"What are you doing, bitch?" Isabella yelled at Rose and quickly got out of the bed, not minding that she was naked.
"Stay out of this, bitch! I need to wipe off that cocky smirk from his annoying face." Rose yelled back at Isabella, who was trying to stop him from getting to Elvin. Elvin on the hand was amused. He was confident that she dared not touch a hair on him.
"You do know that you are going to live in jail for the rest of your life, if you attack him with that bottle? You dare not attack Elvin Wellesley and go scotfree!" Isabella told Rose.
The word 'jail' seemed to weaken Rose's knees and she stopped walking towards Elvin.
She looked at her hand and saw the bottle, then quickly dropped it as if she just got out of a trance, whereby she didn't know what she was doing.
Elvin laughed at her shocked reaction and got out of the bed, naked.
"You two can have the whole house to yourself, since you won't stop yelling and keep disturbing my ears." Elvin informed the ladies and walked into the giant walk-in wardrobe. In less than three minutes, he had put on some comfy clothes and was walking out of the room.
"What are you doing?" Isabella shouted after him. Rose on the other hand, was transfixed and stayed rooted to a spot.
"What does it look like I am doing, dumbo?" Elvin yelled out, without looking back.
"Asshole!" Isabella gritted out.
"By the way, you look as hot as hell!" She said loudly and chuckled.
"Wait up, we can go have fun together!" She yelled and quickly grabbed her skimpy, short gown she had discarded on the floor.
She pulled it on her naked body and rushed out, bumping into Rose on her way. Rose fell down from the impact and remained there for some seconds.
Everything that had happened, felt surreal.
The tears she had been keeping in, forced their ways down her cheek and she was too tired to stop them, so she allowed them to flow freely.
"How could Isabella do this to me?" She stated aloud.
Afterwards, she managed to pull u the little dignity she had left in her and dragged herself out of the house.
It was getting late and she didn't own a car, but she didn't care to think of anything like safety. She just wanted to get as far away as possible from Elvin's house.
~
"You look terrible, girl! What happened to you?" Rose's supervisor at work, asked her, the following Week, a Monday morning. The older woman had a concerned look on her face, seeing the state, Rose was.
Rose had cried throughout the whole weekend and couldn't sleep a wink. She felt betrayed and humiliated. So, she had ugly bags under her swollen eyes.
"Just a rough weekend, Ms Ria!" Rose told her supervisor.
"Boy's trouble?" Ms Ria blurted out. Rose was taken aback.
"How did you know?" Rose asked, feeling surprised. Ms Ria smiled a little.
"From experience! I have been there, girl. I know how a lady feels and looks when she is being troubled by love." Ms Ria stated. Rose's soul was touched by that and she decided to open up to her supervisor.
She was actually tired of bottling it up with no one to share her pains with.
"Love trampled on me, my soul and my dignity! I was humiliated by love, that I gave my all. I was betrayed by friendship. After I gave my all, I was told my all amounted to nothing." Rose sobbed.
"Come here!" Ms Ria said and pulled Rose in a warm embrace.
"Do you know what that jerk told me?" Rose looked up at Ms Ria's face.
"Tell me about it ..." Ms Ria stated, attentively.
"He said, I am a nobody who is absolutely nothing without him and that he is the best I would ever get. I feel so worthless!" Rose opened up to the older woman.
"I can't believe I loved a narcissistic, jerk like him." Rose added.
"You are not worthless, Rose. Why don't you show him that he is not the best you could get?" Ms Ria asked, but she wasn't expecting a response from her, so she continued talking.
"Let me know you are a great woman who can get any man wrapped around your finger, as you want. Become a better version of yourself, get someone greater and better than that jerk and make him crawl at your feet, pleading to you to take him back. That is the sweet revenge you can get for your pride as a woman!" Ms Ria told her, supportively.
"Sweet revenge?" Rose stated, unsurely. At that moment, another worker entered the kitchen where Rose and Ms Ria were having their conversation.
"Ms Ria, there is something you must check out, urgently. Can you come with me right away, please?" The waiter requested of her and the latter nodded, then followed him out of the kitchen.
"Sweet revenge?" Rose repeated after she was left alone.
"But where and how exactly can I get someone better and greater than Elvin Wellesley?" She wondered aloud.
Elvin Wellesley was the only son of the most popular billionaire in their country. Coupled with having a billionaire father, he was an athlete with great body and good looks that made every lady swooned.
People were lost for words when they heard Elvin was dating her, the poor, uneducated orphan who was working different part time jobs to make ends meet.
It was so unbelievable!
They had gossiped that she either had something on him or bewitched him. And she had always felt small beside him.
Here was how it started; she had been harboring a crush on him like every other young lady in the city. Everyday, she would look at the billboard which had his picture, hung outside the restaurant she worked at, and along her street, and would smile brightly.
A day won't pass by, without her seeing his picture.
"He is God's gift to women! I mean, how can a man be that gorgeous?" She would swoon. She had never missed watching his match, even though she was never a fan of basketball.
Then, one fateful windy night, her seemingly unreachable celebrity crush showed up, at her doorstep, oozing blood from his forehead, with some gangsters on his tail.
"Oh, I don't want to wake up from this dream!" She had thought she was in the dreamland when she saw him but snapped out of her trance when one of the gangsters caught up with him and made to strike him with a knife.
"Somebody help me!" Elvin had screamed.
Rose lunged at the gangsters and dealt with them, mercilessly. She was an average fistfighter, so she had managed to engage the gangsters till the police arrived at the scene.
But she sustained some injuries in the fight.
"You are a lifesaver. I really want to compensate you for what you have done for me. What do you want?" Elvin had asked her, after the gangsters were arrested.
"You!" Rose had blurted before realizing what she had said.
*Back to the present*
"Something better and greater than Elvin?" Rose thought hard and after few minutes of thinking, her eyes shoned with hope.
"Of course, there is someone!" She stated with a smirk.
"His father! Warren Wellesley, the most popular billionaire in our country!" Rose squealed at her discovery.