Chapter 77
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ALIYA TORRES
I sat in his car very silent but the documents clutched to my chest tightly. I could feel him glance at me now and then but I didn't want to explain things, I didn't want to say anything.
His reaction was the same as Jai's when I went to knock on his door last night. Jai was surprised to see me there at night with tears on my cheeks and hair all over my place. He asked me what was wrong but I only replied that ‘I couldn't talk about it'
Truly what was there to talk about? I was upset, I was angry, I was tired and I was hurt. I just needed a place to stay at before I figured out what next.
I couldn't go back to Ethan's place. I couldn't sleep in the same room as he did and I absolutely couldn't bear to see his face. It was the face of betrayal, mistrust and so many things.
By the crack of dawn I was already up not that I had slept a wink last night. I woke Jai up who had unfortunately resorted to sleep in an uncomfortable hammock. I borrowed his phone again and I called the only person I could trust to be there for me.
Just like I thought within half an hour he was already there at Ethan's mansion to pick me up. Ethan wasn't around and I quite frankly couldn't care whether he was asleep or out of the country.
I went back to the house to pack all my stuff and Mila questioned what had happened but I told her that Ethan would explain everything. That is if he even had the guts to tell the truth.
Ray was already standing on the porch and when I was done, I hopped into his car not willing to look back. Ten minutes on the road and here we were, silent and barely saying a word to each other.
The air was tense, I could tell just by how he stole glances at me that he wanted to know what happened. I had to tell him at some point because even he could see that I had been crying and that my eyes were swollen.
'Thank you",, I muttered first because I knew him picking me up was a big deal.
I broke his heart and yet here he was swooping in like the hero I needed.
'For what?" He asked his hands clutching the steering wheel.
'For being here", I simply said watching his lips thin.
'Aliya, what happened? Did he hurt you?" He asked and at that moment I couldn't keep it together as I sobbed tremendously.
Noticing this, Rat was quick to park the car by the road where it was safe before unbuckling his seat belt and scooting to where I sat taking me in his arms.
'I'm sorry I didn't mean to-' he started innocently and I sobbed the more.
'He hurt me. He-he wasn't the man I thought he was. I shouldn't have-I shouldn't have trusted him. I shouldn't have loved him. He-he's a lying bastard", I cried recalling what happened yesterday.
The news about my dad had shocked me to the core and I couldn't believe Ethan had done nothing to bring justice to him when he had the evidence. Even though he hurt me but doing that, what I saw next in Jai's phone nearly killed me.
When I got to Jai's place last night and asked for his phone, the first thing I did was to surf the web looking for all the Julian Perez'es I could find.
I didn't have to look further though because there was only one business tycoon by the name of Julian Perez in the city. A man with a rather pompous and smug smile.
I went to Jai's Instagram searching for his pictures and his family's pictures. He was a billionaire with a multi million car, a wonderful family and multiple expensive cars.
I felt jealous looking at him smile while he had taken our happiness away from us. He was an evil bastard and Ethan had been right in one thing, he was powerful and taking him down wouldn't be easy but I was determined to bring him down.
I would serve my father justice. I scrolled looking at the latest post on his account. The caption read,
MY DAUGHTER IS GROWING UP TOO FAST
And just next to the caption was some hashtags to Ethan Carter another to Luke Perez and another one to Brenda Perez. I pressed on the video watching Crystal hide her hand before her back before she pulled it out revealing a beautiful double band engagement ring with the biggest diamond I had ever said.
And her friends cooed as she stared into the camera and said,
'Ethan proposed. We are officially engaged"
And at that moment, my heart shattered into a million pieces that I wasn't sure I would be the same again. Mila had been right, I had always been the other woman. Ethan never loved me, he just used me to get something from me.
My mind drifted to the fact that we had made love just a few days back. He had used me, he had gotten to me just so he could fuck me. I hadn't felt so bad in my life like I did at that moment.
'Relax…relax..I'm here. I'm here for you for anything you might want. You'll get through this Aliya, I know you can",Ray comforted me and I lay still on his chest not sure whether I would be able to overcome this.
It was unbelievable but even at this moment I loved Ethan. I should have hated him but I couldn't rip him out of my heart in mere seconds or minutes or damn hours. He had proposed to Crystal all while whispering sweet nothings to my ears..
He claimed he loves me but was this love? Was love proposing to another woman instead of me? Was love keeping secrets?
By the time we reached home, I was starting to feel a little better and when I opened the door to our house finding my mother seated on the couch.
I looked at her deep in the eyes saying,
'There's something I have to tell you"