Chapter 4
Lorenzo looked at the man in suit’s clothing again, and he noticed the gold wristwatch on his wrist, he was hundred percent sure that the watch cost him a fortune, same for his shoes plus all other body accessories he was putting on.
He was rich, the rich always bullied the less privileged and this man was no different, he was being judged because of the way he was dressed.
"Now that you have added Rossi to your name, you expect me to believe you and usher you in, please be smarter next time." The man in suit said angrily. "If you are a Rossi then I own this building." he added spitefully.
He knew how beggars liked to lurk around the Rossi’s Palace and disturb them, so he thought Lorenzo was also a beggar that has motives to beg.
"I should have told you my name first." Lorenzo palmed his face in disappointment. "I am not lying." He insisted.
"You are lying, I'm sure you are one of those beggars that want something. Security!" The man shouted and a security man came running.
"Mr. Giovanni, good morning." The security man greeted the man in the suit. He used a clean handkerchief to wipe the invisible speck of dust on Mr. Giovanni's shoes.
"This idiot would like this man's ass." Lorenzo thought in his head
Mr. Giovanni pointed at Lorenzo, "He says he is a Rossi, how true is that?"
The security man looked into Lorenzo’s face and he saw a striking resemblance with the Rossis, but Lorenzo's dress ticked the security man off and assured him that he wasn't a Rossi.
The security man cleared his throat as both Mr. Giovannni and Lorenzo looked at him in anticipation to hear what he would say.
"I have not seen this face here all my life, I bet I have seen all the Rossis but you are not one of them. They don't even wear poor-looking and tattered clothes like this." The security man said, and Lorenzo’s Jaw dropped.
He thought the security man had recognized him because of the way he was looking at him, Lorenzo's face fell when he realized the man said in favor of the man in suit.
At first, he didn't believe that he was in the right place but as soon as they mentioned that the Palace belonged to the Rossis, he was sure that his father gave him the right address.
"My father gave him this address," Lorenzo informed him
"You are lying, no son of this family has this kind of terrible clothing that you are wearing. I, their security personnel, don't wear this kind of Bullshit you are putting on." The security man analyzed him.
"Why do you keep insisting that I'm lying? You can take me in and confirm my identity to satisfy your curiosity." Lorenzo faced the security man.
"I can't do that, it's against my working policy. How do I explain the reason why I'm bringing a haggard-looking beggar in?" The security man barked at him.
Pangs of embarrassment washed through Lorenzo as the security man kept insulting him. He loved the clothes he was putting on, they were old but they were the best of his clothes.
"Young man, you have not shown us any proof that you are a Rossi and we see no reason why you are a member of this family, people like you are begging by the roadside, go and join them and stop acting like a lazy opportunist." Mr. Giovanni adjusted his suit.
"You have come to beg for money and we know it. Please go and get a job. You can come to my office, I may give you a job as a cleaner." Mr. Giovanni brought out his business card and handed it to Lorenzo.
Lorenzo thought about the transport fare he spent while he was coming, it was too expensive to go back home without seeing his dad. "But I need to see my dad," He begged the security man and Mr. Giovanni.
He didn't have any money to fix his phone or get a new one so there was no way he could contact his dad.
"Okay let's agree this is your dad's place, have you ever been here? The security man asked him.
"No, my dad called to come to see me yesterday and he gave me this address through a text and your friend broke my phone."
"He is my boss's friend." The security man corrected Lorenzo. "I don't think you are at the right place, Mr?"
"Lorenzo Rossi."
"You are not a Rossi, you are saying Rossi because I mentioned it earlier." Mr. Giovanni said. "Just throw him out." He ordered the security man.
The security man shoved Lorenzo, pushing him out of the gate. Lorenzo stood his ground and resisted the push from the security man.
"Don't push me. I won't leave here with my phone unfixed." Lorenzo yelled with all seriousness.
