Chapter 243 - Two Hundred And Forty-three

"I didn't mean too." She cried in a corner of the room they were staying in. "if I even had the slightest idea that it would come to this I would have never done anything like that in my life. I won't have even thought about it." She shook her head, her voice breaking as she cried her words out.

Her husband scoffed. "Of course you didn't." He staggered to the nearest seat and took it. "Because if you did you would have done anything to cover it. That is who you are, you would have done it anyway."

"But I just wanted to m-make sure that-"

"That what?" He sighed taking a sip of his drink. "What he wasn't a bastard? You know very well that we had kept our eyes on here 24/7. How could you ever is you that the child won't be hers?"

She sniffed and a sob came out of her.

"Don't cry!" Her husband roared and she jumped up from the voice. "What are you going to achieve by crying now?"

"Nothing.." she answered taking a long sniff. "Nothing."

"I am humiliated by what happened yesterday Julia and it wasn't that young woman who humiliated me but what I was married to. You humiliated me by going behind my back time and again. I have punished you numerous times I have made you understand it by words then by wood but you have always to failed to understand. Where is that young women today when she had to assert her power, she knew what exactly to say. She did not step out of her life earthquake show that she had authority in the room. More than me. As to say that her opinion mattered to me." He laughed and it was out of sadness. "I have no words to tell you what I feel. I have no strength to make you feel, I have lost a son and a grandchild today because of what you did."

Julia closed her eyes as tears slipped. She hadn't hoped for this. She didn't want this. This was the exact opposite of what she had wanted, the exact opposite.

"I tried-"

He cut her off. "Whatever you try to do you have just humiliated me at the end of it and not for now but whenever you try to do something I am always on the receiving end of it." He sighed. "I try to not eat you but what kind of Don would I be if you were never in my control. I had to hit you. When I first laid My eyes on You I had decided that I would never let u be an average woman. If I was the king of the underworld and you would be my queen but all you did was betray and step behind my back. Every fucking time." He spat.

She didn't comment on it. For the first time in her life, after a marriage of more than 50 years, she had heard these words come out of his mouth.

Seeing her shock necklace continued with a smile on his face. "Why yes Julia. when I first saw you I was attracted by the luscious black hair you had which is why no matter what the punishment you received by me I never had you cut it. They were the most beautiful feature you had next to your eyes. Ah, those lying deceitful eyes. how many times has it been that you have looked me in the eye and lied?"

She didn't even meet his eye.

He scoffed. Getting up slowly he walked and made himself another drink. "You cannot even meet my eyes." He muttered.

"I just wanted our family-"

"All family consists of every member that was down there in that living room. I cannot believe that you created differences between Marcus and Gabrielle. is a mother supposed to do that create a difference between her two sons?"

"Marcus was the heir, the firstborn." She argued. "You should have had given him everything that you give Gabrielle."

Nickolas his head negatively. "Gabrielle bye fore has done a better job than what you are child would ever achieve or even think of doing. We have had more money than ever. the jewellery you have has doubled since he took charge and yet you complain. Did you ever saying no whenever he brought back luxurious things for you?" She shook her head. "See? And you complain." He tsked and shook his head.

Julia sniffed and looked at him finally meeting his eye. "Please do not punish Marcus for what I did. I just wanted him to be happy. He has always been jealous of Gabrielle for.." she stopped not completing her sentence making Nicholas laugh at her in return.

"Because he simply did better and that made him achieve things greater than his elder brother ever did." He leaned his glass forward as if raising a toast. "Whatever you say I would agree with my choice always. Gabrielle was a better choice than what Marcus would ever be.." Julia slowly got up from the floor, ".. just because Marcus had a puppet of a wife which would have given you the control over the position of donor you decided that he was a better candidate."

He slowly turned around. "Didn't yo-Ah fuck!" He felled down and the glass shattered. He palmed his bleeding area and groaned as he looked up.

His wife stood there. With the lamp in her hand which dripped of blood.

It was his wife.

"Why?"

"Why?!" She spoke back her voice deeper than ever, all her feelings coming out. "Why you ask me? Out of 50 years of life is never told me anything that you loved about me, that you liked about me. When was this close to killing me you tell me that you liked my hair, my eyes?!" She yelled. "Now? When it means nothing, you tell me that you love me all your life?!" She scoffed and leaned down to whisper, "If only would have told me sooner.. You could have lived."