A Night With The King

Two days, two whole days since she landed back in the country of her birth, and all Sophie could do was cry, from the moment the plane had taken off, she broke down in tears and it has been like that for the past two days. Two days ago, her world had crashed and she was nowhere close to recovering. With the card that Patrick had given to her, she was able to pay for the hotel where she had been staying for the past two days, she barely left the room, only went out to receive room service because she couldn’t starve as that wasn’t good for the baby. Speaking of the baby, the little princess knew something was up too because she had been quiet, only moving a couple of times, maybe to notify her that she was okay. Aside from that, the only time she moved was in the morning as if she was looking out for her daddy’s morning kisses and greetings, each morning for the last two days broke her heart and she cried the most in those times.

She missed Lance so much and wanted to be back with him but she knew that wasn’t going to happen. Knowing didn’t make it any easier.

“I have to get out and carry on, I have to carry on for my baby’s sake, I can’t keep wallowing in self-pity,”

Sophie told herself as she stared at her reflection in the mirror, even while telling herself that, she couldn’t feel the push that she needed to do anything like that, how did her life go from being so happy to being this sad and hopeless, she wanted to say fuck it and call Lance, beg him to come for her, to stay with her but she knew that would be selfish, Lance worked his ass off as the king of Otano for five whole years, she couldn’t bring herself to take it all from him.

“I can’t do that to him,”

She whispered as fresh tears dropped from her eyes, she wiped the tears off. She needed to get out of the hotel room, she couldn’t keep on living here, it would only make her funds run off quicker and that’s not what she wanted. She needed to find a cheap apartment in a good area where she could raise a child.

She stood up and aimlessly picked up her purse before walking out of the hotel room. She didn’t know where to start from but she hoped going out today would give her some sense of purpose. When she walked out of the hotel, she took a left turn and boarded a cab, it wasn’t until she arrived at the destination that she had given the driver did she realized where she had asked him to take her. the cemetery where her parent and brother were buried. The last time she saw them was two years ago, she never had the chance to go back to them because Damon had been out to get her. She paid the cab driver and got out. she walked to the flower shop near the place and got three flowers, she had been so close to not getting any for her dad but against her better judgment, she did. Even though she still hasn’t forgiven him, she didn’t want to be petty. Sophie walked into the place and walked to where her family had been buried. If not that the place had people who cleaned and took care of the gravestones, she was sure she would have met a bushy place because no one had come to see them. She dropped the flowers she had gotten on each of the graves. She didn’t have any words to say because the pain she felt in her heart felt so fresh. Here she was, still in pain years after they left her. if only her life had gotten better. It did get better but that only lasted for a little while before the universe decided to punish her again and still the happiness from her.

“I keep failing, I am pregnant, and I finally started to be happy but like always, I lost the joy I found, the man I love, I know he would do anything to keep us together, I know he loves me but I am so scared that if he loses everything because of me, he would hate me later, that’s why I left, now I am unhappy, I want to be with him, I want our family to be complete but that’s impossible. I failed again just like I failed to save you Mom, and you Steph,”

Sophie cried in pain. She stood there in front of their graves and cried her eyes out. when she finally left. She decided not to go back to the hotel so soon. She took a cab and stopped at a neighborhood where she was sure she would find a good apartment, she was wrong. She went around looking for a vacant place but she was told that she would have to get an agent before she could find an apartment. She collected a few contacts and decided to call it a day because she was so tired and her head ached.

She decided to just walk because her hotel wasn’t so far and she didn’t want to spend more money, she was halfway there when someone got in front of her, blocking her movement. Sophie lifted her eyes and she froze when she saw who it was. She took a few steps back, looked around, and saw his men.

“Damon,”

Sophie whispered in fear.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“Hello, Sophie, long time no see,”

Damon said with an evil laugh that made Sophie’s inside curl in fear. The last person she wanted to see again was the man who took her whole family, the man who made her run away from home, how did he find out she was back already when she barely left the hotel? She should have known that he would find her again. She tried to walk passed him but he blocked her way.

“Get out of my way Damon,”

Sophie let out.

“Sophie, it is good to see that you still remember me, I heard you were in town and I decided to pay you a visit, we have a history, I know you didn’t forget.”

How could she forget? He destroyed her world, if he hadn’t attacked her family, she would have finally been able to take her mom and younger brother away from her deadbeat father, the monster who brought all the misfortune to them. If he had killed only her father, it would not have been as painful as it had been. Maybe she would have thanked him for taking the evil man away from the world but he had to take the life of her innocent mom and dad.

“What do you want from me?”

Sophie asked, she felt proud of how she didn’t let her fear show when she spoke.

“What do I want from you? Is that a joke? Anyway, I am just here to welcome you and to let you know that I am aware that you are back here, I have been waiting for you and you came back like I expected, even though there is a little situation, anyway, nice to have you back,”

He said as if they were some kind of long-lost friends who just got reunited.

“I don’t know what you want from me but you can’t come near me, Damon, please stay away from me,”

Sophie let out and walked away from him as fast as she could. She was close to her hotel but she didn’t want him to find out where she lived so she took a cab and told him to drive around for a while, on second thought, she got out of the cab, took another back to the hotel and checked out. she took a bus that was going to another part of the city, she wanted to be as far away from Damon as possible. When she finally found a new place to stay, it was late and all she could do was get on the bed and sleep with hopes of going out to find a new apartment. She prayed that Damon would not try to find her again because she didn’t want to deal with him at all, he was the devil and too much was already wrong in her life right now to add him to the mix, it would make her lose her mind and she needed to stay sane, for her unborn daughter who deserves a mentally stable mom now that she can’t have her dad.