💜SEINNA💜
♠️ CHAPTER ONE
"Seinna has to die after the wedding, I don't care how you go about it Galvino, but she has to die" I heard my sister's cold voice, which had me stopping on my tracks Immediately. Never in my life have I felt the intensity of pain that ripped through my heart, leaving me completely speechless.
What did she mean by I had to die?
"My love, you need to be patient. Tommorow is the wedding, a week into the wedding and I promise you we would have her right where we've always wanted..." Galvino trailed off. His use of endernment had me rooted on the spot. How do I even explain the fact that my fiance had such plans in mind?
I thought he loved me? I opened and closed my mouth as my hand went over to my chest, I tried to help myself. My legs felt weak and my eyes stung with unshed tears.
"I can't stand her talking to you Vino,I'm pregnant! and aside from that, I just can't sit back, and watch my half sister take the things that belong to me! You promised to handle things your way. Don't tell me you're going back on your words!" Victoria spat angrily as her eyes bore into his. Anger evident in her voice.
My grip on the decorated stands, tightened as I tried to breathe. I couldn't speak at that moment, the intensity of their words hitting me on the spot.
Vino turned at that instant, and just eyes met mine. Shock wore on his face as he rubbed his forehead. " Seinna" he called and Victoria turned in our direction. Unlike Vino, she didn't looked shocked.
" It's good to see you here Seinna, we can at least get things over with, because I'm done with faking to love someone I feel absolutely nothing for!" she raised her voice an higher Octave.
I was still on the dress from my bachelorette party. Our Friends and Family members were still on the other side of the yatch, and here they were.
" How could you do this to me Galvino, I thought you loved me? You made promises! I thought we were going to be together forever. Tommorow is our wedding day! and here you are with my sister!" I asked as my voice broke at the edge. I was trying to put my emotions together, but how do you do that when it literally feels like someone put a knife in your chest.
" Seinna calm down! I know this sounds so cruel right now, but Victoria and I have been together since college. It's complicated but you were going to be the heiress, we had to do something about it..." he trailed off.
" You had to continue having s*x with Victoria? You had to plan my death with my sister. And here I thought I was getting married to the love of my life tommorow! here I thought I was finally going to be happy" I raised my voice as I cried like my life depended on it.
The more I tried to put myself together, the more pain coursed through me, I was literally shaking in anger, and crying uncontrollably.
" It's embarrassing that you would cry in such manner because of a man Seinna! Ain't you royalty anymore?" Victoria mocked.
" Victoria, I thought we were sisters. I thought we promised to stand by each other no matter what? Why would you even let jealousy do this to the beautiful relationship we have groomed for years..." I trailed off as beads of sweat rolled down from my head.
" I never loved you Seinna, niether did Galvino! I'm pretty sure dad also had his own motives. But in the end, we all want the same thing. We want you dead and gone. I don't know how to explain it, but as long as you are alive, we would stop at nothing!" she spat with so much hate. Gone was the Victoria who loved me, the Victoria who made promised to stay with me. The Victoria who was supposed to be my chief brides maid at the wedding ceremony tommorow morning. This Victoria was someone I could barely recognize.
" It's shocking how people can go from being sweet, to being devils" I mocked. She took hurried footsteps towards me and hit me accross the face. I staggered backwards and tried to hold Galvino, but then I was almost at the edge of the ship.
" Victoria...don't do this please" I said desperately as I tried to get a hold of just anything, anything that would keep me from falling into the water.
"Oh really? For years I watched dad love your mother even after her death. You were the favoured one. Even the lowest ranked maids love you, but no one spares a second glance at me!" she spat with so much hate. Her eyes burning with anger.
" Babe..." he called as tried to go close to her, I felt a sharp pain in my hand, that's when I realized Victoria sent a pocket knife in my hands.
" f**k! Victoria!" Galvino screamed and I lost balance, my hands held on to the part I could hold. If I let go, I would go down into the water and the most frightening thing about this was the fact that I couldn't swim.
" Help! Somebody please help me! " I cried out as beads of sweat ran down my forehead. Tears rolled out of my eyes, and my heart thundered against my chest. No one could hear my painful cries because the music was still on, and the guests where partying.
Victoria stared at me mockingly, while Galvino watched like the scene was not happening in front of him. It felt like he was not the man who proposed to me after two years of seeing each other.
" Victoria...I'm begging you, I ..." I cried out as realization hit me, I was going to die and there was nothing anyone could do about it.
" I have always thought of what it would look like to watch you die, and this is what it is. I am loving every single minute of it Seinna! I hope you remember this as you burn in hell" she spat angrily and stepped on my hands.
