~~Narrators POV~~
Mateo looked down at Rue waiting for a answer, "I asked if you are going to invite me in."
"No." She answered as she starts to close the door. Mateo shoved his foot in between the door and the frame.
"That's not the correct answer." He responded as he pushed the door open and went inside the house. "What a cute little house you got for yourself," he said as he looked around. He turned around a looked at her ",You've been hiding really good. 2 years. 2 years Rue!" He yelled at her.
"Please don't yell Mateo, Luca hates yelling!" Rue responded as she covered her mouth.
"So that's his name." Mateo smiled. "He's my son isn't he?" He asked as he looked at Rue with anger in his eyes. Rue didn't say anything and just looked away Mateo knew the answer. "I knew it. You kept my son away from me!" He raised his voice in anger. "My son Rue! My flesh and blood!"
"Being away from you was better for him!" She raised her voice back but immediately regretted it.
"Better for him?! Better for him you say? What about me! He is my son!" Mateo yelled at her.
"You? A father? Are you kidding me!? You weren't even nice to me why would I trust you with a son?! Who would trust you with a son?" She asked him not scared anymore of the consequences.
"You dare tell me that I'm not fix for a son! That I wasn't good to you? Are you kidding me?! I bought you everything you ever wanted, gave you all of me!" He yelled back at her.
"Yeah your right! You gave me all of me, every scar, every tear, every sleepless night you! You gave it all to me!" Rue screamed back at him with tears in her eyes.
"Scars?! I never once gave you a scar or even a scratch!" He argued back at her. Rue scoffed.
"Never once you say?" She asks him as she pulls her shirt down and shows him the scar that goes from her collarbone to her rib. "Never once huh?" She asks faintly as he stares at the scar.
"I never did that!" He protested.
"Yes you did! 4 years ago." She told him as a tear fell and trailed down her cheek.
"I do not remember doing that!" He told her.
"That's cause you were drunk." She told him as she heard a cry. "I can't do this anymore." She told him as she walked down the hallway and to Lucas room. Mateo just stood their trying to remember when he did such a thing to his love. Rue opened Lucas door and Luca came running out and grabbing hold of Rues leg and crying. Rue picked him up.
"What's wrong il mio amore?" She asked him as she kissed his forehead.
"I-I h-heard m-mommy crying and y-yelling." He sniffled out as he hugged her tightly.
"I'm okay my love. I promise." She told him as she hugged him tightly. Rue looked at Mateo with anger in her eyes for the first time in a long time. "It's time for you to go." Rue told him as she went into her room. She came back a minute later without Luca. "Leave Mateo." Rue told him with all the courage she had.
"I will, only if you can look me in the eye and tell me you never loved me. Never not once in the time we were together." Mateo told her searching her eyes for a answer. She walked over to him and stood inches away from him. She looked up at him and looked in his eyes.
"I have never loved you. Not then and not now. I love one man and that is my son. So leave." She told him without breaking eye contact. Mateo tensed up with her answer and just stood there.
"I don't believe you." He told her as he bent down and cupped her cheeks and kissed her passionately. Rue was shocked but soon after kissed him back.
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