𝐌𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬

Chapter.13

Marcella's POV:

Mom and I made our way to this small Coffee shop near our house, "Mrs. Young is coming if you are wondering who we are about to meet right now" I stopped walking and looked at mom raising my brows, "she owes me an explanation" she said normally like this lie don't bother her.

"Uhm, mom Mrs. Young is there. You go ahead I will join in a bit" I said and walked backwards before winking at her and making my way to this quieter area. I took and deep breath and was about to say toe myself down in the grass when suddenly someone stopped my movement by holding my wrist.

I was ready to punch this person, as soon as I turned around I come across Marcello who was shocked by my acting, "oh, sorry I thought it was someone else" I place my hands down before I punched him.

Before I could say anything, further we heard a soft voice "Marcella" I looked behind Marcello and saw Layla standing behind him. Marcello moved back a little, giving us some space.

"Marcella, I'm so sorry." she looked down.

"Sorry?" I laughed sarcastically, "how much more did you lie to me Layla? What else is there which is don't know about you? Oh wait... is your name even Layla or something else?" I asked, she closed her eyes and sigh before continuing the conversation. "Marcella, I never lied to you about anything except the thing you found out yesterday, there is a reason why I had to Marcella. I did not hide it just from you, I had to hide it from the whole world. I did want to tell you but I was forced to keep my mouth shut" she explained.

"Layla, I thought we promised to never hide anything from each other and not lie no matter what. Then what's this? And... okay fine I get it, you had a reason but why me? That's by question... why me? I never hid anything from you, even after I was warned to keep my mouth shut and included you who i couldn't tell anything... but i still did at the end of the day" She didn't say anything.

"How come Ares and Dad know about your real identity, and I don't? How come they are allowed to know but not me?" I asked her.

"Long story short, I am the first ever mafia 'girl' heiress, empire whatever it's called, I'm the first one in my family. The Young mafia has a long history and it's all bad until my dad decided to take the risk and change this. My ancestors they were horrible and when I tell you, they use to hate woman where it got to the point whenever there was a girl born in our family, she must be executed or sent to adoption centre. If my dad wasn't brave enough to stand up for me and his family... I would have been dead the second after I was born, or sent somewhere off. Because of the way my ancestors carried out our mafia blood, we gained dozens of rivals from all over the country and other countries many of the Youngs were dead, and thats when I was born. Dad got the choice, either kill me or sent me to adoption centre. Dad did none of that but betray his father and move out the country, that's when we came here and we changed our whole identity, our names stayed the same for our family respect and our businesses. And dad didn't want any danger on me or Marcello, so he waited till I turned 18 to announce the truth, so even if we have rivals around us who would wanna kill us or what's so ever after they find out the thrush, we could protect ourselves and our fortunes" she explained.

Suddenly I get flashbacks of Dante's words, oh my god, the words that utter out of Laylas mouth hit me hard with regret and sadness. Tears started to form in my eyes. I feel horrible for the why I reacted. I didn't give her a chance to speak and explain herself, and on top of  that I bursted on her in anger and said some stupid shit like a scum bag. I burst into tears feeling guilty and imagining not having her by my side right now. If her dad choice to give her away or execute her... I might not have had a friend right now. Marcello ran up to me and hugged me as he saw me cry, while Layla just stood there looking at the ground "What's wrong love?"