Chapter 19: The Dragon Family!

Emilio open the notebook - diary and started reading it.

"My real name is Tatiana Dragon, daughter of John and Virna Dragon, I was the youngest of my two brothers.

My mother was a famous judge in Greece and my father was a businessman, he was known for his navy company.

That's what I have heard of, actually, funny isn't it? Everything I know about my family is from rumors, instead of their own mouth.

My mother's family was known for their law firm company, but unexpectedly I have never met any of them, ever, I don't even know the reason.

However, my father and his origins were even more mysterious.

According to some people, my father mysteriously appeared out of nowhere when he was young and was already rich and successful.

They didn't even know if he was Greek, his last name didn't sound like a Greek one, but apparently, it is. It's just a rare last name.

There was no clue about his family or success before he 'magically' appeared, but soon later he was hiring people and he was a generous boss.

Greece was known for its financial problem, so many people wanted to get hired by John Dragon, so they stopped digging about his background and origin, they didn't want to bite the hand that feed them.

But that didn't mean that they weren't curious about him, but the strange thing was that no one could find anything about him.

He was a very attractive man with black hair, light tan skin, and beautiful majestic mysterious golden eyes, he looked like he was greek with rare color eyes, that was his charm.

Soon after, news that my parents started dating spread like fire, no one knew when they met each other or when they started dating.

Some believed that it was an arranged profitable marriage, some others believed it was actually true love between the couple since they truly looked like they liked each other.

The big news of pregnancy came, and of course, after the first pregnancy two more came. Two boys and one girl, my brothers looked exactly like my father with black hair, I got my mother's blond hair, but all three of us had the gold eyes of our father.

Too bad I didn't get the icy blue ocean eyes of my mother, it's rare to find a greek with blond hair and blue eyes, but at least I got her hair.

Everyone was looking at us as the perfect family, that's how they were looking at us until we weren't.

Nothing lasts forever, especially happiness, it's like a dream that all of us tried to make real, but even if we did, it didn't last forever.

Then why we were trying so hard to make it real?

Some years later a lot of scandals about my family started to burst out the one after the other, the topic of the scandals was my father's affairs with other women and illegitimate children.

Everything started when my mother mysteriously fell seriously ill, that was the first scandal, about my father poisoning my mother for another woman, other sources were saying that a woman who was working at our house poisoned my mother to seduce my father.

I've never found out what really happened.

I was young, but I remember some things that happened at that time.

My mother wasn't allowing us to go and see her while she was bedridden no matter how much we begged. She was always asking about father, and he was the only one who could enter into her room.

I remember how sad I was back then, I thought that my mother didn't like us anymore. I was always wondering why only my father could enter and not us? One day she allowed us to enter with our father, it was the first time I saw her, I think.

She was so pale like a ghost and skinny, I could tell that my mother was dying, slowly and painfully through her eyes.

She was coughing frequently and her voice was hoarse and weak, she told us to come closer to her, we did, and then she said the cruelest words that I will never forget in my whole life.

-*COUGH* I.... *COUGH*curse.... *COUGH*you.....*COUGH* *COUGH* (VIRNA)

She said while looking at us, and she turned to look at father.

- *COUGH*John..... *COUGH*you will.... *COUGH*never.... *COUGH*see.... *COUGH*grandchild.... *COUGH*from.... *COUGH*most..... *COUGH*loved.... *COUGH*children.... *COUGH*....NEVER! (VIRNA)

Those were her last words, I started crying, I was scared, I run to my room and hided for hours or days, I think until the funeral.

That was my first memory when I was a child, what a happy memory, right?

As for what happened next, unfortunately, my memories were fuzzy, but the scandals about my father and other women, and illegitimate children had never stopped.

My father was strict, expecting a lot from us, and always be prepared because a lot of people were will targetting us for our money, especially me, most of the people looked at me as the weakest target.

And he was right, I got kidnapped so many times that I lost count, and I started to get used to it and I wasn't even scared.

Not to mention how many times I started having feelings about my own abductor.

Yeah, I know Stockholm Syndrome, because I didn't have family love, I was developing feelings that normally I shouldn't have, and bla bla bla.

I rarely saw my father and I didn't have any close bond with my brothers, none of us had.

I don't know if it was because of our mother's last words, my brothers probably thought that I was too young to remember.

