LennoxI spent the whole night rethinking and probably regretting my decision to ask for a divorce. Not that it was already a decision, but it also wasn't a suggestion. With barely any sleep, I got up the next day and just did some briefings with the doctors at the hospital before heading downstairs for breakfast. Today was the day of Natlia's open day so I didn't need to go to the hospital this morning as I took the better part of the day off. I was only going to go to the hospital in the evening for my patient rounds and that was just about it. After a very quiet breakfast, I got ready and waited in the living room for Natalia and Agatha to come down so that we could head to school together. It was the tradition that after every open day, we would go see a movie and get some ice cream. It was our way of commending Natalia for a job well done at school during the term. We already knew she was going to do well as she was an excellent student. So going to see a movie was already a gi
AgathaAll through the car ride to Natalia’s school, I remained quiet while the soft music continued to play in the background and Natalia continued to work in her coloring book. I may not show it often, I may appear to be strong, but I only just hide my vulnerability through anger. I only just try to show people that I wasn’t affected by going off on everybody. I turn a blind eye to the littlest things because I say it doesn’t affect me. I try not to be remorseful because when you appear to be weak, people will take you for granted. And I didn’t want to be taken for granted. But it appears that after my many years of putting on an act, I was still as easily disposable to Lennox as I was the day I had married him. Not even years of marriage could change that. Not even our child together could change that. I was simply someone that Lennox had taken in to cover up the shame that accompanied being a mistress to a married man. It’s not in every story that the man marries his mistress and
Agatha“Where is Natalia?” My eyes searched the entire hall frantically but she was still nowhere to be found. Karl shrugged his shoulders and said, “I don’t know. Why are you asking me?” Then drinking from his punch, he walked away. I rolled my eyes at the man’s nonchalance over the fact that a child could potentially be missing. Then I hurried over to where the boys were. “Where the hell is Natalia?” I spat out and they recurled, afraid of my mannerism. At least just two. One of the boys who they identified as Braden seemed unmoved by the fierceness that came along with my question. “My mother said it’s not good to curse.” Anger flashed in my eyes. I could feel impatience coursing through my veins. “Well, your mother is a slut!” I spat out. Their eyes widened but I didn’t stay to see all of their reaction before storming away in search of the teacher I had seen with her earlier. She was talking with a couple of parents and must have seen the way I skid across the room looking
*Karl*Honestly, I was exhausted with all the long talk. But I had to sit through it because standing up and abandoning the boys wasn’t exactly an option. Not just because I made a promise to Diamond to be there for both her and the boys today, but also because I wanted to be here for them even though I found it extremely boring. Occasionally I texted and replied to both Donald and Abigail who sought my counseling with some things. But ultimately, I tried not to get into work that day. I took the day off and I didn’t want to become invested over text otherwise I might be tempted to drive down to the office to sort things out. Or schedule a long conference call with Donald to remind him yet again of the do’s and don’ts of running an agency. I could have hired somebody else, having found out that I will be working in New York for a long time. But I didn’t trust anybody to run my company the way I did. Donald has been working closely with me for as long as I can remember so he kind of wa
DiamondI was confused. I have never been this confused in my life. Okay, scratch that. The one time in my life that I had been confused beyond the entire word itself was six years ago when I found out that Lennox had been sleeping with my sister. I had been confused because I didn’t think our marriage wasn’t going smoothly at the time it all happened. Maybe smoothly was a stretch but it's not like we were having any major issues. The major issue we were dealing with was my recurrent miscarriages and as a doctor, or rather, as doctors, we ran several tests on me to try to ascertain what the problem was but none of them came back helpful. All the tests revealed that I was fine and it almost plunged me into depression. It was another kind of pain knowing that you could conceive, carry a baby, but somewhere along the line, you would lose it. This had happened to me three times, But the last miscarriage absolutely broke me because it was my longest. Aside from the physical toll it took on
KarlSo many different expressions crossed her face. I couldn't even begin to place what each of them meant, or even what each of them was. But I could summarize in three words: shock, confusion and disappointment. I understand why she would be shocked. It was me, it was Karl, Karl was always there for her, Karl always wanted to make her happy, Karl would literally do anything for her. And maybe she might not have really understood that last part. I would really do anything for her. Although I didn't and would never want to internationally hurt her. And that was something that I needed to make her see and understand. So I grabbed her hand and pulled her to the side, far away from the porch. I should have realized from yesterday when I found Diamond standing by the porch, not intentionally eavesdropping on my conversation, but she had heard me talk to Tim and had questioned me. It was easy to weasel my way out of that one because the conversation barely revealed anything and apparent
AgathaI couldn’t go back to sleep after my phone call with Martin.His words kept replaying in my head.What if she is his daughter?No, no, I shook my head, it can’t be.Right?I might be running mad now.Even the slightest possibility that Natalia was not Lennox’s is enough to make me run mad.He was already planning to leave me, now this.I wasn’t sure yet, but I couldn’t take any chances.Martin is a sick psychopath. I was more worried about what he would do than what Lennox would do.Of course, he can’t find out. But knowing Martin, that’s not even an option.The way he looked when I spoke to him in the bathroom reiterated that.He hadn’t changed. Even prison couldn’t fucking change him, so what can?I took deep breathes and sat up on the bed.I needed to analyze this.If Martin gets the results and they are positive, that would mean Natalia is his and my whole life has been a fucking joke.What would Martin do with this information?Ruin my life of course.He
DiamondThe day was going by rather slowly and I was getting frustrated just staying indoors, with nothing to do since I was still suspended from the hospital.Rebecca would have been up to the task of keeping the house bubbly.But she had been acting strange since yesterday. Something was off, I could tell.She had been my best friend for a few years now but it felt like I’ve known her my whole life.The Rebecca I knew would never be so quiet for more than a minute.Sometimes I wondered if she had ADHD. It was just me and an awfully quiet Rebecca at home. I was getting worried now so I decided to confront her.“You good?”, I refilled her empty coffee mug, before filling up mine too.She turned to look at me and smiled slightly before staring at her phone again.She had been like that for a while but she wasn’t scrolling through anything.I could tell she was deep in thoughts.“I’m fine”, she said taking a sip of her coffee.“No you’re not”She looked at me again, a sho