You're his destiny

Carmella sat silently on the bed with her backrest behind the wall. She was expecting her aunt to tell her things about the mafia hood and her parents. What was going on and who to trust and who don't. Her best friend just betrayed her, now her aunt remains mute over the issues between her and Alfonso. 

"Aunt Bianca, what's going on?" She asked tiredness, as her eyes begged to close. Bianca remains mute like a silent bird who vow never to hear its soft sing again. 

"You haven't answered my question" she drags on. "what the fuck is going on!" She roars getting impatient with her client ever since she wakes up from her unconscious mood. 

Bianca tried to speak up but the wind only flew out of her mouth. She couldn't believe that the man she loved and vow to be with, tried to kill her. Bianca is watery in tears as her thoughts remember that of her memories with him. 

"I can't tell," she said feeling ashamed of letting herself down over all these years. " I trusted him! I gave him all, my heart, my love, my time, and my body to please him and that's bastard did was to used me and killed me"  she said crying her eyes out. Carmella just stood still, she didn't know what her aunt had been through but she knows it's hurt when the one you love betrayed you. She touched her chest as her heart beats for Riccardo. 

She looks surprised at her weeping aunt and didn't know what to say,  she keeps her hand on her heart, she wants to know if truly her beats for Riccardo, does that mean she's in love with him? Bianca never noticed her because she was also drowning in her world of sorrow. 

"Carmella, love kills," she said, burial her face in the pillows. Carmella looks at her like a wandering bird. " What happens between you two?" 

Bianca remains silent because the words are too heavy to say. " Alfonso was..." She stop, couldn't say a word again. 

"Alfonso was what aunt?" She asked because all the acts are frustrating to her. She wants to know the truth about the mafia hood and everything about her parents. When she was a child, she heard her parents whispering about something that sounds like the mafia hood, she couldn't remember her childhood fully and all she had been through as a child. 

"Aunt Bianca, please I begged you to tell the truth about the mafia hood if you know any, then s lost! Am fucking lost! I don't know who to trust or who to believe about all these!" She yells. 

Bianca gazed at her confused niece. 

"It all begins years ago" 

"What's begin years ago?" 

"The lineage of our family the Ligue was part of the circle in the 18 century. The Ligue joined the circle because of power and wealth that's what the circle offer but there must be a price to pay nothing go for free"

"What' price did the Ligue pay yo be part of the Mafia hood?" Bianca grins at her. 

"What do you think, it's a secret cult that's the Francesco practice and nothing goes for nothing" 

Carmella gets a client, she was frozen as her parents were also part of it this practice too? She needs words to come out of Bianca's mouth that her parents were not a part of this madness. IIt seems Bianca knows what she was thinking. 

"Your parents were part of it since childhood even before they were born to include me too, we're the practice of the mafia hood. That's what was invested in us as the next generation and it has to continue without no stop to it" she sighed, Carmella just sat quietly as she wants to know what exactly lead to her parents dead. 

Bianca continues. " When we were born, we all were offered to the mafia hood later as a training to understand the tradition and custom of the mafia," she said, feeling exhausted from continuing the tale she was about to tell. 

"My parents were born into this practice?" Carmella looking shocked at her. 

"Hmm" she nods her head. "Our Fathers take it most serious like an immorality of humans that's the belief they put their trust in" she grins, "which was fucking sick!" She yells on top of her voice. 

Carmella didn't make any signs as she quietly to get the view of what the hell the mafia hood represents. 

"A mark was placed on our waist to show we belong to the mafia hood," she pull up her dress up to show Carmella what the mark looks like. 

"Gosh!" Carmella exclaims, "but why the mark?"

"For us not to forget we one with the circle, lives were to be sacrificed for the continuation of the circle. Very year, three or four of each family members sacrifice themselves for the continuation of their family to be in the circle"

"What?" 

"Yes, like I said nothing go for nothing, that the price family pays for being in the mafia hood from by the Francesco" she looks at the terrified woman before her. " That's how it works" she added. 

"So what about my parents how did they die? Like how come Riccardo become the picture of their dead?" 

"That's when you come in"

"Me?" She asked shocked. 

"Yeah, you," Bianca said, "my mother was against the reborn of the circle and tried to run with us but" she shut her eyes like that part was so bitter to think of even to talk of. 

"What happens to your mother?" Carmella asked her aunt, " Aunt Bianca," she hold her hands, " you can tell me anything am listening to" 

Bianca sighed and gazed straight at Carmella's watery eyes. " Please, let me know what happened to my grandma's and my parents" 

"Alright, if you wish" she continues. 

"My father killed my mother for trying to escape with us not joining the circle fully. He said it was our destiny to be a member of the Mafia hood and serve as a servant. That's the word he always said to us, we were at the age of between. No one question him or even tried against him because they are all fucking the same!"

"Our mother was killed right in front of us, crazy right?" She chuckled, 

Carmella understand that pain, that same pain she felt at the age of 5, a terrible experience to ever experienced.

"Power and wealth are the most important thing in man life than anything else even his family doesn't means anything to him. That's the path my father chose. The mafia had lied to us about life and everything, we were blind to believe because of ours family. We were taught to kill at a young age, sex and everything that involves violence, anger, and rages become our natural. No one is satisfied with what they have, this world is fucking sick! "

She paused, like something flash into her mind. " My greatest mistake was loving him"

"Who?" Carmella asked softly, 

"Alfonso, he was my everything, my joy anything that makes me smile he was until he choose to stand against me that when you come in"

"Me?" Carmella was shocked, she knew the mafia was bloody but not to this that persons are sacrifice in it for every year to continue the bond and oat their forefathers has taken to continue being in the circle, this fucking mess! She looks at her worried aunt, who seem weak from all the situation she has been through all her life as a child. Now she remembers the reason her father always sends her up to her room whenever they have visitors. 

