Athena twiddles her thumbs together as she sits in front of Vincenzo. He looks at her face. She looks deep in thought but she is aware of his stare on her.

"As I told you that we are organizing this party....It's your 17th birthday. You can invite your two friends from school." It is not her but it is Ariana's birthday. Athena's birthday is within next two months.

"You can go." Vincenzo dismisses her shortly. Athena mumbles a small 'ok' and walks out of his office in silence. Lost in thought, she keeps walking but suddenly collides into someone.

"Athena! Are you ok?" Luciano asks her concerned. He has observed that Athena tends to keep quiet even more now. Athena looks up at him and slowly shakes her head.

She again walks past him. Worried Luciano moves towards Vincenzo's office.

"Vincenzo!" He calls his brother's name as soon as he steps inside.

"What happened?" The older brother raised his brow questionably.

"Do you know what's the matter with Ariana? She seems even more quiet."

"Athena! Her name is Athena." Vincenzo corrects him.

"It doesn't matter. The girl has been living with us from throughout the last mon-"

"So you are indirectly telling me that you have grown attached to her! Do you forget that this girl will leave as soon as Ariana will come." Vincenzo states.

"Do you still believe that Ariana will come? It's been almost two years since she left us! She never looked back."

"She is ready to come back."

********************** Flashback

"I-i-it's m-me." Vincenzo froze as he heard her voice on the other side of phone.

"Ariana?" He asked carefully while clicking through some buttons on the laptop to trace the location of call.

"Y-y-yes. I-I don't h-have m-m-much t-time." Ariana whispered.

"He hurt you!"

"E-e-every s-second. H-he k-killed t-the b-b-baby." Vincenzo closed his eyes and took few deep breath.

"You were pregnant?"

"I-I-I-I a-am s-s-sorry. S-save m-me p-plea--" The call abruptly cut off.

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"Why didn't you tell us about this before?"

"I just got to know about this yesterday." Vincenzo lights a cigarette and takes a deep inhale in.

"When are we heading out?" Luciano asks. There is a impatience on the tip of his tongue.

"Tomorrow. We will get Ariana back on her birthday." Luciano nods his head but then he looks up in Vincenzo's eyes.

"What about Athena?"

"What about her?" Vincenzo raises his brow.

"What are you going to do with her?"

"She can leave. She can start her own life. I will hel--"

"How can you be so selfish, Vincenzo?! You are using that girl for our own benefit and as soon as you will be done with her, you will kick her out?" Luciano comments bitterly. At this time he just couldn't believe his brother.

"That poor girl needs a family! She needs love, care and guidance in her life. If Ariana has suffered so Athena has suffered too. We literally snatched her away from her freedom just to push her away when our selfishness will satisfy?"

"I will find her family!" Vincenzo says.

"Why can't we be her family!"

Upon hearing Vincenzo's silence Luciano realized that whatever he is assuming, is actually true. He storms out of his office. Vincenzo stares at the closed doors and heaves a small sigh before looking down at the file in front of him with Athena's name written on the top. He skims through the pages and takes a little while to glance at her photo.

He flips the next page to see her DNA test report attached. That never matched. She wasn't their sister. His phone rings grabbing his attention. Picking up, he realizes that it is from one of his loyal spy.

"Yes Adam!"

"Sir! Athena was sold to the Russians mafia leader Ioann Boris!"

"Are you sure?"

"100% definite sure, Sir!"

On the other side, Athena's eyes glistens with tears.

"They know! From since the whole time. So why keep pretending?" Just few days ago Athena has accidentally listened to Vittorio and Alexander's talk related to this.

From since the past few month, Athena didn't realized when she got so closer to this family. She almost forgot that she was living a life of lie, a life of another person.

Unintentionally, Athena tried to take Ariana's life that she regretted so much. She needed to get out of here at any cost now. It was foolish for her to stay here this longer. Now she was definite to leave.