Cursetine's pov
My hand hurts but I couldn't care less, I prepared myself for this moment to come, to see him once again, I can't be weak again, not in front of him, not ever again, I already fell once, I swore to myself that there won't be a second one for that.
"Son" the dark clothed lady welcomed her son.
"It's been five years..." my cold voice made everyone shiver, so did my mom.
I was never like this until this male stepped inside the room, my temperature dropped down to negative hundreds, I can't help but feel nervous at all, his presence was at fault.
'Wooh, calm down Cursetine, it's just the bastard who betrayed you 5 years ago, you gotta keep your cool if you want to get the dog to stray off and not bite you' I told myself mentally.
"S-so you knew him?" My dad asked, trying to drop the tension between our families.
I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms in front of my chest, eyeing him up and down with a little smirk playing on my lips, I need to play cool or I'll lose it.
'Is this him? Attractive as always I see, his body grew- height, muscular, manly- everything, did he plan all of this? Tss whatever, it's good to see him well after all these years' I thought.
"We we're classmates, he bullied me for 3 years until I woke up one day and were dating- it was until I found out the truth after graduation and we broke up" I answered plainly trying to sound like I wasn't interested about what happened in the past.
I noticed the way his jaw clenched as he loosen his tie as he cleared his throat.
"Why don't we take a seat and discuss this matter?" The guy, I'm guessing as his father invited and I slumped my self down the single couch.
Once everyone was settled, the guy introduce his self as Dave- my mom's ex-fiancé and his wife, Irmea which they also conclude that they are Ace's parents and they only kidnapped my father because of their son's childish wish.
I throw a bored with a hint of frustrated look at him, he look so serious about this is he?
"Get me back? Didn't you wish me gone? That this is for the best right? And now you're at my tail wanting me back, please, stop this, I'm getting married soon enough" I beat him to it.
"Not on my watch, you almost didn't agree about the break up right? It seems to be impossible that you forgot about 'us' in a short period of time" He fired back, why does this look like it was my fault?
How dare him recall that scene? I was fxcking devastated knowing that everyone knows the truth and only I don't, they made a fool out of me and he dare say that right after I've gain my spot on the higher officials so as my parents, how dare him throw dirt on my name!
I glared at him. "Like you said 'almost', it was a good thing that I agreed though, I met an awesome guy who was a lot better than you" I stated as a matter of fact.
He scoffed and rolled his eyes at me before giving me a sly smirk, ah there we go, one of my weakness from him, I averterted my gaze away and crossed my legs.
"So tell me, do you love him?" He asked, I quickly turn to him, what the h*ck is he up to?
"Of course I do, that's why I'm marrying him" I answered right away.
"Really? Have you done things that you did with me?" He dared, looking deep into my eyes.
Now were talking about us making out without my parents knowing that I'm dating him that time? He want my answer? For that? Fine, challenge accepted, I leaned over slightly and returned his gaze.
"We did- even more than that, and I've never felt so proud and happy on myself" I lied, with a teasing tone on my voice then he stood up.
"Cursetine, what's the meaning of this?" My father warned.
"I thought you guys were looking forward to meet our kids?" I questioned.
"Well at least not until you two are married" mom added, I smirked.
"Oh mom, you have no idea" I turn to him as he glared at me.
"Stop messing around little devil" he threatened and he still used that childish nickname, I set my hand up, acting like I surrendered.
"My bad, seems like your ego was hurt, am I right Ace?" I also called him.
"DJ, she's already engage, can you just give up? You're giving all of us a hard time, Mikayla is-" he cut his mother off.
"I want her! No one else is worthy of carrying our family's name and bearing my heir but her" he declared.
Why do I have the urge to punch him? He's acting like a child!
"Death, we've been through this conversation, she decline, end of story" his father also said.
"I already moved on, maybe you should too, if there's nothing else, we should be going now, my fiancé is waiting for me" I said and stood up as well to fix my uniform.
Though I know that he always gets what he wants, I already swore to Drei that I'd choose him at any ways possible, I love him, and I already forgot about my feelings about Ace, being with him just doesn't feel so right.