He didn't want to be cheated. If his father had given him the wrong address he still needed to get his phone in a good shape.
"Stop yelling, you are disturbing the people inside." The security man warned him but he didn't stop.
"What's going on?" A feminine voice called as she walked outside.
Mr. Giovanni adjusted his tie and his suit, because of the beautiful lady that came. She was putting on one of the latest styles in vogue and a pair of expensive heels to match.
Her makeup made her look more attractive and graceful.
"Miss Leonora, you look beautiful today." Mr. Giovanni commented.
"Thank you Mr. Giovannni." She thanked him without sparing him a glance. "What's going on there Roberto?" She said in a thick Italian accent.
"I'm trying to kick out an intruder ma'am." Roberto faced his boss and bowed before her.
"An intruder?" She asked as walked towards them.
"This young man is here to look for the Rossi's corporation and I told him, he's not the man for it." Mr. Giovanni said proudly.
Leonora ignored him and moved closer to Lorenzo.
"Sister!" Lorenzo called, making Mr. Giovanni and Roberto's Jaws drop in surprise.
Chapter 5 Lorenzo moves close to touch his sister and the security man launched at him and yanked his hand off real quick. “What do you think you are doing? Why are you touching my madam with your filthy hands?” Roberto yelled, making Lorenzo stagger. “Roberto!” Leonora called in a thick Italian accent and glared at him. “Get your hands off him. He is my brother, your master.” She broke Lorenzo’s identity to him. Roberto fell to his knees in front of them. “I am sorry, young master, my lady. I thought he was joking.” He faced Leonora. “I am so sorry for my insolence. Please forgive me.” “Tch tch.” Leonora clicked her teeth. “Do your work right and never let this repeat itself,” She then faced Mr. Giovanni and cleared her throat before taking Lorenzo inside. Lorenzo marveled at the interior of the house and faced his sister. “Nora, what is this place?” Leonora smiled at her brother, she was happy that he called her by the name he always addressed her with when they were little.
Chapter 6 “Father is right, brother,” Leonora said as the servants opened the doors for her to come in. Lorenzo’s personal maid grabbed a chair for her to sit on. Leonora sat gracefully by her brother's side and she placed her hand over his. “The hardship and suffering was your fate, it was decided by our forefather and that is how every successor of this family will live.” She smiled at him and let go of his hand. The maids served some food in her place. “We should eat first,” Loenora said to her Father and her brother. “We can speak after the meal so it won't be too cold to eat.” The two men obeyed her and they started eating. Lorenzo ate to his fill, savoring every dish that was served on his plate. He barely got to put food on his table for himself and Hazel, on the days he buys beef or fish, Hazel has everything to herself and she still reprimands him that he can’t provide up to half of what she used to eat. The maids cleared the table after they were done eating and the mal
Chapter 7 “I have a favor to ask you.” Lorenzo asked his sister and his father. “What is that?” Leonardo asked curiously, he was keen on knowing what his son wanted. He wanted to grant him his wishes because of how hard he suffered. Lorenzo looked at his father and his sister before starting to talk. “I want to hide the fact I am back as the heir from the meanntime?” He requested and his sister was shocked as well as his father. “But why, Brother?” Leonora asked, wondering why her brother made such a request. “Are you sure that is what you want? I mean you could request anything else.” “Yes Father, I think it is better to keep it from the world for now, I want to take revenge on everyone who bullied me while I was still a poor man. It would be easier to keep it away from my wife.” he knew his last sentence would make them agree. “Well, he has a point father, I think it is a good idea but how will you keep your driver and your personal maid, I mean Dave and Daphne have to accom
Chapter 8 The factory manager smirked at Lorenzo. He was happy that Hazel got Lorenzo to apologize to him. He was even happier that Lorenzo agreed to beg him in the office, that way every other staff would fear him. “I should take my leave then.” He announced to the couple, grinning hard at Hazel. “Mr. Rossi, I shall be expecting you at the factory for your esteemed apology.” He patted Lorenzo’s back. Lorenzo shrugged his hand off and glared at him. “Thank you for giving him a chance to redeem himself,” Hazel thanked the factory manager well. Lorenzo was very annoyed at what was going on. He wanted to wipe the smile on the manager's face with a punch. “It’s okay. He owes this chance to you. I wish he had some sense like you.” The factory man commented. “I should get going, I will be expecting your apologies at the factory.” The manager smiled before leaving them. “Why do you keep thanking him, Hazel? He was the one that wronged me. He beat me up with friends.” He raised his voic
