Chapter 131 Secret Chambers (2)
Alessia’s POV
Melissa retrieves the envelope and returns to the table gently placing it in front of me before returning to her seat. I stare at it for a few seconds before reaching for it with shaky fingers. I find a slightly faded photograph inside. Turning it over My mother is standing by the Lemon tree in the courtyard
\-Wearing a yellow wraparound silk dress
\-Younger her long raven hair blowing in the wind
Beside her staring into her eyes stands a tall Man with
Dark hair
Striking jaw line
And full soft lips
His eyes are focused on her hands on her waist possessively as a tease of a smile graces her mouth. I can't stop staring at them both. I slide the photo to Alex forgetting we are pretending to not be together. By the time I realise he is already staring intently at the image I can't take it back.
So instead I watch him…Alex tenses, I know he sees something .Leaning towards the table I ask “Alex what is the matter?”. He is quiet for a few seconds as he continues to stare at the photo.
“Was this photo taken here?.” He asks
“Yes, by the lemon tree” Enya replies “It was her mum's favourite spot,taken just before they left”
“Alex” I whisper urgently.
Finally he turns to me, and I notice that there is a look in his face that wasn't there before.
One of recognition he knows my father!
My heart thuds in my chest!
Will I be reconnected with one parent? Is he alive?
“Alessia I think I may know your father” he says slowly “but I need to be sure” Reaching into his pocket he brings out his phone.
“May I?” He asks me politely
I wave my hand impatiently “Yes,Alex go ahead.”
I watch him as he snaps the photo and sends it to dropping the phone by his side.
“What do you want to be certain of?”I ask impatiently. He turns to me as if to say something then shakes his head then looks at the picture again. My chest tightens as I wait for him to talk
I know he knows something, why is he hesitating? Can't he just tell me what he thinks he knows and we go on from there? Leaning back I clutch Aneglica’s hand as we wait for Alex to say something.
“Alex I -”
before I can finish his phone vibrates and he picks it up reading a message. He then lets out an audible sigh of relief.
“It's just like I thought” He says carefully like he is measuring his words “The man in the picture,
your father is Gabreal Sirrano..”
Everyone lets out a collective gasp ,shock making me monetarily speechless.
“My father is a Sirrano?”I repeat slowly
“Yes Alessia”
Orzo shifts in his seat I watch him and Enya exchanging looks as she asks “Alex, are you sure?”
“That's why I hesitated” Alex replies “I sent the image to the butler at the Sirrano household I had seen him In old family portraits at the Sirranos estates. He is Thomas's uncle.”
The room tilts
That answers the question of why my mother went there
But why did she agree to work as a Maid if her Bonded Mate was a Sirrano?
Did Thomas know?
I scrubbed a home that I was supposed to have been treated as family?
I walked the halls as a servant when I was supposed to have glided like royalty?
How long had the Molanos really been guarding La Vida de la Rosa at the Sirrano Estate? Was my mother the first Molano to guard it? Is all I was told a lie?
“How is that possible?”I whisper still shell-shocked “I am afraid it is Alessia” Alex says sitting up “Gabreal Sirrano disappeared over a decade ago. There was no funeral or anything. Just what you were told lost at sea. The timeline adds up.” I just can't wrap my head around it, my pulse is thundering in my ears
Suddenly the air in the room feels thin as my throat closes up.
I grew up by my mothers side in that house as a maid
We guarded La Rosa with our lives
Protecting the one artifact that is known to bring prosperity and well being for the Sirrano lineage not knowing I am a part of it.
And after my Mother passed away
I remained as a maid
Until the fateful night that La Rosa was stolen
If it hadn't been stolen would I have discovered just who I am? “They accused me of stealing something that is part of my inheritance.” I whisper
“Did they not know?”
The betrayal cuts deep. I look at Alex my eyes full of pain and disbelief .He looks back eyes full sorrow unable to comfort me in a room full of council members watching our every move. “They were quick to point fingers at you” Alex says his eyes flashing dark.
Things are finally making sense, because if I am Gabriel Sirrano’s daughter. I am not only a Sirrano heir but I am also the last Princess of a coven it makes me even more powerful and deadly.
“Did the Sirrano’s know?” I ask no one in particular
Enya sighs “I didn't know who your father was to begin with Alessia.”
“About you being Gabriels child?” Alex cuts in “We have no way of knowing but I don't think Thomas knew”
“Why do you think so?”
“Alessia if he had known” Alex says quietly “Would you still have been treated as a Maid?”
“Yes Alex I think so” I whisper darkly
I would not put it pass him my mother lived at the house and my father visited.
How could they not have known?
Someone must have known in their family even if Thomas didn't and kept it hidden
“Thinking about it all now your father might have been targeted first, then your mother and lastly you”
Alex adds “I just hope I can find proof to back this up”
“Who do you think orchestrated all of this?”I ask sadly
So much hate against one Small family
“I have reason to believe La Geneva planned it”Alex replies “They had motive. Since they took La Rosa they may have been planning it for years”
“And succeeded in framing the daughter” Luca adds quietly swearing under his breath
I had forgotten he was in the room
My breathing is uneven as I consider everything I have heard tonight
My mothers death is starting to look more like a murder
My fathers disappearance weakens her
And they struck her when I was grown up enough to take the blame when it vanished
Alex slides the photo back to me and I hold on to it tight
“If my father is still alive” I say slowly “then he may know the whole truth”
About La geneve and how far they went to destroy our family
“But of he isn't” Alex adds quietly “Then someone powerful made sure the truth died with him.”
I escaped out of the Sirrano household in the thick of the rainy night all thanks to Gio
They still chased me to La Margerita
Where Alex rescued me
They still continued to hunt
Now that it is all out in the open
I am Margo Molano’s daughter
I am Gabreal Sirrano’s daughter
The last princess and a damn strong witch..
I am not running again rather Its time to Hunt...