Chapter 4 Believe Me

Flashback ends

An hour later, the sun rises and she looks up at the sun, she smiles weakly amidst the tears and say’s to herself,

“After darkness comes out the sun. This too shall surely pass. She should be alright, right? I wish they didn’t have their way with her.  What could have happened for this to happen? Cecelia was supposed to be in bed with my husband and not those ugly things. Now, I don’t know which one is better, my husband or those things.”

Alexia stands up from the floor and continues saying,

“She wants to blame me, what will I do now? Edward doesn’t seem to believe me either. I should try to explain to him, when he sees the fact, he will surely understand that it has nothing to do with me.”

She walks the her car and drives towards the house. Her only prayer that the family and Edward do not misunderstand her. Thirty minutes later, she arrives at the house and she only hears silence, she sighs loudly and she gets out of the car. She looks around as if she is thief about to rob a house, she swings her hair from her face and she puts her hand on her chest to try and calm down. But her heart beat is still as loud as a beating drum. She walks to the door slowly and opens it as quietly as she could, she peeps in and her eyes set on glaring eyes, she jumps out of fright and she shouts out,

“Oh dear, you scared me!!”

Alexia walks into the room and she sees that, Edward is not alone, rather, the whole family is the hall it seems she is the one they are waiting for us they all turn their heads to her when she spoke.

She sighs and looks in the way of Edward and she puts her hands together, she looks up at him with hope and whispers to his hearing,

“For once, believe me, I didn’t do anything and I didn’t know what was going on in that room. I thought you were there.”

He sneers and say’s back to her,

“Why did you do this? You are a lady after all, how can you plot this against Cecelia? Now, she has been raped all thanks to you. Are you satisfied with the results?”

Alexia looks on at him with shock in her eyes and her body stilled, she looks at him and asks him in a slight voice,

“She is alright? Is she going to be okay?”

He smirks and holds her hand and says to her,

“That, you gave to explain to the family the reason behind your act.”

He pulls her and when he gets in their midst, she pushes her and she falls on her knees. Tears emerge in her eyes and flow to the floor, she looks back at him and he looks in the other way ignoring her. She attempts to stand but then, she feels a heel on her back and a voice speaks,

“If you dare me, get up from this floor, you wicked person!!”

She recognizes the voice to be her sister in law and she tries to stand up but then, she hears another voice saying,

“If you dare let my daughter fall because of you, I will make sure to make you a cripple.”

She knows it’s her mother in law that just spoke and her tears flow more quickly. Then, another voice adds up,

“You will have to confess your crime to us or we will hand you to the police.”

Alexia sniffs sadly and thinks,

“I am innocent but these people want to make me a criminal, I shouldn’t play weak here, they have no evidence against me. I should refute them before they end me with their accusations.”

She stands up slowly and Jane stumbles back, her brother holds her in place and she looks back to see him glaring at her.

Alexia sighs and looks in her father in laws way and says to him,

“Father, I didn’t do anything. I promise you, I know nothing about this.”

She looks around at their faces and sees a young boy staring at her. He is Edward's cousin, and also the only one who is friendly to her in the Jones family.

She rushes to him and holds his hand, and says to him,

“Jonas, you are my brother right? You have known me for four years. You know I wouldn’t do this right?”

Jonas glances at his father. He believes that Alexia is innocent and he knows she is a kind person, so he gives Alexia a reassuring look.

He walks up to his father. "Father, I am sure Alexia would not do such a thing, and we should not make any judgement until things are inquired into."

"Edward... Ah! I'm in so much pain!" Cecelia suddenly shouts with a pained expression on her face.

Edward frowns and his tenderness toward Cecelia is written all over his face. He looks over at Alexia with cold gaze. "There's nothing to inquire into. It’s either you confess your crimes or I divorce you.”

Alexia body stills and her mind freezes, the four years she has spent in that house plays in her mind and she finally sighs, her rapidly beating heart becomes slow and she thinks,

‘All that I have passed through in these years in this house is, humiliation and disrespect. I don’t think I married here but rather came here to serve for taking a liking to their son. Fours years is enough to pay them back for my stupidity and so…'

She looks in his way and cleans her eyes and the words crop out of her mind as if she has rehearsed them several times,

“Let’s get divorced then, I am tired of all this.”

She walks away from them and walks to her room while they look in thinking that she is only joking and they were waiting for her so she could be laughed at if she comes back begging. She enters her room and picks up a bag, she opens it up and it is fully packed with some clothes, she sighs and says to herself,

“I have packed and unpacked you several times, now, it’s time we get out of here.”

A white sheet is on the packed clothes, she picks it out and zips the bag again and walks out of the room. Alexia arrives in their midst again and she walks to him and hands him the sheet, and says to him,

“I have already signed it, sign your part and meet me at the court tomorrow eight-thirty exactly. I will be waiting.”

She finishes speaking and walks out of the house. He looks at the certificate and a frown appears on his face and he says to himself,

“That woman is divorcing me? I will go there tomorrow, let’s see if she can do it.”

He walks out of the midst and they look at each other confused about the turn of events.

Alexia drives out of the house and makes her way downtown, she parks her car in front of a building and she gets out without removing her bag, she rushes inside. Her hand is covering her mouth as tears constantly drop from her eyes, she knocks on a door and as soon as the person on the other end opens the door, she throws herself into her arms and starts wailing.