Chapter-27

After listening to me sing, lorenzo stayed besides me for a few moments until he got a call and had to leave.

I was still sitting besides the window. When he was with me I felt complete like everything was okay. My mind was at peace. No overthinking, no overtiring my brain over things I have no control over, no fight with my heart.

But as soon as he left a dull ache settled in my heart. All the cynicism creeping its way up in my brain. My thought process running and condoning that maybe I am the other women.

These thought cloud my head when I see a women hastily entering my room and shutting the door.

I stand up alert on seeing a strange women intruding the tranquility of my room.

I was about to run to my phone to call for help but as the women turned towards me I saw a familiar face.

"Elena"

I say shocked to see her here.

"Sorella"

She comes near me and hugs me tight.

"Finally I found you."

She says breaking the hug.

"But how did you? And why are you here? Moreover how did you manage to barge in with so much security."

She sighs sits on the bed and pats the space next to her signalling me to sit.

I sit besides her

"So when you went missing no one really questioned it. You disappeared and everyone else just went on with their lives. But I was not about to do that. I waited a few days as you know my mbbs was about to be completed in few days."

I nodded in agreement knowing she had only handful days left of her internship.

"When it got over I started my spying. With much difficulty I found out that you have been kidnapped."

"But how?"

I question her.

She smirks and tells me

"Sorella, they hired very good hackers to remove the camera footage of hospital in which you were being carried by lorenzo while his other two men followed behind but they don't know my skill set."

"Then I was finding a way to get to you but to get into Lorenzo's mansion was a risk even I couldn't take.

To my luck you yourself took the initiative and ran away. So I followed you here and wanted to meet you but you were always surrounded by that stupid guy."

She says and I nod in acknowledgement knowing that she is talking about luca.

"Then lorenzo joined you. It became more difficult for me to contact you. I was keeping a safe distance but when I saw you in the amusement park crying I had to reach you and meet you."

"Sorella tell me what happened? Why were you crying?"

She asks and I just sit dumbfounded looking over this stupid girl who did all this just because she saw me crying.

I lightly hit her on her head with the back of my hand.

She winces a bit and put both of her hands where I hit her on her head.

"Are you crazy? You stupid girl what if something happened to you? I wouldn't even know."

"And you didn't tell me how you got in?"

I ask her.

Her expression changes into a guilty one and her cheeks turn a bit red.

"That is not important first you tell me the reason of your crying."

I sigh and tell her that

"I think lorenzo have another woman in his life and he is just jeeping me as an other women, you know as a ....

I trail off

"Mistress."

She completes it for me

"I don't judge a woman who has to meet ends and do this by making her body available or who do it just because she is materialistic. More power to her but in my life I promised myself that I will never end up in this position no matter what."

My voice cracks and my eyes well up.

My mother's face in the back of my head pinches my heart.

"I don't know how I even ended at this crossroad where on one side there is a man who has showered me with nothing but love and on other there is my resolution."

"Dont cry sorella."

Elena says and hugs me.

"Why don't go and directly ask lorenzo about there being any other women in his life. Why are you tormenting yourself with this doubt?"

"I want to elena but the fear of it being true is holding me back. Lorenzo is the first person who has showed me how the love of man looks. Even my own father stripped me of my right to bask in his share of love for me.

I have never been this much vulnerable with a man and now that I have come this far moving back seems impossible."

"Besides if this is true, I still won't be able to do anything. He kidnapped me and can keep me as long as he wishes. And to live with the fact that I am just another women in his life for as long as he wishes is much worse. I'd rather have this fight with my conscience that whether I am the other women or not. It is much easier."

"But you will die little by little in this fight between your head and heart."

She says wiping a stray that finally crossed the boundary of my eyes.

"Atleast in this doubt there will be a flicker of hope keeping some part of me alive but if my fears turn into reality then I will hate myself which is much difficult."

"Sorella, no one can live peacefully with overthinking that hangs at back of your head. You will always be questioning your actions, your words, his motives, his intentions."

"I know elena but I think that is the price I have to pay for falling for someone without knowing them fully."

"Sorella, if I tell you honestly I think you are thinking too much. Over the past week that I have been keeping an eye on you, I have seen lorenzo care for you. Before you he was not even photographed with any other women but after you he support this nonchalance that he couldn't care much if someone assumed you both are together."

Her words soothes my heart and make it brim up with joy. Sometimes you don't need the truth you only need someone supporting you delusions beacuse the brutality of the truth might just cut you.

"Also he has never been seen publicly with any women. You are the first. He carried you in his arms in front of so many people. I think you need to put a full stop to your thinking process and listen to your heart."

Her words act as a medicine does for a patient. I didn't know how much I needed to hear the perspective of another person to stop this torment I am inflicting on myself.

"And to help you more, I will use this spy brain of mine and will find out if he has any other women in his life or not. You don't need to ask him. But till then you rest your mind and listen to your heart. I think he belongs to only you."

"Really you can do that."

I ask her and she nods. Clapping my hands in excitement I hug her muttering thank you over and over again.

I don't know why but hearing that I can know the truth without confronting lorenzo brings so much peace.

I just can't even bare the idea of me standing and asking him about the other women.

If I am the other women and he tells me this himself, I will just shatter.

But without knowing about the truth my mind won't offer me peace.

Now knowing that elena will be offering me the truth my mind is at peace.

I mean this girl found my location twice, followed me, found out that I have been kidnapped. All this under Lorenzo's watch.

My mind stills from overthinking knowing that elena will find the truth. In the meantime I can let my heart breathe and enjoy my time with lorenzo without having to worry about knowing the truth.

I know it's sick of me to run from the situation like that but I am not strong enough to do anything else. This seems like the best option.

And after listening to her I am realising how stupid I am to dwell over a hug he got from a strange women. It could be that she is his work partner. They discussed work and hugged. It is so common to do that.

I can't let my past dictate my present. Lorenzo will not do what my father did. He is not like my father.

I will not end up like my mumma.

The sound of opening door breaks my trance and I look up to see luca peeking lighlty.

He was about to ask something but then his eyes fall on elena and he enters in the room.

"There you are. I have been searching for you in the whole house and here you are sitting with cognata."

Elena casts her eyes away from him and looks down. Her cheeks again bright red.

I was about to ask why he was finding her but then I notice his state.

Hair all ruffled, his neck supporting red bluish marks, a stain of red lips just below his jaw.

I look back at elena to see her chest and neck covered in same blusih marks, her red lipstick smeared all over her lips, hair all messy, clothes crumpled.

It don't take much for me to put two and two together.

They were sleeping together.

So that's how she got in.

I look at her and she looks back at me pleading with eyes to not say anything. I just smirk and ask luca

"But why are you looking for her at such an odd hour. What's happening?"

He stutters

"Aactually i i I wanted her to to...

"To?"

I ask

"To teach her dance. Yeah I am teaching her belly dance."

"Belly dance?"

Elena says besides me

He gives her a look of understanding and she says

"Yeah he is my belly dance teacher. He is great at it."

"Yeah cognata. You see it yourself."

He says and starts moving his waist up and down.