It was all in the past, we're on different paths now, yes my mom once belong on this world but that doesn't mean that she's still the same person before she escaped and today is different than what it all was before.
"What does that guy have that I don't? Did you even love me before?" He asked in a low voice.
"He saved me, when I was drowning in betrayal, he was there to save me, he showed me the things I need to learn to love, he helped me get over you, I loved you before, I really do that I feel like I wanted to end myself after hearing the truth, but you were right you know? Things wouldn't be better if we keep pushing through gigantic rubbles, maybe it was just meant for us to meet but we weren't destined to be with each other" I told him, he clenched his fist and walked over to my spot.
I blinked my eyes as his figured towered over me, goodness me, how much did this guy grew? Or I just got small? His manly perfume that I used to love tickled my nosetrills as I took a single step backwards to keep my distance away from him.
I can't be contented about our distance, I'm afraid that I might lose it, I was sure that my feelings were gone but my heart beat says otherwise, he still have this effect on me whenever he's near and when I did, I feel like betraying the Drei even without having physical contact with Ace.
"You do know how possessive I am when it comes to you ever since then..." he trailed off.
I look back at our parents and shook my head, this can't be happening, everything was fine already, why does he need to come back now? It was clear five years ago that we'll be choosing different paths to take.
"You swore it was all for the best, and it did, can you just forget that something happened between us?" I asked, starting to get impatient.
"What are you talking about?" He asked as if his IQ level was just like what a 7 years old kid have, I sighed trying to compose my self.
"We'll just end up hurting each other, just like what happened 5 years ago, you asked me to give you a reason to be selfish for myself before right?" I tried to run his mind off as he remained silent, silently observing my features- as that's what I can see in his eyes.
"Fine. I'm inlove with Adrian and I hate you for being here, asking for a second chance after all those drama in the past, I'll rather die than be back to your arms, caged in your lies and never ending act!" I growled at him.
"That's enough" my mom stood up and held my shoulder back.
This time it was he was the one who took a step back, pain and sorrow painted his face as he look down at his shoes, I took a quick glance at his parents who seems to be worried about him but didn't bother interfering on our scene.
"Son, I think it's about time" his father just said.
"Death, I don't know what happened back then but I'm sure that you have hurt my youngest daughter, I understood you because my wife also tried to hide her identity to me but I also felt the same pain of betrayal as what Cursetine felt" dad said and I turn to him.
"Sweetie, I know that you and Drei already have a lot of plans for your future, but are you sure that those plans are you and Drei? Or was it you got from what you have with Death before?" He also asked me, I remained silent.
Me and Ace haven't talked about getting married that much, we were both contented in what we had that time, we both shared a lot of memories and cherished them, ever since I committed myself to move on after our break up, I locked all those memories away.
From the first time we met, the first kiss under water, our first date, first dance, and first break up, all of it was still fresh, everything was clear.
I felt something heavy filling up my body, he looks like he's about to cry but for the sake of his family here, he forced it back before turning his back to us.
"We're still not done here, little devil, just you wait" he said before acending upstairs.
His mother followed afterwards, his father then approached my parents as they had this deafening conversation before following his family upstairs.
"Do you want to meet your cousins, princess?" One of my uncles suddenly asked me.
"I-"
I was cutted off when I heard my dad yelping from the other side of the living room where my mom is busy 'beating' him up.
"It's for the show, get your man up, you're never like this on the battlefield" mom lectured, I shifted my gaze back on my uncles right away.
"I'd love too, in dad's family, the only female there was me and my older sister, the rest of our cousins are all males" I told them while sipping on some tea.
I'm quite happy about the fact that they did their best to get me comfortable with them, I mean they are mom's older siblings and I might get the idea where I got my unusual skills.
"Well my oldest is a female, your uncle Mike's middle child is also a female, and Zake's youngest is a female" Uncle Luke explained.
