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"Where was your ? Did you not have anyone to protect you?"

"No, everyone was afraid of my father's wrath, expecially after the show he put on in the courtyard No one would stand up to hi but she was there," Alannah said very quietly "She was just like my father, only not as ruthless, so she watched the whole thing"

Do moments "Parents are supposed to protect their children not har to try to stop your father!"

"She ca I got," Alannah said tonelessly "She wouldn't even look ht home, save for when she spit in my face and told me that I was dead to her

"Then one day I found s I was being taken to a prison for women, they wanted me as far away from them as possible I was now a stain on their lives I was sent to the Cozia Monestary near Slbiu When I found out where I was going, when the truck stopped, I made a run for it I headed to the docks and becaed run-away

"My body and face were beginning to heal froh I still had bruises It made it easier to expalin ht I went froot to Gered to stay hidden because of Kasey" She said, as her voice broke with eotI owe Kasey my life, not just because helped me, but because she was the only one who took a chance on me And now she is dead, Kasey Finch paid for that with her own life" Alannah was crying now, as she remembered the sacrifce her friend made to save her life "Word of my escape from the truck had reached my father, and he sent his men to find me, and find me they did Kasey was the one that spotted them, she told me to run, and went to deal with them herself

"And you know the rest I met Matias's accoer-ferry to the Bahamas with Nicolò …Nicolò" she stopped, and said "Nicolò knew me, he posed as Mr Giovanni aboard the ship I was on, do you think he could have sent word to my father as to where I was now?"