The Don's slave

Ava’s POV “Ava!!” My mother called from inside the house, I was outside playing in the rain with a rabbit I found. I didn’t want to answer because I knew she was going to scold me for staying outside when it was raining since I always caught cold easily “Ava Lorraine Martinez!” She shouted. She was probably coming outside now. My mother calling my full name meant I was in trouble and this time I knew why. In a minute the door burst open revealing my mother, Gina Martinez ,as she glared at me “I have been calling you for ages yet you’re out here playing in the rain, what on earth are you doing here Ava, do you have any extra money for medicine when you catch a cold, no you don’t so please leave the rain and the rabbit alone, it’s owners must be looking for it” As if that wasn’t enough, immediately I got inside, I started sneezing, my mother looked at me frowning, “you know Ava, you’re already an adult, you just turned 18 last week, why do you still behave like a child that I have to chase all over the place” “I’m sorry Mom” I said softly scared to look into her eyes My Mom loves me a lot, and I understand that she gets scared because I have pneumonia but I won’t die, she’s all I have, I just wanted to have some fun in the rain for once since I have been inside all day. She treats me like a frail little girl who would die if a fly touches her, and sincerely, I haven’t proven myself to be anything but that . “You need to go and pack your bags we are moving to Italy tomorrow “ my mom said heading to her room “Mom!!! I don’t want to move, I love it here , I don’t know anybody in Italy. Why do you want us to go there so bad? "I asked as my blue eyes were filed with tears “Ava, we have spoken about this, we know people there, our family is there , we have been in here for far too long” Gina tried to explain to her daughter who didn’t want to understand “Which family Mom? We have been here all by ourselves, I haven’t heard about any family not even a single person, so which family are you talking about ? You have been bent on us moving when I turn 18, why? What’s actually going on? “I was angry because I’m always in the dark when it came to mother. “Just do this for me princess, you will love it there, I promise, it’s way more better than this place and our lives will be better” Gina said “You never tell me anything, never!! Every time I ask you always change the subject. I’m 18 and I still haven’t figured anything out, but like you always say, I will find out very soon” I said shivering as I went to my room to park my bags I still don’t see any reason why we need to move, but since Mom believes its better, I really hoped so too because as much as I love where we stayed, we didn’t live so well. The next day all our bags were packed and we were ready to go, after getting to the train station we headed to our destination “The air sure smells different” I said getting off the train and heading to find a cab. It doesn’t look bad I thought as we stood at the entrance of the train station “Ava, I need you to listen to me, whatever you do, don’t leave my side, my mom said scanning the environment” this made me curious if this place was as wonderful as mom claimed, why had she been looking around since they got here, I couldn’t shake off the feelings that something was terribly wrong. As they got to the cab mom kept showing me some buildings and telling me some of the common things here I could hear the excitement from her and I felt content, I always felt like my mother was always anxious, but I could feel her peace as her eyes moved around. Spending the day going to different places, it was evening and they still hadn’t found a place to stay, finding an inn, they stayed there for the night. The next day, I noticed that my Mom was trying to call someone, but it seemed the person wasn’t reachable. “Ava, I’m going out for a while, I will be back soon” Mom said then left. What’s the mystery lady up to now, I thought as I watched my mother leave I sat there thinking of how my life was going to be now, I need to get a job at least as the money we had wasn’t going to be enough for both of us if we stayed another night in this inn. It was getting late when Mom came back, her eyes were swollen and she didn’t say anything to me, she just gave me the food she brought and went to bed. That was weird, I thought Looking at her mother’s sleeping figure, sympathy filled my eyes as I knew my mother had always been too hard on herself, so I really hoped whatever she meant by a better life here was true. The next day, I asked, “Mom, are you okay? You don’t look so good, should we go back home? That’s better right?” Gina smiled at her daughter’s antics, “ I’m fine princess” just a bit tired. We had to leave the inn that day as we wouldn’t have any money if we stayed another night, moving around a little street, we saw some men with tattoos, Mom was the first to realize that the men were following them, then I noticed too “Ava, run!! “ Mom said grabbing my hand as we were chased by the men. Running for a while till we had eventually lost the robbers, Mom and I rested under a tree “Mom I’m tired, where are we going to stay tonight? Who did you go to meet? Why can’t we just go to the family you said? And I’m hungry” I complained “Calm down dear, we will meet them soon, I see a food truck across the street sit here while I go get us something to eat” Mom replied “Okay” Leaving to the food truck, Mom got some burritos and showed me from across the street which made me smile, as she was coming back neither she nor I checked the road. “Mom!!!!!! “ And in a flash, everything moved slowly, Gina was hit by a moving car and her body flown away. My heart dropped, tears began to pour down leaving a salty taste on my lips as I stood motionless “Mom? Mom? Where are you? Mom!!! What just happened, where’s my mom, Mom!!!” I shouted as I fell to the ground, I never thought something like this could happen, standing up to go find her body, everything became blurry and I passed out Waking up to the feeling of rain on my skin, I realized it was already night time, picking myself up and wandering on the dark street of Italy, “I need to find Mom, she may be alive, but how will I find her” I said to myself as various thoughts went through my mind the heavy rain pouring on my skin didn’t faze me as my eyes were filed with tears, I cried liked I have never cried before. So I’m all alone, Mom’s actually gone, I said, as I thought of everything that happened, her mother who always told her everything will be fine was gone, hit by a car right before her own eyes, i cried and the rain poured harder like it felt my pain After sitting in the dark alley and crying for hours, I started thinking of how to leave Italy and go back home “This place is filled with misfortunes, from being chased by robbers till Mom’s death, we could have just stayed at home, we didn’t need anyone, just me and you Mom, we would have been okay, why did we have to leave so bad?” I said as I cried harder, the rain fell harder as if it felt my pain leaving me wet as I shivered. Looking for shelter for the night, I saw a little cabin that was lit up inside, “Thank God” I said Entering the cabin, everything looked normal and I even saw some bread on the table, which I hurriedly took as I hadn’t eaten for a while As I was eating the bread, 3 huge men with a skull tattoo on their hands came out and fear instantly filed me as my heart began pounding again, not again I said “what kind of place is this?” She started running to where she didn’t now, as the rain kept falling and the night got darker, “Help!! Someone please help me!” I shouted, her breathing was ragged as she was out of breath Before I could scream again, everything went blank