Valencia

I drove through the steep mountain roads. I pressed my foot on the accelerator a little extra on the convertible Bentley. The wind swayed my fiery red hair pushing them back as I gained speed. This time I had no pricey sunglasses of mine shielding me from the bright rays of the sun. It was thriving to drive with its roof down. Swiftly changing the gear, I drifted the car on the same roads.

Once again moving along the roads with nothing but anger in my eyes. I had come here with an aim to take over my revenge against my family to return back to my love. Now even the man I had felt to have consumed me with his love was deceiving me.

I was in the sea about what Zach had told me. Nothing made sense, to begin with, but just thinking that it could be the truth made me see red.

I didn't know what was Zach's angle and why was he telling me all of this. He was going to marry
Natalia to begin with. Why even bother telling me all about Demyan's grand plan. I should have asked but I just hadn't the mind to. Every word he spoke just made me broke a little more inside. No part of me wanted this to be the truth.

I wasn't believing anything he said for now because I didn't know of his intentions at all. Though the only thing he had done was mess up with me good.

I drove aimlessly on the roads taking steep turns out of anger, frustration, and heartache. The only point I believed in the fact was that Demyan was tracking me and Natalia had lied to me. Also, the fact that Demyan had intentionally got me pregnant was true. It was something I was sure about it.

I was still in the process of trying to figure out why and If Zach's words were true then I had to run. Leave behind everything and run as far away as I could to save my life and this child too.

How could I fight with the man who I had loved with my everything? Alexandro had broken me badly and after him, Demyan had made me believe in him with my everything. Enchanted me into his good looks, trapped me in lust, and induced in his love. Could it all have been a lie? All those endless nights, all those moments where we got naked and exchanged our souls. Was it all a lie?

Pushing on the accelerator I took another turn. The air brushing my cheeks felt as if it was the winds of the storm going inside of me. The tires screeched at the way I turned but I didn't care. I was driving on the edge. If not, careful I could die. A death that won't let my loved ones even have my body.

The point was how many loved ones did I had?

I drove aimlessly for I don't know how long. Two or three hours maybe. My phone kept on ringing but I didn't pick it up or see who it was. I just drove and drove trying to find the answers of which I didn't have any idea about. Each turn I took I put my life at risk to get my mind over the things that were happening. By the time I had reached back to the house the sun had just started to set.

Guards were everywhere like usual and for the first time, I thought who were they here for. When I got inside the first thing, I saw was him pacing the living room barking orders like a mad man. Zach was nowhere to be seen. Natalia on the other hand was sitting on the couch looking at her nails. I just stared at them thinking about could they deceive me. Was everything we had was a lie?

"Valencia," Demyan growled making Natalia look up at me smiling.

'See I told you she would be unharmed. She is a big girl." Natalia popped up standing from the couch. Demyan walked straight to me and all I could see in his eyes was nothing but worry.

"Where the hell you have been?" he barked at me in anger as his hand went around my waist pushing me towards him.

"Driving," I just stared in those worry-filled eyes. His hand moved around me searching for something.

"Demyan she is fine," Natalia came up behind him smiling.

"Natalia doesn't get into this," he warned but she didn't stop.

"You are just overreacting." She said only to have him turn around and look at him angrily.

"Well you aren't the one who is pregnant," he screamed at her making her back away. The whole house would have heard him the way he shouted. I saw her eyes widened and mine did too. He was mad at her. She stared at him

"You don't need to shout at me," she looked shocked at the way he was acting, and maybe I was too. Never since we have been together, I had seen him be this angry at her. For all her mistakes he had always blamed the guards. Never her. He took a step towards her and I saw that he was still angry. I was the one who had taken a step towards him.

"Demyan," I called him. "I want to talk to you," I kept my voice in a low tone. He turned around, the anger losing in those eyes as he looked at me.

"What is it?" his voice losing the anger as if he scared for me.

"Alone," I told before moving past him to my room. Alexandro stood there near the staircase and our eyes met. He looked at me like all those years ago. Like he cared as he loved me and I was something to him. He memories of the past flashing in front of me. The pain he had caused, the love he had ripped off but more than that it was the deep scar he had left.

I was the one to look away from him and make my way upstairs. I didn't wait to see if Demyan was coming or not I was already in the haze of all the things. All my feelings were messed up. Everything was messed up. Getting inside my room I just shut the door without locking it. Throwing away my purse I just moved to the bathroom. I felt as if I was suffocating under all the emotions. All the lies, all the love I had felt, and everything I had thought to be felt as if weren't there anymore.

I splashed my face again and again until I felt like I was breathing. Looking at the mirror I saw the empty neck of mine. The chain with the ring no longer hanging around my neck. I had thrown it out of the car somewhere in the mountain. It felt as if it was nothing but a noose around my neck.

Looking at myself I wondered who I really was. Why were people trying to play with me and my feelings?

