“We are divorcing, Elena. Game is over.”
Elena does not know which was more surprising. The words her husband had just said to her or the fact that the woman her husband was cheating on her with was her best friend.
Her best friend. Camila.
She sniffed gently and stood up grudgingly, leaving the brown envelope on the floor.
“Z…Zeke, no, Camila?” She breathed heavily.
“I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and now… that is it. I hope you will sign it without any problem and…”
“Zeke, that is my best friend!” She hollered.
Both were painful, and she is yet to know which was more painful.
She stared at Camila who looked away from her and settled on the table in the room.
She looked like she could care less as she had been caught and right now, she wished for nothing more than to slap that look off her face.
Camila had been her best friend for many years, and this was the woman she had told everything about what was going on in her marriage.
“I think you should give him a bit of space too. Maybe he will come back to his senses then.”
The advice Camila had given her some weeks back struck her and she chuckled. Like a mad person.
“H… how long? How long has this been going on?”
“Sign the papers, Elena. Enough of the dramas.”
Elena shook her head, pressed her lips together, and dragged her feet towards Camila. “Camila, I trusted you!”
“I never asked you to!” Camila retorted and got down from the table.
She swept her hair to the back, scoffed, and covered the space between her and Elena. “I never asked you to trust me. You just decided to be a fool!” She pointed her finger accusingly at her.
Camila and Elena were best friends, they had been together since high school days. If a seer had told Elena some years back that her friend would betray her this way, she would disagree with everything in her.
Even though Camila was Elena’s best friend, she had always wanted everything the woman had.
Unlike Elena who was raised in a rich and elegant family, she was just the daughter of an old couple who ran a local restaurant in an outskirt village in West Georgia.
Elena had everything except her. She had the perfect parents, a loving sibling and then worked in her father’s company.
What she did not know was that her jealousy was going to grow worse when she announced to her that she was going to marry the famous CEO of RUSSO’S.
Camila began her investigation two years after her friend had married the man, she found out about the club that Zeke was a usual and then began to go there too.
It didn’t take long before Zeke noticed her as she had sat so close to him while he drank alone.
She talked first, he answered her, and from there, they began to talk till they both got drunk and then made out in a hotel room in the hotel.
And since then, it has been history.
“Y… you…” Elena sniffed as she tried to stop the tears that were threatening to fall.
“What?! In fact, you know what? I am so glad this is happening right now.”
“What?”
“Trust me. It has been so exhausting listening to you whine about Zeke. I have had enough of that shit and I am so glad this is happening right now!”
Elena shook her head and before she could realize what she was doing, her palm had landed on Camila’s cheek.
Shocked at the impulsive act, Camila shrieked and Zeke rushed over to her.
“Babe!” He exclaimed as he rubbed his hand against her cheek before he turned to look at Elena with an unreadable expression.
He poked her shoulder with his index and middle finger together “Are you insane?”
“Ze…”
“What do you think you are doing?” He asked, and poked her again, this time harder.
She furrowed her brows, tears laced heavily in them.
“Zeke?”
He was really treating her this way because of Camila?
She swallowed hard, blinked back the tears rather energetically, and shook her head.
She dared not break the news of her pregnancy to him, not right now especially.
She had come here with the hope that things were going to work out well between them, but… this?
This was the least of what she was expecting.
She had always suspected that her husband had another woman. The lipstick stain that she found on his shirt about two months ago was proof on its own.
But, what she had never thought was that, the person he was cheating on her with was her friend.
If she had gotten the news of her pregnancy a day earlier, she would have told Camila.
That was how much she had told the woman everything and had never kept anything from her.
She watched as he moved to the envelope lying on the floor, picked it up, and then threw it at her face.
The sharp part of the envelope hit the corner of her eyes and it was not until she felt a sharp pain and touched it that she realized that there was a cut and blood was oozing gently from it.
“Sign the papers. I don’t want to see you by the time I return home. You can also mention everything you want in alimony. My legal team will compensate as soon as possible,” he said and moved to where Camila was.
Zeke would waste no time in presenting the divorce paper the moment he saw that it was the right time.
