Blake
“Is it true, Taylor?”
“About what?” he asked. So pissed off because he knew what I was talking about.
“About Chloe is pregnant with your child.”
“Don’t say that, Blake. It fucking pissed me off.”
“Then, why?”
Taylor turned to me. “I didn’t mean it to make her pregnant. We just fucked once and she got pregnant? If I knew that she wasn’t taking a pill then I would be using a fucking condom. We are still young, Blake. I can’t have a child at nineteen. What my family will say if they found out? I still want to live freely without any obstacle in my life.”
Taylor and Chole were part of the prestigious family in the city. Both families were so old and they wouldn’t let this scandal spread anywhere. But still…
“If you know the consequences of fucking her, you would do better by putting a fucking condom or just not had sex with her.”
Taylor scoffed at my words. “Come on, Blake. We were both drunk and she wanted it too. Do you think we can still think straight when the alcohol was taking over us?” he asked desperately. This was what I hated from Taylor.
He would never admit that he was wrong.
“I already ask her to abort the baby,” he confessed.
“What?”
“I asked her to abort the damn thing and she refused!” What the fuck?!
“Why would you do that?”
“I will be doomed if my parents found out and I better erase the evidence so I could live peacefully.” And that was when I snapped. I gripped my knuckle. So hard that I could feel the nails piercing the skin.
And I punched his cheek hard. He fell right to the ground. “You should be ashamed of yourself, Taylor. You should take responsibility for what you have done! Chloe had done her best by wanting to give birth to your baby and you? You want your own child to be killed!”
Taylor spitted out blood from his mouth before he turned to me with eyes full of disgust. Well, I was even more disgusted with him. With my so-called friend.
“I don’t fucking care. Making a baby was easy. Just by pushing my cock inside her pussy and spread all of semen and she would get pregnant right away. If we have to get married, we could do it again. I must say, Blake. Chloe is great in bed.” He disgusted me. Was this how he saw her? After our friendship?
“You fucking disgust me, Taylor.”
He smirked. I wanted to punch him again. Probably crushing his dick so he couldn’t use it anymore. So he would know the pain of not being able to enter any pussies again.
“You can have her if you want,” he stated and stood up. Stretching his neck and he looked at me for one last time before he walked away from me.
That day, I hadn’t realized that Taylor’s words had become a reality.
Chloe’s family suddenly came to me and asked for my responsibility to marry Chloe. But before they could ask him first, Chloe already came to me first and asked me…
“Will you please marry me, Blake?” she asked in desperation. “I don’t want to lose this baby. I don’t care if Taylor doesn’t want to take responsibility for what we had done together but I’m not losing my baby.”
“Chloe.”
“Taylor already said to my parents that you were the one who got me pregnant. I tried to explain to them that it wasn’t you but they won’t listen. They listened to Taylor more rather than me, their own daughter. They listened to Taylor…because his family is far powerful than mine.” I knew that. No one dares enough to mess around with his family. Just one word from his Daddy and everyone would obey him like a fucking dog.
“Please, Blake? I’m only asking this once from you. Please, marry me. If you don’t, my parents are going to abort my baby and I’m not going to let them do that. So, please.” And her tears dropped and she moved forward to me. “Marry me, Blake. You don’t have to love me. Once my baby is born, you are free.”
How could she say that?
Didn’t she understand that her child would never have a father for the rest of his life?
This was such a bother to me.
This was not the way to solve the problems.
“…Fine.” She smiled in satisfaction. “But, Chloe? Remember this, I’m doing this because you are my friend. You are precious to me. I do love you, Chloe. But I don’t love you as a woman.”
“I know, Blake. You don’t need to worry when my baby was born. I know what to do. Both for our freedom.”
We decided to get married right after Olivia was born. It was a marriage that could only hold for six months. Far before that, I told my parents and Cindy that I was forced to. Luckily, they understood because they knew how Taylor behaved.
And Cindy knew that very well.
“I guess you know exactly how extremely disappointed I am when I learned that you decided to marry that bastard Taylor,” I said with such anger in my tone.
Cindy knew very well that Taylor was an asshole. His family was a very-well known conglomerate. My father had a company on his own. I had mine. Taylor only wanted that. To make sure that he was safe for the rest of his life. Financially.
“He was a greedy son of a bitch and to me…Olivia doesn’t need to know how her father has become. She never asked about him again and it’s better to stay this way,” I stated.
Cindy was silent for a moment. She knew our story. She knew how everything started. And she wanted to marry him? How could I not be disappointed with my sister? I couldn’t let her go to that bastard who didn’t even love her.
