Filed To Story: Dumped by Scumbag Adored by Billionaire
“You know about that?”
“Their relationship isn’t exactly low-key,” she told him. Moreover, how could she forget about someone that almost bankrupted their business?
“I was hoping to use her as some sort of leverage against him until I looked into her background and her surname hit me. I looked further and found out she was related to you but something else hooked me: her eyes.
“It looked nothing like yours but mine and the fact she took after my mother facially told me something was amiss. It was quite easy getting her DNA and did the test with it and bam! She turned out to be mine, how joyous “
“Congratulations, you solved the big award” she deadpanned,” Do you need an award too?”
“Why didn’t you tell me we had a child?”
“I had a child for you” She corrected sternly, “Don’t make it seem like we were a couple”
“We would have been a couple if you had agreed but you were ashamed of marrying a Mafia leader”
“Gosh, Valentino!” She was exasperated, “You were married for Christ’s sake!”
“I was willing to divorce her for you!”
“I don’t want that kind of love!”
Both stared at each other hard, breath fast with chest heaving.
Valentino reached out and took her hand which was on the table. Tingles coursed through her body upon contact causing her to withdraw her hand but he wouldn’t let her.
“So” he began, intertwining their fingers together,” Without that deal, you wouldn’t have ever thought about me”
Yeah, that deal. That was the huge dent in her otherwise perfect life – the root of all this problem.
“Whatever we had is in the past, Armani. Forget about me” she pleaded through blurry eyes, tears were threatening to spill from her eyes.
She was tired of living on edge, always anxious of that secret coming to light.
“Oh don’t worry, I’ve forgotten about you”
That statement was like a bullet hitting her heart, what was he talking about?
Valentino played with their intertwined fingers and with a smile playing on his lips, he remarked
“As you said, I was recollecting about the past “
Her blood ran cold, he had been fooling around with her this while? Angela’s expression shifted into anger and she tried to pull her hand away but he held it tighter to the point of hurting.
“You’re hurting me” she cried out.
“Oh, it’s hurting you?” he pretended to be oblivious to her discomfort,” I didn’t know you understood the sensation of pain considering the fact you’ve been hurting her all her life”
“What in the world are you talking…” Angela faltered, realizing he was referring to Maria.
“You aborted her too but she held on ” he chuckled, “She’s as tough as me”
Angela gulped, she was getting scared of his attitude, not to add the pain he was inflicting on her by pressing her fingers on an unnatural angle.
She couldn’t take the pain anymore and yelled his name, “Valentino!”
“Angela!” He shouted back at her, his fluctuating emotions playing out on his face at last, “Were you that ashamed of me?”
“Please?”
“I could understand you keeping her a secret for the sake of your god-damned marriage but assaulting her? That’s totally unacceptable”
Angela screamed, just as a cracking sound was heard – one of her fingers was broken.
He finally let go.
She moaned in pain, tears gathering at her eyes as she cradled her affected palm as a whole.
“I heard your daughter is beautiful,” he observed.
“Do not hurt Kim, please”
“So Alfred’s daughter is precious and mine isn’t?” He laughed mirthlessly
“I’m so sorry ” she stood from her seat and crawled towards Valentino, holding his leg in a pleading manner while tears streamed down her face.
“Forgive me, it was my ignorance. I was too scared of Alfred finding out what I did and took out my frustration on her”
Valentino looked down and though his heart was moved, he didn’t show it.
He bent and grasped her face, lifting it to his eye level, “You are lucky I once loved you but above all, thanks for giving me princess”
He kissed her on the cheek and stood, pulling his feet from her grasp and walked away without a care – but not without signaling his men to take care of her broken finger.
Yes he loved her, but without fear, no one would respect him.
“Where do we go, Sakuzi?” His chauffeur asked as soon as he got into the car.
“A place normal people go ” he was feeling nostalgic after this meeting with her.
The chauffeur was confused, what was their boss talking about?
“Sir? I don’t understand – “
“Just return to the base “
” Alright”
Meanwhile, Angela was still sitting on the ground out of shock. She couldn’t believe Valentino would do such a thing to her. Well, he always had that darkness inside of him.
She was quite startled when she felt someone approach her, rousing her from her thought. The strange man carried a first aid causing her brow to scrunch up, Valentino caused her pain and also repaired the damages.
Why was he confusing her? No, this was not the time to get confused, she had her family to protect. She had not gone through the suffering all these years for nothing!
Maria’s point of view
After the awkward episode between Niles and his girlfriend Tina, plus Judy’s departure, the kids and I were left alone to bond at last.
I must say, it was quite comforting and fun having both of them around, though Isabella always found a way of taunting Anabelle.
At first, I found Isabella’s bullying cruel and unfair but taking a good look at it, I found out it was Isabella’s special way of showing her affection – yeah, you heard me.
Isabella had problems with conveying her emotions, so torturing people was her way of showing and drawing attention – I just had to make sure she doesn’t go over the limit.
There was nothing we could do save gossiping and until we were exhausted did Anabelle take a glance at my fingers, suggesting they paint it.
“Count me out, that’s so lame” Isabella, of course, rejected the idea right away.
Anabelle and I gave her a dirty look, “What’s so lame about it ?” The little girl inquired out of curiosity.
“Sitting and watching paints get plastered on your nails, how boring can it get?” She clicked her tongue.