The Balotelli-Bale Series Book #3: The Italian Belle

Chapter 50: The Real Winner

Marianna's POV
"You're insane! You're insane!" I screamed when we reached the door. I refused to move any farther. It's just us two in this house. Nicko is long gone. He was taken to Greece the next day after I married his father. Nate played me. I still lost my son and it's been weeks of being locked up in this penthouse at war with him over Wayne's baby.

Helena left too. She went with Nicko. She didn't want to let him out of her sight.

I am starting to wonder if I got played and I'm the only loser here.

"I want that thing out of you! You're not having Wayne's baby!"

"It's a child! It's not a thing it's a child! It's a living being!" He hates that it is starting to show. "I'm not getting rid of my baby!"

He held the bridge of his nose.

From the one minute wedding to this moment, it's been chaotic. Nate's sanity may as well be hanging by a thread. I already lost my mind when he took my son away. I don't think I'm sane anymore. My mind is always screaming at me. I hear Nicko crying even when he's not here. I feel so suffocated.

"Maria, I'll make this simple for you to understand." He spoke calmly. "If you keep that child, you lose Nicko forever. If you get rid of it, we go to Greece and you can be with your son. It's your choice. I need an answer right now."

The last of our bags were brought to the front door. He means business.

He chose to go back to the Navy even after he got the UN job. I'm either on a flight to Greece or Italy depending on the baby I choose. How can he expect me to choose? I'm a mother. Mothers don't choose. Regardless of who has fathered my children, I love them both the same way. I can't choose one or the other. It's not that simple. But Nate doesn't seem to care.He just wants what he wants, his way!

"I can't. I'm sorry Nathan, but I can't choose. They are both mine. I can't choose!" I screamed.

"I'll choose for you then. I hope you held him enough because you will never ever see Nicko again. You have no one to blame but yourself for choosing Wayne."

"Nathan he's my son! Nickolas is my son! You have no right to do this! You're not being fair!"

"I was more than fair to you! I gave you options! You're the one picking the wrong ones!"

"What should I do when you give me an impossible option and the one you want? What? I can't live with myself if I get an abortion! I will never forgive myself. It is wrong! It's a wrong against this innocent child!"

"I will never forgive you if you have that baby. I'll take a different plane from you to give you further time to reconsider. Whichever hell you choose to commit yourself to is up to you. But if I see you anywhere near Nicko while you're still pregnant, I'll sink you so deep you'll drown. He picked his bags and left me there.

With no one and nothing left in the empty penthouse I sat on the floor crying bitterly. For a moment it felt like home. For a moment it could have been home. My worst nightmare has come true. I have lost the very child I fought so hard to keep alive. None if them know what I have been through since I feared I was pregnant till now. Yet I'm the one who is sitting in an empty penthouse without the very child I have struggled to raise.

Where do I go?

Italy to be murdered by Fabian Belucci?

Greece after I deny the baby inside my womb a chance to live?

Who do I call for help?

Nate has singlehandedly ruined me.

I have no one to help me. Absolutely no one.