I let go of Eva's grip and left the Lombardi mansion. To my good fortune, a cab was passing by. I took the vehicle and drove off and I turned back and saw how Alessandro was running behind the car without stopping. He looked desperate and worried, but I didn't want to talk to him right now. "Miss, do you want me to stop the car," asked the driver."No."The cab headed towards my house, I had no money to pay him, but just at that moment I noticed someone outside my house."Javier, what are you doing here?""Claudia, why are you crying?""I'll explain later, could you lend me some money to pay for the cab? As soon as I can, I'll pay you back.""Don't worry, I'll pay the driver right away."I sat down on a bench, my life these last few months was a disaster, although it was partly my fault for being so naïve."Tell me, what happened, Claudia," he said, approaching me. "I guess it's only logical, my wedding is off, that's all," I expressed bitterly. "Tell me what are you doing here in m
Days passed and Grandpa was at home waiting for the DNA results, which I finally had in my hands.I opened the envelope and tears streamed down my face, indeed Pilar was my sister.Grandpa Dante and Alex were celebrating with me the joy of having our little Paula Lombardi again.The only thing left to do was to fix the problems with the Rodriguez's and of course, to get Claudia back. I didn't want to let her go for anything in the world.***Pov. Eva"Clau, you can't continue in this state, you must talk to Alessandro, I know you love each other," I said to my stubborn best friend."He kept important information from me about my family and besides, he ruined our wedding day," she said with a grimace."Honey, it wasn't his fault, please talk to him," I insisted."Eva, you have to be on my side, you're my best friend," Alessandro started to get annoyed. "If you're so interested in Alessandro, then you'd better go with him.""Don't be stubborn," I rolled my eyes, "I just want to see you h
Pov. AlexisEva looked quite pleased to meet me, her smile was beautiful and her eyes had a peculiar twinkle in them, probably because the plans were working out as expected."I hope Claudia doesn't get too mad at me," she said as she approached, grimacing."Relax, it was necessary to get those, your friend will thank you," I said with a smile, to reassure her."Thank you for supporting me, Alexis.""You're welcome. I was never a good cousin to Alessandro, I think it's time for a change.""Change is always good," her smile widened. "I'll say goodbye, you know you can count on my friendship.""Thank you, Eva, likewise you now have a new friend," I said, not very convinced.I didn't understand why I felt this way about her, it was strange that just thinking that we would just be friends, I felt this way."She's your cousin's wife's best friend, you shouldn't get involved," attacked my conscience.I arrived at my apartment and was surprised, because Anna was waiting for me. I couldn't be
Alessandro's POVI couldn't even think of anything else but killing him.When I left the room in search of Claudia, I knew that things weren't quite right between us, and that's because ever since I had seen her kissing Matteo in those damn pictures, I had a terrible jealousy that I could barely control.I had never been good at love relationships and after Anna's cheating, I thought I would never be ready for love... until I found Claudia.And now she was hugging this guy I didn't even know.I was desperate, I had anxiety like shit and the urge to finish the son of a bitch only increases every second. My blood was boiling, I was more pissed off than ever, I felt like murdering whoever came near me, but nothing compared to the desire I had to kill the guy for approaching my wife.The fucking picture with the other asshole who held her back kept going over my fucking head, because that made my anger rise to a thousand percent. I was too jealous.I'd had a stupid upset stomach for a coup
Claudia's POVI couldn't believe how in a single day everything could go to shit. What had happened in the last few hours was the perfect example of that.The horrible scenes had stuck in my mind, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. The sight of him out of his mind, Charles lying on the ground, me trying to intervene to try and separate them, Alexis getting hurt because of him. Charles being taken away in an ambulance, and finally, Alessandro being arrested by the police.Sitting in the hospital waiting room, which was completely empty after Charles had been admitted as an emergency and then seeing the marks on his neck, the guilt gnaws at me.To think that if I hadn't gotten involved with a man I barely knew in the first place, it wouldn't have come to this, because at the end of the day I was the reason for this fight.I couldn't even look him in the face after what he did, the short seconds in which I connected my gaze with his, felt the worst. Knowing that the man you love was a
The car ride home took forever, I just wanted to get there and lock myself in my room so no one could see me cry. He really left me, and he didn't even care how I might be feeling.Lying in my bed, with my head on my pillow and incessant tears streaming down my cheeks, all I wish is that this day is just a damn nightmare and that tomorrow when I wake up, I can realize that none of this happened. I can't breathe normally either, the lump in my throat still remains, and all I wish is that my chest would stop hurting, that the crying would stop, but sadly it's something I can't contain.The coldness of his words never ceases to torture me, and the hatred with which his eyes looked at me has remained as a frozen image in my brain.I wanted to talk to him, I wanted to explain to him what happened, which he did not allow me to do, because his stupid jealousy blinded him completely. It's unbelievable to me, that he could even consider thinking that I preferred Charles to him. Fuck, I didn'
Three days had passed since the horrible nightmare, and without a doubt I still didn't feel better.Eva had been with me most of the time and today she had tried to encourage me to go for a run with her, so I could clear my head. But it had been a failure, because I hadn't even wanted to get out of bed; I just took a shower and went back to bed again.Trying to stop thinking about him was a lost cause and even more with the fact that today we were going to meet at a dinner to set another wedding date, to which I was supposed to go with my whole family, but it was obvious that circumstances had changed, the last thing I wanted was to be there, with Alessandro's hateful look."Claudia, come downstairs to eat," I heard my mother call from downstairs.We hadn't crossed words since the day we returned from the station, and it made me a little uncomfortable interacting with her after everything that had happened. But I was also starving, and I couldn't go without food, so I had no choice b
Alessandro's POVThe moment she opened the door and I saw her in front of me, the first thing that provoked me was to laugh.Her nose was redder than a tomato, and her eyelids were so swollen it looked like she'd been stung by hundreds of wasps. It was obvious that she had been crying a lot, and that she had been doing it just now; I could tell by the wetness of her eyelashes and the irritation in her eyes.We both stared at each other for several seconds, not taking our eyes off each other, and in the course of that time, I could tell how her expression quickly went from stupefaction to annoyance, a sign that this was not going to be easy."Will you let me through or would you rather I get roots out here?," I was the first one to speak, because she just stood there static, her look of annoyance on her face."What the hell are you doing here?" she suddenly shouted, but in such a loud way, that it almost made my eardrums burst.Hell, she was pissed."Let me through," I asked, trying to