(NFTMB)Chapter 62
Victoria
(Kiss My Feet)
I’m doomed.
I’m done for. He had caught me and I know I can’t escape from this.
What kind of life of pain and misery is this?
What did I do to deserve something like this? Was I always going to live my life begging for his forgiveness all the time?
I didn’t know that he had people follow me and neither did I suspect that they had taken such damning and implicating pictures of Leonard and I.
This is all Leonard’s fault.
After the time I requested he drive me back to where the driver left me, Leonard apologized for butting into my and Alessandro’s affairs.
When we arrived at the park where the driver was meant to pick me up from and take me back home, I had tripped on a carelessly placed toy in the park belonging to a child.
Who the hell leaves their child’s toy at the park? What sort of stuff happens in New York? This could cause an accident and a lot of harm to people.
I was scared that I was going to fall and possibly hurt my baby but that never happened.
Leonard had volunteered to keep me company until the driver arrived and he had caught me just in time before I would hit the floor for which I was grateful for.
I had requested he let me go since I was steady on my feet but he instead did the most unwarranted thing by kissing me.
I hadn’t expected it because he hadn’t given me a heads up before so it took me a while to push him away.
I hate that yet another man had felt I was easy to take advantage of.
He kissed me without my permission and told me he has always liked me. To me he was just a friend.
I wasn’t in the right frame of mind for all that and I asked him to leave me alone.
I didn’t want to see him again.
I trusted him and he still did what Alessandro would do.
It hurt.
It felt like I couldn’t trust anybody else in my life. My friends stood me up and Leonard hurt my feelings.
I cried on my way back home and I cried on arriving at his house.
I was with Valentino because he was the only one I could trust and rely on.
He was the only one I needed at that time.
I would still talk to Leonard but that would be later. I don’t want to see him now or talk to him now.
I only consider him to be a friend. A good friend and nothing else.
He took advantage of my weakness and my helplessness.
There’s nothing different between him and Alessandro. They’re both the same thing.
Valentino had consoled and comforted me telling me that he would always be here for me. He didn’t try to touch me or take advantage of me like Alessandro insinuated.
Looking at the photos in my shaking hands and the murderous look on Alessandro’s face, I knew one solid fact.
Not even Valentino could help me now. I was doomed to suffer at the hands of this monster.
I prayed to God to give me the strength to survive whatever he does to me and to protect my child.
“Alessandro, I can explain. It’s not what it looks like”
I knew at this point I was definitely grasping for straws and trying to say whatever I could to prevent his harsh temper from descending on me.
“Not what it looks like, Victoria? He had his fucking tongue down your fucking throat! Do I look like a fucking child to you?!”
His temper flared and raged as I sought how to seek cover from the incoming pain I knew he was going to inflict on me.
“Please listen to me, I slipped and was almost about to fall and hurt the baby but he caught me in time and saved me from falling. That was all”
“And the kiss?”
“I don’t know why he did that, believe me. Please”
“You don’t know?”
“Yes, I never expected it and that’s why I asked him to leave me”
“You never expected it and yet there you are! In his arms! Just like a good lover. Tell me, Victoria, am I not enough for you?”
His question surprised me. Has he gone mad? Why is he talking as if I picked him out of my own goodwill when it was the opposite.
But I couldn’t say that to him. I can’t say it to his face so all I could do was lie, grovel and beg.
“You are! You are, Alessandro. That’s why I’m telling you the truth that it wasn’t my fault. I never knew he was going to do that. You need to believe me!”
Alessandro
Her face had gone red from the tears and begging and I’m sure a headache would be creeping up very soon. Her voice had even started to crack in between words.
I still don’t intend to go easy on her either way. I picked up the gun I always kept under my pillow for convenience purposes and for further safety.
“No, please”. She begged as she caught sight of the shiny metal that could end her life for good.
“Why are you so afraid of the gun if you didn’t do anything wrong?”
“Please, just drop the gun. Let’s talk. I’ll do anything you ask of me please drop the gun”. She begged me but what caught my attention was what she was doing or rather what her fingers were doing.
Clever girl.