" please....! " I cried out as I lost my grip and fell into the waters. I couldn't breathe. My body met the cold water.
This was it, I struggled for a while and finally gave up struggling when my strength failed me. This was the end of it all, I was dieing and no one was coming to save me!
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My head was pounding crazily against my chest the minute I opened my eyes. I could swear, I was supposed to be dead. But the bright light in the room made me realize I was in a place I could not recognize.
My chest felt tight and heavy, like I had been holding my breath for too long. I tried to move, But pain shot through my body.
I tried to sit up but pain shot through my arm, making me realize I had a bandage strap on my hand.
" You're alive, thank God! I was beginning to think you will die on me and I might just end up making the tabloids for the wrong reasons, but, you're still breathing; I heard a manly voice. It sounded like nothing I had ever heard.
It sounded silky, smooth and calm. He looked as calm as his voice. " Who are you? what is this place..." I tried to raise my voice but it felt dry, I needed water! it hurt as I tried to scream.
"Help me!!!
"You're screaming in vain. We are the only ones out here in the woods. I will really appreciate it if you get a grip over yourself, Chica." he said as he leaned on the door.
"I don't even know you, did you come from?" I asked, the fear evident in my voice. After everything I had passed through, I found it hard to just trust this man. My eyes wondered through the tatoos peaking from his arms.
"Why are women so complicated?" he asked, and I swear to God, I just heard this man curse under his breath.
I tried to get up and winced in pain. Making his eyes soften in direction.
"You should consider sitting at the same spot for sometime. I had someone over to check up on you, and he has left. If you start bleeding all over again, I wouldn't know how to help" he said, and I stared at him. This time, I let my eyes wonder from his curly hair, to his blue hazel eyes. his pointed nose, and the shade of his lips, they looked enticing and soft. For a moment I couldn't help but wonder how they would feel against mine.
Shaking my head to get rid of the crazy thoughts, I looked away then back at him.
" My name is Aldo De Luca. I found you late at night, you could have died if my boat didn't come across your almost lifeless body..." he trailed off as his eyes watched my face keenly. I was very certain he was trying to read my emotions.
" Italian" I muttered under my breath as I stared at him with mixed reactions. His words brought back those words, it brought back the pain I felt when my sister stabbed and left me to die. The pain when Galvino told me to my face that he wanted nothing to do with me.
"What time is it?" I asked while changing the topic.
"It's almost 2pm" he said and I rubbed my forehead.
" Can you at least tell me what happened?" he asked curiously, and the look from me had him staring at the opposite direction.
"I am Seinna Marino" I revealed, and his eyes burned into me.
"Seinna Marino? Wait, f**k! " he cursed under his breath as he typed away on his phone then turned the phone in my direction.
"What!" I spat under my breath as my eyes met what was written on the headlights. "BILLIONAIRE HEIRESS SEINNA MARINO COMMITS SUICIDE"
" This is not true, I would never try to end my own life" I cursed under my breath as tears rolled out of my eyes. I was trying to act like I was fine, but I wasn't. Infact, I was far from being fine.
The news was everywhere that I dropped a letter, something about me being tired of life and the pressure that came with being an heiress, so I jumped off the Yatch and ended my life. I was loosing it completely at the moment.
"That's a lie, you know what Mr Luca! I need to go back" I muttered under my breath as tears rolled out of my eyes.
"What!" he spat under his breath as he tried to wrap his head around what I just said.
"You can't go back Seinna" he said as I removed the drip from my hand, and staggered a bit when I got down from the bed.
"Are you trying to get yourself killed Seinna?" he asked in disbelief.
"They told the whole world that I tried to end my life, when in reality they stabbed me and pushed me off the Yatch, leaving me to die!" My voice broke at the edge as the words left my mouth.
"You have to sit down so we can talk, if possible, we have to come up with a lucrative plan to get you out of this. You can't get up, and run right back to the people that attempted to kill you" he advised calmly.
" So what should I do? sit down and do nothing? Galvino was my fiance, we were together for two years. All these while I was just a pun in their well sought out plan. Let's not get started on Victoria! she was supposed to have my back all these while....it turns out my own sister wants me dead" I cried out as each word left my mouth.
I broke down in front of him. "I'm exhausted, at this point I don't know how to feel about all of this, now the whole world thinks I'm dead and gone. The both of them are happy because they think they succeeded in Killing me" I cried out and an uncomfortable silence filled the room as he watched me cry like my life depended on it. I was done trying to be strong.
" I need to do something, I can't just sit back and do nothing when they already succeeded in ruining me" I said desperately as my eyes met his.
" What do you intend to do ..." he trailed off curiously.
"Marry me!" I said almost immediately and he stared at me like I have completely lost it.