𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝑴𝒂𝒇𝒊𝒂 | 𝑶𝑵𝑮𝑶𝑰𝑵𝑮

Chapter 20.

ALESSIA POV:

We dash across the roof, minding that people might be below us. We don't know where the others are but they should be fine.

We now are on the left side of the house, with no more roof to run across. We can't hear anyone below us, but that doesn't mean someone isn't there.

"I'll check it out, stay here" Alex tells me, I do as he says. I might have revealed one of my skills to them, but I'm not revealing another, not yet.

Alex looks to the side and sees a pipe that goes down to the bottom he goes over to it and starts to go down. I hear his feet hit the concrete below and wait.

After a good 20 seconds of him looking around he tells me that its clear and that I can come down.

I go over to the pipe and go down. I hit the concrete, I turn to him "where to now?" I ask whispering.

He doesn't say anything but instead leads me to the big garden Rose showed me.

We head in another way since there were people around, they couldn't tell it was gate and that there was something behind it.

When we get in he takes me to the back of the garden. Tons of concrete slabs over the area, he then crouches down at a random one and pushed it up and to the side.

That's when I realised it was a tunnel of a sort, and our way out. I put my phones flash light on and shine it down.

Below was nothing but more concrete, I jump down and Alex follows suit. "Where are we" my voice echoes off the walls as a spoke.

"il sistema dei tunnel" he said in Italian. "Or the tunnel system. It spans under the whole property, a way for escapes and playing hide and seek"

He takes many twists and turns, if someone didn't know their way they would get lost within minutes. As we walked he explained the history of the tunnels, probably to get my mind off the commotion happening outside.

I took note of the different directions we for future reference.
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We had been walking for 30ish minutes before we made it to the exit. The fresh air felt amazing but we had to keep going.

I continued to follow Alex on till we reach a road. It looked old but not too old. We cross the road and head down another but this one was rocky.

Trees surround us and the breeze doesn't make any better. we continue down this road until we reach another, this one more "modern"

Now there are cars heading up and down the road, we see a sign and it says that the town isn't to far. Now we have cell service.

Alex pulls out his phone and calls someone. He tells me to stay where I am while he deals with our "situation" as he walked a little bit away to I couldn't hear.

I look around us, making sure no one followed us. About two minutes later Alex came back and told me that someone would be here to pick us up in a bit.

"What the fuck was that?" I ask abruptly. He gives me a puzzled look, about to open his mouth to make a excuse but I speak before him "no, no excuses. First at dinner and now? I can't just brush that off Alex"

He sighs "Alessia, there's so much we want to tell you but we can-"

"I don't care why you can't tell me Alex, it's the fact you aren't. You guys haven't been in my life, for what? Just under 17 years? If anything I would expect some answers"

I come off as angry, just the right emotion.

He licks his dry lips thinking of the right right answer, "I'll talk to Andro about it, things in this family are complicated and sometimes-"

He cuts himself short at the sound of a car in the distance. It get near us and stops, Alex looks into the divers window as they roll it down. They exchange glances and they person nods.

Alex grabs my wrist and pulls me to the door, he opens it and guides me inside. I slide over, making room for him and he closes the door once we are both inside.

"To the safe house" he orders the driver. The driver looks into the mirror and nods, not saying a word