Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Elaine's Pov

“If Caleb had died there, maybe I wouldn't be hurting this much.” I finished.

“You bitch!” Clara screeched and stomped forward, her hands raised as she slapped me once more. A crisp sound rang throughout the sitting room.

But it didn't hurt more than I was already hurting. I bent down to pick up the papers and pen and with shaky hands, I signed the divorce papers, my chapped lips widening into a smile.

“I've given you what you wanted, Caleb.” I raised my head, watching him intently. He looked very happy. So happy that he snatched the papers from my hands, pushing me away.

My mother watched everything coldly, her eyes promising wrath against me. I scoffed, I didn't even know why I bothered anymore.

“Elaine… I'm sorry.” Emily stepped forward, tears brimming at the corner of her eyes.

“Sorry? There's no need to be sorry, Emily. After all, you've gotten exactly what you wanted. But soon enough, everyone in this family will know just how pretentious and evil you are. An innocent flower? A pitiful woman? Ha! Emily, I wait for the day that you will fall to the ground and everything will be taken away from you, just as it was done to me.”

“You… get out! Get out of this place!” Clara screamed, her face red. My mother came forward and dragged me by my arm and pulled me outside. Until we got to the gates, we didn't stop walking.

But I yanked my arm free from her grasp, “I'm not going with you.” I whispered, “I've had enough.”

“Elaine… What the heck are you saying? Do you want to continue to embarrass me?! After all that you have done back there, how could you continue to…”

“Mom… Should I even call you mom? I'm nothing more than a product of bargains to get you money. You have never treated me like a daughter, like your child. I heard that even animals do not treat their young ones this way, but you… you have never liked me. Am I even your child?”

“Elaine! Stop saying things like this, you're my daughter!” Selena's voice cracked but there was no emotion in her eyes, Selena had always known how to play the concerned mother but it was so easily broken apart. I took a step back, trying to put some distance in between us.

“Don't call me that.” Bitterness swelled up inside me, “I'm not your daughter. You made it clear every day in my life.”

“You ungrateful brat! I clothed you, I fed you, I gave you everything and this is how you…”

“No, you sold me like a piece of clothing. Or maybe clothing even has more value than me.” I cut her off, “But no more. Because this is going to end.”

I turned away from her, heading down the street. I didn't know where I was going, but it didn't matter. I just needed to go to a place where I could end it all. Behind me, I could hear her calling my name but it was drowned out by the sound of my own footsteps.

I walked until I found myself on an abandoned road. There wasn't any car passing by. But then, I heard a low rumble of a car engine behind me. Before I could turn around, a car screeched to a stop beside me, the door swung open and two men jumped out. They were fast, so fast that I barely had time to scream before one of them grabbed me by the arms, lifting me off the ground.

“Who are you? Let go of me! Let go!” I screamed, thrashing wildly, trying to break free from their grasp.

“Shut up!” One of them growled and pushed me into the car. I struggled, kicking and swinging my arms but it was useless. I was no match for two grown and burly men. One of them raised a fist and the last thing I felt was a sharp pain in my temple before everything went dark.

“Ugh…” I groaned at the pain that went throughout my whole body, my head was pounding. My hands were tied right behind my back and a blindfold covered my eyes. The smell of dust and concrete filled up my nose. We were in a building, an uncompleted one. I had been kidnapped.

I suddenly heard footsteps, then without warning, the blindfold was yanked from my face. I blinked, my vision was blurry at first but it didn't take long for me to recognise the figure standing in front of me.

“Emily.” I said slowly, gulping down saliva, “Why did you bring me here?”

“Surprised to see me?” She asked, her voice sweet, almost mocking.

“What do you want? You've already gotten everything from me, Emily.”

She smiled, a smile that didn't reach her eyes, “You have always been a problem, Elaine, always in the way. Caleb should have left you long ago but you just had to cling onto him, didn't you? I had to wait years for him to get rid of you, even while our baby is still growing in my stomach.” Emily rubbed her flat stomach.

My heart stopped, “A baby? You're pregnant?!”

“Yes, Elaine. Caleb and I are going to have a baby. Didn't you ever think about why Caleb had fed you alcohol when he knew you were allergic to it and more so, while you're pregnant? Didn't you ever stop to think about how he left you until you finished bleeding before he asked someone to take you to the hospital? He did not do this just for fun or to show how pathetic you were. It was because he wanted you to lose the baby! He never wanted the baby to be brought into this world!”

I choked up. Even though I knew that Caleb must have intentionally made me lose my baby, it felt like I was still kicked in the gut when Emily said this.

One of the thugs who came with Emily kicked me in the stomach, making me double over in pain, they didn't stop there, they continued hitting me, especially my stomach. They were trying to destroy any other chances of me giving birth to a child. I began bleeding from the corner of my mouth.

“Leave her.” Emily ordered, “Your time is up Elaine, soon you'll be nothing more than a memory. Take her to the bridge.” I was carried and driven to another place. I didn't know where I was due to me focusing on nothing but the pain, however, the smell of water filled my senses.

I was forced to stand on the edge of the bridge. My eyes were closed as I felt the evening breeze. So this was how it was going to end. A befitting end for a ‘villainess’

I couldn't help but laugh, “Emily. I will make one promise to you and Caleb.” I said, my lips curling into a bitter smile, “You will be punished. Karma will come for you and when it does, it'll be ten times worse than what you did to me. Your fake smile will crumble right under you and I'll be there. Watching as you beg for mercy.”

I'll haunt the both of you. You'll remember how you killed me and my baby with your hands. And when I come for you, it won't be quick. It won't be painless. It won't be easy.

I smiled through the tears, “It will be slow, agonising and bitter.”

“I'd like to see you try, Elaine. Goodbye.” Elaine then shoved me down the bridge, I was falling. The last thing I saw was her face and right behind her, I saw Caleb's.

Then the icy water swallowed me whole.

“Ah!” I gasped, shaking awake, my lungs burning as I sat upright.

“You shouldn't move like that, you'll open your stitches.”

I looked to my side and saw two men, both tall, dressed in black suits, with an aura that screamed dangerous. One had slightly long hair that was out into a rat's ponytail, both his eyes were closed while the other had shorter hair, and he wore gold rimmed glasses. He looked so familiar.

“She's awake. Call for the nurse to check up on her.” The one with shorter hair and gold rimmed glasses said to the closed eye one who immediately went to do as he was told. I continued to stare at the man with glasses, trying to place where I had seen him, but he didn't say anything until the other one had left completely.

“It's a pity, Elaine, to see you in this sort of position.” He began, making me arch my brow. Did he know me?

“Who are you? How do you know my name?” I questioned him.

“I must have changed a lot for you not to be able to recognise me,” he removed his glasses, his grey eyes fixed on me. My eyes widened, my mouth opening in shock as I saw a face that I hadn't seen for a long time.

“It's… you…” I stammered, all the cells in my body were screaming. His face had never changed, he never changed.

“Of course. It's been a long time… Elaine.” The man smirked, his crooked smile that I had always loved.

“Zade…” It was him. Zade Silver, my ex boyfriend.