I look at his horrified expression as the words gush out of my mouth, "Second time? You have been engaged before. "

His mouth moves but no words come out. All I can see him sitting on the floor on his knees in front of me holding both my hands in his. I can feel how his usually warm hands are so cold as I detach my hands from his.

Even looking at his vulnerable state I can only see red. "Did you also use her just like you're using me for your own personal interests? "

I wasn't thinking, I just said what I felt. I started accusing him of things he did to me.

How he stalked me for months.

How he involved me in his life, his mess.

How he used my vulnerable state for his best interests.

I look at him with disgust.

While all the time he made be believe that he was doing me a favor he was actually helping himself.

I don't know when I started crying but as I rubbed my palm on face, it was drenched.

I face away from him and look outside the window. "Which one was she? " I ask ik n a controlled, calm voice.

"Which one what? "

Is he testing me?

"Which one of your submissives that you portrayed as your fiance I don't know fo---"

Before I can complete the sentence I'm grabbed by my arm and pushed to the wall by Eleandro. He looks me in the eye fiercely still holding by my arm painfully. "Why are so sure that she was one of my submissives? Do you really think so low of me that I'll just go on looking for vulnerable women so that they can clear my mess?"

I am about to say something convinced that he is lying but then I look in his eyes. It is true that eyes don't lie and he definitely meant everything he was saying.

His eyes for once held emotions not of sadness, loneliness, or even lust. It held love.

Not for me but for someone dear.

"You loved her. You still do. " I say hearing which he leaves my arm and chuckles.

A heartbroken chuckle.

"I did love her. But even today, I'm not sure. " He looks away from me and goes and takes the beer bottle. "I think of her sometimes, how we could have been a happy family but then reality knocks on the door and I'm convinced love is a myth. "

He doesn't look at my face when he says this instead takes a swig from the bottle after spitting the words.

I go near him and keep my hand on his stiff shoulder.

"What happened? " I ask genuinely concerned.

I turn and looks at me with a fierce and amused expression at the same time, "Why are you asking? Don't want to assume how I used and left her? "

The way he says the words makes my heart wrench and I finally realize how much I have hurt him by assuming such things about him and then accusing him of using someone whom he truly loved.

"I didn't mean what I said earlier. I was furious and wasn't thinking before saying. I'm sorry I blamed you." I say meaning each and every word I utter.

I look me in the eye for one more second before sighing and turning around, looking at the night sky.

We stand there in silence for some time just looking at the starless sky.

After sometime Eleandro says, his voice sounding so foreign, "We met in high school. She was a nerd and I just couldn't help myself but be with her. Didn't took me long to fell in love. Three years later I proposed her and she accepted. We were happy. "

He whispered the last three words as if today he himself can't believe that he was happy once.

"Six months before the wedding I see an envelope for her. Opened it to find some reports. Reports of abortion. She was pregnant and she aborted that baby without even telling me."

I few tears escape his eyes but he makes no attempt to wipe them.

"I'm so sorry. I'm sorry, Eleandro. "I say softly, wiping away his tears but he just looked at the sky motionless as if he couldn't even hear me.

"We always made things work, we would have sorted that out too if she would have told me. I would have always supported her decision but she didn't trust me enough. We started having arguments, fights, and misunderstandings. Sometimes we didn't even talk and see others for days. "

His eyes move across the sky as if he trying to find something and at the same time tries to blink away the tears. "One day when I returned from work all her stuff was gone except the engagement ring and a letter stating that I'm too insensitive to consider her feelings. We broke up. That was it."

He finally looked at me with heavy eyes and broken self while I stare back speechless.

Not able to take it anymore I go, wrap my arms around his torso and hug him.

I feel the fast thud thud thud of his heartbeats when instead of wrapping his arm around me I deattaches himself from me. Taking the beer bottle he keeps it back at the table and then stands straight his back facing me.

"As much as hate what you assume about me I also know that you are partly right. I used you. For my own benefit. " he says suddenly his voice brick hard.

Now how did we come to this topic from that one? I think as I start feeling uneasy.

"I can't keep you here just because I'm selfish. You were right I didn't rescue you because I wanted you to be free of them but because I wanted you to help me. It will be even worse if I continue this facade. "

My heartbeat fastens as I ask him, "What does this mean? "

He finally faces me and says, "This means you get your freedom from now on Daphne. I will null and void the contract which will mean you can do whatever you want to. You won't have to listen to me."

I don't listen to his words anymore as tears start clouding my vision and I focus on wiping them unnoticeably.

"What about Suzzane? " I ask.

He sighs, "That's my mess and I won't drag anybody else in it now. Tomorrow we will be leaving New York together and then you can go your way I'll go my way. In a few days, I'll come up with something to delay the news of the breakup. "

His voice was hard that left no space for argument as he left the room without a second glance.

Looking at his retreating figure I can only imagine how much I craved for this freedom and when I finally have it all I want now is him.

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