38 - A big lie

"Stop dirtying my family's name!" Erik's father shouted.

Mr. White laughed, mocking his old enemy.

-Ha! Do you really think I would have gotten to where I am by doing things honestly? -He mocked, walking around his desk slowly towards the man.

Erik's father stepped back, feeling for the gun in his hand.

-You have always been a coward, just like your father... just like your son...- Mr. White provoked him.

"Don't talk about my family like that," he threatened.

-Your damn family has always been in the way. The position of leader has always been for my son Ivan and you know it…

-You're wrong! That power belonged to my family, if it weren't for... -his voice faltered and he looked down- If it weren't for the accident, I... my heir... -he said, closing his eyes tightly as he remembered the past.

Mr. White took advantage of his enemy's distraction to pull a gun out of his jacket, aiming and firing without any remorse.

The roar of the weapon left everything silent, the man raised his wild eyes towards his enemy and then looked down at his stomach from where a large amount of blood began to come out. He tried in vain to cover the wound with his own hand, but quickly felt him lose all his strength and fall to the ground.

With a sinister expression on his face, Mr. White walked up to the injured man, looming over him.

"You've always been naive, that's why I'm one step ahead of you," he scoffed and squatted next to him, "You've been an idiot your whole life Black... Not only did you bring a bastard baby into this world, but you didn't know how to take advantage of it." You thought he died in the accident! But he was always closer than you thought.

Mr. Black's bloodshot eyes moved towards those of his enemy, they were filled with terror, he wanted to speak, ask her what she was meaning, but his mouth had filled with blood, drowning out his words.

Mr. White stood up and shook his suit with disinterest.

-Don't worry, now I'm going to take care of your bastard lineage, so that my son can reign in peace, I'm going to do what he should have done from the beginning-

The injured man tried to grab the legs of his enemy but they fell hard to the ground.

-You are pathetic….

-Father! What is...? - Ivan froze at the entrance when he saw the scene in the office.

His father looked at him with relief and smiled widely.

"Son... you're alive," he said proudly.

Ivan couldn't stop looking at Mr. Black's dying body lying on the ground. He suddenly felt footsteps behind him, meeting Erik's shocked gaze at seeing his dying father.

"Father!" he screamed, trying to get closer to him.

"Not one more step," Mr. White threatened, pointing his gun at the young man.

Erik stopped in his tracks raising his hands and watched with an expression full of hatred towards his enemies.

-Damn... -he growled with contempt.

His helpless brown eyes moved to his father's, which seemed to want to tell him something, before his eyes closed forever with his last breath.

"Sons of bitches!" He shouted at both men, tearing his throat. "They murdered my father!"

"Get out of here Erik..." Ivan murmured. "You entered the house, what did you expect?"

"You're being very kind, son," his father exclaimed with annoyance, pointing at Erik's head.

The young man did not feel intimidated by the weapon, he was blind with anger, he wanted to avenge his father.

-We came to recover what is ours! The power always belonged to the Luna group! But you took it from us when you got rid of our heiress! "Helena is the one who deserves that place, not Ivan!" He spat forcefully.

The raven young man turned sharply towards Erik trying to process what he had just said. Then he looked at his father who didn't seem surprised by young Black's confession.

"What are you talking about, father?" Ivan asked incredulously. "Heiress?" I don't understand…

Mr. White clenched his jaw and pointed it at Erik.

Ivan knew at that moment that his father was hiding something and that he would get Erik out of his way by shutting him up forever.

"Wait!" He shouted, grabbing his father's arm and preventing her from shooting at the young man. The bullet came out and hit a piece of furniture. –

"You've gone crazy!" the man howled.

"Tell me the truth!" Ivan demanded.

Erik looked at himself and touched his body. He sighed with relief as he realized the bullet had missed. He slowly walked away from the scene. He knew that if he stayed there they would kill him and her goal was to find Helena and get her away from those monsters.

He looked at his father one last time and said goodbye silently before running out of there.

"You let him go!" His father exclaimed, trying to step over Ivan, but he stood firmly in the middle of her path and extended his arms.

"What was I talking about?" He exclaimed, almost going crazy. "What does Helena have to do with all this?"