Since they could not divorce a year after they married because of his grandfather, he decided he would wait till whenever he could.
And as if luck was on his side, May his grandfather's soul rest in peace, he died six months ago and because he was a person who cared a lot about what people said about him, he thought he needed to wait for a while.
Six months had passed, and he only grew to not like the presence of his wife as the day went by.
Camila was giving him enough happiness, and he wanted to be with the woman and not Elena, so he proceeded with the divorce.
Elena watched as he stared at her and massaged her cheek, and she felt her stomach twisted in a knot.
He had never looked at her that way.
He had always looked at her as if he disdained her. He had never looked at her with affection in his eyes before.
She hated to admit that she had seen the red flag from the beginning… but she ignored it.
She thought she could change it.
She thought she could make him like her.
How stupid of her.
Feeling a sharp pain in her lower belly, she turned around with the envelope tightly held in her hand and then walked to the door.
She had not stayed in this marriage for three years just for Camila to break it apart.
Zeke could not be reasoned with at the moment, and maybe later when he came home… she would be able to talk sense into him.
“Pathetic!”
She heard Camilla cussed and she turned around to look at her gently.
“Please, use the door. What are you still waiting for?” Camila asked.
She felt saliva forming in her mouth and she proceeded to leave the room, her hand on her flat stomach.
As she got out of the room and slammed the door behind her, she stood still in her position for only God knows how long and then finally let the tears fall from her eyes.
Should she just sign the papers and leave like she was asked to or stay back to fight for her position and her child’s?
The last thing she wanted was her child not growing up without a father and she was very scared that that might be happening already.
Or… what if she just removed the baby and left as if she had never been in his life before?
Elena winced in pain for the umpteenth time as her lower belly shook in pain and stood from where she sat, then walked to the tall standing mirror in her room.She raised her chiffon top and then stared at her flat belly.Wondering why her stomach hurt, she poked the lower belly gently and then winced again as the pain hit her.“Aw!”“I should go to the hospital tomorrow…” she said to no one in particular after glancing at the wall clock and realizing that it was almost seven in the night.After she had left Zeke’s company in the afternoon, she had come straight home and had been literally sleeping since then.The last thing she wanted was to think about the divorce paper that she had received earlier the day as it does nothing than bring tears to her eyes.Finally, she trailed her eyes to the brown envelope on the nightstand beside her bed and then exhaled.It was not a dream, indeed. Her husband has presented the ‘death note to her.’As she stared at her reflection in the mirror fo
“Fortunately, she arrived here earlier, else it might have been a different story entirely.”The doctor said as he adjusted the intravenous drip and then turned to look at Aria who stood behind him.“Is she okay now? And the baby?”“Yes, I must say, he is a fighter. He hung onto his mama really well,” he said and Aria smiled weakly.“Thank you.”“She should be awake soon. I will come back to check up on her,” he said and she nodded her head.“Alright. Thank you, Doctor.”After the doctor exited the room with the two nurses, she returned to sit beside her sister’s bed and then picked up her phone to check the time.It was almost six in the morning, and all she had been waiting for through the night was Zeke’s call.Was he not aware that his wife was not at home… in the room with him?Or… had he gone on a trip or something?She knew she had to keep all options open.Her sister has a nice relationship with her husband… as she had been told.It had taken everything in her to not go to the
Zeke could swear that he heard no single thing amongst what the woman on the stage in front of him had said as all he wondered was how a person could not have changed a bit in the last six years.In a split second, he asked himself if he was seeing correctly and if the person in front of him was his ex-wife, Elena.As the woman rounded her speech and everyone clapped their hands for her, a waiter stopped in front of him, and without thinking twice, he pushed the man away and clasped his hands together.Watching her being escorted out of the stage and to the door at the back of the stage, he hurried to the direction, without giving a damn about the people that were obviously looking at him.As he got out of the event hall which led him down the hallway, he looked around and saw the men who had escorted her in front of a door, he dashed there.“Excuse, sir. You can’t enter.’Zeke raised his brow at the man who just said to him and then looked at the other man beside him and took a step
