Chapter 4

VICTORIA'S POV

I couldn't believe I had been such a fool. Zayden and Maddie's relationship had been going on right beneath my nose, and I had been so caught up in love that I couldn't see it.

All those times Zayden had sneaked out of the bed to answer business calls had been his love calls with Madison.

Fuck! Was any of this ever real? All those trips he had taken and said they were business trips, was it because of Maddie? Was he spending time with her?

As I walked up the stairs, these many questions ran through my mind, Madison appeared, blocking my way.

"Step aside, I don't wish to talk to you." I said trying to brush past Maddie.

She refused, laughing in my face.

"You don't see it, huh?" She asked provocatively.

Confusion creased my brows as I asked, "What exactly am I supposed to be seeing?" I shot, frowning.

"That Zayden loves me and he is only with you because you forced yourself on him." Maddie said.

I didn't want her words to get to me, I wasn't buying it, but deep down in me, I felt hurt. I fought back the tears threatening to fall.

"Zayden loves me." I tried to sound convincing, but my voice was weak.

I felt Maddie's hand reaching out as she pulled my hair firmly. I felt the strands pull from the roots and it hurt.

"No, you little bitch. Zayden had never loved you. The only thing that ever attracted him to you was your beauty, Tory, which is evident that is all you have to offer." Maddie uttered.

Her razor-sharp words sliced into me, and I winced, shaking my head in absolute denial.

"No! You are my best friend, Maddie, you shouldn't be saying that to me." I muttered, holding her hand, hoping that she would release her grip on my hair. She didn't.

Tears started streaking that my face as she pulled harder, obvious that I must have annoyed her.

"Best friend? I was never your best friend I just used you to get closer to Zayden. Which worked. That is why after school I had all my plastic surgeries done to enhance my beauty. It worked, because now Zayden is all mine. I don't even regret putting all those contraceptives in your coffee over the years, stopping you from conceiving," Madison confessed.

I felt the ground squeezing in on me, as the truth I didn't even know I wanted to hear hit me harder than before.

Madison had been my best friend since high school and thinking about it, she truly had been acting weird. If I had opened my eyes, I would have seen what bitch she really looked like.

"Fuck you, Maddie, I trusted you." I cried out.

My words seemed only to have pissed Maddie off because she slapped me on the face, releasing my hair.

"You whore. You just wanted to keep me around to feel better, Victoria; you never treated me as your friend. You always had this look like you were on top of the world with the hottest husband who was CEO. Well, Zayden is mine." Maddie shouted in my face.

Before I cleared the air, the mahogany door opened and Zayden's voice traveled through the house.

"Honey, I am home," he said.

"Arghhh! I am here, help me please." I heard Madison's voice and turning around to see what was going on, I watched her pretend to fall on the stairs, her hand squeezing her belly as she screamed in supposed pain.

Zayden came rushing at the spit of light and me standing in front of Maddie didn't help the situation at all.

"Maddie? What the fuck is going on here?" Zayden's loud voice filled the room and I shuddered. Before I could explain that Madison was being dramatic, she beat me to it. Rumbling her way to Zayden's heart.

"Victoria pushed me because she is jealous of our baby. Zayden, she hates us." Maddie said in the fakest voice.

Zayden turned to me, his eyes shooting daggers at me as he rose, approaching me.

"Noo... no... No. That's not true. I didn't do anything." I screeched out but Zayden wasn't listening.

THWACK!

The sound of the slap that got me missing a step on the stairs and falling. I reached the base of the floor and pain shot all over my body.

"You little idiot. Madison is carrying my baby, why did you have to hurt her? Is it because you are jealous you can't conceive? Here, let me give you a reason never to have kids again." Zayden uttered as he kicked me on my abdomen.

I felt blood gush out of my mouth as I struggled to tell him to stop, and that I was pregnant.

"Pl... please, Zayden, stop... I am..." I couldn't finish it because the second blow landed harder on my stomach, causing all the oxygen to leave my head.

I kept on receiving blows after blows and even though I tried to protect my baby, the damage Zayden had committed was already done.

I noticed the streak of blood and a sharp cry escaped my mouth.

"No... fuck no! What have you done, Zayden?" I cried out weakly.

Zayden paused for a moment, and I saw a questioning look on his face about me being hurt. That stare was wiped away by Maddie's fake cry.

"Zayden, I am bleeding, I need a doctor now," Maddie lied and Zayden paused, trapped between helping me or Madison.

"Our baby, Zayden, our baby needs medical attention now." I heard Maddie's words and Zayden stepped away from me, his hands sweeping Madison in the air, before walking past me, leaving me lying in my own blood.

"Let's get you to the hospital, love. The doctor will look after you. We can't lose this baby." Zayden uttered, reassuring Madison.

I couldn't help holding back the tears that rolled down my face. Everywhere hurt, my stomach the most.

Swiping my hands between my legs and bringing it up to my face, I broke down in tears, knowing how bad my situation looked like.

Zayden had caused me to miscarry our baby because of his obsession with Madison fucking Sinclair.