Despite everything that had unfortunately happened between us, Ethan was a decently good boyfriend while we were together. He must have done things behind my back because he was from a mafia gang and he did keep that from ; however, I didn’t bla him. I knew that he didn’t want to get
involved then and it wasn’t like he could randomly tell
that he was the next head of Silva.
Apart from that, what I told Hayden was true. Although Ethan could be hard to handle sotis, overall, he was sweet, helpful, supportive, and he made
smile and laugh so much during the ti when we were together. I wondered if Ethan knew back then that what we had wasn’t ant to last. If he did, how did he feel all those tis when we smiled together?
"What are you thinking about?" Hayden asked in a low voice.
"Oh…nothing. Sorry, you were saying?" I quickly replied after his voice pulled
back from my thoughts.
"I didn’t say anything. I was just watching your expression turn all sad and lonely," Hayden said with a small chuckle before his eyes narrowed at .
I wonder what he saw. I wonder if he could see through …
"Sorry…" I whispered.
"It’s nothing to apologize for. I’m the one asking you all these difficult questions. Did you recall so old mories?" Hayden asked, teasingly.
"Not really…" I mumbled in reply.
"While you were with him, did you realize anything strange about him?" Hayden asked as he kept his eyes on my face.
"Not really. He seed very busy at tis. He would go away on trips now and then, but I didn’t think that it was unusual. Ethan…he didn’t like his parents and would get depressed every ti that he had to return ho to see them," I replied.
Everything seed ordinary and normal back then given that I didn’t know anything about his involvent with Silva. However, looking back, I realized that everything had to do with his involvent with his ’family business’.
"Hmm…I see…" Hayden said softly.
"I honestly didn’t know about his involvent with the mafia. He just told
that his family ran a business and that he had to go back to help his parents with that. Back then, I never suspected anything…" I continued.
"It’s normal, I guess. Not every girl would automatically suspect her boyfriend at university to be a mafia boss’s son," Hayden said with a nod of his head.
"Yeah…I guess…" I mumbled, while still wondering why Hayden was having this conversation with .
Hayden was silent for a while as if digesting what I had told him so far. Finally, he turned to look at
again before asking
his last question.
"What happened when you two broke up?" Hayden asked.
"Ethan decided to dump …" I said before pursing my lips together into a thin line.
"What happened?" he asked, persistently.
"I didn’t know this back then but the last ti that Ethan ca to see , he finally told
what happened that night when we broke up," I said softly. This was the part that I didn’t want to recall.
"What do you an?" Hayden asked and I knew that I more than had his attention.
"Ironically, it was raining just like the day that I first t him. It was late at night and Ethan didn’t co back. Of course, I was worried, and I waited up for him. When he ca back…well…he was all wet and things happened…" I told my story before pausing when I got to the part where Ethan took
to bed.
"And?" Hayden prompted.
"He just changed his clothes into dry ones and then he told
bluntly that we should break up. He didn’t want to be with
anymore. That was that. It was a ss but, in the end, he just…disappeared. He left and I never saw him again until that day on the cruise with you…" I went on.
"Did you try to find him?" Hayden asked curiously.
"Of course, I did. I asked everywhere. I called his friends, well the ones I knew anyways, he didn’t seem to have many friends at university. The ones he had weren’t exactly close, but I called them anyways…" I said truthfully as I tried not to recall the pain and desperation from those days.
"You couldn’t find him…" Hayden surmised correctly.
"That’s right. I couldn’t find him. Worst, no one knew where he went. No one knew anything about him. The more I looked, the more I realized that I didn’t know much about him either. Just like that, it was like he just disappeared," I concluded.
"I see…" he mumbled.
Hayden was silent again and then he sighed as if what I had told him weighed more on his mind. I still didn’t know why he asked
those questions. I didn’t think that it would be harmful to tell him, though. It was all in the past anyways.
"What did he tell you when he ca to see you?" Hayden continued to press
for answers.
I closed my eyes and sighed before giving him my answer. The truth of what Ethan told
was just so terrifyingly grueso and tragic and even I didn’t want to repeat what he had told .
"He told
that that night…he killed his own parents before coming back to see . He ca to break up with
because we couldn’t be together anymore. He had decided to take over Silva as the next boss…" I said in a broken voice before I had to stop.
I couldn’t say anymore. The truth made
feel slightly nauseous. Ethan’s face that day was still so clear in my mind, and I didn’t want to recall anymore.
"That’s enough for today…" Hayden said as he placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.
I didn’t miss that he had just said ’for today’ which ant that there could be more of these sessions in the future? I hoped that I was wrong.
--To be continued…
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