🌹R O S E  III🌹

🌹CHAPTER THIRTY - SIX🌹

I gasp as my eyes land on the gun that is pointed at me and my mom. He takes the safety off and puts his finger on the trigger. My mom goes over to me and pushes me a bit behind her. "I may have failed to kill you once but two birds with one stone. How marvelous" He speaks.

"Have you gone out of your mind?" My mom asks me. She reaches behind her and takes my hand into hers and we hold each other tightly. Fear runs through my whole body as my heart is beating faster inside my chest, almost as if it wanted to get out of my chest.

"Don't act like this, I've always been out of my mind" He says and for that I'm highly confused. He insulted himself, that is how I know that he has grown insane and should not be trusted but then again I could not even trust him before so why should I do now?

I gulp when he walks even closer to us. "We will pay you money" My mom says but I shake my head. This needs to end. I've already promised him money and still he wants to kill us. None of this will be over until he has been stopped or I know that he's just going to come back for more money when the one that he would have runs out which I know would happen rather quickly.

"No, we're not giving him money. Not when he has breaches the deal that we made and even shook on it. You're going to cross me again but not this time" I speak and I have no idea why I'm trying to have this much courage when he holds an actual gun in his hand and can shoot me at any given second and I'm sure he will.

Since he did have me and Alexander shot before but he only hired someone to do it, perhaps he won't do it himself. He rolls his eyes but he still has the gun pointed at us as he walks closer. The fear inside me is growing intense and I have a hard time not passing out right about now but I must remain calm.

"I've already contacted the police and in a couple of minutes they'll be barging in here and you'll go to jail" I speak, lying through my teeth. I may not have called the police but I will when I do get the chance. But, he doesn't know that I haven't called them because he pales and I notice that the gun lowers a bit but not fully.

"And without money you won't be able to afford any good lawyer and you'll be sentenced to a long time in jail, perhaps even without parole" I speak to him smirking. He knows that I'm right but what he doesn't know is that I'm not speaking the truth, the police aren't on their way and they won't be unless I can get a phone.

"I'd better run if I were you" I tell him and this time he turns around and runs out of the room. "I didn't call the police" I whisper to my mom who only giggles. I watch through the window as he gets into his car and I do hope he goes far away from here.

"He will be back, sooner or later, he will be back. That I can tell you" My mom tells me before he welcomes me into a hug and cries into my neck. I hold her as I feel my own heart pounding within my chest. I did not know that it would work but somehow it did.

However, I do know that she is correct about it, he will be back. And I for one am not looking forward to that. "What were you talking about?" I ask her and she shakes her head as she breaks the hug and looks at me. "He was just trying to threaten you and your fiancée" She says.

As soon as she has said that I look down at the ground in sadness as the tears prick my eyes. "He isn't my fiancée anymore" I tell her and she gasps as she makes me look up at her. "What are you talking about?" She asks me and I know that speaking the words and saying it out loud will make it real, so real that I don't want it.

I don't it to be the truth and be reality but it is and I will just have to accept that. "He broke up with me" I choke out of me before I burst into tears and hug her again. She caresses my hair as she holds me and hugs me. Before she lets out a giggle which makes me confused.

I break the hug and look at her but then I hear something and I notice that my father is walking inside the room but behind him is Alexander. He looks like a mess as he holds a gun to my father's head. What is going on here? I don't understand any of this.

"Rose, he never truly broke up with you, it was all an act" She says and I gasp as I look at Alexander with a shocked expression on my face and hurt. My father's gun is in his hand and he points it at him and makes him sit down into a chair nearby.

"You see, a couple of weeks ago or when you woke up in the hospital, Alexander was threatened by him" She says, referring to my father who is rolls his eyes. "He told him to break up with you within two months or he will kill you" She tells me and one again I find myself gasping.

"I did not want to, Rose, please understand that you are my life and you are my world, my everything. That is why I waited for so long but I ran out of time to be with you and I had to do it because a picture of you was sent and I feared for your life" He tells me.

He ain't this voice after so long (even if it was only about a day or so) is strange and after the heartbreak that I've had, I don't want to hear it but I need to know this explanation and I need to know what happened. What is going on? What did I miss?

I never noticed that he was threatened, I never knew about it. None of this makes sense to me at all. "Your mother knew about it from the start because she saw right through me and quotient frankly forced the information out of me" He tells me and I feel this pang of hurt inside me.

That my mom was able to see through him and know that something was wrong when I did not. I also feel anger because they planned this all along and never told me. They planned to break my heart after everything that I have been through.

That the two of them would allow this to have happened to me so that I would feel unworthy of this world, he broke my heart and shattered it to the point where I'm not even sure if it can be put together anymore. No matter how deep my love for him runs.

This betrayal (of many) is worse than every betrayal that he has done to me. "That is when we came with the plan. The plan that worked perfectly and I pray with everything that I am that you would forgive me for doing this" He tells me. That is why he wanted forgiveness, it wasn't for the fight that we had.

It was for this because he knew this was coming. "So, all this time, you've been playing me?" I ask him but he is quick to shake his head. My mom goes over to him and takes the gun to point it at my father while Alexander gestures for me to follow him out of the room and hesitantly follow him.

The anger inside my body fueling as I walk. That stupid plan nearly destroyed... no, it did destroy me from the inside out and that can never be taken back. Alexander looks at me with an apologetic look on his face and even his handsome face isn't enough to fix this, even when I do want to kiss him and be in his arms.

I will not allow them to hurt me like this and then just forgive them when my heart is so broken that it can't ever be mended again. "I've never been playing you, none of this has ever been a game to me. You, our relationship and our lives, it means everything to me. You mean everything to me" He says but how can I believe him?

He opens his mouth to speak but I cut him off. "Whatever you have to say, I don't want to hear it" I tell him as I turn around and head for the entrance. "I just need space" I speak without looking back and then I take my phone and laptop and walk outside.

Calling for a taxi I tell him to take me somewhere, to a hotel. Like I said to Alexander, I need space to think about everything that has happened and as I sit in the hotel room and on the soft bed I can only lie down and allow the tears to fall down my cheeks.

The pain inside my heart can only grow worse now that I know the truth and the betrayal. Perhaps my being with my father I was in sorrow and I was lonely but I did not feel like this. Thinking this over makes the pain and agony inside me even worse than it was before.

If I had been told the whole plan from the start, I would've been all right with it since I knew that none of it was the truth and it was all an act and I would've acted along with it because I would've done anything to take down my father and bring justice to him for what he has done to me.

But, neither of them trusted me with the plan, for two months my own mother and the man that was my fiancée did not even trust me to let me know of the pain that they were about to cause me. Did they even bother to think of painful this would be for me?

I've already been trough so much pain by the two of them, starting from when I found out that my mom made a deal with their parents. I thought that the pain would be over and we'd be together after I woke from the coma but it would seem that that none of that even happened.

And still I come to the thought that I'm still stuck a year behind everyone else and it doesn't make things better, if anything it makes it even worse. Sighing I turn off my phone as it has been buzzing for so long and I already know who it is and there is no way that I'm going to answer.

Now that I've suffered through heartbreak and still am suffering through it, they can too. Both of them deserve it after that they did that to me. I trusted them, I trusted my mom and I trusted the man that I love but both of them plotted behind my back.

My stomach growls in hunger and I stand up and walk to the small fridge to get something to eat and then I return back to the bed and lie back down. Not having the energy to do anything at the moment I close my eyes and fall deep into slumber with tears streaming down my face.