Prologue
25 years ago.....
“Lorena my love, I know you don’t understand what’s going on right now but in a few years to come you will understand why I did this, please take care of you and your sister, no matter what happens I need you both to always stay together, always have each others backs ok? please stay safe” Andrea Valdez said to her eight-year-old daughter with tears in her eyes, the pain she was feeling was unbearable, honestly she wanted nothing more than to see her two daughters grow up and become strong women, but their father had already ruined that opportunity.
"Andrea Valdez salir ahora!” a man shouted in the sitting room as he and his men broke down the door to the house and began searching it.
Andrea placed the five-year-old Camilla in the hands of her sister, with shaking hands and tears in her eyes she locked the bunker she had hidden them in and took a deep breath, she knew her fate was already decided but maybe just maybe her daughters could be spared.
she covered the bunker with wood and then with a cloth and used the curtains to cover it up so it would be unnoticeable by Alfonso’s men, she said a quick prayer to the heavens to keep her daughters safe, she took a deep breath and came out from where she had hidden them.
“oh stupid Andrea you think you can owe Alfonso and run away?” Alfonso’s right-hand man said as he ordered his men to tie Andrea up.
“por favor ten compassion" Andrea said in pain and tears as the men began to hit her.
“shhh te amor my request is simple dame mi denero!!!! (give me my money)”Alfonso said angrily and struck Andrea with the gun he wielded.
“I don’t have your money, Alfonso, valdez was killed before he got the money okay, Mr stone found out about the operation and he killed my husband! I am not with any money!” Andrea said in tears.
“then you are of no use to me any more te amor” Alfonso said and signalled his men to kill her.
and with a single bullet to the head, Andrea was killed.
the last thing on her mind before she gave up the ghost was “Please heavens keep my daughters safe, especially Camilla”............
NEXT DAY....
“Camilla wake up, we need to go, mama said when we sleep and wake we should leave the house, Camilla” Lorena said as she tapped her baby sister on the shoulder.
she brought out the key that was given to her by her mother and opened the door of the bunker, she turned and tapped the still-sleeping Camilla until she woke up, and with all the strength she had she pushed the wood and it fell off, quickly without wasting any time she pulled Camila out of the bunker and they made their way to the living room.
the whole place was stained with blood and everywhere was scattered, she held little Camila’s hand tightly and helped her cross the stains of blood on the floor.
After all the jumping she successfully got herself and her sister to the door, Lorena looked at their house one last time before she shut the door and entered the always busy street of Mexico, she knew she needed to be strong for herself and her sister, unknown to her that little Camila knew more than she thought and as they walked down the street her heart was being consumed with hatred little by little.
“Hey little girls, don’t touch that thieves!!!!!” the woman selling bread shouted at Lorena, as she tried to steal a loaf of bread for her and her sister.
The little girls walked down the streets of Mexico, with sadness in their hearts and hungry stomachs, Lorena as always kept assuring her little sister that all would be okay, but Camila knew better even tho she was just five she was smarter than her age, even her parents were scared of how much she knew most times, from birth she was beautiful to behold, la Belle(beauty) was what her father use to call her, but she was a beauty with brains even from a tender age.
“Stop lying it won’t change what has happened!” Camila said to her sister as they lay down close to an abandoned old bus to sleep for the night.
“I..... Camila nothing has happened okay, mama will be back soon” Lorena said to her sister in an attempt to calm her down.
“Mama’s blood was on the floor in our house, mama is dead, accept it already!!” Camilla said angrily to her sister and stood up from where she was lying down.
“Camilla!! Mama said we should stay together okay and that’s what we would do” Lorena said to her sister and stood up.
“Fine! Starve if you want I will go find food” Camilla said and began making her way to the roadside where they had come from, with her sister chasing after her.
“Camilla do not be stubborn, please come back” Lorena shouted but as always Camilla didn’t listen, instead she quickened her steps.
“Camilla!!!“Lorena called but before she knew it her sister was already far gone.
Lorena kept running after her until she couldn’t see her anymore she had lost her in the crowd of people and musicians that she came across and by the time they had gone so had her sister, Lorena became desperate, she checked every store she came across, checked under anywhere she possibly thought Camilla would be hiding but to no avail, her sister was nowhere to be found, after searching for hours the realization of what has happened hit Lorena, her parents were gone and so was her sister.
She was alone, confused, scared, and unsure of what to do, she fell to the ground and all the tears she had been holding since the previous night came running down her face, she cried and cried until she couldn’t cry anymore, she screamed on the top of her voice and as if the heavens didn’t care about her pain, it showered its rain on her, and as got drenched in the rain new set of tears came back, and poor Lorena cried all over again.
“Lorena, stop crying, I brought food” she heard her sister’s voice say behind her and with the speed of light she turned, and lo and behold Camilla Valdez was standing behind her with a loaf of bread in one arm, a pack of juice and some beef steak in the other.
But that wasn’t all, she had a smirk on her face which confused her, Camilla had this devilish smile on her face that made her sister worry, she looked different but how was something Lorena couldn’t explain, but one thing was for sure, she and Camilla were not going to grow up alike and it scared her.
“Eat up sister, we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow” Camilla said to her sister as she gave her the food she had stolen.
“Where did you get this cami” Lorena asked as she took a bite of the bread.
“I got it the way every homeless orphan would lore, I stole it at a bar down the road” Camilla said easily which scared her sister.
“Mama taught us never to steal, I only tried to do so cause you were starving, don’t do that again Camilla,” Lorena said scolding her sister.
“Well guess what? Mama is dead and I need to survive so I can kill every single person that killed our parents, I would hunt them down, make them suffer then give them a glorious painful death” Camilla said with anger and hatred visible in her eyes and made her way back to the bus.
Leaving her surprised sister behind, Lorena was speechless, in just a few hours of separation her sister had changed.
Little did she know that that few hours of separation brought about the birth of Camilla Valdez The Red Wine.
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Red wine
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