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"Wakey, wakey." I flutter my eyes open and notice Diego standing in front of me with his hands on his hips, waiting for my response.

"Why are you in my room?" I face away from him and try and go back to sleep–ignoring his presence.

"Just be quiet and get up, this is what I'm getting paid to do." His voice turns aggressive, I sit up at the shock that he's getting paid to train me, he's probably not even a proper teacher.

"Wow thanks for getting paid for helping me out." I sit up and stare at him, we stare each other for awhile until he breaks eyecontact.

"Get up Serena." Diego looks at me and I sit up, his eyes are keen.

"Get out of my room then so I can get dressed." I roll my eyes and he leaves the room, slamming my door with aggression.

I get dressed in a sport top and a different pair of sport leggings this time they're bright red. I put my hair up in a high pony tail and open my door and there he stands waiting for my arrival.

"Let's get this started then." My half-asleep voice speaks for my mind, mentally I'm not ready to fight, it's only 7 o'clock.

We both run on the machine, we both begin to sweat and he begins to laugh.

"Struggling my love?" He smirks at me and I roll my eyes, 'my love' who does he think he is?

"I don't think my father would appreciate you calling me that." I looked at him and smirked back waiting for his response, but he was beaten down. He knows my dad wouldn't approve of it, joke or not.

"We're going do some fighting now. " I nod as we head over towards the large matt on the floor. I end up kicking him in the leg and making him ache, I try punch him but he dodges and yet again holds my fist.

He ends up getting a bit too physical and ties my arms behind my back not allowing me to move, I headbutt him and push him away.

"Not too bad, Il mio amore." (my love) He looks at me and winks. I need to stop rising to this he's just going to keep saying it, I roll my eyes at him and we continue to fight.

"Is that all you got?" He raises a brow as he asks the question, I then punch him in the face.

"I'm so sorry!" I cover my mouth as Diego looks at me, he backs me up against the wall, he's only inches away from me and I can smell the sweat mixing with his fresh aftershave he has on.

"That's a rule you've broken." He steps away and I feel clueless.

"What?" I look all confused at him and wonder what he's on about.

"You don't say sorry. " I look at him and laugh, I only actually apologised because I punched him hard and he's not an enemy here.

"You're not my enemy though." I look up at him and he scoffs playfully.

"You're mine though, Il mio amore." (my love) I roll my eyes and our session is over, I walk up to see my mum sitting up to the table reading her newspaper.

"Morning mum." I sit opposite her and she smiles at me.

"Morning darling, how's training?" She puts her newspaper down to focus all of her attention on me. Which she's always been the same, especially when my father put a lot more attention onto Nicolas as he got older.

"Yeah it's good!" I smile at her and we talk for awhile until I get a vibration from my phone.

"Hey girl, coffee today? x"

I think that's what I need right now, a coffee with Alice. Especially to wake my brain up even more.

By the time I've had a shower and gotten dressed it's 12PM, I get into my car and head towards the café that Alice is meeting me at, I notice her car already in the car park, I park my car and make my way inside, the coffee smell fills my nostrils and gives me the familiar smell of freedom, whenever I felt down about my family I'd go here, away from everyone. I notice Alice sitting in our familiar seats, the ones at the far end of the café, I sit down and she gasps at the leftover bruise on my face from Ivan's men.

"Yeah I got hit, oh and also sliced." She looks at me with complete shock, then her eyes go angry.

"I told you this would happen!" Alice leans toward and begins to lecture me on what's happened.

"I was fine Alice, this is what I want and there are punishments, but luckily I'm training to protect myself." I look at her and smile, she completely drops the conversation and starts to talk about her job at the hair dressers.

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Our talk went on for awhile until I saw Orlando standing outside next to my car.

"Serena." He looks at me and smiles.

"Orlando." I sigh and try and force a smile.

"Your father wants you home. " I nod and get into my car and put the keys in and feel the car begin to come to life, I began to drive towards my family home and I could see Orlando's car following me on the way.

I parked my car in the driveway and open the large doors, and began to shout.

"Dad I'm home." I wait for my father to return down stairs, he waits on top of the stairs and waits for me to climb up them.

"My office." He says and walks off as if I'm going to take a million years to walk up them. I open the familiar doors and close them behind me.

"What's this about?" I slump myself onto the chair opposite his desk and he looks at me.

"Diego is going to start to teach you shooting and stabbing." I near choked on air, shooting? Stabbing?

"W-why?" I struggle to get my words out but I wait to see what my father has to say.

"Well you need to be protected, don't you? Might as well protect yourself properly." He smiles at me, my father never smiles, he didn't even smile when his son announced that he was having a baby with his partner.

