Chapter Two

Marianna's POV.

My heart ached, feeling like it could shatter into pieces. I never expected this from Drey. Three years ago, a few months after we got married, my parents died in a car accident.

Both of them didn't survive it. I was left with the company but I was too inexperienced to take over so I had Drey do it.

Putting the pieces together, I realized he had known the secretary before I introduced her to him.

I made him who he was today but he had been cheating all along. None of what we had was real, and now I'm carrying his child.

I turned my face to my stomach, caressing my belly while tears blurred my vision.

My baby is in danger. Drey will have us killed tomorrow.

Will anything change if I tell him about the baby? No, it won't. I had been a standby right from the start, someone meant to be used and discarded.

“You can turn the tide, Anna,” something in me whispered. “It's never too late to be in control of this game”

I moved out of my hiding place and walked towards the stairs. Each step felt heavy, like I was walking into the death trap they had set for me but I did it anyway.

“Honey, you are back” I announced my presence with a smile.

The both of them turned to me, shocked. Quickly, they moved away from each other.

“Anna…... I didn't know you were back” Drey croaked, having been caught unannounced.

I didn't walk to them, I walked straight to the dining table.

“You look flustered. Is anything the matter?” I asked.

My face was fixed on the dining table. I popped the wine open and filled a glass with it.

Drey walked to me. “Oh, nothing” he tried to smile.

I turned back to him and offered him a glass of wine. “I decided to come back home early. Did I surprise you?”

“No, it's fine” he responded, taking the glass and twirling it while staring at me.

He was trying to see the crack, trying to know whether I caught what they were doing but I won't let it show.

I turned my face to the secretary who still looked shocked, her face fixed nervously on the ground.

“Who is she?” I pretended not to know her.

“Oh, she's my secretary. She—” Drey was still talking when the lady's voice cut his words off.

She bowed deeply. “Good evening, Mrs. Lauren. Mr. Lauren forgot a file in the office and I had only come to drop it off. I was just about to take my leave”

“Oh, I see,” I exclaimed. “You should wait for dinner, the table is set already”

“No,” she retorted sharply. “I just remembered that I have somewhere to be”

“Yes, you should leave” Drey also supported.

She bowed once again and dashed out of the house in a hurry.

That moment, I became lost in thought. How did they plan my parent's death? How could I not know for years? How could I get pregnant for a man like him? How could I let him touch me after what he had done?

Tears blurred my vision again and I swallowed hard, knowing I would really be done for if Drey gets to know what I've found out.

“Honey?” He called.

I turned to him calmly, hiding my fear and disgust for him.

“Take a shower and let's eat” It took a lot of effort to say the words with a smile.

Drey went upstairs and while he was gone, I waited at the dining table. When he came back, we ate in silence. He tried to start a conversation but I was just not ready to talk with him.

After dinner, we both retired to bed. I laid down with my back turned to him, thinking about how to get myself out of the death trap created for me.

Not quite long after, Drey gently stood up from my side, grabbed his phone from the nightstand and walked outside.

My eyes fluttered open and I also stood up, tiptoeing after him.

He stood outside the room, near the corridor leading downstairs.

“Tomorrow night. Make sure everything is in place” he said in a low tone. “She dies just like her parents did”

A car crash. They were going to kill me in a car crash. I shook my head as a tear slid down my face and my heart ached. It was hard to believe that the man I got married to was not who I think he is.

He's a murderer! A player! A goddamn manipulator!

“All you need to do is tamper with her car tyres, I'll handle the rest from here” he said.

Hearing that, I knew the call was soon going to end. I tiptoed back into the room, laying down on my side the same way I did before he went outside.

When Drey got back on the bed, he wrapped his arms around me and that made me shiver slightly. Those hands that had always held and kept me warm suddenly disgusts me.

“You are awake?” He asked, lifting his head off the pillow.

“Uhm. I woke up and couldn't find you. You went somewhere?” I asked.

“No, just the outer bathroom” he responded.

Lies! All lies! For three years, I had been getting fed with lies and deceits.

“You texted. You had something to tell me” he said.

“Oh, that?” I chuckled. “It's nothing, honey. Forget about it”

Drey didn't argue, he just laid back on the bed, pulling me closer to himself.

I couldn't sleep, couldn't even close my eyes for a moment.

Tomorrow, my fate and that of my child will be decided. If I die, the baby dies. If I live, the baby lives.

I don't care if the child is Drey's, the child is mine. I won't tell him about the child, nor will I let my child die in his hands.