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Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Forty-three
Ethan would have made a winning plan for the case by now, but divorce was out of his expertise, and he was careful not to leave any side unturned. He rummaged through the litters of files on the bed and picked one, but while he understood the numerous legal terms and statutory offenses as stipulated by law, it didn't change the fact that divorce was out of his jurisdiction. He breathed deeply, feeling stressed already. He hated bringing work home, more so having to work on a Sunday. But the case was two weeks away, and he needed every tick and tock to get ready.He positioned a pillow behind him and reclined on the headboard, his bespectacled face focused on the sheet of paper in his hand. He read a paragraph and sucked his teeth, then he smacked his lips and dropped the sheet.Ethan removed his glasses and rubbed his lid gently. He was glad when a knock landed on the door--he could use the distraction. And when Alethia came in, he figured he could use her company as well."Are you b
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Sophia, are you all right?"She forced a smile on her face and strained as she touched the side of her neck. The nurse who was attending to her was covering a considerable part of her image, but Ethan could see the bulge in her left cheek. "He did this?" He said as he walked across the nurse and stood beside Sophia, then he saw that her right eye was slightly closed with a bulge. Ethan gave an angry sigh and drew back a bit from her."What happened?"Alethia closed the door gently behind her. She still wasn't sure why she had insisted on coming with Ethan, but seeing Sophia in that state gave her a sense of responsibility. Sophia was going to need all the help she could get, and though Alethia wouldn't know how to go about getting her a divorce from her husband, she reasoned that she could support Sophia emotionally. When the nurse was done relieving Sophia a bit from her pain, she excused herself and left the room. Sophia looked outright at Alethia, then he looked at Ethan."Oh, th
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"Ugly things choose to happen to beautiful people?" Alethia couldn't shake the thoughts off her mind. It'd plagued her soul since Ethan worded the phrase. But what bothered her the most was her emphasis on 'choose.' She reckoned that Ethan could have simply said "Ugly things happen to beautiful people," but he'd used 'chose to happen,' and it continued to bother her why.Alethia tossed and turned in bed. The dinner in her stomach didn't seem like it had settled well, and her eyes weren't lusting for the oblivion of sleep. She knew she had to get her answer that night, lest she stay up all night.So she got out of bed and fastened the robe of her nightwear against her waist. By the time she was in the living room, she could hear movements in Ethan's room. She approached and knocked on the door, then she waited for Ethan to open. But when he didn't immediately, she knocked again. She was going to knock the third time when Ethan opened the door, surprisingly in a pair of jean trousers a
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Alethia walked quietly with the deafness of her heart as she moved behind her mother, but her footsteps were thundering in her ears. She could hear every crunch under her feet, every second looming above her head like a giant rock that would collapse on her should she take a wrong step. Emily was backing her where she sat on the couch, stretching her legs on the center table. Whatever had made her sit in the living room rather than going straight to the bedroom, Alethia would have a moment to thank that later. For now, she had to make a narrow escape.Once Emily drew her legs to herself, Alethia stiffened and held her breath, dangling on her toes. Her heart pounded severally when her mom put her legs down from the center table and picked her handbag beside her, but she remained seated. She only dropped the handbag on the center table and reclined on the couch again. Alethia continued towards the stairs as discreetly as she could, until she finally climbed. And once she was three step
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Alethia picked up the condom and turned it to every side as she looked. Somehow it looked like an excerpt of a complete story, and she wondered who had authored it, and who must have co-written the story.She got out of bed and went to stand by the window, then she raised the condom as if the daylight flooding in through the window was supposed to give her a clearer view. It couldn't have been her mother's, could it? She tried to convince herself, but there was no point in thinking otherwise when she couldn't even believe it. Alethia reasoned, though, that her mother wouldn't have left a 'male' condom in the book she got as a gift for her. Then, on second thought, if her mom hadn't left the condom there, whoever had left it there must have been questionably affiliated with her mom. There was only one conclusion, and though it was supposed to be in Alethia's favor, she wasn't finding it funny that her mom might have cheated on Ethan.Alethia scrunched up her face and scratched her for
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Alethia asked the question again for the umpteenth time, but it never went past her lips. She held the thought of asking while she continued to stare at her mom, telling herself that even if her mom had cheated on Ethan, she wasn't in the position to rebuke her. She looked at the condom on the bed and looked nervously at her mom as she approached. Alethia moved quickly and slumped on the bed so that Emily was surprised, but Alethia put on a smile, though it was forced. Emily did find her acting strange, but she didn't put her mind to it."Was that Ben on the phone?" Emily asked. She sat beside Alethia on the bed and adjusted to face her. Then, "How is he these days?"Alethia glimpsed at her mom and smiled awkwardly. "Mom, Ben and I aren't together."Emily raised a brow. "Why? Did he do something wrong?""We were never together.""What? He was your boyfriend…"Alethia sighed in exasperation. That wasn't the kind of conversation she'd prefer they have at that moment. She could feel the
