1. Diavolo Prologue


    Date: 8/19/2015, Categories: Love Stories, Author: Levanahyll, Rating: 6, Source: LushStories

    and founder of North Star Records? Below the stacks of letters, he found another diary. This one was all frayed and dog-eared. He opened it and began reading, June 4, 1982: Today I died. The man I loved with all my heart just married my sister, Paulina. I am devastated. I can’t believe Daniel would do this to me, and yet, I believe when he told me it was all a misunderstanding. The night of our betrothal I’d promised him I would finally give myself to him. I really wanted to wait until our wedding night, but I could not resist any longer. His kisses were drugging and the feel of him… Gabriel made a face. He really didn’t want to know his mother’s sexual fantasies with some other man—or any man for that matter. Skimming down a few more lines past the erotic drivel, he read: Paulina kept our glasses full the whole time even though I was not accustomed to drinking. When I grew dizzy she generously helped me up to her room because my bed was covered with gifts from all our guests. It was only when I’d awoken, did I realize I’d gone back on my word to wait for Danny in my room. A month and a half later, just two weeks away from our wedding, Paulina declared she was pregnant and that my Daniel was the father. He swore to me that she’d tricked him. That she’d waited in my room, naked, and had allowed him to take her, pretending to be me in the darkened room, kissing him the whole time. He’d been drunk too and had tried to convince the woman he thought was me that perhaps we really ...
    should wait, that he wanted our first time to be special. Paulina just continued to kiss him. In the morning he’d awakened alone and confused, thinking he’d dreamt the whole incident. But the nightmare was true. My love had lain with another and then Paulina threatened to kill herself. I didn’t know she was also so very smitten with him. She cried and cried until my mother and I feared for her mental health. Daniel, the honorable man that he is married her today in a small gathering at the magistrates office. She begged me to be witness after begging for my forgiveness. How could I not. She is after all my little sister. So, though my heart is broken, I will endeavor to put all this behind me and go back to school for my masters degree in nursing. My dear friend Brendan Brinks is helping me fill out the paperwork for my scholarships. He is so sweet. I know someday the pain of losing Daniel will lessen, though right now I feel as if my heart has been torn out of my chest and sliced into a million pieces. Gabriel slammed the diary closed. His heart raced and he blinked in the dimly lit attic. His mother had been in love with someone else? Memories of a long ago night echoed in his memory. His father storming into his room and screaming at his mother. He gripped her, shook her, slapped and kicked her. Gabriel had been terrified. His dad had always been cold and distant with him. He remembered his mom struggling with his dad and a loud bang going off. A gun. A dark-haired man had ...
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