That's an odd pattern but that made me smile knowing that I have female cousins, I wonder how will Cristine handle this news? We're taking down some our blood line, at first it was confusing cause I have both Mafia and Military blood, so who should we save and who should we eleminate?
After a while of talking with my uncles who seem to be amuse by my witts amd smart remarks, mom and dad finally announced that it was time to go home.
We bid farewell to them before assisting mom on carrying dad who was beated up good by his wife, I smirked, that's a mafia blood for you. When we got outside the mansion, we had our tank fired up as we journey back to the head questers.
By entering the station, the sound of ambulance rang our ears as me and mom opened the lid to assure everyone that we're safe and of course dad needed medical assistance.
I sighed as I watch one of the medics cleanse the wound on my hand from earlier without caring about the pain, I just suddenly felt numb and I'm probably tired from all those ruckus.
"Are you going home sweetie?" Mom asked me, I gave her a firm nod.
All I ever wanted to do is go back on Drei's arms as he sings me to sleep, when my hand got bandaged up, I grab my new formal clothes and change inside the bathroom.
I fix myself a little bit before walking out the headquarters where mom was talking to a few agents and dad was no where to be found.
"I'll have them bring you home, have a good rest sweetie, you did great today" she smiled warmly at me, I returned her smile and gave her a hug before entering the van.
I have Jeremy as my driver, a butler on the shotgun seat and two more agents beside me, we also have a few military convoy to follow and I didn't bother complaining since I was so tired.
Totally drained mentally, physically, emotionally- everything, with Ace back on track and kept pursuing me, I don't really know what to do. I expected that things won't come out as I planned but again, he easily broke my barriers like he usually does back then.
I forgot everything about him, I pushed myself to forget him because it was for the best, yet here I am, one more- just one more glance at him, I might face my greatest fear- no! I don't want my feelings to come back, I dedicated my whole time to forget him, but why am I confuse myself?
30 minutes of silent ride, they finally dropped me home, I thanked everyone for their hard work before ringing the doorbell and right away, Drei opened it, he was already wearing his pajamas. I heard the vehicles leaving in the background as I wrapped my arms around him.
"Thank goodness you're safe" he hummed and hugged me before closing the door and locking it.
"I'm home, like I promise" I smiled.
"Welcome home, love" he kissed my forehead.
"Wanna head to bed now? Or do you want to take a bath?" He asked me.
"I wanna sleep" I grinned, he chuckled and led me upstairs.
"You did great love" he whispered in my ear.
"Thanks Drei" I smiled.
I was pretty sure that I was tired and drained out but I just really wondered why I couldn't sleep at all. I frowned and was about to sit up when I felt Drei's arm wrapped around my waist, pulling me closer to him.
"Can't sleep? Does your hand hurt?" He asked in a raspy voice.
I bit my lower lip, maybe I woke him up from shifting over my spot too much.
"I'm sorry, my hand's fine but I don't think I can sleep well tonight" I said softly before carefully sitting up while he let me loose.
"Do you have work tomorrow?" I asked in a low tone.
It was already past midnight and everything seems to be loud at night, just like how the waves crushed to the shore below, the cool breeze blowing, even the shifting of blanket everytime I move, Drei set an arm over his eyes, covering it.
"Yeah, is something wrong? Do you want me to take you to Nicolas for another check up?" He asked me.
"It's not that, I can have it some other time, I actually have some plans this following week" I hinted for him.
"Yeah? And what's that?" He finally sat up and faced me, I bit my lower lip and shook my head.
"Mom didn't clarify it to me yet" I sighed rubbed my nape.
"I'll get you some water" he suddenly excused and left without a word, he's always like this when I have something that I can't say, he won't force me to say it until I'm ready.
A couple of minutes later, he came back with a glass of water and a plate of some cookies, I held my pout to the side and reach for him, he gave me a grin before walking over to me.
Handing the plate over and setting the glass on the night stand before turning the tv on and scrolled through his netflix account.
"You have work tomorrow right?" I asked him.
"Yeah but my fiancé needs some cheering up" he uttered and played the latest movie of 'Addams Family'.
