The Legacy of Betrayal

While Knox was in the shower, I went back to his luggage and looked at every corner of it. When I felt something hard in the pocket of his luggage, I opened the pocket and took his phone. I opened every app on his phone but I couldn’t find anything.

But before putting it back, I installed a tracker on his phone. I may have become a stay-at-home wife but I am the only daughter of Renaldo Grimaldi, the Patriarch of the Grimaldi Clan. My father trained me since I was a kid to be like him. He trained me to become the perfect successor to the clan. But for me, it wasn’t my calling.

When I heard the water stop running I immediately put his luggage back in its position and I sat down on the bed, while touching my stomach. Know got out of the shower room, his hair was dripping wet. My eyes went down to his body. He smirked when he saw me looking at him.

“Well… I know you want me, Baby. But I can’t right now, I am still exhausted. But you know that I love you, right?”

“Hmm, yeah. O-of course, Baby.”

I tried to sound casual, to not let him know that I was hurting.

It wasn’t because I wanted him, It was because of the red mark on his neck, near his beard. If I were an average woman, I wouldn’t notice it but because my father trained my visions, I immediately notice it.

How can Knox smile at me? How can he act normal when he ruins our marriage? How can he say that he loves me but he is cheating behind my back? All I ever did was to love him, please him, give him everything that I can…

It took years to get me pregnant, that was the only thing that was missing piece on our marriage… but now? I am carrying his child but he had a girlfriend? How could he do that?!

I wanted to shoot him, and torture him… but a part of me still wanted to forgive him and start a new life with our unborn child. But the pain of his betrayal settled over me like my heart was being ripped to pieces. Like a sharp shard pierces through my chest.

Would he stop seeing that woman if I told him that I was pregnant with his child?

Knox came out of the walk-in closet, he was dressed already. We both turned our heads in the bathroom direction when we both heard a loud ring. Knox headed to the bathroom and when he got out, he was holding a phone. I blinked hard when I realized that it wasn’t the same phone that I saw in his luggage, it was a different phone but the same unit.

“I will answer this call, Baby. Okay?” Knox said while holding the phone and headed towards the balcony.

I was left alone, biting my lips in frustration. The curtains weren’t closed and I could see Knox's soft expression. It’s the same way how we would talk to me before. I hurriedly went to the walk-in closet and took the laptop that I had hidden. I typed some codes on my phone until I entered his phone’s system.

Whereas I could read their conversations on the screen.

Knox: Okay, I pick you up, Darling. You better get dressed, okay? I will take you to the hospital.

Caller ID: Make it faster, Darling. My stomach is hurting I am afraid that we will lose our baby.

“Baby?”

I didn’t answer, I waited for him to come inside but he didn’t. After a few minutes, I went out and my husband wasn’t there anymore but he left a note on the bed that he would be out for a while. I changed my clothes, I wore a mask, sunglasses, and a hat to hide my identity.

I located where Knox went and headed there, and to my surprise, they were standing outside the OB-GYNE office. Everything was clear to me… my Dad always told me to kill those who were blocking my way but I was against it, I didn’t like violence but seeing Knox holding that woman’s waist made me regret that I didn’t bring a gun with me.

With my hands shaking, I took a picture of them and sent that picture to Saldivar, the person whom I could trust my life with other than my parents. I told him to investigate that woman. After thirty minutes, Knox and that woman got out of the doctor’s office.

I was sitting on the bench and pretended to look at the magazine I was holding. I could hear them talking.

“Oh, Darling, thank you for coming with me today. I am sorry if I called you, I was just scared when I saw the small blood on my underwear,” the woman said softly.

“It’s okay, Darling. I am glad that you told me, I don’t want you or our baby to be in danger.”

And then they left. I was sitting there as tears pooled down my eyes, clutching my stomach.