Chapter 5

I pressed the doorbell,and I heard footsteps approaching few seconds later

The door opened and my aunt's face popped up.

One side of her bob hair fell on her face, making her look younger than her age.

Who would believe this beautiful woman is a divorcee?

Her eyes moves right and left in their sockets,as she took in the view before her.

"Helena? This late? What..."she stopped when she saw tears running down my face.

Her eyes held worry as she pulled me in then shut the door before embracing me.

She seems to have gotten a grasp of what was going on.

I wheezed,the realization that Maverick and I would no longer be together, dawning on me like a fiery pit.

Aunt rubs my back in a soothing way,as she muttered some words I was too busy with tears to hear.

"Asher!"she called out.

I hugged her even more, burying my face deep in her chest.

Footsteps from the stairs sounded,and i raised up my head a bit to see Asher walking down.

She bulged out her eyes,as she opened her mouth to speak but ended up closing it instead.

"We... divorced, auntie. That was the agreement, after all,that if no progress,we would separate."I yapped on,and gulped the salty water in my throat down.

It was hard to breathe.

I didn't know it's be so difficult to separate from a man.

Asher let's out a soft sigh,and gave me melancholic eyes.

"Yet another divorcee in the family. 

Mom,you finally got yourself a companion."she uttered,more like to lessen the thick atmosphere that surrounded us in the living room.

She stalked to where I was and pulled me away from aunt who gave her a glare.

"How can you say such before her,Ash?"she scolded with a snap of her fingers.

Oh,yes. She has nasty temper.

"She deserves someone better from that awful goat."Asher cursed and planted a kiss on my hair.

My body was hot,too hot that I believed I was in hell,paying for my sin of falling in love.

Asher slides her palm into the back of my hair,and I relaxed more into her hold.

"I am so going to break his bones if I see him!"

"Asher!"

"Aunt,leave her be. I wouldn't even care if he died overnight." It took me great strength to part my tight lips opened and speak.

"He's a devil!"I added, lowly.

My mind went back to the moment things started going wrong.

"Because of his girlfriend,he suddenly changed.

He thought it was my fault she got a miscarriage.

He once left the house for a month with no calls.

Still,I waited for him to come around. 

It was the best choice to divorce,aunt."more tears were prickling out of my eyes.

A moment of silence passed,with Aunt taking in my words with a wounded up expression.

"Shhh, you are a strong girl,Ele. You'd surely overcome this."Asher's soft voice gushes into my ear.

"How did you signed it,the divorce paper?"my aunt demanded.

I lifted my head up from Asher's chest,and narrated how I signed it in grand style.

Her head moves in satisfaction.

"You only didn't broke his neck. 

I'm glad you held yourself together in front of the a**hole. 

He's a loser and he has no idea what he has lost. 

That's why I don't want anything to do with men again.

They're just b!tches licking every woman's feet." Aunt stated,with an hurtful look.

"I silently hoped yours would be different tho."she mumbled under her breath,before slipping her hand into her soft - looking and silky black hair in languish.

I sucked a breath in - between my teeth.

"Let's go up to my room."Asher said.

I ascended the stairs up with her assistance, walking as if I were a woman heavily pregnant.

My legs were just too heavy to carry.

We arrived at her room,and she kicked the door in.

Alexis was there arranging her clothes.

Poor guy. 

"Helena?"slides out of his mouth the moment I stepped in with Asher.

I gave a nod before sitting on the bed.

He sighed,"What has he done this time?"as he dropped the cloth in his hand.

"He gave me a gift, the best one,for our one year anniversary."I air quoted it, forcing my paralyzed lips to smile.

"And seriously,Alex, you should stop cleaning up after Asher! 

It's time she learns how to keep her things in place."I tried to change the topic.

Talking about that will only make me sad the more.

"Not as if I tell him to do so."Asher jeered.

"Always acting as the neatest person in the world. Hmph!"she added and I smacked her head.

"So,baby girl,what you gon' do now? Talked to your parents yet?"she turned to me, holding my face in her palm.

"No. I came straight down here."I sniveled, feeling like a little monkey with Asher cupping my cheeks at both sides.

"So, what's the plan?"she used her thumb to wipe the tears that underlined my eyes.

"I'll lay low a little."I raised up my shoulders as if that was nothing, whilst watching Alexis doing his business quietly.

He would really make a good husband to his wife.

"Huh? Because of that trash bag?!"Asher pitched, dropping her hands from my face.

"Ah, I'm pathetic, aren't I?"I let's out a chuckle.

Asher scooted over to me,locked her arm with mine before resting her head on my shoulder.

"You aren't, baby gurl."

"I...never knew I'd be sad this much,"I bursted into fresh tears.

My heart raced in one million times.

"Maybe because I had too many expectations.

I'll have to put you back in charge of the business.

I'll try to handle a new one from scratch in a recluse city."I used the back of my palm to cover my nose down to my mouth,hating the taste of tears in my mouth.