บท 439: Flashback From the Future XX
After dinner Dom returned back to his office to finish up some work while Lia cleaned up the kitchen and Joy remained in her room for the rest of the evening.
Lia finished up in the kitchen as she dried her hands with a dry cloth and she she stared blankly outside the window, seemingly deep in thought.
She had a dead look in her eye that would be able to rattle anyone, it was clear that whatever she was thinking about was neither nice nor pleasant at all, she pondered like that for a while, until she managed to snap out of it.
Lia placed the cloth down on the countertop as she left the kitchen she looked left and then right, obviously intending to go to right, to return to her room and just stay there, because she definitely did not feel good after dinner tonight, it seemed that all her attempts had failed, she was just tired, tired of being second, tired of not being enough.
Lia decided not to give it a second thought, she turned right and walked up the stairs, shutting the door to her room, only to emerge back into the halls as she walked down the stairs, past the kitchen and she stopped right in front of the door to Dom's office.
She reached out for the handle, hesitating, but at this point, did turning back really matter? She doubted so, and without further hesitation she opened the door and walked right into his office without knocking, failing to close the door behind her, leaving the door slightly ajar.
"Hi Lia, do you need something?" asked Dom as he looked up and smiled at her, there was nothing off with Lia being in his office, she rarely knocked anyway.
Dom remained smiling as Lia strode to his desk, she did not even bother replying to his question, there was no warmth in her eyes, no niceness, no love, no nothing, she moved to his desk with her agenda in mind as she sat down across him in one of the empty seats.
Dom noticing her cold odd behaviour, became worried, it was off for her to behave like this, there was definitely something bothering her and he didn't like seeing her like that honestly.
"Lia, is there something wrong?" he asked, but this time with a calm, gentle tone of nothing but sincere worry and concern, and his negative feelings were only alleviated when she did not say a word, instead she continued looking at him intensely as there was an uncomfortable silence in the air that made Dom feel unsettled.
"Lia? is there something wrong?" asked Dom again as this time to his relief, Lia finally opened her mouth and said something.
"Yes Dom... yes there is something wrong, something very wrong..." said Lia as she took a pause.
"What is it Lia? You are scaring me" said Dom as he chuckled lightly in order to try to alleviate the mood, maybe Lia was trying to prank him or something, if she was, her aura of coldness was really getting him good.
"We need to talk Dom" said Lia.
"Sure, about what?" asked Dom as he smiled and looked at his laptop screen.
"No you don't get it Dom, we need to talk, as in really talk" said Lia in a tone of seriousness as Dom frowned and closed his laptop, feeling that this was something serious.
"What do you want to talk about Lia? Is something bothering you?" asked Dom as he focused all his attention on Lia.
"A lot of things Dom, a lot of things are bothering me" said Lia as Dom just listened to her silently.
"You see, I've been keeping all of this in for a while now, and I guess, it's time to let it all out" said Lia as Dom was confused.
"Lia, you're scaring me, really, what is this all about? Are you pranking me or something?" asked Dom with a frown.
"I guess I should be glad that for once I'm evoking a really strong emotion in you that I actually want" said Lia as she smiled, her smile void of any warmth, her eyes void of any sort of love.
"Lia, you're worrying me now, what exactly are you talking about?" asked Dom in utter confusion as he was starting to worry immensely now.
"You know what Dom, you've been talking and talking, now it's time for you to be quiet and let me speak" said Lia as in the same moment she pulled out the gun she had stolen from his office earlier and she pointed it at him.
In the moment, Dom's eyes were filled with horror and confusion as he looked at the gun, instantly recognized it and his eyes moved from the gun down to his locked drawer as he was confused.
"Lia... where did you get that from?" asked Dom as Lia just smiled at him.
"Of course you know it's you're own gun" she replied with a smile.
"You snuck into my office and took my gun?" asked Dom in disbelief as Lia laughed.
"You're stating the obvious Dom" said Lia.