"Valencia," he called my name making me break my eye contact with myself. He walked right into the bathroom. I saw him through the mirror. Our eyes met and I just looked at him. Those beautiful grey eyes looking into mine and I couldn't pull away from his gaze. I loved him. He loved me. He would never hurt me. There was no need for him to do so.

Zach was lying. He had to be because he was the man, I loved with my everything.

"Are you alright?" Moving closer to me he rasped. I didn't turn and neither he stopped. I just nodded.

He stood just behind me. I felt his hand move around my abdomen pulling me over his front to lean over him. His other hand wrapped around my chest. He had me encaged in his arms but I felt nothing but love from him. I felt more freed in his arms than I ever did.

"Don't ever scare me like that, please." I could hear the pleading in his voice making my heart flutter.

"I can't lose you." I looked in his eyes through the mirror and there was nothing but worry and sincerity in those eyes. The emotions flowed through me making me close my eyes.

"Please don't lose me ever," the words slipped through my lips as I felt myself getting lost.

"I would never lose you. Not even in death." He kissed my cheek with his lips trailing down my neck. "You are the only one who could handle me and love me. Just trust in me and you would always be my queen and mine." I felt tears rolled down my cheeks at his words. So much happening and all I wanted was to just hold on to the feeling of love for the moment.

We stood there for minutes until I felt him turning me around in his arms. Wiping away my tears he looked at me.

"Where were you?" There was no anger but just concern and worry.

"I felt suffocated, couldn't even eat. I just left Zach and went for a drive." He pushed the hair away from my face and said nothing.

"I called so many times." His breath fanned my cheeks.

"I wanted to be alone," my voice break at the end.

"Please don't scare me like that ever again." There was only love that I saw. Was it that I couldn't see past his love or he did really love me? He hugged me and all I felt was the warmth of love.

"I love you," I let it out and he just hugged me harder.

"I love you too but if next time you run away, I would lock you in the room and never let you out." I laughed at his words and he stepped back only to plant a kiss on my forehead.

"Sorry to tell you this but I have to go and brief Zach about a meeting. Now you are here I can breathe a sigh of relief and be calm enough to work." He told me as he stepped back.

"There was an emergency in Russia and I had to send Zach instead of me. I couldn't leave with you go like this." I just looked at him and didn't say a word. "Without knowing where you were and how you were."

"Sorry about it." I apologized thinking about Zach and his words.

"It's alright. Just don't give me a scarce ever again." He told me smiling.

"Demyan," I called his name as he turned around to walk out of the bathroom.

"Yeah," his turned sideways looking at me.

"I lost the ring," I told him with my set on his face. All he did was sigh.

"Was that being why you were driving?" He looked at me and just shook his head. Walking towards me he pulled me to him.

"I would bring you another one. Valencia everything is replaceable but you aren't. Don't worry about such mediocre things. They don't suit you." He just smiled and kissed me. Did he know how his words put me at ease?

"Now let me get back to work or else I would have to pack us up and go back to New York." He told before taking the last taste of my lips and leaving. I sighed letting go of all the worries. He loved me and that was the only thing I had to think of.

Until I had any proof I wasn't going to do anything more than keep on the charade.

Getting refreshed I walked out of my room and find Natalia but sadly I didn't find her anywhere. I tried calling her but she wasn't picking up. I wanted to go and ask Demyan about it but decided not to. Maybe she was also hurting from the way Demyan treated her. I didn't seek her out it was better not to.

Rather than going back to my room or disturbing Demyan, I decided to go around the gardens for a stroll. The sun was almost set with only a bit of light in the sky.

I just didn't want to make any assumptions right now. What Zach was saying was something too big and there was nothing that indicated that. I knew I could go and ask my mother but I wasn't on good terms with her. Trying to talk to her will only end up in for the whole house to know.

Demyan loved me.

It was what I wanted to believe until anything became clear. Maybe Demyan just had a super sperm and I got pregnant irrespective of taking the pills. I smiled at the thought.

Zach wasn't here and until he was back I wasn't going to think more of it. Just be observant from now on.

I had walked down to the place where Claire had shot me and I realized that I hadn't asked about her. Where were Richard and Evan/ I had no idea about anything?

"Valencia," I heard my name called and I turned around to see Alexandro standing there. I was far away from the house and he was here.

Walking towards me he stopped only just a foot away from me.

"How are you?" He asked as he stood there and I was a little perplexed to see him here. He pointed at my arm where the bandage was still there.

"I'm better now," I replied feeling a little on the edge to have him this close to me. All the games I had played with him knowing all the while his sister had tricked him. Those blue eyes stared at me as they had done all those years ago. Those good times passed through my eyes and I blamed just being too emotional for looking too much into things.

"How is Claire?" I looked away just to not remember what we once had. He had done his side of damage and I had done mine we were even.

"I don't know. Demyan has kept her guarded in a room and I just don't want to know anything about her anymore." He replied without any remorse or worry. There was a sad smile on his face. "Hilda got to see her today but I just didn't care," he added.

