Glenda

chapter 2

(Before Glenda was born)
Dario's POV:

I felt as if the world was crumbling down around me, Giada my dearest sister was dead all because of a rival mafia we had believed was wiped out. I had no one to lean on right now, I haven't been able to reach Mia since she left two weeks ago when she and the kids left for America. My brothers have their own families to consoles and my parents were now tasked with caring for my now orphaned nephews. Giada had left behind three boys seven-year-old Leopold and two-year-old twins Louie and Luis. 

With no one to turn to or stop me I headed to one of the bars I own, I sat there for an hour nursing my fourth glass when a beautiful red head made her way over. We talked and drank and I hardly remember her inviting me to her room after that is a blur. I woke up the next day in a hotel room with a pounding headed ache, and the small Redheaded woman in bed with me. Not long after I awoke did the women stir awake. "Who are you," I asked possibly to harshly. The redhead sat up not bothering to cover herself and ogled me.

Quickly I got up and dressed leaving the room without a second glance at her, this had been a mistake and one I knew I would pay dearly for. I could her the woman as she got to the door calling out to me sounding very insulted at my abrupt departure. As I was leaving, I got the feeling that she was somehow familiar, but I quickly shock it off. 

I was overwhelmed with guilt; my poor sweet wife didn't deserve a cheating bastard for a husband, and what a role model I make for our sons no wonder I hadn't been blessed with any daughters. I was not looking forward to the talk that I would be having with my wife on my infidelity, but I haven't hidden anything from my wife since the day we were wed. Two days later Mia and the boys came home, and they all seemed unusual, but it was possible my own guilt wanting me to find an excuse for my behavior. When I told Mia she acted quite unlike herself screaming, cursing and breaking things but how could I expect her to act. It was a week later that She told me we were expecting another child, and she was two months pregnant.

It took a long time for us to build back our relationship, but it was never the same, Mia was never the same I think it crushed her to know the man she loved had betrayed her trust. Sandro and Tullio also distanced themselves from me, they looked miserable like they knew what I had done. Dante wasn't talking, constantly crying and shaking it was like he could feel what was going on. As for Fio and Brio they seemed happier and clung to their mother. Our lives went back to normal or as normal as it could and got better when Gianni was born.