His Hidden Wife

Chapter 38:

Valeria's p.o.v:

I wasn't ready to see my parents, but I had to meet this mystery guy, I had canceled my plans with the Messi, now I was waiting on my parents to get here, I hated when they made plans without telling me first! Once my parents showed up I got in there car without saying a word. "Well hello dear" my mother said. "Mom, Dad what's the meaning of this" I asked. "Well Valeria, let's just say, that if you wouldn't have left last night then we wouldn't have to do this today, we want you to meet a new business partner" my dad said. "My sister couldn't do this" I asked them. "Nope, he wants to meet you" my mom added. "Listen who ever this guy is, I really don't want to meet him" I said. "Come Valeria, don't act like that, I need you to be a lady and be nice" He said. "No promises" I said. We stopped talking for the rest of the ride and pulled up to a nice little cafe. "Go inside and wait for him" my dad said. 'Wait your not coming with me"I asked. "No honey your doing this on your own"My mother asked. I just nodded and went inside to wait for this guy to show up, I didn't need to wait for him to show up. "I'm sorry for being late" a voice said from behind me. I look up at that voice its a voice I know to well, I turned around and let out a sigh, I wanted to see him, just not to soon, be fate had a twisted way of doing things. "Hello Mr. Mondragon" I said. "Oh wow, can't even say my name" he said. "Why would I do that, Christian" I asked. "Let's be nice to each other Valeria" he said. "Why didn't you tell me last night, that you had a meeting with me, this mess things up between me and you, I asked you for time, to clear my head, I'm not ready to face you just yet, I still don't know what I want and that's bad because I know what needs to be done, but i can't bring myself to do and that's not fair to you or me, so tell me what to do, because this driving me crazy, so lets stop talking about this and lets get down to business, you want to work with us, and my answer is yes, but you won't be talking to me, you'll be talking to my sister Araceli can handle it, I'll show up when needed" I said. "That's not why were here, your parents want us to get to know each other, yeah they don't know that I'm that poor boy that their daughter was madly in love with" he said. "I can't handle this right now, I came here to talk business you know what they say don't mix business with pleasure the outcome is never pretty" I said back to him. "No one is trying to make this ugly, well at least not on my part, so let's show your parents that we're getting along just fine so play along and have them tell you what there really plans are, they want us together" he said. "Fine let's wrap this up and let's go, let's find out" I said. We both got up and walked out, what I wasn't ready for once the flashing  lights that met us outside, Christian quickly wrapped his arms around me, he turned my body so that my face was hiding in his chest, I hugged him, but I could hear voice shouting questions left and right, if we were together? If I was married to him? Was he with me for money? That question hit a nerve I felt Christian ready to say something. "No that's what they want" I whispered to him, "Get me out of here, please" I added. He nodded and begun trying to get away from the flashing lights, we made it about three steps when Christian bodyguards came running up to us they stood around both of us and helped us get in a SUV, once we were both I was shocked to see my sister and Matteo. "What's going on why are you both here" I asked clearly confused. "Mom and Dad have a lot of explaining to do" Araceli said. "Is everything okay" I asked her. "They both clearly lost there mind, I have Leonardo, all I want is him, I just got him back and I don't plan on letting him go" she said. "What are talking about I told them both, that you were not to be messed with, you had someone in your life" I told her. "Well mom and dad want to play matchmakers and they think the Mondragons are the prefect match for us, listen I don't like this one bit, so if I have to, marry the love of my life in secret then so be it" she said sounding upset. "No one getting married, at least not yet, I'll handle this, don't worry, see if you can stay with Leonardo for a few days, explain to him what's going on, sorry Matteo but I hope you understand" I said out loud. "Sister what are you going to do" Araceli asked me. "Nothing I just have to talk with them, I'll take heat for this" I told her. "But that's not fair, let me help you at least" she said. "No, I got this, once we get home leave right away, don't give our parents a chance to talk to you, it'll only make things harder on me" I said. I needed to figure out