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Athena tries hard to not to freak out as the nurse approaches her with an injection. She just desperately wants to get out of there but she is stuck in this hospital room. Sneaking out with the risk of Vincenzo standing at the door outside with the doctor is not a bit easy.

After her tests, she is given some apple juice and the kind nurse turns the tv screen on. Athena stares at the screen with mild interest in her eyes just to keep up with the act. A complete hour goes by just like that.

The nurse is scribbling down notes on her notepad and sometimes watching the tv. As the nurse leaves the room telling her that she will be right back, Athena just knows that this is the right time. She jumps down from bed and slowly opens the door.

She peeks out and surprisingly Ariana's brother and doctor are nowhere to be seen. Seeing this is her only chance, she runs out. She only manages to make her way out of that floor by using the stairs. She is about to pass the elevator section when suddenly one of the elevator slid opens and there he is.

Vincenzo!

Athena's eyes widens in horror and Vincenzo looks at her with a small tilt of his head. She squeals in fear as he takes a step in her direction. She hurriedly runs back in the opposite direction. She pushes past the confused looking doctors and nurses and finally manages to make it to the exit.

The door was open but her feet pauses. There are guards standing outside and blocking the only exit. It was as if they were expecting that she would run.

"Good thing that you are already here, Ariana. I was about to get you so we can go home." There is a subtle hint of sarcasm in Vincenzo's words and he stands beside her trembling form.

"Get in the car now." Sulking a bit she bows her head and makes her way to the car that is already waiting at the entrance. She sits in the same seat and he enters in the driver seat.

Just as they reach back at the mansion, Athena wastes no time in jumping out. The atmosphere in the car was overwhelming. Vincenzo is too quiet and scary quiet.

"Tell our brothers to meet me in my study." He tells her. He presses his phone to his ear and leans back against the car watching her every move as she nervously scurries inside.

Vincenzo said few words on the phone and then he hangs up the call. Then, he picks up Athena's medical reports. He settles her DNA report on top of others and heads inside.

Athena makes her way to the kitchen first and surprisingly finds Luciano there. He is drinking coffee and working on his laptop. He looks up at her and smiles a little.

He still does not know if the girl standing in front of him is actually his little sister or not. But deep down he hopes that she is Ariana. The girl always just seems so confused and scared. It does something to him. He feels the need to get protective over her.

"Umm-" She looks up at him. Her lack of speech makes Luciano feel a little too much concern.

"What happened?" He asks her.

"V-vincenzo." She points upstairs with her fingers. Luciano furrows his brows.

"Vincenzo what?" Luciano understands that she is referring to his office. Obviously his older brother must be calling them upstairs. But he wants to hear it from her mouth.

"S-study." She whispers.

She struggles with the words. This matter is concerning.

Luciano nods his head with a small smile. Athena sighs a little thankful that Luciano understood.

"Go call others too then. He must have told you, right?" He says. Athena nods her head a little. She is nowhere to be near enthusiastic about this task.

She slumps her shoulders a little before making her way upstairs to find them. Other thing that scares her is getting lost in this mansion. She marks her trail by remembering the turns and pretty eye catching decoratives she passes on her way.

Soon she finds herself in front of Romeo's room that is near Ariana's room. But as she is about to open the door, it opens itself. Romeo is a little surprised to see her there.

"V-vincenzo calling in s-study." She unconsciously rocks on her toes. Romeo murmurs a quiet ok and brushes past her.

Athena does not know why she felt little hurt when he did so.

She feels a little relieved when Vittorio suddenly comes in the hallway. Upon seeing that he is going towards the elevator, she squeals a little and uses her small legs fast to catch up with him.

Vittorio pauses in his steps as his phone rings. He picks it up and exchanges few words on it. Athena stands behind him and waits patiently so he can finish the call first. Still talking, Vittorio turns back to look at her with a raised brow. It is almost like he sniffed her presence.

Athena gulps and whispers the exact words to him and without another word runs out of there. Now only Alexander is left. But she has no idea where must he be.

She tries to search him around the hallway near Romeo's room. Her ears picks up some weird noises. She follows the source and comes across a room. The door is ajar open. She does not peek in but presses her ear against the door to listen better.

"Ahhh please, daddy. You are killing meee" A voice cries out loudly. Athena gasps loudly and stumbles back in fear.

Suddenly the voice freezes completely and the door abruptly opens. Athena looks up with wide eyes. There stands Ariana's brother Alexander and he looks absolutely furious.

He is only wearing his dress pants and his coat without any shirt underneath. His bare tattoo covered chest made him look more scary. Athena immediately brings her gaze down thinking this truly proved her suspicion. They are the bad guys who kills and cut human's body parts to sell them.

"I HAVE TOLD YOU FUCKING THOUSAND TIMES ARIANA TO NOT TO BEING A NOSEY BITCH!" Alexander yells at her. Athena feels her lips quiver badly and immediately there are big fat tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Why are you fucking crying now?" He asks her sounding irritated.

"Oh right. You are not even her." He murmurs under his breath, so Athena is not able to hear his words.

"Would you fucking please tell me why are you here?" He asks her with anger still written on his face.

"V-v-v-vincenzo c-c-calling i-in s-s-study." She stammers badly in fear and tries hard to keep her sobs in. Her throat feels heavy, so it is a lot harder to speak.

"Umm Alexander!" The same voice which was screaming earlier, speaks up from behind him. Athena looks up and sees a tall girl standing beside Alexander in her big high heels. Something about her appearance is off, with her hair messed up and rosey cheeks.

"OMFG! YOU ARE BACK!" The unknown girl lets out an even louder shrill than before that makes Athena flinch and even Alexander winces a little.

"You don't even know how much our group is missing you, Aria---"

"Get the fuck out of here, Grace!" Alexander snaps at her, cutting her off.

"Bu--" Alexander glares at her. She frowns a little but stomps back in the room and comes back moments later with her expensive designer bag.

"Bye Ariana! I'll see you soon!" She tries to kiss Alexander's lips who just stops her with his hand. The girl does not seem to mind, she approaches Athena and kisses her cheek. Athena flinches a little in surprise but Grace does not seem to notice it.

Athena frowns and rubs her cheek feeling a bit uncomfortable.

"You too! Get out of my sight!" Athena fearfully nods her head and scurries out of his sight and back in Ariana's room.

Athena is glad that Grace is perfectly alright and she has her body parts on but she could not understand one thing that how come Grace is Alexander's daughter? Alexander looks a little older than her age but not enough to be her father.

"So what does the report says? I am so ready to kick that doppelganger out of here." Vittorio asks sounding too much impatient. Vincenzo looks at his brothers. All of them are looking emotionless and impatient but there is a slight hint of anxiousness in their eyes.

"The DNA matched--" He starts to speak. His brothers showed various emotions but what stood the most was surprise and relief.

"--but she is not Ariana." Vincenzo finishes his sentence bringing a pause of unsettling silence.

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