Tobias's POV:
I drive all around our neighbourhood looking for Tris. With no luck finding her anywhere, I decide to drive down to the only other place I can think of, our spot by the lake. I pray that she is there. Because I don't know where else she could be. I hope that she's okay. Please, god, let my Tris be okay. I can't lose her again. Not after I just got her back. I can't.
Pulling over beside the still waters, I climb out of the car and walk fast through the tall trees to get to the hidden lake. When I reach our spot, I let out a huge sigh of relief when I see my wife sitting against a tree, her body facing away from me. Thank god I found her.
"Tris?" I quickly run to her, kneeling in front of her and holding her arm. "Tris?" But she hides her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking a little. I realise that she's crying, and my heart aches. "Please look at me. Baby, what's wrong? I've been searching for you everywhere. Please look at me. Tris."
But she won't move, and my heart sinks further. All I know is that she's crying. But I can't figure out why. Why is my wife so upset? Why won't she look at me? Is it something I did?
"Tris." I drag her hands away from her face, needing her to look at me. I see that her eyes are closed, but her cheeks are wet with tears, and her nose is red from crying. "What's wrong, Tris? Please talk to me. I beg you, please."
But all she does is pull her arm out of my grasp, moving away from me. My breathing stops, what did I do? Why is she so mad at me? Was Marcus telling the truth? Does she not love me? Does she really want to be with Robert? I cannot bear that thought.
"I'm not going anywhere till you tell me everything. I can't see you like this, baby." I try to wipe away her tears.
"I don't want to talk to you, Tobias. I don't want to see you. Just leave me alone." She says, slapping my hand away from her.
I fall back down onto my knees in defeat, there's nothing worse than having my wife hate me. She doesn't want anything to do with me. She doesn't love me. I don't know what to do with myself anymore. My eyes well up, my hands shake, my heart hurts. I can't lose her. It would kill me.
"Do you really love him?" I ask in a shaky voice.
"What?" Tris sniffles, more tears falling down her face.
"Robert. I saw that you were with him. Marcus told me everything. I didn't want to believe him, but if you don't want me anymore, I will-"
"What the hell are you talking about, Tobias?" She shakes her head. "I ran into him at the hospital. I didn't know he was there already. And then he took me to see Dr. Wane. And she told me everything. How..." Her voice cracks, and she lets out a sob. I try to take her in my arms, but she won't let me touch her. "How could you hide this from me? How could you? I don't know if I can forgive you for this. I can't. I just need to be on my own, so please just, please leave me alone, Tobias."
"I'm not keeping any secrets from you. What are you saying, Tris?" I ask, not understanding anything.
But Tris still won't look at me, instead wiping her tears away and getting to her feet. She tries to walk away from me. But I quickly get up too, grabbing her arm and pinning her back against the tree. She isn't going anywhere without telling me whatever the fuck's going on.
"What are you talking about, Tris? What the fuck happened since this morning that made you so mad? I'm not letting you go anywhere till you tell me everything!" I state firmly.
Tris doesn't meet my eyes, looking everywhere but not at me. I drop her arm and bring my hand to cup her face, tilting it up so she looks at me. And when she finally does, it pierces a hole straight into my heart. Her eyes are filled with so much hurt and sadness. I've never seen her like this before.
"My love, please tell me what's going on." I beg again. And this time, she takes in a deep breath.
"Why didn't you tell me that we were going to have a baby?" She whispers, her voice catching in her throat. "That I had a miscarriage..." She starts sobbing again. "I don't know why you chose to hide this from me, but no reason can be worthy of keeping a secret like this, Tobias. You hurt me. You broke my trust. I gave you everything, and yet you still broke my heart." She cries on.
I'm left speechless after everything she said. It makes no sense in my head. Whoever that doctor is, she's feeding blatant lies to my wife. But why would she do that? My mind runs a million miles an hour, trying to understand what's going on. And then it all clicks into place. Marcus. He must have paid the doctor to lie to my wife. He must have paid Robert too. This is beyond evil. What kind of a person does that? I'm going to kill him.
