Emily episode 25 – 26

Emily

Episode 25

“We will finish this at home,” he started the car.

His eyes on the road. She didn’t want to be with him anymore. She regretted ever leaving Andrew. The drive along the busy roads was fast and painfully silent. Each time she looked at him his stern profile hinted at the anger he held in check. Each passing second became tenser than the last, the air more laden and heavy, and she breathed a sigh of relief as their house came into view. Max parked the car at the garage. Within seconds of them stopping he was out of the car and at her door. He opened the car door for her. He took her hand and led her. He walked in,side the house and pushed her on the sofa. Dropping his keys onto the table, he took off his jacket and tossed it over the back of a large black leather sofa. Unable to keep her eyes off him, she watched as she loosened his tie. He poured himself a glass of wine and downed it all in one go. Emily resigned herself to the situation and sat down silently.

“You were saying?” he placed the water glass on the table.

“I said I want a divorce.”

“This is a game to you, isn’t it?” He wasn’t in the mood for jokes. “You left your husband and came to me, now you want a divorce.”

Emily didn’t answer. In her chest her heart was pounding, and a wh0le stream of butterflies had taken flight in her stomach.

“I want to go, Max,” she fired at him, her heart thudding so loudly she thought he might hear it. “We should never have married. I was stupid to think it could work.”

“Stupid to try and deceive me, that’s what you mean, is it not Emily?” His words were slow and very deliberate.

He inhaled deeply, his handsome face becoming sharper than she had ever seen.

“I am not going to divorce you, Emily. Never. This conversation is over,” he stood up. “You are stuck with me, trapped, stranded. Any word you can use. I am not Andrew. You will never treat me like some kind of a dog.”

“Just admit it’s time we went our separate ways, Max. Things haven’t worked out,” she hesitated for a moment. “We have both been deceived, let’s leave it at that,” she sounded tired, as if struggling with defeat.

“You are my wife, Emily and as such I want you with me until death do us apart.”

“I don’t love you Max. I never did.”

“So you openly admit you married me for money?”

He maintained his angry defence anything other than accept what the raging pain in,side him might mean.

“Yes, I did!” she flung the words at him. ” You are different from Andew. It was a comfortable love. Not the way I love you.”

“So you have been lying to me. How you felt about me?”

“There were times…,” she paused, feeling heat spread across her cheeks as she remembered their first night together, the passion they had shared. That night there hadn’t been any pretence, any acting on her part. She swallowed hærd and continued. “There were times when it was real.”

“Let me tell you something. You don’t just come in and out of my life as you please,” he twisted her arms forcefully behind her back. “I am not Andrew but Max. You will never leave this house or get any divorce. We didn’t have this conversation. Did We?”

She kept quiet for a while.

“I said did we?!” he shouted.

“Nooo No!”

“Good! Let’s go to sleep,” he walked with her to their room.

They got in,side and slept. She tried sleeping but could not. Images of Andrew and Shania had haunted her sleep.

The next following day Max locked the door when he left for work. She sat on the sofa crying all day. She was not happy anymore. She had no friends since she was always locked in the room. Late at night as they sat on the table having dinner with Max.

“What the hell is this Emily?” asked Max angrily.

“Pardon!”

“There is so much salt in this food. What kind of cooking is this?”

“Max. If you don’t love what I cooked. Get up from the chair, take your car keys and drive to your cousin brother’s restaurant,” she spoke rudely.

Did she just talk back at him? He stood up from the chair and walked to her. He slapped her really hærd on the check with the back of his hand.

“You disrespecting me, woman. Andrew didn’t teach you any manners. Did he?”

He took his belt and flogged her.

“Max! Stop!” she pleaded.

“”You disrespecting me, Emily. You need to be taught how to respect a man,” he said to her.

He repeatedly beat her until she no longer made a sound. That night she slept on the floor in their room. The next following day he made breakfast for her and apologised for beating her up.

“I was hoping today we will go out for lunch,” he said early that morning.

“Sure!” she agreed and faked a smile.

At around 1pm, he drove the car at the restaurant. He had to go to work for an emergency. He left Emily in the restaurant. She had her eyes fixed on the phone. When she walked up to her.

“Hey, Emily. We meet again,” she said smilingly.

“Hey, Shania. Is it?”

“Yes!”

“What are you doing here?” asked Emily

“I am here with Andrew and the kids. They are sitting over there. Would you like to see them?”

“Yes, I would.”
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Episode 26

They walked together at the table.

