The Proposal

Chapter Twenty-Five: Sleeping Beauty

Suzanna sobbed as she looked at her little girl, there were still no improvements in Sophia’s health since the surgery; but her family remained hopeful that she would wake soon.

Irina had explained everything to Suzanna, once she had arrived at the hospital with Jennifer and Fiona who were devastated by the news of what had happened to their sister.

Suzanna hated Cristiano for doing this to her daughter, she hated Dolores for allowing him to do this and standing up for him but most of all she hated the woman that had caused all of this trouble and leaving her daughter for dead.

Daniel had been screamed at for a solid twenty minutes after he had revealed his part in what had happened; he now sat watching from the corridor with Irina.

“It’s my entire fault,” he whispered making the Russian model look at him and sigh; over the past twenty-four hours, there had been a lot she had been able to think of and hating Daniel for what had happened had consumed most of her thoughts.

That was until she thought about how he had done everything in his power to keep Sophia alive so that the doctors could look at her, how he was with her when she had no one.

“It’ll be okay,” she told him, slowly lacing her fingers with his to comfort him, offering him a weak smile she watched as Dr. Diaz entered the room closely followed by Gerard who had yet to leave the hospital, no matter how much Suzanna demanded that he did so.

Checking Sophia over, the doctor sighed as he shook his head and headed out into the corridor so that he could talk to her family and friends; he knew they all wanted some good news about the blonde.

“I’m afraid that it isn’t looking good. Medically she’s doing fine but for reasons we can’t explain we are losing her…” he said softly making Suzanna sob loudly as Jennifer moved to comfort her mother,.

No one could believe that this was happening; they all couldn’t imagine what was going on and the one person that should have been there still wasn’t.

Irina was still struggling to get a hold of anyone, none of the footballers would listen to her and she could see that if something wasn’t done soon then Cristiano would definitely lose the blonde forever.

“We don’t know why but it appears that she’s lost the will to live,” Dr. Diaz concluded making everyone look at Sophia softly; Cristiano’s parting words had made such a drastic effect on the blonde and now she had given up the will to live.

***

Anastasia smirked as she knocked on Cristiano’s front door while her plan had worked perfectly she hadn’t counted on Sophia being such a Martyr; however she couldn’t help but smile at her work, while the blonde laid unconscious in hospital.

The model soften her smile as Dolores opened the front door to her, she was going to play it caring card so that she could win around his family before she won him back.

“I was just calling to see if Cristiano was alright… after everything that witch put him through,” she said making Dolores smile at her softly before allowing the Russian blonde inside.

The Portuguese was a little taken back that Anastasia had come to see her son, she never thought that things were that serious between them.

Showing Anastasia to the living room, Dolores looked at Cristiano who was sat alone since he didn’t want to be with his family; he refused to allow them to comfort him and the footballer was pushing everyone away.

Sighing Anastasia slipped off her jacket before she made her way over to him and sat down next to him; Dolores watched the two of them for a moment then she left them alone so they could talk in private.

“Cristiano?” Anastasia asked making him look at her weakly, she had to admit he didn’t seem to be taking the break-up as well as she expected; the model had thought he’d be thrilled to be rid of Sophia.

“How are you?” she asked him as she made herself comfortable, Cristiano sighed and ran a hand through his un-gelled messed up hair.

He hadn’t been able to sleep that night and had stared out the window waiting to see Sophia come and get her stuff but she hadn’t and it still sat in his front garden.

“I feel like my hearts been ripped out,” he whimpered as he thought about Sophia, he didn’t understand what was going on and the footballer was starting to think that something had happened; Irina was still calling him constantly but he didn’t want to speak to anyone.

“At least you know that I’ll always be here for you,” Anastasia said as she leant forward to kiss him, she wanted to give him a hint of what he was missing and she knew he wouldn’t deny her; she blinked confused as Cristiano pushed her away.

“Anastasia… I don’t want you,” the footballer said making the smile fall off of her face as she heard what he said; she frowned since she hadn’t been expecting him to deny her like that.

“I’m thankful that you showed me Sophia’s true colors before we were married but I don’t want to be in another relationship right now,” Cristiano told her softly, he knew that she wanted to get back together with him but he didn’t think could ever love again after what had happened with Sophia.

Anastasia looked at him furiously, after all the hard work that she put into breaking the couple up he still didn’t want her; she couldn’t believe that he wasn’t interested in her.

Katia frowned as she stepped into the living room, she had some questions for the model since something didn’t add up and she knew that there was something going on.

“So how did you know that Daniel was going to kiss Sophia at that moment?” Katia asked as she ignored Elma who tried to stop her; she stared at the Russian.

She didn’t believe for a moment that it was an accident that all of this had happened while Anastasia had shown that she was going to do anything to break them up.

The blonde blinked as she stared at Katia, she knew that Cristiano’s sister was on to her and she needed to get away before she revealed the truth.

Anastasia quickly got to her feet and hurried to leave as she made excuses until Katia grabbed her; the singer glared at the model knowing that she was up to something.

The blonde squealed as Katia started to squeeze her arm, she ignored her family; she wanted answers and she knew that Anastasia was going to give them to her.

“What did you do?” the singer asked as Elma hurried forward to stop her, she didn’t know what had gotten into her younger sister; she knew that everyone was upset but there was no need for this.

Floundering for words the Russian knew she had been caught, she swallowed as she stared at Katia who was ignoring her family’s pleas for her to stop; however she didn’t and the next thing that she did was to slap the model who fell to the floor.

Anastasia stared up at her in shock as Katia shrugged off her sister and stepped threateningly towards the other woman; she knew that the blonde was behind all of this.

“Okay… okay I’ll tell you,” Anastasia whimpered, she looked at Cristiano who was staring at her confused; she doubted that even he would be able to stop his older sister from beating her up for answers.