EROS' POV
I got up from my bed and checked the time and it was 9am. I stood at the window looking at the view of the city. It's been one month that I have been here in New Zealand and I can't seem to get used to their time and yeah it's been one month since I last saw my wife Evelyn.
After our fight that night it dawned on me that this marriage shenanigan wasn't going to work. Liking her changed me and I didn't like the changes. It made me possessive about her and she literally occupied my mind all day that I couldn't get any work done. Hence, I decided to make this little business trip to move on from her.
I thought having some time apart without seeing her will make me forget about her and easily move on. So far it has been working. All I do is go to work, then to our construction sites and then to a bar or strip club to relieve all the stress after which I came back to my vacation home. That has been my routine for the last month and it gave me little time to remember Evelyn or even think about her. I was still in my thoughts when a phone call brought me out of my trance.
"Hello son, how have you been?" I heard my dad's voice ask
"I am fine dad", I replied him
"Where have you been" he asked me yet again
"How did you know I'm not around", I asked him not surprised because it is so typical of him to know my whereabouts.
"I dropped by the company yesterday to see you only for me to hear about your sudden trip. And I heard you have been away for so long", He told me
"I need you back here at home as soon as possible. You are a newly married man for God's sake and on no account should you leave your wife this long. I trained you better than this" he said coldly
"But dad I still have some work left over here. I can't just leave it and come back. That will be irresponsible of me", I tried to argue with him.
"Okay, now I am ordering you as the owner of the company to get your ass down here and leave the responsibility of the outcome for me", He said with a tone that hinted that this topics wasn't up for debate.
My parents must have caught on to what is happening between Evelyn and I for my dad to act this way. I decided to pack my bags, besides its time I headed home anyways.
I made a call to my assistant to arrange my jet home since I will be leaving in the evening. I went to work to leave them with further instructions and equally hand over to someone that will oversee the project while I am gone.
My flight left at 8pm and I got home around 2 to 3 am in the morning. When I entered inside I noticed the house was extremely quiet. Maybe Evelyn is deeply asleep so I didn't want to wake her I quietly headed to my room. I woke up in the morning, prepared for work and went down for breakfast but I only saw Mrs Teresa with only a plate of breakfast served for me.
"What about Evelyn?" I couldn't help but ask
"She is at her parents", Mrs Teresa replied me coldly. I noticed the cold reply but I didn't care to bother. I ate my breakfast and went to work. I was at work when my mum called me
"Where the hell have you been", my mum shouted at me over the phone. Her voice seemed as if she was crying.
"Mum calm down and tell me what is going on", I asked her.
"Come to the hospital right away your wife needs you" she told me hanging up. Immediately she said my wife needs me and that I should come to the hospital my heart stopped beating and my mind went blank. I couldn't breathe and I was in panic all I could mutter was nothing should happen to Eveyln because if it should then it will be totally my fault.
I took my keys with my shaking hands I rushed out of my office. On my way down I met with Ivan. When he looked at me and saw how disheveled I was he took the car keys from hands.
"Where are you heading to like that, you can't even drive in the state you are in" he shouted at me. All I could mutter was I need to go
"Where to?" He asked me and just then my phone tinged. I checked it and it was a message from my mum with the hospital address and room number. I showed it to Ivan and he helped me out of the elevator and put me in the car then he drove off.
As soon as he got to the hospital driveway I jumped out of the car and ran inside, I couldn't hear his voice of asking me to wait for him. I rushed in and asked one of the nurses the direction to the room number my mum sent to me and headed to the room
I hurriedly opened the door and I saw the doctor covering the patient laying on the bed and I heard him saying their regular lines
"I'm so sorry we lost her but truly she indeed was a fighter and she fought till her last moments" the doctor said. I didn't even wait for him to complete his last statements before i grabbed him on his coat.
"You didn't even try all you could and how dare you call yourself a doctor I shouted at him. My line of vision looked behind the doctor and I saw my parents, then I saw Evelyn in the arms of a young guy crying her heart out and when I looked at the bed I saw Evelyn's father holding the hands of the covered patient and that was when it dawned on me who had died.
I left the doctor's coat and apologized. At that moment I didn't know what to do. Evelyn was already in another man's arms and I didn't have any right at that moment to ask him to let her go or even console her. I left her for a fucking whole month without contacting her or even letting her know that I was leaving.
Even for the whole three months we have been married I have never for once called her parents or even visited them. Just then I realized how terrible of a son in-law and husband that I have been. Honestly I shouldn't be counted as a member of their family given how I have treated them so I left them to grieve while I waited outside. Just then Ivan spotted me and came over
"What is going on and why are you outside" Ivan asked me.
"Evelyn just lost her mum" I told him wearily.
"Fuck... but shouldn't you be in there with her so why are you outside" he asked me.
"Mehn I really fucked up big this time around" I told him sadly
"She needed me and I wasn't there for her, I just feel like shit right now " I told him with tears dropping out of my eyes.
"Hey come on man, you can still fix this it's not late " he told me
"It is man, it is already" I said to him crying .
And just then my parents filed out with Evenly and the guy holding onto her so that she wouldn't fall apart because it looked like she would any moment from now.
The guy holding onto Evelyn saw Ivan and I and greeted us with a sir. Then I realized that his face looked familiar and for him to greet us that means he knew us too.
"He is Evelyn's bestfriend that is interning in our company", Ivan whispered to me.
So this was the so called bestfriend that is trying to ruin my marriage huh. When I looked at him I became angry because this was all his fault. The last fight i had with my wife was all because of him. I became very angry but held it in. I looked at Evelyn and saw how distraught she was and I was shattered. She looked so pale and fragile like a porcelain doll and all these while she didn't even look at me.
After looking around she rested her head back at the crook of the arms of her bestfriend. Atleast I deserved that much for being a dick I thought to myself.