Chapter 244: Unfortunate End
Love Slave to the Mafia Boss's Passion
Despite everything that had unfortunately happened between us, Ethan was a decently good boyfriend while we were together. He must have done things behind my back because he was from a mafia gang and he did keep that from me; however, I didnât blame him. I knew that he didnât want to get me involved then and it wasnât like he could randomly tell me that he was the next head of Silva.
Apart from that, what I told Hayden was true. Although Ethan could be hard to handle sometimes, overall, he was sweet, helpful, supportive, and he made me smile and laugh so much during the time when we were together. I wondered if Ethan knew back then that what we had wasnât meant to last. If he did, how did he feel all those times when we smiled together?
"What are you thinking about?" Hayden asked in a low voice.
"Ohâ¦nothing. Sorry, you were saying?" I quickly replied after his voice pulled me back from my thoughts.
"I didnât say anything. I was just watching your expression turn all sad and lonely," Hayden said with a small chuckle before his eyes narrowed at me.
I wonder what he saw. I wonder if he could see through meâ¦
"Sorryâ¦" I whispered.
"Itâs nothing to apologize for. Iâm the one asking you all these difficult questions. Did you recall some old memories?" Hayden asked, teasingly.
"Not reallyâ¦" I mumbled in reply.
"While you were with him, did you realize anything strange about him?" Hayden asked as he kept his eyes on my face.
"Not really. He seemed very busy at times. He would go away on trips now and then, but I didnât think that it was unusual. Ethanâ¦he didnât like his parents and would get depressed every time that he had to return home to see them," I replied.
Everything seemed ordinary and normal back then given that I didnât know anything about his involvement with Silva. However, looking back, I realized that everything had to do with his involvement with his âfamily businessâ.
"Hmmâ¦I seeâ¦" Hayden said softly.
"I honestly didnât know about his involvement with the mafia. He just told me that his family ran a business and that he had to go back to help his parents with that. Back then, I never suspected anythingâ¦" I continued.
"Itâs normal, I guess. Not every girl would automatically suspect her boyfriend at university to be a mafia bossâs son," Hayden said with a nod of his head.
"Yeahâ¦I guessâ¦" I mumbled, while still wondering why Hayden was having this conversation with me.
Hayden was silent for a while as if digesting what I had told him so far. Finally, he turned to look at me again before asking me his last question.
"What happened when you two broke up?" Hayden asked.
"Ethan decided to dump meâ¦" I said before pursing my lips together into a thin line.
"What happened?" he asked, persistently.
"I didnât know this back then but the last time that Ethan came to see me, he finally told me what happened that night when we broke up," I said softly. This was the part that I didnât want to recall.
"What do you mean?" Hayden asked and I knew that I more than had his attention.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Ironically, it was raining just like the day that I first met him. It was late at night and Ethan didnât come back. Of course, I was worried, and I waited up for him. When he came backâ¦wellâ¦he was all wet and things happenedâ¦" I told my story before pausing when I got to the part where Ethan took me to bed.
"And?" Hayden prompted.
"He just changed his clothes into dry ones and then he told me bluntly that we should break up. He didnât want to be with me anymore. That was that. It was a mess but, in the end, he justâ¦disappeared. He left and I never saw him again until that day on the cruise with youâ¦" I went on.
"Did you try to find him?" Hayden asked curiously.
"Of course, I did. I asked everywhere. I called his friends, well the ones I knew anyways, he didnât seem to have many friends at university. The ones he had werenât exactly close, but I called them anywaysâ¦" I said truthfully as I tried not to recall the pain and desperation from those days.
"You couldnât find himâ¦" Hayden surmised correctly.
"Thatâs right. I couldnât find him. Worst, no one knew where he went. No one knew anything about him. The more I looked, the more I realized that I didnât know much about him either. Just like that, it was like he just disappeared," I concluded.
"I seeâ¦" he mumbled.
Hayden was silent again and then he sighed as if what I had told him weighed more on his mind. I still didnât know why he asked me those questions. I didnât think that it would be harmful to tell him, though. It was all in the past anyways.
"What did he tell you when he came to see you?" Hayden continued to press me for answers.
I closed my eyes and sighed before giving him my answer. The truth of what Ethan told me was just so terrifyingly gruesome and tragic and even I didnât want to repeat what he had told me.
"He told me that that nightâ¦he killed his own parents before coming back to see me. He came to break up with me because we couldnât be together anymore. He had decided to take over Silva as the next bossâ¦" I said in a broken voice before I had to stop.
I couldnât say anymore. The truth made me feel slightly nauseous. Ethanâs face that day was still so clear in my mind, and I didnât want to recall anymore.
"Thatâs enough for todayâ¦" Hayden said as he placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.
I didnât miss that he had just said âfor todayâ which meant that there could be more of these sessions in the future? I hoped that I was wrong.
--To be continuedâ¦