84 - You fell into the trap

Hele... Can you hear me?
The redhead heard David's unmistakable voice far away from her, as if from the other side of
a tunnel.
-Where...?" she could barely say, feeling a strong headache rising from her forehead.
-We are still at the clinic, you fainted," exclaimed the young man, who looked worriedly at his
friend who was semi-conscious on a hospital gurney.
Gradually the young woman was able to open her eyes, at first she was uncomfortable with
the annoying white light in the room, but when she was able to focus her eyes she moved
her head to the side and found the worried face of David, who was holding her baby.
Instinctively Helena reached out her arms, begging to hold her daughter.
Carefully, David pulled the sleeping baby close to her and snuggled her next to her friend,
who held her possessively, because she knew that now, more than ever, she had to be
strong and protect that baby from that monster who was actually the father of her little girl,
no more fainting, no more crying, no more fear, she had to be the mother of that little girl,
she was no longer just a woman, she was a mom.
-Let's go home, David," she exclaimed seriously.
-Are you sure, you can stay here a while longer, you might still feel dizzy.
-No, I want to go home, then find a place far away from here, disappear so that man will
never find us.
David wanted to protest, to tell her she was crazy, that he didn't want her to leave, just like
that out of his life, but David also knew that he was nothing next to that powerful man. The
- reality was that he couldn't protect Helena, the least he could do was help her get out of
there and keep the secret of her whereabouts.
-All right, let's go home.
-Alan... please," begged the blonde, still in the corner of the room, protecting her belly with
her trembling hands, she was afraid that her child would be harmed.
She could see from where she was how Alan was about to explode, he looked like a wild
and dangerous animal, breathing heavily, with his back hunched and his hands open and
tense, he only lacked drooling like a carnivore in rage.
As she feared, Alan walked swiftly to where she stood, and though she put her hands out in
front of her and struggled not to be grabbed roughly by the man, she was grabbed hard by
the wrist and with a jerk she was already standing on her tiptoes, trying to keep her balance.
-Alan!" she shouted with a broken voice and could not help thinking that all the employees of
the house and security were accomplices of that monster, because she had been screaming
for an hour and no one had tried to help her.
Maybe they were afraid just like she was, and no one dared to contradict the man.
Maybe they thought, if he does that to his wife, they could not imagine what he would do to
simple employees.
-I'm going to kill you, traitor," he growled in her ear.
-No, Alan, please, I beg you.
The man stared into her eyes, his black orbs bloodshot and Katlyn thought those seconds
would be the last of her life. She closed her eyes and felt her swollen belly with her hands.
"If I'm going to die, the last thing I want to think about is my child" She said to herself, trying
to concentrate on the sensations in her belly, imagining being able to hold her child in her
arms.
-If you don't want me to kill you, you're going to do something for me, is that clear? Your
choice.
Katlyn opened her green eyes in surprise, she was giving him another chance to stay alive.
She didn't hesitate to nod her head desperately, anything for her child to be born safe and
sound, she couldn't take an innocent life with her.
-All right, whatever you say Alan.
The man drew a devilish smile on his face, and Katlyn feared the worst.
-Helena had already laid her baby girl in her crib, kissed her forehead lovingly and covered
her with her blanket, thinking that this might be the last time they would be under that roof.
-Rest Esperanza, Mommy loves you.
She turned to her brother, who was sleeping on his bed with his clothes on and the laptop
open and turned on next to him. The redhead smiled sadly, closed the laptop and moved it
away from the bed, took off his shoes and covered him with the sheet, then also kissed his
forehead.
"Did she really have to keep dragging her brother into her misfortunes?"
It wouldn't be long before the boy would become a young adult and the redhead couldn't
wish that more, that he would go his own way, one where she would be far away, not to be
cursed by his misery, she couldn't wait for him to start college and make his own destiny,
much better than hers.
He left the room, leaving the door ajar and walked into the living room, finding David sound
asleep on the couch.
The young man had insisted that Helena sleep in his bed, that he had no problem sleeping
there. The redhead had felt terrible, but she was pregnant and complaining that she really
needed to sleep somewhere comfortable. She felt bad for her friend, he had practically
hogged her whole house with his family, destroying her peace and privacy.
"David doesn't deserve this either, he's already done so much for me, he needs to get away
from my misery too" She thought knowing she wasn't going to make another decision. she
had to get away, hide.
Her cell phone rang, and strangely she picked it up, she couldn't remember the last time
someone had called her.
She looked at the screen, unknown number.
"Sebastian?" she couldn't help thinking "No, he can't be, he's dead" "But they didn't find his
body" she refuted in her mind.
"Alan" She then thought and felt her heart give a flip "What if it was him, had he found her so
soon?"
"But what if it's Sebastian?"
Helena couldn't get that thought out of her head and answered.
She didn't say hello or anything, she just heard a nervous breathing on the other end.
-Helena?" a female voice threw her off completely.
- I told you I didn't want to hear from you anymore," she exclaimed nervously, checking to
make sure David was still sleeping.
-I-I know, and I'm sorry, but it's important.
-What's wrong?
-It's Sebastian.
Helena felt like she was going to faint again, she felt a chill run down her back, as if she had
seen a ghost.
-What about him? He's dead Katlyn, you know that well.
-N-no- she exclaimed nervously, breathing very close to the microphone- he's alive, Helena.
She let go of the cell phone, because her hand went slack and her arm went stiff.
-Helena, hello, are you there?
Helena came to, dropping to the floor and grabbing the phone.
-How do you know that?
--I'm with him Helena, he's just been hiding, but he came back- she exclaimed sobbing- I'm
with him at the company, in his office, he wants to talk to you, but don't tell anyone, he must
remain anonymous.....
-H-Wait Katlyn, I don't understand what you are saying... -she exclaimed touching her head,
feeling the strong pain appear again, everything was spinning and her stomach resolved.
-Don't take too long Helena. - Katlyn exclaimed and cut the call.
-Wait, Katlyn!" she shouted, but she could only hear the beeping on the other end.
Helena looked at David who was still sleeping, without a second thought she grabbed her
car keys and left the apartment.
-So, did he fall into the trap? - Alan asked, shaking Katlyn, who was in shock holding the cell
phone.
-Yes..." she could only say, knowing that she had sentenced Helena to death.
-You're coming with me, I'm not going to let you try to do something crazy," sentenced the
youngest Aller, taking the blonde with him, who didn't protest and let herself be dragged like
a doll.
Sebastian was inside a cab he had taken in his mother's city, which was taking him straight
to the city he had escaped from some time ago, he was going straight to David's house,
without stops, he needed to talk to Helena, before anything else.
If his beloved listened to him and forgave him, then he would go with her far away from there
and he would never look for his brother or his family's fortune again, he would let that
monster keep everything, but only if Helena was on his side.
The young CEO looked at the photograph his mother had given him, and looked at his
young parents smiling at the camera.
"I don't want to end up like them, I don't want to be just a tragic story of a love that couldn't
be" He thought as he took strength to get back the love of his life and the baby he felt as his
own.