The Secret Between Us
Chapter 34

My tears keep falling from my eyes as my uncle and his entire team force me onto the plane to return to the United States – Did they think we’d never find them? They had the entire CIA and the mafia looking for them,” he informs me as they practically force me to sit in one of the seats on this plane and buckle my seatbelt tightly.

-Let go of me! – I demand as I move from side to side and my uncle kneels in the large space in front of the seat I’m in.

-Mia, it’s for your own good, what kind of life can await you next to a guy like that, don’t you understand? His family is to blame for your aunt’s death,” he reminds me.

-But he’s not like that… you’re also making a huge mistake by separating me from him,” I explain and I feel the tears continue to fall from my eyes.

He denies, holds my chin and makes me stare at him, “Now you say that, but you’ll see that you won’t… your fiancé is still willing to marry you,” he announces.

-I’m already married to Izan, I’m not going to let you or anyone else ruin my happiness…” I rebut and feel a stitch make me squirm with pain.

-Mia!” I hear him scream and he tries to come closer to me, but I bring my hand to his chest and push him away.

-Don’t touch me! – I exclaim in the middle of my pain and I look at him, “If I lose my son because of you, I swear that I will be the one to take revenge on you,” I threaten him and his face changes completely.

I want to keep talking, but the pain is strong… I inhale and exhale slowly, trying to make it all go away, but it’s hard -Are you pregnant? – He asks me in a whisper and I nod.

-Because of you, my child will grow up without its father,” I tell him in the midst of this mixture of pain and tears that consumes me.

-Mr. Morelli, we’re about to take off,” one of the crew announces and in his state of shock, he sits down in the seat right in front of me and buckles his seatbelt.

-Mia, I have a deal with Izan’s family, I can’t back out”, he says.

-A deal? – I ask and see him nod.

-They helped me find you and I forgot about Izan’s father; they were the ones who found him first,” he announces.

How did they know? – I ask in a whisper.

-Santiago had you followed and the detective saw you with Izan and took pictures of them. When he went to complain to your father, I was there and your father didn’t hesitate to ask me for help, he knows I knew the De Luca family.

-Santiago told them that he beat me to the point that I had to go to a clinic to get help? – I question and my uncle’s face changes drastically.

-That’s why we ran away… when Izan took me to his friend’s clinic, I found out I was pregnant and we ran away so I could be safe,” I explain.

-You will never be safe with his family, don’t you understand? They’re mafiosi.

-But he’s not the same, that’s what you can’t see,” I insist as the plane takes off.

-Mia, understand, you and he can’t be together. Your world and his aren’t compatible… besides…

-Besides, what? – I ask when he doesn’t finish the sentence.

-You’ll never see each other again, that was part of the deal and his family will make sure it’s like that,” he sentences and my heart starts beating a mile a minute.

-What? What are you talking about? – I question with a breath in my voice.

-What you hear, you and Izan are over for good, and don’t worry about that baby, it will have a home,” he assures me and there are so many fears that invade me right now, that I can only cry from the pain, frustration, and sadness that I feel right now.

How did we go from being completely happy to this? How did everything get ruined so suddenly? I am so afraid of our future, that we will never see each other again and that our son will never get to meet his father.

How am I going to go on without him? Not even in our worst times did I feel as much fear as I do now. I am not only afraid for myself and our son, but for him. I’m so afraid of what his family might do now, what if they hurt him? I shudder at the thought of what might happen to him.

Our happiness has been so fleeting that it seems to have been part of a dream and not something we have actually experienced. Maybe we never had to try to go against the tide…