Janet’s POV
I stared at him mute. My heart was throbbing in my ears, loud and irregular, but I barely heard it, for my mind was clouded with fear. Valentino took another step forward and my body went cold. “I’ve asked you something, Charlotte!” He said in his menacing tone. Sweat poured down my body as I stayed still as possible. I could only open my mouth to find that even words had deserted me. The fact that the cologne on me is of Paxton Grey was shaking my soul. If he gets to know that that he hasn’t just hugged me but has kissed me too. God knows in what evil way he’s going to kill him. No! I can’t let this happen. Paxton is a dick indeed but he don’t deserve to die. I rolled my fists to calm my anxiety and looked at him back with a straight face, “Who the fuck are you to ask me?” His jaw clenched and I could clearly see the madness increasing behind his deep blue eyes. I crossed my hands against my bosoms and stood there fearlessly to hide that how much he was scaring me for Paxton.
“Where’s her bedroom, Ms. Davis?” Asked Valentino to Vero with his eyes on me. I blinked when his words bounced up my head. What does that mean? Valentino ticked his jaw and gave a threatening look to Vero who quickly blurted out, “The-The next room out is hers!” He smiled and looked back at me.
I frowned, “What are you- A gasp escaped my mouth when he bent over and put me over his shoulder with no efforts. “What the fuck, Valentino? Put me down!!” I yelled, struggling to get down but all went vain. When he turned around, I saw Vero and both fear and pity in her green orbs for me. I clenched my jaw, “Put me down, Val!!” Saying nothing, he started walking and took me to my bedroom.
My anger has shot up and all I could see was red. So, as soon as he put me down, I raised my hand and was about to slap him hard but as he was quick and sharp, he grabbed my wrist and swung me with my back against his chest. “Don’t provoke me to do something that I won’t regret!” I threatened but hell if he gave a damn to it. He took a strong hold of me and dragged me inside the bathroom with him. I struggled hard to push him away but all in vain as he was much stronger than me and because I’m slightly high and tired, I didn’t had much power to fight either. “Let go of me!” I snarled, snatching my hands out but within a second he caught them again and yanked me towards the walk-in-shower. I kept struggling and yelling but all in vain. He yanked me inside the shower and pinned me against the wall aggressively. I hit on his chest and tried to push him away with all my remaining strength but thanks to my drinks because I couldn’t even budge him.
“Behave!” He ordered me in his loud raged tone but I was more raged than him at the moment. I replied, “Fuck off!” He ticked his jaw and pinned my arms above my hand harshly, holding me in a place by using his hips. “Argh! What the fuck is wrong with you?” My irritated voice boomed in the bathroom but saying nothing, he turned on the shower. As soon as the chilling water hit my warm skin, I gasped with wide eyes. He grasped my wrists in his one hand and started rubbing my body like there’s some kind of dirt on me. I grunted because he was not at all gentle. “Aah! Stop it. You’re hurting me!!” I seethed, snatching my hands out of his grip. He clenched his jaw and harshly turned me around, pinning my arms on either side of me as he held me against the glass wall with my back pressed against his hard chest. His hot breath fanning my neck and making me quite apprehensive. I gulped, squirming a little. He tightened his grip on my wrist and inhaled sharply near my ear, “Don’t ever forget, Charlotte-” He rasped, his lips brushing my skin, “-You. Are. Mine. Next time I smell any other guy’s cologne on you then I promise you, Tesoro... I will punish you so bad that your soul will be trembled!” His voice was dark and promising but he couldn't scare me, I jerked my wrists out of his grips and faced him with courage.
“You do not own me, Val. So, you better stop calling me yours!!” I snarled, “Also, if you’re really so hellbent in making me yours then it’s better to try to win me over than to force yourself on me all the time!”
“Do I really have to win my fucking fiancé?”
“For God’s sake, Val, I’m no longer your fiancé and could you please turn off the fucking shower?” I was literally loosing my mind. He frowned slightly and looked behind me before turning it off. I exhaled, wrapping my hands around my finger to send some warmth to my trembling wet body.
“We are engaged, Charlotte!” He retorted as a matter of fact. I threw him a mock smile, “No, we’re not! It’s been two fucking years since I broke up with you!!”
“You never broke up with me!”
“Oh, if that’s the case then fine I’m breaking up with you now!” After I had finished my sentence, the entire bathroom went into cold pin-drop silence. Only the sound of the water droplets and his breath could be heard. He rolled his fists tight and tried his best to scare me with his murderous look but I stood there with not a slightest shade of fear on my face. I was outraged myself!
