The study was the largest part of the mansion. The way I saw it, It was like a home office built in for his comfort. We both sat opposite each other as I waited for him to speak.
He seemed to be taking his time as he studied me for a while before starting off, "How have you been doing?" He asked.
"Wonderfully well, I suppose. I can say the same about you as well, you finally got Elizabeth to stick with you" I said referring to the renewing of vows they promise to take sooner than expected.
He adjusted himself, surprised that I had been following his daily life. "I see you look out for me...." He said smiling.
I laughed aloud at this. My face got serious as I crossed my leg and stared deeply into his eyes. "Look out for you? Come on, I don't have that time. I will have you know that your life is being featured on the news 24/7 or don't you watch the news anymore?" I grinned slightly for I believe I was winning whatever argument we were having.
Smirking, he replied "Well that saddens me... I thought you might have left, a bit of affection for me, I guess when you threw away the earrings I bought for you that was the end of our love"
Our love? What the hell is he saying now... He said he didn't love me, he said I was part of a game he was playing with his family... He said that I meant nothing to him and everything he had done up until now were all fake, then how dare he say our love. There is no love between us and there will never be as long as he keeps being clingy to a woman that has no regard for him. He doesn't even know what Elizabeth has been planning with her loverto steal his property using Liliana and there he is signing off all of his assets to Liliana's name.
"Was there even love to begin with?" I gave a shrug, "Let's say we were attracted to each other and along the line, one of us got tired and the other party had to move on with her life, right?"
"Let's put it that way" he said in agreement. "About your pregnancy...."
"Don't tell me you want me to get rid of it, cause I won't!" I snapped at him, remembering how he had pestered me to get rid of Liliana when she was in my womb and now there he was begging that she calls him dad, pathetic...
"Do you think I am that cruel? Why would I want to do that to my own child?" He said with his voice rising.
"That's because you did the same with Liliana!" I shouted at him. "I believe that's what you want me to do with the one growing in me" if it hadn't been for Beatriz persistent in wanting me to take the test I wouldn't have even known that there was an actual baby growing inside of me that I was currently protecting.
He looked at me with an indescribable eyes, they look like he wanted to cry or was he furious? Either way he didn't want to let it out. It was like I had accused him of being a bad father. His hands which were on the table started shivering like it was having a tremor, slowly he tightened his fist as he stared at me with those fierce eyes that could kill me in a second.
"Get out" he said with clenched teeth, I still hesisted as I felt responsible for triggering him like this, "Get out!!!" He allowed his fist to land on the table as it resounded throughout the study. As hasty as possible I ran out of there and closed the door shut before anything bad could happen.
I did not leave. I placed my ear on the heavy thick door hoping to hear a thing or two from what's going on inside. It was hard since it was impossible considering the door blocking my way.
As I pressed my ear further, the door pushed open and Damon came right out of it. He didn't say anything to me, even as he had caught me trying to eaves drop on him, he just walked past but his silence had lingered in my head as I put a meaning to it---- he was hurt by my words.
I had even manage to catch a glimpse of dried tears on his right cheek. Could my words had really hurt him that much? They were all true after all.....
Though I wished for a glacier to roll and get rid of my body right now, it didn't help that I didn't want to apologise to him at all. I wasn't lying, then why is he making me feel guilty. Didn't he offer me money to get rid of Liliana? Maybe I was wrong to use that as a context when I referred to his own child.
Maybe I shouldn't have said anything at all.
As I passed the living room, I saw him entering his room. He stayed in there for a while and didn't even bother come down for dinner when he was called. If it were like old times I would've gone up there and stayed with him. Given the fact that I had caused it, there was no use thinking I could fix what I broke with my words.
"Elizabeth... Can I have Liliana tonight?" I asked when I saw the nanny take Liliana from her to take to bed.
"Is it not enough that she called you mom tonight? What else do you want?"Elizabeth said bluntly, She breathed out before continuing, "You about to have your own child in the next nine months, how about you remain patient till then...." She got up from her seat abandoning her half eaten food. Close to the stairs she turned to me, "From now on I plead that you never go close to my daughter again cause I might do something" she hissed before going up the stairs.