His father looked at him full of fury.

-That damn slut you decided it would be a good idea to mess with is our enemy!

-What are you taking about! You are insane! He – he shook his head strongly.

-I'm saner than ever Ivan! The Blacks have always been a thorn in my side, that's why I got rid of their parents years ago….

Ivan remained silent, looking directly into his father's black eyes. He didn't recognize him, he couldn't believe he would do something like that.

-Was you? You said it was the Blacks! – He shouted, feeling his eyes burn.

-So that she wouldn't return to his family! If she finds out that she is the eldest daughter of the Blacks... Son... Helena is our enemy...

-I don `t understand…

The man looked at his dead enemy on the ground, Ivan turned in shock towards his body.

Helena ran with all her strength to her father-in-law's office, praying to herself that the shot had not been her beloved. She was about to walk through the door when Mr. White's voice stopped her in her tracks.

She stayed to one side of the door and sneakily peeked out. She had to cover her mouth so as not to scream when she found a dead man, her father-in-law with a gun in his hand, and her lover's back to her.

She was about to enter when she heard something that made her blood run cold.

-The idiot had a lover, of course everyone does! But he got her pregnant and that girl became a problem, your mother... -she said with contempt- she didn't get pregnant and when she did it was too late. Helena had already been born and was going to be the heir...

-And that's why you sent them to kill... her lover and the girl...

-And also to his partner, he didn't know that she was not his biological daughter. Black had tried to protect her, he knew what he would be capable of doing if he found out that she had a bastard daughter - he laughed mockingly - But I always knew. When I saw that it would be a problem I ordered them to be murdered…But then it turned out that the girl survived. "The idiot hitman didn't have the courage to kill her!" He exclaimed, hitting the table. "Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to make that idiot Black not know that she was still alive?"

Helena felt that her legs stopped responding to her, suddenly everything became blurry, her memories of her childhood began to break her down.

Wasn't her father her real father? Was her mother Mister Black's lover? Heiress?

It was so much information that she felt like she would vomit right there. She suddenly felt in complete danger. Those men wanted her dead, she no longer recognized Ivan.

“You must flee Helena, for the life of your son”

Helena looked in horror at her slightly swollen belly and she feared the worst. Her father-in-law knew about her baby, she couldn't allow him to lay a finger on her. She had to disappear. Without looking back, the brunette quickly left there.

"How could you?" the young mafia member exclaimed with pain.

-Son... think about it, it's our business, the problem was you who just fell into that woman's arms, but she is your enemy, and now that Black is dead, she is a bigger problem.

Ivan advanced menacingly towards his father with his eyes filled with the fire of hell itself. He stopped very close to his face and exclaimed:

-If you touch a hair...

Ivan did not finish speaking because he left there in search of his beloved. He had to find her and get her away as soon as possible from the monster who claimed to be her father.

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Helena ran through the house with all her strength, she felt that her tears were left behind, leaving traces of pain. She had been lied to, all this time. Her lover always knew that her father was the real murderer of her parents and she never told him.

What things were they going to do to her now that her real father was dead?

Now she was the enemy of the Sol Group without even asking for it.

The mere thought of dying at the hands of the one she loved made her stomach turn.

She was walking out onto the street, not knowing which direction to take when a shiny black car pulled up in front of her. With her heart in her throat, thinking that they would be her enemies, she retreated in fear, covering her belly with her hands.

"Helena, get in!" Erik exclaimed as he lowered the window on her side.

The young woman's heart skipped a beat, she never thought she would feel so relieved to see Erik. She had a lot to talk to him.

-Not Helena!

A voice that had previously made her knees bend, her skin crawl, and her heart filled with love was heard behind her.

The young woman turned back, finding Ivan running with all her might towards them.

"Helena, don't go!" He begged desperately, extending his arm forward as if she wanted to shorten the distance between them even more.

"Come in, Helena, please," Erik begged.

Helena looked one last time into her lover's black, tear-filled eyes before getting into Erik's car and disappearing from there in a second, leaving Ivan on the ground on his knees watching as his enemy, and now his brother-in-law, took love away. of their life.