Violet did not know how she had been able to go back to work and do her job after she learned the truth. She was on autopilot.

Gabriel had called her as per usual, but she kept making the excuse that she was busy and had no time to talk to him. She was exhausted, trying to evade his calls and pretend everything was okay when he texted.

'Why is he doing this to me if he's already with someone else. How cruel can you be?' She cried herself with that question in mind every night since then.

But after a few days, she decided that she would make it clear to him once and for all that she was not some chick he could play with. That she was a person that deserved to be loved.

She let the phone ring for a while before she picked up his call to prepare for what she wanted to say to him.

"Violet, oh thank god you answered the phone. I thought something happened to you. Is everything okay?" Gabriel sounded tense. She always answered her phone when he called, so he thought she might have been in danger.

"I am fine. What do you want?" She asked in a stiff voice.

Gabriel frowned, "Why do you answer me like this every time I call? I feel like you do not want to talk to me anymore."

"I want to break up with you," she went straight to the point.

"What?" Gabriel thought he misheard her and asked her to repeat again.

"You heard what I said. I want to break up," She repeated, and he was stunned.

"You want to break up with me? Violet is this some kind of a joke because this is not funny," he scoffed.

"No, I thought a lot about us. We are not compatible. Sooner or later, you will realize I am correct. We can avoid getting hurt the sooner we end this relationship," she gritted her teeth as each word came out of her mouth. She loved him so much, but she also had to protect herself.

"Violet! Enough of this nonsense. There is no issue we cannot sort out. What did I do wrong? I'll do everything to make it right. Don't break up with me like you don't care about this relationship," he pleaded.

She melted at his words, but then she remembered what Alya said, that he used her as a placeholder until Alya came back. Just the thought of them having a kid and getting married put her back in perspective. She will not allow herself to be a mistress or a third party.

"Gabriel… I… I don't love you anymore. So stop bothering me," she said with a catch in her voice. There was absolute silence from Gabriel's side, that for a second, she thought their call got disconnected.

"Fine. If that's what you want," He said and ended the call.

Violet sat on her bed numb, she did not expect him to accept it so calmly that she thought, "Alya was right. He didn't love me after all." When reality hit her, she began sobbing uncontrollably. She had ended their relationship, but it felt like he stabbed her heart when he readily agreed.

Work the next day was gloomy. She operated like a robot and was not interested in anything. Now she understood why people felt lifeless after parting with their lovers. The pain was more than physical, and her spirit had gone. She had no more will to live.

She remembered she needed to go to the supermarket after work, so she made a detour and passed by a dark alley on her way there. When she felt somebody touch her shoulder, she began attacking the person in the dark, using her purse to inflict as much pain as she could.

"Help! Help! Thief!"

He covered her mouth with his hand and hugged her from behind, "Shh… it's me, it's me…," he whispered in her ear.

"Gabriel! Why did you do that?" she asked when he let her go.

"Let's go! I'll explain later," he dragged her towards his car so they could get out as fast as they could.

"What are you doing here? Leave me alone! We broke up already, if you keep forcing me like this, I'll have you sent behind bars," she argued as she tried to struggle from his grip.

Gabriel smirked, "You think the law can touch me? I think you really don't know who I am."

He dragged her despite her continuous cries, but nobody was there to witness it. As soon as he sat her in the car, she tried to get out. But the doors were locked from the outside.

"Let me go, Gabriel! I do not want to go with you," she faced him with anger in her eyes.

He grabbed her shoulders and said in the coldest tone she has ever heard from him, "I am not in a good mood right now, and I have no time for your whining. So either you keep quiet until we reach my place, or I can show you how angry I feel right now in the back seat of this car, and yes, it is what you think it is. So decide fast."

Seeing his deathly stare, she silently sat back in her seat and clicked her seatbelt on, she had really pissed him off this time, and it seemed that if she caused too much trouble, she might end up losing her v card at the back of his car.

Satisfied by her obedience, he drove quietly to one of his properties. He had instructed all his staff to leave for the day so they would not get interrupted. He lifted her in his arms and went straight to the bedroom.

He stood in front of her after he laid her down on the bed, "Now tell me what you had to say during that sordid phone call last night," he barked.