adrianna

2

2 Years Ago

Stephano pov

We're all sitting around the meeting table, unsure
of what to say. Adrianna has a plan that's going to bring Adonis down, and she doesn't want us to go after her.

She wants to make Adonis believe we meant nothing to her. She says it'll make her plan work better.

I look towards Sophia, and I see my son whispering sweet nothings in her ear, but she looks as if she's not listening. As if she can't.

Because I have unravelled the secrets Adrianna has asked me to reveal. Adrianna let me specific instructions on who to tell what at certain times.

I have revealed secrets, I didn't even know the truth of until Adrianna told me. I thought she might of been lying, or only making assumptions. But her source of information seemed reliable.

But this secret has hit Sophia hard.

I told them about Ciana.

Adrianna told me every detail she could about her and her death. She wanted me to tell the adults first, including Gio and Aidan, before her brothers and cousins are told. She wanted me to tell them because she wanted someone to visit Ciana's grave while she was gone.

And by the way she said it, she knew it wouldn't be a quick visit. Adrianna knew she would be staying there for a while. I just hope she'll be okay.

I know she's has training, and she's used to things like this, but it doesn't matter how many times something has happened, it can still hurt. It can still scare. It can still matter.

"I would of been a nonno?" Roberto asks, shocked.
(grandpa)

I nod. "Yes. Her birthday is on the 5th of September. Adrianna said she would of turned 4 year this year."

Sophia let's out another sob.

I don't know how Adrianna has managed to hold on for so long after losing everything. She had no friends, family or love except for Andrew. She had nothing, yet she never gave up.

Knox pov

When Stephano told us the triplets were taken by the Greek's I was mad. Really mad. How could Adrianna let this happen? She's usually smarter than this. She always manages to get a way out of everything.

Yet this time she didn't.

She's been taken by them again.

When I first met Adrianna at that fighting ring, I didn't expect her to be the person she was. I bumped into her when I was running away from some rich snobs that I stole money off, and yet, she decided to run with me.

She decided to help me. Me, who was a stranger to her. It made me wonder what a good person like her would be doing at a dodgy place like that, but then I got to know her and everything clicked.

She admitted that she didn't know why she helped me, and it made me laugh about how honest she is.

It was also the day I realised she was a single mum. And she was only 14.