Legacy (Lucero's Series -Book #1) {Completed}

Chapter 01

I was five when my father announced I was betrothed to a son of his friend's. My mother was enthralled, and my father was ecstatic, but I did not know what that even meant. So, I asked what they meant and all she told as she smiled facing me was that I am getting a new toy that will stay with me forever.

But another toy was not something I wanted.

I was eight when suddenly, my nanny dressed me in all black while she cried, I did not understand it not until my father picked me up and handed me a flower to put it on the box. I never knew what was in that box but what I know was my mother did not enter my room that night to kiss me goodnight or the following night and the next.

I cried for her but all I got in return was another doll to play with.

But another doll was not something I needed.

It was my sixteen birthday when I met someone. He was son of my father's friend. But he was not the man I was betrothed to. His name was Ricardo Donovan. A sweet guy who was lost, while he was lost in the new house I was in my own thoughts.

So, we just got lost in each other, enjoying the talks about the stars and the faces of people we saw. He was my first and only friend. Then I got the news of his death, he was killed. I asked my father why?

And all I got was a new rule added to the already long list of rules. I am not never talk or touch another man, because I was not a toy to be played with by others.

But being a toy, that was exactly how I felt.

The year I turned seventeen, my father announced my engagement. It was a whirlwind, I was dolled up and presented in front of everyone as they congratulated me on how lucky I was, but I doubted if I was.

Because I never got to know what kind of person I was engaged to but what I knew was the man I was to be married with, had someone else in his life.

How you ask? Because I saw him being all over her in bright day light, everyone said men were like that, but I never knew why?

But I wondered why women cannot be like that?

A week after I was eighteen women filled my rooms pulling me up from my bed and measuring me here and there. Asking me to try many of dresses I did not liked the colors of.

I was a married woman the very next day.

I stood in front of the man, whose name was the only thing I knew. The man whose attention I wanted my whole life, to know who or what he is. Everything in my life was revolved around his very name.

Don't do this Flora, don't do that Flora all because of him. I was not Flora Salvatore but Leon Lucero's betrothed and I wondered if he knew that I was his before I was mine.

Our wedding was big, loud and extravagant, all I could see was people all around me, all I could feel was their eyes on us and when the night end and the silence begin to fall I heard a new set of noise.

A baby, he brought a child wrapped in a cloth and set in beside me on the bed.

"For you" is all he said as he left.

But having a child is not what imagined.

He cried, all night and as his cries echoed within the house, it silenced mine.

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A loud gunshot startles Flora so she jumps out of her bed running out of the room before she hears few shouts and a loud crash which halts her on her step. She slows down walking ahead as the voices starts to rise.