Chapter 9 “Stop touching me.” Lorenzo barked at them. “Why do you keep pushing me? The manager is not even saying anything. Mind your own business.” He shrugged the hands of the manager’s friends off his body. The manager moved close to him and grabbed him by his hair. “Whatever they do is my instruction, if you raise your voice at them..” Lorenzo spat on the manager's face and the manager let go of him. “This son of a bitch just spat on me.”The manager cried out. “He spat on the face I got an expensive procedure on.” One of the manager's friends quickly offered him a handkerchief to use. And the other friend went to Lorenzo. He raised his chin up. “I always knew you were a lunatic.” He said to Lorenzo before he started raining blows on his face. Blood oozed out Lorenzo’s lips that got bursted from the blows. “Paupers like you can never make it in life with your attitude.” The friend mocked him. “How can you throw your saliva at the face he just got a procedure on. Your ten years
Chapter 10 David and David helped Lorenzo walk into Leonora’s office. After they helped him sit on the couch. The two of them excused the siblings to talk while they stood guard in front of the door to ensure no one was eavesdropping. Leonora was at the other end of the room receiving some business call while Lorenzo just scanned through the office. He never knew that a place like this existed in the factory. He wouldn’t know when he was not in the cleaning unit. The was three times bigger than the manager's office, he observed the structures inside the mood and commended whoever modeled the office in his head. Leonora places an ice pack on Lorenzo’s head bringing him out of his thoughts. “Do you love this place?” she asked because she had noticed he was looking around the office. He didn’t even see her when she dropped the call she was on. She knew he lost admiring the whole place. “Yes, it is a beautiful place,” He breathed. “I am glad you think so, I designed it myself.” She
Chapter 11 “Mr.Rossi, I am scared that you are not staying at the hospital like the doctor requested. Miss Rossi will be mad at David and me if anything goes wrong.” Daphne said to her boss worriedly. “I will be fine, Daphne. I will rest at home.” He said with his eyes closed and he rested on the car seat.” “Let me know at once if you feel pain in your body,” Daphne told him. Lorenzo fell asleep in the car due to his tiredness. He didn’t even know when they got to the front of his office. Daphne tapped him gently. “We are in front of the house, sir.” She announced. “What!” He exclaimed from his sleep. “In front of my house, why did you guys come here? You should've woken me up at the bus stop,” he complained. “Any little mistake can cause problems, huge problems. What if my wife comes out? How do you want me to explain the situation to her?” He scolded them. “We are sorry sir, we only thought about how…” Daphne trailed. “Shit, that is my mother-in-law’s car. You should get goi
Chapter 12 “Mr Lorenzo, your sister sent you a tuxedo, hand-tailored from your hometown in Italy.” Daphne informed Lorenzo on their drive to the apartment he shared with his wife. “I need you to pick a wedding gift out for the old couple, something exquisite.” Lorenzo requested from Daphne, “Do you have anything in mind?” “Yes, sir.” She smiled at the thought of the perfect gift that came to her head. “We are here sir,” David announced when they got to the bus stop. Daphne handed the nag that had the tuxedo in it to Lorenzo. “Young master!” David stopped Lorenzo as he was about to open the door of the car. “You should not call me that when we are outside Rossi's mansion.” he cautioned him. “I am sorry sir, how are we going to take you to the party?” He quickly corrected himself before asking “I will text you if there is a need for you to disguise as a chauffeur service.” “The gift would be brought to you at the party sir,” Daphne bowed down and Lorenzo got out of the car. He
Epilogue Five Years Later. Leonora had forced us to come down to Delaware for Father’s memorial, instead of doing it separately, depending on the country. “I do not appreciate being here when I have a meeting in France,” Lorenzo whined over Lunch. “How do you cope with this rascal?” Nora faced Hazal with a disapproving look. “He is addicted to work as always, talking about being in France while we celebrate our father’s ten years memorial.” Hazel giggled, “You know how he is.” “Sweetie, are you taking sides with her? This is why you should never trust women.” Lorenzo pointed his fork at Nora. “She told me I could work as much as I wanted before I retire.” Then he continued eating. “I did tell him that, he kept saying he was bored at home and all.” “You are in this together. Nice. How is work though? I heard you have opened an IT center in New York and it is making waves.” “It’s all thanks to my husband and your husband too, he helped out with the set up and internal works.”
