24- Bastard

What?
-Think about it for a moment Hele, I have a good job with a good salary, I can support the
three of us without a problem, Luquitas could have a much better treatment abroad, you
wouldn't have to worry about working anymore.
David listed the supposed benefits of going out with him, but Helena could barely keep calm
and process what had just been said by who she thought was her friend just a few minutes
ago.
-Hold on a moment please, you're overwhelming me- Helena pleaded pulling her hands
away from David's because now the touch was uncomfortable. She held her spinning head
and David placed his hand on the redhead's back, leaning towards her, talking very close in
her ear.
-He said, "No more mistreatment at work for you Hele, you won't have to see your idiot boss
or anyone else in the office, you'll be at my place, watching the kids grow up.
-That's not what I...
Helena had never seen herself as a simple housewife, even though it was the only thing she
had done all her life because of the absence of a mother figure at home, a sick father and a
child to raise, and poorly paid and mediocre jobs. His dreams of studying and achieving his
professional success still stood, he didn't know when it would happen, but it would.
-David, I never saw you that way," the redhead said softly, so as not to hurt his friend.
-It doesn't matter, Hele.
- It doesn't matter? We are friends David, we are lifelong friends, I just can't see you that
way- Helena got up from the couch, walking through the living room hugging herself, as if
she was a shield. - I'm not saying you're not a good catch, you're handsome and a good
man, but still....
David got up from his seat and walked over to Helena.
-Listen Hel, that's the least of it. Let me be the father of that baby- the young man placed his
cheeky hand on his friend's flat belly. Helena automatically recoiled in horror, no one had
touched her belly, she was still having trouble assimilating the pregnancy and the last thing
she wanted was for someone else to arrange her life in such an abrupt way.
-I haven't made a decision yet, David," she exclaimed harshly, turning her back on him.
Hel... You can't do the other thing...".
Helena turned to him again with an angry expression and shouted:
-You suggested it yourself in the first place!
-I was jealous! Yes?" he shouted like an animal in the young woman's face.
The redhead recoiled in shock and blinked as if she was processing what the man had just
said.
-What?
-That's why I suggested it, the very idea of you sleeping with another man and having that
baby," the young man said this with contempt, averting his gaze from Helena. The very idea
of imagining her friend in bed with another, filling her up and seeing that baby every day
made him possessively jealous. - I can't believe you haven't noticed how I feel about
you...sometimes I feel like you just play it off.
-David, you have no right to....
-Where is that man eh? I don't see him here sharing the breeding- he said hurt and closing
the distance between them- Instead I'm here offering my life and my money to raise that
bastard!
-How can you say that?
Sebastian stopped his vehicle on the sidewalk of Helena's building, got out of it and looked
up at the big structure that looked quite old at first sight, the concrete mastodon was in bad
shape and that was no surprise for the CEO, since he was in the most precarious part of the
city, where rents were cheaper but life was more humble, not to say more wretched.
"How is it possible that the presidential secretary of Industrias Aller S.A. lived in a place like
this?"
He walked toward the entrance unsurely, thinking about whether it was really a good idea to
intrude on his secretary's private life
-Maybe I should contact my lawyer and have him take care of the social services issue..." he
said to himself.
-How can you say that my son is a bastard," Helena cried out in pain.
-He won't be if you let me be his father, you can't let the child grow up without one!
-Why? I decide who raises my son and who doesn't, and I don't think you're the one to do it!
-If you'd let me try, I could prove you wrong.....
David approached the woman and she backed up even further, realizing she had no more
room behind her. She looked back in panic, she had crashed into the wall, she had been
sandwiched between David, the wall and the furniture on the sides. She was like in a prison
and felt the walls closing in around her.
-What would you get in return for all this," she dared to say, but her voice broke and her
tears were about to burst.
The man fell silent and Helena closed her eyes tightly, splashing some crystalline drops and
shook her head in disappointment.
-I understand everything now... I let you be the father of my baby, give me economic stability
and raise Luquitas on the condition that I sleep with you every night, that I give myself to you
without complaining", seas of tears began to flow from her eyes, "I am just that for you, the
prize for making all this effort...".
David felt hurt by that, Helena had left him in the role of the villain. He clenched his fists
tightly.
"I was doing you a favor and this was how you were responding to her?
- Are you calling me a pervert? Helena, you know me well, that's not who I am.
Helena shook her head frantically. She didn't believe him at all, she knew that's what he
wanted her for. Suddenly being alone in the same room as her friend didn't give her any
security, she thought he would be the exception, that, even if he was a man he would be
different.
-Get away from me David
-Take the offer Helen

-No David, please go....
-You should be grateful for what I'm offering you! -Thank me! I really don't understand... all
your problems would be solved...
-No..." Helena exclaimed in a whisper, no longer seeing her lifelong friend in front of her.
David's face had distorted, blurred and turned into a dark silhouette that loomed dangerously
over her.
Flashes of the night of the bachelorette party came to her disturbed mind, affecting reality,
she felt again those cold calloused hands gripping her wrists tightly, the hot cruel breath
against her neck and the dead weight crushing her against the mattress, which in this case
she was feeling against the wall, as if imprisoning her there ag