Chapter 91
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FERNANDA TORRES
'He'll take my son? Over my dead body he will!" I grunted taking the sledge hammer and smashing it against the wooden counter in the study room.
'Ma'am where shall I place this?" One of the handy men caught me unaware and I pointed at the window telling him to place the vase there.
I probably looked insane, talking to myself while I punched through things like a maniac. My mother was right, smashing things in our newly on-the-process- of being decorated house did me some good. It helped me from exploding with rage.
'Mommy, is that him? Is that my dad?" Jaxon had asked the very instant we were on the road and far from Ethan.
'Yes baby. I'm so sorry I didn't introduce you to him earlier", I had said my eyes on the front mirror checking how he was doing.
After that fight with Ethan that had left me shaken, I decided to take Jaxon by Vince's home. That would surely do him some good. I hoped.
'I don't like him. He doesn't look like a good man",Jaxon had grunted crossing his arms on his chest the way he did when he was mad.
I shouldn't have made Jaxon love Ethan but at that time it killed from the inside that Jaxon already hated Ethan without giving him a chance.
'He is a good man", I had said my eyes on the road,"you just have to give him a chance sweetheart"
I couldn't believe I was defending him to our son. Maybe it was guilt because I sure as hell didn't feel right. His musky cologne lingered in my nostrils as I remembered how close to me he had been telling me that he would get us back together if it killed him.
And that irritated me more, how selfish was he? What about his wife? His little girl? Didn't he care about them? Or did he just want me and Jaxon to be his other family? The other family that would be termed as home wreckers in tabloids and in the eyes of society.
And the place he touched me on the wrist? It still tingled with delight and I hated myself for reacting like this.
'Why are you not together then?" He asked and I blinked a few times wondering what I would say.
Why was I not together with him? Because he didn't love me? Because I wasn't up to his class? Because he lied to me? There was so many reasons why weren't together and if I told my son about them, he would only hate his dad and my little saintly self couldn't allow that.
I had been a villain once for keeping them apart, I was not going to be a villain again as Ethan made me look like.
'Things are complicated between us", I mumbled.
'Is that why he shouted at us?" He continued asking.
'Baby, he was just shocked that's all…and hey? When did he shout at you?"
'I suppose he didn't but he shouldn't have shouted at you, mommy"
'Yes that was very bad of him to do so", I had said trying not to seem upset.
Ethan tended to lash out when he was mad even after all these years, he hadn't changed his traits one bit.
'And the other girl…is she my sister?"
And at that point I had only answered with a ‘mmmh' before shifting the topic about how big Vince's home was. It had worked successful and I had left Jaxon at mom and Vince's care coming to the house I was currently standing at to clear off some steam.
'This is for being a two faced liar!" I shouted holding the sledge hammer with my gloves steadily as I smashed the cupboards together with the glass doors.
'I never lied", someone spoke behind me and I almost jumped out of fright.
He was still in the same outfit, a three piece blue suit and I wondered what he was thinking coming here dressed like that. The house was under renovation and let's just say you couldn't leave there without getting dust on your shoes or atleast a drop of paint on your clothes.
I tried to ignore his presence but it was hard to when he stood there just staring at me with a smug on his face.
'Are you following me now?" I hissed taking off my goggles.
'Yes, maybe",he said walking into the study as he glanced around at everything.
'Nice house",he muttered and I looked at him bearing the expression of ‘I wasn't fishing out for compliments'.
'What are you really doing here Ethan? Jaxon's not here", I said placing the sledge hammer down.
'I know. I just came from talking to him",he said it so casually that I had to swallow saliva to pretend I wasn't affected. He just saw Jaxon? So he knew where he was?
Ofcourse he did. He practically owned the whole city, I should have guessed he would have tracked us down.
'Then why are you here? Are you here to threaten me into giving him up? Because I won't, I'll never give Jaxon to you", I badgered.
'I'm here to talk Aliya. Not about Jaxon but about us"
'There is no us, Ethan. Do you hear yourself right now? You have a family. Does Crystal even know you are here? Talking to me?"
He paced across the polythene covered room assessing me and smirking evilly. I couldn't understand him or what he was doing here or why he was doing this to me. After all these long years, he managed to affect him.
His gaze, his presence, his face. Damn, everything about him affected me.
'She doesn't know I'm here",he said and I felt my heart lunge knowing that I would never match to Crystal. She was his wife. She was the one that dominated his heart and I was just…no, I wasn't mistress because I hadn't agreed to anything.
He was married and I would keep my boundaries.
'Unless I call her all the way in Fiji and the her I'm here. She's on her third honeymoon with Landon you see"
Honeymoon? Landon? Crystal and Landon? Married? Here I thought… Then who was the mother of the little girl I just saw this morning?
'I'm not married, Aliya and to your question, Elise is adopted. Which leads me to my question. Are you going to listen to me or are am I going to have to tie you to that chair to make you listen?"