Chapter 8
“Elena, I know you are saying that just to make me angry, but all that matters to me is you. I know I forgot our anniversary this time, even snatched the flowers from you.
I was foolish, but I promise I will make you happy from now on.”
Talking to Xander was tiring as he refused. to understand even the basic common
sense and kept repeating the same insincere apology over and over.
As I turned to leave, I noticed his pale face. shift to a look of panic as he said desperately.
“Elena, we can have another child. This time I will take care of you and our baby.
This Empire was already in ruins when you married me, it was you that worked day in and night to build it again. Think about it. El you are the queen of American Mafia; how can you leave something that you have
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worked so hard to get?
Our children whom I will cherish more than my life will someday inherit it.”
“The child to inherit is already dead Xander, just like our relationship.”
The moment he brought up the baby, memories flooded in.
I was most excited to have a child, yet Xander never felt the same. Three years ago, when I told him that I wished to conceive and was ready for a baby he did not disagree.
But when I could not conceive for two long years after that I found out that he was deliberately giving me medicine to prevent pregnancy.
He did not ever think of me once when his mother called me sterile and even went as far as to say that I was no better than a
prostitute if I could only warm his bed and still be without a baby.
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Xander’s eyes widened when he realized that I knew his secret.
“Now you do not need to feed me drugs that make a woman so sick that she might never get pregnant. You are free from any responsibility.
I must say, Xander, that I could never see as far as you.
In our 5 years of marriage, I never once conspired against you but looking at you now I understand that you must have wished for children from Diana and not from me.”
Remembering that time made my blood.
boil.
“That’s not true! How can you even think like that El?” Xander looked shocked…
hurt even, 1
like a bucket of cold water was poured over him.
“Elena, the Mafia was in chaos and to bring our child in such circumstances was dangerous-
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I laughed hard, making Xander’s finger tremble as he could not continue.
“It was not dangerous when you left me to die when I was fighting the Italian mafia?”
I looked him straight in the eyes and spoke.
“That day I was wounded by three bullets embedded right into my shoulder and while I was waiting for my cheating husband to rescue me from the war field where I could have been abducted, raped or even killed brutally he was having the time of his life committing adultery.”
“Bullets, no..that cannot be…Diana said that you called.
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