Every discovery made Rain and I grow, but with that also came uncertainty and feelings of insecurity. We needed to learn how to trust each other and with each passing day, that happened.
We both realized that we no longer had to be afraid. We could count on one another for strength while dealing with our weaknesses.
Now Rain and I had moved into a new chapter of our lives and so did our family members around us. Conte left New York City to travel in search of a new life. A life after Rain, or maybe one similar to what Rain found with me.
Anna and Joseph decided to go back and forth between Capri and the states. Although they loved being here with us, they also needed to be with my brother, Daniel, in Philly.
Victor went back to work full-time at Kane and Medici in Manhattan. Now that I headed up our new office in Rome, Tommy’s brother Michael took on more of a leadership role at the firm in New York with Victor.
Raven decided to run the Kane and Medici office in Paris. For her, it was a fresh start. Besides, she was only a short plane flight away from her sister, if she felt homesick. Both she and Michael decided that their relationship as a couple could no longer be put on hold, but they didn’t want to destroy the connection that they had.
It wasn’t easy, but they ended on a friendly note and wished each other well.
As for Rain and myself, we moved much of what we had to the vineyard house here on the Isle of Capri. Rain continued to run her and Conte’s photography business while he was on leave. The coffee table book of their work was put on hold, but Rain knew that one day they would collect the perfect shots and then the book would be completed.
Rain and I finally settled in and made the vineyard house a home for our family. Capri had always been that for Rain, no matter what harsh realities the past had shown her when she lived here. Now she wanted to show a better life in Capri for our children. We both did.
Rain believed in family. She always said that no matter where you are or what you were doing, your family was your ties that bind. They were the invisible threads that held us all together even when we were apart.
It took this past year for Rain and I to truly heal. In that time, Rain taught me patience and trust. I finally believed that I was worthy of her love and wanted to give her my love in return.
In that year she also gave me a family, an identity and a home.
I went from being Rain’s captor to being the love of her life. She went from being my prisoner to the woman I dreamed about.
A year ago the right twin was taken.
And now, a little more than one year later…Rain and I were saved.
About the Author
Cleo Scornavacca is a wife, mom & a true "Jersey Girl". She was born and raised in NJ and still resides in the Garden State.
In 2012, Cleo began writing Miss Taken (book one in the Miss Taken Identity Series). Miss Taken was published in 2013 and Identity (book two in the series) in 2014. The Ties That Bind is the final novel in the series.
In addition, Cleo is working several other titles for 2016. Within Six Months is one of four standalones in the new Wild Roses Series, which will feature the secondary characters from Miss Taken Identity.
When she is not writing, she is spending time with her family, friends and her Dobie, Brayden. Cleo enjoys reading romance novels, books about Italy, listening to 80's metal bands, watching movies from Hollywood's Golden Age and of course, squishing her feet in the sand down at the Jersey Shore every chances she gets.
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