It's over
The cab dropped me off in front of the main gate and I walked inside. My tears had subsided, birthing a dangerous rage in my nerves instead. I've never felt this way before. I should control it, but nope, instead, I'm heading inside to confront Trent with it. I'm not sure how it's gonna turn out but I'm not about to have doubts. Or chicken out.
I've been fooled for too long. Not anymore.
The guards at the front porch bowed as I took the steps. I pushed the door open and went inside. The living room was empty. I headed for our bedroom, not sure if I was gonna find him there.
Maybe he's not home altogether. Maybe he's out with Tracy…maybe he's doing another shitty thing he's gonna lie about.
Or maybe…
I pushed the door open and halted. There he was, sitting on our bed, looking in the mirror while checking his bashed-up face.
Vince really did a work of art on his face and I can't help the thrill seeing him this way was giving me.
He looked up and saw me. His face knotted as he dropped the mirror.
“Where have you been?”
“What is it to you?” I retorted, stepping into the room.
“Don't make me ask again. Where the hell have you been?” He fumed.
For a second, I was taken aback. He didn't seem like he was just momentarily pissed. He did seem like this was a whole new personality. This was a whole new Trent. A beastly side rooted in him.
His voice was raw and completely crass. Nothing gentle. Then again, maybe this was his real side. A complete, uncouth, miserable asshole who got my sister pregnant and lied about it for months.
How did he manage to hide this side of him for all these years we've been mated? Did he treat me gentlemanly because he figured that was the part of him that could get me to love him? How didn't I get a clue of what a jackass he was?
How could he perfectly fool me? God!!
“I asked you a question,” he grabbed my arm. I yanked my hand off, glaringly.
“Don't you dare touch me…”
“Where have you been?!!”
“It's none of your business!” I clapped back. “But then again, if you wanna know, I'll tell you.” I stood toe to toe with him, glaring right into his furious eyes. “I'd gone to find out about your dirty little secrets.”
His face reddened. “What stupid secret?”
“That you're the Father to Tracy's child, you fucking cheat!” I barked, delivering him a well-rounded slap. Something that conveyed the weight of anger in my heart.
His eyes glowed beastly.
“How could you be so damn disgusting and a fucking liar?!” I hated that the question came with a downpour of tears. “You never stopped seeing my sister. You continued and even got her pregnant, but you didn't dare to tell me about it? You said you loved me. You professed your love for me day and night, and all this time, you’re expecting a child with Tracy? How…” I stopped, trying to catch my breath. “How could you be so heartless?”
“Then…” he clenched his teeth. “Then what about you? How could you hide the fact that my Father was the one who got you pregnant?”
I was brutally silenced and shaken up by how coldly he delivered that line. With Aunt Vanessa's outburst in the hospital, I could tell he already knew. But being confronted like this was a whole new situation. My legs were already wobbly.
“How do you think I felt, Elena, knowing my Father and I had fucked the same girl? My girl. My damn mate! Except he didn't stop there. He went ahead and got her fucking pregnant!” He thundered in my face.
I flinched, shutting my eyes briefly at his outburst. My heart was pounding hard.
“I swore to you, Elena. I told you that I'm gonna find out who the Father of that child is, and I'm gonna make him pay. I swore to you…”
“Was that why you sold him off?” I bit back. “Was that why you used me as bait to get him? You wanted me to pay for sleeping with him…”
He didn't deny it. His eyes were squinted angrily. But he wasn't denying shit. He looked more proud than guilty. What the fuck?
“You wanted me dead?” I scoffed in disbelief at how heartless he could be. And I once thought he was the sweetest guy ever. My God!
“No, not dead.” He shrugged with anger, shimmering eyes. “Just broken and tortured enough to pay for your sins. You shouldn't have ever allowed my Father to touch you…”
“Then what about you who got involved with Tracy? If I deserve to go through torture for what I did with your Father, then you should rot in hell for getting involved with Tracy. You heartless, piece of crap!”
“At least I didn't fall in love with Tracy. Can you say the same for my Father?”
There were no right words to reply to this imbecile and no amount of argument could fix anything. He's just gonna keep twisting everything around, trying to pin it on me.
I turned to leave and he caught my hand. “Are you going to my Father?”
“No. I'm going to inform the elders that I'm done with you. I'm gonna end our bond, Trent. It's over.”
“The hell it is!” He yanked me back and pushed me on the bed. I let out a yelp. I could barely sit up when he crawled and stayed on top of me, caging me with both his hands at the side.
“What are you doing?!” My heartbeat increased in panic.
“Let's not get too irrational, baby, hmm? ” he said in a sudden pleading voice, pressing my shoulders down into the bed. “We still love each other. Yes, we have issues right now…”
“Issues? These aren't issues. They're deal breakers. I can't be with you when I know you're expecting a child with my sister. Let me go!” I tried sitting him up, but his weight sent me falling back on the bed.
“I'll force her to get an abortion.” He said flatly. Chills ran down my spine.
“What?” Tracy's baby bump was already very obvious. How could he so coldly say he's gonna force her to get an abortion, knowing damn well how risky that is?
Who is this monster, and where is the Trent I loved in my teenage days?
“She'll get an abortion, Elena. And we wouldn't have to worry about her. And we'll forget what happened with my Father and we'll continue living our lives, just me and you.”
I was way too stupefied to even say a word. But when he brought his lips closer to mine, I evaded it.
“You're crazy, Trent. Let me go!!” I was screaming now. He looked pretty unhinged. There was no telling what he was up to.
“Elena, you can't go back to my Father.” He seethed, pressing down my shoulders even harder. “Don't you feel pity for my Mother? Are you trying to ruin her life? All she's ever done is love you…”
“I'm not trying to ruin her life. I'm trying to save mine. Let me go!”
“Shut up!” He barked, trying to kiss me again. Now it was one hell of a suffocating struggle. He held my face, aiming relentlessly to jam his lips on mine.
I pressed my lips together, fighting to not give in to his request. And then with some sudden will, I kneeled his balls.
“Fuck!” He groaned in pain, letting go of my face. I pushed him off me and ran for the door.
Stepping outside, I was forced to halt at the sight of Aunt Vanessa standing right outside the door.
So she heard me screaming for help and didn't move a finger?
“Get back here, Elena!” Trent growled, still writhing on the bed.
My panic hit, and I was gonna run off, but a brutal yank in my hair pulled me back.
“Aunt Vanessa!”
“Where do you think you're going and how dare you hurt my son?!” She barked, dragging me around with my hair.
“Aunt Vanessa, stop it. You're hurting me!”
“You deserve it!”
Trent would be out any minute and I dreaded what his reaction would be. I'd be stupid to stick around here till he comes out.
So I did what I had to do. I hit Aunt Vanessa with my elbow and she gasped in pain, freeing my hair.
I didn't run off instantly. My empathetic ass felt instantly bad for hitting her. But then Trent was already staggering out of the door.
The sight of him prompted my feet to run. I barely made it to the steps when he caught my hand.
“And where do you think you're running off to, you fucking slut?” He hit my face brutally.
I saw stars immediately and my head spun. And what's worse? He let go of my hand. I didn't have any footing so in the next second, I was rolling down the stairs.
When I got to the floor, my whole body burnt like hell. The last thing I recalled was Aunt Vanessa screams at Trent, asking him what he'd just done.
Darkness…it took over me.