Adriano's Pov

FLASHBACK (6 years ago)

"This is so beautiful," she said staring at the sunset. Her hair blew due to the soft breeze.

"It is indeed," I said looking at the beautiful goddess in front of me, not even sparing one glance at the sunset.

"Stop!" she said giving my shoulders a little jerk, the smile never left her face. I wish this to never end. I want to be here, with her, beside her and in her heart just like she is in mine.

"What?" I said teasingly and chuckled at her cuteness.

"You will never change" she shook her head and chuckled lightly.

"Never" I whispered at her, my eyes never leaving her. This is it! This is what I want. I don't want money, fame, or recognition. All I want is her.

She turned her head towards me and our eyes met. We were drinking each other's faces, falling in love again. I dipped my head and pulled her towards me by her waist. She moved forward and wrapped her hands around me. We kissed. It was a slow and passionate kiss, pouring all the love we had for each other. Our lips moved in unison. We kissed for a while. I wouldn't have stopped if we did not need this very necessary yet taken-for-granted thing. I am talking about oxygen. Duh!

We broke the kiss and our foreheads met and we stayed like that for a moment, my arms wrapped around her waist and hers around my neck until she spoke "You are mine!"

A small, soft smile appeared on my face before I replied "I am yours"

Alice Elisabeth Herman, the woman I loved more than my life, the woman who ruled my heart and then shattered it into pieces, the woman who betrayed and humiliated me, the woman who forced me to turn my feelings from loving her into hating her. That woman was back.

I should hate her, despise her, show her what she deserved, and give her a taste of her own medicine but I couldn't help but look at her adoringly. She had changed so much. Her eyes didn't have the shine they use to have and she had lost a lot of weight. She has started hiding her emotions more like stopping herself from expressing herself. It was like she was hiding something and didn't want us to know that. She didn't smile, just smirked. And those sarcastic comments she gave were her way of hiding her emotions, which made me so angry. I should hate her and prove to her that karma is a bitch. I should take my revenge but I couldn't do any of them.

When I heard her scream in her sleep, I panicked and started banging on her door, calling for her but all she did was beg and call for help as if someone was trying to hurt her and when she told me that stupid, lame excuse of falling from the cliff, It made my doubt clear that she was trying to hide something from me. My blood boiled at the thought of someone hurting my love. Wait! Where did that come from? Adriano don't forget what she did to you. How much humiliation you and your family had to go through because of her. Don't forget you are now going to get married to Jane, not to Alice. "But I still wish it was Alice who I'd wake up to every day" my inner voice said. Enough! This woman is going to make me crazy. I have to forget about her and move on. I can't betray Jane like that. Even though I don't have any feelings for her, I promised her that I would take care of her and protect her. Maybe someday I would be able to fall in love with her.

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Aunt Melissa, this woman, and her daughters are crazy. They don't miss any chance to flirt with me or my father. Hell, Aunt Melissa even tried to flirt with Mr. James Herman, the husband of her own younger sister. Clearly, no one likes her, but she is still a part of Alice and Jane's family and the only sister of Mrs. Herman, so we had to invite her. The way she talked about Alice made me want to choke her but then Alice deserved every bit of it. If I couldn't take my revenge on her due to my stupid feelings toward her, I would not stop anyone from doing so. She does not regret what she did. I should have felt happy and satisfied when Melissa said all those things to Alice but I didn't feel any of it, instead, I felt... Angry.