Chapter 61 Revealed

Chapter 61 Revealed
  Liam
  “Um, should I make the bed?” I asked and she stared at me, her eyes unreadable.
  “At the guest room, if you want,” I added quickly and she frowned.
  “Sleeping is the last thing on my mind right now,” she pursed her lips, brown eyes watching me rather curiously. “Tell me what you know,” her voice was quiet, almost a whisper.
  I ran my fingers through my hair, a sigh escaping me.
  “I’ll tell you all about it, you just need to…rest.” I muttered and her frown deepened.
  “This is my life.” she pointed out flatly and I gave a small nod. Understandable.
  But I wasn’t… it was her life, like she said.
  “You should sit then,” I rubbed my hands together as she slowly sat on the couch, I perched on the other end.
  “I saw the file sitting in Lauren’s computer. She had every detail, every piece of information about you and she planned on releasing them to the press,” I started. “Exactly, why I have no idea whatever is their intentions of sending you those texts.”
  Yeah, I’d filed a lawsuit against them and it was enough to keep them from making any rash decision, because it’d only worsen their case. We were on the safer side considering, Thompson had cleared the file off their computer but I wondered why… why were telling her all this.
  “Your mum went to prison for fifteen years and then got out,” I drew in a breath. “Due to her connections, she went right back into her business but even upgraded, more dangerous.” I turned to Maya whose eyes were fixed on me. “She runs a cartel,”
  I could hear her suck a breath as confusion crossed her expression.
  “Runs? She’s still alive?” she asked quietly and I gave a small nod. I’d even seen a picture that was attached to the file, a picture of Maya’s mother.
  It was funny how she looked just like the older version of Maya. There was no denying that that was her mother.
  “Yeah, she is. And she’s looking for you.” I sat up straighter. “I think her search just began, if not she’d have found you a long time ago.”
  I’d overheard Mum and Abigail talking about it. They supposedly was going to tip her about the whereabouts of Maya once Abigail and I were married. They were going to release all the files anyway.
  Maya chuckled dryly. “That’s ridiculous,” she said flatly and I cocked my head to the side.
  “You think?” I mumbled. “She’d find you and God knows whatever she’d do with you,”
  “You might probably be thinking she’s your mother and she can’t hurt you, but she actually can. If she could try using you to smuggle drugs I doubt there’s anything she’s not capable of.”
  Maya’s expression darkened. “There must be a reason she’s searching for me. I mean, after all this years,” she muttered and I nodded. Exactly.
  “Exactly why Abigail and my mum- her mother, reaching out to you is skimmy,”
  Maya pressed her lips together and went silent. I know her too well to know she’s thinking about doing something ridiculously stupid.
  Like she’s not scared that the head of a Cartel organization might be on to her. Even worse that she was pregnant and could do little to nothing in protecting herself.
  But that was not all.
  “There were sex tapes of you.” I dropped the bomb and she reared back slightly, her brown eyes meeting mine immediately.
  “What?”
  I nodded. I was surprised as  well, but then again judging from her reaction she had no idea about this.
  “There were sex tapes and naked pictures of you. Uploaded on a porn site.” her mouth opened and she genuinely looked mortified.
  “What?” she whispered again before shaking her head. “That can’t be possible. I’ve only ever been with one person other than you and…” she trailed off, every muscle in her body pulling taut.
  I gave a sorry smile.
  “Tom?” she muttered and I gave a small shrug.
  “He was in the video, but his face was blurred.” I was not hard to recognize a douchebag as him.
  “He took videos of me?” she shook her head in disbelief probably trying to search through eight years of memories when he’d brought out a camera.
  “It was the glasses, bellisimma,” I mumbled and she blinked. Yeah, he bought glasses that had a camera in it. It was easier that way, non-suspecting even.
  “This site actually belongs to him and it was recently created, I think a couple of months ago.” I continued. “There are videos of different women including….”
  “Jenny.” she completed and pressed her lips together. I had no idea how she’d react to the news of knowing he did not only cheat on her with different women, he also made videos and was selling them online.
  The good thing was, the site hasn’t started gaining traction so it was easy to delete everything uploaded. But not the ones, he’d probably still have in his phone.
  “Oh my God,” she whipered, rubbing her face with her hands. I inched closer.
  “Hey, hey.” I called softly and she looked at me wearily. “We’ve got this under control. You don’t have to worry about your sex tapes or nude pictures emerging online anymore,” I reached out for her hand hoping she wouldn’t pull away.
  I wasn’t exactly sure of that, not when we’re not completely sure if Tom still had duplicates stored on his phone or somewhere else.
  “It would be fine. Everything would be fine.” I whispered and she moved in closer, placing her head on my shoulder.
  “I doubt if anything would ever be fine, Liam.” she whispered right back and my heart clenched for her.
  “It would.” I rubbed her hair reassuringly and stared at nothing.
  I had no idea what to believe at this point, because it sounded hard to believe even to my own ears.
  If her mother was after her, we had no idea whatever intentions she had. But until then, Maya needed to be protected.
  I was willing to step up.
  I was willing to protect her even if it was the last thing I’d do on earth.
  I was willing to protect her with every drop of my blood. It didn’t matter if we’d end up together or not.
  But it was the least I could do for the woman I loved with every muscle in my body.
  It was the very least.