"I can explain what happened", Suarez said as he followed Vincenzo who was now pissed.He couldn't believe that this man had fooled him. Obviously, he was transporting more than wine and some damn fruits.He didn't need such a big company like his to transport his apples. Now that he could think of it he could remember how opposed Suarez was to looking for a market for his wine."I have my suppliers and am okay with them ", he remembered Suarez saying.He had thought of it as dumb reasoning. He could have provided him with lots of market but he had pulled back the moment he had said what he had was enough.You couldn't help someone that did not want help."You lied to me Suarez I don't want to hear anything that comes from your mouth ", Vincenzo said as he headed to his car."You're in this too so we have to figure out what to do ", Suarez said which made Vincenzo halt in his steps."Am sorry I didn't quite catch what you said how the hell am I in this when I have no idea what the fuc
PRESENT TIME.She hadn't gotten any sleep and could feel how exhausted her body was. As she stepped out if the car the sight Infront of her was to die for .The trees that surrounded the estate covered it completely from the public eye . The flowers along the driveway making the place look more serene .The only sound she could hear was that of her heels as they tapped in the floor while she walked . From the corner of her eye she could see a man approaching him.She tur ed to see who it was . She couldn't tell his age by just looking at him.His face looked like that of a mature man and she could pin his age to be maybe forty years old . The grey hair on his beards and head said otherwise though .The smile he had on his face upon seeing her could fool anyone but she knew he was not to be played with . He was the reason Vincenzo was in the hospital."Hello ",he said as he reached where she was and greeted her taking off his gloves .His muscles bulged from.the tight shirt he was wea
52 .He was fifty two years old she had found out .He had never been married even once ,no kids to inherit all his work.Do not wonder how Anna had gathered all this information about the man by just having a drink with him._________The lights made the garden look like it was out of this world . It wasn't the same garden that she had seen earlier .The green emerald dress that she was wearing was shimmering as the light hit the material . With Neegan by her side she wasn't shocked that everyone's eyes were on them .She could guess what all of them were thinking about . They probably thought that she was a new hooker that he was sleeping with and had decided to bring to the party as his date .He smiled and waved at everyone while she just smiled . She was being a pretty thing beside him as he had told her to act .She knew no one at the party . All she wanted to talk about was how they were going to resolve the business but every chance she had brought it up he had shut her up ."
Neegan shoved Anna in his office and locked the door behind him. He was a completely different man now . He was no longer the man who had been flirting with her since the moment she had arrived in the ranch.He was angry and she could see it she regretted asking him to talk about business now that he wanted to ."Sit ",he said and Anna didn't even question it she just sat down .Neegan threw some books towards Anna and just started at her . She took one of the books and opened it and it looked like a book they used for their inventory ."What am I doing with this ?",she asked as she closed the book and sat back in her chair . She was not going to let him see that he intimidated her ."That book has all the shipments we have done fir the past decade and never once have the products decreased until the past three months .",he said as she stood up and started pacing around the room."Do you know how much money we have lost in the past months ?",he asked Anna .She didn't know what to
Vincenzo squinted his eyes trying to get used to the lighting in the room but it was like it was burning his eyes . He tried moving but everywhere hurt . Where was he ? He couldn't remember a single thing . He groaned as he tried to sit up but still couldn't sit up . His hand went up to his head and he could feel something there . It was like his head was wrapped in something . His eyes got accustomed to the lighting and all he could see was a white room . He was wearing white too and from the look of it he was in a hospital . Had he been hurt ? He couldn't think his head hurt and no matter how much he tried to remember what had happened to him he had no recollection of the day before . Anna . Where was she ,she was the only person who had come to his mind at the moment and he wanted to see her . Almost immediately the room opened and someone walked in . A woman but it wasn't Anna ,she was older . There was a look of sadness on his eyes and from where he was sitting he could
Anna's heels clicked on the floor as she walked out if her room. The red dress that she was wearing hugged her body showing all her curves .Red was definitely her colour . She had already mastered a smile and as she walked the corridors all she did was smile at the guests that had yet to leave .She had places to be and she was big going to stay a day longer . All she wanted was to go back to her husband . She didn't know how Vincenzo was doing and she had tried not to think about him .There was this fear in her that she couldn't help having though . She was scared that something bad was going to happen and all's he wanted was to be hidden his bed when he woke up .She didn't know how he was going to react when he found out what she had done in Mexico . Maybe he was going to understand what she had done was to sav ethe business .She knew that it was not in he replace to call the shots but something had to be done .It had been his fault if he had just gone to meet with Neegan lik
