CHAPTER 07

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•SAMARAH• (LAYANA)

i stopped breathing as soon i heard my name from his mouth..

does he know me?

b-but how—-

"Here, I just remembered the guy who lived here before. he asked me for a favor to give this to a girl who knows the callisto family" he handed me the phone which I stopped even more..

this phone.. 

its not just an ordinary phone.

it was my phone from my past..

"t-thank you" I smiled at him and I took my phone from his hand.

he smiled back and nodded before running off from my sight.

I'm still shocked while looking at my old phone on my hand.

it was my phone from my past. a flip phone that i always used before and after my mission.

I opened the button and the battery is still full.

i guess my step-brother charged this before leaving.

I'm checking all the messages and missed calls from my step brothers before.

i started walking while my eyes were on my old phone reading their messages..

|Matthias sent a message|

i stopped from walking because of the sudden message i got from my step brother matthias.

my hands trembled while reading his message for me today.

|Matthias - Hi Arah, today is our mother's 19th death anniversary. we're going to see her today. don't worry Matteo and I are both doing well. we missed you..|

I fell to my knees because of the trembling and I couldn't stop crying because of his message to me today.

I didn't leave sitting on the floor and chose to read all their messages from the beginning..

|matthias- we found a cold body at the river.. lifeless and faceless..it's not you right? you're just wearing the same outfit right?.. 

I'm sorry for being late.. |

|matthias- Hi arah, happy birthday! It's been a year since you're gone...you're doing well right? don't worry we will take care of mother and father|

|matteo- sammyyy! I miss you so much! please come back to us! >.<|

|matteo- Hi, can't still believe and don't want to believe that you're already gone sister..|

|matteo- Hi Sammyyy~ we're still hoping that you're alive and doing fine..|

|matteo- sammyyy! today is the old man's birthday and guess what happened? sebastian sent a gift to our father and that gift was a dead rat! HAHAHAHA!|

|matthias- Arah...|

|matteo- sammyy.. something happened to mother..sebastian killed mother..|

|matthias- Arah, Happy new year. it's been a while, matteo and i were busy hunting and killing sebastian's people but we can't find sebastian|

|matteo- Hi sammyy.. we decided to leave the mansion. after mother died, our father killed himself after a month. sorry we forgot to tell you this. Matthias and I are so busy preparing for moving. we love this home you know that right? but we decided to let this go and look for a new future.. if you ever saw this please go to the black cementery, that's where our parents are. even though we knew that you're not coming back, still we want you to know that everything is okay.. |

|matteo- i almost died from the hit and run last night! thank god my face is fine. please don't take me with you yet!|

|matthias- oh god, please forgive matteo for that. im sure youre in heaven now right? tell jesus to put matteo's name in hell.. kidding|

a year after a year they message me.. they tell me about the funny and sad things that happen to them when I disappear.. my birthdays, our parents birthdays, Christmas. new years and other celebrations.

I can't stop the tears that keep flowing down my face from my eyes..

mother died.. and father killed himself.. 

because of me..

i failed to protect them.. i failed to protect our family....

I clenched my fist because of the guilt I feel.

"sebastian.." i called that bastard's name and stood up from sitting.

i gritted my teeth and ready to swear with my name,that's samarah will kill him no matter what!

I wiped my wet face from tears and walked away from that place.

the black cementery..

that place is quite far from here and there are not many houses standing there because it is very wide and it was made for the graves of mafias, killers, assassins and other criminals.

even though such people are buried there, the security is higher than in other cementeries here in Italy.

I took a cab and went to the flower shop before going to the black cementery.

When I got there, I went to the guard who was in the guardhouse near the entrance and asked where Callisto was buried, which he immediately told.

when I arrived in front of the graves of Dmitri Callisto and Audrey Bonneville Callisto- the King Alexiel's step sister, I put the flower I bought on them even though there was already a flower placed on them.. 

I guess they just left Matthias and Matteo..

and in another grave next to the two of them.. it's 

samarah valkyrie callisto..

that's me

they didn't include my last name which is bonneville..

i saw my old picture in front of my grave. My funeral photo was taken when I was 21 after I finished training as a high class mafia and my first accident killed my former knight.

I stared at my old picture that without emotion on my face.

I keep getting weird..

I'm standing infront of my grave as layana.

"hi mother and father sorry I'm late.. it's me.. samarah, well not that samarah, but i am her." At first I was also confused.

"i mean this body and face is layana zayne bonneville. but I'm samarah. i don't know how this happened and i don't know how to explain..." i added and bowed because i was ashamed to tell a story in front of both of them.

"ah! guess what? this girl layana is my niece! she's heroux daughter, you know him right? my twin brother" I happily told.

I was silent for a few minutes before talking again.

"I'm still not used to being 18 years old again, I just got back from cornea surgery, well I wasn't really operated on but pretending.. I don't know if Layana is pretending to be a blind person or what"

"right, i met katana and her daughter and hendrix's son and klein & her daughter they're here in italy with me. but klein, he changed.." 

after I told the story, I bowed to them as a sign of respect before turning around and i was about to leave but....

i saw them.. staring at me..

I was nailed to what I was looking for and my eyes widened at what I saw..

"I thought.. you guys have left.." I said softly that they heard.

it's been 20 years since I last saw them.. when theyre both young doctor and a lawyer.. but now...

they look fully matured..

"it's..really you?" i saw how matteo's eyes watered because of the tears that wanted to escape from his eyes.

I didn't answer and looked at the man next to him who lowered his head and avoided looking at me..

"Are you really Samarah.." he asked without looking at me..

I didn't answer so he slowly raised his head and looked at me.. and I was surprised to see his whole face.

"w-what the.." my eyes widened and before I could come back to reality I didn't realize that I was in front of them and holding matthias' right cheek with a long scar from his face down to his neck that was obviously from the burn..

"h-how did.. who---"

Matthias quickly grabbed my hand tightly that was holding his face and he looked deeply into my eyes.

"Are you really Samarah?" His question brought me back to reality and the return of my second plan before going to Italy.

"n-no! I'm not her" I lied and tried to take my hand that he was holding tightly.

"We heard you.. please don't lie.." matteo said crying and came to me and suddenly hugged me tightly.

"please tell the truth." matteo begged me that  made tears to my eyes..

i guess i won't be able to continue my second plan to live as a layana with no past..

"I'm sorry.. I'm late.." I weakly insisted before the tears I was holding back from my eyes finally fell..

I felt Matthias release his grip on my hand..

"it's okay.. i dont care" matteo answered shaking his head as he hugged me.

I wiped my eyes because they were blurring with tears and turned to matthias who was next to us who smiled at me with sadness in his eyes..

"welcome back.."

CHAPTER 07

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