THE GRASS NOT GREENER

                                                                     

“You cannot override me when I'm here…I'm still her husband” Colin vexed.

“Where were you when she was falling from  the lounge stairs? Why didn't you catch her?” Gregory asked in frustration, seeing me in pain must have hurt him so much. 

Colin  remained silent for a while before he parted his mouth to speak. 

“I was busy with some of the investors—and having some cool time with other things. I didn’t know when she left the VIP arena to where I don't know” smile played on his lips. “She got into a fight with someone”, he said. 

“Your honourable Mistress Angelina” I shouted in pain from my bed.

Gregory clinched fist swings  across  Colin’ face–he landed on the floor. Colin rubs his lips. A red fluid coloured his palms.

Colin smiled. “Really, you are going to beat me because of my wife…no man” he staggered to stand up. “Unbelievable”

“No it is not unbelievable that I'm keeping you away from your wife. She was first mine but I left her for you to take good care of. What did you do? You are so shameless”. 

Gregory bodyguide came along with the hospital security and dragged Colin out–His  legs dangling  around the floor like he wasn't the owner anymore. His system was not so strong for even a shot of alcohol.

“Denise was the trouble maker. She threw the first punch at Angelina and she got what she asked for….Angelina is also pregnant with my baby…least you forget.” 

Words fell off Colin’ mouth without control–This broke the  final straw. I know I'm not going back to this mess I call a husband. I burst into tears…

“It's okay Denise..I got you now. Nobody is going to hurt you now…” Gregory assured me.

This aroused the betrayal that happened between us seven years ago. How do I believe him? Someone who left me without a word. Someone who couldn't fight…

“I don't believe you.. I promise to repay you every dime you paid to the hospital.  I don't want to have anything to do with you especially”.

 Gregory shakes his head sideways as I said I would have nothing to do with him. Was he expecting the dot to connect after year of abandonment and emotional torture?

He reached out for my hands, both of his Palm's engulfing my palms.

“That's not true love. No day passed by without me thinking about you and the little moments we shared. I still love you, please forgive me.” He pleaded but I wasn't ready to forgive him… 

Gregory stared at my pale lips–which used to be my selling point (Point of attraction) in college those years. 

Some guys fall over heels for and at the envy of my peers; though now no longer attractive, he passed his index and middle fingers over my lips drawing nearer to me.

“Please accept me back into your life  again and I will make things right.”  Just then the door clicked open. 

“Shameless woman. How dare you cheat on your husband  Denise?” She turned to Greg. “You must be a stubborn fly sent from the underworld to destroy my family-how stubborn could a gentleman like you be? It didn’t take long for my mum's palm to land on Greg's face. 

The sound was like a spark..

I tried to jump out of the bed to stand in between them. I hate that my mum had to hurt Greg this time around. 

Owing to the fact that he saved me. The infusion rope held me back. 

“Arrrh. Please stop mother” I screamed.

“Shut up.” my mom screamed back at me…

“He has done absolutely nothing wrong. Besides he saved me when I was almost dying”. As I couldn’t bear to see my mum continue her drama.

“I saw him kissing you.. Denise you married for crying out loud. This isn’t how I raised you to be. I raised you to be a good woman, a wife material to a Billionaire. There's absolutely no reason to cheat on him”. The Nurses entered my ward trying to calm the atmosphere.

“Excuse me lemme talk senses into my child” she pouted.

“You absolutely don't know what I'm going through. It's so easy for you to say when you aren't the one feeling those pains; the slaps, punches, disrespect, rape, stripping me naked to paint me. As a medium to attract investors for his company. To mention a few. What do you know, mother?”.  A feeling of ease swings into me maybe she will understand,

My mother didn't even bat an eye at these statements. Although she walked closer to me, face to face where I stood in distress, holding my arms.

“Look you have to stop disgracing yourself and I. Just recover quickly so you can apologise to your husband so he can take you back alright”. She blinked trying to convince me further.

“It's not okay for your college boyfriend to punch your husband in the face and send him out like a nobody”. She continued.

“My mind is made up. I'm not apologising” staring straight into my mother's eyes.

“Look sweedy your brother needs to go to the best school and your little twin sisters as well.. you promised to make them proud and give them anything they want without thinking about it… Colin wants to serve you a divorce paper in your sick bed to break you..but we must act fast…we still need his money”. My mother wasn't even bothered about my well being.

Herself and her ego  was much more of a concern than the normal thing.

“Don't let people mock us.. we live in a big house and we could get thrown out…think well Denise” she scolded. 

I breathe a breath of relief. “Let him serve me the court papers, I don't care if people mock us anymore..my dignity is far more important” 

“I know you’re crazy..you think Greg will love you like he did before.. There's something called second hand back in the days..no one loves to marry a divorcee. Learn to bear pains..The grass ain't greener elsewhere.” She hung her bag on her shoulder.

 There's nothing she was more scared about than losing her luxury. 

The Louis Vuitton bag she keeps getting for free, shoes and how people revere her each time she attends a party, ‘The Billionaire Mother In law Club’ was so much of a dare to her… 

“Stay away from my daughter, ordinary man ... .Face of penury” she shut the door….

The nurses had a fun filled moment. They watched a melodrama

“You need to take your bath  now.. your mother is so cruel. I'm so sorry but that's the truth, " she said.

My eyes gaze at Greg. His hands tucked inside his pocket.

“I'll leave you for a while Honey” he bows his head and leaves the room.

 

The next day our family Attorney came visiting.

“Mrs Denise, how do you do?” I hummed.

“Oh well, I was asked to serve you these papers” was a letter from my husband.

“Couldn't he wait for things to get a little bit better before this?” Greg asked.

“Well I'm just doing what's best for my client.” Attorney Clifford replied.

He pushed the divorce paper in front of me with a pen on it to my desk. 

 

“Mrs Denise De la Rosa please proceed to sign the divorce papers”