There were movers everywhere and as Anna stepped out of the car she wondered where they were .It seemed like the house was being renovated or something . She hadn't seen any of the workers that were working there . She walked towards where Neegan was standing who was smiling hands in his pocket ."What are we doing here ?",Anna asked him."Am going to show you the plantation where I grow poppy ,this is new acquitted land and I wanted to show it to you I understand this are new things to you ",Neegan said as he took a hold of her hand and started walking ."Is this your ranch ?",she asked him .It was kind of odd to her that things were being moved co soldering that it was his .She knew that something was not adding up but she hoped it was not what she was thinking."It belonged to Suarez ",Neegan said and didn't explain himself more than that ..Anna could feel the guilt eating her up . It had been her choice and she had chosen someone else .She had been the one who had gone look
The soft rain pattered on the roof the sou ds soothing Anna. She wasn't going to wait any longer to go see Vincenzo.She stood up and left the cafe. As she crossed the road toward the hospital the rain increased and in seconds she was drenched.She didn't even feel cold she was just in another world. She didn't know what to do. Everything was too much and for some reason she was supposed to figure it all out on her own.She could see Vincenzo's mother and father and she walked into the hospital but she didn't want to talk to them.She just wanted to see Vincenzo. She passed by them and as they called her back she just ignored them.How was she supposed to handle everything on her own?It's like everything had been placed on her shoulders and she was supposed to be perfect and save the family name.When she had asked to be respected and have something that people would recognize her for this had not been something that she had expected.The words of Vincenzo's father rang in her head.
VANESSA'S POV. The silence in the car as we drove over to Austin's house did not bother me. I did not know how I was even going to tell him. I was pregnant.I didn't know how he was going to react. I knew what my choices were but they were not what I wanted. I had never been in such a position before so I had no idea what to do. I had never even thought I would get pregnant, to begin with. I had turned into what I had hated. I had turned into my mum and I hated that discovery. It wasn't like she wasn't a good person or a good mum, she was just sad. She had spent all her life being a mum and I did not want to be her.We were her everything it was as if her life revolved around us. We were all she knew and I sometimes wondered what would have happened if she had never gotten pregnant with me.I always wondered what her life was like in another lifetime. Did she get to pursue her dreams and get everything she always wanted?Was she happy?What did she even look like? My father was th
VANESSA'S POV "Positive "A world that could be so much, good and bad. I still hadn't wrapped my head around it. I stood there like a zombie. I could see the blondie's mouth moving but I could not hear anything she was saying.I felt like I was caged and I couldn't breathe. My vision was starting to get hazy and my legs weaker as I stared at the test that was clutched in her hand.It couldn't be true there was no way it was true.It couldn't be positive maybe she had read it all wrong. I could feel the world closing in on me.I wasn't even crying anymore I just stood there in shock as someone who had found out someone had died."Vanessa ", she said tapping me and I turned to look at her. It was only then that I allowed the tears to flow."It can't be true ", I said amid tears."Baby it's true ", she said as I sat down on her bathroom floor. I didn't care if it was clean or dirty I just wanted to sit down before my legs gave up. It can't be. I couldn't have just ruined my life like t
Tick ...tock.I had a raging headache and I was all to blame. My body hurt and I wondered if I had gotten into a fight. I opened my eyes and immediately regretted it. Why would anyone open their windows after a night out?Wait where was I?I opened my eyes this time round I did not care if they stung. I was not at my place and neither was I at either of my friend's places.I could feel a body beside me and I was scared. What had I done?Did I come home with someone?"Calm down it's me ", an unfamiliar voice said and I wondered why they would. think I know them.I turned around to come face-to-face with her. Her blonde hair was even prettier when it was in a messy bun. Her button nose sat perfectly on her pretty face."What am I doing here ?", I asked her as I sat up. "Sleeping, what does it look like you're doing ", she said scoffing. "I meant what am I doing at your place why am I not at my house ?", I asked her.I had no recollection of the night before. Everything was a blur a
