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The sight was horrifying.

Leo's voice went an octave low and angry. "Take her back to her room, Alessandro."

"No." I lightly pushed Alessandro, "Wow, it's a finger."

Yes, a damn finger.

"Why would someone send her a finger?" Marco questioned to no one in particular.

"Leonardo, get this thing out of my damn house!" Aunt Kathy said, horrified.

I raised a brow. "Your house?"

She looked at me. "Yes. It's my house."

I made a 'wow' face with my lips jutting upwards.

"Yeah? then pick this up by yourself." I grinned.

Leo grabbed my hand pulled me to his side away from that finger which started to stink.

"Wait," I quickly moved closer to the finger, "Yuck." I made a gagging sound.

"Allegra, don't touch it. Might be infected," Alexander added quickly. I nodded and tried to take that small white thing attached to the finger.

"What are you doing Allegra, get back here!" This time it was Antonio; his voice held rage.

"Coming, tony." I quickly grabbed that white thing which just so happens to be a piece of paper.

I started to unfold it, "Whoever did this; is a genius."

Insert the sarcasm.

That small piece of paper just so happens to be a big one with few lines scribbled on it.

"Sandro, the person is a genius like you!" I grinned at him, to which he passed me a glare.

"Phew, that dude is sick!"

When the paper was fully unfolded I started to read it.

"Dear Valentino. Wow, he got some etiquettes." Sparing me a glare, Matteo snatched the paper out of my hand.

"Hey." I protested. Marco shushed me, "I hope you have gotten my present, Even though it was my birthday. Anyway, keep waiting for more presents. And Allegra, I hope we meet soon. You guys can't keep her from me."

"Damn, he looks like my secret admirer." Leo did not even wait for my reply and walked away after motioning me and my brothers to follow him.

Oh well.

I walked past the other family members and stopped by Aunt Kathy.

"I hope you'll clean that up!" I smirked and ran past my brothers.

I stopped at the top of the stairs, waiting for my brothers to take me wherever we have, to go.

Marco ushered me to follow him.

"You and Alessandro are behaving nice." Marco spared me a glance.

"I mean, of course, I don't mind. It's just creepy, that's all. Keep behaving nice and, I'll maybe reward you guys with a treat." And just like that, I ran towards Leo, who was waiting for us at the very end, Marco hot on my tail.

"Leo," I yelled his name while laughing and hid behind him.

"Sandro, Allegra said she'll give us a treat if we keep behaving nice. You get what she means." Sandro looked at me with a thunderous look in his eyes, similar to Marco's.

"I was joking. Ahh," I quickly pushed Leo in front of me when I saw them advancing.

"Boys, get inside the office."

"But Leo, she called us dogs," Marco whined.

Rare sight.

"It was unintentional." I poked in.

"You still called us dogs." Alessandro butt in angrily.

"Come on, guys. Get in. It's not the time to fight." Antonio said, hurriedly trying to wipe the smile off his face.

"Allegra, you can't call your elders dogs," Leo warned me with a hint of anger in his voice.

"I didn't call them dogs; you give treats to your friends also. They called their selves a dog. I didn't even stipulate that."

I have a point. And you can't tell me otherwise.

"Leo, she has a point." Matteo laughed. Leo looked at me as if saying, 'I know you well.

I shrugged. "You can apologize to me later; let's get inside."

I quickly entered inside without hearing what Alexander said, "She did it again." He laughed.

The inside of the office was extremely....scary!

"Who designed this office?" I wondered out.

"A designer." Rocco said with a 'duh' tone.

I looked at him blankly as if saying 'no shit'

"Language Allegra." Guess I said that aloud.

"Leo, can I ask you something?" Without waiting for his reply, I asked again, "Do you like this office?"

He sat down on the chair behind the table facing us. "Why?"

"Just answer the question!" I said in the most; ridiculous voice.

"I do."

"Okay!" I nodded and sat on the seater beside the couch in the office.

"You were hoping to change it?" Rocco whispered to me.

I nodded. "But if he likes it, then it's okay."

"We tried to change it too, but he kicked us out of the house." He laughed.

