Falling For The Devil | Ongoing

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Still not sorry for the last chapter. Happy reading! NOT EDITED

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I quietly wait for Lorenzo to be back in the booth, staring at my hand. I feel like crying, but not really. I feel like screaming, but not really.

Albani walks in with a bag of chips "Want some" he asks me shaking the bag in his hand. I nod.

He sits next to me and I grab a handful of chips and stuff them in my mouth. He does the same.

"You know my mother died too" he tells me and I struggle to swallow the chips. "Which case scenario is worst" I ask. "Equally worse".

"What happened?"

"When I was around nine, my dad got a hard disease and blamed it on my mom. He blamed it on her for being around him, he blamed her for having me. So he told mom that she has to pay for his medicine and there was no way she would've been able to do that, since he didn't allow her to work" he takes a deep breath and I got a feeling where this is going. I can see his eyes are getting glossy so I grab the chip bag from his hand, put it aside then grab his hand, interlocking our fingers and he looks down at me smiling.

"So in order for her to pay dad he...sold her as a prostitute" he says and he rubs his forehead with his free hand and I lay my head on his shoulder.

"After my father died from the disease I look for her only to find out she threw herself off a building. And I don't blame her, after all those years of pain" he finishes and I switch in my seat so that I'm fully facing him.

"Thank you, for telling me" I tell him and then I slowly kiss him. I know it's not an ideal thing to do right now, but I don't know how to show the fact that I care and that I'm grateful that he told me. I don't know how to say it through words, but he seems to understand that when he kisses me back.

I hate him. I hate him because he's the only thing, person whatever I can think about since I saw him enter my dads office. And we will get married in to weeks.

I regret things between us didn't go a different way. To meet like normal people, to get to know each other like normal people, but this thing, the relationship we have a couple, but not really a couple, friends, but not really friends seems forced.

We forced it, so that way we wouldn't hate each other in this marriage. So that's why I break the kiss and lay on one of the tiny couches "I'm gonna go to sleep". He looks at me "Good night" he tells me smiling, but looking sad in the same time. "Night" I whisper.

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When we get back to L.A. Ivan and Henry are picked up by my dads driver, Micah goes to his apartment and me and Lorenzo go back to 'our' place I guess. I hate giving Lorenzo mixed signals. But I don't want to repeat the past, to repeat what happened with Henry.

Me and Lorenzo walk in and as I'm about to go upstairs he stops me "Did I do something" he asks. So he noticed. Fuck. "What to you mean" I know it's not the best idea to act dumb, but I don't have the energy for better right now.

"Since last night, after I told you about my mom. I- just so you know I'm nothing like my father. And if this is about your mother, don't push me away, please" he says in one breath and looks at me pleadingly.

It is about my mom, kinda, I got used to the idea that I will loose her in the moment she got diagnosed with cancer. And I know it's bad, it's a bad thing to say that.

"It's about my mom. In a way, but I really just want to be alone" I tell him and he nods heading for his office.

Maybe I was wrong with the relationship being forced. God I feel like my brain is about to explode.

I get a message on my phone from...Why the fuck would Micah text me. He says he wants to meet up tommorow since I have to buy a wedding dress...he also invited me for lunch before going dress shopping. What. The. Fuck.

I agree since I really don't want to upset Lorenzo more than I already did and it's a task that has to be done at some point anyway.

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If you didn't guess by now Anastasia is in the denial stage.