Chapter - 18
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Chapter - 18
Angelina
Dark Sides!
I look at him more closely almost imagining myself to dive in his deep dark thoughts and know what the reality is. Even listening to his ultra confident voice, I have my doubts.
How can I forget his games?
What he did to Carl. And me.
How can I avoid his manipulative ways?
But he talked to Gracia who I have known disliked him but hate him? Why?
She sounded real skeptical and full of hatred. Surprising is she feels the same about me. Dies she even know me? Have we ever met?
No. Ethan wants me to fall on my knees. He wants me to beg him but the proposal? Its too much if I get the same.
In no way i could make it even in five years tops. And Liam? He needs it. I should do it. If he let's me go later then I will have so much for my brother. He will be back to me.
But..
Can you fall in this Angie? Can you accept a man like Ethan Ellsworth?
I look at his face with full of confidence. Somehow I know he is telling the truth.
My parents did sell me to someone. That's why they were hell bent on sending me away from the country. Now I can piece things together. That's why I didn't get to know the reasons of the fall of Hawthorne's in business. It was sudden. They did things they shouldn't have but Ethan he couldn't be saint.
He is still hiding something. Or maybe twisting it to his profit.
"I hate you."
"Apart from this hate for me. You have Liam. You will get a whole life back after marrying me. Your house. Liams education fund. Your company. Plus I said we can separate if we don't work out. What else would you want?" He ignite me and I concentrate on what I could get rather than what I will lose. My life. To Ethan.
"Don't you listen to me. I don't trust you." I hiss at him.
" Take all your time before the sky falls down." He say finally closing the last thread of his cobweb. Well that's what he says when he get his path to anything. I am sure if I agree to it, I am going to listen to this then.
I stand up, undecided as to what I am to do. First a background check. How am I going to do it though.
Talk to Gracia myself?
What if I can get myself out of this situation?
"Yes. I will take some time to think upon your proposal." I say.
He stand and look at me in the eye. A small smile creep in hus face and i dont like it. I don't want to listen to him right now but I have to.
"Are you thinking to talk yourself out from this situation Angel? With Gracia?" He ask. I am thrilled with the seriousness of this voice. It isn't skeptic.
"That's not your thinking to do." I say confidently.
"I guess it's all my thinking to do. Gracia is just as unstable as Nicole is these days. You don't want to tackle a mother with dark history. You are so innocent to read and understand people Angel." He say and I stupidly confirm him by laughing at the last part.
This act of mine give me the confirmation that I am utter stupid and immature woman.
" Ethan don't child me. At least that what i am sure you are not good at. "I say and turn on my heels with all the heaviness in my heart.
Should I not talk to Gracia?
" I am waiting for a yes. " I hear him before I exit the main door.
I take a cab straight to my new home to Bri. I wish she is home. How much I want to assure it by calling her but I wouldn't. I have already taken enough of her space and peace of mind.
I knock the door and wait for her to unlock the door from inside. I desperately pray that I don't need to take my keys out. My prayer is answered and she open the door with the smile on her face.
I try to return it but I guess I can't however I try to curve my lips upwards.
"What happened?"
"Ethan." I say as I run upstairs trying to hide my tears. All the way here I had a hold of myself but now I cannot stop.
I lay on my bed and ignore the thumping of my bedroom door. I feel bad but I am unable to get up and look at Bri's face right now. I don't know how I am feeling at all.
Well I am questioning myself right now.
Should I curse my parents to what they dud to me?
Or my life?
Am I a stupid person to not have a hold of it all? That I never thought of checking into the matters of our long gone company.
How did we go bankrupt?
Or were we taken over in hostile?
Who owns how much or where I am right now to think let alone talk about it?
What should I do?
Amidst of this I hear a light knock.
I cannot open the door Bri. I can't let you see me now.
Even I don't want to see myself.
"Angie open the door please!"
Ryan?
I can't. Not even to you.
"Angie I won't ask you or talk about anything you don't want to."
I sigh.
"Just let me in and we can do something to make our day better."
You cannot.
"Common answer me."
"please!"
"I don't want to talk right now Ryan. Let me be. I am fine." I say loud bringing all my energy.
"Alright that's great then. It means you can talk to me. Ha!" He yell.
I roll my eyes. Someone was saying I don't need to talk.
"Keeping the silence, are we?"
"I guess."
"You have got to talk to somebody Angie. I am here for you. " He say, hus voice so soothing.
