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Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Valentinas POV

I woke up around 9am. I decided I should go ahead and take a shower because Officer Madden is going to come pick me up at 10:30am, to take me to the airport. I finish at around 10 so I start packing up the things I used last night. Then I sat and read my book until Officer Madden got here.

Timeskip (Arriving at the airport at 11:00am)

Once we arrived they told me that the jet was already here. Officer Madden told me I didn't have to go through security because I'm going on a private jet. When I got to the jet a man came and opened the door for me.

"Hello ma'am my name is Riccardo I will be flying with you today on behalf of your father."

"Hello" I didn't know what else to say. This is awkward. On one hand I'm mad that my 'father' didn't come to pick me up. On the other hand I'm glad because then it would've been much more awkward than this.

I went to get my luggage from the back of the car when Riccardo stopped me and told me he would get them. This felt weird, I always did things for myself. The only thing he let me carry was the backpack on my back.

I walked into the jet and I was speechless. It was stunning and beautiful. I took a seat in one of the stand alone seats. After around 20 minutes the plane captain started doing the routine things a captain does.
(I really don't feel like reliving this plane experience because I just traveled like a month ago and I went on 6 different planes)

(Not my photo, all photos used here are from Pinterest)

Once we took off and were in the air for a while a flight attendant came and asked me if I wanted anything. I asked her if there was any breakfast because I didn't have any yet.

A couple minutes later she brought me a fruit crepe and a raspberry vanilla parfait. She asked me what drink I wanted with it. I told her water would be fine.

After I was done eating I decided to look around the plane. I went into a part of the plane where there was a T.V. As I was looking Riccardo came in.

"Do you want to watch something?"

"Sure, what else can I do on this long plane ride."

He turns on Netflix as he passes me the remote. I put on NCIS because it's the only show I have ever seen and liked other than Criminal Minds.

"Wait, can I ask you something?" I said to Riccardo as he was about to leave.

"Yeah, what is it you want to know Miss.Moretti?" He says as comes back to me. Miss.Morreti? Really my mom hasn't been dead for 48 hours and they already changed my last name.

"Well first don't call me that. It's either Valentina or Miss.Romano.Secondly I wanted to know more about my biological family. I was wondering if you knew anything about them?"

"My apologies Miss.Romano but sure I can tell you about them. Your family have been looking for you since your mom took you away. After a couple of years everybody became a little distant. Your older brothers Luciano and Vincenzo took over your fathers business after he retired a couple years ago. Luciano is in charge and Vincenzo is his second hand. Alessandro and Allesio also help them out when they need the help. Giovanni and Lorenzo are more carefree, they are the ones who don't really remember you that much. After your mom took you Vincenzo took care of your brothers the most, your dad only started helping out after he retired. Lastly, that brings me to your father. When you were gone he became a workaholic and barely saw his sons. Retiring gave him that chance. They are all much better now."

"Do they hate my mother?"

"Honestly?"

"Yeah that would be nice."

"Then yeah they hate her. Your brothers call her by her first ever since she took you."

"Okay thank you."

"Yeah no problem." I watched as he left and I just sat there thinking. From what I know so far mom took me away for a good reason. She told me that their business is dangerous and when I searched them up it told me that they might be the mafia.

She was a good mom. Whenever I asked her about my dad she told me that she left him because he died in a car accident. She never badmouthed him. She cared about the way I thought of him.

I decided that it was enough thinking about them for now and went back to watching NCIS. I watched about 10 episodes before I felt tired. There was around 4 hours left so I went to the room in the back to take a nap.

I woke up when I heard Riccardo telling me to wake up because we are about to land and I have to sit in a seat and put my seatbelt on. I got up and went to my seat preparing for landing.

Once we landed Riccardo helped get my luggage and put them in the car that was waiting for us when we got there. I got into the backseat because there was a driver and Riccardo also had to come.

"How long is the car ride?" I asked no one in particular.

"About 2 ½ hours." answered Riccardo.

For the first ½ hour I was admiring the view of Italy. Wait. I don't know where we are in Italy.

"Hey Riccardo, where are we in Italy? Nobody told me where they live, they only told me that they live in Italy."

"Oh we're in Venice." Oh okay.

"Thank you."

I was still tired from the plane ride so I took a nap.

When I woke up all I saw were trees. Riccardo told me that we would arrive in about 20 minutes. Those 20 minutes went by fast and next thing I knew is that we were parking in front of this HUGE mansion.

I got out of the car and put my backpack on, then went to the trunk and grabbed my smaller luggage while Riccardo got the bigger one. We made our way to the front of the mansion and rang the doorbell.

Well here goes nothing.