What's all this? Why can't I get close to Liliana anymore, why would she.... I felt my hand touch mine, Xander caressed it and really had to admit that it was soothing.
"You shouldn't mind Elizabeth, she is just jealous Liliana called you mom and not her, she'll come around" he took his hand away as I withdrawed mine. "Do you want to get some fresh air? This mansion has become stuffy, don't you think?"
"Yeah it has" I agreed with a nod, "But I will have to decline, I need to get some rest, am quite tired from everything" by everything I actually meant Damon, his silence has really being weighing me down ever since, which was I wanted Liliana's company tonight. At least her company always made me forget where I was and now there came restrictions....
"That's fine, maybe tomorrow" he proposed, I really didn't want to be associated with Xander but if he notice that I was drifting away from him deliberately he will do well to find out.
"Why not?" I said with a half smile. I went up to my room where it was lonely... That is what my life had turn out to be. Before I went to bed, I made sure to put the appropriate time in which Beatriz will leave in the morning.
Thankfully it worked. I opened my door slightly to see if Beatriz was ready to leave. It took time before she came out, taking a look at her, I'd say she was looking overly extravagant today. Her hair was curled and perfectly done. Her dress, looking at it would've cost a lot of money and the necklace she wore, I had to admit that she had good sense of dressing.
Even her perfume was strong as it spread all the way to where I was. I quickly grabbed the keys to the car Damon had bought for me months ago---- don't really know if it works, haven't driven it at all.
I followed her stealthily so I won't get caught. I had actually thought she would be heading to the garage but rather she took the route to the botanical garden instead. When she felt like someone was following her, I quickly hid in the bushes close to me. She went on after she had made sure she wasn't been followed.
I allowed her go into the the botanical garden first before taking out time to follow her again.
Hiding behind the lilies, I waited for her to do something. Beatriz pushed the box in which the hibiscus flower was planted on, underneath it was a open space which she climbed down. I went ahead to climb down the ladder that at the open space.
Everywhere was absolutely dark, I don't even think it was wide for me to even switch on the light on my phone. Beatriz knew all the nook and cranny of this place as so she deemed it fit that there be no light in it. Her hastiness showed that she had gotten to the place she was headed.
I walked slowly while using the walls to find my way to where she was. I stopped at a place that was lit with multiple candles, there I saw Beatriz crying to a picture frame on a pedestal. "I will continuously protect our son, I will do everything in my power to make sure that he gets all that I denied him of" she lamented as she kissed the picture frame.
Taking a closer look I remembered the muscular guy picture that was on her bedside table, he looked exactly like the man on the picture she was no holding close to her chest. On the picture, the muscularly built guy, her and a little boy were all on it.
She kept on crying, "I will give Xander everything" she said, pressing the picture frame on her chest again. "Then we can all be together at last" she said. Beatriz went on to describe what she wore to another picture of the man, infact the whole place was filled with a picture frame of this said man. And each of the frame she described every item she had on her body, she even went as far as describing the underwear she had on.
I know almost everyone in this mansion was crazy but what I am seeing here was the height of it. She ran on about how she can't wait to visit him so they could catch up and how much she missed him.
I really can't believe she did this everyday for three whole hours and come back to the mansion thinking she can be normal.
She eventually stopped when she got a phone call. By the look of it the phone call looked serious, "Come straight to the botanical garden, I will be there in a minute" she hung up. Thinking she had intentions on leaving I hid myself Immediately, rather than leaving she had taken her time to remove all of the accessories she had on and her dress as well, she dropped all of them in a pile of clothes along with the jewelries.
She changed into that gardening wear, which made us think she had actually gone gardening in the botanical garden instead she was here doing something else. Can things get any worse?
I was back to following her again, I actually wanted to see who she wanted to meet but her swiftness was the reason I was now stuck inside this place. She used the hibiscus flower box to cover up the open space and here I was in darkness with no idea how I was going to get out.
Getting out became a second priority when I heard Alicia's voice from above,"Pleasant morning, don't you think?"