"But isn't it Aunt Kathy's house?"

"It's...mom's house." He said with a crack in his voice.

"Oh."

The whispering came to an awkward end.

"Rocco and Allegra, if you guys are done? Can we proceed?" Antonio grumbled from the seat opposite Leo.

"You may proceed!" I said in an African accent.

I passed a grin to a glaring Antonio.

"Moving on, Allegra do you know anyone who might do this kind of thing?" Matteo asked.

"Well, I have few shares of these kinds of people."

"What? I wasn't the best person to be around." I added when they looked at me blankly.

"Seriously Allegra,?" Alessandro grumbled from beside me.

"Sheesh, just kidding. I don't know." I shrugged.

"She is of no use," Leo muttered.

"Does that mean I can leave?" I clapped my hands in excitement.

Leo glanced at me and then nodded. I muttered a 'fudging finally'.

I walked out of the office with a skip in my step.

Walking down the stairs, I sang Justin and Kid laroi's new song, 'Stay'.

"I'll be f#cked up if you can't be right here."

Then I remembered I have to go outside to play. So, I ran back upstairs to Leo's office and barges in.

"Allegra, knock first," Leo commanded.

Muttering 'controlling', I stepped back and then knocked again, barging in.

"You have to wait for the permission Allegra." Antonio sighed.

"I don't even want to know why do you keep up with my shit," I said to Antonio with grumpiness in my voice.

"So, I want to know that canigooutsidetoplay?" I asked, eagerly waiting for a 'yes.

"You can't go outside Allegra. You just saw someone threatening us. Or you specifically." Antonio reasoned.

My face fell, "But I can go with 2 of the guards?"

Antonio turned towards Leo asking for confirmation.

Leo muttered a 'no'. I passed them a glare slammed the door loudly.

Stomping down the stairs I bumped in Aunty Kathy.

"Looks like your plan failed huh?" She smirked.

I stepped closer to her. "A word from your mouth this whole evening, and it won't be good anymore for you."

I was pissed, no cap! Okay I get it I have a threat on my head but I can't certainly stay in this damn house 24/7.

I entered the garden for the first time since I've arrived here.

Time to mess this shit up.

There was a cream-colored wall, marking the end of our territory.

I went towards the main gate and asked one of the guards to bring me a lot of paint of different colors.

He nodded and went out.

To pass the time I moved all the pots in front of that wall, to the other side.

After 15min that same guard along with few others came with my paints.

I asked them if they could help me open them and they nodded.

"Can you guys stay here and paint with me?" I blinked at them.

"Sorry, we can't leave the house unguarded." I nodded.

After they left I rolled my sleeves to the top of my arm and dipped my palm in the blue paint.

After slamming a few of my blue-painted palms on the wall, I moved towards the other colors.

Repeating the process with all of them I painted half of the wall with it.

Moving towards the other half, I mixed every color that includes blue, pink, yellow, purple, and orange.

The outcome of it was one weird color.

Shrugging I grabbed one of the paintbrushes and painted the other half of the wall.

After half an hour later, I was done with the wall and only the very top of it was left.

I called one of the guards for help.

"Excuse me, can you lift me so that I can complete the very top of it. And what's your name?"

"My name is Leander, and of course."

I smiled at him. Grabbing my waist, he lift me and I started to paint it.

After another hour, because we stopped for rest, I was done with my art.

Smirking, I looked down towards my clothes and my smirk fell.

Damn, I was painted in every color.

"Thank you Leander, and sorry too."

He chuckled. "No problem. Ms. Valentino."

I smiled and came back inside.

"What the heck you did to my wall?" Aunt Kathy said.

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This chapter is pretty long!

Phew took me few hours to write.

•|Happy Reading|•

Okay, so probably everyone in the comment section was like which African accent or maybe must have assumed it a bit racist? Anyways, to clear everyone's confusion and doubts, I did not mean any harm with that. There are hundreds of African accents out there. The one I heard was the best one and I do not know which African accent it was. So, I just wrote 'african accent'. You all can assume which ever accent you like. Again, no harm to anybody.