Chapter 5

Roman Cervantes

"Markus, get me all the information I need to know about her," he ordered the middle aged man, who for many years had worked as his private investigator.

"Right away sir," he said now rushing out.

He sank in his chair his mind shifting to the little boy. The little boy who made the light that had faded in his heart for long shine. His gut told him that deep down there's something that linked him to the boy.

Then there was Ms Sandoval! He never expected that he would ran into her after all those years. He recalled what happened eight years ago. The very incident that shook his life and shattered his heart.

He had just been to Japan to attend a business conference. Thankfully it ended a bit earlier than expected and he couldn't wait to surprise Joanna, the love of his life..his fiancé..... Unfortunately fate had other plans for him. He arrived just in time to find a man on top of Joanna roughly thrusting into her, both naked and sweating on his damn sheets.

At first he thought she was being raped but when he felt Joanna moan the man's name. He put two in two together realising his highschool sweetheart had betrayed him not just him but the love they had swore to keep for the rest of their lives...the love that he thought would be firm to the end.

His anger took the better of him so much that he was ready to kill them both! Joanna, looking at him with the very eyes that made him melt were now filled with fear begging him not to harm 'her love' as she claimed. He left not saying a word. His heart felt this seething pain as if different daggers had been aimed right for his heart.

That night he drowned himself in whiskey, the same whiskey he had brought all the way from Japan to enjoy with his fiancé. The paparazzi had already gotten a load of the news and were now rubbing salt on his wounds. To make matters worse, Joanna eloped with her lover making him look like ' less of a man' as the paparazzi said.

One year later, Markus had already found Joanna's lover, Owen Williams, in Louisiana. They were having an intimate wedding in one of the prestigious hotels in Louisiana. There was no way he would let them be happy, he swore to wreck their wedding himself, for the betrayal, for the humiliation and for revenge!

And this is where Ms Sandoval came in. He had put in a great plan as payback, once those elevators would part..he would make those two regret what they did to him. He was ready! Once the elevator doors parted a woman rushed in unaware of his presence and that made him reluctant too..Either to leave the sobbing woman be or complete his revenge. He looked at her and something like a rush of adrenaline raced in his veins.

It was love at first sight. The same way he felt when he saw Joanna for the first time. The woman cried for sometime so much that he forgot his sole purpose of coming to Louisiana all the way from Arizona. He watched the woman even as she slammed the bunch of flowers on the ground. When the woman acknowledged his presence she tried her best to seem alright.

This actually amused him abit, the rest of the night went on with him listening to her family problems. She looked at him with equal fevor and for one instance he felt he had finally overcome Joanna's betrayal. He had a finally found a far fair maiden! Even as they spent the night together....in a moment of passion he could feel the woman's craving for him......her brown eyes saying all he wanted to hear!

But again he had been played or so he thought. The only difference between her and Joanna was that the latter had principles unlike the former who made sure to leave first thing in the morning with his five hundred dollars. He realized that he had wasted a perfectly good moment on a slut...and now he was done...done with women!

He jolted back to the present remembering how his brother, Kevin Cervantes, had assured him of getting the best room service in this very hotel and the best accommodation by their hotel manager, Mikaella Sandoval. He had come to L.A on some important business he needed to settle. Seeing her again made him feel the same craving he had for her seven years ago.

The one thing that made him want to stay longer was the fact that both Ms Sandoval and her son were on his mind and quite possibly his heart too.