The first physical appearance she see in the mirror is her mom smiling at her. Ella quickly closes her eyes in shock. She gently opens it and she can see herself in the mirror, looking so pale and disturbed.
She carefully pulls the necklace and returns it to his original spot. "I know you are with me mom." Ella whispers in her mind. "I need strength and courage to repay those who did that horrible thing to you and my entire family, they even killed you with my unborn sibling. I will never forgive them." She whispers in her mind.
Ella walks downstairs to join her new companions, they are discussing about a particular television program that is currently showing on the television screen. She sits close to them and focuses on the program as she can't join them in their discussion.
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Lola drives in wearing a very determined look, with Malik on her side, she feels very relieved and sure of her self. As she parks her car gently in the compound and looks at the time, it's exactly 6 pm. She looks at the documents in a brown envelope at the passenger's seat next to her. It is the divorce papers she wants to give Judin to sign.
Again, her chest starts beating very fast as if something is banging inside. "Is this really a good idea? What about my political ambition? Who will finance the movement?" She asks her self. "What if I divorce him and things don't work out well between me and Malik? What if he is worse than Judin himself?"
The knock on her window distracts her from her deep thought, she looks to see who it was and it happens to be the gatekeeper. Lola whines down her window to hear what he has to say.
"Good evening ma." The gatekeeper greets.
"Evening, how are you doing?"
"I am fine ma."
"Is there anything you want to tell me?" Lola asks as she thinks he wouldn't knock on her window to just greet her.
"I am sorry if I might sound rude or disrespectful with what I am about to ask."
"It's fine." Lola smiles. "Say or ask whatever it is you want to."
"Ma'am, is everything okay? Strange things happened today. You parked your car outside, came in to pick something and left in a very annoyed manner. Femke also packed all her belongings and left."
"Femke left?" Lola asks.
"Yes." He nods.
"When?" Lola asks again.
"About 30 minutes after you left looking very annoyed." The gatekeeper paused a for a while and continues again. "Aren't you aware that she was going to leave today?"
"Of course I was." Lola pretends. "I just thought she was going to wait till I get back. Her contract has already ended that is why she left."
"Okay ma'am." He replies looking so unsatisfied with the answer he got, something actually smells fishy.
"Is that all?" She asks.
"Yes ma'am." He answers and leaves immediately.
Lola had never expected or thought that Femke would leave the house after the nonchalant attitude she pulled out earlier. She is very sure that Femke didn't act on her own will, her husband asked her to do it. She picks up her anxiety medication and takes a dose of it, just to prepare herself for the worse inside.
Carefully, she walks into the house with the brown envelope in her left hand and her bag in her write hand. She sees her husband settled in the couch with a bottle of wine and tumbler on the table very close to him. He is also watching a football match. "This good for nothing seems not disturbed at all after everything that had happen." She whispers in her mind.
"Welcome." Judin greets a soon as he notices his wife.
"Where is the love of your life?" She asks mockingly as she move very close to him.
"Stop it Lola, I promise you it was a mistake. Why don't you just trust me on this one and let it go?"
"Trust you?" Lola asks and sits opposite him. "You have been deceiving and lying to me since we met, and you want me to trust you? Even after I caught you and the maid making out on our matrimonial bed?"
"I already sent her packing, so i think you should worry less about her now." Judin fumes.
"Can you just listen to yourself? You sent her packing, after you took the whole advantage of her."
"She shouldn't have tried to have a thing with me in the first place, she was here as a maid, she shouldn't have wanted more."
"Why didn't you try to put her in her place or report her to be when she was throwing herself at you? No! the case was different because you threw yourself at her, sugar coating her like you did to me years ago." Lola says loudly.
"Please, let's not start this again now. I am not up for it, I have apologized to you already what more do you want from me woman?" Justin asks already getting annoyed with the conversation.
"You call this an apology?" Lola asks almost crying.
"Forget about this and let's talk about something else please." Judin sips down some wine. "By the way, what's that brown envelope you are holding?"
"I almost forgot." Lola smiles and flips the brown envelope to him using the table which was an interval between them. "You check it yourself."
Maintaining a stern stare at Lola, he picks up the envelope and peeps to see the content. "What is this?" He asks.
"What does it look like?" Lola asks sarcastically.
"Divorce papers?" He asks and start
laughing.
Lola was taken aback with his reaction to the papers, laughing? Why is he laughing instead of begging or feeling very bad. "Stop laughing and sign the papers." She fumes.
"Really? Are you willing to forgo your political ambition?"
"No, I will still pursue it with all my power and might." Lola smiles.