🌹R O S E  III🌹

🌹CHAPTER THIRTY - FOUR🌹

The door harshly opens with a loud creak that shocks me as I had been on the bed, bored out of my mind. With only my thoughts to keep myself company and I must say that it's not that good company as my thoughts are horrible to be alone with.

I keep thinking of all the bad thing that have happened and how everyone that I love have moved on while I seemed to be stuck a year behind them all. My father or the man that is my biological father but still not my father walks inside the room and suddenly I wouldn't mind being alone with only my thoughts.

"Dinner will be brought to you and then you will have to read the contract that you will be signing and if you have any suggestions or thoughts about it... bury them" He says before he leaves and I'm left alone again. And I'm reminded of the only reason that I'm here.

I have to give up my real parents to have him and his wife as my parents. It saddens my heart to have to betray my parents and my heart like this but in order for them and Alexander to be safe, I have to do this. No matter how much everything inside me screams that it's wrong.

Not only five minutes later the door opens once again but this time a man walks inside, a man that I don't know holds a tray and I realize that it's my dinner. When I look at it it doesn't look that appetizing but that doesn't matter since I've barely eaten anything today and I'm hungry.

The man sets the tray down on the bed before he puts a paper down and I realize that it's the contract or most likely a copy of it as he keeps it. One thing I know is that when signing deals or contract, you give or are given a copy of it that you read over and then you keep it and use that one to compare to the original one that you sign.

That way, if there have been any mistakes or tricks that are in the original one then someone can point that out and have it fixed. The man doesn't say anything as he just walks out of the room and locks the door. Making me notice that I'm just a prisoner here.

Which reminds me of something. I've been locked inside a room before, somewhere. I can't really remember where but I can remember a door that was always locked but someone was always going in and out of the door, I also remember that I was always lying or sitting down on a bed.

Ignoring that I start eating the gross looking soup. Not even caring what it is, I'm just so hungry that I could eat anything at this point as the only thing I've eaten is less than half of a sandwich yet even when I'm eating I don't feel like I want to eat.

The pain inside my heart, body and soul is just too great for me to handle to be able to eat anything at all. However, I do eat the soup or at least I try to eat the soup. It doesn't taste that well and I can imagine that I will not like whatever is in it but this will have to do for now.

When I've finished the soup or at least forced the soup into my body I pick up the contract and start reading it but I'm in shock of what I'm reading. I will have to give up my last name to take his last name but I would also have to deny that the ones that raised me are my parents.

Speak lies about how they did kidnap me, like he had told me. I just thought that was a story that I could tell but not something that I would have to do but this contract says that I have to go public with this information and I will have to have my parents arrested and testify against them.

The tears are running down my cheeks. I can't do that. I won't betray them like this, I can't do this to them. My parents are the only people who've ever stood by my side and I love them more than I love myself and my mom she doesn't deserve this pain after everything that she has done for me, now and in my childhood.

She may have hidden who my biological father was but that doesn't matter to me because at the end of the day, I grew up with a father that loved me more than anything and he raised me as his own without question and not once did he hate me and look at me with disgust.

As far as I can remember the looks he gave me were one of love and happiness. He loved me then and he loves me now and I love him. He is the one that deserves to be called my father, not this man that has tried to kill me, a couple of times as far as I'm cornered.

I don't want to be related to him but this contract that I hold, I will need to sign it. I don't have any choice in the matter. If I were to deny signing this then he will do something to the people that I love. He has already shot me along with Alexander and who knows what else he's capable of doing.

All I know is that I will not be wanting to find out what he is capable the hard way and I will not allow the people I love be victims to his evil things. I sigh as I read the contract over and over again. Where there is a contract there is a loophole behind it, I just have to find it. And quickly.

My time however runs out when the door opens and he walks inside. "Now, you will sign the contract and then you will make the announcement" He tells me and I feel even worse. Not only have I failed at finding a way past this deal but I'm about to betray the people I love and myself and all I would do is write my name, the same name that now I'm being forced to give up.

"Follow me" He harshly says. This is going to break them as well as me. I stand up from the bed and follow him through these horribly creepy hallways but that isn't the thing that I worry about. I'm so worried about signing this deal and signing over everything that I am.

I know that this is the worst mistake I've ever done but I don't have a choice in the matter. We walk the hallways until he leads me into an office and I must say it's the nicest thing in this whole house. It's modern and it has been cleaned, it's actually nice to look at something that doesn't have dust nor dirt covering.

But then I realize that this is his office and this nice room is the place where I will sign over the person that I am and it doesn't make me feel any better. "Sit down!" He orders me and I see that he has sit behind the desk and there is a chair in front of it.

Slowly I walk over there and sit down. My body trembles in fear as he slides a paper to me, the contract which I have to sign and after that I'm going to have to go public with this knowledge. My heart is begging me to stop but my head knows I have to do this.

Despite how much pain I'm in right now inside my heart and soul, this is the only way and that I know. I pick up the pen which he had handed to me and I take the contract into my hands. I read the other one so many times that I actually have it memorized.

I truly did need to think about every word that was written on the copy of the contract since I desperately needed to find a loophole and fast but as I read this one, there is one thing that I notice that was not in the other one, the copy. "This isn't the right contract" I tell him.

Inside my head I'm happy or at least a bit since now this has been delayed by at least a day since the contract isn't the same. His eyes widen as he takes the contract from my hands. "What of it, just sign it, you foolish girl" He says to me in anger.

And that is my proof that it was changed, since he's defensive about it. "You know as well as I do that when the copy and the contract don't match it needs to be redone and for that you will need a court order" I tell him. Getting one does take time and hopefully he doesn't have a judge in his pocket but then again he lives in a house that is about to fall apart so perhaps he doesn't have much money.

Which would make sense why he is trying to make me sign this contract since this contract wanted me to not only sign over my name and who my real parents are but it would also sign over my money and fortune. He needs money. Why? That I can't be sure yet bit perhaps I can use this again him now that I know that.

"Or..." I trail off and he looks at me with a raised eyebrow. "Or, I could pay you a lot of money to never bother me or my family again" I suggest and it is almost as if I can see the greed appear in his eyes as I said that. He truly does need money.

I thought that he had married some rich heiress or something, why would he need money? Then again, he does live here like I said before. If someone has to live in a house that is about to fall apart and has not been cleaned for so long, they can't have that much money.

If he had money like I thought he had, he would've hired someone to clean the house a long time ago. It would not make any sense that the house is dirty if he were rich. He'd have the staff clean it and make it better than it was before but that would take a lot of money and that is something that he doesn't have.

"Interested but how much?" He asks me. I roll my eyes. He is truly that greedy and while I thought he was smart, he truly isn't. All I have to do is give him money. "Give me a couple of days and I will make a contract for you to sign and when you do, you will see how much. But, I can say that I will offer a fair amount of it" I tell him.

The wheels in my head are spinning as I'm starting to plot, the sadness is being pushed aside as I start to think of this whole thing. I can actually end the nightmare he and now, all I need is to make this contract and unlike him, I don't make mistakes.

"But, if you think that as soon as you have your money, you can just kill me and take all of my money, then you're wrong" I tell him and he looks annoyed and angry at that as I knew that was probably his plan that he had been forming. I smirk at him as I stand up. He's not going to know that part. "So, we got a deal?" I ask him with my hand out.