Reunited Again

09- Halloween Parties

Liliana POV

I was woken up this morning by the sun shining brightly in my face. Birds chirping and the sound of the trees rippling because of the wind. The sounds were beautiful. Yawning, I stretch my whole body out before sitting up in bed. I looked over to the window and saw how beautiful it was outside and smiled.

I got out of bed and wrapped myself in a fuzzy blanket before going downstairs for breakfast. As I'm going down I run into Gio as he goes up the stairs. When he sees me already awake he furrowed his eyebrows.

"How come you're awake already?" He asks as I just respond in a shrug continuing my descent down the stairs now with Gio following me. When we get to the bottom. I see all my brothers sitting at the dining table, and a new guest too.

Noah.

'Why does he have to be here? I don't even like him' I think as I sit down beside Enzo far, far away from Noah. I learnt my lesson yesterday. When I sit down I'm greeted by my brothers, and a maid bringing me breakfast.

I look down at my plate and see pancakes. I love pancakes! I quickly grab my fork and knife and start cutting my pancakes. When I finish cutting them I dig in and stuff as many pieces of pancakes as I can in my mouth. I close my eyes and moan at the familiar taste of the delicious pancakes in my mouth. When I open my eyes again I see everybody's eyes on me. Well this is kinda embarrassing, I thought to myself as I finished the rest of the pancakes in my mouth. I look around at the table and say.

"Can I help you?" Everybody around the table bursts into laughter except Ales and Noah.

"Liliana you shouldn't be eating that fast you might choke." Ales says but I don't really listen to him, I just go back to stuffing my face. Before I finished my breakfast Ales and Emilio left to go to Ales's office and talk.

When I finish eating I get up and start to go back to my room. Passing by the hallway of Alessandro's office I hear talking. But it's not english. It's Italian.

My mom used to talk to me in Italian before she met Adam. We would only speak in Italian and I had so much fun. She always told me that I was such a smart girl for learning Italian.

"Le guardie oggi mi hanno detto che il nostro ultimo carico è caduto in un'imboscata." (The guards told me today that our latest shipment was ambushed.)

"Sanno da chi?" (Do they know by whom?)

"No, ma hanno detto che hanno lasciato una lettera." (No, but they said they left a letter.) I sit down on the floor with my ear against the door listening to what they have to say.

"I russi." One of them said followed by a sigh (The Russians.) "Cosa diceva la lettera?" The same voice continued. (What did the letter say?)

"Stavano minacciando Liliana." (They were threatening Liliana.) What do you mean they were threatening me? What was so important about little ol' me? I'm just plain jane. Nothing interesting about me. What kind of things were my brothers doing that had people threatening me?

"Cosa intendi per minacciarla? L'abbiamo appena riavuta e la stanno già minacciando. Non può vivere una vita normale? Prima viene rapita, poi maltrattata e quando finalmente torna a casa viene minacciata." (What do you mean by threatening her? We just got her back and they're already threatening her. Can't live a normal life? First she is kidnapped, then mistreated and when she finally returns home she is threatened.)

Kidnapped?!? I was kidnapped? By who? When? What the hell is going on in this conversation? I can't even listen to this conversation anymore. I got up from the spot on the floor I was sitting on and started to go up to my room not before I heard the last of the conversation.