THE MAFIA'S PENANCE

MEMORY LOSS

Olivia's words made me fall silent. I love Vernon? Since when do I love her? Why can he say that? I even saw her three days before we got married, how could I love her?

"What do you mean, Oliv?" I looked at Olivia in surprise.

"Ah, I forgot." Olivia took her eyes off my gaze. "I mean, you can't marry her if you don't love her, right?"

From Olivia's gaze I can guess that she is currently hiding something from me. And now I want to know what she's hiding from me.

I kind of leaned my body to look at the face of Olivia sitting on her wheelchair.

"Don't hide anything from me, what do you mean you said I loved Vernon a long time ago?" I tried to look at her so closely that the girl in front of me was now telling me everything. "Can you tell me what happened ten years ago?"

Olivia did not answer immediately, she looked at me with a little fear until her eyes looked teary.

"Viv, are you here too?" Suddenly Alec's voice came from the direction of the room door.

Immediately I straightened my body and turned to Alec who had already walked towards the two of us. Seeing her I wanted to hug and kiss her, but Alec walked over to Olivia and gave her kiss.

"Did I interrupt the women's conversation?" Alec asked turned to me who still could not accept himself kissing Olivia in front of my eyes.

It felt like I pulled Alec's head and grabbed his lips. But that's something I can't do. I will wait until both of us later, and I will not forgive him for daring to kiss another woman in front of me.

"No, I just drove Olivia here, too. I'll be back in my room soon too." I answered after that, turning towards Olivia who kept looking at me. "All right, I'm going out."

My mind was still thinking about what Olivia said as she walked back to the room. Olivia seemed to be hiding something from me and her gaze looked like it was scared of me. What exactly happened ten years ago?"

In the room I contacted Sesya to talk to her. I was planning to ask you something about what happened ten years ago even though Sesya definitely didn't know about it because we just met eight years ago.

"How can you not remember everything that happened ten years ago Viv?" Ask Sesya in a surprised tone. "How can I know because we just met on your sixteenth birthday."

"Yes, I know that too." My answer felt futile to ask Sesya. "Actually if I think there's nothing I remember before I was fourteen." I got up and sat on the bed.

"That's very strange. Is it possible you have amnesia? Were you also involved in that incident ten years ago and have memory loss?" Sesya's voice sounded very convincing at this moment. "Is there anything you remember when you were fourteen?"

I was silent for a moment while remembering something. A memory emerged when I woke up in my room confused. It looked like nothing was different but I felt like there was something strange because there was nothing I could remember except my name and who I was, as well as some of the things that happened when I was a kid.

Arthur said I slipped and fell down the stairs and was confused at the time because my head was hit hard enough. I believed it and didn't want to think about anything because my head hurt so much back then if I tried to remember what happened.

"Viv, do you hear me?" Sesya's voice rattled me from my mind.

"My head is sick now, Ses." I answered while holding my head. "Can you come see me today?"

"Yes, I really want to see you today." Answer Sesya.

"Can you go to my house first to take my fourteenth birthday photo album?" I asked to put my sick head back on.

"All right." Answer Sesya.

I'm still thinking about everything. Anything feels weird now. I don't remember anything from ten years ago, and everyone who seems to be hiding something from me.

Renata knew something because of that she asked like yesterday to me. It was apparent that he had no intention of clearly saying everything. So did Olivia. He hid something and accidentally misspoke by saying that I loved Vernon a long time ago. I remember Vernon saying I would get no answer about it from anyone. Have they all agreed to hide all that from me?

Suddenly the door of the room opened and Vernon appeared in bloodstained clothes. Almost all the white shirts he wore were blood stains, even his hands still looked red marks which I believe are blood stains.

Without looking at me for long, Vernon walked into the bathroom. I'd rather just stay in bed trying not to care about her. The sound of a water tap rang out and it seemed like Vernon was washing his hands which were still red.

Not long after he came out of the bathroom bare-chested because his shirt had been removed. Then he went into the clothes room and stayed there for a long time.

Almost half an hour Vernon was in the clothes room, it made my curiosity appear. Immediately I walked up to the clothes room door and slowly opened the door. But still the sound of the door was heard to make Vernon who was originally just sitting on the sofa in the middle of the room turned his back to the entrance, stood up. He immediately closed the door where the figure of the woman named Wynetta was hanging, then turned to look at me with a cold gaze.

"I think you crossed the line by bothering me right now." Vernon was still standing in the middle of the clothing room.

"I'm sorry, you've been here so long that it makes me wonder what you're doing here." I replied feeling a little guilty for interfering with his privacy. "But we're married there shouldn't be any privacy between us."

My words made Vernon snort with a grin. Yeah, what I said was something stupid, even last night I laughed at her when she mentioned our marriage.

"Well, I won't bother you anymore." I was about to close the clothing door again.

"Wait a minute!!" Vernon. "Tonight you're gonna have to come with me to an event, but you're gonna have to listen to what I'm saying, you're not gonna take my hand off."

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