Chapter 5

“M-Martin!”

“Yeah?”

“Ahhh! Faster, Martin!” she begged.

Martin smiled mischievously and granted Chloe’s request. He moved on top of her and sped up his every movement. Oh, damn! Compared to the other woman he had one-night stands with before, Chloe was very boring.

He would have no intention of offering her to join him at that hotel if it wasn’t for his plan.

Before he made his plan, he looked into Chloe Cain’s background and discovered that she cheated on Mateo. He also discovers that Chloe often goes to clubs and is with other men. He also found out that Ana became her friend because Chloe likes Mateo.

Martin grabbed Chloe’s hair and forced her to look up at him, only to see her annoying face.

“You like me, don’t you?” he asked her as he continued his quick movements from behind her. “You can’t resist me,” said Martin, and grinned.

Chloe nodded. “F—ck, Martin! Harder, please!”

Martin grinned again and pulled her hair even harder. “If that’s what you want!” He said and sped up his every move even more.

***

Martin was drinking wine on the sofa when his friend Paris called.

“Is she sleeping?” asked Martin.

(“Yeah, she’s fine; don’t worry about her,”) said Paris, as she sighed. (“Are you sure about your plan?”) she asked. Because she is worried about Martin’s plans.

Martin smirked as he looked at Chloe sleeping on the bed. “Yeah,” he replied, as he drink wine. “Take care of her first, Paris, and I’ll go home,” he said.

Paris rolled her eyes because it was her job to monitor the girl Martin had saved. (“Yeah, whatever,”) she replied, laughing at his friend. (“If it wasn’t for Ana, I would've never followed you!”) Paris exclaimed. (“I don’t know what to do with you if Ana finds out what you did!”)

Martin was about to say something when his friend hung up the phone. “What the f-ck,” he stared at his phone. “Why is she angry? TSK.” He just shook his head.

After a while, Martin sighed again and got dressed. Then he took Mateo’s business proposal that was on the bedside table. He looked at it before turning his gazed to Chloe.

He clenched his jaw. “I will make sure you fall. You will pay for what you did to Ana,” he said and threw Chloe the business proposal he was holding and walked out of that room.

After he left the hotel, he was immediately greeted by his staff, Alexis.

“Did you take a picture?” he asked.

Alexis nodded in response to him.

He tapped him on the shoulder. “Good! Let’s go.” Then he got into his car.

Alexis started the car immediately after getting into the driver’s seat.

On the way, he was just looking out the window. Later, he remembered how he and Ana had returned to his hacienda in San Alfonso last week.

When the doctors at the hospital found out that Ana was no longer there, they asked him about her. But he just told them he had taken Ana home to his hacienda so that she could completely heal there.

Ana did nothing but cry since he brought her home. Every time she remembers that his ex-husband cheated on her, she gets hurt even more. So he told himself that next time, he will tell everything to Ana even if she didn’t remember what happened then.

He won’t let Ana get hurt again, so he begins the plan, with Chloe Cain as his first target.

He will never forgive the people who hurt Ana. Because of them, she almost died. And if he didn’t see her on the road while he was unconscious, he was sure that Ana had disappeared from the world a long time ago.

After the day he found Ana on the street, he also saw about her on the news, so he made a plan and paid people to fake her death and he hid her. Because Martin is sure, if the people who want to kill Ana find out that she is still alive, Ana’s life will be put in more danger.

His prime suspect in what happened to Ana is the Villalobos family. He just needs more evidence to bring down the family that almost took Ana’s life. And now, in just a little while, Ana will take revenge against the people who hurt her.

When he arrived at the hacienda, he immediately looked for Ana. And she found her in her room. She’s sleeping.

A smile appeared on his lips as he walked closer to her bed. He sat on the edge of the bed and gently stroked her hair. He gazed at her face as she fell asleep.

“You are no longer Ana Bernardino, from now on. You will now be known as Ana Mystica.”

***

ANA’s POV

“You are no longer Ana Bernardino, from now on. You will now be known as Ana Mystica.”

What is this feeling I feel now? What is happening to me? Why am I smiling? Why do I feel different? I held my lips when a small grin appeared there. N-No! This is not me. I don’t want to feel this way.

I looked in the mirror and felt a shiver all over my body.

“This is your time, Ana. To take revenge on the people who killed you!” A voice whispered in my ear that made my hair stand up.

I spun around, but I saw nothing but the window curtain that was slightly swaying from the strong breeze coming into my room.

I looked in the mirror again and saw a big grin on my face. After a while, I recoiled in fear when the mirror suddenly shattered.

“Ahhh!”

I suddenly woke up from my sleep and grabbed my chest. I sat on my bed, panting. Later, I stroked my hair, that was slightly scattered in front of my face.

I’m just dreaming!

But why did I see a different Ana in my dream? It doesn’t seem to be me.

“Ana, what happened?”

I turned to the door when it opened, and Martin entered. His eyebrows crossed as he looked at me, then he started walking closer to my place.

“Hey!” His face showed concern for me.

“Martin!” My voice trembled a little. Later, I suddenly hugged him, which he immediately reciprocated with a tight hug.

“What’s wrong?” he asked worriedly.

But I just shook my head at him and snuggled into his chest.

“Shhh! Everything will be okay, Ana.” He whispered to me.

“You will not leave me, Martin, are you?”

Before he answered my question, I felt him kiss my forehead. “Of course,” he said. “I won’t leave you, Ana.” He hugged me even tighter. “Take a rest. I’m just here and I won’t leave you.”

I lightly let out a deep breath when I felt the sincerity of what he said. Martin won’t leave me.

I stayed in his arms for a few moments before he drifted me away from his body and helped me lie down on the bed again. He even fixed the blanket on my body.

“Martin.” I uttered his name.

“Hmm?”

I smiled at him.

“What happened?” I asked him. “Why did I have an accident? What really happened?”

He was stunned for a moment because of my question.

I feel like something bad happened before my accident. I knew something was wrong. And I feel like something is preventing me from remembering what had happened then.

He let out a deep sigh. “Just... sleep, Ana.” Instead, he told to me.

“Martin,” I said to him. “Can you... tell me what happened before the accident happened to me? Please! And why are you with me and not Mateo?”

He avoided looking at me and turned away.

“Martin, I want to know why I had an accident! What happened to me? Why do I feel like someone is going to kill me at any moment?”

I stared at the ceiling when I didn’t get an answer from him.

“And... who are you?” I asked, while staring blankly into the air.

A few seconds of silence prevailed in my room. Later, I turned to him. He still turned his back to me.

I smiled bitterly.

“You saved me, right?” I asked him again. “You just felt sorry for me. That’s why you saved me, Martin, didn’t you?”

He suddenly turned to me and walked back beside me.

He shook his head. “No,” he replied. “It’s not like that, Ana.”

I laughed sparingly and shook my head because of what he said. “Thank you, Martin.”

He frowned as he stared at me. I also gazed at him.

“Thank you for saving me, Martin.” I mumbled to him.

His hand came up and gently caressed my cheek, which caused me to close my eyes tightly.

“Promise me you will tell me the truth.”

Also, promise me you won’t leave me. Because I’m afraid to be alone.