NFTMB)Chapter 80
Victoria
(Lover Of Peace)
Most times I tend to define myself as a lover of peace and a very polite and respectful person till situations like this arise.
Plus the fact that my baby controls my actions and right now it’s clamoring for war.
My poor baby woke up and chose violence.
I almost slapped Jasmine across the face for scaring me like that.
“Hey! You scared me!”
“I didn’t want you to attract attention plus Niccolo is having a bath now but I caught him with something.”
What is this lunatic going on about now?
“What was he with?”
“A gun. I saw him walk into the room with it safely tucked into his pants. He thought I was asleep but Victoria, I was just pretending”. She said with eyes wide as a dead fish.
“Who gave it to him and what is he gonna use it for?”. I tried to feign interest in her cock and bull story.
“He’s going to use it on me. Alessandro gave it to him for the sole purpose of using it to kill me on the night of the charity gala.”
“How do you know so much, Jasmine?”
“The walls have ears. I hear things, Victoria”
Really girl? You’re one with the walls now? What in the stupidity and madness is this?
“But he might just be having it around him for protection, you know? After someone tried to hurt me in the mansion we all can’t be too careful here”
Who was this girl trying to deceive? You hate me. You can’t stand me. You didn’t even care about me when I was attacked.
She only made snide comments and went back to sleep but now you’re suddenly out to play protector and guardian angel to me and my baby?
Please. Tell me something true.
She’s so fake and horrible. I could never understand what Niccolo saw in her.
This girl is packaged garbage.
“No, it’s not for protection. It’s for assassination. My assassination. Girl, open your eyes and listen to me. They’re going to kill you after they kill me.
It’s a ritual of some sort. They do it every year to renew their pact and covenant of blood with the devil.
Alessandro is the devil’s favorite and he lives inside of him.
Each and everyone here knows. I saw the bruises on you on your wedding day. He will kill you as a sacrifice too. Nobody can save you.
Victoria, Valentino serves the devil too. He’s getting closer to you so he can use you before Alessandro uses you so he can get more power from the devil.”
Jesus Christ.
I can’t believe she just said that out loud again.
Jasmine has really lost her mind and I’m getting concerned for her well being.
Worshiping the devil? Sacrifice? I can’t be hearing this in this day and age.
What is Fabiano feeding this girl?
“That’s not true. Nobody worships the devil, Jasmine. You’re creeping me out.”
“That’s how you know it’s serious. Alessandro has tattoos on his hands and his entire body to prove that. He gets them each time he gets into a new covenant with the devil.”
Wait.
Hold up.
Wait a damn minute.
Let’s take a step back.
“How do you know what my husband’s body looks like?”
I saw her freeze and try to recollect herself before speaking.
“I once passed by the gym and he was working out shirtless. That’s how I saw it. It almost looked like I was seeing the devil through him”
“Can you stop with the devil stuff? It’s making me uncomfortable”.
“Fine! Till you open your eyes to see Valentino standing over you and holding a knife to your chest then you’ll know that I was telling the truth.
Fabiano will help us. He has friends and allies in high places”
Allies and friends?
“He has allies and friends? Who are they?”
She pursed her lips and looked at me suspiciously before shaking her head.
“I can’t tell you. I don’t know. You’ll meet them at the charity ball when they come to save us from being sacrificed”
Oh here we go again.
“Stop with the sacrifice thing, would you? You’re really getting on my nerves. If they serve the devil shouldn’t that tell you that Fabiano shouldn’t be trusted? He should be serving the devil too. What makes him different from his kind?”
“I know Fabiano and he’s genuine. These people will kill you, believe me.
They’ve all sacrificed things and people they love that’s why Niccolo is excited to do his with me.
He’s the only one left that hasn’t made a sacrifice to their lord”
“So what did Valentino sacrifice to the Rossi demon lord?”
“He sacrificed his love and his first girlfriend, Laura”
What?!
What is she talking about?
This must be a lie.
I’ve never heard this before. Why would I trust a raging lunatic?
“What? I’ve never heard of that. Stop lying.”
“Well it isn’t a lie, Victoria. He killed her by pushing her off a cliff. It’s like their greatest family secret that nobody is allowed to know except them. They’ll kill me quicker if they find out that I know”
Damn! How the hell does she get all this information?
She must have a very strong source.
“Well then, how do you know? Since it’s a secret?”
“I told you I hear things right?”
Oh for Christ’s sake! Stop with the one with the wall narrative.
It’s as disturbing as the blood drinking demon thing.
“Hmm, okay. I believe you”.
Watch me run to Alessandro and spill.
“Good. Did you plant the things I gave you?”
“Yes. I did it”
“Good. Tonight I’ll need you to activate it.”
“You want to tap the mic so it can become active? Tonight? You do realize Sebastian and his bodyguards won’t let me in there without a sensible reason especially now that he isn’t around”
“You won’t do it now. You’ll do it when he comes back.”
Oh My God.
She really is a lunatic if she believes I’m going to help her.
“Okay. I’ve heard you. I’ll do it”
“That’s a relief, Victoria. We are finally going to be free! Pack your bags and hope for the best”
I forced a fake smile on my face as she grabbed my hands thereby digging her talons into my palms.
I bit down on my lower lip to avoid squeaking out in pain as she jumped up and down in joy.
“Alright. I Need to leave now. I need to pack up my stuff and wait for Niccolo’s return”
Great.
One more thing.
“Jasmine? If he plans to kill you like you said then why does it seem as if he is angry with you? Shouldn’t he actually be nice to you so you won’t suspect a thing?”
