Mateo's POV
After hearing that Valerie was thinking of getting an abortion, I kept on thinking about how I was going to get my inheritance if I wasn't able to take advantage of her condition. I didn't have any say in Valerie's life to stop her from doing something that might help her.
At the same time, I kept thinking of the give and take deal I wanted to have with her. I was contemplating whether to go through with it. I only use rich people but Valerie was too poor to be used by me. I shouldn't be that heartless.
But what if I gave her some things she didn't have in her life and slowly get her to like me enough to let me use her pregnancy to get my inheritance? Do I even need to let her know that I might need her image to my advantage?
I could grant her shelter, food, clothes and any other thing she needed at this point of her life and while she is enjoying what she gets from me, I get what I want, receive my inheritance and reward her for her cooperation without having to let her know that I used her image. That's very simple.
I dressed up and located the hospital. I noticed that winter was close and the first snow might show up tomorrow or a day after. I didn't cherish any season of the year. I just live my life the way I wanted it without having to listen to anyone's opinion. People's opinions are just so against my progress and I see nothing wrong with my lifestyle.
Valerie…
I watched as the nurse prepared her for the day but she didn't know of her presence in the hospital. It was fun watching her. She was cute in all she did and I couldn't get tired of watching her.
She appeared to be an innocent girl with a very pure mind. She had no grudges or malice. All she wanted was to survive. I did not know what she saw about life to want to continue living. I wouldn't fight this much if I was in her shoes. If death wasn't coming, I'd kill myself for peace.
…
A lady was crying when we reached the front of the operating room. A few moments later, the stretcher was brought out the the operating room and the woman who appeared to be the boy's mother cried louder, following the stretcher as it moved.
I moved my gaze from the woman so I could know what was going on with Valerie and how she got involved in someone's matter. But when I turned my gaze, she wasn't standing in the position I last saw her. Valerie?
Wondering about her whereabouts, I looked around me to see if I would find her. After turning about, checking carefully, I saw her in front of the elevator door waiting for the door to open.
When it did, she walked into the elevator and pressed a button. She was crying and I could tell that even though I was watching her from afar.
How did she even know the boy? I thought she had been locked up by her aunt.
So much stress just because of my father who needed a child before I got what's rightfully mine. Even in his death, he was still making things difficult for me.
I had no choice but to follow her to the elevator and when I checked which floor the elevator was leading to, I discovered that it was the last floor.
Was she ready to give up on her life now? Now that I need her image? That's definitely not happening, not when I needed her? I hate the sound of needing her but I had no choice.
If anyone ever told me a day before yesterday that I'd desperately need the presence of a nineteen years old girl in my life, I wouldn't believe but here I was, in the elevator, going to the rooftop to stop a depressed girl from commiting suicide.
If I didn't need her, I wouldn't mind. I mean, she'd finally find the peace she had needed all her life and she could still achieve that once I've gotten what I wanted from her.
'Don't kill yourself Valerie or else I'll find you in the land of the dead and bring you back to life. Of course, I can find another pregnant girl like you but I want you. Valerie, you are the baby girl I need at this point.'
I entered the rooftop and went to where my eyes landed at first and saw nobody. I didn't even hear any sound. I rested against the wall and looked around me, searching for that little girl. I couldn't see her anywhere.
I looked down to see if she had jumped but there was no crowd or body on the ground. Where was this little girl? 'Valerie stop stressing me out?' I thought to myself as I moved from that spot to stroll around to see if I'd find her.
"Valerie!" I called out to her to make it easy to find her. "Valerie, I know you are here," I was wrong, I didn't know if she was on the rooftop. I said that to make her show herself if she was really with me on the rooftop.
"I know you must be feeling sad and…" I paused when I saw someone small at the corner of the building. She was so small, making it so easy for her to fit in that little space. No wonder I couldn't find her.
I walked up to her, knowing I couldn't fit in the space she occupied herself in. She was so lost in thoughts that she didn't know I was standing beside her already.
"Valerie," I called her name calmly so she wouldn't be frightened by my presence.
To my surprise, she only turned her gaze to me and looked back into space as if she knew I was there.
"You knew?"
"You were calling my name," she uttered, sounding as if she was so exhausted.
"I thought you had jumped."
"I wouldn't, if not for myself, for Adrian."
"Come here," it was hard talking to her when she was in that corner so I took her hand gently and pulled her out of that space.
"I feel comfortable there," she complained.
"That's because you are very small so you can fit in there."
She glared at me with those tired eyes of hers and I just chuckled. "How did you get to know Adrian?" I decided to talk about it so she'd feel…okay. I will listen to her.
"We met yesterday," she started. "He knew he'd die if he had the surgery. We came here last night and enjoyed…" she began to cry.
"Why's the world so cruel?" She said something I didn't expect her to say and it got into me.
Is it the world that's cruel or the creature in it?