Bitten With Lies Book 1

Chapter 27

Caterina

Once we reached the house I wanted nothing more than to fall on to that huge cloud like bed and sleep throughout the day but I knew once I do there no waking up. So, instead of doing so I took a nice long shower and changed to one of the clothes Anna had borrowed us.

I stepped out after changing and found Tina fast asleep on the bed making me smile, she must have been tired from all that journey. I walked over to her and pulled the blanket tucking her in softly. Well, if she's asleep, what am I going to do.

I quietly stepped out of the room knowing if I stayed I would wake her up so I stepped out of the room softly closing the door. I was in the middle of a very long walkway, looks like I'm definitely getting lost, where's Luca's room maybe she could give me some sort of tour.

I started walking and somehow found myself in a sort of sitting room, as I walked closer I saw pictures all over the room. The biggest frame sat in the middle of the room, I saw a really scary looking man sitting beside a beautiful lady. They both sat on a chair that almost looked like a throne. The man looked scary as ever, I thought Luca was scary when I first met him but if I saw this man I would run for the hills.

Behind the couple I recognised that guy from before, Alex was standing in the picture making me connect the dots that the couple was Leon Ivanov and his wife. Beside Alex stood a way younger girl, probably looked like she was around 10 maybe. She was really pretty though for her age, long straight black hair and she wore a light blue knee length dress making her look really pretty. Does Alex have a sister, I never really knew anything about the Ivanov as papa kept us hidden?

Alex on the other hand looked a lot of years younger than he looks now, he looked like he was in his teens or something. His hair was trimmed and he had no beard in the picture but he does have slight beard now and his hair is longer. The picture looked pretty serious if not for the fact the two females in there were smiling. The men on the other hand were as serious as ever which is pretty much why they looked so scary.

"What are you doing here girl" I heard a gruff voice behind me making me jump with a hand to my heart. I could literally hear my own heart beat erratically as I turn to find a tall looking man- wait that's the guy from the-.

I turned around to look at the frame where the Leon Ivanov was sitting and back to the man who is standing in front of me. "You're-" I said softly pointing towards the frame then looked back to him and his reaction still stayed the same. If I thought he looked scary in the picture, he looked way scarier in real life and him looking a few years older than in the picture made him even more scary.

Leon looked at me up and down with a frown on his face "Who are you?" he asked this time with a hint of curiosity in his voice. "I- ah- I'm Caterina" I stuttered out and he still looked at me with a frown and his eyes looked as if he was taking in every single detail of me making me want to hide or run and never turn back.

"Caterina Yevgeny" he said looking at me still but this time he masked all his emotion making it hard for me to figure out what he was thinking but I just nodded as an answer. "You're Nikolai's daughter" he said not as a question but more of a statement "Yet I see no similarities in looks" he continued same as before not a question.

It's not the first time I've heard I didn't have my father's looks and it makes sense now as I wasn't a Yevgeny. I always thought I had my mother's look more because we had same green eyes though mine was much lighter than hers.

He stepped forward closer until there was only the desk separating us "You look just like Kira when she was younger" he said looking at me making me a little confused and I noticed his eyes as he stepped closer. He has light green eyes too, it almost looks just like mine.

"You knew my mother?" I asked after a few seconds and it snapped him out of his thoughts again masking his emotion. "What are you doing in here? Who let you in?" he asked back to his gruff tone.

"I just was looking around, and found myself in here. I didn't mean to be rude, I'm sorry" I said and saw his eyes soften before freezing back up "James!" he said lounder and a tall looking man in a uniform stood near the door and he looks at me first before looking at the man in front of me.

They didn't have any sort of conversation other than the nod Leon showed towards the guy called James and he literally dragged me out of the room which I didn't fight back knowing I'm in the house of the greatest mafia he would probably- wait a minute. I just stomped into the Leon Ivanov's private space. How am I even alive right now?