Long Lost Love

Chapter 19

Dedicated to jabaee

My eyes fluttered open to the sight of an IV unit strapped to my hand. Apart from that I was sleeping on an overly comfortable bed, in an expensive looking room that was painted grey in colour. As I tried to sit up I noticed the bed had a black furry duvet and a couple of grey pillows that I was lying on. The whole room looked gothic with the silver fireplace that was at a corner and a couch and two doors. Everything in there was either white or silver or black. The chandeliers were silver.

My hand went to my head as I tried not to wince at how it was throbbing. I felt like a hippo had sat on my head whilst carrying an elephant and my leg hurt like hell. Sighing loudly I took a small peak at it and the fact that it was bandaged made it hurt even more. Memories of before I passed out flickered in my brain and that made me wonder where I was exactly. I groaned trying to push the thoughts of everything that had happened to the back of my mind when the door creaked open.

"You're awake," Victoria called strolling in with an iPad in her hand and a maid carrying a glass of water in her hand at her heel. She was wearing a knee high dress with short sleeves. It was paired with a silver belt that was studded with silver studs. Her hair was made into a sophisticated bun and her makeup looked light. To top the outfit she had on silver earrings and a necklace of the same colour.

"What am I doing here?" I croaked trying to massage my head.

"You passed out and I brought you here to my house," she explained taking a seat on one the couch that faced the fireplace.

"Why not send me to a hospital?" I asked trying to raise an eyebrow but it hurt too much.

"The people at hospitals ask too many questions."

I tried glaring at her but again it hurt so I decided to keep looking around the room.

"How are you feeling?" Victoria questioned after a while.

"Like I'm about to die," I replied resting my head on the headboard.

Victoria then muttered something to the maid who then offered me some tablets and water. I gratefully drank them before looking at Victoria. Now was the time for me to get answers.  

"You need to rest. When you wake up we'll talk after of course you've taken a shower and eaten," Victoria ordered as if she had heard my thoughts. My head started to feel a little drowsy then and I decided to sleep, I would get whatever answers I wanted when I woke up.

***
Victoria and I were currently having a stare off. After my long slumber I had woken up feeling a bit better so I showered and devoured the meal that had been brought to me by another maid. The meal was delicious which made my stomach growl just thinking about it. Right now we were about to have the talk.

"How much of the Long Lost Love scandal do you know?" she questioned loudly tearing her gaze from mine.

"Not much," I lied wanting to see if she could be trusted.

"That's a lie." I looked at her with a confused look which she ignored before continuing, "I want to tell you a story."

I nodded feeling a little excited at the prospect of me finally getting to know the truth. Another part of me was scared of what I'd hear.

"About twenty four years ago my father had a dispute with his arch nemesis also known as one of the most powerful man in the country. Their field wrecked a lot of havoc until my father decided to solve it by selling me to that man as a way of compensating for everything he had wronged him with. At that time I was thirteen years old. The man agreed and married me to his son, Michael even though I was thirteen and his son was only sixteen..." I wanted to know more but I couldn't help but cut her off.

"Aren't those kind of marriages illegal?"

"My father was a mafia boss and so was the other man. The word legal was not in their vocabulary. Anyway during the first months of my "union" with Michael I despised him and I wouldn't get anywhere near him except when we would go to school and back together. Slowly my hate for him grew less as I started getting to know him more and because I'd always run to him for protection when I'd hear gunshots. Even though I'd grown up hearing them, that didn't mean I wasn't afraid of that kind of life. I slowly started falling for him and one night that we weren't thinking straight we did it and I got pregnant at thirteen. When the news reached Michel's father's ears he was ecstatic to get an heir even if it was from a thirteen year old. I didn't want the child, I despised it and I wished I'd miscarry but I didn't.  As the months dragged on I started loving the child that was growing inside me and I wanted her to have the best life ever so when I gave birth Michael and I gave the baby up for adoption to a very lovely who were more than glad to have my baby girl I had named Lola. This outraged Michael's dad and he threatened to kill us if we didn't get the child back but luckily they had left the country.

After the "stunt" I had pulled life wasn't very good. I was constantly beaten up by Michael's dad although Michael always took most of the beatings for me. It was like that until I got pregnant again at the age of sixteen and the beating stopped temporarily and then when I was almost five months pregnant Michael's dad beat me up until I almost lost my baby. When Michel found out, he killed his father and took over the gangs and that's when we both started The Assassins organization. We recruited convicts, ex convicts, mischievous computer geeks and other people who were willing to do anything for money.
Things started going wrong when Lillian, who had been one of my friends came into power and she wanted to expose us. I tried my best to have Michael save her life but he thought she was a liability so he ordered the hit on her. Barbara who was also one of my friends convinced me to have Stephan, your dad take care of the murder. Being young and stupid I begged Michael and he agreed but I had no idea what I started. Lillian's murder was the reason there is bad blood between the two families. I started that bad blood and well that bad blood led to the Long Lost Love scandal. The remainder of the Henstridge triplets decided to plan their revenge with Sylvia and that's how they staged what they called the Long Lost Love scandal. Every single thing that has happened was a plan. From the tragic break up between Cecelia and Stephan, Cecelia's disappearance, the bad publicity that led to shareholders dropping out of both companies and the contract which married you off to Jayden and the pregnancy was also part of their plan because the doctor who told you were barren said the chances of you carrying a child were slim, they wanted to know how slim they were. It was all a plan for revenge against your parents. That is the truth you wanted to hear, now you have it." 

This was all too much information for one person to handle in just a day. I had wanted the truth and now that I had finally got it, I didn't know how to feel. I was angry, hurt, betrayed and scared. All my life I had lived a lie. My own parents were murderers and liars and my husband's family had plotted their revenge on my family and they had used me as a pawn in their revenge plot.    

"What happened to Vanessa?" I asked after a long pause of me thinking everything through.

"She was involved in a car accident about a year after she was born and Jayden was the one driving the car that crashed into the baby sitter's car and allegedly killed Vanessa. I knew that the Henstridges were planning to kill your daughter so I faked your daughter's death in the accident and gave her up for adoption to Jeff Kaiser and his wife Georgina."

I couldn't cry, I wasn't going to cry. After everything I didn't want to cry because it's what the Henstridges wanted for me to cry but I wasn't. I was stronger and I had sworn not to let the Henstridges get the better of me on my wedding day, I was willing to stand by my promise. After everything I was going to show the Henstridges that I had the ability to get back up after everything they had thrown at me, I was going to show them I had resilience.

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