to fix things, I needed a plan, now do as I say to avoid getting into a fight with my parents, things were getting out of control, now it was up to me to fix things. "Why are you doing this, your putting all the pressure on yourself" Christian asked. "Because I wronged a lot of people in my life, this is my way of fixing things" I said. "I understand that but you can't always be the one to fix everyone problems, that's not your job" He said. "Your not helping right now, your stressing me out, let me handle things my way, if you don't like then there's the door, I'm sorry if you don't like the way I handle things, then that's to bad because that's how I am" I said getting upset. "Valeria" He said reaching over to hold my hand, but I shook my hand and pulled moved away. I had to stop, I had to think , I had to learn not to need anyone, because at the end of the day it was so easy to walk away... Once we got home, they dropped us off without a word, Araceli went in first to get her things, "What's the meaning of this" our parent said as soon as they saw us walk in. "Araceli and Valeria Montenegro what is the meaning of this" they both asked. "Leave Araceli out of this, it's me who your mad at" I said pushing Araceli toward the stairs. "Fine then let's, let it all out come sit down we have to talk" my dad said. I let out a sigh and followed them to my office. "Okay first things first what's going on, because I don't understand" I asked my parents. "Listen honey, we've let you girls take over the company and so far it's going good, but the last few months we've noticed a change and it hasn't affected the company but we noticed a change in you girls, Valeria what's wrong" my mom asked me. "Nothing mom, I haven't noticed a change in us at all" I answered. "That's the problem, I want your sister in here" my dad said. "NO, leave Araceli out of this, I'm the face of the company, if anything is happening with it then its on me not her" I told him. "But this has to do with her too" he answered me. "Well good luck finding her, because she's not here, she already left, you won't find her in the house, and I will not tell you were she's at" I said. "Valeria"! my mom yelled. "I mean no disrespect, but tell me what you have to say" I said rising my voice. "Listen to me young lady, this is what I mean, YOU changed, and I don't know if I like or not, I need to my daughter back , the one who does not care what they say about her, the one who knows what to do and handle anything they throw at her, the one who know what she wants, now tell me Valeria were is that girl at, once you found her let her know she has a company to run, you ran off for months, and didn't say a word, I'm not going to lie things were running smooth, no one saw you, you left us worried" my dad said. "I know that was, wrong of me to do,but I had to get way from it all, I need to breathe, I needed to find my self, and let me tell you, I didn't find what I was looking for, if anything I'm further from what I wanted, I know it was childish of me to run away from my problems and I promise not to do do it again, but now for what I really want to know, is why you made me meet with Christian Mondragon" I asked. "That is why I wanted your sister here, we have meet with them, and we think, that they are a prefect match for you girls" My mom said. "There's many problems with that, one being that Araceli is already in a relationship with Leonardo Messi, and another why wouldn't you talk to us first before setting up a meeting with them"I asked kind of mad. "Listen young we would've told you earlier but you, you ran off all those months ago, and yes this started that one day we saw Matteo Monderagon talking to you at that gala, we had for you girls" my dad answered. "Wait your meaning to tell me they knew who we were, from the beginning, all this time they knew about us, even though my sister and I didn't, you mean to tell me that he was closer to me then I knew, I want on a man hunt looking for this guy and he was right in front of me the whole time, and not once did he or his brother try to tell me, I cried my eyes out for him" I whispered. "What's going on do you know them already" my mom asked. "Yes I do, and can't tell you how... at least not right now, maybe after I talk to him first, then I'll tell you, so please leave Araceli out of this, and don't tell her anything I will, I'll do anything you ask me to do, as long has I have a say, I'll be all my focus back on the company, now that I know not to mix business with pleasure, I'll also tell my sister to come back, I think were done with this conversion, please see your way out, I have a lot to think about" I finished off saying to my parent, now I know why I became so cold-heart.ed.......