"V, come here. I'll check your body." He said as he turn on the lights. Veronica laugh and crosses her arms.

"Stop this Tony."

"I am serious here, Veronica." He strode close to her and pull her wrist. He start unb.u.t.toning her blouse and she stop him. He stop with exhales. He then pull her waist and measure it with his hands. She did lose weight.

He scoop her face and noticed she has dark circles and look tired.

"What's wrong with you?" She ask smacking his chest.

"V…" He scoop her cheeks. "Why aren't you giving me a chance?" She was again stupefied with his question. "Am I not caring enough?" She look into his eyes. She could read emotions and he looks broken hearted and lonely. "Am I not a good cook? Am I not good enough in bed? Tell me what I should do or change or enhance… I would do it."

"You don't understand. If you change, you are not Tony anymore. It's not really you. It's all in me. Tony, you can't just focus on me. There are lots of women who wants to marry you. Why choose someone who don't want to commit?"

"It's because I only want you." He kiss her lips desperately. She didn't respond. He release her mouth and lean his forehead to hers. Seeing the pain in his eyes again makes her heart stabbed with a hundreds of daggers. "I won't get married until you agree to marry me. I don't care how long it will take or how many months or years… Just you." He kisses her lips.

At that moment, Veronica was once again mesmerized. Like his words could hypnotize her and it scare her so much. The man was indeed in love with her but is it real or he just want to make love to her and then eventually mistreat her like his father did to her mother. She didn't want history to repeat itself. She was too scared of what's going to happen in the future though she shouldn't worry.

"Go take a shower." He kiss her forehead warmly.

She did take a shower after wrapping her wounds with silicon band. She rubbed her chest where her heart is located. She look at herself when she's putting her clothes on. She wore her three fourths sleeve sleeping dress.

He waited for her and she lay down on the left side of the bed. She pull the blanket and turn back from him.

"Good night." He kiss her temple and because of exhaustion, she fall asleep soon.

Tony wasn't sleeping at all. He saw something on her arm and he slowly pull the wide sleeve of the dress and saw a bandage wrapped around it. He pull it back and wrapped his arms around her. He caress her curve and her thigh and found something there.

He gently pull the dress and found a bandage around it. What happened to her? He immediately put it back and sat up. He cover the blanket around her and kiss her forehead.

He took his phone and went to the living room. He call the PI of Gabriel and gave him information. He wants to know what happened to her.

He went back to bed and hug her from behind.

"V," he caresses her hair. "V." he call her and she was half awake.

"Hmm."

"I love you."