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..."If she broke up with Ben, she must be seeing someone else, right?" Alethia stared at the door with the urgency that demanded attention. Emily might not be aware of it, but she was backing Ethan into a corner that he might not be able to escape from should she continue to ask those abrupt questions. And she was getting closer to the truth that even she didn't know existed. Alethia pressed her ears on the door to continue to eavesdrop on their conversations--whatever Ethan was going to reply with? But the silence was long after that."I just hope she would tell me about these things," Emily said. Alethia heard her mom smack her lips, then silence enveloped the mood once more. "Ethan?"Alethia could feel Ethan quivering through the door. The image of him in her head was that of a man who'd been caught red-handed, so he was thinking that the best way to minimize consequences was to come clean. But it seemed too soon to let the dog have the bone. It had dawned on Alethia that it was
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There was a long, still moment after Emily stepped into the room. The silence dragged and took its time to imprison the atmosphere until it seemed that Alethia and Ethan had forgotten how to breathe.Emily couldn't have missed the giggling that preceded her arrival, but now the duo in front of her were holding stunned faces that seemed they had never learned to smile. She took in a deep breath and stepped into more spaces in the room so that her presence dominated the space, and Alethia and Ethan could literally feel her in the air they tried to breathe in, and it suffocated them. "What's going on here?" She said. Emily looked at both of them consecutively and swallowed. It was obvious that they were hiding something from her--she could feel the suspicion in just about everything--the way they smiled at each other but pretended they hadn't, just when she joined them, the way they looked at each other briefly, but the brief moments seeming enforced with stories that would take them fo
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It's been two months, five days, and eleven hours since Alethia moved in with Ethan. Two months, five days, and eleven hours of carrying more than just his love and the excitement that had known no rest.Alethia leaned on him and took a deep breath to relax her body which had begun to feel heavy just recently. They were sitting on the large couch in the living room, facing the expanse of glass that opened to the garden. The sun was setting ahead, the songbirds chirped with excitement in the garden--Alethia took a deep breath again. Then she reckoned that, while others had dreamt of a life like her own, she was living it. "Are you okay?" Ethan demanded."I'm fine, love," she said."Should I get you more water?" he asked, then he attempted to get up from the couch, but Alethia held him down."I'm fine, my love," she said. Then she picked up the glass cup of water on the ottoman upholstered in red in front of the couch. She drank and returned the cup. "See? I'm okay with this.""But I
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Ethan adjusted to sit properly. "I'm sorry, Emily. I know I should have told you earlier, but-" Emily interrupted."But you didn't, Ethan. You wouldn't have told me if you hadn't mistakenly picked up your call that day, while you, Segun, and Olivia discussed it."Ethan breathed deeply. "I'm sorry."Emily chortled. "Are you? I just can't believe you had gone for my daughter while we were together.""I've loved Alethia longer than I've stayed in this house for," he said and raised his head to look at Emily. She was looking at him strangely, confused, to say the least. "Yes, I met Alethia before you introduced us."Emily scoffed. "I see you're trying to meander your way around this, heh?" "No, I'm not. It's the truth. I surmise she'd left home that night, I helped her out, we felt a connection, and though we didn't express it then. It never left."Emily swallowed. Of course, she remembered the night when Alethia packed her bags and left the house--Emily had been so devastated, more so b
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...but Alethia approached him. She moved closer so that the space left between them was so small that it could pass through the eye of a needle, not caring that he was holding his breath and trying so hard not to look at her. She swallowed the saliva that suddenly welled in her mouth, then she held him by his arms stiffened like a rock, and stood on her toes as she placed her lips lightly on his.He didn't respond. He didn't even as much as lower his gaze to look at her. But Alethia knew she'd be able to break him. Firstly she settled back on her feet and took a deep breath, then she stood on her toes again and pressed her lips on his, persistently. She could feel him going numb the more he tried to hold his wit in place, but his lips twitched now, and though he held back immediately, his hands had attempted for her waist. Alethia pressed her body closely to him so that his knees broke and he slumped on the bedside table. He looked sharply into her eyes now, while she held back for
