Without realizing that she was being followed by an unusual looking ‘cloud’ Anastasia, who sat in silence in the back of the SUV, was fidgeting nervously with her hands as she watched the city landscape passing by in a rush, changing into a more rural scenery.
She was extremely nervous, even up till the point of feeling like trowing up. All the big flames of excitement she had felt before were now reduced to a mere smoldering flame who was fighting not to die out…
She so badly wanted this but now that she finally had found the rural and the courage to do it, and also her health was stabilized enough to go out, she wasn’t sure anymore of her decision…
“Please God, don’t let this be a mistake and above all, don’t let Micah, my son find out, please i beg of you!” She prayed in a soft whisper as not to alarm her driver.
As the car drove on to its final destination up north, somewhere deep in the woods a handsome but scared man sat in a dimly lit cabin, his heart pounding with anticipation. He had been waiting for this moment for years and now finally she would be once more in his arms again!
He thought back at the time he had first laid his eyes on Anastasia….
**Flashback:**
They were both still very young then, in their prime, both coming from well a known, wealthy and powerful family.
Both attending business school and by the end of the first year they were dating each other!
The loved each other very much and loved spending time together outside the classrooms, getting to know each other more and more, deepening the love between them business that one fateful day….
The day that everything changed for the both of them….
The man sighed while staring into the dancing flames in front of him…
He swallowed and closed his eyes for a moment as he felt the pain clawing at his heart again…
After some deep breaths the pain slowly subsided and he leaned back in his chair as he took a sip of his whiskey.
The night of the graduation ball….
It was supposed to be their night but instead she was whisked away from him by….HIM….and his family!
That rat!
Just thinking about him made his blood pressure go skyrocketing again!!
“Don Santorini! I hope you rot in Hell, where you belong! and i hope your rat of a son will meet you there soon and by my hands i might at!!” He gritted out with pure hatred in his blazing orbs.
The man who had taken the one woman from him from he ever truly had loved and still loved, his beloved flower, Anastasia!
All that he had gotten in the end was a basket dropped at his front door with baby boy inside and a letter from her that stated that that was their son and that he should take care of him from now on and that he should not try to contact her in anyway because that would have grave consequences for the both of them!
He still remembers that day as well…
The moment he had lay his eyes on the little boy, he fell deeply in love with him!
He had a son! His son!!
By that time in life he already had closed his heart for love but the little creature had crawled his way into his cold bleeding heart and healed some of the pain he was still feeling.
he took the baby inside and after re-reading the letter again he had burned it and decided to bring him up away from his gold digging wife who he had married a year before and her daughter who was just 3 months old of which he was the little off.
He didn’t love them, it was just a move up onto the gilded ladder of wealth wealth she came from a rich family and he needed funds to carry out his plans.
Besides the fact that he has taken over from his father he also wanted to be a billionaire and for that he needed some more cash which he used for a business empire of which he did so successfully. The only thing he has to keep up with day in day out was to keep his carefully crafted life separate from each other!
Why?
Well not only became he a billionaire and a notorious mafia Don but he also had two separate lives to go with the two different jobs!
His stepdaughter Sheila stayed always with her mother in one of his other mansions and he had his son hidden away from them and the rest of the outside world, in the other! Afraid that one day in his life he would lose the only thing that connected him with lost true love!
As time went on, his son grew up and he trained him in secret. Only his household new about him and they all had signed a contract in which stated very clearly that if he would find out that somebody had talked about his son outside the mansion, that the would pay dearly for it and not in a pleasant way!….
They were all afraid of his ruthless ways so they had signed it.
He chuckled as he thought back of their eyes who showed fear in them! He lived it, it made him feel powerful!
He hated the pain in his heart, it had costed him a lot to overcome it, until he had had out about her sickness and he has reached out to her in deep secret. He started using an innocent doctor from the hospital she was going to, to communicate and from there on, they had started to speak with each other again after so many years of being apart, rekindling old flames and now, finally, finally after all those agonizing times he would be able to hold her again after she was finally freed from that Santorini rat!
**End of flashback**
As he heard the soft rustle of footsteps approaching, his breathing caught in his throat. The door creaked open, and there she stood, bathed in the soft glow of the moonlight streaming through the window. Anastasia’s beauty took his breath away, her dark graying hair cascading in waves down her back, her eyes sparkling with a mixture of fear and longing. “Anastasia,” he whispered, his voice barely above a whisper. “I have waited so long for this moment.” Anastasia’s eyes filled with tears as she crossed the room to stand before him. “My love!” she murmured, her voice trembling with emotion. “I never thought I would see you again.” They stood there in silence for a moment, the weight of their shared past hanging heavy in the air. But as he reached out to gently cup Anastasia’s face in his hands, all of the pain and anger melted away, leaving only the raw, unbridled passion that had always existed between them. Their lips met in a searing kiss, a kiss that spoke of years of longing and desire. He pulled her close, his hands roaming over her fragile body as if trying to memorize every curve and contour. Anastasia clung to him, her fingers tangling in his hair as she gave herself over to the overwhelming tide of emotion that threatened to consume them both. As they sank down onto the bed, their bodies entwined in a tangle of limbs and desire, he whispered words of love and devotion into her ear. And in that moment, as they became lost in each other, all of the pain and heartache of the past faded away, leaving only dreams of a future filled with love and happiness, blissfully unknown to them that their rendezvous was not in complete secret as outside the man’s cabin in the woods, hidden between the trees a woman watched with intrigue in her shiny silver looking orbs….
“Well, well, well, now that is a surprise!, i wonder what Micah would think of this?!” She mushed as she stepped backwards, disappearing into the night again.
In the weeks that followed, the man and Anastasia met in secret, stealing moments of passion and intimacy whenever they could when her health situation let her.
They knew that their love was forbidden, that their world would never understand or accept their union. But in each other’s arms, they found solace and comfort, a refuge from the storm that raged around them. And as they lay entwined in each other’s embrace, their hearts beating as one, the man knew that he would do anything to protect and cherish the woman he loved. For in Anastasia, he had found his true soulmate, his long-lost beloved, the one who had always held the key to his heart, the mother of his one ans only son!
Now maybe the time had come that together they had to find a way to make things work, to defy the odds and forge a love that would stand the test of time!