Maybe that's why they didn't talk to me, they were afraid to split something to me about the curse of our mother, or maybe because I looked like our mother.

I don't think that any of us believed that we were actually cursed.

Until some strange things started to happening to all three of us.

At first it was my big brother's wife's pregnancy.

Miscarriage, this was something that was happening more and more frequently, no matter how many times they've tried, the results were the same... miscarriage.

It drove his wife into insanity, it was like ... a curse.

My second brother and later me ... had the same fate.

But we keep trying, and trying. We literally tried everything from surrogate mothers, to sperm donors, IVF, and many more desperate methods. We were desperate, we were trying everything that we could do.

At some point, young people started to come to our house claiming to be our father's children, they didn't want money, they just wanted to meet their father at least once.

My father always said the same words to all of them, first DNA test, some of them agreed, some others didn't.

Those who didn't agree to the DNA test would leave and not try to come back, the ones who agreed and the test was positive would say the same words again.

- You will never have the Dragon's last name and you will not have any right to my inheritance, I was crystal clear with your mother back then. (JOHN)

What was that supposed to mean?

Did my father really was cheating my mother? Were all the scandals true?

Then why so far all the kids that came were younger than me?

Where is the oldest one? Did he get rid of them?

And just like the drama of my life wasn't enough already, some of them even had children.

It was salt into our wounds, thanks a lot, this is exactly what we needed to know among all the mysteries of our family.

We got so frustrated about having offspring that we ended up trying to have it with any needs and methods again, from surrogate mothers, artificial insemination, and even hiding for whole nine months in a small and safe room.

But no matter what we did, no matter how much we've tried, the results were always the same, miscarriage.

I couldn't take it anymore, I didn't care anymore, the whole country had its eyes on my family, and no matter what we do and say we were just 'Big News'.

I was feeling like a prisoner, and the only thing I was thinking was freedom, nothing else.

I thought to end my life, but still ... I wanted to have a child, my child.

But what kinda life will have here in this family?

My life so far was like a circus, maybe that's why my mother cursed us.

Maybe it's for the better, only pain and suffering would face that child.

So, I started planning for my big escape.... from my family.

I told my family that I wanted a vacation, I've managed to escape from their radar in disguise and travel with fake identification, and I ended up staying in Zakynthos for a while until I was sure my family didn't locate me, they didn't.

I was so happy. Finally, I could walk without a disguise, I walked into a beach, sat there, took a deep breath.

My tears started falling like rain, and I couldn't control them, I was free and happy.

For the first time in my life, I was free and happy, and then...

I met you, you were the first person I met after my freedom.

Emilio, my love, you were the first person in my life that didn't care about my past, my name, or my background.

You were the only one who saw the real me and loved and accepted me for who I am. For the first time in my life, I learned what true love really means, but unfortunately, the circumstances were not in our favor, and I hope you can understand.

Tyron thinks he can use me for information about Thor, the 'Vikings gang' leader because my father and Thor knew each other or worked with each other.

I've never heard that name before. As long as he keeps us safe, I will cooperate.

I will do anything to be able to bring our child into this world, no matter how much I have to suffer for it.

I don't want you to think that I looked down on you because you couldn't protect us, I know that you will blame yourself thinking that it was because you weren't powerful compared to Tyron.

Please, don't ever think that you are a nobody because you are the King of my heart, and that will never change.

That's why I wrote this diary.

P.S. I will wait for you, I know that one day we will be together again. Your Nelly."

Tears started falling from Emilio's eyes when he finished 'Nelly's' diary.

She suffered so much in the past and he had no idea, if he knew, could he keep her safe?

But at least he made her happy, right?

If only he was stronger, he could keep them safe and they wouldn't have to be apart. He wasn't trusting Tyron fot Nelly's and his child's safety, so he should keep an eye on him and be sure while he tries to be stronger without Tyron noticing.

- "Just wait for me, I will be coming for you. You will have to pay for your betrayal with your own blood Tyron." (EMILIO)

*Author's note* The Dragon family was based on a Greek TV Series, I've made a lot of changes about the details since I've never watched the series.

It was my mother's favorite, that's how I remember some stuff but I hope you enjoyed the chapter and the story so far.

If you have any questions about the story or even some stuff and you would like to be explained in a future chapter please let me know in order to make the story better, thank you for reading so far.*