"Why would you sneak into my office and take my gun Lia?" asked Dom, his voice was stern in tone as he looked disappointed.
"To make sure that you are going to listen to me Dom" said Lia as Dom scoffed.
"Is this some kind of joke Lia? Are you joking?" asked Dom as he refused to believe that Lia was being this unstable right now.
"I wish I was Dom... I really wish I was, but I'm not joking at all" said Lia with a hint of sadness in her tone.
"Alright Lia, what is this about? What could possibly be so important that you would steal my gun to get my attention?" asked Dom as he did not sound afraid at all, and that was because he was not, he knew Lia well, she was a reasonable person, she had no intention of using his gun, he was sure of it.
"Dom, always calm, always in control of the situation, at all times" said Lia as she smiled and she stood up, still pointing the gun at him, not daring to let her guard down, Dom could be sneaky when he wanted to be.
"Lia, I know you, what's so important, what do you want to tell me so bad that you would steal my gun and point it at me to hold my attention, what is it?" he asked as he was not scared at all.
Lia was educated, she was reasonable, he doubted that she would actually use his gun to harm him in any way.
"I want to tell you that I love you Dom, I really love you" said Lia in a sincere tone as Dom sighed at what she said.
"Not again Lia, not this again, I thought we went over this" said Dom as he sighed and shook his head.
"No, no we never went over this, I am sick and tired of you shunning off my feelings" said Lia in pain.
"I'm not shunning your feelings, I just... I can't, I can't love you Lia, not in the way you want, I don't love you, I've told you this a thousand times, I thought you would understand, but I guess not" said Dom as he let out an exasperated breath, he was tired of this broken record, of her saying she loved him, well he did not return the feelings, he never did.
"And why?? Why can't you love me Dom? Why??" asked Lia as Dom said nothing.
"I know why, it's because of her!" said Lia as she walked to his desk and picked up the framed picture of Natasha.
"Lia put that down" said Dom as he looked at her, not liking how she just touched his things now.
"No I won't, you can't love me because you love her!!And she's not even here, I'm still losing to a dead person" said Lia as she scoffed.
"Watch your tone Lia, that's my wife you're talking about, and she was also your friend too" said Dom as Lia scoffed and he reached out his hand to take the picture away from her but she moved it away.
"A wife you failed to love and protect, and a friend who... who never even thought about me or how I would feel" said Lia as she stared at the picture.
"Don't say that Lia, I always loved her, and I still love her, sure I might have been stupid, and that pains me everyday, but she was my first love, and I'm sorry that I ever mistreated her in the first place" said Dom in a tone full of regret and pain and anger at himself.
"Oh I know, I know that you've always loved her, I've always been second best, second place to the lovely, wonderful Natasha, in everyone's eyes, no one was as pretty, as worthy as perfect as perfect little Miss Natasha!" said Lia her tone full of anger, rage, pain, suffering, she was seething in furiousness, Dom was surprised, he had never seen her like this before.
"Lia, what are you saying? Did you hate her?" asked Dom in surprise.
"Oh yes, I hated her, I hated her so much, she was horrible, I was always being compared to her by everyone, including my own parents, it was a pain having to live in her shadow, to show fake smiles and endure having her in your life, in our lives, even though you didn't love her, no one could ever take her place" said Lia.
"Lia, are you alright?? This is your friend we are talking about, our friend? Are you sure that you are fine? This is not like you" said Dom as he stood up in worry, he refused to believe that the Lia he knew would say and think such horrible things.
"A friend that... that I was compared to, no one ever saw me, it was always her, Natasha this, Natasha that, Grandfather even made you marry her, everything was so wonderful for the two of you, falling in love" said Lia in disgust as Dom could not believe what was going on.
"I was so sick, I was hurt, I was in pain, I could not take the thought of you two being happily together, it drove a knife through my heart!" said Lia as she could not control her voice, pouring out everything like a tap with no valve.