"Tris, listen to me. Everything that doctor told you is a lie. We were never going to have a baby. Trust me, I'm telling you the truth. You were never pregnant." I try to explain, but she won't hear a word.
"Tobias, please just let me go! I don't want to hear your excuses." She pushes against my chest, but I don't budge.
"No, I'm not letting you go anywhere. Not till you believe that I'm speaking the truth." I hold her tightly. "My piece of shit father must have paid her. I know that he is the only one who could do such a fucking pathetic thing. He sent me a message earlier today asking to meet him. When I went there, he showed me pictures of you and Robert together. You were both in front of a doctor's office. He said that you were cheating on me with Robert and that you were going to leave me. I didn't believe a word he said. I cursed him and left. And since then I've been looking for you. I went to the bakery, I went to our home, I even called Natalie to ask about you. And then I finally found you here. But please believe me, baby, please. It's all a part of Marcus's disgusting plan. He must have involved Robert and that doctor into it too. And they both lied to you. We were never going to have a baby. Please believe me, Tris. I love you."
"Why would a doctor lie to me? She knew my medical history! And do you have any proof that Marcus is the one responsible?" Tris questions.
"Are you seriously questioning what Marcus can and cannot do? I spent my whole life being tortured by him. He would do anything to make my life miserable! Even if it involves trying to take you away from me!" I feel hurt that she still won't believe me.
"I know what he is capable of, Tobias. But I still have no proof against him. And I'm sorry, but I can't believe you right now. You have kept secrets from me before too." My wife doesn't trust me anymore. I don't know what to do.
"What will it take for you to believe me?" I ask, feeling hurt.
"Right now, I just want to be alone." She whispers. "And I can't come home with you, Tobias."
All air knocks out of me. But I somehow manage to ask, "Where will you go?"
"To Mom and Dad's. Just till I can figure out what to do." She says.
Without another word, I take her hand and walk her to the car. We are both silent as I drive, the hurt and sadness and pain all lingering around us in the air. I feel numb, and my vision blurs as I stare at the road, but somehow I keep driving. Soon I pull over in front of her parents' house, and she unbuckles her seatbelt to get out.
"Tris..." I stop her. "I love you. I'm sorry for everything."
"I'm sorry, too." And then she leaves, without saying the words back to me.
The stinging pain returns and aches throughout my body. I don't know if it will ever go away. I don't know anything. My life was just starting to get back on track again, but in just a few hours, everything has been turned upside down. And all the blame is on my own father.
I won't let him get away with it this time. He has taken everything from me. He has cause far too much damage. The anger I always felt for him has now turned into a burning rage. How could he do this? How dare he try and take the one thing away that matters the most to me?
Pulling out of the driveway, I quickly turn onto the street and drive to where I last saw him. But the garden around the tower is completely empty, not a person in sight. I drive ahead and think of where he could possibly be. I don't know where he lives, but I could try to figure out where he works. He must have a lot of money to get people to work for him.
After snooping around on the internet and trying to find out where Marcus works, I finally come across a website. It is under his name, and I'm sure that he owns the company that the website is based after. I search for the company's location and find that it is not far from here.
My hands clutch the steering wheel as I begin to drive there. Nothing can stop me now. Nothing. Because I've already lost everything. All because of Marcus. How long will he keep following me around? How long will he make my life hell? Will he keep snatching away anything that's important to me? Anything that makes me happy?
I thought I had gotten away from him when I left his house and ran away at eighteen. I thought I was going to get a new start in life, that I actually deserved one. But he showed up yet again, and hasn't left me alone. Not anymore, not for much longer now. He has to pay for everything he has done to ruin my life.
In the distance, I see the company's building lit with its name in bold letters. EATON ENTERPRISES. I don't know when he built all of this. When I was younger, he used to work in an ordinary bank. But it doesn't surprise me, Marcus will do anything and remove anyone from his path to climb higher and higher till he reaches the top.