VANESSA'S POV. A MONTH LATER.It had been a month since it had happened and I was starting to be happy again. I had gotten out of my depressive episode. I was going back to school and I was finally starting to make friends, life couldn't be any better. I rarely thought about him. He had forgotten me and I was trying to forget him. I did not miss him, I just missed some. moments we had.I had seen him around but he was ignoring me the same way I was avoiding him, not that I wanted to talk to him.My friend never mentioned him and no one ever asked what led to our separation they were just glad it had ended.As I stared at myself in the mirror I smiled at myself. There was no way I was going to let a stupid boy make me sad.He had started dating the blonde girl and was walking around with her just like a trophy.He had not even waited for a day to go out with her after we had ended things, showing how much he had loved me.I had lost so much weight in the month that I did not even r
VANESSA'S POV. "You're not being fair you know ", he said and I was taken back a little."Please tell me how am not being fair 'cause I would honestly love to know ', I said."I loved you and you knew that. You are just here talking about all the bad things I ever did what about the good things? Didn't they mean anything to you ?", he asked me."I didn't say you didn't do anything good. Just because you loved me doesn't mean I felt loved by you. Most of the time I felt unlovable, you even told me once during an argument I would never find anyone who loved me the way you did ", I said to Uim and he looked like he was shocked."You loved me in your language or another girl's version. Just because whoever you were with before me preferred things a certain way doesn't mean that is what I like too ", I said to him.Were all boys dumb?I couldn't believe there was a time when I had wanted a family with him. I had seen myself with him for years with kids and being happy in love. Maybe it wa
THIRD POVThe truck outside told him what he already knew. Scarface was in the house. He hated the days when they got to see each other. One could think that he hated his brother but for some reason, Scarface hated Raul more than anyone he had ever encountered in his life including the people he worked with.He forced a smile as he opened the door to the house and he could hear lively chatter from the kitchen and wondered who was in there.He saw Scarface in the living room and there were seconds of silence as the two brothers stared at each other as they both waited for one of them to break the ice.Raul could not blame his brother for hating him."Hello I didn't know how you were coming around ", Scarface said as he shifted from the place he was sitting and his face scrunched in pain.Raul could not even start to say sorry or tell. he knew he knew how he felt cause he didn't. Every time Scarface saw Raul he wanted to rip him apart. There was nothing in this world that Raul could
The smile on her face did not match what she was feeling on the inside. There was a fire inside her that was burning. She could feel everything in her collapsing but she couldn't let people see her like that.She couldn't be weak. She was a woman. If she cried she was going to be branded like a weak person. She hadn't gone through everything that she had gone through just to be called weak.She smiled.Smiled and pretended that everything was going okay cause what was she going to do?Was she supposed to sit in bed and cry herself to sleep? That was like giving up and there was no way she was allowing herself to fall into that cycle.She waited to have that longing to go back to Vincenzo but it was but there. She felt nothing for him.It wasn't hate and neither was it live She was just dining and for some reason that made her sad. He was someone that she had planned her future with. Someone that she had wanted to start a future together with. To have a family with. As she said this
I always wondered what it felt like to have everything you ever wanted. What it felt like growing up in an environment where you were loved.It was an environment where you were allowed to be a kid and do what other kids did. I never had that and maybe that's why I felt like there was something in me that was broken.I had wanted that life too. I wanted to have a mom and dad that loved each other not ones that wanted to kill each other.Was it fair?Was it fair that I was put in that situation as a child? Sometimes I sat down and thought to myself and said maybe she didn't know.She didn't know that any of those things were going to happen but that did not excuse her.Was I being mean for blaming her for putting us in such a situation?I know people said things like it's their first time being a mom or a parent but weren't parents supposed to protect their children?She didn't and every waking day it was all I could think of. The things that I could have avoided if she had fallen in l
Some people are born sad. There's no reason as to why they are like that it just happened. They bruise easily and cry easily. Raul was that kind of person.There was a reason why he was the way he was. He was closed and people found him to be exciting at all.It was hard to be a chirpy person when you didn't even have a childhood.To him, he was still the sad little bit that he was while growing up.I think that it's best if everyone had their childhood while growing up. A childhood where they could play with people their age and not worry about how things were going to be at home that evening.Running around with friends chasing the sunset as if that was the last day they were going to see the sunset.It was so sad not to have that. I wish every child could be able to have that freedom as a child. Not them to have to worry if they had something to eat at home.No matter how much people tried to blame their parents for everything they did, maybe they were also clueless.They were pare