She paused.
Jasmine froze.
Gotcha.
Niccolo might not be my favorite person but I’m sure as hell that anybody who plans to wipe someone out of the surface of the earth suddenly would not treat you like that.
Especially people she claimed were doing the killings for sacrifice purposes.
He’s supposed to pamper and pet her so she does not suspect a thing then off goes her head.
“Well, Niccolo is crazy and he’s angry at me for not agreeing to bear him a child.”
Oh please. Spare me that.
I know you cheated on him so stop lying.
“Ohh, I see. That’s so sick”. I lied while rubbing my tummy.
I didn’t miss Jasmine’s look of disgust as she trailed her eyes down to my tummy.
It’s not my fault, Jasmine.
“I’ll get going, Victoria. Be careful and learn to sleep with one eye open”
Yes, General.
Seems like this is a battlefield.
“I will”
With that she walked away and strutted off to God knows where.
Hopefully to hell.
I shook my head at the amount of darkness swimming inside Jasmine’s head all the while reminding myself of how much I hate Fabiano.
I spoke to myself in small tunes as I walked to my room, not even looking at where I was going.
My feet seemed to be the most interesting thing to me.
I walked into a rather soft body.
Yes, a strange body. Not a hard wall. Not all that romance stuff.
The strange body stretched out its hands and steadied me by my shoulders.
“Watch where you’re going, dear”
Fabiano.
I immediately organized myself and stepped back from the alligator looking old man.
“Sorry, Fabiano. I wasn’t looking. I’ll be more careful next time.”
“It’s not a problem my dear, the most important thing was that I was able to hold you and stop you from tripping. A belly that big can be quite distracting”.
Alright that’s it, someone get me a bucket, I need to throw up ASAP.
“Thank you. I appreciate your swiftness and I’ll be on my way now”
I tried to walk around him and leave immediately seeing as this man gave off all the bad vibes in the world.
All the very bad ones.
“No, dear. Come sit and have tea with me for a while”. He said pulling me back as I tried to wriggle out of his hold.
“No, I really should get going, Fabiano”.
“It won’t take long. Just a few minutes of tea and a harmless conversation. Would you deny an old man some fun?”
“I don’t know, Fabiano. I feel rather tired now and I would like to rest my back”.
“I can carry you if you want?”
My brows shot up to my hairline at his words.
Really?
“No, don’t worry! I can walk”
“Then let’s walk”
I took a deep breath as I waited for him to lead the way as my palms sweated like crazy.
“Ladies first, Victoria”. He said while he pretended to tip his invisible hat.
What a dirty old animal.
I walked stiffly in front of him while rumpling my loose fitting sweatpants by clenching and unleashing my fist on it.
If he tries anything funny I’ll scream.
“Relax, Victoria. I’m not going to hurt you.” He suddenly whispered in my ear, making me jump.
Geez. Personal space much?
I eyed him in disgust as he pulled out a seat for me which I sat stiffly on.
He prepared the tea himself and proceeded to pour some into the cup he placed in front of me.
“Drink, Victoria”. He urged.
Definitely not drinking that.
“Thank you”
He smiled widely revealing his gold tooth and wrinkles around his eyes.
“My pleasure, dear. I’m glad to be of service to you and my unborn grandchild? I think?”. He said with a smile while pretending to think hard about the right relationship tag between him and my baby.
All the while my eyes kept moving from the hot cup of tea placed before me and his face.
Ohh how sweet it is to dream.
“I think I’m right. Yes, you’re carrying my grandchild. Nicholas’ second grandchild”.
And your dumb point is?
“Yes, I believe so”.
“But that also is Georgina’s grandchild, hmm. Am I right or really am I right?”. He said with a wide smile. I could really count his teeth with how wide his smile was.
My heart beat faster attempting to jump out of my chest at the fact that he knew about my mother who I haven’t seen in years.
A lot of years.
“Yes, may her soul rest in peace”. I concealed my inner turmoil and tried to continue with the lie I had told so much that I have slowly started to believe.
She is dead. My mother was dead.
End of story.
“Why would her lovely substance-obsessed soul rest in peace when she’s very much alive and kicking. At least for now.” He said casually as he sipped his tea.
He knows.
Oh my God.
I rose up from my seat immediately.
“My mother is dead. Stop trying to get me upset. Why don’t you leave me alone?”
“Sit down Victoria, you’ll stress the baby. Your mother is alive and you know it just as I know it.
My man did a background check on you guess Alessandro was to high on cloud nine to remember that”
I slapped my hand down on the table.
“Why are you doing this? What do you want?”
“Sit down!”
“No! I’m leaving. You don’t tell me what to do.”
“Very well then. I don’t want anything from you.” He looked at me from head to toe. “For now. If and when I do, I’ll let you know”.
“Stay the hell away from me!”
“I did nothing but try to fight for my dear friend, Georgina’s right as a grandmother. Turns out doing good stuff and standing up for what is right in this modern times is considered bad”.
He acted like an innocent person pouting his lips and shaking his head.
Disgusting.
“Your friend? You’re not friends! You don’t even know her”
“I don’t know her? Stop being ridiculous of course I do”.
What? How?
“But on the contrary dear, I can’t exactly call us friends. Do you want to know why?”.
There was a wicked glint dancing around in his eyes and I knew that whatever he was going to say next was going to be absolutely horrifying.
“Why?”
“Because we’ve shared a bed or two in the past. Maybe even three but who’s counting dear?”.
No!