I sighed and looked at my phone. 'Will everything be okay?'
"No, nothing is going to be okay, you bitch!"
My body went still, my heart started to beat, my hands were shaking but I couldn't turn around and look at her.
Has she been there the whole time while I was speaking to her husband? What did she hear? Those were the questions running in my head
I wanted to turn but I couldn't. I thought of jumping from this place and maybe escaping but then she will grab me and beat me even before I begin running.
I gathered courage and looked at her. I needed to face her no matter the situation. I will apologize to her and tell her that I didn't mean whatever I said to her husband. I know she will forgive me and smile at it. Furthermore, I am helping her carry the heir and she doesn't want to ruin anything with that.
I slowly turned around but before I could fully face her, she pounced on me, scratching my cheeks with one of her long manicured nails. I closed my eyes and let her hit me with her handbag on my face and head. I can endure it.
I knew they were married, so I was in the wrong. Seducing her husband like that as if I am his wife was wrong. I wish I had let my instinct guide me about leaving him alone, look at me now. Tomorrow, my face will look like it has been scuffed by a lion.
"I am going to kill you, what are you doing to him?"
She was shouting all over the place. She was cursing and my brain couldn't register much of what she was saying. I was calm, yes, but I didn't want to let her words get into my head until she said, "You are just like your mother, a whore who can't leave people's husbands alone!"
That hurt me. I quickly pushed her and wanted to jump on top of her but she was too strong for me. The instant I pushed her, she gained the momentum and pinned me down. Holding my hands on top of my head, this used to be sexy when her husband did it. Now it's ugly when the wife is the one doing it to you.
"I gave you all of these, Vee, all of these!"
She was shouting, but my mind was back to her previous sentence. I know my father met her mother first but he still married my mother. That doesn't qualify as being a whore. I wished she hadn't brought my mother into this. She has nothing to do with this. If anyone was to be blamed, it was me. I am the whore but not my mother.
"Is this not enough? Is this not enough for you Vee? You want to make sure that you take him away from me! You want him all alone and not even because you made me lose our first child?" She was now weeping. A part of my heart felt sorry for her.
"I didn't mean what I told him, I just wanted to comfort him, siz."
The moment I said the last word, a slap was plastered on my face, and I could feel the sting that came with it. She grabbed the collar of my dress and looked at me, fire burning in her eyes, her hair was all over the place and now, she didn't look like that one model on TV trying to sell her catwalks for Gucci or Prada. She looked like one of the whore trying to fight her fellow whore over a customer.
"Are you trying to provoke me? You didn't mean it? Xander doesn't smile at me like that. He is not concerned about the way he is towards you! You want to lie to my face that, all that was for nothing? Comforting him? Since when have you become that kind of a person?" I looked at her. For now, I didn't feel anything. All I felt when I heard her words was pity.
If she truly cared about her husband, she wouldn't be here trying to fight me. If that man was all hers, she would have been there making him feel at ease. Rubbing his back. Look at her, trying to blame me for everything. I don't think that is fair. I don't want to take all the blame. Why can't she make an effort?
"Kendra, listen, if you were a good wife, you would have stayed with your husband and helped him nurse his mother!" I growled back. Now let's see who is going to growl the loudest.
I pushed her and stood from the bed. If we are going to fight, let it not be because I am taking her place as the daughter-in-law or as Xander's lover. I want it to be because she can't put an effort and be there for her husband.
She chuckled loudly and placed her hands in front of her chest. Her bubbly breast threatening me but I don't think they are doing a good job today.
"What? You think you are better, Vee? Do you think that Xander will be over heels for you? I can do what I want because I am his wife. I am the one that her mother lives and not you. Soon she will get her memories back and will remember you, the jealous younger sister who didn't want her elder sister to be married to a rich boy!"
She was shaking her head, using her long fingers to explain everything, and angering me.
"Wow, you know am still wondering, why would a good sister-in-law be busy fucking my ex-boyfriend, a man she once hated in the same hospital that her mother-in-law is laying in. No, wait that is not the issue, the issue is, why would she call me just a few minutes after her mother-in-law was found unconscious?"
I lifted my head and looked into her eyes. She was trying all means to cover the Shock on her face but I knew that she couldn't cover that up for long. So I am wondering, which part of my statement got her in such a manner? Was it the first one or the second one? Let's keep moving on with this.
"I have been doing some thinking. My step-sister has never been good to me, why was she acting all nice all of a sudden? Is it because her mother-in-law walked into her being fucked by my ex-boyfriend and was about to tell his son but they shot her," I watched as she struggled to keep a straight face. All that did not work well for him. She was rooted on her ground, not moving even a step further. "Since you shot her, you thought, phew, she is dead but oops, she was alive. So when she was brought into the hospital, you didn't care but you felt the guilt. Instead of being a caring wife, you washed your guilt but moaning and getting filled with my ex-boyfriend's cum inside of you!"
She ran towards me, but I was not going to allow him to jump at me. I am not going to be her punchbag this instant. I lifted my hands and pushed her back. She was still strong.
"You are thinking about your things. Why are you so delusional? You think anyone will believe you?" She asked, arrogance dancing in her tone.
I wasn't planning on telling anyone about that. The only thing I was planning to do was to get the truth out of her. Xander can do the rest. I know he will discover them. I can't get in the middle of all that. I smiled and looked at her getting stressed about all that I said.
She walked to me, her hands, dancing on her slim waist, "Well, well, looks like you have a lot of dirt on me. What about we start with you? What if I just make up things about you, I know Xander will believe me."
What?
"What are you going to do? Frame me for attempting to murder your mother-in-law? News flash, he was here trying to understand what the issue was with me, what else do you have against me?" I asked.
I can't believe she wants to go that far. How can she be cruel to me? She wants to frame me for all that?
She let out a laugh and looked at me, "You have no idea, baby girl. You are not the only one who has dirt on people. I can say, ooh, the pregnancy you are carrying is not my husband's, it's Josh's because he was the first person who forced himself into you or I can also say you were not pregnant and the doctors gave out false details but instead, you are pregnant because some men found their way between your legs," she paused his hand in the air while one of them, dangling her designer bags.
I wanted to cry. Maybe I am not that brave enough to face Kendra. She can come up with anything against me. She can also plant the attempted murder on me and I wonder who is going to be on my side.
My heart was beating erratically, my body was hot and I felt like suffocating. Kendra stood there, laughing loudly at me. I was once defeated. I can't win.
"Looks like You have nothing. So, keep your mouth shut because you can't do anything to this girl. Matter of fact, am pregnant, so I might throw you out any minute when I throw that ball to my husband. He won't hesitate to throw you out!