La Principessa della Mafia

Chapter 6: Opening Up

Right now everyone is sitting down waiting for me to talk. I got this. I walked over to where Dane was and sat next to him. He always helps me when I'm nervous or scared. He pulled me into his lap and I relaxed a bit. All the guys were glaring at him except my friends and papa.

"I met Mateo through Daxton. When Daxton and I first met I was 10. I was in high school in my senior year. Yes. High school. I was running from a group of kids but they caught me and drug me to an alleyway. They beat me and beat me until I was badly injured. Daxton found me and took me to Mateo. That was the beginning of a beautiful and bloody friendship.

Now. I'm going to start from the beginning. After the divorce between you and Alexis she left as you know. She kept me up until I was about 3. But when she had me I was physically and verbally abused. After I guess she was tired she took me to the orphanage steps and left me there. I was soon given to a pretty nice foster family that was already fostering a boy, Milo. Milo was two years older than me. Milo and I became really close. We were two peas in a pod. I stayed with that family for 3 years until I was six and Milo was 8.  They died in a car crash and Milo and I were put back into the system. Luckily we were always fostered together. During the next four years we went through 13 foster homes. We were abused in all of those. He would take my hits and I would take his. We both went through our high school classes early and stuck together. When I was 10, after Daxton saved me he took me back to the foster family we were with. Milo was looking for me and was coming home when we pulled up. After explaining to him what had happened, he told Daxton our situation much to my dismay. He became the father figure and family that we always wanted. He told us about the mafia and began to train us. When we were 12 we were kidnapped. While there I met Dane, Emily, Oscar, Jake, and Aisha. We were there for a year. During that time we were tortured and I was raped."

I wanted to cry but I had to stay strong. Everyone else was silently crying. Dane held onto me tighter and that gave me the courage to continue.

"After that year of planning we finally escaped. Daxton took us all in and we all were nursed back to health. After we were all healed we went back to the foster care system. We didn't want people to figure out our aliases so we tried to stay close together but apart. What I say next no one is to know about it, got it?"

The boys and Leonardo shook their heads yes. So much for verbal answers. 😒

"I'm a street fighter, street racer, hacker and assassin also known as Black Goddess. I know 28 languages and have an IQ of 199. I already graduated from college with 4 degrees and I'm the owner of ARM & Co. I'm also the heir to the French Mafia."

Once I finished my last bit they sat there shocked. I mean I would be too. A lot has happened in my 16 years of life.

"Also. Rafael and Allessandro I know it was you who tried to look into me. One of the pros to being a hacker. I'm not mad. But next time you disrespect my privacy, you'll regret it."

After everyone recovered from their shock and finished glaring at Allessandro and Rafael they looked back at me.

"Go ahead. I know you have questions. But please ask one at a time."

"What happened to Milo?" Franco asked.

My friends and I stiffened. I felt like crying but crying is for the weak.

"He died. He died because of a stupid mistake I made."

"No he didn't," Emily and Aisha said at the same time.

I rolled my eyes and looked at the others ready for the rest of their questions.

"If you knew who we were, why didn't you come back?" Nicolo asked.