Yes, Master by Marwa M (best books to read for women .TXT) 📕

"Can I ask you something?" Valerie said making Sinister smile at her.

" You don't need my permission to question me, darling. Go ahead." He said making her bit her lower lip in hesitation. There was one question wrecking her mind from the time she had heard it from Xavier.

"Valerie tell me what is it?" This time he asked seriously. He could see how hesitant she was.

"Did you kill Xavier's mother?" She asked letting out in one go.

As soon as the question left her lips Sinister's hands turned into tight fists as he glared at the table dropping his gaze.

"Yes, I did." He said without showing any regret or sadness.

He looked up only to find her eyes on him. He chuckled nodding his head.

"Do you consider me a bad person now? I never said I am a good person Valerie. I am not a saint. I have blood on my hands not only Xavier's mother but also of many people. I am not a good man I know." He said looking at the table all the time.

"Why did you kill her?" That surprised him. His head snapped at her as she stared at him with curious eyes. And what left him more baffled was seeing no disgust or hate in her eyes for him.

"How can you not feel disgusted by me?" He said making her chuckle.

"And why should I? I don't know the reason. And from the time I spent with you, I can say that you don't do anything without a reason." This accelerated his heartbeat. How can she know him more than he knows himself?

"It was self-defense yet revenge." He let out making her stare at him.

" Remember you once asked me why I have a tattoo on only my one arm and back?" She nodded her head. She did ask him and also that why his other arm seems rough but not as much as the tattooed one. He placed his tattooed hand on the table making her look at it.

"I got a stab on my hand when I was only 10 years old." Her eyes widened in shock as she stared at his hand. So that's why he tattooed it to hide the scar.

"My mother was a maid. She used to work for my grandmother. Sean Valentino's mother. My grandma was a nice woman. Sweet but broken. You know Valerie, Xavier inherited everything from his ancestors. His grandfather was the first man who forced my grandma to marry him. And after Sean Valentino was born he inherited every bad habit from his father. He wasn't raised by his mother as grandfather never let his wife be more closer to her son. Because for him his son should be as powerful and controlling as him which he did successfully."

He said making her listen to him carefully. So Xavier wasn't the start of every evil thing happening in their world. Instead, it had been going on for ages.

"Sean Valentino become a monster. Worst than my grandfather. My grandmother used to live away from him and his wife. He had many mistresses even after the marriage and his wife, Xavier's mother was the worst kind as well. She was just like Sean Valentino. Evil and controlling. She had affairs as well. She was never able to win Sean Valentino's heart. And it's not like she wanted to anyways. She loved his money and being a mother of the sole heir of Valentino's which was Xavier."

"Sean Valentino once came to meet my grandma and unfortunately he saw my mother working in the garden. And that day he lost his heart to her. Like he told me once he loved my mother like he never did love anyone else. But for me, it was an obsession at first sight. He was obsessed with her that's why he never respected her and treated me as his son. He proposed her but she rejected him obviously any sane woman will do that. He was married with a son. But he didn't care about her rejection and did what was expected from that monster."

He paused for a second turning his head towards the shining building as his eyes started brimming with tears remembering his past pain.

"He raped her." Her heart dropped down hearing those words. She knew how being raped felt like. How traumatizing and devastating it is. And the depression of that trauma never leaves your mind.

"He forced her whenever he felt like claiming that he loves her. My grandmother knew about this and tried her best to stop her son but he never listened to her. He made my mother his mistress and dragged her to one of his penthouses. After that, no one knows what horrible things he had done to her. But it wasn't the end he got her pregnant with me and after a year I was born. But on the day of her delivery, she didn't die out of any medical problem. She died because of Xavier's mother. She killed my mother. But unfortunately, I didn't die with her I was born."

"Sean Valentino brought me to his wife and she knew everything and had no remorse of how she killed my mother. I stayed with that woman till I reached 15. I was abused by her. I was a punching bag of hers and Xavier, he never really minded me. He didn't like me. Never treated me more than just a stranger and I was kind of thankful at least it was better than being abused like how his mother was doing. "

He again stopped gulping down. Valerie brought her hand forward and placed it on his tattooed one making him grip her hand tightly. He indeed needed a comforting touch.

"Sean Valentino saw bruises on my body many times but never said anything. He only once told me that it's for my own good that these things will make me tough but they never abused Xavier then why I need to be abused to get tougher? It was just an excuse. She whipped me and my back had scars. She stabbed my hand with a knife and it left a huge scar as well. I had a lot of scars on my body. My grandmother told me about my mother's suffering and tried her best to make me a good man despite every abuse but she also died when I turned 10. I endured everything silently and lonely till I turned 15, that night was the scariest."

Valerie again squeezed his hand making him grasp her tiny hand with his both hands. His hands were slightly trembling which made her realize that the trauma was still somewhere in his heart.