The Mafia Rose

Chapter 3

(Italy here we come)

Rachael's POV

21 years ago...

I was a babysitter for the Bianchi family. I looked after the two young boys while they stayed over here in England. Dominic was six and Giovanni was four, I looked after them as if they were my own.

Their mother Maria was never very good to them. She would just palm them off to who ever would take them, Luca on the other hand was a fantastic father, always including them in everything he did.

Luca was a young 28 year old full of flirtatious charm... and me well, I was a young and every naive girl who had fallen in love with a Don.
We started to have an affair and as much as I'm against it, the passion and love we had for one another made me put my guilt to one side.

Luca didn't love Maria, they had an arranged marriage as it brought two family fortunes together. He confessed his love for me everyday and when it was just me, him and the boys we was like a perfect family.

But all good things must come to an end. Maria found out about the affair and I found out I was pregnant. Luca said he would divorce Maria so we could have are own little family but Maria threatened to take the boys away, I refused to be the cause of that for Luca.

So I left.

10 years later...

Me and Sofia lived together in a little village just off the town of King's Lynn in Norfolk.
I had brought her up without a father figure, which made me feel guilty because the thought of how Luca would have been with sofia made my heart bleed knowing that it was never going to happen.

"Mummy there is a man at the door who wants to see you."

The village where we lived was small and we didn't  get many visitors so I didn't know who it could be.

I felt my heart stop.

It was Luca.

"Are you going to invite me in?"

It was 10 years since I had seen,  heard or spoken to him

"Wha... Wha."

"What am I doing here? What do I want? Well I wanted to see the daughter you took away from me and I'm here to take you both back to Italy with me where you belong."

Long story short I went to Italy with him, Sofia and Luca made an incredible bond and with her brothers too.

But I couldn't cope with the stress of the mafia lifestyle so me and Luca didn't workout. I moved back to England with Sofia but we both made regular visits to see them all, I still had a bond with both boys and when I found out Maria  had died of a drug overdose I wish I could have been for them both.

Present day...

I'm Now married to the local farmer and yes I may not have the luxury lifestyle I could of had, but I have instead a stressless free life of a farmer's wife.