towards her vanity to find her pins. I opened her drawer "Aha" I said finding a drawer full of pins this girl had pins for an entire neighbourhood I picked a few that were black but stopped when I saw something at the back of her drawer.

It looked like a clear cardcase from afar which I reached in to see what it was and it made me freezelooking at it. "Merda, what in the world" I muttered under my breath.