Pricey by Fabiola Joseph

Author:Fabiola Joseph [Joseph, Fabiola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2016-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The Price of Evolving into Madam Blondie

The plane ride home was taking too long. I couldn’t wait to see Zen’s little face. Although her birthday was the next day, I had a feeling that at the stroke of midnight I was going to give her all of her gifts. I had missed a few celebrations of my birthday because of that evil bitch Mrs. Vega. Her husband would secretly celebrate with me by trying his best to please me. Maybe that was why I was so excited for Zen. Although she had already witnessed how ugly the world could be, I wanted her special day to bring her joy.

Upon landing in L.A., Capello told me that he would be at the house in the morning to explain to Bellissima the conversion of power. He was sure that she was going to raise hell, but in the end she had no choice. She had given her seat of power to Capello and, now, it would be passed on to me. We said our good-byes and entered separate vehicles.

“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t learn something new about you,” Carmine said, taking my hand and kissing the back of it.

“And there isn’t a day that passes that I don’t fall deeper and deeper in love with you,” I answered.

“I kind of missed Zen while we were gone,” Carmine confessed.

I told him that I felt the same and we smiled at each other. The rest of the ride was spent in silence as I anticipated seeing our little girl.

* * *

I burst through the doors of the house and called out for Zen. “Zen, we’re here,” I shouted, rushing into her bedroom.

She wasn’t in there, so I started to search for her. “Carmine, is she downstairs?” I asked from the top of the staircase.

“No. I can’t find her,” he answered.

Instantly, my heart started to pump faster with fear. Where was she, and why couldn’t we find her? I ran to Bellissima’s room. I found her on her bed with a book in her hand.

“Where the fuck is she?” I asked, getting straight to the point.

Bellissima slowly put her book down before lowering her glasses, and looking down her nose at me. “She is sleeping,” she simply offered.

“Where the fuck is she?” I screamed as I felt myself losing control.

“She is in the room at the other end of the house. I tried to get her out, but she—”

I didn’t care to hear the rest of her explanation. I just wanted to find Zen. I rushed to the far left of the house, and hurried to get the bedroom door open. Once inside, the sight before me caused me to scream, “Zen, what are you doing?”

Within seconds, Carmine was behind me, both of us in shock.

“She made me go with the man. I told her no, and that you told me that I wouldn’t have to do dirty stuff like that, but she forced me, Mommy.”

I could not breathe. The room was closing in on me as I looked in Zen’s direction.

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