His light in Darkness

chapter three

Verena's pov

I haven't been flogged today or punished, could it be no it couldn't tomorrow was the Mafia blood ball, I checked a calendar and realized it was true.
Oh no I hated going to those balls.
It was basically a ball for the next generation which had been a tradition in the mafia world that's why it's called "Mafia blood",that also explains why I haven't seen Chris since that day,My dad was going to hand over his Mafia to me, because after all I'm his real blood.
He took Chris as a stranger in his family I knew deep down he was hurt but hid it from everyone,My didn't plan on dying anytime soon,so he continued beating me even though I was next in line.
I so much despised the Mafia world,it basically was a killing game to psychos,and apparently it was fun to them,The most dangerous ball of all is "The killing of mates" the ball was just a ball that made people kill their mates.But because of how much my dad loved my mum he went with an imposter and killed her all because he wanted to look strong to the other Mafia.
Feeling do infuriated about tomorrow I laid on my hard but comfortable bed.
~The next morning ~
I woke feeling really good then met a box on my bed that read put on I'm waiting downstairs, I rolled my eyes but made effort to go get ready.

The dress looked really pretty it came with shoes and a Shein bag, I doubted if something this pretty will look good on me.

They were really pretty, I wore the dress,then put on the shoes and carried my purse I found a hair bag and a make-up bag I did my make-up first because I wasn't really a fan of make-up I made it light but it still gave a fierce yet beautiful look,then combed my dirty blonde hair and packed it into a low bun and put silver flowers to decorate it.
I went downstairs stairs and met my dad sitting on a chair,he said you'll be with one of my body guards today your car is outside,he stood up and left, I went outside and entered the car and it drove off.
The drive was silent it gave me time to think about how life would have been with a family I laughed because I was still under my dad's control and I'm not going to fall for some psycho that runs a bloody mafia,we arrived at the place it was very big, I stepped out of the car with the help of the guard he gave me a large amount of money but I refused to collect it then he said your father told me to give you, I collected it from him and put it in my bag that made more sense.
I entered inside and met the stares of people I couldn't handle it but I had to be strong I ignored their stares and went to go get a drink, I sat on the stool of the drink stand and was about to order some Martini When the bar tender gave me martini and said courtesy of the man sitting over there while pointing, I looked down at the drink checking if it was poisoned.
A man stood beside me and said don't worry princess it's not poisoned, I turned to see who was talking and said don't expect me to take your word for it,ouch how about I get you a new one he said and the bar tender brought me another one I took a sip of it and dropped it.
   I'm Carlos Rodriguez you are? He asked with a friendly smile his brown silky hair and blue eyes I replied by saying I'm Verena Russo,wow a beautiful name for a beautiful princess,would you like if I called you Rennie he said,um only if you allow me call you Carl I said and he said I don't mind.
   I gave him a friendly smile and a tall handsome man he was more handsome than Carl but he looked so familiar, I made my staring obvious that Carl traced my eyes to whom I was starring at and laughed.
What's so funny,you are really starring at André,umm who's André I asked,well he's my closest friend,oh was all I said.
He stood up and went straight to André.