47 10:00 PM It’s been hours to our lunch and my overthinking but I couldn’t get what was the point of inviting Nathan, just to show him off that he forcefully has me? Or to hurt me with his reaction of watching us together? What did they talk about when Nathan excused themselves? These questions were on top of my mind and there were no justifiable answers to satisfy the heavy feeling pushing my chest. I just came back from my siblings’ room on the orders of Armando to be his in room, I won’t call this room mine because I simply didn’t want to have it in first place. I even asked Nancy to set another for me as doing a favour to her friend but she simply denied by saying she couldn’t go against his fucking master. He is more important to everyone than me, only because he has powers? Go to hell Armando. I wish I never came to Spain. My mind was bearing all my fit of tempers while I marched back to the room, and I thanked innerly for not having Armando here till now. I was alone and h
48 “I have his report of criminal history in my hands,” My mind blanked for a moment as he made the most confusing combination of good and bad. Nathan! He can’t have a criminal record. I knew Armando was lying to me as usual. “You think I’ll buy your manipulation, well let me remind you it’s not gonna happen. I’m not Miss. Bellen anymore, your name with me is enough to understand you and who knows you blackmailed her to spit all this shit,” I retaliated “Oh really I see,” he longed his words as in taunting, “how come you believed Nathan when he slandered me buying your parents,” Armando threw me back to the sofa while stepping ahead like a predator to pounce on his meek prey, “Because he showed me,” I grumbled, shoved him away as he tried to get on top of me, he moved only an inch by all my might. “Showed you what? That I was hypnotizing them into a fantasy-land? Don’t tell me you saw me abducting your family in those videos or whatever the fuck you saw, it’d be funny as hell.”
49Armando’s P.O.VShe kissed me. Was it for real? Since when did she start showing her soft side to me? How did it happen? Was she being too close to me by her own will? What was going on in her mind when she touched my lips? It was impossible for me to swallow her soft gesture toward me. I was trying very hard to admit that she really kissed me with her own free will and I should appreciate this clue. I roamed back to our passionate moment and reminded her response, her lips… they were so soft against mine just like a cube of butter melting against the heat. Oh fuck man, I want to feel them again. Whatever the case was I’d take it as an acceptance gesture, she finally has a little bling in her heart for me, maybe I should be upset with her often so she repays me this way, I could have it all if I keep having arguments. Or perhaps she wanted to cool down my anger on her. I should tell her this trick of hers worked and will always work on me. My kitten didn’t know her kiss would
50“Let me see it on my own,” He started striding toward me. I hesitated and stepped back, “It was nothing import…” he didn’t let me finish my sentence and tugged the papers from my hand. I sighed loudly, calculating his reaction. He observed it sharply, it seemed like he would get them out of this picture just by his sight. His eyes were narrow, Neither I could understand if he was getting angry or happy. His face was that neutrally flat. The silence around us was killing me, I always preferred to skip these moments of making me breathless every time I have such encounters. He gave an opposite reaction from what I was expecting, calmly hummed and stopped staring at the papers then trapped me in his eyes. The just-found air was long gone by that moment. “Where did you get it?” “Someone faxed you 5 minutes back,” I replied casually. He cocked his head and observed my features.His eyelashes were soaked with wetness and iris hinting a blaze of passion in them. I gulped at his intens
51My heart was pounding, “Damn, my face!” I cupped my cheeks and rolled my eyes over my pale complexion, I had a shower and discovered my scars on my shoulder gifted by Armando’s grip, he never noticed how heavy his hands were, It nearly hurt when I wore to cover them. I applied fasten-gel to close it, and put back the first-aid kit in the cabinet. I slid out of the bathroom while drying my hair with the towel, my concentration was toward my hair and eyes down at the ground, As I looked slightly up, I found a pair of red heels; one was constantly tapping the floor, I ascended my neck to find Julianna standing tall. “Hello, dear,” She batted her left eyebrow with a bitchy smirk, I would describe. I swallowed my saliva to wet my dried throat, “Hi,” she looked calculated and unknowingly prepared for something which I couldn’t fathom, her face was as usual baked with makeup and nail perfect to wound someone’s neck. As soon she saw my eyes on her hand she hid her hands in her black coa
52Sunrise7:42 AMTime was ticking on the clock and flying forever while I was struggling with the wide-eyes-open fight, I wanted to shut my active mind but it had been busy imagining worst-case scenarios, and I hated it for that. It had been like that from the moment those scarlet pair of heels left the room after spreading chaos in every corner, made me question my belief over the man I loved more than my existence, I finally sat upright on the bed after battling to sleep, my mind wasn’t in my favour that moment, It was continuously on that picture I found in Armando’s office. I huffed aloud - tired by constantly thinking of the immediate future, I had nothing in my control, everything seemed against me. I scooted out of bed and opened the curtains to admire the greenery of the garden, it was pleasant to view as the sun was rising and eating out the dark, my smile grew wider and I took a deep refreshing breath, may something sooner would wipe darkness of my life just this way, I
53I had my hair covered with a hoodie hat and kept my head lowered from the fear of Armando’s man nabbing me. 15 minutes had been passed by and I was still wandering on the streets of Spain. My heart was restless and doubtful about if Nathan was coming to pick me up or was I a fluke in the air, did he really have rosy feelings for my bitchy sister-in-law, I was burnt by this thought flashing in my head. 5 minutes more passed by and still no sign of his car or even him in person. I was frightened and decided to make a call again but before I could reach the telebooth. I caught a glimpse of a navy blue Audi skitting beside me and pulled up, I stiffened at his speed and glanced at it to check out who that insane man was behind the tinted windows. Shoot.The windows slid down and a man with semi-grey hair peeked at me, Oh boy, it must be Armando’s man. I paced to run but I just jogged so people around me won’t catch me suspicious. He drove alongside me, my heart pumped furiously and I w
54“So that’s why you killed my baby because you didn’t want to share me,”“What do you mean I killed your baby? How can you…” I trailed him off, “Armando showed me a video of Andrea showered in blood, accusing you promised her to help getting rid of me and she will have Armando and you’d planned my abduction for a long time, and now, you admitted you knew me from America, It’s quite alining, isn’t it.” I pushed him away and stood up taunting him, he frowned deeply at me, his face had a shade of guilty and he was continuously denying that fact, He tried to catch my hand but I backtracked swiftly, “I didn’t kill your fetus, Come on, Lana,” he stood up grumbling, “For God’s sake he was not a fetus, he was my baby,” I returned with the same potential, maybe more violent than him because my anger was burning my skin. Yes, now the accusation resembled truth, he was sounding like my baby’s culprit and as much I was hating myself for that right now, I was disappointed, shattered and frust