Chapter 76(TWO DAYS LATER)Hazel stirs in bed, her first movements since her emergency surgery two days ago. She slowly opens her eyes but can’t open them fully because of the brightness of the room. Lorenzo notices that she is trying to open her eyes and rushes to her side.“Hazel… Hazel, can you hear me?” he asks, his tone laced with desperation and worry. “I…can…hear…you.” She replied weakly.Tears of joy rushed to his eyes as he broke down in front of her. “I thought I was going to lose you. I really thought I was going to lose you.” He said in between loud sobs.Hazel watched with tears in her eyes as her man wept in front of her. Being too weak to do any other thing, she reached for his hand with a sense of longing.“I’m here, Lorenzo. I’m here.” She reassured him. This little action made Lorenzo cry harder.Hazel then remembers that she is with child. Panicking, she touches her stomach. “My baby, is my baby okay? Did anything happen to my baby boy?”“Our baby is fine. The do
Chapter 75As he got into his car, the incident with Daphne was already behind him, he gripped the steering wheel in anger as he tried to calm himself. He didn't know what he would do to Aurora when he found her, but he didn't trust himself not to hurt her. He parked his car in front of his Company and rushed out. He rushed towards the elevator, ignoring the greetings of his staff. Before he got into the elevator, he stopped one of them and told her to call the police. She nodded weakly and ran to do that.The elevator door closed and he punched in the button that took it to the basement floor. He knew that if Aurora was here she would make sure that none of the staff had seen her when she was coming so asking them was pointless. She wasn't stupid and she knew her way around the company. The elevator dinged and he stepped out. He looked around but couldn't find anything, he only saw metal pipes and heard water dripping somewhere. He looked around and saw a small light coming fro
Chapter 74Lorenzo took his car keys from the chauffeur and ran towards his car. He couldn't believe he hadn't thought of this before. Daphne and Aurora had worked together even if Aurora was only using daphne, she was the most likely person to know where Aurora was. He needed to get to the detection center as soon as possible, or else Aurora would get away with what she had done. He couldn't let her get away with it. She put the woman He is in love with in the hospital and took his child away from him. He owed it to Hazel to make her pay for what she had done. He couldn't even begin to imagine how broken Hazel will be when she wakes up and her child is gone, and it was all his fault. If only he had seen the signs earlier, he could have prevented this from happening, Hazel would be fine and their child would be alive. Aurora had to pay.He hastily parked his car and jumped out and ran inside to the reception."I need to see Daphne Giovannì " He said, out of breath.The lady at th
Chapter 73He sank into the chair, tears moved freely from his eyes as he mourned his baby in his heart. He had not gotten the chance to give it a name like Hazel wanted.Work had taken all his time that could not make time to have a talk about the baby’s name with his baby mama and girlfriend. She mentioned it a few times and he had told her to pick any names she wanted since she did a good job naming Sandro.She refused and offered to pick out some names then they would select the best ones of the baby which he agreed to but he never did.He had seen a tweet that Elon musk has many companies, 10 kids and he still replies to random tweets on twitter, no one is ever too busy to make time.He was rich, very richer than Elon Musk but he didn’t have ten kids nor did he use twitter, he had no excuse for not making time for his family.What was he running from? Was he scared that Hazel would treat him like she used to? Does he still have PTSD from the situation?He needs to see a therapist