Parking the car in front of the building, I storm inside. A receptionist stands behind a desk in the lobby, asking me to stop, but I keep walking ahead, not stopping for anything. She calls after me, but I quickly get inside the elevator and press a bunch of random buttons. The enclosed space immediately spikes my anxiety up, but I try to push it down.
The elevator doors open on the 9th floor, but the whole place is empty. I walk out and try to open a closed office door, but it's locked. Getting into the elevator again, I go up to the 20th floor, and it's empty too, all the doors shut and locked. The website said that this is a pharmaceutical company, but I don't see anything of that sort here.
Finally getting into the elevator again, I press the button for the highest floor: 42. I reach there in no time, slowly walking out to look for someone. And then I see a door ahead, the sign on it reads CEO. I try the door again, and this time it opens. But to my utter shock, I see Robert Black standing inside. He's holding a bottle of whiskey, sipping straight from it, and beside him in a chair is my piece of shit father, Marcus. My suspicions were right.
"Hey, Tobias, what're you doing here?" Robert slurs.
"That question should be asked by me, Robert. What are you doing in Marcus's office?" I glare at him.
"Actually, this is my office. I'm the new CEO of Eaton Enterprises!" He chuckles, raising the bottle up. And then I remember that Tris had mentioned he became CEO of a rich company. But never in my dreams did I imagine it would be Marcus's company.
"So, how did you like this new turn of events, son?" Marcus speaks up.
"What did you do? What the fuck did you do, Marcus?" I yell at him.
"I just thought he would make a perfect fit for our team. You know, I'm retiring soon. And I needed someone I could trust." He smirks, his eyes evil as ever.
"How much did you pay that doctor? What lies did you tell her to feed my wife?" I yell again.
"Oh, it was nothing. I just asked her if she could tell Beatrice that she had a miscarriage when she was pregnant with your baby. She easily complied when she saw the money." He sneers.
I walk further inside, my fists clenched. But before I can do anything, Robert starts laughing. "Poor Beatrice, she didn't remember anything and got so upset." He laughs again, and my blood boils. "But don't worry, she won't be upset for too long. When she leaves you and becomes my wife instead, I will make her forget everything about you again. And it will be very easy once she gets into bed with me. She will forget even her own name after I fuck her."
My fist crashes into his mouth strongly, and he immediately falls to the floor, the liquor spilling everywhere as the bottle breaks into a million pieces. My rage builds on as I pick him up from his collar and punch him again and again. How dare he talk that way about my wife? How dare he even think about my wife? I won't spare this son of a bitch this time.
But Marcus intervenes, getting between us and stopping me. I almost land a punch on his face too. He is the reason all of this is happening in the first place. He is the reason my whole life has been taken away from me. I glare at him, my breathing heavy, and then I hear something move behind me. Two guards appear and hold me roughly, keeping my arms down.
"It would be better for you if you forget that girl, Tobias." Marcus speaks, looking at the gaurd and motioning at him to take me away.
I move reluctantly, my eyes still on him as I scowl. They drag me out of the office and then into the elevator, cursing at me. I try to get my arms free, but their hold is strong. We reach the lobby, and I am carried and thrown out of the building, given multiple threats and warnings to stay away and never show my face here again.
My jaw hurts, and there are multiple cuts on my face, in the rage I didn't feel anyone hit me. Looking down at my hands, I see that my knuckles are all split open, blood gushing out of the raw flesh. I should have kept myself a bit more in control, but when that fucker said those things about Tris, I couldn't stop. He deserved it.
Breathing deeply, I walk back to my car, trying to think of something else. Those two men inside have taken away everything from me, everything. And I'm not going to stop at anything now. Whatever may come my way. Because I am not going to give up so easily. I am going to keep fighting for Tris, and for our life. Till my last breath.
A/N: Hey, guys! How are you liking this turn of events? Stay tuned because there's more to come!