Hope and revenge episode 24 – 25

HOPES AND REVENGE
EPISODE 24& 25

**** ALEXA’S POV
Sparks.
Fireworks.
That’s literally everything I felt when William’sl-ips c@m£ crushing down on mine.
I held my breath as hisl-ips grazed over mine waiting for permission.. For me to give him space.
He was st©pping himself from claiming myl-ips.
He wanted a go ahead.
My breaths bec@m£ laboured as I continued to purse myl-ips.
And that’s when I felt him moving away from me.

No..no..

“I’m..sorry.. I’ve never done this before”
I whisper, fidgeting. That made him st©p, and he turns with a shocked expression on his face.
“You’ve never been k!$$£d before?”
I just nod.
He walks back towards me and tra-ps me yet again,his face dangerously close.

My breath hitches.

I could literally smell the sweet scent of his pomade.

I stare up at him, l!çk!ng myl-ips.

His eyes darkens.

“I’m going to k!ssyou now.”

It wasn’t a question.

No.

It was a statement, ma-king me aware of his intentions beforehand.

I nod.
And that was all it took for williamsl-ips to posses mine.
His right hand rested tenderly on my cheek as he k!$$£d me slowly, so slow you would think he was scared of breaking me. We finally pu-ll away to get some air as he sets me down slowly. As soon as my legs hit the floor, they feel wobbly and immediately lean into William wra-pping my arms around him to steady myself.

“You okay?”

He asks softly, staring intently at me.

His gaze was so intense I had to look away,b!tt!g myl-ip.

“Y…yes”

I stutter out of breath.

Darn! That k!sssure knocked the breath out of me.

He nods and then let’s go off me.

I immediately feel dizzy and my legs almost gave me away until William grips my w@!st to steady me.

“You’re not okay. You’re still weak. You need rest”

he tells me.

“It’s probably because I’ve not taken my pills in a few days”

I answer and he frowns.

Another wave of dizziness hits me and I grip him ti-ghter.

“Alexa, you’re weak.”

He says before bending a little.

“Hold on ti-ght”

he says and before I could grasp what he meant, his hand goes un-der my th!ghs as the other goes on my back.
I almost squeal as he lifts me up bridal style,instinctively I ti-ght£ñ my grip. I nuzzle my face into his n£¢k as he begins to walk.

Soon my back hits the soft mattress.

“You didn’t even finish your soup Alexa”

he scolds me staring at the half drank soup.

I stare at my f!ngersrefusing to meet his eyes.

I can’t tell him my secret.

Not now. I hear him sigh.

“I’ve noticed how you skip your meals Alexa. Sometimes you eat only once a day. I don’t know why you’re doing this but I hope you’ll tell me one day”

he says softly and I just nod.

He was being nice to me and I don’t want to ruin it by saying something to make him snap and go back to being rude.

“Get some sleep. I’ll prepare you something and you’ll have to eat everything yeah?”

He orders and begins to tuck me in be-d,covering me with the duvet all the way to my n£¢k like a child.

“I’m not a child you know. St©p tucking me in be-d”
I whine and just chuckles. He hovers over me,places a lingering k!ssto my forehead and whispers
“Go to sleep Rose”
I smile as I drift off.
This is the second time he has called me rose.

*************

WILLIAM POV

Darn it! This woman is going to be the death of me.
How does she manage to make me hate her and then want her so badly with just a smile?.
I think back to how panicked I was when she p@ssed out.
How it felt extremely heavenly to have herl-ips on mine.
She claimed she’d never been k!$$£d but hell, her k!sses were enough to make a man go on his knees.
I sigh as I mke my way out of her room.

How long do I have to keep her hating her? Remind me.

****************

“What do you mean she isn’t picking up your calls?!”
Alice’s voice thun-ders.
“I do not know.I’ll try again after a while. It’s switched off at the moment”
Lydia answers.
“You better get her to tell you her whereabouts. I’m running out of patience!”
Alice sneers and hangs up. Lydia sighs..

********************

ALEXA’S POV

Turning in be-d, I scramble for my phone and switch it on as I sit up,yawning.

I’ve been asleep for two hours.

I sigh.

Just as I was about to put my phone down, my phone dings.

It was a text message from Lydia.

