No matter how Lu tried to ignore his ex-wife, he couldn’t get his face off the booklet she had dropped on the table. It seems like it kept drawing him, asking him to take a peep or touch it at least.
“What’s inside” he finally asked.
“Check for your self” Flavia replied.
She tapped on the booklet waiting for Lu’s reaction but he didn’t stare. Her smile shirked into a frown as she stood up and walked to him, with one of her hands holding the book and the order on his shoulder, she sigh.
“I know how badly you want to see this” her meek voice interrupted his peace “I have known you for 3 years and if I don’t know much, I can at least tell you are not in a good mood” she moved in front of him and lifted his face with one of her extra-long nails.
“Go away, Flavia” Lu removed her hand.
He walked away from his presents then back to the chair Flavia was sitting on, it almost looks like he waited for her to stand up so she could take his position.
“I have come here for a reason” he stated “Please let me concentrate” he snapped.
Flavia chuckled, she picked one of the cards on his gifts and fan her face with it. As if the ceremony of waving her hips as she would break soon wasn’t enough, she walked around him before taking the seat opposite him.
“We both know there is something you have done to earn that look on your face” She smirked “Have you tried to make the poor girl useless as you tried for me?” She dropped her phone, booklet, and the gift card on the table them fold her arms “Let me gest, you sold her after having your countless way with her?”
Her angry gaze locked with Lu and she could tell she had succeeded in making him angry, she pretend not to notice as she pick the card from the table and a faint smile appeared on her face.
“Dear sir, I rather stay Anonymous to avoid your wrath, we know we have done wrong by stealing from you and we deserve the worst but please pardon us. Freezing our account for four months had done us badly and we are at the point of breaking”
A disgusted look appeared on her face as she read it to Lu, obviously, he should have to stop being a jerk especially when it comes to punishment. She threw the card and crossed her legs on the table, waving her shoes in front of Lu’s face.
“They fear you because of how evil you are,” she said, her finger went to her lips and she pretend to think “Have you killed the girl yet? Anita or Alita?” She looked at his face for a long time and crooked her brows.
Lu frowned as she lean closer, his eyes roam about her white face wondering what she must have seen that would make her look so shocked. His finger followed her eyes to under his left eyes and he sigh.
“It’s just a scratch,” he said touching his wound “it’s nothing”
“That’s not my problem” she blurted out “I don’t care if you lost the whole of your right palm rather than carrying that little bandage or the lost your eyes instead of that mosquito bite on your face” a sly smile appeared on her face as Lu frowned.
They kept staring at themselves in silence until Lu got feed up and stood up, he didn’t bother to say a word as he stomped towards the elevator.
“What happened to you?” Flavia asked.
The level on concerned in her low voice made Lu stop to at least look at her face, color drain away from his face as he hope she won’t start crying and wailing about how she wanted him back.
“We are done, Flavia” he snapped, not sparing another second he turned back “It’s been four years and your contract daughter had forgotten about you, better live on the brighter si-”
“Who are you to tell me about the brighter side?” Flavia scoffed, stood up, and walked to him ” I know how much of a devil son you are but who so ever that had made you get rid of your contact lens had done a great work” she fold her hands under her breast and smiled “My prayer is that you stick to be the good Luciano and take care of our daughter”
Lu scoffed, he blinked rapidly as if the color of his eyes could change or be hidden. He placed both hands in his pocket and stepped aside for her, hopefully, she might consider going and leave him in peace.
“I came to invite you for my wedding which is next three months,” Flavia said, it sounded almost like a sad whisper “I just want to beg you to bring Amara”
“That’s not possible,” Lu said dryly “I paid you off, and we had a sealed deal, you only broke your heart by getting attached”
Flavia smacked her lips, nodded, and looked away from Lu, hiding the tears burning in her eyes. She went completely silent for a while before she looked up, her chin wet and her eyes red.
“I know,” she said “I swear I won’t try to claim her or cause a scene if I do blow my head off on my wedding day”
For the first time since they meet, Lu showed a different emotion other than anger, boredom, and hate. He was totally in shock and the only thing he could do is to open and close his mouth like a goldfish before he swallowed.
“I beg you” she went on her knees “I know I sold her out but let me just see her again, please” she cried “Let it be my wedding gift I beg of you”
She sat at his feet crying, even when she knew all how heartless Lu had been, she planned to say the piece of her heart before going.
“I know how I hate Luciano” she sniffed “I know how I so much want you dead but there is no gain in all of it” She looked up at him and saw him staring down at her “I hated you because I loved you and you didn’t love me back” she got to her feet and cleaned her face, damping the hem her gown on her face.
Although she knows how horrible she must look and she would not want to spoil her makeup with tears for Lu, not when he still had what looked like a stoney expression.
“When I first meet you all I wanted was the fame and money, not until after two months in the contract and I fell in love with you” She stood and wiped her face again “I love you Luciano and I will always do. I see the way you looked at that girl, I mean Alita” she cringed “If you have a heart please try to consider what I want to say”
She sigh deeply then stare at his blue eyes, her feelings were mixed and she doesn’t know which one to choose or do.
“Do not sell her or make her feel worthless, helpless, or useless as you did to me” She walked to the table, picked up the invitation, and brought it to him “Please bring her and Amara to my wedding I beg you”
The moment Lu collected the booklet and seem slightly distracted, Flavia stretched and hold his face, her lips smashed into his as she kissed him with all the boiling emotions she had. Rage, hurt, fear, anger, pain, and love, she kissed him for she knows it will never happen again.
“What was that for?” Lu asked confused after he had broken the kiss.
“That was goodbye” Flavia sniffed.
Before Lu could get himself to say anything, Flavia walked back to the table, grabbed her bag, phone, and a picture of Lu that had been on the table. In the next few seconds, she was in the elevator, hugging Lu’s picture and crying.
Luciano left his company in rush, he didn’t bother to check his gifts or any other thing, he didn’t even check sales as he usually does. He just got to his car parked in the garage, his chauffeur was already waiting for him.
He told him to have his day off as he went to one of his clubs to drown his sorrow in a bottle of alcohol.
He kept thinking of the bad he had done to people, how he had hurt them and taken them as objects. He wonder if the people that had survived it would forgive him. His mind went to Alita and he imagined being in her shoes, if it had happened to him what will he do?
He dropped the second empty bottle and asked for the third one.