Cross World

Romano's Guilt

Romano's emotions were all out of place when it came to Olivia. He hasn't seen her since years, practically seven years.

And now when she is found, she is just not the same. By the way she looks in the picture, it shows that she has been through alot, the confidence she now wears is different from the time they were together. Just by looking at the picture, he can feel her aura.

He shuts his eyes and revists the last memory he had with her.

(Henry Cavill as Romano)

The last memory was the time he cheated on her...

The graduation ...

He knew Christano was just messing his head about Olivia being in love with him and that she was cheating on him. He still believed the lie he said.

Just before the graduation Christano sent him a forged image of him and Olivia making out.

Romano being a short tempered guy, burned with fury. Without verifying a sick man such as Christano, he went ahead and did the impossible.

Revenge

He actually slept with Sandra, who was Olivia's number one enemy. The girl who she totally detested.

Sandra had made Olivia's life hell in college days. So did her minions. And he knew Sandra had a thing for him, so he just went for that. He went in her arms.

He even recorded his sex tape and slapped it in front of Olivia's face.

He could see her raw pain. He could see her body shivering with shock and he could also see the anguish held deep in the dept of her eyes.

She said nothing. Absolutely nothing to defend herself.

He felt more angry, she wasn't begging for forgiveness nor was she defending herself. He assumed her silence as her admittance to cheat on him.

Getting no response and only sobs, Romano rattled out his anger.

He called her names, worst names that he could ever tell to a woman.

"Slut", "Bitch", "Whore", "Cheat", "Gold digger".

Remembering those words, now hurt Romano like hell. He had acted rashly, very rashly and that was so low of him.

Not just him, but the entire billionaire's squad had acted rashly on impluse. As if they were drugged, as if they were made to react that way.

The girls were just victims, victims of a devilous plot.

Until the boys could comprehend the entire truth. It was already too late. Too late to take back the words spoken, the actions taken.

For years, guilt has been tugging their sleeves. And now the sleeve that they wear is too burdened.

They don't know it they could make things right back to normal.

Its quite an understatement honestly.

Nothing has been normal with the billionaire's squad, since then ...

They dwindled just on 'Hope'. And that hope became alive today. The day had finally arrived.

Romano would see his girl...

And now, through Olivia the billionaire squad boys can get back their girls. All of them were very anxious as well as excited...

Little did they know, a suprise is already waiting for them.

Orlando and Watson were finally able to trace Olivia's office contact details through her online website after digging for nearly three hours.

Rain definitely loves to play 'Hacker' , 'Hacker' games...

So without wasting anymore time, they immediately left to meet her. It was almost midnight, there was no movement from Olivia's office. The lights were still switched on.

To their suprise, Olivia had chosen a very interesting place to start her business. It was an old building, of ten storey. She had rented the first storey of the building entirely.

It was practically a home turned into an office.

The rest of building consisted of middle class working group.

Romano wondered what is Olivia's present financial situation. Has she left her grandmother?

And all of a sudden, an alarm goes ringing in his mind.

Shit! Her Grandmother!

Where is she? Is she alive?... A shiver runs down his body.

Why hadn't he thought about it, he cursed himself.

He feels more guilty now for Olivia. He silently vows to treat her right this time. He'll also pursue her to move in with him, and make her quit her job. As finance won't be an issue, he is a billionaire after all.

"This is so strange..." Orlando murmured

"What?" Romano instantly focuses on Orlando.

"Remember her car?"

"Of course!" Watson replied.

"How could she be living in this old building and owing such a splendid car?" Deandre sarcastically questions Romano.

"Don't go on her financial status" Romano grits his teeth.

"Damn, I wasn't. You assumed." Deandre defends himself immediately.

An angry Romano was not good at all in this situation.

Deandre and the others were eagerly waiting to reunite with their beloved girls. And right now Olivia was the only key...

So tolerating Romano was their hard limit necessity.

"What Deandre means is, she owns a car which is different than the usual. We couldn't track her, also her model looked like ..." Orlando suddenly stops speaking.

"Like?" All the boys curiously ask.

"Shit!"

"What???" they screamed in unison.

"Damn!"

"For the sake of God, stop cursing Orlando! And tell us..." this time it's the quite Lucas who loses his patience. As soon as he got the news, he left his business meeting in Italy and got back with the boys.

He was eager to meet his Samantha.

"Rain" Orlando whispers in realization

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- Aakanksha Rawat