I Tried

Prologue

I sat quietly rocking my baby boy in my arms. He looked so much like him and I couldn't help but hate myself for it. I was only 16 when I met that horrible man. I thought he was the best thing to ever happen to me and I was the stupidest person ever.

At first he was amazing but I should have seen the signs and I shouldn't have said those 2 horrible words. "Dear lord keep him away from us." I whispered as I kissed my baby's head softly.

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Veronica James was a sweet girl who had a bad life. Her father left her when she was just a baby and she got stuck with a mother her resented her for it. She met Antonio in her senior year of high school because she has skipped a year in hope she of getting out of that town sooner.

He was 25 and she thought he was the best thing in the world. He got her out of there but at what cost. She graduated and he paid for her school in return she would move to Italy with him when she graduated. And everything went according to plan until it didn't.

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"Come out Veronica, I just want to talk about it." The patronizing voice made me flinch as I hugged my knees trying not to let out any sobs. "We talked about you talking to other men when I'm not there. I can't have my wife acting in such ways, huh?"

I had spoken to  client at my office trying to get him to fully transfer all of his assets in order to get a promotion my boss had practically fed to me in order to get me to agree to do it. But of course Antonio's men had been watching me like always.

Let's just say he wasn't pleased and I knew what to expect from him after seeing Charles my drivers expression as he picked me up. He was a good man but he had no choice in the job he had. Antonio didn't give anyone a choice.

"Veronica!" I flinched holding my stomach. "Found you." A soft terrifying voice whispered as the closet door tore open.