ARIANA’S POV~
“I regret sending you off to Malta, my peers warned against it but I was tired of seeing your ungrateful ass,” my father started his tone a clear line between disgust and hate.
“Mateo has nothing to do with this, I took them, your deal is with me, let him go” I exclaimed loudly.
“Careful or you will hurt the baby, speaking of babies I believe you have two of mine” he smiled.
“Right now we are moving your darling husband to a private facility, I’ll send you a location meet me there,” he said.
I panicked, “Papa he just came out of surgery Don’t do this!” I cried.
“Don’t forget im still his father, of course, I can take him wherever I want, Be at the location in 3 hours,” with that, he hung up, leaving me anxious on the bathroom floor.
Tears streamed down my face endlessly as the loneliness of my choices enveloped me.
I had no one to help me through this, no advisers no friends.
I thought of Fiona, I missed her cherry smile.
I couldn’t drag her into all this, I can’t let them get to her.
The last time I left her in Malta, I never wanted to put her through that ever again.
I got up and straightened myself, I put myself into this mess by not trusting Julius when he said he had been framed, and now he could be dead.
I have to get myself out, whatever the hell it is I owe it to him to save Mateo, but at the cost of my siblings?
I quickly dressed up and went downstairs, I hadn’t eaten all day, and my stomach turned.
I was starving my child.
So I decided to sit at the table, where I waited for the chef to bring whatever she could whip up.
As I ate I heard the sound of feet hurriedly clattering towards the main door, and then she emerged, the woman who I usurped, Rebecca Saunders, a pain in my ass.
“There you are!” she shrieked hurriedly running to me, “They took Mateo! I got a call from the nurse I had to pay to keep an eye out on Mateo, she said his dad just wheeled him out!” she screamed.
“I know” I replied putting a spoon full into my mouth.
“What the hell is going on? Your husband is missing and you just sit there casually and have lunch are you crazy!” she cried endlessly.
I wrapped up my meal as she went on and on about “OUR” husband’s kidnap.
My head spinned as her voice echoed endlessly in my thoughts.
A moment of weakness, I decided to confide in Becky to see if she had some sort of reasonable input, I’d lost all available resources.
“My father wants to trade Mateo for tomas,” I said finally.
“And what’s the problem?” she inquired, “he is my brother” I replied giving her a disgusted look “and he uses him like life support! Im not doing that” I replied.
“Listen here Ariana and listen well” she started before banging the space beside where my food sat, it bounced off balance almost knocking me off.
“I don’t care if you have to sacrifice the child in your fucking belly, you bring my bunny back home, tonight you hear me!” she yelled “Tonight!” as she yelled her body jiggled and so did the silver star trinket on her ankle.
I said nothing as I cleaned the food crumbs from my face, I got up and walked away.
Talking to an airhead bimbo was the wrong choice.
The address for the location came not too long and so did the coordinates for the new drop point for Luna.
My heart weighed heavy, I was in a dilemma.
How do I do this, as the car sped off into the street I got a call from Selena.
“Ariana, I heard Papa kidnapped Mateo, what the hell is going on? Mama is crazy out of her mind, is…”
“Im not giving him tomas or Luna I promise” I stated.
I heard her heave a sigh of relief and then I remembered something, “Serena, I need you to do something for me” I started before she could end the call.
“Yeah?” she responded.
“There’s a room I passed the last time I was at the Rinaldi estate, I saw…” I started before pausing to think.
“I think I saw Silvio, Serena,” I paused to hear her response, “Silvio? Are you sure? There are no doctors or nurses here to say otherwise. Are you certain it’s Silvio?” she asked clearly.
“I’m not sure Serena, that’s why I need you to help me look” I replied, “send me a text im on my way to meet Father”
Exactly three hours later we got to the location and I was ordered not to bring anyone with me.
As I entered I saw my father sitting beside Mateo as he lay on a hospital bed, he wore a breathing mask and his eyes were barely open.
“a…ria.. na” he called.
I smiled to myself, he remembered who I was this time.
Now all I need to do is try and save him.
Mateo’s pov~
She stood there, her eyes looking heavy as she looked at me, it was blurry but that’s Ariana, right?
She looked different, or could be the drugs.
She looked plump, her lips were fuller and so were her breasts, and they seemed to be all I could concentrate on as she conversed with our father.
“Where are they!” I heard him thunder, before striking his cane on the marble floor, reverberating through the room.
Everywhere was cold, too cold I tried to move but had no luck.
I was stuck there, watching the woman everyone called my wife haggle for my freedom, I felt useless.
This is not what men do! I should be protecting her, she’s carrying my child!
“Far away from you!” she responded.
“You are going to make this hard Ariana,” he said before hitting the cane on the floor again.
Someone came out from the shadows, and she turned to look before he laughed, “oh don’t worry he was not the young gentleman you conversed with all will be revealed in good time,” he said.
I watched the person move close to me, he pulled out his gun from his back and placed it firmly on my temple.
“I know you still have Luna in the air, turn the plane around and send her back to Colombia” he ordered.
“What kind of a father are you? You are the devil, you will let a madman like Eliano have your daughter just to hide from the consequences of your actions? You are an animal father” she cried.
“Yes I am like the gorilla, I don’t care who I have to stomp, ill break every fucking neck and eat my children for dinner if that’s what it takes” he replied.
Memories came flooding back as he spoke, tormenting memories I spent under his care.
“You are evil” she said under her breath, “did you ever love us?” she asked.
“Love? Love is a disease, Ariana, it sucks the soul from you, never say that word in my presence ever again” he mentioned, he raised his cane and pointed to a second man before wheezing for breath.
“Give her the new coordinates,” he said, I refused to take it from him, tears flowed down endlessly.
“No!” she cried, the tears flowing from her rosy cheeks down to her lips made my heart sink.
I never knew she had this much effect on me.
“Do it” he gestured to the man holding the gun over my head.
He smiled and cocked his gun.
No!” she cried again as the sound of the gunshot rang heavy.
Am I dead?
I opened my eyes and I saw he shot the pillow close to my head.
“The next one goes into his brain, im not fucking around, ill kill him and then ill kill you, not before I rip that bastard from your belly!” he threatened before spitting close to her feet.
With a heavy heart I watched her make her call, her eyes red stained with pain as she recited the coordinates back to the person at the other end.
“It’s done” she replied slowly and painfully, her heart heavy with guilt.
“Good, now Tomas” Father asked, “it’s time for my boy to come home”
I watched her stand there, alone and totally defeated as she sold her siblings out.
for me…..