Chapter 60

Chapter 60

“My name is Melinda Ching, I don't even know if Elijah Luciero remembers my name,” she chuckled and smirked thinly.

“Yeah, I was one of Elijah Luciero's women before. We used to fuck each other anywhere, until he one day brought me to his home and I found out that he's actually married to Faith Flamera, the famous fashion designer,”

I crumpled both of my hands while the woman was now revealing everything to the people. I do not remember her anymore. How can I? Elijah brought ton of women in our house and they were fucking each other each night.

“I asked my friends, and it turned out that some of them were one of her chicks as well. They told me that Elijah brought them home, too, and they met his wife. He was a cheater—yeah, you heard it right. I think it's the reason why his wife divorced her. Before, I was asking myself, ‘why the hell is she not dumping him when he's cheating right in front of her?’ She was the most martyr woman that I ever met in my life,”

I was shivering in rage while watching the woman speak. I remember everything she's saying. She might really have met me in person and I couldn't do a thing to make Elijah stop. I begged him. I begged him to stay but he chose to come back to his old doings, collecting different women after setting my hopes high.

“Elijah Luciero is a fucking a bastard and cheater. Can you imagine the damage he caused to Faith Flamera? No wonder she vanished for four years. Who won't? He killed her,” the live stream ended and there were thousands of viewers watching and leaving dreadful comments.

I have no words to utter. It's dragging me down to the past again. How I felt and reacted when I first witnessed him cheating, disrespecting me.

“Are you okay?” Lily quickly asked and held my trembling hand.

The rage is eating me up. My nails are buried in my palm and I knew that I wanted more. I wanted to see him suffering even more. Then again, it seems the waves of my dark past pulled me down in the ocean once again. I shivered, just like how I was shivering those days and nights.

“You're shaking, Faith.” She quickly held both of my hands until I felt a single tear that slipped down from my eyes.

Before my tears could even pour, Lily pulled me in her arms and embraced me so tight. I forgot the last time I cried. However, I remember nothing but those days I endured, crying silently in my room while he was fucking different women. I remember it all. It fills my head all over again. The wounds, I can feel them all, aching. It was like a deja vu to be back with the same feeling and situation that I thought I already overcame.

“Ssshhhh,” she was only caressing the back of my hair.

“I know that you're still carrying everything inside you, Faith.”

I am. All those years, I have been carrying it with me. I didn't fix myself, I was still torn from everything they have done to me. The pain is still engraved on my chest and I wasn't able to let go of a single one to free myself. It was chained to me, pulling me back all the time.

“What if the revenge you want won't heal you, Faith? What if you're just hurting yourself more?” I let go in her arms as I quickly shed all my tears. I shook my head at her firmly, refusing to be on the same page as hers. I know what she's implying.

“This is only the beginning, Lily. Do you think I will let them live their remaining days without experiencing the same hell they threw me in?” I immediately shook my head.

“I will destroy them all,”

Right after the live video of Melinda, it went viral. The social media and the news were blasted. Even my notifications and inbox are exploding because of the people's messages, sympathizing with me.

“I wonder what's his reaction to this,” Lucas commented.

“You ruined her image, Faith.” Brian added and chuckled, enjoying the show I created.

“Why am I the one who ruined it? Am I the one who cheated?” They all turned silent when I said that. I was looking at them blankly, looking numb again.

“Are you leaving for work?” Lily asked and broke the ice. Lucas and Brian chose to stay silent when they noticed that I was not in the mood.

“Yeah,” I grabbed my coat along with my car keys, ready to leave.

“Be careful. There are a lot of media around, especially that you and Elijah are all over the news now. They would want your statement about it,” I didn't say a word as I marched out of our hotel room.

When I came out of the hotel, I didn't see a single reporter, but the people were all looking at me. I feigned ignorance and still drove to my company and work. They weren't in the hotel, because they were all waiting outside my company.

“Ms. Faith, this is not a good time. I think you should just go home,” the guard said to me as they all tried to cover me up.