Elena stopped walking occasionally while she stopped to greet the people that were rushing up to her even though she could still feel Zeke’s presence behind her.Of course, she knew that people would want to talk to her, secure a meeting, and all of that after tonight’s unveiling but what she was not expecting was her ex-husband crawling up to her in that manner.“I have been trying to meet with you, Ms. Baskerville,” one of the older businessmen said to her and she forced a smile and nodded her head.Was she aware that Zeke was going to be present at tonight’s event?No.But she hoped that he would be. She wanted to see his reaction when he saw her six years later, and not to lie, she loved the mystery that was plastered across his face.Zeke was nothing like she used to know. Although she had watched all of his achievements on the internet and how he had risen to one of the top three billionaires in the whole of America. Still, the media did little justice to his current look.The
Elena twitched her lips upward and nodded her head. Whether he submitted their divorce documents or not, she cared less.“That is your problem, not mine,” she shrugged her shoulders off and then turned to leave.She made sure she did not stop walking and increased her pace till she reached her car.Her driver got down, opened the door for her, and she got in hurriedly.“Let’s go, please.”By the time Zeke got to the car, the driver had already ignited the engine and was about to drive.Zeke slammed his hands on the tinted window while he called out her name, but even if she spared him a glance from where she sat, he would not know as the windows were heavily tinted.He breathed out as he watched the car drive away, looked around, and then adjusted his clothes stylishly.He fondled his hands in a tight fist and then clenched his teeth.He did not doubt that he would not be sleeping well tonight. He needed not to be told that his usual nightmares would wake him up.Especially now that h
Zeke hesitated to get out of the car as the driver opened the door for him because he knew that getting out of the car was meeting with everyone, including Camila’s parents.It was his mother’s birthday two days ago and because everyone had said they were busy, she had fixed a dinner gathering for today. He adjusted his collar, got out of the car, and then looked around the big mansion.“Sir,” he sighted the butler from afar and then nodded his head at the man who bowed at him.“This way, sir,” he said again.Zeke nodded his head and then walked after the man who turned around and then walked ahead of him, leading him to the garden where they were probably having dinner.“Your mother is so pissed,” he said.Zeke hissed softly and then nodded his head. “How many people are present there?”“Maybe five? Or more than,” he answered, not turning to look at him.Zeke shook his head and walked silently behind the man for a while before he talked again, chuckling slightly.“What are you worri
Zeke got to his car, and as he prepared to enter the backseat that his driver had opened for him, he turned around and then raised his head to look at his sister’s window.It had been six years since she had talked to him with a smile in her eyes like she used to and all of this was because of what happened with Elena.If there was anyone who hated him because of Elena, it was definitely her. She liked Elena and while they were still together, she used to come over once in a while just to keep her company.The two liked each other so much and back then, he hated that his sister, Chloe, was unnecessarily nice to the woman.When Chloe heard that he had divorced Elena, she yelled, cried, and pleaded with him to bring her back but it was out of his control too.He could not even find a shadow that looked like her.Her and her family’s whereabouts were encrypted and there was no way he could track her.Was she aware that Elena was back?Of course, a lot of TV stations must be circulating he
“Hold on!” Elena stopped walking and turned to look at Ariana and her twins who ran towards her.“What?”Ariana shook her head, covered the space between her and her sister, and then helped her adjust her shirt very well. Elena was wearing a pink shirt and a black suit pant which made her look so professional and corporate.“It’s your first day at work,” Ariana smiled.“You are making it sound like it is a big deal.”“Because it is. You have not worked in over five years and all you have done is supervise anonymously.”Elena nodded her head and smiled. “I know, but it’s not a big deal still.”“I know you are nervous. You can’t lie to me.”Elena breathed out. “Nothing gets past you, does it?” “It is fine, okay? You are doing well.”“I feel like all my moves will be watched now that I am back and… with my past story too. I did not expect everyone to know that I was his ex.”“The Internet does not forget, Elena,” Ariana said and she nodded her head.“You said you met him at the event?