"I love you"
Mercedes hesitated for a while before sending the text to her husband. She was so nervous and she felt her heart was ripping out of her chest.
Just immediately a message enters her phone.
She inhaled deeply and tapped with a trembling hands and opened the message.
"It's one Thing that you are not able to give birth to a child, now you have even started not to cook on time? Do you want to starve me and Sonia to death?".
She stared at the text her husband just sent to her phone. She swore to herself for the hundredth time never to cry because of this man anymore.
After a while, she snapped back to her senses. She searched her phone for Trevor's number and dialed it. She waited for a long time for the busy call to be answered and the man's aloof voice sounded from the other end
." What's the problem?" He asked
Tears clouded her vision as his indifferent voice pierced her heart like a knife. Yet she expertly hide her feeling. "Did you forget what today is?"
Mercedes and Trevor has being married for two years. Today was their wedding anniversary. The day Mercedes gave up everything including her education to be with the man she loved.
"What? Are you playing with me?" His arrogant voice screamed again at Mercedes and then the call was cut off..
Mercedes took her time to breath in and out, but that didn't earn much in calming herself down.
She left the grocery store and headed straight home. Earlier on she dressed in a fancy outfit with the thought that Trevor would suggest they have dinner outside to celebrate the day.
Once she got to Trevor's mansion, she knocked repeatedly but got no response she had to unlock the door herself since she already mastered the new password her husband set.
Trevor usually changes the password each time he notice that she has learnt it. In his opinion, women are meant to knock or wait outside for the man of the house to open the door to his house.
Mercedes went straight to their bedroom to change her outfit and prepare dinner for her husband and his guest . However on getting closer to the door, she heard a familiar voice moaning her husband's name.
She couldn't believe it at first but more moaning followed and the sound of slapping flesh.
"There is no way that could be my husband in there " Mercedes muttered. She held her weak chest and slightly opened the door.
Her husband even forgot to lock the door and when Mercedes entered, she was shocked to the bone "Trevor! , Sonia! ?"
The cup she was holding slip out of her trembling hands and shattered on the floor on seeing her husband's bare body entangled with the visitor she has being feeding for the past week.
"What are you doing here Mercedes. Did I ever warn you to knock and wait for my response always?" Trevor shouted with no ounce of guilt.
"Didn't you say she was not coming back any soon"
Mercedes mind went blank. she wondered how long she has being deceived and used. She knew who this woman was. She knew that she was her husband's first love. And she started dating him after sonia dumped him and left the country for her masters degree
Seeing her husband shout at her in front of another woman, pointing at the fact that she didn't knock and wait for his response instead of focusing on the fact that he was caught cheating, shattered her heart the more. She was ready to accept that he was drunk and this was a mistake
"Honey? what did I ever do wrong to you?"
Sonia jumped down from the bed, covering her body with Trevor's shirt. "you are not supposed to find out this way Mercedes but we got married. Sorry I couldn't invite you. "
Anger rose inside of her as she pushes the door open to enter properly.
"Married? I must be a joke to you both . How dare you do this to me! Why? I love you Trevor, I have always had. Even my family were against this marriage but I had to give up everything to be with you. My family, my career! Why do you want to make a fool of me?"
A slap landed on Mercedes cheeks leaving her crashing on the floor.
"How dare you talk back at me Mercedes? Do you think we are on the same level? Socially and otherwise? I picked you from the gutters and now you won't be grateful that I gave you a powerful last name!. Give up everything? What exactly do you and your wretched family actually have? "
Mercedes couldn't bear the pain in her heart anymore. She knew it would burst into pieces if she tries to hold in that anger that was weighing her heart down. She burst into uncountable tears. Crying and screaming on top of her voice.
Sonia was not bothered . She smiles and held Trevor's hand. "Well we fell in again and decided to get married"
"To my husband? Sonia? You dumped him years ago because he had nothing, now you want him back?" Mercedes voice wasn't so clear, as she stuttered in tears.
She breathed in again and looked at Trevor in pain. "So that was the reason for your sudden three months trip seven months ago? You went on a trip and married another woman Trevor!!! Could you stoop any lower to hurt my feelings?"
"You really catch on things slowly. " Trevor says
"What? " Mercedes brows furrows in surprise hearing her husband's indirect admittance. " Why didn't you divorce me. Why did you have to deceive me all this while? "
"If I had divorced you, I would lose my chances of becoming the next CEO of sterling enterprise "
Mercedes felt sick. She felt like a dagger has be struck right in her chest piercing her heart.
A sinister laugh came from Sonia " wait did you expect him to still love you after you got fat?"
"So getting fat was the problem huh? Did you even love me before then ? " You literally fed me junks Trevor. You said my body looked so skinny and I had to force myself to eat every junk I see just to please you "
"Huh? You blame for that? I never said you should overdo it"
Mercedes tearfully turned to Sonia. Knowing her narcissist husband, she was sure to argue till tomorrow without him accepting he was at fault.
"Sonia. Apart from the fact that you were Trevor's ex. You are also my cousin. How could you do this to your own sister?"
Sonia sighed without remorse. "I was but you wouldn't shut your mouth about how perfect your life was so I decided to try it out.You made me see the good in my husband thank you Do you know the funny part? You transfered all your assets to me, now you are left with nothing " she whispered to Mercedes ear.
" In your wildest dream Sonia. I did no such thing"
"May I ask if you read all the documents you signed when you were transferring all your shares to my husband?"
That sentence agitated Mercedes the more but she couldn't deny the fact that she didn't take proper look at the documents the lawyer brought for her even though it was suspicious about how many papers she had to sign.
Another mocking laughter echoes across the room. "Now, you have found out everything, all you have to do is to disappear from the earth surface. We will sort the later out and I will live happily ever after with Trevor "
That was the peak of it. Mercedes couldn't hold it anymore.
"You psychopath...!" She rushed at Sonia with her clenched fist but before she could lounge her attack, She felt a deadly pain at the back of her head.
"I love Sonia now and I will give her anything she wants. Your wealth, your connection, your assets or even your life..."
Mercedes couldn't believe those words were coming from the man she was head over heels for.
She wanted to fight back but she had no single strength left in her. Slowly everything starts to blur out until she almost became unconscious.
"You never loved me Trevor? What's the point of deceiving me all this while?"
Trevor clenched his fist trying to hide the truth. He only agreed to marry Mercedes when he found out that her father held so much shares at sterlings enterprise.
"Yes you are right . Now,get out this instant!, I really wish you died with that pathetic cancer of yours. This won't have happened if you insisted on living. I will send the divorce papers to you if that is what you so much wish for!" Trevor growled