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2023-07-07 16:41:25"Don't you ever step foot in my house again!" George barked at the lady who lay on the hospital bed with swollen and bloodshot eyes. Her hand clutched her lower abdomen, tears rolling from her eyes to her ears and down to the pillow.
Lydia didn't bother to look his way as her lips trembled. He had disfigured her face and beaten her mercilessly till she fainted. The only thing holding her back from leaving that house was her four years old daughter.
It was from one problem to another, the doctor had told her that she had lost the baby in her womb again due to the horrible torture from her husband.
"And don't even think of Khloe let alone come to see her" he added, causing Lydia to snap her eyes at him. She quickly forced her body up from the bed disconnecting the IV from her hand as she moved towards him and cried,
"George, don't…, don't do this… to me" she choked as tears continued to stream down her cheeks. She fell on her knees.
Khloe was the only reason she remained in the loveless marriage of six good years. She cannot let go of her daughter now.
"Please George, please" She tried to reach him but he slapped her hands away.
"Don't you dare, Lydia. Don't you dare!" He barked as he moved away. She cowered but still tried to explain,
"I can't do without her," she said quickly and gulped, "George please, I need Khloe" her face stained with tears, her hair messy, and her hands in a pleading position but George sneered,
"Alma will become her mother from now on" he declared, enjoying the terror that appeared in her eyes after the words flew from his mouth.
Lydia's world went blank as she stared at the man in horror. Her daughter would refer to her best friend, scratch that, Ex- best friend as her mother instead of her when she was not dead? Never
"Never!" She charged at him, "I will never let that happen. George, give me back my child" she yelled loudly as she reached for his shirt and pulled him with all her might. He gave her a resounding slap, causing her to fall to the ground roughly.
Lydia remained there with her hands clenched into a fist, her blood boiling in anger, eyes filled with so much rage, her teeth clenched, she looked up at him, and with heaving breath, she spat,
"Over my dead body will I let my daughter call Alma her mother"
"Then you better go and die, Lydia" George smirked before storming out of the hospital room.
"No! George, no!" She ran after him only to be held back by some nurses saying she wasn't strong and she shouldn't stress herself.
She fought through but just couldn't, they were four of them and two more came to help. She fell to the ground in tears as she yelled in anguish,
"Get back here, George! Bring me, my daughter!"
Everyone in the passageway watched the man's figure till he disappeared. No matter how she screamed and cried, he never turned back to look at her, not even once.
Her screams became louder piercing through the hearts of many. She tried to pull herself from the nurses but it was impossible. People who passed stood to watch her, her hair messy, and tears stained her disfigured face. While some teared up, some shook their heads in pity for her.
"Let me go. George! Give me my daughter! Let me go, leave me alone" her wail echoed through the passageway.
A doctor came over to her and injected her, she immediately fell asleep right there on the ground. She was taken back into the room.
"Who's she?" The doctor's friend named Carson asked, he continued to stare at the room the lady was taken into. The doctor sighed,
"Some lady who was unfortunate, and got married to a sucker. She has lost more pregnancies than you can imagine from the beating she receives from her husband. There is no month she doesn't come to this hospital"
"Asshole, he should be sued" his friend clicked his tongue in irritation.
"Asshole indeed," the doctor replied before walking away along with his friend.
George is an asshole indeed but used to be Lydia's Mr. Perfect, the Mr. Right before marriage. In fact, he was every woman's dream including hers. She was so happy to finally get married to him. A mere orphan getting married to a smart, rich, and handsome young man like George, was a dream come true.
Everything went down the drain on their wedding night after George accused her of being a novice in sex. Was that her fault as she had promised to keep herself for only her husband?
Things started changing from that same day of her wedding to him. Just the next day, George began to bring 'experienced' ladies home, he slept with them and made her watch telling her to watch and learn. She began to see the monster in him and despised him as the day passes
The day she left the house to work, he had given her her first beating. He beat her up and said,
"A woman's duties are in the kitchen and in the bedroom" and that was how she gave up working.
Never has she been beaten the way she was by Geroge. He uses every opportunity to beat her up till she begins to get used to his harshness.
He had gradually broken Lydia's spirit bit by bit till there was little to nothing left. It was the day George brought her best friend into the house that Lydia realized that it was over for her. Not her husband or her best friend ever loved her.
The funny thing was, whenever she had an issue with her husband, Alma was the only person she could confide in. Alma was her comfort. Who would have thought that Alma Ambrose, her best friend for more than six years now, was one of the ladies sleeping with her husband also.
They didn't only force her to watch them have sex that day, they had beaten her up till she lost her first pregnancy.
After the miscarriage, she decided to give George a lot of space for the sake of her mental health. But Whenever there was no lady for him that day, she became his personal slut. It was only three months but she was no longer interested. She planned to file for a divorce as she was already tired.
The day she set to go to the lawyer for the divorce papers, she found out that she was pregnant again for him.
Lydia became confused and didn't know whether to keep the baby and take care of the child alone or stay with George in the house as abortion wasn't an option.
She decided to stay and raise her child. Her beautiful Khloe, who she loves with everything in her. The only thing that had kept her in that loveless marriage was Khloe. She wanted her child and she wants her now.
Lydia snapped her eyes open only to see herself still in the hospital bed again. She looked around and everything that happened to her came rushing back into her memory.
She was beaten by George for something she didn't do and had a miscarriage again losing her seventh child to this man who literally rapes her. And now she is not allowed to see her only child, Khloe
Again her eyes began to turn teary in the dark room,
"Khloe" her lips quiver uncontrollably as she cried silently.
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