He ticked his jaw, “May I know what changed your mind?” He kept his voice calm to hide the rage but I could clearly see it in his deep blue eyes, “Why the hell you no longer want to be with me?”
I replied, “Because I no longer want your power and money!”
He shot his brows up, “I’m sorry?”
I nodded, “Yes, Valentino. I agreed to marry you for your power and money that was going to mine if you had died after our marriage!” I took a mini pause before I added, “I was going to kill you on our first night!” Hearing me, he stared at me with a slight frown of shock on his face then suddenly he broke into a laugh that resonated in the entire bathroom. “From where does it sound funny to you?” I asked him all confused.
“You were such a bad bitch, weren’t you?” He mused and I rolled my eyes, “You will marry me, Charlotte,” When my I looked at him, he wasn’t smiling anymore, “No matter what!”
“Are you crazy?”
He shrugged, “Since birth!”
“Valentino, stop it!” I yelled, letting my hands down. He tightened his jaw and grabbed my forearm, jerking me closer as he looked into my hazel eyes with his deep blue ones. “You have to move on, Charlotte!” I blinked at him in utter surprise, “Don’t look at me this way I know that the reason you don’t wanna come back is your brother, Ethan!” My heart clenched when the flashes of my past came to haunt me, “It wasn’t your fault!” He added, his voice gentle and convincing. Tears welled up in my eyes and I felt a lump in my throat. I bet he could clearly see the pain, regret, guilt in my eyes. He left my arm and cupped my face, “I know you think that he died because of you but that's not true, babe. It was has to happen that day. Ethan was to die that day. So, don't
Being clung to the past and grieving everyday is not gonna help you, Charlotte. So, stop running away from your past and come back with me. Trust me, being a saint is not going to change anything you will always remain who you were!”
“I’m sorry,” I held his hands and took them off my face, “I’m so sorry, Val, but I can’t!” He snorted and looked away once before he said, “Why is it so hard for you get over your brother’s death?” The frustration was evident in both his tone and face.
“Valenti-
“Charlotte?” He interrupted, holding my arms, “He. Is. Dead! Your different lifestyle and sudden virtuous work is not going to bring him back to life and neither is going to forgive your sins. So, for heaven’s sake, Charlotte, come with me!” I stared at him emotionless and didn’t speak a word. He threw me a small requesting smile, “Please?”
“You have to swallow this bitter truth, Valentino!” I shook my head, “I’m not coming back... Never!" When I had finished, his expression become flat and eyes darkened. He didn’t utter a word and kept staring at me in such a way that if someone else was in my place, she would have peed in her pants. But since it’s me, I brushed my fingers through my wet hair and walked past him but the very next second, he grasped my neck from behind and yanked me back.
“If you’re so hellbent on not coming back then I am also hellbent on never leaving you, Charlotte!” He asked above my mouth, his lips brushing against mine. Moving an inch away, he looked into my raging eyes and added, “You’re stuck with me!”
“If so then I should better find a way to get rid of you!” I tilted my head thoughtfully, “How about a bullet between your eyes?”
He shot his one brow up, “You want to kill me?” There was a ghost smile on his lips. I clenched my jaw, glaring him to death. “Fine!” He freed me with a jerk and grabbed his gun out from the back of his pants. “Here,” I looked at the gun he was offering me then at him, “Kill me because it’s the only way to get rid of me!” I blinked at him in surprise, “Yeah, kill me and free yourself from me. Leave me and tie yourself to me!” I again looked at the gun but couldn’t take it. I looked back into his eyes and he added, “C’mon, Charlotte! Don’t lose the chance and do it already!”
Yes, Charlotte, what’re you waiting for? It’s a golden chance, don’t lose it! Kill him and free yourself.
C’mon, Charlotte, don’t think too much and kill him!
Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!
Clenching my jaw tight, I took the gun out of his hand and aimed it to his forehead but couldn’t pull the trigger. He smiled, looking into my eyes with not a slightest fear of death or anything on his face. I tightened my grip around the gun and tried best to pull the trigger but something inside of me didn’t let me.
“C’mon, Tesoro, pull the fucking trigger and end this shit righ here!” He said with no smile. I gulped, a tear falling from the corner of my eye and sliding down my cheek. “Do it, amore!” My heart begin to beat wildly inside my ribcage and my vision blurred due to the amount of tears in my eyes, “That’s the only way,” I closed my eyes and clutched the gun tight, “Kill me!”
*BANG!!*