My brows furrow in confusion as I re-ad the message over and over again.

What’s this supposed to mean.

I reply her, telling her to come meet me somewhere.

pu-lling the duvet away from my b©dy, I jump out of be-d and walk out in search of William.

I find him in the living room, seated on a couch behind a l@pt©p probably working on an @ssignment..

“Hey”

I say meekly.

He turns.

“Hi. How are you feeling?”

“Much better. Umm I need to go somewhere”

He frowns.. I sigh. Here we go again.

“I’m not your slave!”

He snaps.

Ah,how I missed his sweet replies.

Note the sarcasm.

Plastering a fake smile on my face, I reply

“Technically I’m your boss. You work for me. I pay you so you drive me wherever, whenever I want”

“Well you and I are stuck here and I’ve been handed the responsibility to protect you. And yep I’m your driver but without me you can’t go anywhere because you don’t know a thing about driving”

Now it was my turn to frown.

“t©uçh”

I grumble and he sm-irks.

I snort at that.

“Pig!”

He teases.

“Demon!”

I glare at him

“Witch!”

Grumbling as I roll my eyes.

And that’s how one hour later, after back and forth bickering, we are here parked a distance away from the filling station waiting for Lydia to arrive.

I notice William pu-ll out a gun.

I skrie-k. I had seen Mr Dante give it to him for safety purposes but I never thought he’d take it out.

“Relax, I won’t shoot you”

he says.

Next, he pu-lls out a handkerchief, a small bottle then sprinkles the liquid on the handkerchief.

“It’s chloroform. Just in case”

he explains and I nod though it won’t be necessary.

Because I had purposely asked Lydia to meet me far away from the beach house.

I need answers.

Twenty minutes later, a cab pu-lls up and Lydia alights.

She types on her phone and places it to her ear.

Who’s she talking to? After talking, she pu-lls out something like a stick.

My eyes wi-den when I realise it’s a cigarette.

She lights it with a lighter and pushes it into her mouth.

She puffs out smoke which I could see from where we are parked, coming out of her nostrils.

Since when does Lydia smoke? I feel like I don’t know her at all.

“I don’t trust her”

William says beside me. Me too.

I’m beginning to lose trust in her.

In her text message, she had me she was in de-ep trouble.

But staring at her right now, typing away on her phone and smoking like nob©dy’s business, I began to confirm my doubts.

“Will? Give me the hanky, I think we’ll need the chloroform after all” I say.

He sm-irks

“when you speak like this,makes me wanna kiss you . Again”

And he was back to being nice..I blush and look away.. I think he’s bipolar.

One second he’s mad, the next he’s smiling.

Looking at him right now, with his moustache and beard on with the contact lenses, I wonder why I never recognized him.

Sure,his original brown eye colour was now black.

Maybe that’s why..

“Shall we mademoiselle?”

William asked dramatically and I snicker, stepping down.

I Iove it when he’s this sweet.

“Sure Monsieur”

I reply and he smiles.

“Go on. I’ll distract her”
he tells me and I nod. I wait for William to walk towards her before I sneak out, rounding my way to the other side so I go behind her without her noticing.
As I stand behind, I contemplate whether to go ahead or not.
She’s my friend after all and maybe those flashes I had were figments of my imagination.
Suddenly, I notice her phone that was stuffed halfway in her back pocket with the screen picking out light up.

I bend and squint closer.

It was a text message alert from an ID with the name

“A”

Why would she save a number as A?

Due to the fact that the screen was locked, I managed to catch a glimpse of the message.

“I’m getting impatient. Have you reached her at the filling….”

That’s all I could re-ad. Was Lydia going to meet up with someone else? That’s when I recall the last word.

“Filling..”

Was the full word, filling station? Because she’s currently meeting me here. I frown.

That backstabbing bit-ch! pu-lling out the handkerchief,I gesture to William who quic-kly gr-abs Lydia and holds her down while I press the handkerchief to her nose.
She struggles for a few seconds and then goes limp as the chloroform takes effect.
“What do we do? Some one might see us? Why are we even doing this?”
Will questions.
“I’ll tell you later. For now,let’s take her inside the car and tie her up”
Oh, she’s so gonna get it.