“Faith Flamers, what can you think about Melinda's live video? Do you confirm it?”

“Is it true that you dumped Elijah Luciero because he was cheating on you multiple times?”

“Ms. Faith!”

“Please give us your statement!”

I shut my eyes firmly when I was finally able to get inside my company with the help of my bodyguards.

“Are you okay, Ms. Faith? I don't think they will stop. They might be here for a while,” my secretary uttered. I simply fixed my clothes before I walked there with confidence beyond their eyes glued at me.

“Let them,” I said.

“It's not like we can do something about it. We didn't know that Mr. Luciero was cheating on yo—” she refrained her own tongue from continuing those words when I stopped from walking and faced her behind me.

“We're divorced, that's it.” I warned her with my sharp eyes before I headed inside my office. The only place where I can find serene amidst this issue.

I sat on my swivel chair and finally opened my social media accounts.

“Elijah Luciero is a cheater!”

“Can you imagine how much pain Faith had? She doesn't deserve a man like him!”

“That's why Faith Flamera vanished. She was so torn because of Elijah!”

“How can you bring women in your house with your wife there? You're terrible, Elijah! Disgusting!”

I turned off my phone after reading those numerous comments and posts on social media. Guess what? We're trending and I'm winning the sympathy of the people.

They didn't know these things. All they know was that I divorced Elijah and they have no idea about the real reason behind it. But then, they don't know everything yet. They have no idea about all the pain that I've been through. They only see the top of the iceberg. There are a lot of unforgivable things under it.

“Why didn't you kno—”

“Let's talk,”

“I'm sorry, Ms. Faith. I tried to stop him,” my secretary said behind him, who was throwing me his cold stares. I didn't expect to see him here when the people were hunting him.

“Leave us,” she was hesitant to leave us alone, but had to obey me.

“It was you, didn't you?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Don't fucking lie to me, Faith. I'm not dumb! What did you do? You searched for them and paid her to do the video? What do you want, Faith? You want to ruin me? Is that it, huh?!”

When he was raising his voice, I felt like I heard the Elijah who ruined me. It was his voice that I was terrified of.

“I don't have time for you, Elijah.” I was shaking already. I want him to leave because I don't know what I can say and do if I explode today.

“No, let's talk about this, Faith. You did that to ruin me? Is that your plan? Is that the reason why you asked me to be the Architect of your house? Tell me, Faith! You tell me everything no—”

“YES IT WAS ME!”

I admitted. I glued my sharp and mad eyes at him with my tears lingering in the corner. I was already shaking not just with the pain but with the anger that was filling me entirely.

“Why are you mad because I exposed what you did to me, huh?” Why am I becoming the bad one here when I didn't do anything to ruin his image?

“If you're looking for someone to blame, look in the mirror, Elijah! Because you're the one who ruined your image! You're the one who cheated and not me!” I failed to hold back all my tears. I exploded along with those tears that I didn't cry for so many years. My heart was being squeezed and I didn't know what to do to stop it from aching so much.

“Y-You don't have any idea what I've been through for four years,” he has no idea how I wished to just die, thinking that it might end the endless pain in my heart.

“Do you think I forgot everything? No, it's all glued on me! The night that I couldn't sleep because you were fucking different women! The night that you were drunk and hurt me with your own hands! It made me want to end my fucking life, Elijah! And then you will just show up as if nothing happened! As if you didn't tear me apart!”

“F-Faith,”

“What are you expecting? That I already forgive you and my parents? Do you think I can forgive you when you just stood that night we lost our baby?! The three of you trampled on me and the pain you are feeling right now because of your image cannot be compared to what I've been through!”

“That's why I'm here, right? I'm here because I want your forgiveness,”

“And you think that's easy?”

“No, Faith. It's not what I mean. I'm willing to do everything to fix what I destro—”

“Too late,” I uttered.

“I will drag you to the hell where you pushed me,”

He nodded at me along with that tiny smile.

“Drag me, Faith. If it will heal you, then I don't mind turning into ashes.”

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