Filed to story: Dumped by Scumbag Adored by Billionaire
“I’m no better. The thought that Isabella would skin me alive if I mess up is what’s keeping me going,” He confessed to Emerald who nodded.
“Isabella loves you, you love her and you’ve both proven that you can live together without tearing each other apart. So I wish you both good luck, “Emerald blessed him.
“Thank you so much,” Pedro?added with a smile, “Father,”
Emerald smiled back when he suddenly remembered, “Also the only advice I have for you is to never argue with women,?that is if you want peace. They’re always right,” He winked at him.
“Of course,” Pedro laughed, winking back.
“And now I have to go snatch your mother off the stage before she forgets it’s not her rehearsal dinner,” Emerald said, causing a chuckle to escape from his lips. His mother tends to overdo things especially when it comes to her children just like how she wants them to give her six kids – which was an impossible dream with Isabella.
However, on the bright side, she’d be over the moon when she hears of Isabella’s pregnancy. And speaking about Isabella, where was she? She was just beside him moments ago.
Pedro was about to go look for her when the projection screen suddenly went blank, drawing people’s attention because they thought it was a technical error. However, once it functioned once again, it was different photos that went on display and one that showed too much information.
“Oh no,” Pedro’s blood ran cold. That was impossible. How was that possible?
On the screen were photos of conversations between him and Natasha that Isabella didn’t even see because he deleted them. How….? Shit, just because deleted his doesn’t mean Natasha deleted them.
Why would she do this? Could it be that Natasha planned this to ruin his marriage to Isabella? Was she asking for a death sentence? Doesn’t she know how destructive Isabella was when provoked?
Shit, where was Isabella?
Pedro’s heart began to pound in his throat and he made no effort to even stop the leaked photos because he intended to catch Isabella before she did something stupid. He has lived long enough to know what Isabella would be thinking at a time like this and it was to destroy whoever stood in the way of her happiness.
“Pedro, what is the meaning of this?” His mother stomped over to him, fuming with great anger, “I know I never trained you to be a bastard!”
However, Pedro simply sidestepped her and went in search of Isabella. He would bear her wrath later but he had to stop a greater calamity.
He successfully left the garden and the cover of the night helped him to escape the people who had so many questions for him. He made it to the lawn where his car was parked and reached it only for a sucker punch to meet his face.
Pedro fell back to the ground with a look of disbelief on his face. He wiped the blood on his lips with his sleeve and glanced up only to Niles who stepped out of the shadow and to the reflection of the light.
“All I told you was to take care of my daughter!” Niles was raving mad.
Oh boy, he’s so dead.
Pedro’s eyes widened and he hardly had time to brace himself when he was hurled to his feet once again and a blow landed on his face.
“Niles!” Pedro heard a voice from behind and recognized it as Emerald’s.
Well, on the bright side, someone was about to save him from being killed by Niles.
The third point of view:
“Niles, stop it!” Emerald had to reach him before he beat Pedro to a pulp. However, even with that giant restraining him, Niles was pretty much strong and still threw as many blows as he could while Pedro made no effort to stop him. He must be feeling quite guilty to have allowed Niles to beat him up like this.
Emerald didn’t give up and tried his best to restrain him but Niles shrugged him off and was about to continue when two more guards joined him and they were finally able to subdue him.
Pedro’s face was bruised, one of his eyes had swollen badly already and he laid on the floor tired, with no effort to stand up. Or perhaps, he just wanted to lay on the floor because that’s where he belongs. A scumbag, he was.
“How could you do that to her?!” Niles roared like a wounded lion, struggling fiercely even as two men and a giant held him down.
“Don’t you know how much?Isabella suffered? She was finally happy, albeit because of you, yet you ripped that feeling away from her just as you gave it. How could you do that?!”
At that statement, Pedro began to pull himself off the ground, “I didn’t mean to!” He defended himself, “It was a mistake yet I didn’t mean for all of this to happen,”
“Of course, you didn’t,” Niles sneered at him. He didn’t believe a word Pedro said. Even if he did, he was too angry to care. Isabella was his precious daughter and yet he hurt her, he had to pay.
“Well, I don’t need to do much anyway since Isabella’s on it,” He hinted that his mistress, Natasha, was in trouble.
“Oh no,” Pedro’s face lost all color. This was exactly what he feared.
And then, without second thoughts, without noticing the tiredness that was seeping into his bone, Pedro leaped to his feet and rushed to his car, fumbling with the key in the process because of nerves.
Niles laughed evilly, “I hope you’re too late,”
Pedro ignored Niles’s taunting laughter and finally got into the car. He inserted the key and started the car immediately, there was no time to waste. Each second wasted brought closer the time Isabella commits murder.
Isabella wouldn’t even blink an eye doing so – that was the darkness inside her eyes that had remained tamed inside of her all these years. The darkness Kay had implanted in her kid from a young age, teaching her nothing but violence and cruelty.
What frightened Pedro the most was the fact that Isabella wouldn’t go to prison even if she killed Natasha. Her death would be covered up because she’s a nobody and Isabella would walk around free but with another demon added to the ones she has already while he – Pedro – would have to keep the injustice of Natasha’s death a secret as long as he lived. Pedro knew he could never turn on Isabella. He had to hurry up before this nightmare came to fulfillment.
Meanwhile…..
Natasha was very unsettled; she was no longer comfortable. This wasn’t just instinct, it was common sense. Miss. D has been protecting her all this while, then all of a sudden, she’s returned to her house – a place where Pedro could easily find her and abort the baby.
She couldn’t predict her intention. Does she no longer want the child because once Pedro gets his hand on her, it’s game over? What has changed? Natasha felt like a lamb to the slaughter.
She peered out through the window once again and closed the shutters with a groan. She couldn’t escape either, they were keeping a close watch on her after being ordered not to leave the place. Why? Why was it so important that she didn’t leave her apartment?
Natasha must have been thinking for too long because the sound of a knock made her nearly jump out of her skin. The knocking on her door was nothing but a bang and her heart pounded in her throat. What now?
Swallowing a lump down her throat, Natasha slowly walked over to the door and then looked out through the peephole only to jump back with an audible gasp. Oh God, no. If she was in deep waters previously, she was dead meat now. How was this possible? Isabella never bothered her until now, unless she knows about the pregnancy.
Natasha’s lips trembled and her mind began to race in all directions. Does she know Isabella? The question should be, who doesn’t know Isabella? The crazy first daughter of Niles Sparks. When the name Isabella is brought up, the first thing that comes to mind is rebellion and danger.
No, she can’t come in!
Natasha attempted to hold the door from being broken down but before she could do so, the door had been kicked open, the force causing her to fall back down.