Love’n’Lust

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Late night.

Alex’s heels made some noise as she walked into the quiet house. It woke Richard up; he had been sitting and waiting for her till he fell asleep.

“You’re finally back, I’ve been waiting for you. Why didn’t you pick up your calls? The least you could have done is answer the goddamn call and let me know if you’re busy, you fucking left me worried.”

“You didn’t see my text?” Alex raised a brow.

“I didn’t.”

“Well, I sent you a text to let you know that I  would be visiting Doctor Dan to fix an appointment for my abortion.”

“What? I thought we talked about that, we’re keeping the baby, aren’t we?”

“I changed my mind,” she shrugged.

“You changed your mind? Seriously? Tell me you’re joking, Alex.”

“Do you see me laughing right now? Look, Richie, I’ll be honest with you. I went out with my friends after seeing the doctor and I’m as hell as I speak so please let me just go have a good shower so I can get some sleep.” She started to walk towards the stairs.

“You can’t make that decision alone. I get to be part of that, Alex. You do know that Doctor Dan can’t do anything to that pregnancy without getting my signature alongside yours right?”

Alex stopped midway through the stairs and turned to look at him for some good seconds before laughing out loud like she did in the bathroom last time.

“It’s my fucking body, Richard. I decide if I want the baby or not, not you. Besides, doctor Dan would only need your signature on shit if we were married, and we are not.” She laughed some more.”And how are you even sure this pregnancy belongs to you, huh?”

“What are you saying, Alex?”

“I’m just joking, of course it’s yours but it doesn’t change that I plan to get rid of it. I don’t cheat, if I wanted to fuck another man, I would certainly give your ring back to you. You should know that by now.”

“Please, can we talk about this? You’ve been making pretty rash decisions lately.”

“For fuck’s sake, Richard!”

“Are you really going to take out our baby just to spend one night with him at the event?!”

“Yes. Yes, Richie, and you know what? The earlier I get rid of the pregnancy, the better because I’ve got to fix myself up before one month. Can we stop talking about this?”

*****

Present day.

“Three years, Ben. Three fucking years, we built that relationship over three years, and out of nowhere, she ruined everything because of you.” Richard bit his lower lips hardly to try and not to remember entirely everything.

“I should have a little daughter by now, a beautiful wife and a lovely family but no, Alex wanted you so much that I meant nothing to her after you agreed to have her as your plus one for that event.”

“I’m sorry.” Ben sincerely was. He had no idea of all that Richard just told him.

“No, you don’t get to be sorry.” Richard shook his head with a demented smile.”Do you know she had recorded a video of you fucking her? And do you know she fucks herself to it almost every time? She gets home, she inputs the disk in a player, and fucks herself to that video.”

Ben blinked when Richard told him that. He didn’t know she recorded everything they did that night. Even if he didn’t want to believe it, he knew Alex could very much do such.

“A day before the event in City N, she comes to my office and throws our engagement ring at me. Do you know what that means? I couldn’t sleep that night because it was awful imagining you fucking her! I knew she planned to fuck you; Alex would never cheat, she’d rather break up with me to fuck you rather than cheat.”

“She fucking broke off our plans of having a family just so she could have one night with you, and yet you make her cry alone at night when she’s about to sleep. After she left me, I realized that I had built this beautiful world around her, I mean it wasn’t very beautiful but I loved what we had but then she left and my world crashed.”

“I realized that I had forgotten what it was like without her in my life so I go over to her place sometimes but I can’t knock on the door, she’s only going to push me away. I’ve had to watch her from afar, and sometimes, after having fucked herself to that video, she cries herself to sleep. You made her cry even after making her leave me,” Richard paused to laugh shortly.”I decided that you needed to have a taste of what emotional pain feels like but how could I make you feel that kind of pain when you don’t believe in love…”

“I had Zina and Nicholas do a close-up research for me. They had me know that you were slowly becoming addicted to this beauty.” He scoffed and sniffed afterward.

“You would do anything for this girl, Nicholas told me. Zina said that you got lost staring into her eyes most of the time. Belle Miller managed to change your belief in love. I planned to harm her earlier but someone kidnapped her first,” Richard shrugged with a smile.”You saved her from that. It made me change my initial strategy of kidnapping and hurting her. I decided to add some spice.”

“I thought to myself: why don’t I make him watch her die, that way I can see the pain in his eyes when it happens.” Richard laughed again then let it settle to a dull smile.

“Give me the fucking remote,” he stretched out his hand, and the remote was placed on his right palm.

“Hey, it’s me who wronged you right? Not her. Do whatever you want to me and leave her alone, I beg you.” Ben pleaded even if he could see on the screen that Belle was now where the backups were waiting.

“Andddd boom!” Cjay was holding Belle’s hand to help her walk to a different car when Richard hit the only button on the remote he held.

“Noooooo!” Ben’s eyes dilated at the view on the screen. The whole scene had gone up in flames of an explosion, engulfing Belle, Cjay, and every other person there. The impact of the explosion made the drone twitch in the process.

The flames on the screen reflected in Ben’s pupil and everything went silent to his ears. The only thing he could hear was Richard laughing.

“You took Alex away from me, now I take this, Ms. Miller, from you.” Richard stood in front of him.”You brought some other people with you, I asked you to come alone. They’re all dead now because of you.”

“Time to sleep, Mr Larkson.” Those were the last words he heard from Richard before he was hit on the head, hard.

He fell to the floor while still attached to the chair by the chain. His sight became blurred for some seconds then it all became dark.

“Let’s get out of here, police might be here soon,” Richard told the other men and headed out first.