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Tainted Love TRUTH AND LIES
BELLA’S POVI took a deep breath as I pushed open the door to Moreno’s room. As Mateo left, he told me he left someone in charge and that I should ask him for anything I needed. I managed to respond with a nod as I couldn’t bring myself to speak.As I got into the room, Moreno was lying in bed with his eyes closed. I sat on the bed and took his hands in mine. The room was quiet except for the sound of the beating of my heart and the machines in the room. I looked at Moreno’s face, peaceful and vulnerable, as I looked at him, he seemed like a different person now. I tried to search for the man who tormented me for months but he was nowhere to be found, I couldn’t help but imagine what our life would have been like if we had not meet the way we did. I took his free hand and placed it against my cheek, feeling the coolness of his skin against mine. I hoped that he could feel the warmth of my body, and know that I was there with him. I wished he could understand how much he meant to me,
Tainted Love HE’S YOUR FATHER
MORENO’S POVI hated being in the hospital let alone being attended to by doctors and nurses. It made me feel weak and helpless, two things I did not want to be. I knew that with Alvaro out there, it wasn’t safe for me to be in the hospital, I needed to do everything I could do to protect Bella. The only way to end this madness was to put an end to Alvaro once and for all. I knew that he would not stop until I was dead. I had to find a way to protect my family and fast. I arranged a meeting with Mateo and some of my most trusted men. We had no leads in Alvaro’s whereabouts and it was driving me insane.During our search for Alvaro, we found something else. The woman who birthed me, the woman who had never been a mother to me, was seen on the CCTV footage from the house, but she had disappeared hours before the attack. It only meant one thing, she was alive and had escaped with Alvaro. I felt sick to my stomach at the thought of them together.The other mafia dons withdrew from the fig
Tainted Love SCANDAL
Moreno’s POV“The fuck did you just say?” I asked her, I was extremely pissed. I grabbed her by her hair so she was facing me and I tightened the grip on her hair, she was in pain, but I didn’t care, that was exactly what I wanted her to feel. I looked at her face which was filled with tears and I kicked the chair she was tied on so she was thrown to the floor. “You’re fucking kidding me right?” I asked as I pulled her up by her hair again, and she shook her head. “Please spare me,” she begged.“Do you think you have any right to tell me to spare you, you worthless piece of shit,” I said looking at her, my voice shaking with anger. I don’t know what was holding me back from hitting her but I knew the restraint was quickly slipping away. I looked at her one more time and then I stormed out of the warehouse, I wanted to go get a drink to calm down, but I remembered that I promised Bella that I would come back to her. I got to the car and told Antonio to drive me home. When I got home,
Tainted Love WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY WIFE
MORENO’S POVI sat frozen with my eyes glued to the screen as I scrolled through the news article. I stared at it in disbelief, who would have resolved to such childish tactics? I considered the possibilities and there were so many people who would have done something like this. Whoever it was was playing with fire and was surely going to get burned. It could be anyone, my business rivals, or even Alvaro, but he wasn’t one to resort to such underhanded tactics.It was clear to me that this sex scandal was no mere coincidence. Someone had engineered this entire scheme, and the faceless woman in the video was fortunate not to be exposed to the wrath I would bring down upon her and her conspirators. The puzzle pieces were starting to fall into place, yet the motive remained elusive. One thing was certain, I would not rest until I found out who was responsible for this.I called my secretary immediately. "I need you to arrange a press conference right now," I said. "This scandal has to be
Tainted Love THE TRUTH UNRAVELS
MORENO’S POVI left the doctor's office with my head hung low, I couldn’t think straight and my head was spinning. How could I possibly tell Bella that I put her and our baby at risk because of a mistake I made in the past, I couldn’t bring myself to tell her. I was terrified and ashamed. I slumped on the chair outside the room trying to gather my thoughts, but all I could think about was the horror on Bella’s face when she found out the truth.Mateo walked up to me, “How did it go boss?” He asked. “Everything is fine, she just needs to rest,” I could see the worry in Mateo’s eye, I didn’t want to lie to him, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell him the truth. I knew he didn’t believe me but he didn’t push the issue. I took a deep breath got up and walked into the room Bella was in. She was already awake when I saw her face, all I wanted to do was tell her the truth, but instead, I forced a smile. “Hey cupcake, how are you feeling?” I asked putting on my best smile to hide how I felt i
Tainted Love THE TRUTH UNRAVELS 2
BELLA’S POVMoreno gave us a little distance which I appreciated, it took everything in me not to break down in tears, but I didn’t want to do that in front of this man whom I had spent my whole life with only to learn that my whole life was built on lies. “How have you been?” I managed to ask, “Good, good.” He replied arrogantly “And you? How’s your husband treating you?” He asked and I replied forcing a smile “Good.”I took a sip of the glass of water that Moreno had ordered for me before he left, it helped to serve as a little distraction from the intense conversation I was about to have with my father. I held onto the glass tightly, using the cool feel of the water to calm my anger. I wanted to lash out, to yell and scream at my father for what he had done. But I knew that wouldn't be wise. I swallowed my anger and tried my best to remain calm and in control.I gently placed the glass on the table and asked, “How’s your new family?” He looked at me surprised, then his expression c
Tainted Love SAVE THEM BOTH
MORENO’S POVI glanced at the document one last time, unsure of how to break the news to Bella about her condition but I couldn’t, I was terrified she would blame me and hate me all over again, I didn’t want that, the thought of it was too much to bear so I made the difficult decision to keep it from her, I convinced myself that it was for the best. If she found out the reason it could make her mentally unstable again and it was a risk I couldn’t take.I placed the document on the table and left in a hurry after I received a call from my mother’s caretaker that she was causing a disturbance again, I didn’t kill her because Bella begged me not to, unfortunately, my mother's erratic behavior was as a result of her failure to take her medication, she was struggling with drug addiction.As I entered the compound, my men greeted me with a nod. “Take me to her,” I instructed one of them. With a swift response of “Yes, boss,” I followed him to her room. Upon entering, I saw her lying on the
Tainted Love DEVASTATING TRUTH
BELLA’S POVI tried my best to hold in the tears that were threatening to drop from my eyes, while I lay on the bed thinking of everything that had been going on in my life. I was grown and beginning to understand some things. I knew my parents were doing the best they could do for me as their only child, they wanted to give me only the best in everything, I wasn't even allowed to get a job when I insisted that I wanted to help them, they believed they should be the ones providing for me. I’ll be starting college next month and I found out that my dad told Uncle Noah to help him borrow some money from the bank for my college tuition, my uncle was the only sibling my dad had and my dad trusted him with his life. I overheard their discussion in Dad’s study room, but I pretended that I didn’t know anything about it. We were a middle-class family living in the city of San Francisco but my parents made me go to an elite school for the rich. And my dad insisted that I study business educa
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