Chapter 72Lorenzo tossed the cup to the floor and picked his wife up, Luca and the other guards rushed in. “get Alessandro and one of you should get the car.”“Yes sir,” Luca replied as a maid opened the door for him to go out. The maybach was sitting in front of the house, the chauffeur opened the door to the car. Luca put Alessandro in the backseat with his parents then he went to the back seat. He dispatched about thirty other guards to follow them while seven of them remained at home to watch over Nana.“Daddy, what’s wrong with mom?” Sandro rubbed his eyes, he was just waking up and trying to register what was going on.“Please put the car on lock,” Lorenzo asked the driver for Sandro’s sake. He was sitting beside the wall. “Luca, please call the hospital to wait for us at the entrance.”“Mommy is a little sick, we need to take her to the hospital for treatment.'' He hopes that Sandro buys his story because he was a smart boy and was going to read the situation.“She had blood
Chapter 71Lots of things ran through Lorenzo’s mind as he drove on full speed home. Aurora was a dangerous person. It’s like she had a venom in her.Something strange had bitten her overnight. she felt so different than she used to be. He never thought he would meet that shade of her.Hazel and Alessandro filled his mind. What if she had kidnapped them? Poisoned them or even killed them. His grip on the car steering tightened. He was aware that he was breaking traffic rules but his family’s life was at stake. His heart felt like it was going to leap out of its spot.Going to see Aurora made him hear things he never thought he would hear, but he should have made sure his family was okay. What if he lost contact with Sandro and he had to suffer like him?This was a time for him to lose contact with his son, he didn’t obviously want that. He remembered his promise to keep his son under wings and raised him into a fine young man without following the family’s tradition.Universe gave hi
Chapter 70“It’s not too late for you to change your ways. You can still be loved, I can forgive you.”“She put out the stick of the cigarette she was smoking and opened a pack of gum then she threw a piece into her mouth.Watching Lorenzo’s movement, a grin formed on her face. “It would be great if you just stop all these like a preacher, it suits you" She said "maybe that's what you should have been doing instead of playing dress up as the CEO" "Watch what you say, Aurora." Lorenzo said, straightening his back, he wished she would see what she was doing was wrong but he knew he couldn't let her talk to him like that.He had worked hard on the Company for a long time and she had seen it all. She knew how much he loved the company "Or what?" She said, Her mouth pulled into a sneer,"what exactly would you do?" "Aurora…" "Do you remember that day?" She said, cutting him off."What day?" "The day you carried me to my hotel room, the day you ruined everything" she asked, her voice
Chapter 69“Why did you try to be friends with me in the first place? You didn’t want anything to do with me. I can remember how you made me go on that date with you. You were literally begging me.” He was furious, she wasn’t even showing signs of remorse. Her intentions were showing clearly on her face, how heartless and selfish she was.Her kind face was now dark. Lorenzo felt like he was seeing her deeds on her face. They were hidden, that was why he never saw them. It is better to say she was hiding them.He had never met someone that was so pretentious. Hazel’s family never hid their hate from him, this was pretty different to him.“Do you know the extent I go when I want something? Mind you, Michael and I had not broken up officially at the time he was seeing your wife, I planned to take you to make him jealous.”All Lorenzo could see was her pathetic face and the pathetic words flying out of her mouth. She was talking with pride and a sense of accomplishment. He should have j