"Yeah." Is all I could say, I leave the room and head towards my bedroom where I turn my TV on and begin to watch a TV show.

After awhile my long day takes a toll on me and makes me fall asleep fast, the room goes dark as my eyes began to close, the sudden tiredness flooded over me forcing me to sleep.

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I wake up and decide to head for more practice, with Diego around or not, I put on a purple sports top and black sports leggings and head down stairs and begin to search for my ear phones, I put them in my ears and turn my music on, I play some music and begin to run on the machine, I could see my heart rate go up.

Then I feel a cold hand go onto my shoulder which made me jolt, I turned the running machine off and saw Diego standing there with his arms crossed smirking.

"Training without me now I see?" He comes closer to me closing off all air.

"Why would you care? You still get paid when you're training me anyway, I can do extra by myself." I huff and walk away from him and begin to go on the sit-up bench.

As I do my sit-ups Diego just stands there, staring at me each time I come up and lay myself back down, I can feel the sweat dripping from my back and travelling down.

"So shooting practice tomorrow?" I ask as I grunt up, and lay back down again.

"Yeah tomorrow Evelen in the morning." He leans against the sit-up bench, I sit up and look at him.

"Eleven in the morning? That's later for you, I was expecting you to be at my door at four o'clock. " I snigger at my comment, he rolls his eyes and walks out of the basement, I continue to train until it gets to about 11PM, I run upstairs and head for a shower until I'm stopped by Nicolas.

"Hey Serena, you okay?" Nicolas half whispers as hes acknowledges that everyone else in this house is asleep, by everyone I mean my mum and Nicolas' girlfriend.

"Yeah, you?" I sit on the end stair and look up at him as he leans against the rail.

"Yeah, Maria wants to go shopping tomorrow after your training as she is in need of more clothes, I was wondering if you'd want to go with her?" He looks at me hopefully for my answer, honestly I love Maria, I'd love to spend some time with her and chat shit about my brother.

"Yeah I'd love to go." I smile and my brother thanks me before I head of into my room and jump in for a quick shower, I change into some shorts and a small vest shirt and head for my bed, waiting for my body to sleep. But it doesn't, I decide to read a book which makes me fall asleep half way though the first page.

The start of the day went too quickly and I didn't take advantage of it, because before I knew it, it was training time, I went to the basement and found Diego standing in the middle of the room waiting for my attendance.

He moves some boxes and there was a door leading else where, I have definitely never seen that door there before, Diego opens it up to reveal rows of blocked off lines, which shows at the end fake people targets. My father had a shooting practice range here the whole time? My body ignited with excitement, Diego and I both picked up a gun, he was showing me the best ways to hold it, where to hide it and the best places to shoot, he shot at his lane a few times making me be his owl watching over him, he then watched over me while I shot too, once in the fake chest and one on the shoulder.

"Not too bad my love." I look at him and he instantly looks away, why does my 'mentor' have to be so annoying?

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Our training goes on for awhile more and I end up throwing a few knifes, not my speciality, Diego comes up behind me and holds my hand while I hold the knife, he repositions my fingers and rests my hand differently on the grip, I can smell his minty breath roaring over my shoulder, filling my nostrils with the smell, he leans in closer to get the same eye look that I'm having before I throw the knife.

"Now, aim." He says and I throw the knife, hitting the targets forehead.

"That's great." He looks at me and smirks, he turns around back into the gym area and I follow, we decide to run a bit more then call it a day. Especially as I remember Maria needs more clothes and she wanted me to go with her.

I head for a quick shower and rub my body with a coconut scented body wash and come out as soon as possibly to change, I decide to just wear a pair of black jeans and a red jumper, with that I just pick up my white trainers.

I decide to wait near the doors for Maria's arrival. She comes downstairs in a beautiful long purple floral dress with a white denim jacket over it, she looks at me and smiles, we both head out and get into one of my fathers men's car. We both sit on the leather seats, the man got into the car and began to drive, my father and brother thought it would be 'safer' if we had someone with us at all times.

We enter a shop which was so bright and colourful, I tried showing Maria a pink top which was definitely big enough for her bump that is forming.

"I love it!" Maria shouts and claps her hands, she takes the top off of me and puts it into her basket. We look for a while longer and decide to head home, Maria goes through everything she brought, to bigger jeans, bigger dresses to bigger tops and other bras.

We talk and laugh until I look in the window and notice a pitch black car doing the same direction as us. I ask the driver to go else where and we are yet again followed by the same car... Who's in the car? I try squint my eyes to try and figure out who's in the car but I can't work it out.