Infatuation Of Darkness

Everyone was silent when Angelo spoke. For a moment Alexis thought that all of them had even held their breath.

His voice was strong, firm and powerful.

"But I was not at fault my child," Julia spoke with tears in her eyes. Perhaps given the situation and the outcome it was going to bring, they were real. "I do not even know what I did."

No one spoke up at that. Isabelle scoffed and turned away. Gabrielle did not give this matter his attention and the other extended family was quiet. Matteo had not spoken a word and Juliette stood beside him silently.

Helena stood tall and proud and her husband could be seen controlling his anger.

"Wha-ah.." his grandfather released a breath. "I understand that this young generation seems to have an idea about going hand in hand and dividing their power and whatsoever that bullshit is." He waved his hand off tiredly as if he would do anything but not have this conversation. "But Angelo, you must know that you are the one who holds the final say."

Angelo nodded half-heartedly in return. He wasn't even listening to the men in the first place. "And I have said it."

"But that's the point." Marcus spoke up, "This is not what you're saying, this is what is she is saying. There is a difference."

Gabrielle scoffed. "I guess this is just like how you told us all that Matteo was your son whereas he is the product of you and your mistress."

All eyes went to Matteo and it was obvious that he was uncomfortable with the attention given.

"And that bothers you how?" His elder brother replied. "If anything, my son should be the least of your concerns."

"Should he?" Isabelle spoke up visibly angered by the fact. "because I remember when I was about to give birth to Angelo, she," she pointed a finger at Julia, "came to me and warned me that if it wasn't the product of this marriage she was going to kill him with her bare hands." Tears came to her eyes yet she continued, "How is it that if Angelo was not a product of this marriage he was going to be killed but when Mateo is not, Helena was forced to accept him as a part of her family."

Julia glared at Isabelle. That's not what Alexis noticed, there was something else in Julia's gaze that Alexis could not figure out. 

"Wait, what?" Nickolas took a step back and looked at Julia and Marcus. "What?" He barked out.

No one answered him. And that was the moment Angelo leaned forward. This had his interest.

"What does she mean that Matteo was not conceived by Helena?" He yelled.

"I'll tell you what," Helena spoke up. "You do remember the first time I had a miscarriage?" He nodded. He remembered that he was informed about it. "That was the only miscarriage that happened naturally. The other three I had, your wife caused them. No matter how many times I try to hide my pregnancy from her she would always come and make me fall down the stairs or make me slip in the bathroom or force me to eat something that was going to cause me a miscarriage." She sniffed. "and that's how she proved to all of you that I was incapable of becoming a mother and that worked perfectly because after that she sent me away while his mistress was pregnant and give birth to the baby that I brought back with me." She wiped her tears away. "Now ask them, is this true or not?"

And he did.

No one answered him again and frustrated by this, he walked to his first son and pulled him up by his collar. "Fucking answer me boy, I am asking you this for the last time after this my gun would speak, is Matteo your and Helena's son?"

He shook his son again as he didn't answer the first time. Shaking his head at the pitiful child he had, Nikolas reached for his gun which was in his waistband making everyone alert and Julia get up immediately.

"Yes! That's true!" She yelled as she saw the gun in his hands. 

"And that's a fucking crime!" He roared turning around and slapping her. Julia fell on the impact. "do you have the slightest idea about what you did?" He yelled at her making her cower back. "That's a crime. That's a traitorous crime and for that, you can be killed! And for me, you could be!"

"Papa.."

Nikolas turned around and slapped him as well. Harsher than what he did to his wife. "A mistress?" He spat the word out. "We don't keep mistresses!" He yelled. "You wanted to be the don? That's the fucking Don no one wants with his bastards littering around!" He breathed, this chest rapidly moving up and down and Alexis watched the whole thing with fascination.

If only she and tea in her hands.

"You cannot be the Don. Hell, you cannot even become my son first! I disown you. I take my name away from you, I take the money and the properties that were given to you under my name." He said bit this time in a calm and collected voice. "I thought that this mother and son duo used to include me in every stupid plan of theirs but here I am like a fool listening to what transpired behind my back." He laughed. "You are no longer my son. I have one and that's it." Then he looked at Julia, "and you will get a punishment for that. Killing children?" He spat. "I would have understood disciplining people but killing an unborn child?"

As Alexis watched the whole thing unfold. It was clear that Nikolas was not aware just as everyone else about Matteo being a child out of marriage.

Well, the whole family had kids out of marriage. She shook her head. Angelo didn't even react to all of this. She peaked at him. He was watching everything.

Glancing at her once, without any expressions, he looked back in front of him.

She frowned, what was wrong with him?