"Can you hear me Iris?" Elizabeth asks me over the phone.
"Loud and clear Elizabeth. I just hope that Raul doesn't suspect a thing. If he does...." I start.
"Then he would rather die trying to find you. But since you aren't that sure, then I will prove it to you." She says and I sigh. If Elizabeth proves to me that Raul indeed loves me, then things between me and Ace will definitely change. But I am certain that I will still love him. But why? There is definitely something wrong with the way I love Wallace. It's weird how I don't remember falling for him, but now was not the time to think about Wallace. I wanted to know which connection I had with Raul.
As soon as Elizabeth walked into Raul's room, he sighs with relief.
"Hallo Elizabeth. You are so far the only one who has come in here not to kill me. Most people have taken advantage of the fact that I am sick." he says, in an emotionless voice.
"Master, I would like to ask you something. Ever since Katarina died, I have always tried to love you as my son, considering you have done so much for me and my son. Including taking him as your brother. I just want to help you as a way to appreciate. I know that you really miss Iris so much. I want to know everything you know and feel about her." She says, obviously in a shaky voice.
I feel my heart race as he scoffs, lost in thought. I hope that this will somehow enable me to remember things. I hoped that somehow, I would get to know everything. As he spoke, I took a deep breath.
"Iris is a woman, the only woman who has ever brought me to my knees. She is the first and only woman who I have loved more than my mother. Do you know, the first time I saw her, she was so scared of me, she wouldn't dare look at my eyes. I hadn't even touched her, but she was already trembling like crazy. Even as I took her arm into mine, I could feel it tremble. When we met my partners and revealed that she was my future bride, she should have gotten angry and cause a fracas. But she was calm."
"That was when I knew that she was smart. She knew her place. I thought she was submissive. Until she raised her voice at me. I was supposed to kill her there and then, but when I stared into those emerald green eyes, the fear in them completely paralyzed me. My hands couldn't move. That moment, I remember after I walked out, I went to my room and asked myself a million questions. What was she doing to me? Well whatever it was, I was falling for it and falling hard. But the time that she broke me, was when she took a bullet for me, despite me being a complete asshole to her for all the three days that we were together."
Immediately he said that, it hit me. That was why there was an injury on my shoulder. Just then, I received a sharp headache and I see blurry. A blurred memory. Of us. He was worried. He tapped me continuously as he called out my name and what was weird was that his face was funny because I was not used to seeing emotion in them, I smiled. He carried me into his arms and there I felt safe. I tried so hard to try and clear the memory up like some dirty lense and it worked. Well, almost. It was not the clearest it could be, but it wasn't so bad. I had mixed emotions. That only means that Wallace was making a fool out of me. I feel my anger burn an I really want to strangle him at this point.
"Do you even know, she taught me to pray." he says."She was going to sleep and then she took her rosary. And I told her..."
"I don't know how to pray. Will you teach me how to? And I chuckled and said, let's start with the hail Mary shall we?" I say out loud and Raul remains silent.
"Principessa? Is that you?" he asks.
"Bambino?" I reply as I feel most of my memories rush back to me. Well, I think most. I remember After the church, Ace took me to meet Raul and I remember my first meeting with Stefano, how I married Raul and how I loved him so much, even though he was an animal. As I was recalling, someone rushed into Raul's room.
"Master, Master." he started.
"What is it Miguel?" he asked.
"It's master Stefano." he says breathlessly.
"What happened to Stefano? Where is he?" Raul asks jumping up. Earpiece in my ear, I decide to head up myself.
"Well, he had gone to see Wallace and as him about Mistress Iris. Until, Drew arrived and ambushed us. He took Master Wallace and Stefano hostage. Right now we don't know what to do." he says. I stop in my tracks for a few seconds. Wallace wouldn't kill the man who raised him because of his father's influence, would he? I then heard Raul's monitor beeping and resume my rush to his room.
Immediately I arrived, I threw on gloves and my lab coat as I tied my long hair into a messy bun. I rushed into the room and all the doctors immediately gave me everything. When Raul saw me, he tried so hard to smile.
"If you are so happy to see me Raul, then, cooperate so that you heal real fast okay?" I say to him.
"Anything for you principessa." he replies.
As he slips into unconsciousness, we kiss and I slowly slip an injection into his side. I quickly work my magic on him, fixing his drip and injecting some antibiotics and antidotes I to his system. He was finally out of danger and I felt relief wash over me. I head back to my dressing room. As I look in the mirror I see myself, but then in my heart I feel so split. I let my tears flow as a million questions rush through my mind. Who do I really love? Was it Raul or Wallace? And Raul, from what I remembered, loved and treated Ace as his brother. Why would he want to betray him so badly? Why was he playing with my mind? As I cry and cry, Elizabeth walks in and I cry on her shoulder.
"It's okay to cry Iris. What was done to you was not fair at all. He wiped off your memories and took you away from your lover, forcing you to love him. I even doubt if this is the same Wallace that I raised that has done all these things..."
Just before Elizabeth could finish, a person came in from nowhere and hit her from behind. Before I could retaliate, I received a blow to the head and a handkerchief filled with chemical put on my nose shutting down my chest as the man dragged me out.