The Glimpse of My Past

Leandro’s P. O. V.

Seeing how Diane was still gorgeous after months of being away from her already made my day. Although she hurt my feelings again, it was fine. She was still a beauty as she had always been. Although she was a forbidden fruit that was already owned by my brother, I wouldn’t care at all. I would do everything to finally get her.

Jealous of Liam, I couldn’t help myself but think of how Diane used to satisfy him in bed. I couldn’t stop asking myself if they were already doing it, and that was what made me crazy.

Diane had gotten more voluptuous curves since the last time I saw her, and that filled my sexual fantasies even more. If we were not just here, I could have ripped up her clothes. But seeing my brother storming off here just ruined our supposedly perfect moment together!

Why does Liam always have to be at the wrong time? Damn him!

I was supposed to tell Diane everything that I knew about her abduction four years ago. I knew that when she found out that it was Liam who ruined her life, she would leave him as soon as possible. For that, I would be able to get her back. My temper sparked that I balled my fists right in an instant.

After all, it was me who liked her first. I was the one who came and got to know her first… even before something happened between Liam and her.

Before Liam raped her.

Anger heated my blood again after remembering what Liam did to her. What I didn’t get was the fact that Diane seemed to have no recollection of what had happened to her before? Was it amnesia caused by the traumatic experience that she encountered?

It was the last week of September when I went to the States to heal my broken heart caused by Diane and Liam officially being in a relationship. To forget everything, I went to different nightclubs and there were lots of women I ended up having a one-night stand with. I even woke up in Las Vegas with a naked woman beside me. I got fucked over!

Staying in Las Vegas for four months, I did nothing but fuck different women around. But there was still one thing that would never change-I still loved Diane. I still wanted her to be mine, and I would do anything just to get her back! If I had to raise hell, I would do that.Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

To celebrate New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas, I pretended like it was like the old days at a nightclub. New Year’s Eve was traditionally a huge night for Vegas nightclubs with celebrity guests, open bars, and partying crowds.

I was enjoying myself over the bar counter while listening to live bands. Still sober, I wasn’t attracted to strippers asking me to take them out. I was even more engrossed with my Manhattan cocktail in this social hour. Then, I accidentally saw one of Liam’s college troops at the same nightclub.

If I wasn’t mistaken, it was Steve-the leader of their gang and one of those sued by Mom and Dad for the reason I wasn’t able to know until now. There was actually a rumor that circulated before in EGC about Liam, but I never got interested in it because that was the time I had been busy stalking my lovely Diane.

All I knew was Steve and the rest of their friends betrayed Liam about three and a half years ago. Mom would not let me attend the court hearings way back then, so I didn’t know the whole story before. But this would be the right time to know everything about it by asking Steve. I just hoped that he would actually speak and spill the beans.

“Hey, bro!” I strode towards the black couch and firmly tapped him over the shoulder. He was even a little surprised after seeing me because he looked drunk too.

“Wait, Liam? No, I guess you’re L-Leandro? Liam’s brother, right?” he asked me.

Liam’s brother? If only this moron knew that I wouldn’t feel that way anymore! I smirked. I didn’t have a brother who was a traitor!

“Yes, bro! So, how’s life after being convicted, huh?” I didn’t care at all if he would be affronted by how I started our conversation. I wanted to go straight to the point, so I sat next to him and placed my mocktail glass on the table.

Fortunately, he did not have any stripper beside him because I might not be able to talk to him properly. If I was enjoying the loud music earlier, I was starting to hate it now because I would prefer to hear everything that would come from Steve’s mouth clearly.

He was silent for a brief moment before he replied, “Man! It was great to be in jail for six months.” Then, he sardonically laughed. “After that, I came here, and I never went back to the Philippines again. That country stole my freedom, goddamn it!”

The end of my lips curved into a smirk as my feet were knocking off the floor. Honestly, I didn’t have time to listen to any of Steve’s dramatic misdeeds in life. There was only one thing I just wanted to know-it was about anything Liam could possibly hide, or any secret that was related to him, which I could use to separate Diane and that traitor brother of mine!

Then, I narrowed my eyes when I asked Steve. “Do you still remember what happened why you were sued by my parents, bro?”

He looked at me with drooping eyelids. “Hmm, why are you asking me? Don’t you want to ask Liam about it?” He was already tipsy, and I was starting to get exasperated here.

“Well… simply because we are not on good terms at the moment,” I answered him before sipping from my mocktail.

“Uh oh! Don’t get me wrong, dude. I knew the two of you-you were really close to each other. You were even more than conjoined twins. How come you’re not on good terms now? Oh! Let me guess, men usually fight over a woman. Am I right? So, how’s playing tug-of-war?” After that, Steve laughed out loud.

He almost closed his eyes due to the intensity of his intoxication. If I didn’t need something from him, I already smashed his face on the table.

You are right, shit head!

“You’ve guessed it right then, Steve. So, what about that three years ago, huh? What really happened?” I was already running out of patience here, but this bastard wasn’t yet squealing what I wanted to hear.

“Woah! It’s a one-of-a-kind experience for Liam on his birthday bash, dude! We brought a girl in his pad as our birthday gift for him. He was so lucky! I think she’s not a prostitute or a whore. She was so beautiful-damn gorgeous that I wished, I was Liam at that time. And your brother? Fuck! Still a virgin for twenty-three years of his life? Would you believe that?”

Now, we’re finally going somewhere, and that’s good… I thought.

He grabbed his tonic gin and drank on it before he continued. “I really thought that Liam was gay. I first experienced sex when I was fifteen. What did he do for twenty-three years? Well, that was the main reason why we had to mix sex drugs in his wine and after that, we let him do whatever he wanted to do with that girl. So, he raped her, and that event led me to jail after!”

He said a lot of things but mentioning a certain girl who was raped by my brother was the one that caught my attention. I suddenly sweated with fear because I didn’t like where our conversation would go. My heart pounded like it was about to explode. My instinct prompted me not to ask questions anymore.

“Were you able to k-know who’s that girl, bro?” My eyebrows furrowed. I didn’t know how I would react if it was about something I wouldn’t want to know.

“Wow! You two were really brothers, huh? When Liam and I inadvertently saw each other again last year, he asked me the same thing! He wanted to find that incomparable girl to personally apologize to her, even if that girl might put him in jail. It was a good thing that I could still remember her name. Wait, what was it again? Hmm…” he said. His head bowed down, signaling that he was about to sleep.

Fuck! Don’t you dare sleep now, rascal!

“What was her name, bro?” I clenched my teeth as I couldn’t help myself but grab Steve by his collar. All my life, I had never been anxious like what I was feeling right now. Rage was boiling inside me to the point that I really wanted to pull his tongue out.

“Wait, I’m still thinking about it.” Steve was already sloshed.

“What is it? Tell me!” I could feel that the nightclub’s loud music was nothing compared to my tone.

“Hell, yeah! I remember now so you can remove your hands off me, dude. Based on her identification card, her name was something like Dayana? No, it was Dayanera. Could it be? Wait, let me focus for a little while. You’re pressuring me, hmm…” I waited for Steve to remember it clearly, and this was the longest wait I ever did.