Loved By You

One-Hundred & two

Angelo

After explaining what happened today, I watched Maja closely. She didn't speak. She didn't move. She just stared at me with no emotion on her face.

"Baby, say something," I called out reaching for her hand, but she moved away.

She finally stood walking out of the living room. I followed her watching as she poked her head into the twin's room. When she saw that they were sleeping she left and went to our room.

She grabbed her phone that was on the charger, and she turned to leave but found me standing there. Mj stepped around me, but I grabbed her arm stopping her and forcing her to look at me.

"Talk to me," I asked. I looked into her eyes seeing so many emotions in them. "Let me go." She finally said.

"Maja—," "Let. Me. Go." She bit out. I flinched at the harshness but let her go.

I followed her as she headed toward the backdoor and out to the garage. "Maja you cannot just leave. We need to talk about this." I said stopping her from closing the door.

"What's there to talk about? You and Dimitri obviously are making all the decisions around here, why do you need me here? Go talk to him." She snapped. At her words, I realized why she was so upset.

"Baby—," "I'll be back later." She said before slamming the door shut and driving off. "Fuck." I whispered.

==

"What do you mean she just left? What did she say" Dimitri asked.

"After I told her what happened this morning, she didn't say anything. She checked on the twins before she grabbed her things and left. I told her to stay so we could talk and—," I paused. "And what?" He questioned.

"She's said we have nothing to talk about and to go talk to you if I wanted to talk," I explained. "Shit." He mumbled.

"She's been gone for almost an hour. I was going to call her mom and her sisters, maybe Tae and Rod but with how she reacted today I didn't think getting them involved would be a good idea." I said.

"I don't get why she's mad. She should want as little contact with those men as possible. It's not like she won't get the final say so." Dimitri said.

"That's not why she's mad," I said shaking my head. Dimitri looked at me.

"Christoph and Richard both took away her right to decide. You and I both know she loves Sami but if she knew Christoph was her biological dad, she would not be here." I said. Dimitri looked away but nodded his head.

"I know." He said. "With Richard, he took away her freedom for months and I know she loves Dem, but had she known she was pregnant he wouldn't be here either. I should've asked her how she'd feel about us going down there or telling you at all, instead of just assuming. But I was in the same mindset as you." I said. "That may be true, but she can't just go running off like this it isn't," Dimitri said.

Maja

"I'll be back later," I said before slamming my car door shut. I glanced over at Angelo seeing his sad face staring at me. I felt bad but I knew if I stayed any longer, we would get into a fight, and I knew I'd say something I'd regret. I didn't know where I was going but I needed some air. I drove around for a while before I found myself at this old mom-and-pop restaurant.

I parked and walked in before being seated. I sat down scanning over the menu.

"Maja?" I heard my name called. I looked up seeing Hillary. I sighed rolling my eyes. "Oh god," I mumbled. Until I looked at her, taking in her outfit.