The Emotionless Bride

Chapter 13

Ruslan Valetin

Lucio just about made it through the meeting, I thought he was going to end up having a heart attack especially when I said about his family, Sophia and Caterina. I got a guard to pull them into the room so I could kick them out of my house. This pissed them off, as they thought I was calling them in to speak with them, but they left when a few guards surrounded them to kick them out. I did enjoy it and Stepan wouldn’t stop smiling when I done it.

Letting Lucio know I was still marrying Elisabetta he was not pleased with that bit of news, but I couldn’t care less, instead I wanted his story with Caterina and Elisabetta’s mum and why he hated his daughter Elisabetta. I had to see if he knew the rumour I had heard.

He confirmed what my cousin Maxim told me, Elisabetta doesn’t know about it, and he begged me to not tell her. It solved the puzzle on why Elisabetta was hated by this family and sent away when she was only a year old. I felt better getting the confirmation, but it made me very angry. I let Lucio that the wedding was in 5 days and if he wants to turn up, he can, but I couldn’t care if he didn’t. I warned him also if that Sophia and Caterina turned up and caused a scene he would lose his whole family.

Nodding and agreeing to what I told him he practically ran out of the room when I dismissed him. That is when Stepan couldn’t hold in the laugh anymore. I was sure he was going to drop to the floor. It felt good to wipe the smug smile off all their faces and a little entertainment kicking out the harlots. But the anger was stirring in my stomach. Reading what my Elisabetta had been through and then that smug bastard walking in here with the harlots who I didn’t invite. I’ll have to get Matilda to disinfect every part of the house.

Stepan left the room with I am sure a skip in his step. Shaking my head I looked to the cameras again and see Elisabetta starting to make food. This time I did go through my emails and when I looked at the camera again, I see Lev and Sergey sat in the living room.

This piqued my interest, why the f**k are they in her place. Turning up the audio and texting Lev asking why he was in my wife to be place. The message came back when Elisabetta was in the kitchen.

‘She invited us in and offered us food. She wants help with what a wedding is.’

I re-read that message again, how can you not know what a wedding is? This brought me back to the reports. I went over the progress reports when one caught my eye. Elisabetta was young 5 years old when a new girl came in, the punishment she got that night for inviting the girl into her room was brutal. Attached were pictures. McCarthy was lucky he was dead, or I would have been on the first plane to kill him, her knuckle bones was on show. I know he was the best assassin, but how could you do that to your own family. He really did kill her inside to be a killing machine.

I got in touch with the wedding co-ordinator to send me some pictures of a dress that can hold a gun and let the person move if they needed to fight. I know it confused her, but paying a good amount of money no questions was asked. It didn’t take long for ideas to come through. Some was trouser suits and some skirt suits that was flowy skirts. A few flowy dresses.

One that caught my eye was a tea-length lace dress. It had short sleeves and covered her chest area, the dress came to just under the knees. Reading the details on this dress I see it had deep pockets that you wouldn’t know they was there.

Letting her know that is the one she must order ready for 3 days time and if the people want more money to get it here in 3 days, then pay more. I had kept the audio up on the camera and listened to some of the conversation in-between the calls I had to do.

I just caught Elisabetta seeming lost in thought and see she was stroking her knuckles. I needed a camera in the living room so I could get a close up instead of looking through the kitchen to the living room.

I asked Matilda to come into the room with me, I showed her Elisabetta on the camera so she will know who she is when she moves in and asked if she would be able to get a few things for her as she will soon be staying here. I know women like chocolate and stuff so if she could get a few snacks and things for her.

I planned on getting everything ready as tomorrow I will be moving my Elisabetta in the house. I will give her, her own room for the time being to let her settle here. On her reports she has always lived alone, so this will be a new thing for her having people living in the home, having people around most of the time. We will do baby steps.

I am still happy to marry her, I know everyone will ask why not marry someone who has been trained to be a housewife, it would be easier, but I don’t want someone like that, I will be bored. It started to bore me sleeping with the same person, so I went to sleep and throw out, sounds horrible, but I knew they was all gold diggers and deserved it. With Elisabetta she intrigued me, she saved my life and is different to other women. She dresses how she wants, she is not scared to kill, she couldn’t care who I was and doesn’t care about my money, she just wants to get paid for doing a job. I would never have to worry about her as she can look after herself. Also, she was the most beautiful woman I had ever laid eyes on.

I felt for Elisabetta, Lucio admitted to me that he found Elisabetta’s mum Saoirse and arranged to get married to her, she didn’t want to marry him as she had fallen in love with someone else, but as she was the wild child she was forced into the marriage. Lucio couldn’t touch her as she wouldn’t let him and she knew how to fight, so one night Lucio went to the bar and ended up meeting

Caterina, they started an affair for a year. When Saoirse came around, Lucio cut off the affair. Saoirse soon got pregnant with Elisabetta and took a few years for her to get pregnant, yet Caterina got pregnant very quickly.

Somethings Lucio said to me that just didn’t sit right with Caterina and Sophia. It just seemed strange with how she had an affair for a year with him, he used protection and Sophias birthday. Surely, they would have known Caterina was pregnant and she would have been showing by the time he cut the affair off.

I got Elisabetta room set up first, as she is my most important priority, then I will do some more digging into the family tree. Caterina and Sophia have never sat right with me, now they are not sitting right with me even more. Sophia looked like Caterina, you could see she was her daughter, but she would look more like her dad, yet her and Lucio share no resemblance.

As soon as Elisabetta is married to me I will make sure she cuts all ties to the Gatti family. They do not deserve her to flaunt s**t at her, and they all hate her, I just wonder why they keep calling her round to their home. There is more going on and I will make sure I dig deep and get to the core of the rot. Soon Elisabetta I will give you all the truth.