Dangerous Love

20||Unravel

Petra Ramirez

The next morning, Xavier decided to take me back home. He met Ellie once again and they started clicking instantly with each other. Which makes me happy.

Xavier asked me to stay the night again, so I agreed to stay with him for the night with Ellie.

"So, what happened last night?" Kylie questioned me as she took a sip of her coffee.

I shrugged my shoulders, "Nothing."

"Oh come on, you didn't come home last night so that means you let the snake in the hole, you let the tiger run free in your cage, you let-"

"Okay, that's enough." I cut her off before walking into the kitchen.

Kylie rolls her eyes before sitting on the counter, "Are you guys planning on doing it again?"

"I don't know, maybe." I say as I fix myself a cup of coffee, "But we are finally together."

"God finally, after seven months of giving you guys hints to date. It finally happens." Kylie bantered.

"I haven't even known him for that long," I say before walking into my room.

I shut the door behind me and took off my shirt, to change into a different one. As I was looking through my closet for a different shirt, I felt a pair of arms wrapped around me.

"You know how to sneak up on someone," I say before turning around and kissing Xavier.

"Yep, I do." He says before picking me up and laying me on the bed.

He starts kissing down my neck, as he slightly slides his hand up my inner thigh before he slowly starts taking off my shorts.

"Hey, Petra did you by any chance see my-" She stops talking when she sees me and Xavier, "You know what, never mind."

I groan in annoyance as I push Xavier off of me and put back on my clothes, I head back out into the kitchen where I see Kylie throwing water in her eyes dramatically.

"Really?" I say, raising an eyebrow, "It's not like you've walked in on someone before."

"Yeah, I have multiple times. But not with my best friend sleeping with my boss." She tells me as she is wiping her eyes off with a towel.

I roll my eyes and walk into the living room where Ellie is sitting down, eating animal crackers, and watching Tangled.

I walk up to Ellie and place a kiss on her forehead, "I love you."

She looks up at me and smiles, "Love you too."

I give her a smile before walking away and heading back into my bedroom having Xavier follow behind me, he shuts the door before looking at me in the eyes, and says, "You never told me what happened to Eliana's dad."

I exhale deeply before sitting down at the edge of the bed, "Why do you want to know?"

"Because I would love to adopt Eliana one day and if that day ever does come I want to know what happened to her father, why he isn't in the picture anymore," Xavier tells me before sitting beside me.

I let out a sigh and looked at him, "Alright, I'll tell you everything."

He nods his head before positioning himself, "Go on."

"Wait, do you want my whole life story? Or?" I asked to make sure.

Xavier leans in closer to me and grabs my hand, "I want to know everything about you, from beginning to end, and if it gets hard to tell just stop."

I nodded my head, I felt comfortable with telling him things. Especially private things.

"Well, I've lived in New York since I was born but when I was fifteen I decided to move in with my Aunt and Uncle for a better education. That's when I met her father in high school. My aunt and uncle started getting into drugs and alcohol and they would do horrible things to me." I let out a shaky breath before continuing.

"They treated me like I was a maid, they would throw me around, one night my uncle was so out of it he came into my room in the middle of the night and did horrible things to me. One time my aunt was desperate for money so she used me as a toy for men, so she can get money and use it for drugs."

Xavier reassures me by holding my hand.

"They would hit me if I disobeyed them in any way, they called me names all the time, and so much more, my uncle was way worse than my aunt. He did most things that I can't even talk about, but in my life, as a sophomore in high school I met this guy named Toby, I helped him with his homework every day, and he was the only person who was nice to me, we started dating and he got me pregnant at the age of seventeen."

"Once I found out I was pregnant, I knew it wasn't a safe place to raise Eliana so I went to live with Toby. Everything was good until I found out it was twins, and then Toby started acting weird. When I gave birth, Toby wouldn't touch me at all and then one night he couldn't handle the crying so he decided to kill one of the babies."

God this hurts.

Talking about something that I've never spoken about before to anyone.

"Oh my god, Petra." Xavier softly says as he rubs my back, "You can stop if you want."

I shake my head, "He made me witness it all, the death of my baby. It's something I never mentioned, and never want to talk about because it hurts so bad to think about. That's when I realized how bad of a monster he was and I was a prisoner. Toby and I got married a year later, and after that's when he started to go crazy, he would get mad at the littlest things, and he would just act psycho, the only person I had was Ellie and I would always protect her. I love Ellie so much, I kept her safe."

"Toby, on the other hand, he acted as if he loved her around people but he would scream at her and hit her whenever she would cry. It got to the point where I decided to take her beating, I couldn't leave him. I just couldn't, knowing if I did leave him right there he would do something to me unbelievable. But now I wish I left sooner." I finally finished as I looked down at the ground.

No words were spoken after that, nothing needed to be said. I've opened up about my past to someone, besides Kylie and my parents. I rest my head on Xavier's shoulder as I shut my eyes.

He leans his head down and gently kisses my forehead.

Xavier Romano

When Petra told me about her past, it was sad yet traumatizing. She was so young, she didn't deserve any of that but she's a survivor.

The thought of Petra's ex-husband ran through my mind, the name Toby was so familiar it sounded as if he was an enemy of mine. I mean there are a lot of guys who are named Toby's in the world so I don't want to assume.

But still.

Once I took the girls to my house, I had the maids set up a room for Eliana so she could feel like she was home. In some way.

As for Petra and I, we just laid in bed together watching movies together while talking about random stuff. I'm guessing she got over what happened earlier with her past. I'm glad though I don't like it when she's sad.

God, she's such a beautiful woman who has gone through hell and back.

She told me about how she enjoys baking and painting, and also how she made Eliana her stuffed bunny. I found that fascinating about Petra, how she loved so many things.

It made me love her more.

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Sorry for making this chapter sad...
I had to get her background out of the way it was literally dragging me🙄
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Anyways
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