Griselda POV
Even though he looked young, I could still make out it was Kulah. His features still looked the same, with his dark eyes, and sharp face structure, but what seemed really different is that he looked happy in the poster. But what really captured my attention was the girl who was standing next to him, her arms around his waist smiling widely.
Realizing it was Sophia, my eyes went to her immediately and saw her expression change when she looked at the poster. She seemed lost in thought with a sad look on her face. Clearing her throat, she turned towards me and smiled slightly.
“He was my best friend”, she began.
“When we were young, we both were so close, we would always played together, make fun of each other, but in the end we loved each other like siblings, but something caused him to change when his mother passed away and he left for Russia. I haven”t seen him ever since then”. Her eyes strayed over to the poster again.
Her confession startled me, I didn”t think someone evil as Kulah could have a best friend. But maybe he was completely different before I met him. But he was still an evil man in my eyes, who loved to abuse women and laugh at their weakness.
A part of me wanted to tell her, it wanted to tell her about Kulah and his torturous ways, of how he loved to see me weak and with tears in my eyes as I begged him to stop abusing me. But it knew if I did, she would probably feel sorry for me and hate him. I didn”t want that, I wanted her to think he was a good man because it was better that way.
If she knew how he turned out, she would probably despise him and try to tell Arcado of who my fiance is. It was still too early for him to know who is constantly haunting me. So with that thought in mind I decided to keep my mouth shut.
“He seems like a good guy”, I mumbled out forcefully.
“He was”, she returned to her laptop.
My eyes found the poster again and I flinched as they made contact with his. It still seemed like he was watching me even though it was just a poster. I felt my throat go dry and I took a deep breath to calm my nerves down.
“I”ll be back”, Without waiting for her response I left the room.
Closing the door softly behind me, I rested my head on it. Suddenly feeling grateful for the door keeping me up. My knees buckled and I slid down to the floor. Everything I”ve been through came back to me in a flash and I winced at every memory. No one deserved what I”ve been through and I hoped to god that Kulah hasn”t found any woman to torture.
For four years I”ve been trying to think of an escape from my father”s world but when I got engaged that plan turned into ashes until I grew a back bone and ran away from him and my father. If it wasn”t for the guard who came when I needed him, maybe by now I would”ve been dead.
If he didn”t show me the way, I wouldn”t be here, instead I would still be captured in my dungeon with shackles around my arms and legs. A few month ago, I wished for death constantly but now I wanted to live my life fully with Arcado by my side.
My feelings, came for him unexpectedly but I wouldn”t have it any other way. Maybe this was fate”s way of telling us we were meant to be together and if someone asked me to choose, I would choose Arcado in a heartbeat because he was someone who had my heart in the palm of his hands.
Time passed and I slowly stood up from the ground as I felt my heart return to its original beat. Sighing deeply I shook the memories of out my head and opened Sophia”s room. I was surprised to see her sleeping peacefully on the bed and I closed the door gently trying not to wake her up.
Going to Arcado”s room, I opened the closet and rummaged through my clothes until my hands felt the soft paper tickle my fingers. Smiling, I looked at the picture and tears fell from my eyes. I believed my baby was watching me from above, I hoped he understood that his mother couldn”t save him and that she loved him dearly.
Hugging the picture close to my chest, my eyes closed as a small smile appeared on my lips. I knew I couldn”t hold on to the past because that would simply destroy me. I couldn”t save my baby, so I promised myself I couldn”t have another one.
“I will always love you, my baby”, I gazed at the picture.
The truth is, I really wanted to have another baby, but I was scared he or she would be taken away from me in the blink of an eye. I wanted to see the baby grow up with full of love and gaze into his or her eyes as he or she slept peacefully. But this time, I wanted the baby to be Arcado”s.
Maybe this was too early to say this, but I wanted a future with him, where we would trust and love each other unconditionally. I wanted nothing more than to wake up to his face and his beautiful smile.
Before I met him, I was just a girl waiting for death to embrace me into its warm embrace and take me away, but now I wanted to live and be with Arcado. I wanted to create beautiful memories, where we could just be ourselves and no one else.
Perhaps those days would come in the future and I couldn”t wait for those days where we could just spend the day with each other. But I feared it wouldn”t be possible because life always found a way to mess with me.
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Damnnn Sophia and Kulah best friends? Didn”t see that coming.
Omg fangirling over how hotttt Arcado issss lol.
Arcado
“Alright, let”s get this over with”, We all walked into my office.
Skyler and Dexter were back from their mission and I had a hunch that they succeeded since they had smug look on their faces ever since they came in. Excitement courses through my body, I was finally going to find out about his so called fiance he liked to brag about.
