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Alexia's pov

After the dinner, I was ready to go fall asleep. Francesco asked Matteo to show me my room. I bid everyone goodnight and quickly left following Matteo. After the never ending stairs he was quick to show me my room.

"Here is your room. Xander's room is to your right side and Alessandro's is to the left, just next to yours. If you need anything come to me because lets be honest, both are moody bitches." Matteo says jockingly as he opens the bedroom door.

"I am not quite sure whether Elijah would appreciate your swearing or not." I say with a smirk.

With the little amount of time I have spend with him, I got to know that he has little to no tolerance for swearing. He literally threw knife at Xander for continuously swearing at the dinner. The knife went straight to the wall behind him but the threat was clear. Safe to say that he didn't utter a single word throughout the whole dinner.

Just mafia family bonding at its finest.

"You can't do that. Its a sibling rule that die before snitching on each other. We don't betray each other. We are supposed to save each other's asses." He exclaims looking at me in horror.

"Don't worry. I'll protect your secret with my life. It shall go with me to my grave." I say him in a serious tone but amusement was clear on my face.

"You are fun to hang out with when don't put up your resting bitch face. " He says excitedly opening the door.

The room was huge but plain with basic light grey and white theme. It had a bathroom which was already filled with necessities. It also had a huge walk in closet. My 7 bags were already there. I could bring only 1/5th of my clothes in the 5 bags. I miss my clothes. Romeo better not touch them. Other 2 bags had my weapons, pendrives, important documents and other files. My bagpack was besides it. It had many burner phones, 2 of my mafia phones, my laptop, microphone, cameras, a few trackers and every other technical thing I would need.

Devin arranged our private jet so that their won't be a issue carrying them without the authorities knowing.

"Sorry that yours and Rosie's bedroom are not together. Actually your two rooms were guestrooms, so we didn't plan to keep it together. They are more plain so you can do whatever you want to it. I can help you decorate it as you want. I have quite good taste. And we can-" Matteo says excitedly as he continues rambling about decorating my room.

"Matteo I'll ask your help whenever I decide to decorate my room. Now if you don't mind I am really tired. " I say him pointing towards the door. His excitement falls a little. Why does everyone I speak with in this family be oversensetive. God I sounded like a bitch while saying that.

"We can discuss it in morning. Good night for now." I reassure him after looking at his lost puppy face. He still manages to gives me a smile before going.

It wasn't that I wanted to be rude to him, but I was seconds away from punching something. I literally has no more energy to hear him. So sorry for preferring my sleep over discussing how wonderful neon colored walls would look.

I hardly got any sleep last week. And top of that I heard Silas whine whole of the last night that how unfair it is that I am leaving two days before them. I literally had to shoot his hand and then threaten to shoot his ass, just to make him leave me the fuck alone. I was exhausted beyond words.

I was about to go to freshen up when someone threw my door open. I turn around to see an unwanted face in my room. I regret not locking the door.

"What do you want Rosie? " I ask Rosie as she enters my room closing the door.

"Bitch why the fuck are here? Can't you just let me live in peace for once. I was finally happy with not having you around but you have to ruin everything. Why do you have to come hear and try to steal them from me." Rosie exclaims in frustration.

"I didn't want to come here Rosie. I have some work here, I'll leave when it is done. I am not hear to steal your family. Now if your tantrum is over you can leave." I say back calmly.

I am so used to her blaming me for every thing in her life that at this point it doesn't even bother me anymore. I just refer to the family as hers to let her know that I am not interested in her happy family drama.

"Ofcouse you are here for my family. You just want to steal them from me. I knew noone would ever want your pathetic ass. You were just lying at the school about having a guardian to seek attention. But don't bother to try here. This is my family. They will always listen to me. They will always want me. They will do whatever I want. Your pathetic self will always keep begging for the family which you would never get." She says smirking.

Are those childish words of hers supposed to upset me? She sounds like a crazy person to me.

"God Rosie get your head out of your ass. I am not interested in this family. Do whatever the fuck you want with this family. Go shopping or family trip or fucking play dress up and barbie with them. I don't care. I am not 5 to be jealous of these things. I have my own family to love. So go off showing your family as your priced possession to the whole world. I don't even care about them. Now mature the fuck up and don't ruin your chance to have this family by yourself." I say to her already tired of this conversation.

No matter how many times I repeat this she won't get it. She is full of herself to realize that world doesn't revolve around her.

"Shut up bitch. I won't ruin anything. This is my family. It is you who ruins everything. You ruined my mom's life by just being born. Mom turned to alcohol because you were not like her. Mom kept suffering because you couldn't ever do things right for her. You are bad omen to everyone around you. You destroyed Richard's life. You couldn't even give him the happiness of being your so called father. You always ruin everything around yourself. You are nothing but a pathetic bitch." She fires back at me.

No matter how much those words affect me I don't let it show. Don't let others see your weakness. Acting out in anger gives your opponent a chance to attack your weakness. Anger is your biggest enemy and I learnt it the hard way. I keep my expression blank and smirk at her.

"Didn't your mother teach you some manners about how to talk to your elder sister Rosie? Nevermind she isn't alive to teach you anymore. Atleast my papa could do that before leaving me. I mean mother might have been a bitch but I really feel bad for her. Its been hardly a week since she died and you already replaced her. I bet you didn't even think about her in these 3 days." I say calmly smirking.

I could see Rosie's face turn red from anger. I knew I hit a nerve. Rosie was more emotionally detached. She never cared about a person unless she got something in return. And mother was no exception to Rosie's nature, yet she loved her.

She raised her hand to slap he but I caught it mid air.

"Don't you even think about doing it. Don't take advantage of my silence. I always left you alone beacause you are my twin sister. Don't make me forget it. Now leave before I do something which I would for sure not regret at all. " I say in a deadly calm tone. I could feel the shiver that went down her spine. I leave her hand and it doesn't even take her a second before bolting out the door.

I quickly rush towards the door and shut it. I rest my head the door and take a deep breathe.

You destroyed Richard's life.

I shake my head trying to get her voice out of my head. It is not true.

You destroyed Richard's life.

Her words shouldn't make any difference. I am not going to let her words affect me. She is noone to me. Her words doesn't matter.

You destroyed Richard's life.

I walk towards the bathroom and quickly splash water on my face. I look at the reflection in the mirror. I could see the tears that were threatening to fall but I controlled myself.

"Her words doesn't matter to me." I keep repeating it to myself till I actually believed it.

After calming down I walk towards my closet and change into pajamas. I decide to do some work to distract myself from negative thoughts. I quickly walk towards my bagpack to remove my laptop.

I was open my bagpack to see a dream catcher on my laptop.

I couldn't help the smile that formed on my face remembering about it.

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I really really long chapter. I'll probably update another flashback chapter today. After that there won't be any updates for other 4-5 days.

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Date:11 Aug 2022

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