"Lia, you and I were never together, I never saw you as anything more than a sister or a friend" said Dom.
"And that's the problem, you never saw me like that, fine I could live with it, I could endure loving you from a distance, and then Natasha came along" said Lia.
"We all grew up together... you also saw her as a friend and a sister... until you didn't, what made her so different? What made her better than me that you would choose her??!" asked Lia as Dom was silent.
"Whenever she would talk about you, how great you are, how great things were going on between you two, how nice the life you were starting together was, it made me feel sick" said Lia as she faked throwing up.
"And then you would open your big mouth and tell me how wonderful Natasha was, how you were slowly falling in love with her, you didn't have to say it, I could see it" said Lia.
"So then, I decided to take matters into my own hands..." said Lia as she took a pause and stared into Dom's eyes.
"Lia... what did you do?" asked Dom, his voice shaky, fearing that he would not like the answer to that question.
"I did the only thing I could do... cause discord between the lovely couple" said Lia as she smiled.
"I was the one who drugged both and you Natasha" said Lia as Dom's eyes widened in horror when he heard her words.
"What...did...you...say...?" asked Dom as he could not believe it, he needed to hear it again.
"I said I was the one who drugged both you and Natasha Dom, it was me, me, me, me" said Lia as she scoffed.
"I can't...believe it... how? There were security cameras" said Dom as he didn't even know what to think right now.
"Is that even a question Dom? I wiped them off, I tampered with them, it's easy for someone like me" said Lia as she smiled and Dom was speechless.
"It's funny how it took one tiny little incident to make you doubt the woman you loved" said Lia as she laughed.
"Are you alright Lia??! Of course I would doubt her, who wouldn't when everything pointed to her??! When everything was planned so thoughtfully in your mind!" said Dom as he was finding it hard to control his voice.
"And I was so glad that you did, and yet you didn't still choose me" said Lia.
"But I didn't think that Natasha the perfect was also Natasha the extremely fertile, I didn't expect her to get pregnant so easily after one time, just one time" said Lia as she scoffed.
"I never accounted for a baby enter the picture, but regardless, my first aim was accomplished, you hated her, you loathed her, and I was sure that you would hate that baby in her womb as well" said Lia.
"But then Joy was born, and she lived up to her name, she was so joyous that you forgot all the hate and accepted her as your own, I didn't mind at all, after all, it was my fault, and she was your daughter" said Lia.
"You know what was also funny, the fact that you doubted Natasha's chastity and thought that the baby was another man's, let's be honest, Natasha the perfect, never had a boyfriend, and she never ever did nonsense, but it worked out well for me, you continued hating her and I loved it, everyone turned their backs on her, and I absolutely loved it!" said Lia as she laughed and Dom was still speechless, but because of her words, but because he was dwelling on his own actions, on how bad he had treated her for the past ten years when she did nothing at all, she was always innocent, the real mastermind was... Lia.
"I thought you would divorce her, but you never did, even though I was sure you didn't love her, I still wasn't satisfied, because you weren't mine, and Joy always joined you both together, she used Joy to get closer to you" said Lia as she sighed.
"Lia how could you do this?" asked Dom in disbelief, the feeling of betrayal in his eyes present as day.
"Because it needed to be done!" she replied with a smile.
...
Joy yawned as she closed her book and in the same moment her tummy rumbled, she guessed she was hungry now.
Joy got off her bed, opened her bedroom door and walked down the stairs to the kitchen to get something to eat, but before she could pull open the handle of the fridge she heard what sounded like shouting which startled her.
Joy frowned as she turned around and walked out of the kitchen, peeking into the halls, she saw no one anywhere, but the shouting came again.
Joy was curious as to what was happening, but she could hear that the source of the noise was coming from the direction of her father's office, so she walked in that direction, stopping when she heard more sounds of talking as she peeked through the slightly ajar door, only to be shocked and gasp when she saw the sight of Lia holding a gun as she pointed it at her father.
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