Chapter 75 Ornella

• Looking at how my daughters ended up, I regret not fighting harder for them. Maybe if I had, I wouldn't be a stranger to Carina. It was years later when I first got the courage to go back to the orphanage. Fear of the Don finding out everything and killing my daughter made me stay away. I hadn't wanted to tip him off in case he got revenge on us for lying to him. But one day I couldn't take it anymore and went back to the place I'd left Carina. I wanted to see her, make sure she was fine and getting along with other kids. Since she'd grown up, I didn't know how she looked. After weeks of trying, I finally got a job as a cleaner only to find out she'd been adopted.
• The anger and fear I'd felt back then almost sent me to this mansion. The head of the orphanage wouldn't tell me who had adopted her. But she called him and the next day he was there, angry that I'd come back for our daughter even after he'd told me to stay away. I've spent half of my life hating him. For getting me pregnant, putting his ambitions before our daughters, manipulating me, and convincing me they'd live like princesses when all they did was suffer under that monster. He forgot to take their mental health into consideration. To him, money and power were more important than the girls. And over the years, he's proven that the only person he cares about is himself. I'm done listening to him.
• "Don't worry Mom, she'll come around. Give her a bit more time" Anna says patting my arm. It was just sheer luck that I got her out before it was too late. The moment I saw them taking her to the hospital, I knew she was leaving with me. Dead or alive. Faking her death had been easy because the Don didn't care about her. He hadn't even blinked when he'd found out she was dead. At that moment, I wanted to tell him the truth. That Anna wasn't his child and that Fab had run away with his son. I wanted him to go after that bitch and make her suffer the way I had or even more. But I couldn't risk him finding out Anna was alive, so I took her and disappeared.