"I am Edoardo Rinaldi's daughter," I confirmed. Everyone was shocked.
"It can't be ...", Jacob murmured in shock.
"I know. I'm not disabled and all the other nonsense you've heard about me. "
"How could you have come to the Bridge knowing who you are! ", Jacob attacked her.
"Ask yourself why I came to seek refuge here! Do you think it was easy for me to abandon my family and try to escape? "
"You are a Rinaldi! An heir! "Snapped Jacob.
"Yes, unfortunately."
"You shouldn't be here. This will blow up any agreement or peace treaty. "
"I don't intend to go back."
"In fact, you won't," Lorenzo interjected with a murderous look, pointing the gun at me. "I'll make sure you only get out of here in a coffin."
I stared straight into his eyes and saw only hatred and a touch of burning pain. He felt betrayed and I could not blame him.
"I know how it will end, Lorenzo. We both know it. When a Rinaldi meets an Orlando, it can only end one way: with the death of one of the two. I wasn't lying when I told you I love you and that I could never kill you. You don't know what I've been through these days not knowing if you were still alive. "
"Shut up!" Lorenzo yelled at me, loading the weapon, and pointing it at my chest.
"Kill me, Lorenzo. Since you found out who I am, you have been waiting for this moment. Or am I wrong? ", I put more wood on the fire. I was in pieces. I had just lost my family and was targeted after what I had done to my father. And now, I had lost the man I loved.
Without Lorenzo, what was left for me?
Nothing!
Not even the will to live.
"If you don't do it, my family will do it," I said calmly, standing still with the cold metal of the gun against my skin.
"Edward would never kill his offspring. You are the heir of his empire and he will do everything to save you ", Jacob intervened again suspicious of me.
"I exchanged my inheritance for Lorenzo's life. I was disinherited and had to negotiate Lorenzo's life every day. First with the lie about my pregnancy to gain some time, then with my renunciation of the inheritance and finally breaking the oath by revealing Brian Esposito's manipulations to my father. I did everything to save you, Lorenzo. "
"I will no longer believe anything that comes out of your mouth."
"I can't blame you, but I want to remind you that in the end I told you the truth. You're the one who didn't believe me. "
"No, you have always been vague with me. I have never heard you clearly tell me that you are Edoardo Rinaldi's daughter! "Shouted Lorenzo in anger.
"I was afraid of losing you. Can you ever forgive me?"
"Take her out of my sight before I kill her," Lorenzo growled with narrowed eyes, scratching his beard with a nervous gesture.
"No!" Marielle tried to stand up, frightened, while Jacob grabbed me on and took me downstairs.
"It's all right," I cheered her up with a smile. "Now take care of Lorenzo. He was shot in the leg and must be medicated as soon as possible. And tell the chef to cook his favorite dishes. When he was imprisoned, they did not feed him. He needs to recover and rest. "
Even though Lorenzo hated me at that moment, I couldn't stop worrying about him.
"Believe me, I really don't want to do this to you," Jacob whispered to my ear, taking me to the wine cellar downstairs and continuing down a corridor to a room very similar to the one where Lorenzo had been locked up in my house.
"Do not worry. Just promise me that you will take care of Lorenzo and protect him always, "I said.
Jacob gave me a short smile.
It was the first time he smiled at me.
He had always been the most suspicious and suspicious of Lorenzo's entourage, but at that moment I felt he was on my side.
I had saved his best friend and he was grateful.