Ariana stares at the endless dark sky in front of her. Her face holds hint of endless tears rolling down her eyes. Her heart longs for the freedom. She does not want to live in this cruel world of lies and pain. There are several mistakes that she has committed in past and she regrets all of them. She wants forgiveness of her brothers but it is too late. Too late for everything. Nothing can go alright now.

She places her hand on her small belly.

"I am sorry."

The world ends here for her.

"ARIANA!" He yells her name in the heavy storm. Ariana tries to cease her whimper in. She is imagining things.

He cannot reach her so soon. He has broken her to this extent that her spirit is sucked out of her. She just wants to end her misery and today, no one can stop her.

"I am sorry. I hope you all will forgive me." She whispers but unfortunately she is not able to hear his footsteps that are drawing closer to her. Without another thought, she moves her foot to take a step.

Suddenly she is yanked back by her hair. An involuntary, pained cry escapes her lips as her body is thrown roughly on the ground. She instantly covers her stomach with her hands as she fell.

"And now what do you think you were doing sweetheart?" Ariana cries as he cups her face roughly in his hands.

"If you wanted to die so badly. Why didn't you tell me? I could have helped. I promise I will myself push you off this building one day." He grins and strokes her broken collarbone.

It is one of his ugly creation after all.

"Surprised, that why am I becoming so kind enough that I am promising your freedom to you?" He mocks her, amused at the sight of her tears.

"Because I have found something interesting. Even more interesting and intriguing than you. My eyes are set on that and you know that I always get what I want." His hands are literally trying to crumple Ariana and her weak body is not able to bear much pain.

"You know about whom am I talking about?" He asks her.

"Don't worry, baby. Guess you will find out soon."

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Athena sulks a little as she bumps into a wall. Her eyes brims with tears and she rubs her nose and looks up to see Alexander standing in front of her.

"Where do you think you are going, little crybaby?" He asks as he glances down at her dress. She is wearing a simple, white cotton knee length dress. For some reason, this pure colour suits her.

"Umm walk out." She whispers softly. Alexander crosses his arms over his chest, intimidating her.

"You mean you are going to take a walk outside?" He asks correcting her. She simply cannot mean that she is walking out of the mansion. What if she tries to runaway which is Athena definitely planning in her mind.

"Right. Come, let's take this walk together." He says while moving out of the door. When he looks back at her again, after hearing no gentle steps following him, he raises his brow. Her face has turned paler and that indicated him that she was definitely trying not to go for a simple walk.

"Ariana!" He calls her name coldly, perfectly hiding the anger that was bubbling in his chest. Athena meekly follows after him.

None of the guards stop them as they walk out of the premises. Both of them are walking on the sidewalk.

"We really need to work on your speech skills." He murmured. Athena looks up at him confused, completely forgetting that there was a pole in front of her. Before her head could bang straight at it, Alexander raises his hand up so her head hit his hand.

"You need to be active. I can definitely see that you have eyes but you don't know how to use them." He tells her. Athena pouts a little at his words.

He suddenly looks down at her and tries to hold back his chuckle as he notices her bottom lip sticking out. She looks adorable.

"Can't walk." Within few minutes, Athena is holding on her knees. Alexander looks disappointed seeing how bad her stamina really is. Could she have really escaped from them with this sorry excuse of stamina?

They are a little away from the mansion at this point.

"Jump on my back." He crouches down slightly. Athena looks up at him with a worried expression.

"Ariana! Do it." Blushing and hesitanly, she slowly jumps on his back and tightly wraps her arms around him afraid that he might drop her. Alexander make sures that her dress is fixed and begins to walk back home. He had never imagined that he would find himself again giving piggy back ride to someone who is a exact replica of his real sister.

He used to give piggy back rides to Ariana when she was young. She stopped asking for them when she turned 7. That time, the young girl clearly understood that her family holds a special power and it did not take her long time to be filled with ego and pride.

Everyone has noticed this drastic change in her personality. Mostly the reason of it was their parents who died shortly when Ariana turned 10.

"Bro!" Vittorio raised his both eyebrows while standing in front of his older brother. Lost in thought, Alexander did not even notice that he was back in the mansion.

"Is she sleeping?" Romeo asks as he comes out from the front door and steps into the garage. Sure, Athena is sleeping soundly. Alexander did not even notice it.

"Where were you guys though?" Vittorio asks confused.

"She wanted to take a walk. So I took her out of the mansion." Alexander grunts lowly in response and Romeo gently helps her off his back. He grabs her in his arms and looks down at her sleeping face.

"I will take her to her room." Romeo says, already on his way to her room.

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