Christopher would do anything to get away with it.

At Lucia's house, Cristopher had already been back for two days, luckily for him, the authorities were no longer aware of her house, so he could be almost calm since Serena's death had not yet been confirmed. And since Amanda was hospitalized, justice was doing very little to catch him, and it was Lucia who now had to put up with him, put up with his madness and abuse.

“Lucy! Go get the kids, I want you to bring them home” Christopher is sitting in the living room with a beer in his hand.

“What do you want me to bring the children? So we're both fine”

“Because they are my children, what's more, you're not going out, I know you're going to rat me out to the police and I don't trust you, ask your stupid daughter to bring them home, invent something not to go out, but you will call her in front of me, and you talked as if nothing was happening, why are you doing something and I swear that from where I am I will kill all of you and the two children” Christopher was acting like a true psychopath, but Lucia was not afraid of him, Or that was what she believed.

The couple of days that she had been there had already hit her enough, her face was bruised, and her body was writhing in pain, but her head was held high.

“Why do you want them here? Also, you told me that we were going to go away, so let's make plans and go away, but let's just go away, so that we can enjoy ourselves, that we can go out and drink alcohol like when we were dating at the beginning, don't you think?”

“ You're talking like a libertine woman! If I had wanted a woman like that in my life, I would have stayed with Serena, who was younger and smarter than you, and above all more beautiful, you are an idiot, now bring my children because I want to see them, call Samantha and have her bring them . And be very careful what you say to him.”

Lucia obeys him, she begged her daughter not to answer her for any reason she wanted her children to return home, on the second ring she answers.

“Oh mom, it's good that you called me, I'm going home with the children, my grandmother fell and sprained her ankle, she can't take care of them anymore and I have to go to university”

“ That? That? are they coming here?”

“Yes mom, it was something last minute, I know you said not to take them for security reasons, but I think everything is fine now, you know what? We'll be there in twenty minutes; I'll leave you because I'm driving.”

Lucia's face turned pale, for no reason she wanted to receive the children, however, she looks at Cristopher and he has a malevolent smile of satisfaction.

“Do you see how fate wants us to be together dear? Accompanied by our children like a happy family, now go put on your makeup, cover that black eye, don't let Samantha pass by the door, look what you're making up, and be very careful with do something weird, because I swear I'll kill everyone, you know me, and you better be careful, after I bring them we're going to get out of here, tonight, we're going to go away, we'll see how to access the money from Panama, have you understood?”

Lucia with her lips tight and her eyes full of tears nods, she had no choice, he had taken her phone, he only allowed it when she had to call Samantha, Lucia had to find a way to get her children out of that house and look for the Police officer and of course without him noticing, but he was worse than being with the devil himself, he didn't sleep, he didn't detach himself from her for a single second, and he had instilled so much panic in her that Lucia thought twice to do something.

She does what he asks and covers the black eye, after ten minutes Samantha was at home with the children, Lucia peeks out the door and comes out just a little

“Oh daughter, go calmly to study, come give me the children” Lucia receives them quickly and enters.”

“Mom, are you okay?” Samantha tries to enter the house, but Lucia seeing that next to her was Christopher pointing the gun at her.

“Of course, daughter, only in these times being nervous is something very common, so don't worry”.

“Let me know anything, I'll be watching, I must run, I have a very important exam to complete in a few minutes, I'll be back later for them”.

“You don't have to go back, the responsibility is mine, I only ask you to take care of Grandma, she needs you, we'll see when we leave here”.

“ It's okay mom!, but it doesn't mean that I'm not worried about you, soon we'll have to get out of this city, let me find something in the university and we'll go, we finally have to make our lives, I love you” Samantha mounts back in her car and she leaves, Lucia was not afraid, she was sad, she wanted to get away from all the bad things that were happening in her life, but it seemed impossible.

“Oh but how cute are my children! “Christopher bends down and takes his children in his arms, begins to kiss them, and give them hugs, for Lucia it was incredible that a being with so much evil in his being was speaking like that to his children.

“They are always beautiful, come, I must feed them and take care of them as they need”

“Look, Lucia, I know you're thinking that I'm the most evil man in the world, but everything I did was for you, for them, now I want you to understand that I love you and that I want us to have the happy family we always want” Christopher takes her by the waist, she felt like knives were digging into her skin, her revulsion reached the point of not being able to bear his touch.

“Yes, Cris, I know, um, I'm going to feed the children, I don't think Sami has given them anything” how can it be she slipped out of his arms, at that moment she understood that she had to escape from her own house and had to look for the way, only she would know how, because she was the one who knew her home and what she could use to defend herself.

