POWER

Astra and Jason were already asleep by the time Anna came back. She passed by the room that Jason was already occupying and place the toys that she had gotten him on the dresser.

She didn't know how things were going to play out bBigSue was going to make sure nothing happened to him.

She heard the door open wing slowly and wondered who it was. Her little foot taps told Anna that it was just Astra before she could even see her.

She had t talked to her but she looked like an adorable kid.

"I can't sleep, are you his mother ?", she asked in her little voice as she stared at Anna's outfit.

"My mama went to work she didn't come back ", Astra said and wondered where that came from until she liked at her outfit.

The kid probably thought that she was going v to work too. She had never heard anything about her mother but she also couldn't ask. It wasn't her place to ask things like those.

"I can sleep with you if you want ", Anna said and a smile spread on her lips as she nodded.

"Okay come on ", Anan said as she held the young girl's hand and they exited the room.

As she held her hand she could imagine her younger self with her mother. She was jumping around and smiling as she went with her whenever she was going.

She was a happy child. That was the only thing she knew about herself from back then.

She wondered how she would have turned out if she hadn't lost her mother at a young age. She hated thinking about that kind of thing.

No matter how many times she thought about her it was never going to change how things had turned out for her.

"He kept asking when his mom was coming back ", Astra said as they entered Anna's room.

"What did you tell him ?", Anna asked her.

"Daddy said I should say when she gets the time 'cause she is busy right now. My mamma will come to see me too ", Astra said giggling pleased by the idea.

Anna wondered where her mother was and if Mateo had been lying to her. Was her mother ever coming to see her?

As a person who did not have kids she did not think she was in a position to give any advice in raising a kid. I've as his own choice what truth to tell and what lies to tell. He was just protecting her little heart.

"That's a good girl now come let's sleep ", Anna said as she got under the covers and Astra was at her side as she cuddled her.

Anna could feel the warmth in her heart and at that moment she was reminded of what had happed at the hospital a few days before.

Time could heal wounds but she didn't think that it was a wound she was going to be able to heal. Time wouldn't heal it but her just cuddling Astra was slowly making her feel better.

Maybe one day she was going to have a little kid. Yet again she imagined the rule of life she was living at the moment and the things she was doing and it didn't seem like a great idea.

She couldn't imagine what Scarface was going through. Sleoing every night not knowing how his son was doing.

He had been the stupid one. He knew the rules of the game and still had decided to play around and what was going to happen. He had found 9ut she had not been paying.

She wanted to see the look on his face when she figured out she was the one who had taken Jason. The shock since he had judged her.

He had thought she was just a weak woman who couldn't do anything but sit around and be told to do by men.

She was done being pushed around by men. She was done doing things that they wanted her to do for their benefit.

She was going to use them the same way they used women and get where she wanted. It was like playing chess, push the right player and you would achieve anything you wanted.

She was going to be a chess master. She run this show not them and they were going to find out soon enough.

She knew Neegan was not going to return Jason to his father. He was going to use them as bait and get whatever he wanted from Scarface.

eWheWhenwas done taking everything he was going to kill him.

She knew that Scarface was going to do everything that he could to get his son back even if it meant killing Neegan.

It was a game and they were going to find out who was better than the other. What they didn't know was that they were not calling the shots.

They were merely the players. She had taken the best in the game and put them against east other.

The best way was to put them against each other and see how things would turn out. She had all the time to sit around and wait and see who was king.

It didn't matter though cause in the end she was king. It was her show and they were merely characters in it who didn't mean that much.

Power.

It was something that turned even the most innocent people to do things that they never thought they would do.

She was no longer Vincenzo's little angel She had turned into something else.

She didn't care who she needed to take out of the game as long as she reached the end first.

With a smile on her face, she slept. She was no longer weak. She was finally doing something without having someone judging her and telling her the only thing she was good at was ebony a wife.

She was more than a wife. She could be a wife and whatever she wanted to be.

She wondered if Vincenzo had reached home safely. She didn't know what was going on between them anymore but she knew it couldn't be saved.

That part of her that had loved him dearly was slowly dying and no matter what she did she just couldn't revive it.