Chapter 55
"José for fuck sake stop pacing around, if knew you'd be paranoid you should have just gone with her" Javier scolded which procured an icy stare from his brother.
"Then what? You'll have my head for dinner" he shot back making javier roll his eyes.
It's been two days since Matilda left and she hasn't sent a message nor called José and he is really worried about her.
"Something is wrong somewhere, I can feel it" he whispered and for some reasons I felt that way too.
"Don" Arturo rushed in grabbing mine and Javier's attention.
"W..what's wrong?" I quickly stood up.
"It's Matilda and Antonia" he blurted and I felt my heart race at the two names.
"What about them?"
"Lorenza escaped and she has them"
"WHAT?" Javier and i yelled out in sync.
"I thought you were with Antonia" I yelled angrily.
"Yes don but she went to the washroom and I got attacked. Once I woke up I realized she was gone and I got a message from lorenza asking me to pass the message since she couldn't contact you".
I held my head sighing in frustration. If lorenza has them it'll be really dangerous.
"Well what are you waiting for? Get everyone ready we need to find them" Javier barked.
We left deciding not to tell José before he looses his cool and bring the house down.
~Matilda~
Looking at her I couldn't believe we had the same blood running in our veins.
While we all had dark hair she is a blonde, we have gray eyes except Claudia who has a mixture of violet atleast there is a touch of gray in her eyes but Lorenza has a pair of dark blue eyes that appear so dark and evil.
We all possess mother Hispanic gene and she... Listening to every word that fell from her lips i regret comparing her to Claudia.
"So you two are my other sisters, wow i'm delighted to meet the both of you.
You know we can really bond, i do not hate you as much as i hate claudia because you two didn't the chance to spend time with our parents and you weren't favored by our grandfather that's why I don't hate you so much but in order to kill your sister I have to kill you".
I was frightened by her threats and aura but the fact I was defenseless made me more angry.
Just maybe I should have listened to Claudia, i hate to admit but she was right all along.
Antonia had a calm look on, it didn't look like she was bothered at the fact we were tied up by a dangerous criminal.
She glanced at Antonia and smiled menancingly.
"You remind me so much of Claudia, I think I'll love you the most" her voice dripped with sarcasm making antonia smirk in return.
"The pleasure will be mine" she snarkly replied which took her off guard.
"Just like Claudia" she mumbled to herself.
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The crashing sound of the ceiling made lorenza fall on the floor and I screamed at the sudden violence.
I looked up to find Claudia looking cold and dangerous in her leather outfit.
Lorenza quickly got up and smiled at her.
"Glad we meet again sister, I was just telling them how much I'll love to bond with them and..... Claudia took a step forward and she pointed the gun at me then at Antonia.
"One more step and I'll shoot them" Claudia halted her step but didn't fail to glare at her.
"C...c..claudia please save us" I cried out in fear.
Someone attacked lorenza from behind and claudia wasted no time to free us.
"Run" she commanded. "But Claudia h..... "This is not the time to be fucking stubborn Matilda" she hissed out angrily.
I let tears pour down my eyes as Antonia pulled me by my wrist.
I was hurting because she is the same person I told I hated, the same person I told did everything she did was for her selfish desire and now she has put her life on the line to save us once again.
I let my naive spirit blind me from reality.
We didn't know where we were running to.
We got farther into the forest and I decided to stop and catch my breath.
"Matilda we can't stop now, we have to get away" Antonia yelled tugging on my wrist but I just couldn't run again.
"Stop else I'll shoot" Lorenza's voice rang loudly in my ears making me scared but Antonia was not scared at all making me wonder how she pulled up so much bravery like Claudia.
Deep down i know even if tried i won't be this good.
"Lorenza" Claudia yelled loudly jumping from the floor of the building she was making me scream her name in fear that she may hurt herself.
She got on her feet and ran towards us.
"Stop" lorenza shot the gun upward.
"I'm done playing this game Aurora, it's time to put an end to all of these, you thought you could get rid of me by arresting me and getting me tortured by those men?" She laughed like a lunatic
"Why don't you just accept your fate Lorenza, you are not supposed to rule the Marchessi and that's why they rejected you, grandpa probably sensed you'll be a psycho so he saved his empire the shame.
Besides your problem is with grandpa not me, why not die a peaceful death then go ask him?"
Claudia yelled with anger laced in her voice, she sounded tired of everything as if pleading for lorenza to leave us alone.
The psycho woman smiled and pointed the gun at us.
"No Claudia, meeting grandpa will change nothing so I want to inflict the pain on you".
Claudia still had a cool look on her face.
"Yes Lorenza, your problem is with me so leave them alone".
"Exactly the point Claudia, killing them means killing you right?"
So this is what Claudia meant by do not let anyone be your weakness and that's why she was so hard on us to deceive the world into thinking that she doesn't give a fuck about us in order to protect us.
Realizing everything I felt like an idiot for saying everything I said to her.
"Prepare your speech Claudia because I'm about to release the bullet"
And true to her words she did. I closed my eyes waiting for the pain but nothing.
I opened my eyes to find Claudia falling lifelessly to the ground.
"CLAUDIA" i screamed and fell on my knees holding her in my arms.
The sound of the gun made me look to the side to find lorenza lying in the pool of her blood.
I turned slowly when i realized the person responsible for her death.
"Y..you killed her" I whispered. I could see the shock and terror in her eyes but she was quick to cover it up.
Claudia cough brought us back to reality.
"S...sorella please stay with us" I cried and she smiled faintly an expression I longed to see on her face.
She cupped my cheek with her bloody hand.
"T...take good care of yourselves and Antonia I... She coughed again.
"N..no stop talking like that you're going to make it okay?" I cried out profusely.
Antonia held her other hand as she also wept.
"I...I.. w..w..won't apologize for how I treated you two b..b..because i..i...i did it to protect you but f..f..forgive me if you can alright cause i know I hurt you.
Just know I care and love you two so much with all my heart" with those words her hand slid down my face and her eyes embraced darkness.
We screamed for hours begging her to open her eyes but nothing.
The first time I get to hear her say she loves us were her last words.