Filthy Rich by Atarah Yvaine (electronic reader txt) 📖

He looked at me in my eyes and his eyes is bloodshot. Yeah, I forgot his drunk.

"You're drunk. My asshole brother locked us here. Now I need your phone to call Tres to fetch you. I can't keep you here." I seriously said to him and he pouted. Afterwards he laid in the ground looking at the ceiling. "Stand up, the floor is cold. You might get a cold" I playfully kick him

"Do you really want me to get lost? You don't miss me at all? Even just a bit?" he used his fingers to demonstrate the word "bit". He is acting cute.

"No." I lied. If there is one reason for me to go home that is to see if he is okay.

"That hurts." he said clasping his chest.

"How's Zaylee?" I asked him. He stopped acting and get serious.

"She's doing fine. She's in Japan" he answered

"Helena?" I asked pretending that I don't know that she is in jail.

"I don't want to talk about them." he sit and look at me "I want to talk about us" he slowly get up and hug me like his life depends on me.

"I miss you" he repeatedly whispers in my ears. He cupped my cheeks and kiss me. He is so gentle and passionate. He successfully crushed all the walls I built for years just like that. I don't know if I am still thinking straight but I close my eyes and kiss him back. I felt how he misses me with his every kiss and I make him feel the same.

"We need to stop" I said in between kisses and he rapidly shake his head.

"Deus" I warned him because I can't even stop myself. I need him to stop this.

"Hmm" that's his only response. Damn the place is getting warmer.

Zaylee's face crossed my mind and I push him away. I can't do this. This is wrong.

"Why?" Deus get back to me and try to kiss me again but I stopped him. I used both of my hands to cover my face.

"This is wrong" I said and his forehead creased in annoyance

"You are being unreasonable again. You don't really believe me, do you? When I said I don't touch Helena. When I said I am not Zaylee's father. When I said I'll prove anything to you? Now, do you think I will kiss you like that if I am a father to a kid? Do you think I will be that vocal of how much I misses you in front of everyone when I am with someone else and will hurt someone? Damn Heaven. Trust me on this, okay?" My eyes widened with what he said. Did I really failed to trust him?

I can’t even open my mouth to say something

"Bullshit, Stop caring for others. I know you really have a very soft heart and you don't want them to suffer for you but I am taking all the pain. I took all the accusations. I was fooled and been left. I suffered when I didn't even do anything. That's crap"

I don't clearly understand what he is saying but I had this feeling that I am at fault of his pain. His eyes are full of agony.

"Not because you are kind, others are same too. Please hear me out this time. Believe me please." He hold my hand and kiss it.

"I'm sorry" I uttered as tears fall. I can see how he is suffering right in front of my eyes. He is humbling down when this is not so him. He needed someone to listen to him and my hearts been ripped apart when I realized that I failed in being there for him.

"I'm sorry" I whispered again.

"Shhh" he wiped my tears. I don't have the right to cry because I am the culprit of what this is all happening but I can't help it. "I am not blaming you. I just want you to understand." he kiss my cheeks comforting me. How can he be this gentle to me when he can just get mad.

"I thought I am doing the right thing." I explain and he shut me up using his own lips.

"Enough and hear me out first." he said. He stands up and pulled me up with him. He hugged me so tight and whispers a lot of I love yous in my ear. That made me more emotional. We walk in the bed lay down facing the ceiling.

"I'm a little drunk but I am not lying. Zaylee's not mine and Helena is a bitch." he said

"Then who is the freaking father?" I asked because her eyes are same as his.

"She is a random kid from an orphanage that Helena got to fool me."

"What?" I suddenly felt mad at that lady. How come she used an innocent child for her schemes.

"She's crazy. It took me one whole year to prove that Zaylee's not mine. Damn her she has connection to every single DNA Facilities on our country and other countries nearby. She really manipulated everything well. I gave her a house, monthly allowance and everything but she still not satisfied. I am doing investigations towards her but she's so clever that we can't even find any evidence against her. She's a psycho. She wanted marriage but I refused because I know I didn't touch her when we used to date. I doubted that Zaylee is mine from the very beginning. Then I failed to notice that Zaylee's been starved and abused by her. I'm so focus on finding evidence that I forgot about the child. When I saw Zaylee tied in the basement and Helena so wrecked from using drugs that's the only time I we got a chance to arrest her. Then I slowly got into their company and I planned to ruined it but she begged for me not to cause her family has nothing to do with her shits. She doesn’t want them to suffer. She promised that she'll tell me everything. That's the time I confirmed that Zaylee is not really mine. She manipulated every paternity test. She's the person behind your shooting crime and a lot more foolishness"