Chapter 2 : Betrayal

Sarah’s facial imperfections however did not deter her boss and Leo Ad Agency’s CEO, Robert Hudson from marrying her, of course at the behest of his grandfather, Leo Ad Agency’s founder, Charles Hudson Sr, who insisted that Robert look beyond appearances and marry the hugely talented girl who had resurrected his loss making ad agency to top position in the state within one year of joining, taking their debt laden family to the billionaire club.

Ecstatic with the proposal of marrying the devilishly dashing, hazel eyed, tall, fair, and slender Robert Hudson with whom almost her entire college had crush on, Sarah had nonchalantly agreed to Robert’s demand that they have a low key secretive marriage with only his family members present. He had also forbidden her from revealing their marriage in office. As a consequence, she retained her maiden name and worked tirelessly through the day from a small cubicle as Chief Copywriter of Leo Ad Agency, with the storyboards of advertisement after advertisement flowing out of her deft hands and creative brain.

The after office hours were equally tiring as Sarah had to work alongside the two maids in the huge Hudson mansion preparing dinner for the family besides helping in the washing and cleaning  and later satiating her husband with wifely duties.

Robert Hudson had a near insatiable appetite for all kinds of sex including some really weird ones and demanded several rounds of orgasms every night. Sarah, being a dutiful wife obliged, despite the immense physical pain that she was often left with.

Cuckolding her with another man in lieu of bagging a contract, which tantamounted to pimping her however was too much for Sarah to digest and hence her decision to quit. She hoped better sense would prevail with Robert and he would tear the divorce papers and call her back within a day or two, especially since she had fulfilled all the duties of a loving and dutiful wife and daughter-in-law, besides pulling the company from near penury to top in the field position. But for that she had to stay somewhere for a couple of days.

Rejecting the idea of staying at a hotel as she would get no information about Robert in the case, she zeroed in on Jessica Simons, her best friend who she had helped to get a job in her office despite being a little short of the required qualifications. She had also requested Robert and helped Jessica avail of a spacious one –bedroom apartment fully paid by the office. So she was sure Jessica would help her in her hard days. What were friends for?, Sarah thought as she typed in Jessica’s address in her Uber app.

"Jessica madam has a visitor", the gate guard informed Sarah as she was about to get into the elevator. No problem, Sarah smiled at him. They were friends and did not keep secrets from each other, she mused. Jessica had not informed her about a boyfriend though. Could she be dating? Maybe she is not serious yet so had not told Sarah about it. She heard moans as she was about to knock. Sarah stopped. She did not want to disturb love birds. The man was talking to her tenderly. His voice sounded familiar but there was some soft music going on so she could not hear properly. Thinking it is not good to overhear people making love, Sarah moved away and sat in the corridor, waiting for the door to open, though she could not help but feel a pang of jealousy. Robert had never talked to her this tenderly. This man must be in love with Jessica, she thought.

Two hours passed and Sarah was almost dozing off when the door suddenly opened, and to her horror, out walked her husband Robert with Jessica hanging on his arm.

“Ugh..”, a muffled sound came out of Sarah’s mouth in disbelief and shock.

“Why are you here?”, Robert raged.

“Should I not be asking you this?”, Sarah spat back at him before turning to Jessica, “Whore”, she said with her hand raised to deliver a tight slap. But before the slap could land, Robert caught and twisted her arm making her wince in pain.

  “Oh dear, no point beating around the bush. With a face as ugly as yours, how could you expect a handsome, rich and well established man to be tied to you? He is embarrassed to acknowledge you in public and that’s why chose to keep your marriage a secret. But he loves me, and we plan to get married. Good that you have signed the divorce papers”, Jessica chimed in a sweet voice which sickened Sarah to the core.

 “However we will be magnanimous. You can live in this apartment from day after tomorrow after I move into the Hudson mansion in your place. Robert and I have decided to buy you this apartment as alimony. Till the time I move out, you can stay in my car garage. I will send you some food and water. You can also continue working as Copywriter in Leo Ad Agency. Now isn’t this generous?”, Jessica smirked nibbling at Robert’s ear, while Robert squeezed her ass.

Jessica then threw the garage keys at her ordering her to get going.