"I'm sorry for what she did to you, what I did to you and what my sister did to you. Your life would have been better without the three of us in it especially me." He gave out a small laugh and I could see the sadness in them. I didn't know what to speak to him.

"Thanks to you I was able to understand what monster I had been living with." I stared at him thinking what all did he know.

"Richard and Evan met me. We were able to actually figure out what was happening. All thanks to you." This time he just looked past me.

"Claire used both of the men to give me a child that wasn't mine. I can't understand how could she be this cruel,' he gritted out in disgust letting me see the glimpse of anger that was inside of him.

"Forgive me for all the mistakes I made." He just didn't look into my eyes and I couldn't look at him.

"Congratulations on your pregnancy." I looked up to him and that was when I saw the glimmer of tears in those eyes. Was he hurting?

"Thanks," I didn't want to gloat. All that was left here for me was to find the person who had heard me and hurt them. But I already had hurt everyone who else could I hurt anymore. What would I get from knowing who it was? I had destroyed them all, left them in tatters. They no longer united over anything.

"Our child would have been beautiful too, right?" His words had made my head whip towards him in disbelief.

"He would have been around three or four right." I felt I couldn't breathe. He had tears in his eyes and I felt like the ground has been ripped from underneath me.

"No," I felt tears in my eyes and I shook my head in denial. "You," I felt choking on my words.

"I knew," he said breaking me somehow.

"I was the one who picked your call that night. I heard you beg. You don't know how I felt hearing that." Tears rolled down his cheek while my vision clouded from the tears.

"How could you?" the words came out pained from my truth. I felt as if I was choking. All the time I had thought it to be anyone but not him. Never him. He loved kids. He loved them and had stayed with Claire for just it. How could he do this to me? To our kid?

"I wanted to rush to you. Leave everything behind. Come to you but I wasn't the only one who had heard that call that night." I just cried feeling myself breaking. No longer I wanted to hear him. I didn't care who else did. I had begged and pleaded for the person not to cut the phone, to please help me. I turned around walking from him.

"Stop," he begged but I didn't. I was alone, in need of medical attention with no money. All I wanted was just some help.

"You need to hear this," he yelled at me but I didn't. It was his hand that halted me. When his hand touched my arm, I turned to slap him. He didn't say anything just looked down.

"I deserve that but please listen to me." He pleaded. His hand on my arm felt like it was burning me.

"Your mother heard the call. She knew it Valencia. She was the one who had taken the phone from me and heard it all. I had begged her to let me run to you that we could live a life away from here "Your mother heard the call. She knew it Valencia. She was the one who had taken the phone from me and heard it all. I had begged her to let me run to you that we could live a life away from here and never come back. I had tried but she hadn't let me." He looked into my eyes and I saw the pain he was feeling but it was nothing compared to what I felt. The agony I burned in.

"When I didn't stop my attempts, she had to put guards over me. I had asked her why she was doing this. Begged her to tell me why and I assured her I would stop. She had told me to never let anyone know about this besides the both of us. She wanted to keep it a secret because she didn't want you to die. I had seen her cry for the first time that night when she had told me that if you ever gave birth to a child, he would hurt you and take away the child. I didn't understand. it was better to die than being found by him." There wasn't enough air to fill in my lungs. No this couldn't be happening.

"He wouldn't mind destroying you for the child. She had kept you hidden for so long. She had sent you away because she wanted to keep you safe from him. She cut all contact just for your safety. I didn't know what she talked about but just that your biological father was a dangerous man." Each of his words just ripped me apart breaking me like no other. Did he know that he was destroying what I had ever believed in? Zach was telling the truth.

"I had told her about you being pregnant today. She had been hysteric and then she had given me this to give it to you." He pulled out an envelope from his pocket.

"I don't know what it is but she had told me to tell you that there is an old car in the back, near the servant quarters. She said to read the letter only once you are far away from here. Don't take your phone or anything that can track you. Drive as far away as you can. Don't look back. Don't try to call." His voice broke and he sniffled.

"Run as far as you can. I couldn't save my child but please save this child of yours before he comes for you." He sobbed before placing it in my arms.

"The keys are taped on the front left tire. She says she loves you and she is sorry." He conveyed my mother's message. As I felt tears rolling down my cheeks. No, this couldn't be true.

"Run right now before he gets the news. You would have a head start over him. Go save yourself." He sobbed and pushed me to go.

"Go please walk away." He told me.

"Your mother is going to cause a scene inside to draw all the guards away." He told me as he looked at his watch.

"Please run to save yourself." He pushed me towards where the quarter before looking behind.

"I will always love you, Valencia." He confessed "And I wish I could go with you but you need to be safe now. Take care of yourself." I sobbed as I heard him. My throat choking. Oh god. Everything was real. He looked at the house and we both heard a gunshot inside the house. I saw all the guards running towards the inside.

"Run, Valencia, run," he said loudly one last time before running away back to the house.

"Don't look back and run." I heard him when I heard another gunshot go off.

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