The Lily Underground

19.

Flashback Miya POV

"Mom where is dad and my brothers?"

I was 9 when I asked mother that question, why didn't I ask her sooner one may think but I myself hadn't thought about it before. It was only something, I had thought about when everyone around me, would talk about how they went on trips with their families that I realized mine was missing. I knew they had been there, but I was also aware that in a split second they weren't.

"Honey I know you miss your dad but trust me it's best we stay far away from him and your brothers"

I never understood why that would be the best, but I trusted my mom that's what you do when you're a kid.

As I grew older more questions surfaced, but none that my mother could or would answer. I loved my mom but our relationship suffered a lot. Because of the secrets she would keep, our mother and daughter bond wasn't as strong as it might have been if our family hadn't separated, but our love towards each other never suffered.

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My mother loved lilies, and on my dad on mom's wedding day she had bucke of lilys in her hands as she walked up the aisle.

Fighting underground you can't use your own name that creates a number of problems so I called myself Lily that way the memory of my mother would be with me every time I set foot in the ring.

And that's when I became the lily underground.

End of flashback

Ava would arrive in a few moments with Jace, who was picking her up at the airport. I myself sat in my room thinking about what was going to happen.

I heard knock on my door It was Zack

"hei Miya are you alright?"

Why was he asking me that question? I hadn't lost anyone.

"I should be the one asking you Zack, how are you holding up?"

"Right now not so good, but what you just saw and went trough must've been hard as well?"

Was it weird that I wasn't more terrified of what I had seen, would someone who wasn't use to live a dangerous life underground react more differently? They probably would.

"yeah I'm terrified" - I lied

"when we all gather in a bit we'll tell you everything. Just know that there isn't anything to be terrified about, we'll make sure nothing ever happens to you"

Yeah and I was supposed to believe that, as if Evelyn hadn't just been killed.

"You two Ava and Jace are here" Liam said as we quickly passed by my door on his way to the entrance.

Zack and I went there together. Ava Jace were standing beside each other, and my brothers and him were exchanged glances, as if they were having a conversation with each other without having to say anything. Maybe one day I could also have such close relationship with them.

Ava was a pretty girl she looked a lot like her mother, she had blond hair that reached her shoulders, blue eyes and she was very petite nothing like me, we were complete opposites.

Dad was slowly walking towards us, he clearly wasn't himself "kids go sit at the dining table and we'll talk"

Before we walked over to the dining room, I saw my dad walk over to Ava kissing her cheek and hug her, this wasn't the moment to be jealous, but in that moment I realized that my dad had probably always been there for her as a father, the father that I had longed for, for so long.

So we all sat down and my dad sat the end of the table.

"Ava honey Jace already told you that we under attack yesterday.."

Ava then started crying, she didn't need to hear more and had put two and two together cause her mom wasn't sitting at the table.

"They killed her right dad?", Ava was now looking down as she cried. My dad nodded,

"I promise you they won't get away with it".

Jace who was sitting beside his sister pulled her into a hug to comfort her, but I knew that what Ava would need now was time, cause nothing was going to make that pain go away.

"Miya what you witnessed yesterday, was that the Italian mafia attacked us" It was Zack talking, dad was clearly not able to in that moment.

"The Italian mafia? "Why would they want anything to want with you?"

"Because our mom was the daughter of the previous mafia leader in Italy, and they blame us for her death, claiming that we killed mom".

I had encountered so many thing in my life, but nothing had prepared me for what Zack had just told. Them being in the mafia wasn't really something, I hadn't gathered from everything I had seen, but that the Italians claimed my dad for my mothers death, what the hell was that?

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AN; Hei, guys you may have seen that I changed the name of the story, and I wanted to make this chapter as a kind of explanation as to why <3.