“You love her, brother.” Her words shocked me. “I know it by seeing your expression to Olivia. On how gentle your gazes to her. On how warm you become to her. You love her so much but your relationship with her makes everything so difficult. You are her stepfather and she is your stepdaughter. The people will never accept your relationship.” I fucking knew that. I didn’t want to be reminded again.
“Olivia doesn’t love me that way.”
“Are you sure about that? Feelings could change, Blake. And by the time she realized that you are someone who she could fall in love with, there is a high possibility that she will come…to love you.” Stop.
“It’s better if she didn’t. She will only get hurt if she loves me. I promised Chloe that I will protect her daughter. Not by falling in love with her.”
“But what if that’s Chloe’s dying wish as well? For you to protect her daughter and also to fall in love with her. You are a nice guy, Blake. And so loving to your family but you always put a wall between us. Like you refuse to have us to understand how you feel or what you are thinking.”
There was no specific reason why I did that.
I was better this way. I didn’t want anybody to put a high expectation on me.
“When you two got married, I trusted Chloe to open your heart and she tried her best but it was a failure. She wasn’t even shocked when you wanted to divorce.”
“That’s because my role has come to an end.”
“Well, maybe because you just can’t stand around with Olivia under your roof,” she added. Stop it, Cindy. “Chloe trusted you to protect Olivia and maybe she had thought of it. The possibility of her daughter with you.”
“Don’t be deluded with such a silly idea, Cindy. Because that would be impossible. As you said, society won’t accept it. I don’t care about what people are going to say about me as long they leave Olivia alone. I always make sure of that,” I paused and looked straight into her eyes. “Including the stalker that you sent to my fucking house.”
Cindy looked surprised. “Do you think that I don’t know what are you doing behind my back, little sister? You are damn wrong. You sent one of the boys that I had the gangsters to tortured to stalked Olivia, didn’t you?” She didn’t answer me. She was just looking at me. “Didn’t you?!” I asked again. Rather shouting as it made her body jerked.
“I did. And what did you do to him?”
I smirked at her question. “What do you think I did with the poor soul?”
“You didn’t kill him, did you?” I didn’t reply. I let her think of the consequences that she had done when she dared to mess around with me. “Did you, Blake? He’s still seventeen.”
“You are messing around with the wrong guy, Cindy. I always make sure no one and I mean no one to mess around with my daughter or they are going to face their wrath by my own hands. I already did the first time to those poor girls for bullying Olivia in the worst way possible. I asked the people that I hired to do their dirty works by scaring them off. It seemed that they went out of the line by raping them which I just found out when John told me.”
I sat on the sofa and continued, “I heard even until now…the girls are still in shock and unable to talk. One of them already died by killing herself.”
“You were indirectly involved with her suicide.”
“Was I?” I asked innocently.
“I know that you are trying to protect her but that’s not the way of solving it. Even though you used to—”I didn’t let her finished her sentence as I suddenly stood up.
“Get out, Cindy. This conversation is over,” I cut her words. “Leave and do not ever come to my house again. And don’t you ever touch or harm Olivia unless you want to suffer the same consequences even though you are my sister,” I threatened.
Cindy was only looking at me without saying a word and she finally stood up and walked to the door. Walking past me and she stopped. “I pity you, brother. I’m just trying to help you. I know how lonely you are and how your past is still haunting you. Even until now.”
Please, Cindy. Just leave.
I didn’t want to hurt her. I didn’t want to let the demon consumed me.
“I won’t do anything to Olivia and I know…that you lied about the student I sent to stalked Olivia.” Her words shocked me. “I just received a report this morning that the boy came back to the hospital unharmed. Just a little wound on his face but he was okay.”
Well, what could I do to her? And once again, she was playing with me. Feisty little vixen.
“You are a kind man, Blake. But you always scared people off who wanted to get closer to you. And I know that you took the matter by your own hands when someone is trying to hurt your daughter. I know you paid all of the treatments to the girls and one of them died because her parents suspected that she sold herself and she couldn’t accept the treatment she got from her own family and decided to end her life.”
I was left speechless. Of course, Cindy would know all of this. She was just trying to make me confess the good thing that I had done.
“I know you very well, Blake. You only wanted to scare them off and the fact that you are still safe until now is because you scared them enough and probably threatened them if they dare to do anything again with Olivia, you will come for them in the worst way possible.”
“Leave, Cindy.” My tone was softer. I just wanted her to get out of my house. Leave me alone.
And with that, Cindy walked out of my house.
I sat back on the sofa. Cindy knew it all but she didn’t know anything.
When I thought the gangsters went out the line, I asked my bodyguards including John to kill them all. I paid them to scare the girls not by fucking them. It was already too late when I heard that they were fucking them for the entire night. I asked John to put the girls in a place where people could see them and asked for help.
And they had no idea that I was behind all of that and that’s why…
I was still safe until now.