SWNOVELS Chapter My Biggest Faults
The next week
James groaned sleepily as his phone rang repeatedly. He had worked hard the previous day and wanted to rest throughout the day.
It was noon already but he was still in bed and didn’t want his rest to be disturbed at all.
“If this isn’t important, I swear I am going to kill this guy!” He sat up and grabbed his phone.
He had missed the call already but almost immediately, the call came back in.
James picked the call and took the phone to his ear, his other hand pulling his hair back.
“Yes? What’s the issue?”
“Boss, your sister and Mr. Romano just arrived in the country together.”
James eyes widened instantly and his fatigue left him immediately.
“What did you just say?”
“They are both in the country sir and they are headed to Mr. Romano’s home. I just thought you might want to know about it since you asked me to inform you if Miss. Mireille ever returns to the country.”
“Fuck! Alright.” James ended the call and got out of the bed swiftly.
“I wasn’t so close to Dante anymore after all what happened so I had no idea that he was out of the country. And Mireille? How could she accept Dante and come back with him after how much I had warned her? And she said nothing about it to me too! We still talked yesterday but she said nothing about it.”
There was no point in calling her though so James was just going to go see her himself.
“Give me a tiny bit of peace of mind, Mireille. A little bit of peace of mind!”
*
Mireille stepped out of the car and Dante shut the door.
“Welcome back home, Princess.”
“Welcome back home, Miss. Mireille.” Ditto greeted her welcome and Belinda who was standing just beside Ditto rushed into Mireille’s arms.
“Mireille!!” She screamed and both of them hugged each other tightly.
“I missed you.” Belinda squeezed her tightly.
“I missed you too, Bel. Chatting over the phone wasn’t the same.” Mireille replied and they disengaged from the hug.
“You look even more beautiful.” Belinda cooed.
“And you too.”
“Well, Ditto surprisingly knows how to treat a woman. I was scared when I fell for him.” Belinda laughed.
“Welcome back boss.” Ditto greeted Dante.
“Everything under control?”
“Perfect control, boss.”
Just then one of the men walked up to them and bowed slightly.
“Boss, Mr. Mathieu is here. Should we let him in?”
“James.” Mireille mumbled the name.
“What do you think? Ready to see him?” Dante asked Mireille and Mireille nodded, putting up a fierce look.
“Let him in.” Dante ordered.
“Yes boss.”
“Let’s go in.” Dante held Mireille’s hands.
“Ditto, how about you and Belinda go somewhere else for now? This definitely should be a discussion between I, Mireille and James only.”
“Yes boss.”
“I will see you later.” Mireille said to Belinda.
“Sure girl. We’ve got a lot to catch up on!” Belinda replied.
Mireille and Dante walked into the main building and Mireille recalled the first time she had walked into this magnificent place.
“Are you fine?” Dante asked as they got to the living room.
“Yes, Dante. I am fine.” Mireille assured him and Dante made her sit on the sofa.
“I will get you a glass of water first.” Dante walked away to get the glass of water and by the time he was back, James was storming into the living room.
“Mireille! What did I tell you about him?!” James yelled.
“Don’t yell at her, James. You know I won’t stand that.” Dante said and walked over to Mireille who was still quiet.
He handed her the glass of water and Mireille drank from the glass before dropping the glass.
“Mireille.” James shook his head and moved closer to Mireille.
Mireille got up on her feet with a determined look on her face.
“You can’t be with Dante. You know who he is and…”
“Exactly, James. I know who he truly is now and that is why I am with him. James, you told me that Dante killed his father because of power. What is with that ridiculous lie?! You know what he went through!” Mireille raised her voice at him and James recoiled, realizing that Dante had told Mireille about his past.
With how traumatic his past was, James had doubted that Dante could ever open up to any other person about it.
“Talk to me, James! You told me he is a monster who will kill anyone! You know how much he loved me but still you did everything you could you tear us apart. Not anymore, James. I think this is the point where you let me live my own life.”
“Mireille. Even if Dante’s dad… Even if Dante didn’t kill him for power like I said, Dante is still dangerous to you and your child!”
“I will live with that danger, James. This is my decision and you would not be changing my mind ever, James. I know what Dante does now and I know everything about him and I still choose to stay with him because I love him.”
“That love won’t fucking save you!”
“Oh yes, it will. It saved me the last time and it will again.”
“The last time you almost lost your baby?”
“Alright there.” Dante got into the conversation and turned to face Mireille.
“You need to rest and recover from the jet lag. You go into our room and wait for me there. I will finish up this conversation for us.”
“But…”
“C’mon, Princess.”
“Fine” Mireille gave in and looked at James.
“I won’t leave this time.” she said to James and walked away.
Dante watched as Mireille walked away and when she was out of hearing distance, he turned to face James.
“Almost lost her child? I swear I feel like smashing your face into a fucking wall right now, James! You hated me being with Mireille so much that you had the test results faked?!”
“I… What stupid allegation is that?! I did no such thing!”
“Oh, James. You know I am not the right person to lie to and if it wasn’t for how close we were and for Mireille, I would have killed you for doing this! You made me let go of Mireille for three months and if I never found out that she was still pregnant, I would still be away from her and probably we would be away for the rest of our lives!!”
“I don’t want you with Mireille! That’s why I did that and I don’t regret it! I don’t want Mireille unsafe! You would have done the same it she was your sister!” James yelled.
“No, I would not have done the same. Did you even care if Mireille was happy, being away from me? All you wanted was to satisfy yourself, knowing that she was away from me! You kept her in Iceland without anyone to watch after her! If anything happens to her there, who is going to help her out?! Do you know how easy it was for me to get into the house you kept her?!” Dante breathed in and out.
“Listen, you heard Mireille. She already chose to stay with me and she knows everything about me already. You only have two options, James. Be happy for us or just stay away from us.” He added.
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Fine! I will stay away from them!” James stepped away.
“Let your lover know that I won’t be in contact with her from now on!” He added as he moved further away.
“James.” Dante called.
“Just one little advise for you. Let Mireille know that you are also in the business. Don’t make her find out herself and as for the fact that you tricked her into believing that she lost our child, I will keep that a secret from her because I don’t want her to hate you.”
James just glared at Dante.
“It is all my fault. My biggest fault is asking Mireille to stay with you.”