Victoria’s hands were slowly fumbling with the buttons on her dress.
I couldn’t help the laughter that escaped from my mouth at her desperation.
My innocent girl had opted to strip herself of her clothes just to save her own skin and prove her point.
So, she could willingly invite me to sleep with her. I’m slowly learning new things about Victoria everyday.
When pushed she can become very desperate doing even the things you never imagined she could do.
“Stop!”
Her fingers froze midway behind her as she reached behind her bra, eyes sparkling with tears.
“What are you doing?”. I asked her as I leaned on the wall behind me and scratched my chin with the gun.
She couldn’t form any words from her mouth. Her sparkling blue eyes held confusion and embarrassment.
“Alessandro”
“What?!”
This is getting interesting. I knew she couldn’t use her words. She couldn’t tell me that she was trying to compensate with her body, instead she expected me to understand and go with the flow.
Not today.
“II thought that you might that you would want this”
I could feel her embarrassment from here as she wrapped her slender arms around herself.
“Want what? That I would want something you might as well have shared to every man you come across?!”
She flinched back with a look of disbelief.
“Alessandro, you know I would never do that. I have never been with another man except you and you know that.
What happened today was nothing else but a mistake and I deeply apologize for it. I’ll take anything from you, anything you give me, Alessandro just please put the gun down. I beg you.
I admit that I was carried away by surprise and didn’t push him away earlier but I swear that I have never cheated on you. I have never slept with any other man but you. You have to believe me, Alessandro”
I wasn’t doubting her. I just wanted to see to what lengths I could push her.
I slept with her first so I know that she wasn’t lying. That dimwit driver boy didn’t touch her either. I know that for a fact.
He would have been missing a hand or head if he did.
“You swear?”. I asked her with amusement and excitement dancing around my voice.
I wanted her to show her loyalty to me to the fullest.
“Yes, I swear, Alessandro”
“You swear that there is nothing going on between you and my brother?”
Her head snapped up immediately with blue eyes like the fucking stormy seas.
“Why do you look so surprised, Victoria? It was just a simple question”
“There is nothing going on between me and Valentino. We are just friends. He understands me”. She whispered the last part quietly.
“He understands you? In what way does my brother understand you that I don’t?”
“It’s not what you’re thinking, Alessandro”
“And how the fuck do you know what I’m thinking if it isn’t the obvious truth!”
“He understands me because I can talk to him like a friend and he is kind to me”.
Bullshit.
I call bullshit.
Valentino might be my brother and a kind person but he still remains a man and for that I can’t trust him around an emotionally and mentally weak person like Victoria.
You never know what can happen.
I hate being taken by surprise. I love to be in control of everything and everyone around me.
“Come to me, Victoria”. I instructed her and she slowly got up with uncertainty clouding her deep and enchanting blue seas.
“Stop right there! Get on your knees!”
She paused in front of me before pursing her lips and slowly getting on her knees.
“Yes, Alessandro”
“Look me straight in the eye and tell me that there is nothing going on between you and Valentino”
She took a deep breath before looking at me in my eyes.
“I swear that there is nothing going on between me and your brother”
Smart girl.
“No, don’t say my brother, say his name, Valentino”
“Isn’t it the same thing?”
“No. You can’t deceive me. You’re too dumb to deceive me. Niccolo is my brother as well so I would rather you be particular”
She gulped down hard before nodding.
“I swear that there is nothing going on between me and Valentino”
“Very well, then. Kiss my feet if you want to convince me”
Shock. Surprise. Bewilderment
That was all that was written on her face like freaking graffiti.
“What?”
“You heard me. I hate repeating myself, Victoria”. I said while tapping the gun on my head.
Her eyes latched on to the gun as she slowly but surely bent her head and placed a kiss on my feet while dropping a souvenir.
A teardrop.
She was crying.
“Good”.
“Thank you”. She hiccuped while talking as she wiped her tears with the back of her hands sitting back on her legs.
“I’m not that difficult to deal with, Victoria. Isn’t that right?”
“Yes”
“Good girl”. I said before looking her up and down.
“Now take off the rest of your clothes. You’re in big trouble”