Bleeding Love

Chapter 70

Sophia

Three years later

It's been three years today since that fateful day. The day when Damon killed Russo.

So much has changed since then. Enzo has taken over and became the Don since he was the second in command to Damon and today is my last day in this mansion I came to call as home.

I still remember the day I came here with Marc, I was so mesmerized by the beauty of this mansion amidst the woods.

I stepped in the living room and the memories of my first night here came back to me.

I could see Damon sitting on the couch keeping me trapped in the hypnotism of his blue eyes. It's like it was yesterday. I even remembered his slap. I laughed thinking of that day, I couldn't have imagined myself then, loving that man so much who slapped me on the first day he saw me. He was so dangerous so arrogant and rude. In a way it was his job. He had to be that stern being the Mafia Don. He can't be tender but his vengeance and hatred had made him merciless towards everyone. Even toward those whom he loved. Enzo always says that if you don't kill first they will kill you. Still Enzo is not that short tempered as was the Don he has succeeded. Damon's temper was something. I still have some scars to prove that. My hand went to my collar bone where he engraved his initials. Sometimes I think our love was so toxic yet so safe. There was so much fear in me from Damon yet I never felt more safe than with him.

I remembered his voice calling me Doll. I smiled thinking of our time in that wooden cabin. Till death do us apart. A tear rolled down my eyes as I lost myself in the memories of that day when my marriage became more than just his punishment. When this mansion became my home in every sense.

I went to the garden in the shack. I wanted to breathe in every ounce of air of this place before I leave it for good. 

I remembered the time I spend here with him. Here only he told me about his pain, about his family, about Laeila. I spend some happy times with Alysia and Caprice too here. The good thing is I am not loosing them. I maybe far from Alysia but she will always be my family and now quite literally because today we all celebrating a non toxic love story. The whole garden is decorated and I couldn't imagine a better wedding venue for Alysia and Chuck.

I can't believe but somehow this happened and today is their wedding. Everything was so haywire since the moment Damon and Ric got into surgery. My life was turned upside down in one moment, the moment he fell on the ground after asking me about his brother.

Ric slipped into coma and Caprice was so broken at the news. I used to spend most of my time with her in the hospital. It took eight months for him to get back on his feet and for whole eight months, Caprice didn't come home. In a way she shifted her clothes and everything in that hospital room and made it her home. She lived there with him, used to talk to him whole day without getting so much as a nod from him in response. Yet she not for once lost her hope that he will come back to life. The whole hospital had came to recognize her as Ricardo's crazy girlfriend who just don't seem to leave.

Alysia fell all alone in this with her studies, Julio's betrayal and the fact that Damon killed him, it was all so overwhelming for her and Chuck became the support I should be. I asked him to stay here only. After everything, I couldn't risk him staying alone. Though after Russo there weren't many threats but you never know who decides to pick up a fight in this world.

Chuck being here brought them close. He gave her the shoulder to cry on, the friend to share with and the partner who made her laugh. They grew closer and when Chuck proposed her on their graduation she said yes making me the happiest person on earth. I mean what would be better if my best friend became my sister in law.