"You're going to be the next ultimate sacrifice for the next lord to be born" 

"What!" Carmella shouts up from her spot. 

"What' do you mean aunt?" 

"You're the one Marcello chose to be his wife and sex partner the one called Riccardo today, it's the custom of the mafia hood when the leader chose his bride to be at a  young age when they become of age the ritual has to perform. He had to fucked you in the presence of all members of the circle. Your virginity should have been broken there. Then, after you have given birth to the next lord he or she will begin taking away from you, and you'll be killed for your child to live that's the way it works but Marcello seems to be in love with you, he had broken all the rules of the circle, I must say am surprised he did that even though he ordered the death of your parents and never order your dead because your parents were trying to run away with you from the circle not to complete the ritual"

Carmella was short of words all her life, she had been living in her shadow, All these while there are more for the ears to hear. She can't believe her parents was a member of this deadly cult. She didn't know what to do or say. What the hell is going on in her life. 

Why is life so cruel to her, all she ever wanted was love! Is that too much to ask for! She fucking hates her life and everything that had happened, she hates it all! 

"Why?" 

"Cause you're his destiny, Carmella, you long to him" 

"I belong to no one! It is my life and I should be the one to choose who should be in my life and who should not! I'm the owner of my world and not that fucking asshole Riccardo's whatever they called him, this is me! And my world, not him! He can go to hell as I care but my child belongs to me and me alone not that asshole circle cheats you all belongs to!" She placed her hands on her belly, 

"This is my child and I'll never trade him or her for any asshole sake!" She sat back on her spot and back her aunt.

"Carmella," Bianca calls and touch her shoulder, "I know it's hurt, trust me I have been in that spot before that the reason you have me as your aunt I would never let them take you away" 

"What about now? We're tarp" 

"I know but there must be a way out" 

Carmella turns to face her aunt, "are you sure?" As tears run down. 

"Of course" she hugged Carmella so tight. 

"I believe everything is going to be okay" Bianca whispered, "what happens between you and Alfonso? If you two were in the same circle" 

They departed their hugs, she sighed,

"Hmmm, he was the one sent to kill your parents, he told me the day he did it and I thought he was trying to help but he betrayed me working against my back with Francesco. Benito wants me to leave the country as soon as possible. That's the day we all arrange to leave and I told that bastard everything cause I want to see his face before we make our move to the airport. I waited patiently for him but he came late, I didn't know then he had killed your parents, I sold the hidden out to them through Alfonso!" She cried, Carmella quickly embrace her. 

"It's okay aunt it all in the past now"

"No Carmella, I hated myself for betraying my family"

"No aunt you never betrayed anyone, remember you still have me right?" 

She looks up to Carmella, she's right. She still has a family left and that's Carmella and her unborn child.

"Thank you, Rosa, for forgiving me" she continues her tears. Alfonso stood at the door entrance listening to their discussion all this while, he felt bad, his hands are tight. Only just only if he knows what to do but he was already close to his goal. 

"I never meant to hurt you" he whispered. 

He walks back to his chamber hall where he used to relax his mind and thoughts.

He thought he had lost her all these years but she was still alive. He saw the way she fall into the deep sea that very day, how come she was alive and never bother to inform him about it or come back to him.

He tortured himself all these years because of her death. He hold himself responsible for never protecting the woman he loved. He vows never to fall in love with another woman again except Bianca, his hatred grows more on Francesco and taking everything away from him include the woman he loves. That way he chooses to his revenge against the circle to be next to the mafia king and all Francesco's wealth.

He deep his head back on the seat to recall that pretty face that always fills his days with joy. All he did was for the sake of his fucking family who never appreciate his help. His hands were tied even now! 

"Boss!" A man called, he turns his head. 

"What?" He asks. " Your nephew is here to see you" the man answered.

Alfonso rise from his seat to meet the crazy-ass Leonardo, who was already raging out in anger and his voice was on top of the building. 

"Uncle!" He continues screaming. 

"What, what Leonardo, I just have a rough day and needed some rest, not someone yelling like a mad man in my house," he said, as he walked his way down the stairs. 

"What the hell is it?" He finally asked when he get to the last stairs step.

"Where's Carmella!" He yells, standing close to him. "Am not here to play games I want the woman I loved and you took her away!" 

Alfonso laughed, "the woman you loved?" 

"Of course" he proudly answered ignoring Alfonso, and find himself a chair to sit on. Legs across each other. 

"What the hell are you saying when do you fall in love with her?" 

Leonardo smirks, "I think that's no of your business" he claps his hands, and his men attend to him with a weed for him to puff on.

"You love her and you want to sacrifice her to the circle? You must be kidding with that word love" Alfonso said and sat down. 

"But she's the price to be paid to receive the throne!" 

"You're a fool! Are You not getting it? Those witches are using your to sustain their powers, if they are not receiving life's of people, they can't live"

Leonardo laughed, " look at the fuck who speaking when do you change? Cause toe years back you need the throne. Remember you told me the throne brings power and wealth to an ordinary man to become an immortal"

Alfonso bow down his head in shame, he has comes to realize the seed he had planted in Leonardo, he and his brother Tommaso was after revenge and never cared about the welfare of  Leonardo, whatever he had become today was because of his fault and that of his Father. 

"Leonardo, I was wrong about that"