Let's Split!

"So, you want the kid all for yourself?"

Lucas questioned him while staring at Diego with a keen gaze and squinting expression. The man had no clue why Diego would go all the way to find his son.

"Yes, I want to keep my son. I mean I have no problem if Nathalie wants to meet him, but I want to adopt him."

Diego was serious about the decision of his adopting the child, which was visible from his tone and confidence he had in his voice.

"So you are not after Nathalie winning her love or whatever?"

Lucas started his one sole insecurity which made Dgego chuckle. Although he knew Lucas somewhat, but he did not expect any such thing coming from him at all.

"What!? Haha, no!"

Diego laughed and smacked his hand on his own though and then winced in pain, but perhaps the comedic atmosphere was indeed so funny for him to forget his pain.

"For fucks sake, why would I chase her let alone try to win her heart!? I'm a married man and I definitely love my love, though we have some misunderstandings going on but I do love her and she is the only woman in my life, I swear!"

Diego lifted his hand up in the air and gestured as if he had been pointing out the truthfulness of his statement through some religious expression. 

"Are you certain? Because if I find out that you are after her then I will not hesitate to feed you to the sharks!" 

Lucas warned him, raising his index finger towards Diego who gulped at the statement. Not like it was a lie or something because Luvas Petrakis was a man of words! 

"Er, yes. I don't want her just my son, and I will be out of your way once for all."

Diego told him the truth that lucas made up his lind to do so.

'But she would never agree to this, dang! I have to do something to make this plan work!'

Lucss had already decided either it will be him or Khal but whom Nathalie will agree to keep?

Lucas left his house making sure he had scared Diego enough that he wouldn't make a move on Nathalie or even Khal. Whereas Diego ordered his men to hide the dead body as he went back to his room.

Back there in Nathalie's hotel the woman had been undergoing with numerous emotions, she had been laying in the bed since four hours quietly.

'I did not imagine that he would change that fast, didn't he say that he loved me unconditionally?'

She had been murmuring to herself and the assumptions had been flooding hdr head with all the useless thoughts.

'What am I even thinking, huh? Hah! He was never committed to me, we only had a contract marriage.'

She switched her side and a stream of warm tears crawled down her cheeks. It was the moment when the door opened with a creek sound and someone came inside the room, the footsteps were soft and did not have much noise.

Nathalie peeked through the duvet and saw Lucas approaching her, the man had a bleeding hand which made Nathalie worried but she did not dare to move.

'How did he injure himself? Is this because of Khal or that I hid the truth from him?'

She had only two possibilities in her mind that could serve the truth but Nathalie did not know which one among them was the truth.

"I know you are not asleep."

He spoke to her with a strange tone and went towards the sofa where he slumped but somehow managed not to fall on the floor.

'Is he….is he drunk?'

She had never seen him drinking or doing something which could make her disgust him. But perhaps Lucas's jad never been a bad boy in ages after he got married to her.

Thus he had to unleash his anger and tabt was the best way he could do so, the man beat Diego up to his heart's content and then drank till he couldn't remember anything anymore.

"I don't know why you hid this from me,"

Nathalie sat on the bed when he witnessed Lucas holding a bottle of liquor and gulping it like a mad person.  Lucas Petrakis ogled her for a hoef second and then moved his eyes towards the bottle as he put his legs on the wooden thing and took a hig sip from the glass bottle.

"But I'm telling you….you don't want Khal if you wanted him then you would have adopted him long ago. You are just clinging to him for some unknown reason but…."

He trailed off and then took another big sio while nathalie felt as if she had been exposed in just one second, she felt being naked in that particular moment and the person knowing her secret was none other than the man she had loved! 

"But I'm telling you, oether you will keep him or me. Lets just decide immediately and right here in this moment!"

Nathalie felt herself stranded; she imminently shot up from the bed and dashed towards Lucas.

"No, no!"

She sat on the floor and held his knees while the lady cried by putting her head in his legs, whereas Lucas just kept on drinking and ignored her cries and pleas.

"No, please don't do this to me you know…"

She lifted herself and sat in his lap when the lady held his face with both hands.

"You know I love you both and you both are important to me. Please don't make me choose one, it's not in my hands!"

Nathalie pleaded to him but perhaps he had decided what he had wanted and now there was no way back for Lucas. Do you think his reaction and handling to the matter was normal?

Do you think you would have behaved the same if you were in his place? I think so too.

(Don't hate my main character, please. LOL!)

"Oh I will make it easy for you then, love!"

He caressed her cheek while the man reeked of excessive alcohol.

"Let's split!" 

His words left the lady dumbfounded and a chill ran down her spine. What do you think is going to happen next? 

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Volume one ends here~

Hope you guys had a wonderful journey.