Oriana Ricci

Prologue

"How dare you!" Max shouted.

Oriana stared at her older brother in shock.

This was the first time in her 11 years of life that her older brother ever yelled at her.

"What happened?" Oriana questioned in concern as she approached Max.

Suddenly Max pushed her.

"Ouch!" Oriana couldn't help but exclaim in pain.

She winced as she felt her ankle. It was swollen and she knew that she had at least sprained it.

"Don't touch me bitch!" Max shouted.

Tears started to fall from Oriana's face. She didn't know why Max was acting like this. Just then she heard footsteps approaching the room. Her face swelled with hope as she knew that her other brothers were coming. Hopefully, they can calm down Max.

Oriana smiled when she saw her favorite brother Sean but it quickly turned into a frown when he just silently turned his head away from her.

Confused, she turned to look to her eldest brother Alessandro.

Alessandro's usual warm expression turned icy cold.

"I'm disappointed in you Oriana," Alessandro stated coldly.

Oriana felt a shiver run down her spine.

'Oriana? Why was he saying my full name? He usually calls me Sorella. Am I in trouble? But what did I do?' Oriana thought with wide eyes.

She then turned her gaze to the left and realized that her older twin sister, Violetta was in the arms of her other older brother Enzo. She could hear faint whimpering and sniffles coming from her.

Seeing her sister crying, Oriana tried to get up to comfort her but cried out in pain from her bruised ankle.

"V, what's wrong?" Oriana asked.

Whoever hurt her sister will pay!

Out of the two of them, Oriana was the stubborn one while Violetta was the kind and innocent one. Ever since they were little, Oriana took it upon herself to protect Violetta even though she was the younger twin.

"I'm sorry Ana. I told them the truth." Violetta said fearfully.

Oriana's green eyes looked at her in confused but to others, it looked like she was glaring at Violetta. Oriana always had a resting bitch face, so it was easy to mistake her expression for something else.

Violetta let out a fearful shriek and clung to Enzo.

"Get our Sorella out of here Enzo. We will deal with the monster."

"Alright."

With that, Enzo took Violetta out of the room, leaving little Oriana on the floor looking up at her cold, indifferent and pissed-off brothers respectively: Alessandro, Sean, and Max.

"Don't play dumb. Violetta told us you were the one to kill mom and dad." Max shouted with anger.

"What...?" Oriana gasped out.

"She told us that she saw you contacting the Russians to kill them. You ordered them to kidnap not only mom and dad but you and her as well to make it less suspicious. How could you involve our innocent sister Violetta?!" Max yelled as punched the wall with his fist, causing a hole to appear.

Sean took Max's hand and led him out of the room. Sean knew that he had to bring Max out to calm down before he ended up killing Oriana.

"Pack your bags. I'm shipping you off to boarding school trash." Alessandro growled before he too left the room, leaving Oriana all alone.

Oriana dried her tears and stood up.

With a limp, she made her way to her room to pack her bags.

When she finished, she made her way to the living room where her brothers were located.

Sean noticed that Oriana's lively expression was gone and what replaced it was a cold and guarded expression. Sean felt a pang in his heart when he saw his little sister like that but he suddenly remembered that Oriana was the reason why their parents died.

He steeled his heart.

She deserved it, Sean told himself, but he couldn't help but think there was something more to the story that someone was not telling them.

But he trusted his older brothers Alessandro, Max, and Enzo.

He thought that they gave a proper investigation.

But they didn't.

Which they would soon regret in due time.

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Translations

[Sorella-sister]