Bitten With Lies Book 1

Chapter 9

Luca

I made my way upstairs trying to figure out which room Caterina might be in and by luck I heard sobs and sniffles on the second room to my left. I walked closer and found the door open and saw Caterina stuffing a bag of things which I assumed she was packing so she could leave.

She let out sobs and sniffles that made my heart feel weird little pinches that I didn't get why but I waited for her to finish her packing. After a few minutes she noticed me standing there and stood a little shock "H-How long have you been there?" she asked to which I just stood there looking at her.

"Not long, you ready?" I asked to which she looked more confused. "I'll be staying with you, come on" I made my way towards her bag zipping it up for her and carrying it out the door. I turned to find her wanting to disagree with me following her but didn't find it in herself to say anything so she just shook her head taking a step forward.

I lead her out towards the door not pausing at the living room assuming she wanted some space away from her father right now which I was right she didn't even look towards the room as she followed me out.

"Rina" I heard behind me as I loaded her suitcase and found Damon hugging her saying something I couldn't hear but I just ignored getting the car ready. She made her way into the front seat silently putting on her seatbelt "Thank you" her soft voice came out making me look at her to continue "For coming with me, you didn't really have to but you did it so... thank you" she finished making me just look at her.

The things this girl does to me, what even is this I realised I was in my thoughts so I just nodded and started driving. Damon sent me the address to my phone which I was grateful for because Caterina looked way far from wanting to communicate and right now after an hour drive I see her dozing off from her seat.

I lowered the radio and raised the heater for her seat so she would be comfortable which made me wonder why do I want to protect this girl, I met her once okay well twice but I knew our wedding was true to begin actually both the weddings was supposed to happen before we found out the whole thing with Valentina.

We just didn't know when or how much it was true because we didn't have proved but I guess the wedding arrangement made Valentina make her first move.

As I was driving I heard a vibration from a phone and it was not mine so I turned to see Caterina's bag laying on the back seat. I tried to reach one arm to her bag while still keeping one hand on the wheel and when I finally got the bag it stopped vibrating but after a few second it was vibrating again.

I reached my hand and grabbed her phone only to find T♡ flashing on the screen, without even a second thought I answered it but didn't speak. "Rina, is that you" I heard a softer voice more like a whisper Valentina I assumed from the label "Rina please, say something" she said again but this time sounded like she was crying.

"I'm sorry Rina, I'm so sorry, I never wanted to do such a thing, I know what you are thinking of me right now but that is not even the whole story Rina, Papa made me Rina, I-I didn't have a choice, I couldn't do what papa wanted me to, per favore-" she stopped talking and I heard shuffling from somewhere.

"Rina you have to listen to me very carefully, remove your necklace, do not take the phone papa gave you, take this phone and leave, leave that house right now and the next time I call you tell me where you are, please Rina you just have to believe me on this, please, I have to go now" and the line went dead leaving me with almost a million question as I turned towards Caterina and looked towards the road trying to comprehend what I just heard.

I turned to look at Caterina again and eyed her necklace and saw a faint red light beneath it a tracker, but that didn't pin point anything even my sister Anastasia had trackers on herself as accessories for safety reasons but never once we thought we would risk cutting and putting a tracker in her.

Why would Valentina ask her to leave that and what another phone?, I tried to dig around her bag to find another phone which I did then and I realised the one Valentina called on looked like a plain black phone while the other one was purple and it's decorated with diamonds, also had a keychain which looked more like a girl's phone.

Why leave this phone? I wondered as I looked at the sparkly phone in my hand then at the other plain boring one. I decided to leave it for now and deleted the recent call that Valentina made and tossed the sparkly phone on the dashboard while I snuck the other phone in my pocket if Valentina calls it will be on this phone, until I find out what's wrong I can't let Caterina know yet.