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- Author: Stella Andrews
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KILLIAN VIERI
SERENITA
When death comes knocking, it makes its presence known. It
lingers as a promise of retribution for all your past mistakes and
deeds. Waiting with the cold fingers of everlasting damnation, promising
you an afterlife far more torturous than the one you left behind.
I sense it now, circling, waiting, anticipating and it angers me that I can
do fuck all about it.
My gaze falls to the open window where the merest hint of a breeze
makes its way inside, reminding me that life goes on.
The unusual sound of emotion disturbs the air, and my gaze falls on my
sister who was named after the very place we wait for the grim reaper to
show his face.
I offer no words of comfort. No assurances that he lived a good life
because we all know those words would be empty ones.
“What’s taking them so long?” The irritated growl from my brother’s
impatience switches my attention to him instead, and I wonder if he really
expects an answer. It falls to our father to bother to try.
“He always was a belligerent bastard. He will die on his own terms and
in his own time.”
Nobody smiles. Nobody reacts and nobody cares what he thinks anyway
because Benito Vieri turned his back on his father many years ago and
doesn’t deserve to crack jokes around his deathbed.
The door opens and we stare expectantly at the person who, of anybody
present, deserves the right to her grief. Ariana Vieri, previously Torlioni,
appears like a weary vision before us.
We stand and she smiles tremulously.
“He will see you now.”
Serena is the first to her feet and as she reaches our grandmother, she
pulls her in for a hug and I watch her whisper something in nonna’s ear
which causes the woman to smile, a strange twinkle in her eye being the
only indication she likes what she hears.
It intrigues me and I catch my brother’s eye, knowing he has seen it too.
It’s an interesting reaction from a woman who is about to lose the love of
her life.
We have no time to ponder this because our father stands and says,
slightly irritably, “Come. Pay your respects to your grandfather.”
He hovers beside nonna and it’s almost as if he doesn’t know what to do
in the circumstances, which again is a strange reaction from a man who was
brought up to cherish family above everything. I wonder when that changed
for him because Benito Vieri turned his back on this family as soon as he
was granted his freedom. Something I have yet to experience for myself.
Shade raises his eyes and I exhale wearily.
It would be nice to respect
our father, but we both lost that ability years ago. Not that he was a bad one,
he just never measured up to the role he was set to inherit. Luckily for my
grandfather, all three of his grandchildren share his own sense of duty.
Our father stops and glances at the silent woman in the corner who
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