“Guys! Guess who I have here,” said Shania smilingly.

None of the kids looked at Emily.

“Chloe, greet your mother,” said Andrew.

Chloe rolled her eyes.

“She is not my mother,” said Chloe. “Auntie Shania is my mother not her. I don’t even know her.”

“Chloe I am…..”

“Don’t even utter a word Emily,” she cut her short. “We moved on with our lives. You are never going to be my mother. You left us long time ago. You are dead to me,” said Chloe angrily.

“Chloe, my princess. You don’t mean that. She left you, Yes but she is still your mother,” said Shania patting her back.

“Auntie Shania, I don’t even knoe why you defending her. Chloe is right. She is dead to us. You don’t need to defend her. As for me I don’t want her in my life. I am so doing good without her,” said Calvin with a serious look on his face.

Emily dropped a tear and knelt down in front of Chloe.

“I am sorry, my princess,” she put her hand on her cheek.

Chloe immediately stood up

“Don’t touch me!” she yelled. “I am not your princess. Let it be the last time you call me that,” she ran out of the restaurant in tears.

“Chloe! Chloe!” called out Shania. “Let me go after her.”

Shania followed Chloe outside. Emily sat on the chair with Calvin and Andrew. Calvin was about to stand up when his father held his hand.

“What?! Dad, you really want me to sit here with her. I have even lost my appetite because of her,” she glared at Emily.

“I know you don’t want to talk to her but she is still your mother, son.”

“Dad, incase you forgetting something, this woman left us. She didn’t even come to see Chloe at the hospital. I so wish she wasn’t my mother. The thought of her being my mother it makes me sick.”

“Calvin!” said Andrew.

“Dad. If you willing to forgive her for what she did to you then I don’t know what to call you. I will never ever forgive her for what she did,” he wiped the tears. “You have no idea what we went through when you left us. Having sleepless nights. We hærdly slept because Chloe kept crying all night, asking about her. I need you to stay away from my young sister. Don’t ever come back to us. Don’t even think of it. Go and be with your husband. To us you are dead. You don’t exist. I would rather call a DOG my mother than you. We are done here,” stood up Calvin. “And one more thing. I will never take you back as my mother. Goodbye Emily!” said Calvin.

Emily watched him walking out of the restaurant. She couldn’t stop the tears from falling. She couldn’t believe that her children hated her so much.

“I am sorry about that. They are still angry at what you did,” said Andrew softly.

“And you?” she sniffed.

“I am not. I am a happy man now and I forgot about you.”

“I am sorry Andrew. I didn’t me..,”

“Save it Emily,” he cut her short. “I may be sitting here talking to you but that doesn’t mean. I will forgive you for what you did. Calvin was right, you have no idea what you put us through.”

“I made a mistake and now I regret what I did. I am not asking you to take me back. I need you to forgive me. I miss my children, Andrew,” she said in between sobs.

“Only time will tell,” he stood up.

Emily got up and grabbed his hand. She knelt down.

“Please!” she begged.

“You know my entire world fell apart. My mind overflowed with memories of you of all that we had shared, all that we knew. I longed for your touch and your warm embrace, the look in your eyes, the smile on your face,” he went on. “Our moments together were precious and few but I cherished them all more than you knew,” he sighed. “IF ONLY YOU KNEW how much I loved you Emily. If only you knew how much I cared about you. How much I tried to make you happy? You wouldn’t have left me for another man. Your respect and love is all that I needed. You never appreciated everything I did for you Emily. You didn’t know how to say, THANK YOU. I was a useless man to you. I loved you and respected you. Never talked back at you but you did. Everytime I was at work I didn’t have lunch because I wanted to save the money. I didn’t want you and the kids to suffer,” he stopped.

“I am so sorry Andrew. Forgive me please.”

“I thought I could never love again but Shania did make me fall in love again. She is the best thing that ever happened to us, me and the kids. She love those kids very much. She does everything for them. Something that you failed to do as their real mother. Shania is a very good woman and with a good heart. She wants the kids to forgive you. She feels pity for you. But I want you to stay away from my kids. You made it clear to me that they were my kids not yours. Isn’t it? Goodbye, Emily,” he said and walked out on her.

She sat on the floor and cried hysterically not minding the people in the restaurant. Billy’s wife came and took her at her car. She managed to calm her down and took her at her house. Upon arrival she went straight to bed and cried more. She was hurt, heart broken. She started packing her clothes and run away.

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