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“What?” he questions as if he doesn’t understand my outburst.
“I said…I love you, León. I’ve loved you since Acapulco and I have fallen even more in love with you every second I spend with you. I know it’s something you might not expect, but it’s something I have to say.”
His dark eyes clash with mine. I can’t read his expression, which isn’t rare. He doesn’t let anyone see his interior or exterior. It’s like a concrete wall that he refuses to let anyone inside.
“Vio, you’re a very nice girl. But I don’t reciprocate what you feel, and I don’t think I ever could. Quite frankly, I’m the devil incarnate.” As he says his last words, his eyes darken at me.
I’ve never quite seen this expressionless gaze from him, void of emotion. It’s the most chilling look I have ever encountered. A shiver runs up my spine. I don’t like this version of León. I don’t feel safe.
I don’t process his words before I run away from him, as far as I can get.
Stopping to search around for an escape, I see an entrance to the maze in the Castillos’ gardens. I enter and begin to lose my sense of direction. My feet are taking me somewhere I don’t know. I begin to run and run until I hit a dead end. My breathing is fast, and my heart is moving a million miles an hour.
My head falters as my back hits the tall hedge behind me, and my body slips down it. Thoughts spin through my brain and then it finally hits me.
His words carve a hole in my heart.
But I don’t reciprocate what you feel, and I don’t think I ever could.
My memory repeats those words through my mind endlessly until I give up and bawl my eyes out. The tears keep streaming, no doubt falling onto my silk dress and ruining it in the process.
I don’t care because the man I love could never love me back. I’ve never experienced this type of pain before, and I hope I never will again. It’s too much. It’s as if something is trying to get out of my chest.
Why couldn’t he love me?
Why did he not even try to run after me?
What’s wrong with me?
All these questions run through my head as I realize I’ll never be good enough for the man I love. How could I be good enough for anyone else?
Why can’t someone just love me? For once, that is my only wish.
The pain never stops, and it increases over time.
A girl’s first heartbreak alters her life forever.
Chapter36
Violetta (PRESENT)
Atear slips down my cheek at the memory. The same ache my younger self felt is coming back as I hear his girlfriend’s name from his lips. He called her baby. I choke on the thought.
This has happened to me once, and now it’s happening to me twice.
I know I like Xavier, but do I enough?
Can I only be friends with him after everything that’s happened between us?
My mind is spiraling. I need fresh air. I look around frantically, seeing Xavier still on the phone facing the windows in front of him, the phone still securely pressed to his ear.
My head turns away from him as quickly as possible and my legs start moving in the opposite direction of Xavier. The room spins around me as I start hyperventilating. I choke on my breaths. I can’t breathe and the people surrounding me don’t help. My gaze observes every corner of the room until I see a big red exit sign over a door to my left.
Thank God.
Practically running toward it, I pull the glass door open. It leads to the surrounding terrace left from the greenhouse box most of the space is covered in. My breath starts to get faster and faster. I feel everything get smaller around me.
Cleo’s voice rings in my head.
