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All Chapters of Engaged To The Billionaire After Betrayal: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50
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Rocco's POVJohn continues to horn continuously until I become frustrated and tell him to stop. I open the car door to get out, looking around with arms akimbo.Aren't they home?I take long strides to the gate. It isn't looking like it is locked from behind.As I push it to know if my assumptions are right, the small gate opens and I turn to John who shakes his head.Apparently, they no longer have guards around the house and even a gateman. They should have at least locked the gate from behind.I signal to him to wait for me outside as I open the gate and enter. Everywhere is messy. The flowers are withering gradually, probably because the gardener has been sacked too. The courtyard is in a pitiful state and I wonder if this is part of Valentina's concern for her parents.I ignore the rest of the surroundings as I make my way to the front door with my hands in my pocket.This is the third time I will be here. The first time,
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Valentina's POVFred is blackmailing me to have lunch with him because I bumped into his car. I've spent two hours with him already and it's noon.Determined to piss me off, he asked that I take his car to a mechanic. Fortunately, I found some notes in Rocco's car and after getting the car fixed, he demanded to have lunch with me.I know I am not supposed to agree to have lunch with my ex-boyfriend. I am supposed to hate him and spite him so much for trying to hurt Rocco but Fred has become so unfamiliar to me and I guess my curiosity made me give in."You still look beautiful", he comments, making me take the straw away from my mouth as I stare at him.I didn't have breakfast this morning before going out. By the time we were done fixing his car, my stomach was already rumbling and that was why he suggested we grab lunch nearby.With a proud smirk, I remark. "Just like Brenda."He turns his face away and curses under his breath. "Brenda is nowhere close to your beauty, Val and you kn
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Rocco's POVFor no reason, my heart keeps racing and I am having wild imaginations of what might have happened or what will happen.This man isn't safe. He isn't healthy either.Something is wrong somewhere. I keep asking myself if my Father is also responsible for how he fell unconscious right after I left his room or if this is a result of desperation.I have been trying to call Valentina all morning. It was ringing but she wasn't picking up. I was uneasy.I had to call my mom to ask her about Valentina and she said she hadn't seen her too and that did the trick.I was on the edge. My emotions were almost bursting out of my chest in fear that something bad had just happened to her too.Mrs. Adams is nowhere to be found and this is all too confusing for me to fix. When Valentina eventually picked up, she wasn't sounding tense or like someone in trouble and I hope she will be here soon.Her father is i
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Valentina's POVKissing two men in a day is something I never saw coming. This is another thing that reminds me of my friendship with Brenda who used to call me a judgmental bitch jokingly.Now that I think of it, I'm sure she meant it.I always nag her for going out with more than one man in a day and she tells me it's nothing.All my life, I have always wanted Fred to be my only man. Even after he left, I didn't see the need to want to kiss some other man. I was irritated by the thought of it and now, I did not just kiss Rocco but also Fred in just a day.When Fred kissed me, I was mad. Mad at myself for allowing him to do that. And mad at him for thinking he can get me jelly in the legs by kissing me.But when Rocco kissed me, I wasn't mad. Disappointment is the word for what I feel. Almost two months ago, Rocco and I could barely stand each other. We signed a contract and he made some rules to ensure that we do not cross the
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Rocco's POV With my tongue laced over my lower lip in remembrance of the kiss and how cold Valentina was, I enter through the front door, holding firmly onto my briefcase. I haven't been able to get the kiss out of my head, even though I made a resolution to do that when Valentina began to act all cold toward me.I couldn't escape from the office earlier to go check up on them again at the hospital but I tried to call her and it wasn't reachable. I don't know if this restlessness is a result of the kiss or worry over her father's health and the answers we are bound to get at the end of this all.I just hope the truth about their relationship won't hurt any of us. If our parents aren't on good terms with each other, I fear what would happen between Valentina and me.I hate that side of her, to be honest. I hate to see the disdain in her eyes. We have gone past that stage and I really do not want us to go back to that a
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Valentina's POVWith my hands tightly wrapped around him firmly and my head on his back, I let the sound of the motorcycle engine drown my thoughts, concerns, and worries.I am also ignoring the suspicion I am having about Rocco lying to me about the kiss. I don't want to think about anything now. I just want to enjoy the evening air brushing past my face and hair.If I wasn't in a sad mood, I would have loved to shout into the air with one of my hands flying around and the other holding onto Rocco as he drives.I don't know where he is driving me to but I don't care. I just want to be far away from that cold room and let my worries go.My father is still in the hospital. I wanted to spend the night with him but my mom insisted on having me gone. From her persistence, I can see how much she wants me and Rocco to work unlike what I told Rocco a few minutes ago.Even with that, I still believe that the person who needs this sort of assurance i
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Valentina's POVFred and Brenda are the only ones who know that I am a virgin. No one else knows. Not even my mother. Because of the wild parties Brenda and I go to and the fact that I had a boyfriend, she must have assumed that I have lost my virginity.She never asked me but I know that is what she thinks. She is my mother yet she doesn't know a lot about me.If only Mother knows, I will think she told Rocco this behind my back but Mother doesn't know so who did?"You can't have sex with someone you don't love but you never had sex with Fred and you two have been together for years. Don't you love him?""Ho..w..how did you know that?" I find myself stammering as I ask him with intense curiosity."How I know doesn't matter, does it?""It does", I retort back, desperate for him to answer me.Silence ensues, except for the loud beating of my heart which I can hear. I continue to watch him, anticipating the answer to
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Rocco's POVCelina has been blowing my phone up with calls for days. She never had a reason to call me all this while but seeing me again after so many years with a woman I call wife must be so bothersome for her.Valentina does not need to know who she is. Her topic annoys the shit out of me. I wonder how she got my number. She never called me once and then all of a sudden, she starts to call.When she first called and I heard her voice even before she introduced herself, I quickly hung up and I haven't been picking ever since then.This morning when she called, I blocked her from reaching me. She is too annoying and I blame her for Valentina's recent coldness.I have no one to blame. I don't want to believe that my offer is what is making her so cold. So Celina is at fault. It's been days already since I took her to the garden and she has been ignoring me on purpose. She has been spending the ni
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Valentina's POV Father is refusing to answer all my questions. I gave him enough time before bombarding him with the questions but his aloofness shows how much he doesn't want to talk about it. Now, I am sure he knows something. I am sure he is either hiding something or he wants to protect Rocco's father just because he is my father-in-law. Just like Rocco said, how can we help him if we don't know what they had in the past? I try to touch him to see if I can persuade him once more when the door opens without a knock. I turn to the door to see Mother come in with a huge smile on her face. "Guess who is here?" She beams in excitement as she stretches her arms toward the ajar door and it reveals Rocco. I don't know if it's from my imagination or if Rocco is really looking upset tonight. His jaws are clenched and he is looking at me with a sort of new gaze that
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Rocco's POV The rage that fills me up even after apologizing to her is unexplainable. I can't explain the tightness in my chest and the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I can't even control my anger anymore as I grit my teeth while sitting down in front of the bar counter downstairs and drinking the combination of wine and whiskey in my glass cup. I wish this never happened. I wish I never told her how I felt, then maybe this wouldn't be happening. She is still in love with him. He is her boyfriend. Or rather he was her boyfriend before I came along. Perhaps, if she didn't get to know about the betrothal, she would have accepted his apology and accepted him back. I guess it's not so easy to get rid of her first love. I guess she misses how he used to kiss her. "Shit!" I voice out, slamming my fist on the counter and groaning in pain. I neve
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