Chapter 54 We Have Nothing
By Valeria
When I leave the office, I take two steps and someone grabs my arm forcefully, shakes me, and throws me against the company wall.
He insults me terribly, and although it took me a moment to recognize him due to the shock, I realized it was Diego.
He left his car door open and wanted me to go with him.
When I looked closely, he had a gun in his hand. He passed it over my head and then pressed it against my heart.
I thought I could handle the situation, knowing it was him.
I didn't believe he was capable of killing me; it was just bravado, acting, like he always did.
He called me a whore because he thought I was dating Alejandro because he had more money than him.
I was never interested in money. When I started dating him, I was too young to think about money.
And later, I lived in seclusion, and in a way, it served me well. I educated myself and now I can live off a decent salary.
Diego's parents were well off, but if their business ended up in Diego's hands, they would go bankrupt. He was an idiot.
I didn't break up with him for financial reasons, but because I opened my eyes, the blindfold fell off, and I realized Diego was a piece of shit and that I had stayed with him for a long time because I was afraid of him.
It's true that I'm in love with Alejandro, and partly he seems unattainable to me, precisely because of his money and social status. We simply belong to different worlds and I wasn't desperate for Alejandro's world.
I was desperate for him, just because I was in love.
I work so that no one has to support me.
In fact, my salary was equal to that of the general directors of each subsidiary.
If Diego knew that I turned down a million and then slept with Ale just because he seduced me with words and gestures...
I even refused to have a child with him, knowing that if that happened, I probably wouldn't need to lift a finger for the rest of my life.
No, I'm not interested in money beyond covering my basic needs and indulging myself occasionally.
"Damn whore, you're coming with me and you’re not escaping. To him, you're the same piece of shit you are to me, that's why he cheats on you like I did."
"Then leave me alone, go away, I’ll never come back to you."
"You'll be mine or you won't be anyone's."
I must confess those words did scare me.
I'm sure he's on drugs and not rational at all.
I don't know why he wants me back if he replaced me with anyone else all the time.
I tell him.
Trying to convince him.
"Because you're the most beautiful woman I've ever met."
"But you have a better time with anyone else."
"I don't care, I want to have you, you damn whore, understand that."
I try to push him because he’s dragging me towards his car.
I see Alejandro's car coming out of the garage, and it stops because more cars are coming down the street. When I glance sideways, I see Ale and Juan running towards us.
Juan is armed because, besides being the driver, he's Alejandro's bodyguard.
Alejandro comes rushing, and Diego doesn't see him.
He almost knocks him to the ground, and before Diego can react, he punches him several times, but Diego doesn't drop the gun. My God, I hope a shot doesn't go off and kill Alejandro. I start yelling at Diego, hoping he doesn't recognize him, because he had seen us in photos and that's how he found out where I worked.
Two company security guards appear.
Juan and I tell Ale to stop, that he's already subdued, not to kill him.
Alejandro wants to keep kicking him.
When Alejandro hears me and sees me crying, he hugs me. I explain who Diego is.
Ale asks if I'm okay and hugs me again.
Diego recognizes him at that moment and yells that he's a son of a bitch and that I left him for Ale.
We go to Alejandro's apartment.
We have a quiet dinner, and he holds me for a long time.
I calm down in his arms.
He's protective.
They almost killed him because of me.
For defending me.
I wouldn't have been able to go on living if something had happened to him.
I realized I could never forget him in my life.
He risked himself for me.
He's my man... I wanted to kiss him, to ask him to make love to me, and at the same time, I didn't want him to let go. His arms are my favorite place in the world.
He took me to his bedroom and started undressing me.
When we were both naked, I felt him so devoted to me, and I think I'm already a part of him.
We made love several times and in different positions. He even did it from behind. I wasn't going to deny him anything; I wanted him to enjoy with me as I did with him.
I don't think I'll ever repeat this night again.
