Page 54 of Violent Attraction

But I can’t do that, I can’t go after Emilo and kill him, if Isabella is near me in anyway. She needs to stay as far away from anything that I might do, I can’t have her dying on my watch.

“As long as your father is at the helm of this decision, yes, that’s what I’m going to do.” The lie flows out of my mouth more easily than I thought it would and by the look in her eyes, she believes it.

More tears roll down her cheek. I turn to walk out before she can say anything.

“Santiago!” she yells out, stopping me in my tracks.

With a hand on the doorknob, I turn slightly to face her.

Her face is redder than it was before and if I thought that she wanted to strangle someone before, she definitely wants to now.

“I hate you.”

And I believe her.

With one final look at the woman that owns every inch of my heart, of my soul, I nod and leave the room.

For the third time in my life, I have made this woman hate me with all that she has, but this time I don’t know if she will forgive me.

All I can do is hope that the memories that we made together are what holds her together while I do everything to get her out of this shit. No matter whose blood I spill.

Even if it happens to be Ronaldo’s.

Isabella Morales is mine and she is sure as hell not going to marry another man.

Especially one that I know murdered my father.

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It shouldn’t have been that easy.

After everything that we have been through, walking away from me shouldn’t have been that easy for him.

Yet it was.

Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that all it would take was for my father to say that he was marrying me off. Or the man I truly wanted to spend the rest of my life with, would be able to walk away without a backwards glance.

But he did.

My father told me that he was marrying me off and Santiago just left me standing there, crying every tear that I had, and walked away.

I fucking hate him.

But I love him so damn much.

Did these last four years not mean anything to him?

Was it really that easy to walk away from me?

No, there has to be something more.

Something else has to be a factor, because I cannot believe that Santiago would give up on not only us, but everything we’ve built, over this. The Santiago that I know, would have stood up to my father and fought for what we had.

The man that I know, wouldn’t have done this.

I know there is something more at play here, I will find out exactly what that is. I don’t give a shit if he acts like he wants nothing to do with me.

Why are you worrying about this? You’re marrying someone else.