“Help!” I scream at the top of my lungs, hoping someone can hear me from the outside. “HEEELLP!!” I scream again. Mikal yanks me against his chest roughly and sneers in my ear. “HEEELLP!!” He says, mimicking me. “No one’s going to save you, princess!” He laughs and hits me across the face with his backhand.I'm thrown onto the bed, my cries of pain filling the room. My face throbs with a fiery sting, and I cautiously reach up to touch it. The swelling is becoming more pronounced, and once again, a sense of panic washes over me. Mikal gazes down at me with a mischievous grin, a hint of amusement dancing in his eyes, as he casually unfastens the buckle of his belt. His baggy jeans gather in a pile on the floor, as he stands at the edge of the bed, his lips moist as he caresses himself and gazes at me with a hunger that suggests I am his ultimate desire.Fuck! He’s seriously going to try to… I attempt to crawl further up towards the head of the bed, but Mikal suddenly reaches out and fo
The ringing sound in my ear becomes deafening, shutting everyone out.'Why won't it just stop? I can no longer hear Chrissy hysterically crying or Carlos giving out orders and the smell… That awful hospital smell is gone, too.Shit…Am I…? Am I, no! I can't be dead. This isn't how my life is supposed to end.“Vanessa, you’re okay.” A familiar voice calls out to me in the darkness. “You’re okay, lil sis.” She calls out again.“Celeste, is that you?” I cry.“Yes, sweetheart. It's me.”“Why… Why can’t I see you?” The panic is evident in my voice. “Your eyes are swollen shut, and you have swelling in your brain. But you are alive, Vanessa.”“I need you…” “I'm here. I will always be here when you need me. But you can’t stay here with me.” There’s sadness in her voice as it slightly trembles.“Just a little longer, let me stay a little longer, please?” I plead.“I'm sorry, Nessa. But you have to go back. The longer you stay here, the less chance you have returning to your body.” “I don’t
"If… I couldn’t save our child, Luca. How can you expect me to help save you?” I stare at him, feeling empty and confused. “We need to save each other, tesoro. But the only way for us to do that…” He looks me dead in the eye. “Is if we help pick each other up. When the time is right, we will be blessed with another baby. Our time will come, cara mia, you just have to wait and see.” He gently kisses the top of my head. He can try to sweet coat the truth. But I don’t want another baby. I just want my baby back! My perfect, innocent baby. His words cause my insides to seize up and my heart to ice over. “No… I want my baby back! How can you sit here and talk of another when I just lost my baby?” I sneer at him unbelievably.“Our baby. WE lost OUR baby. Si, I may not have carried our child. But I did help create it, and I did grow to love it, too.” He snaps at me with wide eyes.“No…” I struggle to get up from him, but he doesn’t let me go. Instead, he just crushes me closer to him. “It
“You got that right.” I wink at her. “How did you get here?” I ask with curiosity.“I had my driver drop me off. Uncle Luca said to tell you that he will be here as soon as he can. He is meeting with the detectives and his lawyer.” She looks at the door and then back at me.“Why is he meeting with the detectives? He wasn’t there.” I scowl, looking at everyone confused. “We have all been interviewed. But I assume Luca is trying to hold them off from coming to see you so soon.” Carlos says as he scratches the back of his head.Rosalia turns around at the sound of his voice. Carlos gazes at Rosalia and flashes her with one of his jaw-dropping smiles. Her head snaps back in my direction, and her cheeks turn a pretty shade of pink. I watch her as she tucks her loose hair behind her ear, and when I look back at Carlos, he remains staring at the back of her head. I casually flick my eyes between the two and realise the air has become thick with wonderment. Conrad clears his throat, interrup
Two hours later we are back at the house where I have joyfully popped a few pain killers, Conrad had set up our beds turning the living room into a bedroom. Conrad said it was better we all slept in one room so they both could keep an eye on me but I know he is trying to keep me from going back into the room where the assault took place. Such honey he is. Carlos tried his last hand at convincing me to change my mind and remain in my hospital bed. I lied to him and told him that I would be staying with Luca, so if anything happened. I would be in good hands. He still didn’t look pleased in the slightest when he handed me the Discharge forms to sign. He gave me a few words of advice and told Chrissy that if she felt that Luca wasn’t meeting her standards in taking super extra care of me to call him at any time, day or night. I forced his stubborn ass to hug me and thanked him for not letting me die the moment I handed the clipboard back to him. I told him I will call him and Sanz in d
I wake up to someone persistently knocking on the front door.I roll over and slowly ease myself into a sitting position on the bed being sure to keep the screams of agony suppressed. I run my hands through my tangled hair when Conrad walks in with a shadow close behind him.“Hey, Nessa.” He looks at me apologetically. “Detective Reeves is here to see you.” He steps aside and a middle-aged female steps forward.“Hi Vanessa, I’m detective Amanda Reeves.” She thrusts her hand forward and I shake it. “Look, I know this isn’t an appropriate time in the morning to do this.. but I would appreciate it if I could have your co-operation so we can get this case cleared.” She says as her eyes scan the room.Amanda Reeves looks to be in her mid-thirties, She looks a lot like Cameron Diaz with brown eyes but when the light hits them and look close enough there are bits of green and orange embedded deep within the iris. Her eyes are stunning. She has urban black hair with
Rosalia shows up twenty minutes later. Her hair is pulled up into a messy bun and she’s dressed in an Adidas tracksuit. She looks so much like her mum, it causes my heart to miss a beat. “Is everything okay, Aunt Nessa?” Her face is full of concern. She sits next to me and I reach over and place her hand in mine, resting them on my knees. “You know, I love you.” I try my best to keep my voice levelled. “Si, I love you too.” Her beautiful eyes are filled with concern. I bring her hand up to my lips and place a gentle kiss on her hand. “This decision has no impact on us whatsoever.” I want to reassure her. “But for me to move on I can’t be with your Uncle.” I let go of her and place the ring box in her hand. “I need you to do this one favour for me and return it to Luca.” Tears prick my eyes and I rapidly blink urging them away. “He will be guttered, you know he won’t accept that this will be over between you?
Lucas POVI walk out of the house and jump into my Audi. She refuses to see me again. “Fuck!” I yell as I bang my hands against the steering wheel. I just finished telling her I can’t fucking live without her and she’s the best thing that's ever happened to me. Yet she still dismisses me like I'm nothing to her. We just lost our baby, the baby I was secretly rejoicing in. We were going to be a family damn it, a fucking family. She was going to bear my name and my children, my life was going to be complete and fucking incredible. I was planning on spending the rest of my life making her the happiest lady to ever grace the planet. But that was viciously torn from me. The mob had gotten a hold of Mikal and paid him a pretty penny to turn my world upside down. That fucker is lucky he’s already dead because if I had gotten my hands on him he would’ve died a long and slow death. Even that was generous on my behalf. The mob will pay, the person who ordered the hit will pay. They onl