I know my place and I couldn't stand it if one day, a woman, pulled me out of bed like I do with those women who sometimes are with him.
We did it like animals in heat.
I'm in his arms and the fire he ignites in my belly feels like it's reaching the sun.
That's how hot my insides and my blood feel.
His kisses are simply magical, they seduce me, they enchant me.
His gaze gives me the energy I need to live.
It's simple, I fell in love with him.
I never imagined becoming a cat in heat, I want everything with him...
The problem is, he doesn't want everything with me.
He wants everything from me and also wants other women.
Being with him is being in paradise.
I don't know when I fell madly in love with Alejandro.
After a while at the company, Mariana and Susana approached.
I feel extremely loved by them, they are a fundamental support for me.
After chatting for a bit with Ale and me, we decided to pick up Emi.
Mariana didn't know the new building.
She loved it.
After visiting different areas, the four of us went to lunch together.
We went to a discreet place, there were no journalists.
We were in a private room, where no one would interrupt us, since both Emi and I were all over the internet portals.
"How did that son of a bitch dare to look for you?" says Emi.
Both Mariana and Susana knew the story.
"My fear was when Alejandro beat him up, I would never have forgiven myself if something happened to Alejandro, the gun could have gone off," I say, on the verge of tears.
"Vale, that proves what I've been telling you, Alejandro is in love with you," her aunt tells me.
"I don't think so, Ale can't stand seeing the same woman's face five times in a row and lately all the girls are one-night stands, he doesn't send gifts to any of them anymore."
"That's why, he wants something for one night and then he can't stand them anymore."
"But it's very hard to share the man I love," I say sincerely.
"I know, it's just a matter of him realizing he loves you."
"I don't think he'll be faithful and maybe I'm just a whim for him, I had told him no so many times that he even offered me a million dollars."
Susana and Mariana looked at me, very astonished.
"I told him no, that he couldn't buy me, although a few days later... I had sex with him."
"That's when he told you he wanted to have a child with you."
"Yes, he said it and got offended when I said no."
"Alejandro is crazy, but crazy for you," Susana says.
"He's infatuated, that's all..."
"I don't want to intrude into Alejandro's intimacy, much less yours, and forgive my indiscretion, did you have sex last night?"
I lower my head, blushing too much.
"It's okay, Vale, you were feeling bad and he, I suppose, too, and he must take advantage of when you're down, he's smart, he's several years older than you and has a lot of experience."
"What did you decide?"
"Nothing, I told him I preferred to keep being his secretary."
"Why, Vale?" Susana asks me.
"I couldn't stand it if a woman came and pulled me out of bed like I do almost every morning with his occasional lovers."
"Why do you do that?"
"It all started in the United States, when a girl didn't want to leave, I showed up and she thought I was the girlfriend, it's not that I pretend to be his girlfriend, but many think so."
"I still don't understand how you put up with that, friend."
"It's better to pull them out of his bed than to send them a gift saying how much he enjoyed it."
"My nephew doesn't know how to get a woman off him?"
"I suppose he does, by now it's like a routine, Juan picks me up, I go into the bedroom, wake up the girl, Ale goes to shower, I prepare his clothes, change his sheets and then we have breakfast together, I tie his tie, in the car we go over the agenda... and at night, they go to that restaurant with live porn..."
"I don't even want to think about that," Emi tells me.
"Speaking of live porn..." (we both remember when we saw them in an orgy) "What's going on with you and Omar?"
"Your craziness is contagious."
We all laughed.
"He's seductive, affectionate, a gentleman..."
"Oh, Emi... I barely saw him that day at the club, I told you who he was."
"Yes... I stretched it as long as I could, I told you I didn't want to accept... the deal."
"It's true, but Ale and Omar are very convincing."
"They're two degenerates, they're seductive and they're used to women throwing themselves at them," says Mariana.
I know she adores Alejandro and that she also cares a lot for Omar.