chapter 52

Johan's POV

I sit in the living room looking at him empty, as he types on laptop. I then look around. This place is more of a cage than the last…

I hug my legs remembering the conversation on the balcony. I was always scared of what the outcome may be so I've never taken a DNA test. I just need confiration of a donor and someone I know would be my husband, I rush everything just to get everything together. I was lucky that he was greedy enough to stay for money even when my mother offered a lot of money.

So she wrote her will that only her grandchildren get the will and if I could stay in this marriage for more than 20 years then I'd be free and I'd have my shares and she'd expose everything Antonio did to me, I wouldn't be seen as the crazy schizophrenic.

In this period, Antonio would leave me alone,  but Corey happened. Then that man died everything up in flames, and now Aaron… will he try to approach him? It would be unlikely that he won't.

"What are you thinking about so deeply?" He leans back on the sofa smiling at him.

"Stuff" I answer vaguely.

He raises his index finger calling me forth, "come here"

I got up off the sofa then went towards him, he grabbed me pulling me in his lap.

"Does that stuff include Aaron being in mind and the deal?" He smiles. "Listen Johan I've told you I've changed, I won't hurt you".

"The–"

Before I could as I was about to ask my questions the door opened and someone walked in, I turned my head then saw Corey.

"Mom? What are you doing here?" He asks.

Being kidnapped, wait! If I could ask Corey to help. No matter how strained our relationship is, he'd help me right?

"We are just rekindling an old flame, especially with his husband gone. I'm sure he's feeling down. So isn't it good for your father and mother to comfort each other" he lies.

"Don't talk to me like I'm a little kid," he said.

There was a slight glint in his eyes, something I've never seen before. Was this what you wanted to see?

I've always feared Corey, it's heard to raise him while still seeing this monster before me. It would have been easier if he'd look a little less like him, even with the thoughts of him being a child and he didn't deserve it made I've guilty.

Why didn't this child get adopted into a loving family? I'd ask myself.

I don't love Corey, I had him in my stomach and didn't even know he was there. I don't want him to call me mother. I'm not a mother to him.

"Well, since two of my most beloved people are here , why don't I prepare you guys something to eat?" Antonio said as he aimed to kiss on the lips I shifted uncomfortably.

He looks at Corey then back at me, "feeling shy,  Corey is adult silly." He chuckles then

No, I'm just disgusted.

I watched him put me aside then walks out the room, I then look a Corey. I check few more times to make sure that he isn't watching us then I look to Corey. Regardless of our relationship he'd help me right?

"Corey, after you leave here… please call the police or better yet tell Aaron and Amoya where I am" I asks.

He looks at me blankly, "why should I do that?"

My heart trembles, maybe he doesn't understand. "I'm not here by my own will"

Corey's POV

I looked at him, what was he suggesting?

"Are you saying you are being held captive? It doesn't look like that"

"But I can't leave, he won't let me," he said.

Never seen him wear that expression before, he was always just this person who I can never grasp.

"Maybe my father is a little clingy but he won't hurt you like you hurt him"

He looks at me as if distraught, you don't get to make that face after you hurt the ones you love. After I get what I want I will make sure you feel the same loneliness and rejection I felt.

"Corey, he is not the man you think he is? His manipulativ–"

"Just like you? Tell was it a lie that you led him on then ran away without without properly telling him how you feel only to be with Amoya's dad!" I asked him.

He looks at me with his eyes full, his mouth trembling, "it's not like that… i—"

"What about the abortion! You killed an unborn baby because you didn't want a baby with him, cheated on him with Aaron's dad, you constantly hurt my dad over and over again then played the victim… you're an awful person!!"

His mouth slowly closed, putting his hands between his legs, it seemed my words shook him. He remained silent for a while before saying.

"You're right, I guess."

Two tears begin to fall from his eyes, he wipes it after but another comes soon he just starts crying. I don't feel sorry for his tears.

"I'm an idiot, this Always I mean… I ruin people's lives."

He couldn't wipe the tears fast enough streaming down his cheeks, "if I leave who knows, I deserve it don't I?"

He soon got up leaving the room, it wasn't long after he left dad entered. He placed my lunch in before me, he had the soft yet sad smile.

"Corey, I know your mom hurt you. But please be a little more gentle with him he's a bit mentally unstable"

"It needed to be said"

Dad chuckles, "that's your hormones speaking,"

"It's not…"

Dad looks at me, "you must be careful, being pregnant is a sensitive time."

"You're comparing me to him, I won't be dad crazy"

He nods, "I'm gonna make sure he eats and takes his pills"

He takes up the tray with food and smiles he pauses before leaving me, "I love you, you know that"

I smile warmly, the only one who truly cares about me. "I love you too"

He nods leaving the room, I check my phone then to see a text from Michael finally he is back home. He seems to have calmed down.

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