Bride Of Hades

Aurora was a 99.99% match with him and his mother, which meant she was the baby sister they had been looking for all these years.

He was emotional and couldn't stop the tears from flowing, who knew that out of a disaster, something beautiful would happen. Their most formidable enemy, the Santoris family, held their treasure in their hands. But he was glad that Dimitri cherished her more than anything else in his life. It gave him comfort that at least she was happy where she was right now. 

He waited anxiously for Dimitri and Aurora to arrive at their meeting place.  He was paced back and forth, impatient for them to get there already so he could hold his sister in his arms. There was so much he wanted to tell her, and there was so much love he wanted to shower on her. He does not know what kind of life she's lived all these years, and they were going to make sure to compensate her for those trying times.

Living without a family must have been hard for her, but now that she had Dimitri, he was happy that she found a man who loved her dearly.

As soon as Aurora peeked in the door, he tried to attend to her every need. He directed her towards the softest sofa in the room and instructed the waiter to bring them water and whatever she wanted to drink. He got a couple of angry glares from Dimitri, but he did not care. His sister was right in front of him, and he failed to protect her once before, he will never fail again.

"Did you get the test results?" Aurora asked in anticipation. That's all she could think of the last few days. She had been operating on autopilot the whole time she waited for the results.

"Yes, I did. Take a look at this," Nicholas handed her a Manila envelope that contained the report. 

Aurora's hands were shaking, and tears were flowing down her face by the time she read the report. Her eyes started to blur after she read the 99.99% match with Nicholas Russo and his mother. 

"Your mother…. you...," she started.

"Yes Aurora, you are my sister, you are a Russo," he said as she sat beside her, he wanted to hug her, but Dimitri blocked him from doing so. 

"You don't know how happy I am to have finally found you. It's been 25 years, and our parents are going to be happy once they hear about this news," Nicholas added.

"How?... Why?...," she asked, confused. She knew she belonged to a family, but she never expected it to be the Russo family. 

Dimitri did not realize that the Russo family had a daughter all these years. All he knew was that they had one son and went into hiding after they were attacked, and had only come out in society recently. He had been six when the attack happened, so he did not pay attention to the news about them.

"Let me tell you everything," Nicholas said.

"As you know, the Russo family was one of the most powerful mafia families 25 years ago. We were ahead of everyone else, and as our popularity increased, so did our enemies. Everybody wanted to bring us down, but they could never find a way to do it.

My father... I mean, our father was very cautious about our security, we never left the house without a slew of them following us around, so nobody can really come near us.

But then, after 10 years, they learned that mom was pregnant again, this time with you, so dad was very happy. They had given up the hope of having more children, but it seemed that you were persistent. Mom was constantly sick, not only the morning sickness but her constitution was not like how it used to be when she was younger, so both of you were constantly under observation at the hospital.

Around this time, dad decided he was going to personally be there to take care of mom because he did not want to lose her. He started delegating his work to his trusted subordinates. He still attended the meetings, but only the most important ones.

He trusted his men so much that it was a blow to him when he learned that his enemies planted moles in the organization. Buying off several of our own men and security detail to work for them. But it was too late by the time he realized that the traitors had infiltrated us. 

A few weeks after your arrival, Dad held a party to show you off to everybody. He was so happy that we were finally given a princess we could cherish. 

After a few days, assassins came to our compound and attacked all our security, they were let in by the same traitors they had hired. I was ten at that time and did not really understand the gravity of the situation, so I did not know what to do. 

Dad got injured fighting the men off when they tried to take me. After that, we ran to the nursery where you and mom were resting, but mom had been very weak, she was not able to do anything when one of them took you and jumped outside the window. She passed out before she could tell us what happened.

He took me and mom to the underground bunker and hid us there. When he came out to find you, you were gone. Nobody could tell him who took you or which way you went.

When mom gained consciousness, she was hysterical, crying and screaming for everybody to find her daughter. She blamed Dad for failing to protect you, and up until this day, he's been living with that guilt on his shoulders. Mom just kept getting sicker and sicker, she didn't want to eat, and she just kept crying for you, so we had to sedate her to get the nutrients into her and let her rest.

So for her sake and ours, we all went into hiding because Dad knew that his enemies would stop at nothing to wipe out our family. As long as we were alive, they would keep on hunting us down.

Mom had never recovered and is still in a semi-coma these days, crying for you. 

But you see even in hiding, Dad sent out a few of his trusted men to find you, we checked everywhere, and we always hit a wall.

It took us 25 years before we deemed it was safe to come back. I took over the business, and so here we are, growing back our empire, annihilating everybody that would try to get in our path," Nicholas explained.