"Please tell me, what the hell is going on? How is Zaniel connected to you? Why did you marry me? And you… you are a Mafia leader. What the hell is this all about? Why-"
Before she could ramble further in her hurried yet soft voice, I held her waist, pulling her close, her breath stuck in her throat, putting her hands on my chest in dismal.
"I have no intentions of telling an ignorant girl who is unaware of her own reality anything." I hissed.
Pressing her softly against the wall, observing how her fingers clenched my shirt tightly, her action made my heart race, it made my breaths raspy while she was convulsing with a startle gathering between her eyelids.
"Then make me aware, who am I? Why is this happening? Please…" She pleaded in a whisper. Tears shimmering in the corner with desperation.
Scrutinizing her petite form, my thick lips parted, telling her real name.
"You are Cinzel. Cinzel Alroy." I enunciated, removing my hand on the wall and taking out my phone, pulling away from her.
Gulping hard, she just stared intensely at me. Releasing the breath which stopped when I was near, pressing to take support from the wall.
At this point she knew I knew her more than she knew herself so it was better to halt and move by my pace.
I called Alice and Jay over, she was shaking, failing to understand as I turned to her again.
"Your mother's name is Valencia Alroy, she was the heart, the queen, of underworld, to everyone Alroy name has been massacred-"
"Then how are you sure I am the one?" She asked.
“I was with you that day. I held you with my very hands on the day you were born. It was a horrible day, we all thought none of us would live.”
I pulled away from her and sighed deeply, motioning her to sit. She sat on the couch as I made a drink for her.
“You.. held me?”
“Yes.”
Leaning on the bedpost, I closed my arms at my chest, noticing how her lips were dry.
She was about to drink but stopped and looked up at me, "Aren't you going to drink?"
"I have low alcohol endurance." I shrugged.
She hummed and finished her drink in one go, pouring herself another shot.
"How can you be so sure? And besides, what are they?"
"It's not they, it's just her, the contaminated blood and after her- no, leave it. Valencia Alroy. Your mother was a fearless woman who never subjugated before anyone unlike you."
Putting her drink down, she responded sadly, "You cannot expect me to be like the person I have never known in my life."
Humming, I continued, "I had to keep her legacy secure, so I did." I told her casually, taking a seat beside her.
"Is that why you left Zaniel after me? And become a teacher in my High School, to keep an eye on me?" She asked sternly.
It sounded restrictive, horrible to be exact that someone kept an eye on you all the time.
"Zaniel and I have no connections but yeah, I became the teacher just to check how you are doing." she hummed, lowering her head.
"Why is my life so important?"
It is important to me, others just want to take it, silly woman.
"Simple, your biological Mother. I was- am your guard." I replied coldly, leaning behind putting my one leg over the other.
Things were uncertain for her to sink inside but I have to reveal things at one time so she can get used to her new reality.
Lowering her head, she pulled her hair, despondency glistening her face, it was too much for her to know. She was traumatized.
"I don't know who I am anymore… I.. I.. Don't understand." She hissed, covering her face with her hands, the dim light was too shallow for her to grasp.
"Totally understandable." I told her and soon Alice and Jay came.
"Mama, Papa…" She whispered and was about to rush to them but I stopped her.
"It was all necessary to keep you safe, My love." Alice said and Cinzel stopped struggling for a second.
Her eyes widened in disbelief, looking back at me and then at them, repeating it like a loop accompanied by a dead shiver.
"No.." She whispered.
"You guys worked for Prince Sir… from the very start." She whispered, moving back, holding her shirt, trembling in apprehension.
"Cinzel." I called her softly and was about to touch her but she yanked my hand away, horrified.
"Don't touch me."
"How.. Dare you… to make me… your puppet?" She asked in a broken tone, shaking, her mind constantly denied the crystal reality but delusions were afar from her.
Covering her mouth, she made an almost crying face, this was too much for her to hold.
"You… Controlled my life from the very start… what is happening in my life was your planning, isn't it?!" She shouted at me, releasing heartbreaking tears, the daze left her astonished, frightened.
"You are getting the wrong idea, Cinzel. I left you in their care and never came back until your high school and now."
"Why now?! And why this marriage?!"
"Because letting you in Zaniel's hand is too dangerous!" I growled, coming closer.
"Why do you even want to protect me?!" She shouted, pacing around her room in ultimate consternation disrupting her mind.
I motioned Alice to give me her ancient necklace with a ruby worth billions delicately carved into an 'A' shape inside a circle of a white golden chain.
This necklace was her identity that I protected all this time. Valencia made it especially for all her children.
Turning her to me, I held her arm with my one hand as I showed her the necklace.
"This is the proof of you being an Alroy."
Her eyes widened by the allure reflected by the jewelry, it was truly a piece to behold. Grabbing the hem of her shirt, I pulled her close to my face.
"Valencia was the queen of the Mafia world twenty years ago. She fucking ruled it and you are daughter and what's left behind is all yours.”
Hissing my words finally made sense to her, bewildering her in trepidation of the fact I had to conceal so she could live a normal life.
I did all this to hide her from this world so she could have a life away from abhorrence and all those bloodthirsty wolves yet still Zaniel found his way to her.
“W-What?” She stammered, shaking from apprehension.
“Don't you get it, Cinzel?!" I snarled, looking dead into her eyes while declaring my purpose.
"You are a Princess who is one step away from entering this life of blood and gore and It is my fucking job to prevent it at all cost!"