Anastasia Santorini was a woman with many secrets. Secrets that could change everything, and not in a good way. She had kept these secrets hidden for years, afraid of what would happen if they were ever revealed. Micah, who had taken over from his father, was now the reigning Don of the Santorini crime family and had no idea about the truth of his mother’s past!
Anastasia sighed deeply as she stared out over the water of their family pool in their backyard, as she thought about one word…..Love.
Once upon a time, she had been deeply in love with a man who was then officially not part of the mafia yet, or so she thought and so he was off limits! but she loved him either way even against her own father´s wishes! He was her secret lover, the one person who knew the real Anastasia, not the ruthless Don’s daughter that everyone else saw. But their love was forbidden, and they were forced to keep their relationship hidden from the world. But everything had changed after that fateful night, that she hated and despised with all her might! She knows she had hurt him deeply but what could she have done? her father was so more powerful and had friends in high places. The Bratva was NOT to be messed with! And above all that she truly believed that he wanted to stay out of his families business until she found out that his father had plans for him to take over and after her parents gotten wind of it, things quickly went out of hand as they had given already her hand in marriage to another mafia family, also an Italian famiglia but with this guys father her father had become buddies so to speak and they had already made arrangement while she was away at school, not knowing about her father´s devious plans who involved a boy who also went to the same busyness school it turned out!
The night of the ball she was about to tell him about her pregnancy when they got interrupted by her father´s men and was taken away into a waiting car where she saw her betrothed already waiting for her, a boy named Santorini, the future Don!
She had cried herself to sleep that night, missing her beloved, knowing that she would probably never see him again after the conversation she had with both of her parents, not even after pleading and begging! But that was still not the worst, That came two months later when she did a test after feeling sick for some time and the test came back positive. She was with child and unfortunate for her she could not keep a secret much longer because of her morning sickness that had started to play a more frequent role in her life.
The only solution that her parents brought was either get rid of the bastards child, as they had called it or, closed adoption.
Not wanting to kill her own child she had chosen other way out but the her OBG doctor came with a surprise……
She had twins! two boys so now she had to make a decision….
So she had made a plan, a plan to mislead her parents but at the same time it also meant misleading her lover, the father of her babies. But what could she do? She did not want to lose both pf them, she could not so she did what she had to, to ensure that either one of them, ended up with a son…..
She gave one to the father with, a note and the other she kept and after having sex with her fiance and bribing her doctor, she managed to convince his and her own family that the other twin was from her fiance and not from her former lover.
But after some years had passed, word came out that a new Don had risen from the ashes! After he Anastasia’s lover had disappeared without a trace for sometime he had returned a changed man while she was left heartbroken and alone in a forced, loveless marriage of convenience. She never told anyone the real truth not even her son. She was afraid of what he would think, of how he would react if he ever found out the truth.
But now, things were getting more complicated. Besides the fact that her dead husband had instilled in her son to fear his biological father and told him that one day he would be dead, now that mysterious woman named Snow had come into their lives, and Anastasia couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something off about her. She didn’t trust Snow, didn’t want her around Micah or the rest of the family. Of course she pretended to be very happy with Snow around the house, trying to make friends with her…..at least that was what it looked like to the others, but on the inside of her mind she did not like her one bit!
And now as she was seeing he long lost lover again in secret, the more the days passed, she struggled to keep her secrets buried deep within her. She knew that if they were ever revealed, it could mean the end of everything she had worked so hard to build. But the weight of her past was becoming too much to bear, and she feared that one day, it would all come crashing down around her.
And then Sheila……
Sheila of who she thought could steel her son´s heart! what a mess that turned out to be, she tough as she filled another glass with a cold drink, still deep in thought.
She did not know the girl was already pregnant it complicated things but all hop was not lost since she had witnessed a sort of bond forming between her son and her over the past weeks….
If only she could get rid of that weird Snow woman……