158 Be Merry and Marry the Man (1/2)

Veronica washes her face and she wasn't contented so she bath herself. She stood under the shower still blank and didn't know how to react on what happened a while ago. Her heart was clench tightly that she couldn't breathe.

She reach the shampoo and massage it to her head trying to divert her attention away from everything. But it keepsgiving her pain. Damn the fucking pain. Was it better to be numb than to feel this kind of pain?

After she finish bathing herself. Tony was sitting on the bed and like he hasn't moved from there. She put on her clothes from her duffel bag.

”Veronica.” He calls.

”It's fine.” She told him. She knows what he's going to say.

”I didn't mean it. It's just—my head has been messed up recently.”

”Because she keep on texting you. Don't worry about it.” She said monotonously.

From Veronica's voice and tone, she already figured it and he knows that it wasn't right. He didn't want her to be blank and only give him a monotonous look. He wanted her to show her emotions so he could understand her.

”Don't worry about it? Do you want me not to worry about the fucking name that I said while we are making love?” He raises his voice. He's getting annoyed little by little. She didn't brush her hair and just tied her wet hair. ”Don't you run away Veronica!” He stood and reach his robe. ”I l—”

”Don't fucking say it!” She scream at him. Then she get calmer. ”Don't say it. I don't want to hear you say it.” She now sounds begging. It pains her hearing those words from him.

”It's true.” He said those words sincerely.

”Don't say it again Tony. So it will be easy for me to let you go. So it will be easy for you to move on once I am gone.”

”What are you talking about?” He frown at her.

”You'll understand soon. Now isn't the right time.” She pick her bag and he grab her arm.

”Don't you, go.” He warn her. His voice dangerous.

”I have to go.” She insist.

”Where are you going at this time?” He asked in a honeyed voice after a dangerous warning. He wrapped her into his arm and kisses her neck. ”Let's sleep. Okay?” She knows that it was his way of trapping her.

”No.”

In the end, she left Tony and drive her car directly to the parking lot of her condo building and she took her motorbike and drove to EPUA. Soon, she arrive at their private parking lot and she went directly to her room and change her clothes into yoga pants and sleeveless sweatshirt.

She started beating up big men and she takes the hit. It's been a while since she last beat someone. There are at least a lot of them. She beat them all and they beat her. One against many. After that intense work out, she got few bruises on her sides but she managed.

She place a lot of ice on her sides and lay down on her bed. She look up at the ceiling. Fuck it. She was indeed in love with him and she was in pain after all that happened. She notice that he was texting constantly and receive a lot of messages but he ignore it when he was with her. He was sweet and he dotes on her.

She understand that every Lawson are like that though he was a playboy back then. But is it true that once a playboy will always be a playboy or he likes to cheat around? Being his fiancée was a serious matter and he took it seriously at first but, did he?

She crawl to her bag and reach her phone. It has been vibrating and she got floods of texts from him. She read every messages.

Tony: Where are you?