“By the way, prepare something to eat for me too, I'm starving, remember that tonight or later in the morning we'll get out of here, I'm exposing myself too much by being in this place”.

While Lucia prepared dinner, she thought about what she could do, the only way was to give him something to put him to sleep while she escaped with the children and called the police, but she didn't keep anything in her house, there was only a medicine for babies that controlled his anxiety, it was powerful because it only took an hour a day for them to calm down, it could possibly weaken him a bit if you gave him the whole bottle.

And so it was, about thirty minutes later she is serving him dinner. She has put the tranquilizer in the juice, she was waiting for it to really work for him, he eats peacefully and suddenly she feels how she begins to scratch her eyes.

“I've been so satisfied, but I'm very sleepy Lucia, what did you add to the food?” he starts to wobble a bit.

“Nothing, don't put anything on it, take a nap, it must be that you're tired and the food made your body relax, you should sleep” she helps him get up and takes him to an armchair, he falls like a dead man and begins to snore! Finally, what she did to him served her well!

The first thing she did was take her phone and call the police, she gave her home address and decided to take her children out of there, when she was about to take the baby who was in the small car seat, see how Christopher had her in his arms, her face was twisted because of the relaxant and her eyes were red, she couldn't believe it, the guy was an animal that didn't feel.

“What did you think you were going to get away with? “Christopher’s tangled words faced Lucia.

“Let go of the girl please, come I'll take it for you” Lucia tells her with a broken voice, knowing that what she saw next would-be total hell.

Christopher squeezes her to him. The girl moans, what makes Lucia die inside her.

“Don't do anything to her, I'm begging you, please, leave her alone, do what you want to me, but please, don't to her!

“Were you thinking of going with the children? were you going to leave me here? Alone aimlessly, without money, with nothing, after everything I've done for you” Christopher was crazy, he was blinded by anger, Lucia was afraid that she was going to do something to the girl.

“No, I swear I won't, come give me the girl, it's the best for everyone, let's not make things more difficult please.”

“Difficult why my life? Do you think that I can do something to our little treasure? If she is one of the engines that have me firmly here with you, haven't you noticed?”

“Christopher Please!” Lucia drops a tear, her voice was faltering and her breathing was agitated, she did not let go of hers another son of hers “please!” Her pleas became more intense

“I'm not going to do anything to the little girl, pick up the children's things, we're getting out of here right now.”

“Give me the girl” Lucia just begged for the police to come to her aid, the minutes were being eternal for her.

Suddenly a siren from a police car begins to sound near his house, Cristopher looks at Lucia with hate, and squeezes the girl more.

“Damned! how could you? “Now he was angrier than he was before

“Christopher, give me the girl and escape, you still have time, I'll give you all my money, but not with the girl please.”

“You're a traitor, one of the worst Lucia, you're worse than Amanda who ended up with a lover, after my morale was through the roof, I didn't think you were going to turn me in to the police, you know something? First dead, before going to jail and of course, if I am going to run away, but I will do it with the girl, you have understood, she is my daughter and she is my only guarantee.”

Cristopher is now holding his weapon, he stares at Lucia, she is left without knowing what to do.

Immediately the doorbell of his house rings.

“Go! Go!” Lick those policemen's balls and play the victim, or just tell them it was a false call, that there's no one here, they don't have to enter the house, if they leave, I'll give the girl back, otherwise I'll kill her, I’ll kill you, the child and commit suicide, you decide.” Christopher's eyes were lost, his look was pure evil, that made Lucia understand that he could do anything.

Lucia had a lump in her throat, she had decided to say that it was a false call, she peeked out the door with her baby in her arms, but her face was terrifying, while she opened it Christopher pointed at the baby.

“Ma'am, we received a distress call, will you please allow us to enter?”

“No sir agent I was not the one who called” she made gestures with her mouth without being very obvious she wanted to tell him that she was there, but without being direct, her hair covered her black eye, however Christopher could not see what she was doing a gesture with his mouth and that a tear came out of his eye.

“Are you sure ma'am? “The policeman with her cunning recognized that she was being a victim, so with one hand he signaled to the other policemen that they should prepare.

“Yes, I'm sure, it was just a false call.”

“Is there anyone else with you at home?”

“Yes, my other daughter, she's a baby, I have to go take care of her or she could suddenly fall out of her chair” this last thing caused another tear to fall down her cheek, the policeman understood what was happening, she closed the door on the waiting for them to give him the help he needed.