"I cannot talk about it." I say but stand stand up and reach for the door. I still cannot open it.
I sit down leaning against the door.
" I thought I couldn't about my family to anyone but I did. To you. Common you can with me. Or even don't but just let me be around you. " he almost beg.
"It's twisted. More than yours. I am ashamed." I mumble.
"You have no idea what real twisted is. And what a shame is. Bet me. I can tell you some of mine and you will know." He say lightly and it hit me.
Ethan said some things about Ryan.
Without thinking I stand up and open the door?
His hand is on the post of the door and one leg over the other. Somehow in this chaos in my life I don't fail to notice the handsome creature before me. Maybe his aura is doing it.

"Here we are." He chuckle and I see a different Ryan altogether. His eyes tells his head is touring his secrets.
I just stare at him while he come inside and sit on the edge of the bed.
He do the same.
Stare me.
Awkward.
I gulp and sit on the stool in front of dressing table. All I think about is what Ryan really is?
We do the same for more. And more and more.
Until Ryan get up and reach over to the portrait of my family. I cringe a little.
"You look totally different than this one now. And I am not talking about the change of phase. Teenage to woman now."
"What are you talking about then?"
"The expression of the face. Eyes. Body has changed." He say still studying me in the photo.
Not right now Ryan. Not like this.
He turn towards me when I don't answer. Smile and then come to me and sit on the bed that he is closer than earlier. I follow his movement with my eyes.
It was bad idea to open the door.
"Well a marred woman is better than a whiny teenage who is happy with anything approaching her."
What the f**k. Ryan what happened to you?
Oh yeah, Ethan. He happened to you too.
"You mean I am better spoiled and damaged than happy with anything coming at me? I wish I had been like I was now. It would have been easier." my voice tells the grudge that it holds.
He laugh at my face.
"More of the problem today is due to that 'happiness' you had with how you had been then. Like Ethan."
Thats enough.
How can he point my mistake like that?
"Ryan. I would like you to go now." I say.
He stand up and I find it blunt. He throw that and leave just like that.
"Wow. I am a magnet to attract a people like Ethan." I mumble and laugh that I thought Ryan was any different.
"Angie. Life happened to you. Not Ethan. And yeah, I might be like him. You might be in like of person like him so you let me in. It really doesn't matter. What matters is I am trying hard to give up my darkness just like you are. I am better than him. You are better than us. "
I replay him again in my head.
" You don't make sense. "
" Yeah. I know. That's why I am trying to be Ryan Remiraz only. A little less complicated. And I can help you with the chaos that Ethan has put you in. Again. "
" Oh my god. You are not what I thought you to be. What are you? " I say.
He roll his eyes.
" I know he must have put something in your head. I knew it. I saw it coming. But trust me I am entitled with what my family did. I have come far from it. To America. Don't make me think about it. "
With what my family did? Sounds like me.
"Well, okay." I sit in the bed.
He clear his throat and sit beside me.
"If I hadn't took you to that tree house earlier I would have let you go just like with all other women until I end up with woman like Miranda who doesn't give a shit." He say.
"But here I am. Not letting it go this time." He have a determination in his eyes.
"Why?"
"Because others weren't as f****d up with life as you are. I guess you won't judge me but accept me." He say and hold my hand and squeeze it.
"Yes. Ethan said he dug about you and you have secrets I need to know."
He look at me blankly. I hold his hand tightly back.
He look at this gesture and say.
"Yes I have. But I have come far. The more I tell you. More I risk you. Well I am here for you. Tell me what happened today?"
"I want to know with whom I am dealing now Ryan. I am sorry if your intentions are good towards me but I have to take care of myself." I say.
"I am not saying I don't want to tell you Angie. But not today. Not when you have had enough today. I guess I should hear from you rather than putting my s**t on your head."
I smile at me before I tell him everything that Ethan told me. What my parents did. Who Gracia is. Everything. And he listen to me patiently.
" I don't know what I should do. " I say.
" You need a great exit plan first. "
I look at him in confusion.
"And for that you need to know what is actually going on. I should probably use my resources."
"Resources?"
"Yes. I can get us few favour Angie. We can look up for this. You don't have to marry that man. Neither you need to worry of that woman. There is always an exit." He say and smile at me. I stare at him apprehensively.
He lean into me and so do I. Our lip crash and I burn. I am submitted. To him.
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