Dominik POV
Silently, I stopped my car in front of the front door of my parents' mansion, getting out of the car slowly, I couldn't help but look at the big Meyer family house, the one that long ago had been my home, where I grew up and spent the worst moments of my life. It's funny, but I don't think I have a single good moment in this place, it's as if all the memories of this place were only sad and lonely moments in my memory, memories so traumatic that I always have a bad feeling when I come here as if it was a haunted place or something.
Approaching me immediately upon seeing me arrive, one of the mansion's employees says, "Good afternoon Mr. Dominik, would you like me to take your car to the mansion's garage for storage?"
"No need, I won't be too long" I reply, closing my car door and starting to walk inside the mansion, "Where is my mother?"
"Madame Adelaide is in her reading room, would you like me to announce her arrival?"
"No, if you do
Dominik POVArriving quickly at my apartment, I waste no time and go straight to Victoria's room, where I know she is, "Victoria?" he asked entering the room.Just as I expected, I count her in the room, sitting near one of the windows, looking outside in a slightly melancholic way. From her face I can see that she has been crying, as her eyes are very red and her countenance very sad, that worries me, as it gives me to understand that something very bad has happened to her at school, as I feared."Hey, what's wrong?" I ask her calmly, approaching her and crouching down next to her on the floor.Lowering her gaze, Victoria answers me, "They are mad at me..."Keeping silent, I finally understand the reason why Victoria looks so sad. I'm trying to understand her, I'm really trying my hardest because deep down inside I think it's silly. I guess Victoria is still young, but when you get a little older, losing friends or them fighting with you stops mat
Victoria POVIt gets easier with each day.That's what I tell myself every morning when I leave Dominik's penthouse and have to go to school. It seems strange, but even in these bad conditions, I've been doing so many things that time flies by, so much that I don't even realize when a whole week of classes is about to end, my first week of classes after everything that happened, something that turns out to be a relief since at least I can rest a little at home away from everyone.As I expected, things at school between my former friends and classmates have not improved. Since what happened on the first day, when I was rejected in such a horrible way by the friends I adored the most, I decided to stop trying so hard, whether it was with them or anyone else at school, I don't think there's any point in apologizing or feeling bad about getting married anymore. It's not like I killed a person, I just got married for a contract to save my family, do I really deserve
Victoria POVSeeing my countenance change immediately, Aneliss immediately says to me, "Dang... Did I say something I shouldn't have?"The truth is that yes, in an ill-intentioned way or not, Aneliss had revealed her brother's cheating to me. And that is something extremely painful for me, because all this time, I was looking at Dominik as the only support I had left, how the hell should I start looking at him now after knowing this?"You know what? Forget everything, it was a mistake, don't mind me, I'm crazy" Aneliss says immediately, trying to make amends for her mistake."It's ok, don't worry, it's just that... Dominik hadn't told me anything" I confess to her still discouraged and sad to know the truth."Yeah, I... I figured that out."Why did he hide this from me? To see Aneliss so desperate calling him nonstop, I realize that it's not something simple, it's something very complicated that both of them have been working on since we arr
Victoria POVFrom a very young age, I lived in different tensions in my house, I was the older sister, so I was the most aware of my parents' problems and I also felt more responsible for my siblings. From a very young age, I put pressure on myself, as I always dreamed of restoring my family to its glory, to have businesses like my grandfather had, and being rich; so my parents would never have to worry about money again.And since my dream was possibly difficult to achieve, as I was a girl of average means, who dreamed of owning her own company and becoming rich, I remember that I lived much of my life in stress. My mother knew that I was stressed, that from the middle of middle school or the beginning of high school, I was under a lot of pressure in my studies and in my behavior to achieve my dreams, and although she talked to me to ask me to relax because I could hurt myself if I kept pushing myself so hard, I did not listen to her and went on with my own thing. I g
Dominik POVWalking quickly throughout the living room of my apartment, I think I'm going to go into a meltdown at any moment, as I can't stop moving back and forth in the room, only able to wait for Victoria."Will you calm down? You're making me nervous" Complains Aneliss, sitting on one of the couches in my house, who came with me from the office after telling me that she had confessed to Victoria about the whole business and my mother, without my consent or my being present to try to explain things.Turning in her direction, very seriously I say, "Do you really expect me to calm down after what you did?""I didn't know you didn't tell him!""I never told you I did! You must have guessed!""Oops excuse you, Mr. Protector, you don't want to upset your wife" She scoffs."I'm one step away from calling my guards and taking you out of the house" I threaten her.Sometimes when I'm with Aneliss like this, even when we both argue i
Dominik POV"This is the first time I've seen you drive," Victoria says to me, with a smile.Smiling at her too, as we stop at a traffic light, "I told you I knew how to do it.""Yeah, but I've always seen you with chauffeurs, so it's a little weird for me to see you driving now, I don't know... I like it."This is what I mean, Victoria is weird, she's not angry... Why isn't she angry?I know Victoria pretty well, since we started our relationship in a more normal way, I thought I knew all her facets and character, and that's why I know she gets upset easily, she doesn't like to be lied to or kept secrets, and she doesn't like to be taken as a child either; and I did all that by keeping the current company issue from her.That's why I expected Victoria to be furious with me because in similar situations we have been through together, Victoria would always get furious when I would do things like this, hide things from her or underestimate her
Victoria POV.Remaining silent, I keep looking Dominik in the eyes, in the middle of the semi-darkness of the hallway on the second floor of his apartment, where the moonlight filters through the upper windows. Maybe I went too far in telling him all those things? I don't think so, maybe I said it all too fast, but it's all things I've thought about during the afternoon while walking everywhere in the city, and it's something I had to tell Dominik to move on."Of course not, I know you're not a girl" Dominik replies to me, after a couple of seconds in silence.Unable to help but doubt his words, he asks, "Are you sure?"I know Dominik is very protective of me, but that's okay, it's nice under a certain kind of approach, and I love him being that way. But I think Dominik doesn't know the boundary between being protective in a nice way and something that can become annoying and even harmful to me. And I think it's good that Dominik understands what the limi
Victoria POV"I want to stay" I whisper, looking into Dominik's eyes."Good girl..." Dominik answers me with a smile on his face.Pulling me closer, he again kisses my lips, bringing our faces together. I don't think either of us can or want to wait much longer, so Dominik impatiently unbuttons my pants and taking them from my hips, begins to pull them down along with my underwear. Caressing his back and shoulders, I bring my hands to his chest, where I carefully start to remove his suit jacket, and undo the buttons of his shirt, being able to touch with my fingers the skin of his chest, so muscular and well-shaped... I love listening to Dominik.Breaking the kiss, finally removing my pants, Dominik whispers against my lips, "Victoria..."Rising off my body and without warning, Dominik grabs my hips and rolls me over on the bed, leaving me on his abdomen as he makes me laugh. Dominik is very muscular and very strong, so he can arrange my bed any wa