Trillionaires' War

Prologue

Prologue

Stop, please stop. No! Don't hurt him Stop! Not him. NOT HIM!

The single shot echos in my head mixed with my own screaming.

Chloe...

                        Chloe...
 
                                              CHLOE!

"Chloe."

"Huh? What?" I stared at Dr. Miller. The room finally coming into view. His eyes focused on me with curiosity.

"Do you do this often?" He asks.

"I do." I admit.

"How about we leave where you left off last week. Can you describe what you saw that night?"

How could I forget? I close my eyes. "It's a storage. It's damp because it was raining that day. I remember that. I was soaked from running. There's a red car that's only half covered. The driver side is wide open. The concrete floor has stains everywhere, some of them look kind of red. It's dark, but not enough where you can't see. And then there's a single chair that terrified me."

"The chair terrified you?"

I opened my eyes. "Yes."

"And why is that?"

"Because it was empty."

"Where you expecting the chair to be occupied?"

"Yes. He was supposed to be on it."

"I see. And you thought something happened to him?"

I nodded. The tears loosely falling down my face. The pain was still fresh, as if it happened yesterday, but it didn't. I know it didn't.

Dr. Miller leaned over, patting my hand. "You did good, Chloe. This is a major improvement. How about we start before all of this. How about the begining? Explain to me how you were before all of this."

I wiped my tears off. My breathing coming back to normal. "I was happy. I had everything I always wanted. You know, to have a family. I was happy. Then I started to feel lonely. I saw how everyone had someone for them. Fang had Gulizer. Isla had boyfriends on her beck and call. Eric had his secret girlfriend. And even Rafael had someone, he just didn't notice her until later. My only priority was running Alsan Verdell International. Isla convinced me to go on this blind date. I thought, maybe this would be a step towards finding the man I would spend the rest of my life with. I was hopeful. But it wasn't like that at all. After an argument. I was questioning who I was and who I became. All over something so stupid. I was confused. It was dark, and I was alone. I was in a place I didn't recognize and I somehow called the only person who I thought would rescue me. And he did more than rescue me."

"What do you mean by that, Chloe?"

"He said everything I needed him to say. And I saw him differently after that. I was stupid. I should've never called him."

"Why do you regret calling him?"

"Because it's my fault. Everything's my fault. I became his weakness. I should've stayed away whenever he warned me. I should've listened to him. I thought he was scared. I thought maybe he had commitment issues. I wanted to change that. I was so stupid. I didn't know him. I knew his name. I knew his job, but I didn't know him. The dark, the bad, the ugly. I didn't know any of it at the time."

"And if you knew then what you know now. What would you have done differently?"

"I don't know. I just know that the moment he came into my life, I was in danger. I didn't know that then, and now it's too late."

Dr. Miller put his note pad down and leaned forward. "Why, Chloe. Why is it too late?"

I hestiated to answer. I always asked myself why it was too late. Why I couldn't just walk away and forget him. Even when I discovered the secret world he was apart of, why didn't I just walk away? Why was it so hard for me to just leave and never look back? Why?

"Chloe? Why is it too late?" Dr. Miller asked again.

"Because now I love him."

Author's Note:

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