chapter five
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Elena read the results from her search over and over again, her hands shaking.
She couldn't believe that the man her father wanted her to marry was actually such a person.
“But when I saw him that night , he didn't look like such a sinister person” Elena said to herself.
‘Evilness is not written on the face’ her inner mind scoffed.
Elena thought about it and agreed with her mind.
The results about Damien Silvano wasn't praise worthy.
It was said that he was involved with drugs and crimes, so powerful to the extent that the policemen can't even do anything to him.
‘so if he kills you then no one would care’ her inner mind reminded.
Elena shivered at the thought of that, her mind was actually right.
He could kill her at his own whim and her father wouldn't care.
“No! I need to escape this marriage, I won't get married to a guy like him, I rather die than get married to him”
After saying this, she stood up from her bed, picking up her phone that was charging at the socket.
She dialled Gerald's number quickly.
It rang for 3 times before Gerald picked the call “Where are you Gerald?, can we see?, we need to talk about something important” she said the instant he picked the call.
There was silence on the other side for some time before she heard him humm In agreement.
Elena quickly dressed up and went out of the house.
With an aim in mind.
…
“We need to leave this country!Gerald, listen to me!” Elena said.
Gerald leaned on the wall and stared at her with hooded eyes, the guy before her was now a shadow of himself.
He was no more his smart looking and confident self.
“Why do you ask me to leave this country with you Elena, I have a lot of things here, my whole life is based here” he replied tiredly.
“Me too Gerald but I want to sacrifice everything for you, my father wants me to get married to a strange guy!” She yelled.
“You say what?” Gerald asked with wide eyes, leaning up.
“Yeah, just last night, he told me that I would get married to a guy that I met in the party and I searched about him, he is not a good person, they say that he is in the underworld” Elena explained.
“There's no way I would let that happen, your father wants you to get married to a criminal?” He asked.
“Yes, that's why I said we should leave together, to a place that they won't be able to find us, I have the money and I will steal some more from my Dad, then we leave the country by the sea,” Elena said.
Gerald lowered his head, thinking about it for some minute before he nodded.
He raised his head, his eyes blazing with determination “ok i will ..so what's the plan? When are we leaving”.
…
Elena quietly packed her clothes in a small duffel bag.
She walked out of the house, carefully hiding the bag with the big cloth she was wearing.
She didn't want any of the security guards to find out what was going.
Thankfully, her father had gone to the office.
Ever since she found out that the company was about tongo bankrupt, Elena noticed that her father was usually in the company or cooper up in his study.
It could be seen that the situation was really serious.
Elena walked out of the Estate gate, she flagged down a taxi and got into it, hurriedly giving the taxi man the address.
Gerald lived in a student's dormitory which was close to the university they both attended and that was where she was going to.
He was probably waiting for her with his things.
When Elena saw that the she was approaching house, she dialled Gerald's number but to her disappointment , she was directed to voicemail.
Wondering what was going on, she sent him a text message, asking him what was wrong.
With apprehensive heart, Elena alighted from the taxi, looking around the building like a fawn which had stumbled into a wolves world.
This was her first time going to the school dormitory and she didn't know how to locate Gerald's room.
He had given her the room number but not the direction.
“Excuse me…can I know the number to room 101?” She asked a fat guy who was passing by.
He happily directed her to the room and she thanked him gladly and walked off.
Elena climbed the flight of stairs, panting heavily.
Once she reached the room number, she noticed that the door was slightly ajar.
Elena didn't think much about it, she placed her hand on the knob and was about to push it in when she heard a soft giggle.
“Stop it, you naughty boy”
Elena was shocked, she looked at the number on the door of the room, confirming that it was number 101.
“Aren't you going to get dressed?I thought you have somewhere important to go?” The female voice asked.
“Somewhere important…oh…you mean my agreement with Elena? I totally forgot about that”
Elena stilled when she heard Gerald's voice.
There was no mistaking it, she could recognize his voice anywhere she heard it.
“You are such a bad person…leading her along all this while, she must think that you are really in love with her and want to elope with her, such a naive soul she is” the female voice laughed.
“Don't you trust me baby, I'm a very good player” he replied.
Then their were smooching sounds in the room.
Elena couldn't bear it anymore with clenched fists, she opened the door of the room and walked in.
The naked couple quickly separated and Gerald stood up from the bed he was lying on.
“Elena…” he called out but Elena just gave him a slap on his face.
“This is for playing me”
She yelled and rushed out of the building, tears rolling down her cheeks as she sobbed heartbreakingly.
When Elena was outside the building.
She brought out her phone from her pocket and dialled a number hurriedly.
“Dad, where are you?...I want to say yes, I will marry Damien Silvano”
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