Episode 25

* ***** Pacing the length of her small ap@rtment impatiently, Alice checks her phone for the umpteenth time.
She gro-an s in frustration again.

This was getting annoying by the second.. She had been waiting for almost twenty minutes for a reply to the message she had s£nt Lydia but she got none.
Finally she tosses the phone onto her worn out mattress, walks to the fridge and takes out a half filled bottle of beer.
Throwing her head back, she ti-ps the contents into her mouth as she chvgs everything in one gulp.
She drops the empty bottle and coll@pses onto the mattress.
She was running out of time.
Her money was almost finished.
She was on the verge of getting broke.
Lydia better bring her good news else she’ll carry out her threat.
She was beginning to become useless to her anyway.

*********

ALEXA’S POV

I plaster an innocent smile on my face as William turns to glare at me.

If glares could kill, I’d be six feet un-der by now.

I mean what’s his problem? He’s the man over here and traditionally he’s supposed to carry Lydia inside not me.

“What? St©p staring at me. You’re a man,you’re supposed to strong so why are you complaining that I’m not helping you carry her

. Or aren’t you a man?”

I sm-irk.

“Ha ha very funny. I’m laughing so h@rd”

he replies dryly rolling his eyes.

“Oh come on Will just take her inside before she wakes up. Or you’re so weak?”

I tease and he narrows his eyes at me.

“You witch! Meet me in the be-droom and then we’ll know if I’m so weak”
he says and my eyes wi-den as I realise he made a s*xual joke.
Not familiar with such vulgar words, a blush creeps up my face.
“Do you not have any filter?”

“Oh no rose. Not when it comes to you”

“Are you flir-ting Mr Wilson?”

He doesn’t reply.

He just wi-nks at me and proceeds to carry Lydia into the out house.

I bite back a smile and follow him. We both let out a loud sigh after we plop onto the sofa.

We had tied Lydia to a chair in the storage room at the outhouse of the beach house.

And hopefully, when she wakes up I’ll get my answers.

“I’ll be back”

William says and strodes into the kitchen.

He comes back later with a large bowl of five rice ba-lls and groundnut soup with lots of @ssorted meat.. My eyes bulge.

I’ve always heard men have a hvge appetite but this? Is he eating for five people.

He sets it on the table and pours two gl@sses of water.

“Oh don’t look at me like that Alexa. I’m not that much of a glutton. We’re eating together. Come wash your hand and join”

he tells me,interrupting me.

I look at the table and realise another bowl of water, liquid soap and a napkin were aside.

“You …you want me to eat with you?”

I ask confusedly.

“Yep. Have a problem with that?”

He asks and I sigh.

I know why he’s doing this.

He’s become too suspicious of the fact that I’ve been skipping my meals that’s why he wants to make sure I eat by ma-king me eat with him from the same bowl.

“Ugh..no.. It’s just I’ve never eaten from the same bowl with any one”

I say instead

“Well my brothers and I do it all the time. Come now, it’ll get cold”

he pats the empty space beside him.

I guess I have no choice.

Getting up, I walk over to sit beside him and wash my hand.

To be honest, call me crazy but I’ve never eaten with my hand.

A few times.

Maybe, twice, thrice?

“Never mind I’ll feed you. I’ll make sure you eat today”

he cuts a morsel of the rice ball, di-ps it into the soup and then brings it to my mouth.

“Eat Alexa”

I open my mouth as he pushes the food inside, my ton-gue grazing over the ti-p of his f!ngers.

His f!ngersremain on myl-ips for a while before he pu-lls back.

“You like?”

“I love. It’s delicious. You’re such a good Cook”

I commend

“I’m supposed to know how to prepare my favourite dish right?”

“How nice of you to share your favourite food with me”

I say and he rolls his eyes before going back to feed me.

He feeds me for a while until I can’t take it anymore.

I pu-ll away as I chew the meat and gulp down some water.

“I’m full William. I can’t eat anymore”

I say and he eyes me suspiciously.

“You know, I’m definitely going to find out why you’re starving yourself like this”

he says sternly and I have to look away so he doesn’t see throu-gh me.
He sighs and begins to eat.
Ignoring me again.
I guess this cycle is never going to end.

