3 Years Later,

The Valentino's returned to Italy 3 days ago. Nowadays, they are living with their grandparents. Marco and Rocco were playing Monopoly with Alessandro and Alexander.

Antonio and Matteo were in the middle of the chess game. Leonardo and Uncle Francisco were looking at the two ladies having a 'friendly' banter, as they called it, and sighed dejectedly. Allegra and Aunt Kathy were throwing pointless insults at each other for the umpteenth time in a single hour.

Antonio's eyes went to Allegra's figure, and a twinge of guilt erupted in his guts. He heaved out a sigh and called Allegra.

Allegra halted her insult midway and moved towards Antonio. But Antonio stood up and walked towards her instead. Kissing her forehead, he kept staring at her. As if reading his eyes, she kissed his cheek and mumbled a small, 'I'm fine.

Allegra's surgery was successful, yes. But the guilt remains there. She can walk but with a hitch in her step. The bullet caused huge nerve damage, resulting in pain and weakness whenever she stands or walks. Her brothers are with her 24/7, helping and providing assistance as needed, but she is not a completely dependent person

She is an independent woman who takes care of herself. But after seeing her brother's worried faces, she lets them help her. The first few months after her surgery, she felt guilty for asking her brothers for help. But then her brothers sat her down and briefed her how she is not and never will be a burden on them, That she should not feel ashamed ever.

Antonio took her injury the hardest, he looks at her with guilty full eyes. No matter how much Allegra tells him how she never regretted saving him.

Leonardo is managing his mom's, Rosa's business and Antonio is handling his mom's, Aurora's business. Matteo extended his restaurants in Italy as well as America. His finger-licking dishes got people's attention.

Marco is working in the HR post in Antonio's business and also lurks around the flower shop to see someone certain. Meanwhile, Rocco opened his small art gallery in Rome. Turns out, Rocco had a bunch of A-class artworks in his room.

Alessandro works as a model for famous brands and as a barista in the nearest coffee shop. The hottest barista anyone could ever have. The shop owner raised his pay 3x on the second day. Alexander, on the other hand, works as a full-time flirter or as a 'con artist' as he calls it.

He goes around seducing high-class shady businesswomen, and after getting what he needs, information instead of money, he organizes a masquerade ball and reveals their true colors to the world. In simple words, he works for the government.

Allegra and her group of friends are the biggest scoundrels in the school. As a prank, Ashton and Allegra once put a lot of baking soda in lemon juice and gave it as a 'gift' to their teacher. Let's just say the teacher had an upset stomach for an entire day and even got diarrhea. As an apology, they made salty chocolates and gave them to the teacher.

The teacher left the school.

Leonardo gave an earful to Allegra. Pullings harmful pranks on people are not cool at all. Forcing someone to leave their earning hub is not something to be proud of,

Carlo and Enzo are usually the victims of Ashton and Allegra's insults and pranks. Meanwhile, Mario is under her brother's radar.

According to her brothers, Mario has a crush on Allegra, and they will give him up in the cult if that came out to be true. Allegra teases her brothers now and then that how Mario is just her type.

Mario sits beside her 24/7 while making heart eyes at her just to piss off her brothers.

Allegra after wasting enough oxygen for the day called her best friends over.

The area behind the mansion where the hut used to be has been renovated into a pool. Carlo and Enzo are swimming, while Ashton fumbles with the songs near the sound system. Mario and Allegra gossip on the sun loungers.

"I think Carlo and Enzo will drown Ashton in the pool if he doesn't change the song," Mario voices out as his eyes dart from the figures in the pool to the figure near the sound system.

Ashton plays 'WAP' while dancing in his swimming trunks and doing famous moves. His seductive hand gestures and his gaze fixed on Carlo and Enzo's figures entertained Ashton and Allegra.

"Shake that ass!" Allegra hollers with a grin just as Ashton starts twerking. Carlo swims to the edge of the pool and jumps out. He runs straight towards Ashton, who shrieks as soon as Carlo is within a centimeter of him. "Mommy, save me!" Ashton clamors as he rounds the pool and sinks beside Allegra.

Allegra pats his head and kisses his forehead. "Nobody is touching my baby." She fakes an angry look.

"Thank you, mommy. You're the best. Let's go find daddy!" Ashton chirps and dashes directly to the pool, and jumps in.

Allegra soon follows him carefully and descends into the pool. Carlo helps her into the pool and steadies her with his arm around her waist.

Ashton, by this time, has his legs wrapped around Enzo's waist and arms around his neck. "I found daddy, mommy. Look he looks so cute and hot." Ashton peeps like the girl from tinder and swipes his hand down Enzo's chest.

Allegra laughed loudly as Enzo chucked Ashton into the water and pretended to wipe his body. "Mommy, daddy is bad," Ashton said as he hugged Allegra's hand. "I thought you liked your daddy being bad," Mario yelled from his spot, doing the Rizz face. Enzo made a throwing-up gesture as Ashton blew a flying kiss. Carlo laughed and whistled, and Allegra and Mario were dying of laughter. Leonardo and the rest of the brothers joined the scene and smiled after seeing Allegra laughing.

After dinner, Allegra went to the rooftop and grinned when she saw the stars shining brighter. She sat there, thinking about how different everything would have been if both of her mothers were still alive. She pictured how happy her brothers would be to have their mothers with them, and how delighted their mothers would be to learn of Sergio's fate."

Talking about Sergio, after his death, he was left in the middle of the jungle to be devoured by wild animals. The police caught his so-called mafia, and all of the members were publicly executed for crimes including rape, theft, and gambling. Due to the power of the Valentinos, none of the mafia members were safe.

Aunt Ana, On the other hand, left for Pakistan as soon as she fled from the Italians. She left a letter for Valentino explaining that she did not want to have anything to do with any of them. In the letter, she expressed relief that they were alive and Sergio was dead, but beyond that, she did not want any further contact with them. No one knows where she is now. Allegra snapped out of her lala land when she saw her brothers sitting beside her. Her fluffy blanket was wrapped around her as she smiled at Marco, who kissed her forehead.

"I'm so happy today." Allegra murmurs with a smile.

"Why?" Alessandro asks as he drops his head on Alexander's lap.

"I don't know. I feel so so so so happy today. I don't even feel like banging Alex's head on the wall." Allegra replied.

"Such nice words you say," Alexander says with a scowl.

Allegra grins. "I know."

"We all are so happy too, Alle," Antonio spoke smilingly.

"Why?" She asked as she forcefully took Rocco's rings.

"Because you are happy!" Leonardo answers.

Allegra smiles at everyone and screams, "Group hug!"

Her brothers laughed and engulfed her in a tight hug.

Their joy lies in Allegra.

Italian- 'Allegra'

Meaning- 'Joy'

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Now,

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There won't be any sequel to this book. At least for now. I don't think I can continue writing anything further for this book. This was the happy ending(for me at least) of this book.

I would probably ghost Wattpad again till I have any new ideas for my books.

That's it for today. I'm finally putting "completed" under this book.

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-Abiha Ali♡