“So, according to Kulah”s bodyguards, he got engaged to her two years ago when her father wanted them two to be together, but Kulah abused, tortured and raped her several times”, Dexter sat on one of the chairs.
“Didn”t her father care?, I leaned back in my chair.
“Nope, simply because he was a shitty father”, Skyler situated himself on the couch.
“We still don”t know her name”, Skyler sighed annoyed.
Just like me, they were eager to know who the woman was, but Kulah knew how to keep her hidden well. After she ran away, he just completely became suspiciously quite. But I knew he didn”t know where she was just like the rest of us. If I could find her first, my plan was to lure that son of a bitch until he begged me to kill him.
His fiance would work under me and I would offer her protection just like my other maids. But if she didn”t want that, I don”t know what else I could do. Obviously I couldn”t sell her off, selling women disgusted me. They were human not some objects to play with.
But people like Kulah liked to use their emotions as toys. He would torture the women and get turned on by their tears. He was one sick man who needed to be six feet under and I would gladly make sure I was the one to put him there.
“What will you do if you find out who she is?”, My head snapped towards Dexter.
“Just like always, I”ll offer her protection”, I voiced my thoughts.
“We have to be cautious because Kulah is one clever man”. Skyler stood up and poured himself a wine.
“But remember, we always get what we want”, Dexter smirked at him.
Skyler rolled his eyes and went out of the office, Dexter following behind him. All this thinking was giving me a headache and I massages my cramped head trying to ease the pain but that just made it worse. Standing up from my chair, I poured myself a whiskey and finished it in one gulp.
A knock on the door brought my attention and I strolled towards it. Opening it, I was surprised to see my beautiful angel standing there with a frantic look on her face. Eyebrows furrowing, I stared at her as she panted.
“Hey hey, it”s okay, you”re okay, Mi Amore” , I quickly curved my arms around her waist.
“It-it hurts”, she choked out while clutching my shirt in her hands.
Gently rubbing her back in a soothing manner, I pulled her impossibly closer and buried my head in her neck getting a whiff of her intoxicating scent. My headache instantly vanished leaving me with only a tingling feeling inside me.
Only she could do that to me, give me these feelings that were still unknown to me. But no doubt I loved her. When she is close to me, my hands itches to hold her and comfort her, when she was in pain I wanted to take it away and bear the pain myself if it meant I could see her beautiful smile.
“Please, please don”t ever leave me”, Her sobs echoed through the room.
Pulling away from the hug, I cupped her face in my hands while she bit her lip trying to keep the sob. Staring deeply into her beautiful eyes, I fell for her even more if that was even possible. But with Griselda everything seemed possible.
“I would never leave you, you”re everything to me Mi Amore”, I brushed her tears away.
Carrying her bridal style, I laid her on the couch and brushed her hair away from her face, she instantly relaxed and sighed in content. Her hazel eyes gazed at me with such love that made my whole world spin.
“Can you lay down with me?”, she whispered.
Wasting no time, I laid down next to her and snuggled her in my arms. She laid her head on my chest and her soft breathing gave me shivers.
“You”re okay Mi Amore”, I didn”t know if I was reassuring her or me.
Nodding her head, she looked up at me and gave me a small barely there smile. I didn”t know what caused her to freak out but that didn”t matter, what mattered the most is the comfort I was giving her. What happened to her in the past, still made me beyond angry, if I find out who the fuck abused her, he won”t live to see another day. His torture would be beyond painful and I would enjoy him begging for me to end his life.
When she told me she had a baby, it felt like my breathing stopped. But when she said her fiance murdered an innocent baby, my blood boiled and my hands itched to find him and kill him. My beautiful angel shouldn”t have gone through what she went through, instead she should be pampered with love and treated like a queen and it made me so fucking happy I would be the one to do that.
Looking down at my angel, I smiled when I saw her eyes closed and sleeping peacefully. She was fucking beautiful, just looking at her made me content and at peace. Her breathing was gentle as she slept peacefully, her head on my chest.
From now on, I would shower her with love and cherish her with everything in me. I would show her there is a whole beautiful world out there and teach her to not be afraid, I would fight her demons by her side and be with her even if she pushed me away.
A tap on the door interrupted my thoughts and I called out for them to come in as quietly as possible trying not to wake up Griselda. Standing up, I laid her head on the couch softly and she stirred. I froze in my movements but after a moment her breathing softened and she turned around.
Skyler was leaning on the door with his arms crossed when I turned around. Once he saw me, he grinned and wiggled his eyebrows suggestively. A scowl made its way onto my lips and I flipped him off.
“The Russian guards are here”.
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Did I tell you guys how much I love Arcado? But he can be pretty dumb lol. I mean still hasn”t figured out who Griselda is.
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