Semua Bab The Arrogant Billionaire's Redemption: Bab 131 - Bab 140

‘Oh my God!!’, I shout, staring at the counter, at his back,‘Why didn’t you tell me’, I was staring at blood soaked tissues, a large piece of glass lying among them, blood streaming down a gash in his shoulder.I felt stupid, I had hugged him, yet I knew nothing of the large gash streaming blood.‘You carried me, helped me with my toes and all this while you had glass lodged in your shoulder’.‘I didn’t want you to worry’, he had a sheepish look on his face as he grabbed more tissues, stemming the flow of blood,‘What kind of excuse is that, do you want to die of blood loss’,‘It’s not that bad’, he replies me and I turn a glare towards him,‘I’ll be fine, I heal fast’, he smiles sheepishly,‘Don’t you dare use my word against me, this is more than just blisters’ I press against the wound with him’‘We’re going to the hospital’, I try to pull him with me.‘What of Ajax?’,‘You’re my priority right now’, I use his words too and a laugh drops from his lips,‘I just want to sleep now, w

Well...not…not exactly’, my eyes narrowed at a spluttering Simon,‘We’ll discuss this later’, a glare on my face I whisper at him before I turned to Ajax‘You’re not skipping today’, I stretch my hands out for Simon to pass him to me,‘But I want to play with you and daddy’, he pouted at me, grabbing tightly to Simon’s neck‘We can play when you get back, school is important’, I glared at Simon again, watching a sheepish look take over his face,‘But daddy said…..’‘I’m sure daddy was just joking’ ‘Right Simon’, I turned a tight smile to Simon and he nodded quickly,‘Yeah, Ajax’, his face looked pained as he tried to force a smile onto his face,‘I meant if you fell sick, you could skip to go to the hospital’, Ajax pout stayed on a moment more before it resolved, it turned into a frown in seconds as his eyes fixed on Simon’s face,‘Daddy, are you sick?’‘Your face looks bad’ Ajax stretched his hand out, poking Simon face with a finger, ‘No…no I’m not sick’, a forced la

Ajax’, his name dropped from my lips, like a strangled sob as I shot up in bed,My chest heaved, breathing wild, my forehead dripping with sweat,Simon stumbled from his bed, half asleep, staggering to my side.‘What happened’, his words were slurred as he blinked medication induced sleep from his eyes yet worry was evident in them,‘What happened’, he repeated, holding my face in his hands, brushing sweaty curls from my forehead,My eyes watered, sobs racking my body,‘They took him from me', my voice shook, whimpers escaping my mouth,‘He was here, with me, then he was gone'Simon drew me in, folding me to his chest like he had always done,‘It was just a dream', my tears flowed to his neck, a mix of my sweat and terms soaking his shirt,‘Just a dream', he whispered against my hair, stroking my head but my mind was still plagued by the nightmare I woke from.We were both in the playground, Ajax and I, and I watched him, intently, like I always did, while he jumped from sw

‘Mom', I pushed away from him, turning to Mrs. Alicia Valero, a woman who insisted on that title right from the time I left my parents, following her.‘Mother’, Simon’s voice sounded dreary, a complete opposite of mine,‘Valentina', she rushed towards me, engulfing me in her warm embrace, it pushed past the pain of my son kidnap, stemmed that overflowing river.‘It's been too long’, she pushed Simon out of her way, planting herself beside me,The look of unbelief on Simon’s face widened the smile on mine,‘Oohh let me look at you', keeping her hands on my shoulders, she held me at arms length searching my face, her warmth-filled voice filling my ears,She lifted a hand to my cheek, squeezing lightly then turned a glare to Simon who was looking at us puzzled,‘Simon aren’t you feeding her, look how thin she has gotten’‘Mom’, laughter burst from my lips as I exclaimed ‘Of course…I…she’, Simon stuttered at his mother’s chiding looking further confused,He got himself togeth

‘Well, my mother is….’, he started‘She was…’,‘She's….’, he hesitated, stopping repeatedly,I stretched my hand out, taking his hand in mine, my hold soft and reassuring,‘Well she was the reason why I hated you so much before we even met'‘Because she arranged our marriage without your consent?’, I asked him, thinking about how I had always wondered why Simon had showed so much coldness, right from our first meet,‘No, because you reminded me too much of her',‘You know I found out from the TV'‘That we were getting married', my eyebrows creased at the new piece of information,‘The moment I saw you on that TV, your smile so similar to hers as you announced something I knew nothing about’‘It made me want to punch a hole through the TV'‘It reminded me of all the manipulations I put up with' I listened, eyes fixed on him as he took a walk down memory lane,‘That bright smile, whispered conversation with my high school principal and my best friend was gone, transferred for no reason