*** read – Out of the box episode 33

Two hours later, Will and I walk towards the storeroom in the outhouse to check if she was awake.

“Stay behind the door yeah?”

William says as he adjusts his moustache.

I nod and hold my breath as he steps inside the dark room.. I stand behind the door and press my ear against the door.

There was an eery silence at first and then I could hear whispering followed by yelling.

“Tell me the truth!”

It was William. What truth?

“Never! Even if you chop my entire b©dy into pieces I’m not telling you a single damn thing!”

Lydia retorts.

What are they even talking about?

“Just let me see my friend!”

“Why?”

“Because I’m in trouble. I need help”

“Liar!”

“I’m not…”

“Oh shush!”

William cuts her and then there was silence.

“This is your phone right? Great. Care to explain why there’s a message asking you to bring her?”

William questions.. Silence.

“Oh I see,you’re her l@pdog huh?”

Lydia suddenly asks and I hear Will chuckle.

“Whatever sails your boat young lady. But trust me, you better start talking because when I get angry, I’ll do things to you no woman will ever like a man to do to her.”

He warns in a low yet commanding tone, reminding me of how scary he was when he got mad.

Lydia whimpers slightly. I wonder what is happening in there.

“Y..you wouldn’t…d. Dare”

she stutters.

“Oh baby doll, trust me, I don’t make empty threats. You know I’ve been to jail before. I could go back just for hurting you. If you think I’m gonna r*pe you or something, then forget it because you don’t entice me one bit. But there’s one thing I’ll surely do…”
He pauses and then whispers the next words. I strained my ear so h@rd to hear what he was saying but it was like he didn’t want me to hear anything.
There was a long silence, followed by a loud g@sp from Lydia and then a loud thud. This suspence is killing me.
fv¢k this!. I’m going in. I push the door open only to find Lydia on the chair, unconscious again. With William standing over her a faraway look in his eyes.
. The chloroformed handkerchief on the floor… I move to ask him what happened when he suddenly runs past me. I follow him.

WILLIAM POV

Sh*t sh*t sh*t!!! I ran back into the beach house searching frantically for my l@pt©p.. Damn it! Where are you?.
I ran into the kitchen and find it on the counter.
Right there in the kitchen, I switch on the l@pt©p and wait impatiently for the booting process to be completed.
As soon as it’s on, I connect it to my phone to have internet access and then I log in to Facebook and type in the words as I wait.

“University of Ghana fanpage. Save her if you can”

were Lydia’s words to me before I made her unconscious again… I can feel my heart hammering against my ribcage as I wait for my search to be complete.
Suddenly, the university of Ghana fan page pops up and I hurriedly cli-ck on it and begin to scroll down the feed for current posts.. My heart literally st©ps when my eyes land on a picture that was posted ba-rely three hours ago.
I freeze as I stare at the picture.. It had more than 2k likes and over 1k comments.
Cl!çk!ng on the comments section,a bile rises in my throat and I almost threw up.

“Despicable!”
“Isn’t she the daughter of the man who owns the Wallace group of companies?”

“How disgusting”

“Yuck! Scarface. Better yet scar b©dy. I would never approach a woman like this”

Were some of the comments I re-ad un-der the posts. Surprisingly no one, not one person commented on who posted such a picture.
I can’t keep looking at this anymore.
I go to shut off the page when a hand st©ps me.
I turn sharply to see Alexa,staring at the ph0to of herself, silent tears steaming down her cheeks.
Sh*t!

“Alexa”
I call out softly but she only backs away from me, hvgging herself as she shakes violently.
“Alexa you don’t have to look at this”
“Who did this to me? Who posted that picture of me? Why?”
She whispers to herself,P@nting heavily as she grips the counter h@rd.
I stare at the picture again and my heart breaks.
Who would do this a fellow human being? Just to humiliate them? I fume, clenching my fists.
And to think I had sworn to protect despite what she’s done to me.
But no.
Sadly no.
Because right here was the proof of my inability to do so.
Because right there, much to my disdain and disappointment on that Facebook page, was a naked picture of Alexa, with emojis covering her n*pples and pr*vate p@rt with several, thousands of scars covering her stomach all the way to her th!ghs.
I just knew, that Alexa will never be the same again after this

TBC