(NFTMB)Chapter 110
Alessandro
(Marry Me, Victoria)
I packed my things into the trunk of my car as my family stood there watching me with sad faces as I prepared to leave.
It’s been one week since Victoria kicked me out of her room and has been adamant on not letting me visit my child or her at the hospital.
She had no idea that what she did broke me into two.
She hurt me.
I created a scene for the first time in Paris but then I learnt to let things go.
Since I wasn’t allowed to visit my new daughter, what else am I doing in Paris?
Nothing.
That’s why I decided to leave.
“Alessandro, are you seriously going back to New York and leaving your daughter? You’re not going to fight for her or try to reason with Victoria?”. Niccolo said in disbelief.
“I’m quite surprised as you are”. Valentino said.
“Sanny, are you sure about this? You’re hurting”. Bianca said.
I closed the trunk of my car before facing them.
“There is nothing else I can do. I don’t want to fight with her”
“So you’re just going to let her take Matteo and Athena? Really? The both of them?”
“But she’s not the mother of Matteo”. Bianca said.
“This is so fucked up. This is wicked and selfish. That’s not right.”
“You’re going back to New York childless?”
“I guess I am”. I said with a shrug.
“Maybe I’ll find someone else to birth another child for me”. I tried to lighten the atmosphere by cracking a joke.
Nobody laughed. They didn’t find it funny.
Well, I guess I tried.
“You all stay out of trouble. I’ll leaving now”. I said before opening the door to my car.
“Alessandro?”.
I turned to see mother coming out of the house.
“Mother”
“Come have a word with me.”
“Yes, mother”
I slammed the car door close before following her back into the house.
As we got to the living room, I sat beside her and waited for her to say what she wanted to do.
“You’re leaving?”
“Yes, mother. I plan to go back to New York and continue my life”
“Why is that? You’re supposed to be with your daughter and your wife”
“My wife doesn’t want me anywhere around her or my baby. Not even Matteo”
“Why is that? Isn’t Matteo your child?”
“Yes, he is. But as of now Victoria has assumed my position and has forbidden me from coming close to him”
“What happened between you two?”
“Because I don’t love her. She got mad because I told her that I don’t feel the same way she does. I don’t love her”
“She loves you.”
“Yes, she does. She told me. She demands a lot of things from me that I can not give”
“What does she demand? Love? Company? Affection?”
“Yes”
“Who says you can’t give that?”
“I’m not capable of love”
“You love me. You love your brothers and your sister. You’re capable of love, Alessandro. That’s just Nicholas still controlling your life and your mind after all these years.”
“How?”
“You care about her. You like her being safe. You love the idea of being with her. You love her but you don’t even know it. Or maybe you know but you’re just too scared to admit it.
You think it makes you weak”
“I don’t know. I don’t know what I feel for her”. I said to her.
She was the only person I can be this open and honest with.
She knows me inside and out.
“Are you unhappy that you’re going back to New York without her?”. Mother asks.
“Yes. It hurts. I don’t want to but then I have to. I have to give her space and respect her wishes”
“She doesn’t want you to go. She wants you to be with her. She loves you and that alone makes her emotional. She’s pushing you and trying to make you figure it out by yourself that you love her.
If you leave her now then you have failed her. You love her. That’s why you’re sad to leave.”
“I love Victoria?”. I said to myself.
“Yes, you do and you know it”
“What do you advise I do, mother? I don’t want to lose my kids and my wife”
“Go to her. Go and see her.”
“Now?”
“Yes. Now. You don’t know what she’s thinking or what she’s feeling right now. It’s best to go now”
“I’ll go now. I’ll go see her now. I’ll tell her that I love her”. I said with conviction.
“Go”.
I gave her a hug.
“Thank you”.
“Go get your wife”
I ran out the door before heading out of the house and outside the house.
“Where are you going?”
“Are you leaving?”
“Woah, slow down!”
“I’ve got to go to the hospital”. I said in a hurry before driving off.
During the car ride to the hospital, I kept on chanting it to myself that I love Victoria and I was going to get she and our kids back.
I reached the hospital in no time and ran straight to Victoria’s room.
I barged into the room only to see her fully dressed with her friend beside her.
“Alessandro”
“I love you”
“What?”. She said in confusion.
I rushed to her before grabbing her face and kissed her, completely catching her off guard.
“I think I’ll just give you two a minute”. Her friend said before leaving.
“I thought you were leaving?”. She said in confusion as I stepped away from her.
“I didn’t. I came here for you”. I said to her.
“I don’t understand”.
“I love you, Victoria. I love you and our children”
“Alessandro, leave if you’re just going to lie to me just so you can see your children”. She said annoyance before stepping away from me and holding his hand.
“I’m not trying to deceive you. I’m saying the truth. You have to believe me, Victoria”
“Why would I believe you when time and time again you’ve told me how you’re never going to love me or anyone. How you’re not that type of person”
“What do you want me to do so that you’ll believe that I love you?”. I desperately asked her.
“I don’t know, Alessandro. I don’t know. I don’t want you to play with my emotions”. She said as I noticed her eyes get glassy.
“Dada”
My eyes turned to Matteo who was standing beside Victoria as he looked at me with a smile.
Victoria smiled before squatting to Matteo’s height.
“What was that, baby?”. She asked him as he smiled bashfully.
“Was that his first word?”. She asked me.
I blinked to bring myself back to the earth. I had frozen after Matteo said those words.
“Yes”. I said before hugging his small body to mine.
“Lucky you”. She said with a smile before standing to her full height.
Without thinking I reached into my pocket and fished out her ring before getting down on knee.
“What are you doing?”
“Marry me, Victoria.”
“But we’re married”. She said in confusion.
“Marry me and I promise to show you how much I love you. We have the rest of our lives to do that. We’ll have a normal wedding. A big wedding.”
“Alessandro”. She said before wiping her tears.
“Just say yes and I’ll show you that I love you. There is nothing I can say or do now that will convince you. Only the future can and I will spend the rest of my life proving it to you”. I said.
She didn’t say anything for a while. It was almost awkward as I was kneeling and she stood there crying.
“Yes”
“What?”
“Yes. Yes, I’ll marry you again”. She said with a smile.”
“Thank you”. I said before slipping the ring back on her finger where was it’s rightful place.
She hugged me immediately I rose to my full height. I hugged her back and breathed in her scent before kissing her.
“I love you, Alessandro”
“I love you, Victoria”
In that moment, I was complete.
My life was complete and my joy was complete.
THE END….