Chapter 8

|| GIDEON VITALIES's POV ||

" So, how was my wedding gift to you, Princepessa?"

I asked with a smirk, letting myself lay comfortably on the couch. Max approached me to turn the lighter on. He knew that I liked to smoke intense moments. Honestly, I wasn't tense now but a little happy regarding the whole situation. Finally, Valeria Addams was back in my cage.

Her eyes snapped open in rage, glaring as she faced me from five feet away. She mumbled, gawking at my face hatefully,

" So... it was you...you sent those.. footage?"

I didn't need to give her my explanation. Glancing up at the AC, I ordered Max nonchalantly,

" Lower the temperature, Max. I am hot."

It was just a little warm-up of her torture. I didn't offer her any warm or dry clothes as soon as she got into the house after hours of waiting. The clock was already heading towards three a.m. at night.

Max followed my order. I brought my eyes back to her. She was shivering and trembling in coldness. When the AC's temperature dropped down, her face became paler than before. However, she was fighting hard to keep her momentum sharp and nonchalant.

I asked, crossing my legs innocently,

" So tell me, Miss Valeria! What did you bring here? Don't tell me that you want to reminisce about our past?"

A small chuckle left my lips, watching her face fall. She inhaled a deep breath, glaring up at me with the same hatred that I saw in her eyes ten years ago,

" You know it, Gideon! Why play fool? When are you going to stop? It had been ten years. I have almost forgotten about us. Why are you targeting my family then?"

Family? Yes, she left for her dear family. I never asked her to leave her family but when I went back home, there was no family left for me. She was the reason behind their downfall as well.

Tears slipped from her eyes as she wrapped her arms around her to stop shivering. Her lips kept vibrating in the cold which didn't miss my attention. My anger slipped out of my control as I kicked the couch behind me, getting up in a shot to corner her. She took several steps back subconsciously but I didn't stop growling at her,

" You want the reason, Princepessa?? It is your family who destroyed my family. It is you who destroyed my life. Give me one damn fucking reason to spare you? You know what? I will do it again until I see your father dead behind the bars."

Valeria gasped out in surprise, pushing her knees up to beg me,

" I..will do anything..but please..my father needs to get out... Everything depends on him..My mom's hospital bill..Ah.."

I squeezed her chin tight until she was wailing in pain. Curling my lips into a smile, I blurted coldly,

" Now you feel how it feels to lose someone that you love? Then see it and tell me how I feel! "

Turning around, I went back to the table to grab the photos, then threw them off on her face. The pictures lay scattered all over the ground. When she saw them closely, her face became ashen. It was the photos of her ultrasonography when we went to the hospital for the first time. I kept them with me always just to remember how she killed my baby.

Valeria was silent for a while until she started showing her fake cries, pushing the photos aside,

" Take it.. away..I don't want to see it!! I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT!! THROW THEM AWAY!!"

She burst into tears, putting her fingers into her ears to prevent herself from listening to me. I knew that she was faking it all just to earn my sympathy. Moving across the room, I grabbed her by her arms, shouting as I pointed at the tiny dot of our baby in those black-and-white photos,

" LOOK AT THOSE PICTURES!! IT'S MY CHILD, MY BABY, MY FLESH & BLOOD!! BUT YOU TOOK IT FROM ME! YOU TOOK AWAY THE MEANING OF MY LIFE!! TELL ME, HOW WILL YOU RETURN HIM??"

Every time I slept, I always dreamt of a baby and saw how miserable he felt after being killed by his mother. What was the child's fault in everything?

I growled my words out, stressing one by one,

" Listen to me, Valeria!!! I will do everything to bring your life to hell. You will have no one..no one but to beg me... Your unscrupulous father...He will pay for it too!!"

Valeria's body slumped into my arms as she kept shaking and weeping like a child. Her plea reached my ears but not my heart which had been turned cold for years,

" Gideon...I know..I have wronged you..but trust me..I had no way...Do whatever you want to do with me...I am ready to pay you back but please don't drag my father into a deeper grave. He is already suffering and I need him..I beg you.."

A wicked smile appeared on my lips as soon as I heard her words. I was waiting for this moment to come finally so that I could kill the bird with one stone. Getting on my steps, I looked down at her, still on the floor crying and shaking,

" Anything for the repayment? Are you sure, Princepessa?"

She nodded her head repeatedly, and wiped her tears off before stuttering,

" Ye..yes..as long as you don't put more charges..on my father.. anymore...Tell me.. what I owe you?"

I drew a long puff from my cigarette, imagining how it would be enjoyable to torture her in my own house. Stepping a step closer, I exhaled the smoke on her face, slightly bending down, and blurted that took her breath away for a few seconds,

" Give me a child, Valeria Addams!! Return my child to me. Then you can fuck off from our fake marriage. How does it sound?"