Chapter 166 - Saved Me

"You asked me how I know Valencia's family?" Persephone asked him in a voice that resembled more like a sneer. 

She had been sneering a lot today. At him. Not like he didn't deserve it. 

"Cameron saved me." Her words hit him in the gut. He thought he knew what she was talking about but at the same time, he didn't need her to say those words aloud. He wouldn't be able to hear them. Yes, he was a coward. 

Santiago Vitello, the man people feared and respected, was a coward. 

He wanted to shout at her, beg her to not continue. 

But there was no stopping her. She wouldn't calm down until she spit out all the toxic filled in her heart. 

"I was about to kill myself and the child in my womb because I have no memories, no means to protect him and me, and no fucking way to provide for both of us," She told him, blinking away the tears.

At this proximity, he could see all those emotions swimming inside her eyes. And if he knew better, his face was not blank today. He couldn't mask the heavy emotions emanating inside him. 

Fate was such a shocker. 

"What options was I left with?" She questioned him. "I had nothing! No one could help me at that time!"

Santiago could imagine the helplessness that she might have felt at that time. Only if he was there… 

If he was there, so what? 

What could have changed? 

He would be him; the asshole, cruel and wicked man. 

What help would he have done for her? 

"Tell me, Villiam, if Cameron hadn't come that time would I still be questioning you?!"

Her question made him breathless, crumbled the last bit of his strength. He dared not imagine it. 

She would have… 

No. No. No. He couldn't imagine a world with her gone. 

As asshole as he might be, he would never wish her death. 

If anyone deserved a bad ending, that was him; the villain. 

He understood today why Villains could never be adored like heroes. Why can't they have endings like heroes? 

He by all means, doesn't deserve anything less than hell. 

And his Percy hating him for all the shit he put her through was akin to loving hell. 

"If my father had succeeded today, would I still be here?!" This time she said this loudly. 

His eyes widened as he deciphered the meaning behind her words. 

Alessandro Marino…

He couldn't… 

He wouldn't dare to… 

Shit…

Today's accident… 

As if understanding the meaning of horror on his face, she laughed, and he wasn't sure who she was laughing at this time, her or him or perhaps it was aimed at Don Marino for the irony. 

"My father tried to kill me today," She said with another bout of laughter. " I know this time will come."

She raised her hand and under the light, the diamond in her ring glistening like moonlight falling on a calm blue sea. He got this diamond added to her wedding ring because of her obsession with blue color. 

"From the time, you made me wear this ring. I know he will kill me and my child. He will never let me be a rock in his path!"

The day they got married, she had told him while standing under a similar lightbulb with certainty flashing in those glistening green eyes that he had no idea what he had done. 

At that time, he didn't take her words seriously. 

Maybe, he did. 

But he was afraid of reading the meaning behind her words. 

She was certain that Don Marino wanted her dead for the fact that she would be an obstacle in his dream of ruling over all the families of New York. And she wasn't wrong. He indeed did what she had expected. 

How he didn't see it coming? 

The accident today… 

It was aimed to take her life along with the innocent child. 

His child. 

He had yet not accepted the fact that he… 

Lord, he couldn't even say in his heart. 

"What an irony he was going to kill the mother of your child for you!"

And it hit him. 

They wanted to kill his wife and unborn child. 

Sudden rage clouded his vision, striving to take over his body that he knew would result in a killing spree if he allowed it. 

"Your child…" She said those words softly while looking at him as if she just realized it. 

And then she suddenly chuckled.. "I believe you are the father if you haven't shared this slut with your men…"

"Persephone!" Santiago raised his voice. He couldn't bear to hear her belittling herself. 

How could she? 

Although she had nothing to trust him…

Still even if she didn't trust him but at least had trust in herself. 

A man tried to touch her and he was now dead… 

And all these words that she had been using for herself… she ain't deserve that. 

Seeing the horrified look on his face, she felt a little relief. 

However, she wouldn't stop here. 

"Oh, you didn't?" Persephone mocked herself. "I might not have been able to tempt your men. What a bad choice you had!"

Tears blurred his vision. He could hear anymore. Her demeaning herself was more like cutting his heart into tiny tiny pieces. He had never been more ashamed, unhappy and unfortunate than this moment. 

He would do anything to have her stop saying all this shit. 

She shouldn't be provided at this moment. This wasn't good for her. She could lose the baby this way. This was not good. 

And so he begged her. 

"Stop it Persephone! Stop! Stop degrading yourself." 

But was she in her senses to listen to him? 

No, she wasn't. 

Today, she would stop at nothing. 

"I'm just a mere woman not worthy of being saved. Let me say all these things about me."

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