"I want to watch 'Bird Box'" I told him.
"I can't sleep in those" he cringed, I laughed and leaned over to him while the movie played.
The next morning, while I was busy cooking our breakfast, I heard the doorbell rang and Drei- who was busy on his laptop decided to be the one to fetch it.
I was humming some random tune before setting the last sausage on the plate and turned down the stove just on time when I heard laughters from outside, I hurriedly removed my apron and walked out the kitchen.
"Oh my dear! Oh how greatful am I to see you?" Drei's mom exclaimed when she saw me, I chuckled and gave her a hug, glancing at Deei who was grinning at us.
"It's been a while mama" I smiled, she gave me a nod and turn to his son.
"Indeed it is, how are you two? I heard the news from your parents that you finally set a date on your wedding" she cheered, I cleared my throat and Drei gave me a terror look.
'You tell her' I mouthed, he sighed in defeat.
"We're doing great ma, why don't we talk about this on the table?" He gestured towards the dinning area.
"That'll be lovely" she hummed, I giggled and pat Drei's shoulder.
"Looks like mama misses her favorite son" I winked at him.
"Shut up Tine" he scoffed and dragged me towards the dinning area.
After breakfast, Drei decided to wash the dishes while I accompanied his mother outside our house.
"Thank you for taking good care of my son hija, I'm sure you'll be a good wife and mother to Drei and your future kids" she gently held my hands and I smiled warmly.
"I'll do my best to become one" I giggled, she smiled and gave me one last hug before leaving, but before she could enter the car, she looked back at me and wave which I returned as she enterd the car.
"I'm leaving for work this afternoon" I heard him announced from inside, I closed the door behind me and walked over to the kitchen.
"Alright then, I'll go fix your clothes upstairs" I told him, he gave me a smile.
"That'll be wonderful hija" he mimicked his mom's accent, I laughed and left upstairs.
As I was busy with Drei's clothes, my phone buzzed and I quickly look into it, it might be an emergency or something but when the screen flashed, it was just my mother, I sat on the bed first before clicking the screen to view the message.
'Everyone in the clan already knows the truth and they plan to meet my family, your grandfather doesn't look so pleased but he agreed that he should meet my parents and it will be set on the same date as your uncles planned to have you meet their children' she said.
I only replied a simple 'okay' before finishing up Drei's clothes and jogged downstairs to tell him about the party that will be held on the Mhorfell Empire, he gave me a confuse look and I composed myself to tell him the truth.
"My mom actually came from a Mafia family, she just escaped and the reason why dad was kidnapped was actually because of me- he's back Drei, he wants me back" I pulled my hair on furstration but he manage to hold me down.
"How did your meeting go then?" He calmly asked, I look at him with an 'are you kidding me' look.
"What? I gotta know how did that bastard bully you" he said as if he don't care if my ex is forcing me to get back with him.
"He didn't bully me Drei, he just wanted me back" I frowned, he chuckled and pinched my nose.
"Sorry, you just look so worried so I needed to do that, and besides, you obviously came back home to me, so I know the answer, you rejected him" he said.
"I really hate you for bullying me" I pouted but he just kissed my forehead.
"So I'll be your date this weekend?" He asked, I rolled my eyes at him.
"You're my fiancé Drei, of course you'll be my date" I slouched before a certain thought appeared on my head.
"You can't wear your glasses on the party" I demanded.
"Really now? You want the girls to swarm over me at the party?" He smirked.
"Just to have someone annoy" I grinned.
"Huh, why not? I'll have Catherine get my contact lenses" he messed my hair.
"Stop bothering your pregnant cousin and get your best friend do it, he desserves more work" I arrogantly turn my back to him to get my iPad on the coffee table.
"Why do you hate Marvin so much?" He chuckled.
"I still can't forgive him for eating the cake I made for you" I faked a cry and he just laughed at me.
Well at least I feel a lot better now, he never failed to make me smile and forget about my worries, his laughter is my medicine- quite cringy but it's the truth, this is also the reason why I would always choose him over my ex-lover.