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Alethia was staring blankly at the TV. She could barely make out what the presenter was saying, and what relevance the game show was supposed to have with her state of mind. But Olivia had promised that it was necessary, at least to distract Alethia's mind for a while. She looked at Olivia who was sitting opposite. Olivia eyes were fixed on the TV, and she was grinning as if she was the one who needed the moment the most. At a point, she laughed, and then she instinctively turned to look at Alethia, only to raise a brow at Alethia's indifference."Are you okay?" she asked. Alethia shrugged. "Isn't it obvious that I just about exist?""You can live a little as well."She dragged a breath. "You know I find no interest in anything these days. But I'll be fine, okay?"Olivia glimpsed at the TV and sighed wearily. Then she got to her feet and came over to sit beside Alethia. "Should we go out?" Alethia chuckled. "I don't think my mom would love that. She brought you here to babysit me,
Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Fifty-seven
Chapter Fifty-sevenThe days didn't just roll away as they should, they dragged slower than a snail, creating longings and weariness as if to punish Ethan, and by the time it was a week, he was regretting his decision to stay away, and because he couldn't just crawl out of nowhere and appear in front of Alethia as if he hadn't made her worry for days. As if he hadn't put her through so much that he could feel would have been unbearable for her. Ethan breathed deeply on one of those beds that wouldn't stop creaking with his weight. He'd rented a room at a remote place to make it impossible for anyone to locate him. The room was small, though it contained three beds and usually gave access to three people at a time, as its purpose was only for people who needed to pass the night. Ethan had had to rent the room all to himself, and the bad condition of the room was a way to punish himself. But he'd learned to make do with the ceiling painted in white because each time he stared at it, ev
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"Alethia, stop!" Olivia appealed, halting immediately as she got to the last step of the stairs. Apart from the obvious, that the situation was escalating beyond what Alethia might be able to handle afterward, Olivia could feel it in her bones that the danger that loomed above was only hanging loosely and waiting for either Alethia or her mom to cut the tiny rope which was barely holding it in place. But Alethia was too annoyed to stop, and her legs were too ahead of her as if their purpose at that moment was to get her out of the house, away from her mom so that she wouldn't consider going back to do what the evil voice in her head whispered the moment she felt the torrent of her mom's hand on her face. Her hair had bristled when the disaster landed on her face. She would have treated her mom like any other woman, had reality not put them in the same house. And had she not called her 'mom' even in the heat of the dissension? She jerked the door to herself and thundered out of the h
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Alethia heard a sharp sound, prompting her fingers away from the keyboard of her laptop as she looked at the door immediately. What was that? She thought as she hesitated to look back at what she was doing on her computer. The sound had been light to be that of thunder, but it had been loud enough to shake something in her for worries. She got out of bed and removed her glasses, then she dropped them blindly on the bedside table. She approached the door gently, taking her time should the sound come again and it was nothing. But nothing came. All she could hear when she got closer to the door was the spiteful voice of her mom. Alethia opened the door and came out. She'd just closed the door behind her and turned around when she saw Ethan crouched, his face clouded with persistent hysteria like that of a man whose glory days had come to an end."Ethan?" she said and headed down the stairs immediately. Emily turned around and stood in her way."Aleth, go back to your room.""No, Mom,"
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"But first, is Alethia okay?" Segun chuckled. "Of course, that's what you're more concerned about.""She's my friend.""And she created this mess.""No! She didn't," Olivia said and sat right, facing Segun. "She didn't ask for this, okay? Ethan should have handled this better."Ethan scoffed. "Excuse me, I'm here.""No," Segun defended. "Ethan here is the victim. Do you know how hard it is to navigate your feelings for two women?"Olivia laughed. "Who asked him to fall in love with two women? A mother and daughter at that. This wouldn't have happened if he had just stuck to the mother alone."Segun chuckled in disbelief. He drank from his coffee and cleared his throat. "How about the fact that Aleth was in love with him and wanted him for herself as well?"Olivia looked sharply at Ethan. He looked back at Segun and scoffed. "That was supposed to be a secret."Segun shrugged. "You left me with no choice.""Of course, I didn't," she said and reclined in the chair, then sighed in resigna
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If anything, the silence that held them in that frozen moment spoke what was more apparent--'stunned'. Alethia's impulsiveness has never been more heart-wrenching than when Emily looked at Ethan's face and saw that should she decide to press further on the allegation, he didn't seem like he was going to deny it. It was true after all--he was cheating on her. She breathed deeply and bit her lower lip. Emily reckoned that she'd have preferred that Ethan had cheated on her by sleeping with just a random woman to having fallen in love with someone else. She wouldn't have decided how they move further from there by his momentarily carnal desire, which she considered only biological for him to satisfy. But how does she move on knowing that Ethan has fallen out of love with her?She looked at his face again, this time looking for a hint of remorse, but rather she met a screaming guilt that made it impossible for him to raise his lashes and look outright at her. Ethan took in a huge gasp o
