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Chapter 5 - You lying cheating piece of shit

My vision got blurred and for a second, the rest of the world was shut out as I stared at him.

Andrew. That jerk!

“ Daphne!" He said.

I clenched my fists. You lying cheating piece of shit, how dare you call my name?

I wanted to yell at him but I couldn't. Not like I was being held back by anything, it was just myself holding me back.

He dared to take steps towards me.

“ Daphne, I have been looking for you everywhere. You and I need to talk." He dared to say.

He took another step and I watched him, the disdain I felt evident in my eyes.

“ Daphne, babe, where the hell have you been? I've been worried sick about you and it felt like I was losing my mind. Another day without you and I would have gone completely insane. How could you suddenly disappear without a trace? How could you do that to me?”

How shameless!

Waves of anger passed through me and at the same time, my eyes welled up with tears.

I scoffed, rather painfully.

“ Have you lost your mind?" I finally said, my voice coming out as a stranded sound, somewhere between a whisper and a yell.

The way he acted like he didn't know what I was talking about. On a good day, I'll give credit to his acting skills but not today. I was pissed like never before.

“ Babe, what do you mean?"

“ Call me babe one more time and I'm definitely gonna forget my palm on your face.” I threatened, my anger rearing it's ugly head and taking control.

He was momentarily shocked by my courage.

" Daphne, what has come over you? You disappeared all of a sudden, didn't pick my calls or reply my texts. You haven't even showed up at your workplace for over two weeks. I've come to check up on you every single day and now we finally meet, you're threatening to slap me?”

His effontery is top notch! God! Did Lucifer create this one ‘cause it couldn't possibly be you!

" You know, you're a scoundrel, Andrew. I can't even find the words to describe you, you're an asshole.” I didn't care that my voice was raised and we were beginning to attract attention.

" How dare you?” I yelled at him, tears beginning to blind my vision.

" Daphne, keep it down.”

" Don't tell me to keep it down, you jerk. What? You don't want the world to hear what you did to me?” I retorted, my voice rising even more.

" Daphne… "

“ You cheated on me with my stepsister, on my mother's death anniversary. And I caught you right in the act and you… you didn't show any sort of remorse. You let days turn into weeks and you didn't call me or text me and after three weeks, you suddenly decide to start calling and texting and you expected me to welcome you back into my arms?” My voice was shaky and my hands were trembling as I clenched unto the bag in my hand.

“ I wanted you to cool off." Andrew said.

I was dumbfounded. How did he find it so easy to lie even in situations like this?

“ You wanted me to cool off or you didn't care until you found out I had gotten married?" I threw the words at him like a sharp-edged dagger.

Andrew's lips parted in shock.

“ It's true?"

“ It's true that you got married to someone else?"

I sneered, looking for some means to release the anger that was accumulating within me.

" How could you? Daphne, it was barely three weeks and you went ahead to marry someone else, how could you?" Andrew said, this time his voice was raised.

My anger was quickly converted to pain as my heart shattered. Everyone in the building was watching us from the transparent windows. I shut my eyes as the tears poured in torrents.

“ Were you two-timing me all along? Did you have someone waiting by the side? How could you have gotten married so quickly? How?” Andrew went on. He was accusing me.

I couldn't feel my heart anymore at this point.

“ Now the blame’s on me, right? That's what you always do, every single time. You never did anything wrong, it was always me. I was always the one at fault and even now, when you're the one who cheated, I'm the one who's being blamed.”

“ You let go of three years in three weeks. Why? Because I made a mistake in one night. I can't believe you, Daphne. I can't believe you'd something like this.”

I wanted to scream at him, cry my lungs out and hurl all the insults in the world at him but that wouldn't change a thing, would it?

“ I blame myself too. If I wasn't so desperate, nothing else would have made me have anything to do with someone like you." I said, my voice sounding calmer than I felt.

I made to walk away after saying this but Andrew wasn't having it. He gripped my hand and pulled me roughly into his chest, twisting my hand to my back.

“ I'm not done with you. You can't just walk out on me like that." He said with gritted teeth.

My anger returned.

“ Is your ego being shattered? I'm going to say this only once so you have to listen, I am done with you, Andrew. You're despicable and I wish you'll just die.” I spat at him.

My words seemed to have shocked him, for I managed to push him off me effortlessly.

" Stay the hell away from me!” I demanded, pointing a finger at him.

As I turned to leave, I remembered something I had always wanted to say. There couldn't be a more appropriate situation than this so I turned back to him.

" One more thing, tell the devil I said ‘hey’ when you get back to where you're from.”

Douchebag! I sneered before storming out of his presence. As I made my way to the underground parking lot, my eyes caught of a camera through a car glass. I couldn't look at it properly before the car zoomed off.

I stood in that spot, wondering what was that, when Jeffrey appeared before me.

“ Ma'am, I was on my way to check what was taking you so long. Is everything okay?" He asked.

I heaved and nodded.

" Would you like to go home now?” He asked again.

" No. Central hospital, I need to see my father.” I said and resumed walking.

We got into the car and the driver took off. My mind was totally occupied for the entire journey that I didn't even realize when we got there.

I walked to the reception, not at all eager to be doing this but desperate to fulfil my daughterly duties so my mind could have rest.

“ Good day, I'm here to see Mr Anderson."

The lady looked through the system an

d then turned back to me.

" I'm sorry but Mr Anderson has been discharged.” She said.

My eyes widened.

" What?”

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