#Warning- Do not miss the note at end!

William and Eleanora sat in silence of his study. Just an hour ago, she had a conversation with a professional psychiatrist. She had a whole lot going in her mind but after talking to someone about what she encountered briefly, she felt less afraid and hesitation in front of William.

She had desired to share everything with William. He had listened carefully even better than the psychiatrist, giving her time to put up with her emotions very well. His silence made it clear that he was there for her and he was not going anywhere.

"I want to know the truth, Will. I want to know everything." She never asked them about why they killed her mother and stepfather. But today it felt like she had to know. Everything seemed far too connected to even ignore.

"I was waiting for you to ask." William said while he searched throught something in his drawers.

Finally finding what he was looking for, he handed her an envelope.

She carefully opened it. Her eyes widened seeing the picture.

It was her mother, David and Gianni together sitting in a coffee shop.

"What does it mean?" She asked confused.

"Acacia and David were working with Gianni." Nora was shocked, hearing these words.

"B-but why would they do this? What would they have gotten in return?"

"Acacia ran away from home with her boyfriend after stealing a lot of money. Alexander was ofcourse enraged and he wanted nothing but to kill them. However, he never managed to find them. It was like they vanished from this planet. What Alexander did not know that Luciano was helping Acacia to escape. So Alexander get mad and everything. As Alexander started to make rash decisions under you could say alcohol influence, the heads of Romano and Gray family- Allesandro De'Romano and Xander O'Gray who were our business partners, suggested that we need a next head of family. Luciano wanted to become the next head of our family but it didn't happen. Despite me being only 19 years old at that time, I sat on our family's throne. The right age of it is actually 25." Nora listened to his words carefully.

"Two years later, I banished Alexander out of the country because he was so mad that he started to harm our brothers." Nora flinched at his words. Lucifer's words from that day started to ring in her mind again. She had understood him and it really hurt her knowing that she was right. Alexander had indeed hurt them enough to leave a mental scarring behind. The thought made her want to curl up.

"This picture in your hand is about a week ago, we met you-- Nora followed his words and looked at it once again 'a week ago Acacia and David were killed'-- that time we did not know you existed. We came to your house that day simply to interrogate Acacia about her intentions with meeting up with Gianni all of a sudden. While I was interrogating her, Hunter and Damon searched around her room and they across some interesting documents." He paused and looked straight in Nora's eyes, silently telling her that she was not going to like what she was going to hear.

"W-what was it?"

"Acacia and David had willingly sold you to Gianni for hefty amount of million dollars." Nora was horrified hearing his words. This time, however, William did not pause but kept speaking, filling her with required information.

"We had to kill them. Otherwise after you turn 25, you would be forced to marry him. It had your and their signatures over it. Truthfully, I mostly killed them out of rage. In your birthday party, when I asked you in front of everyone that if you want to marry Gianni, this was for the same reason. When the legal way did not work, he resorted to using his sick ways to get you." Nora shuddered at the thought of marrying Gianni.

"Confronting Gianni about everything he had done was not enough. He was equally powerful like us and he had support of some notorious parties. Above all, Alexander was working along with him and Gianni was aware about the deepest secrets of our families." Nora nodded at his words.

"There is one more thing that I had kept hidden from you. In case if Gianni tried to use that documents again to get you, I had made a separate copy of the same documents but changed Gianni's name with Dominic." Nora's jaw dropped at his words.

"B-but why?" It meant she was supposed to marry Dominic now.

"Don't worry. Those documents are just nothing but ordinary papers. Dominic will never force you and it was just an extra precaution. You have a right to choose your life partner." Nora sighed in relief. She was not planning on getting married anytime soon and from inside, she felt like she had lost her chance. Gianni had tainted her completely and she feared she would never be able to overcome this trauma.

Nora looked at her hand as William placed his hand over it.

"I know it is hard but we are here to support you. We are here to help you forget this nightmare you endured."

Nora's bottom lip quivered.

"Thank you, William."

He smiled.

"This is what families are for, afterall."

They sat in silence once again. Nora again broke it after few moments as a thought occured her.

"Can we go and visit Victor's family?"

William nodded. His face turned grim. The family was facing a hard time overcoming Wanda's loss.

"We will. How about tomorrow?" He proposed. She didn't hesitate to agree.

"I have one more question. Gianni's right hand man Santino told me something about Anastasia. He said Gianni might consider letting me go but not Anastasia. What does it mean?"

William looked like he was in a deep thought for a moment. Then he sighed.

"Well, you have a right to know. Sit tight. It might take long." He leaned forward, his elbows resting on the table and his fists holding his chin up. Seeing the usual upright William in this position, Nora was stunned for a moment but then she copied his position earning herself another one of his special smile.

"Let me tell you about our families history."

Epilogue (Hsdb)

One month later.

Eleanora woke up after having another one of session of nightmares. She was panting heavily, sweat dripping from her body.

Sighing, she pulled herself out of the bed as the feeling of throwing up occurred to her once again.

She hardly made it to the bathroom. Finally done, she leaned down against the wall, feeling a tear sliding down her cheek.

"Why? Why? Why is it happening? I don't want to ignore it anymore. I just cannot!" She bit her lip hard and clenched her fists hard.

"How am I supposed to tell them about this?" The thought of telling her brothers about this made her sick to stomach.

She put her hand on top of her stomach feeling another set of fresh tears forming in her eyes.

"Would it create differences between us? Will they hate me for it?"

TBC!

For HSDB PART 1, I published a short story named 'Nora' on patreon. It will happen once again but the storyline will be different. The fact is we all know that Nora is going to end up with Dominic. I'm not gonna change that.... And, book Nora part 1 and 2 will be available on Wattpad too at some point. Again, I repeat, I have not started on part 2 of Nora on patreon either. I had been suffering with a writer block lately, so it will take me some time to get back on track.

To answer your further queries 'The Princess and Her Devil Brothers' Part 2 will come soon. Myra (Nora's daughter) will be introduced again but in a different way. In this part, Myra or Mila is not Dominic's daughter as you can understand by the ending of HSDB 2. She is Gianni's daughter in the second part of 'The princess and her devil brothers', Camila's role will be not present. I repeat Myra will have no twin sister or any sibling.

#The storyline of 'The princess and her Devil brothers' part 2 will be entirely different from the first one just like what happened in Hsdb.

Again, thank you so much for being here. I hope you enjoyed. Which part is your favourite? Hsdb part 1 or 2?

Until we meet again Lots of Love Davina