Reputation: Seen Differently (Book #1)

Pt::23 ~ "She's Alive"

"What?"

He starts typing in his computer and opens up a page showing it to me. He zooms in and there was a therapist name alongside a picture. Dr. Lilly Allen. She had blue eyes like my father's, like mine. Dark hair and high cheekbones. She had got to be in her early 40's. I pick up her files and see that she was presumed dead in 2006 at the age of 25. So she would be 41 years old right now.

"She's forty one?" I ask

"Yes, she would be."

"What happened to her? Why did we never meet her if she was alive?"

My father sighs and gets up from his chair. He walks to a window and looks out to our yard. All you could hear was the water from a fountain we have back there.

"Talk to me!" I demand

"Your grandfather disowned her years ago. She stole money from my father to give it to her boyfriend. At that time, she was dating a rival. A Salvati. Alessandro Salvati to be exact. After she stole from us, she tried killing our father. He wasn't going to tolerate that shit so he disowned her and kicked her out of our house. No one could ever speak about her again."

"That's fucked up, but not my issue." I say dropping the folder on his desk and get up from my chair.

Someone knocks on my father's office door and he tells them to come in. It's two of my dad's guys. Something people liked to do in the Mafia is give code names to men since you were never to call them by their first name. Two of my father's men walks in. Cakes and Phantom. They got these names after stupid shit they did. Cakes was a bit full when he joined the Mafia and he has a love for sweet shit for example cakes hence the nickname Cakes. Phantom is because you'll never see him coming, he's invisible to some eyes, always lurking in the dark.

"Both of them have been keeping records on Claudia. They now work for you. You can tell them to do whatever you want. But you three will determine wether this Lilly Allen is Claudia or not."

I roll my eyes knowing he won't care about wether I want to do this or not. I turn to the men and they nod to me. Not uttering a single word.

"Any updates on Claudia?" I ask the two men.

"There's pictures of her talking to um-" Cakes glances at Phantom. "Um she-"

"She what? Just fucking say it!"

"She's been talking to Andrew Parker and Cynthia Pierce!"

I sigh and run a hand through my hair. She's out for revenge then, she's alive, and wants her vengeance.

"I have to go school. I'll work on this later." I say

I walk out and grab my backpack and then walk to my car. I drive to school and get to first period as soon as the bell rings.

"You're lucky Luca!" The teacher announced.

I take a seat next to Alessia and she smiles at me. God, she's so beautiful. Her hair was curled today and she was wearing black jeans with a red shirt and a black leather jacket. She had short gold hoop earrings and a necklace with the letter F. Her face had makeup today, I'd never seen her with a lot of makeup. Black eyeliner all around her eyes and a burgundy lipstick on her lips.

"sei bellissima, amore!" I whisper in her ear.

She smiles at me and whispers a soft thank you.

"So who are you looking pretty for today?"

"For myself!" She teases

I chuckle deeply. And kiss her cheek.

She continues working on her assignment and every question she answers, I copy. She notices and moves her hand to my paper and erases the answers writing new ones.