27 - Where is Helena?

"S-Sir, I..." Helena exclaimed with a trembling voice.

She really didn't know what to say, if he already knew everything, there was no point in lying to him and making a stupid excuse that would come out of her lips that were trembling with terror.

"Don't worry, I didn't really call you for that," she responded with an expression that Helena felt was one of amusement, as if she were rejoicing in her suffering.

The young woman sat back down in the chair, not out of courtesy, but because she felt that her legs were about to bend and she would fall to her knees against the floor.

She tried to breathe deeply through her nose to compose herself while she waited for that damn man to tell her once and for all what he wanted from her.

-I've seen that you get along well with Erik Black, the eldest son of the Luna Group. "Are you aware that they are our enemies?" She asked, staring at him with black eyes just like those of her lover, but unlike Ivan's, these were murderers and caused her terror.

"I-I... yes, I know sir," she responded embarrassed. Now she preferred that she reproach him for her affair with Ivan and not for her betrayal of the Sol group.

“The punishment for treason would probably be even worse. Maybe they would hang me at the entrance with a sign that says traitor” she thought, swallowing heavily.

"I know he seems charming and you think he's a good person," she exclaimed as if she read her thoughts. Then Ivan's father sighed heavily and looked sad?

Helena raised an eyebrow in surprise, she thought she had seen an expression of pain on her face, if that was possible.

-Listen dear, I didn't want to tell you this because I knew it was going to hurt you, I preferred to keep the secret for the moment- she said, sighing heavily- But you don't leave me any other choice, it's for your own good.

Helena felt that she was losing the colors in her face, she had no idea what this mysterious man who looked like a Pandora's box was about to confess to her, but her instinct told her that it was nothing good.

-The death of your parents, do you remember? "That they died tragically in a regrettable robbery..." she said as if it really affected her.

"What do my parents have to do with all this?" She growled defensively. No one other than her had the right to speak of her beloved parents.

Why was her parents' memory being disturbed by this man? She wasn't liking which way he was taking the conversation.

-I know that the death of your parents is something sensitive for you... you were so little- she exclaimed with false empathy- But I feel that you deserve to know the truth about everything.

"Get to the point," she exclaimed, squeezing the fabric of her pants tightly, mercilessly pinching her skin that would leave marks.

-The Black... they... they were the ones who murdered your parents-

Everything became silent on the balcony, suddenly the birds had stopped singing and the fountain no longer made its characteristic noise, she could only hear her own heart beating hard against her chest as if it were for breaking through her skin.

-W-What….? I hope this isn't a bad joke because...

-It's the truth- he interrupted her- Your parents did not die because of a random robbery, it was planned, they had a very large debt with the Luna Group that they had been carrying for a long time and that was settled with their lives. Let's say that that night you were saved only because you were just a girl and because destiny wanted you to continue living and...

Helena had stopped listening, she felt as if her whole life, her past, all her sorrows and what she had lived through all these years were thrown into the trash. It had all been a damn lie, she had believed that they had simply been unlucky, that God had not been on her side that night, but it turns out that her parents' life had been taken by some damn heartless gangsters.

-Helena, dear...- she heard the man's voice very far from her, as if she were in a tunnel- I recommend that you stay away from him. I'm sure he approached you because of that, probably to use you against us, those people are sadistic. If you don't want to end up the same, you better not get closer to them.

He didn't know how he managed to get up from the chair and have his legs respond to him, but from one second to the next he was running very far from there, without stopping, with his heart in his throat, his tears falling in floods from his eyes, his ears. buzzing loudly and his vision blurred.

She didn't stop running until her feet burned and bled, she wanted to get away from there, to be as far away as possible from the damn mafia that had ruined her life and the memory of her beloved parents.

She felt as if her years of pain and mourning had been in vain and she had to start over, as if they had died once again.

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Ivan had never felt so excited and eager to return home, and that was only due to that beautiful woman who had given herself to him last night. Her lips needed to press against Helena's soft, pink ones again, he wanted to feel the sweet aroma of her skin again and see the radiant smile of hers that he would cause.

But when he arrived and couldn't find her anywhere he began to despair. In her room the sheets were still messy but cold, the finished breakfast on the side and the letter on the bed.

He felt a change in her heart, it was not the scene he expected to find, he sadly put the envelope in his pocket and left the room alarmed, meeting the lady.

"Oh sir, she's back," the woman exclaimed.

"Do you know where Helena is?" He asked nervously.

The woman bit her lip hard and she felt her guilt invading her body. If something had happened to the young girl because of her, she would never forgive herself.

"Sir...her father already knows about you and the young girl," she said with a broken voice.

Ivan didn't have to ask any more to start running towards his father's room, his eyes blazing and anger filling every corner of his body. The young man feared the worst.

She opened the door suddenly, without knocking, and ignored his father's bodyguard, walking directly towards him, who was now in bed. He seemed so fragile lying there, but Ivan did not believe his role as a victim.

"How have you been, son?" the man asked, ignoring the threatening posture of his eldest son.

-Where is Helena? "What did you do with her?" He spat forcefully.

The man smiled amused and sat up with great effort against the back of the bed.

-Son... Do you really think I did something to your dear bodyguard?

-I know you are capable...

"It's true, I'm capable," he said proudly. "But it wasn't like that this time."

-Where is she then? I know you have something to do with it, not while in my face, I know you know….

-About your adventure with the little girl? Of course I know it. I really don't care where you put your restless penis that you are not able to control from what I see. - he spat with disappointment - I just hope you haven't been such an idiot as not to take care of yourself. Did you hear me? The last thing I want right now is a bastard of a poor girl that for some reason you wanted to mess with. I won't deny you a fuck with her or with any of the house employees, the only thing I ask of you, her son, is a little common sense.

"Where the hell is Helena?" He shouted in his father's face. He wanted to hit him for talking that way about his beloved, but if he killed him he wouldn't be able to know where the young woman was.

"Don't worry... I just did him a favor, nothing more," he exclaimed, raising his hands in peace. "And also for you, I got the idiot Erik Black out of the way, so you're welcome."

"What?" He exclaimed in shock. "What does he have to do with all this?" He clenched his fists tightly until they shook.

-I told your dear Clarita that the Lunas murdered her parents, that's how she got away from him, she was a danger to the family and to you.

Ivan felt his heart stop. Had the Blacks murdered the parents of his beloved?

-That's true?

-Of course it is, son. You know well how bad the Lunas are.

-Why do not you tell me before?

“If only I had known, I would have protected her better” He thought helplessly, knowing that Helena was now devastated and feeling betrayed by that idiot who had gained her trust and whom she would beat to death as soon as she crossed him.

"I didn't see the point in telling you something as insignificant as that," he said with disinterest. "But I see that you really care about that woman." I only ask that she use her head more and not your friend.

"Where is she?" He repeated again, this time with a dark face.

"And how would I know," he said, rolling his eyes, "he ran away, it's not like he was going to go look for her."

Ivan did not respond and ran out of there, he had to find Helena, be with her in her pain, he wanted to show her that it had not been just sex, but that he would be with her through thick and thin and that he would protect her from all evil. , although now he felt that he had failed him.