Chapter:04

ALEXANDRIA POV

I've been sitting here idly close to twenty minutes and that silly girl Nicole is yet to be back.

suddenly I felt a warm feel engulf me from behind, I decided to check who the hell dares to trespass, I flinched in shock when my eyes got locked into the eyes of that charming guy, I had denied a few days ago.

“Michael? ( stammering)why are you here? what do you want? are you stalking me? I asked a series of questions without giving him a chance to explain himself.

“Calm down Alex, it's not like am gonna hurt you, I just want us to talk, we need to clear things like I'm frustrated without you ......”

“Are you being serious right now? why are you telling me all this now? , I thought we had an understanding .....”

“You went ahead to break up with me on a national television station and you expected me to disagree with your choice and decision? do you know how many scandals that would have caused? your career would have suffered, I emphasized on my words deliberately hoping to tame her.

 But you agreed to everything, and now, we have nothing to talk about and if the media spot us here together, it's gonna cause a lot of ruckuses, and that will cause more damages to our already damaged reputation.

*and what difference will that make ? are you so worried about your career? he said moving closer to me as he let anger consume him.

*Michael, get a hold of yourself, you can't do this here, I felt so pathetic trying to calm his anger.

*Alex, please let's talk in private, you need to explain to me, exactly what is going on, he seems damn serious, I thought to myself ( there was a buzz on his phone) 

thank goodness, I was able to find my way out of there out of the bar, while he was taking the call. I ran out quickly before he realizes that I'm gone.

ERICA

I barged into the sitting in anger, I went straight to the wine bar and pour myself a drink of strong tequila without adding ice. I gulped it down every single drop directly to my throat. I took another glass and gulp it down instantly, the burning sensation from the alcohol burned down my lungs and I felt so much pain engulfing me but I didn't care. all I want to do is get drunk and forget everything else.

Just as I was about to take the third gulp, Arabella rushed over and took the bottle away from me.

“Give it back to me, right now, I yelled angrily with all the strength left in me

“I'm giving absolutely nothing back to you”, Arabella fired back Followed by a cold stare from her.

“I hate her, I hate her!”I kept repeating myself as I walk up to the bar and smash every damn object on the table to the floor, the sight of the flowing liquid and broken piece of glass, made me feel the urge of slitting my wrist. I aggressively took a Pierce of glass and brought it to my wrist and just as I was about piercing it through my skin, I felt a soft hand struggling to take the object from me, I didn't let go of it before I could utter a word, I felt everywhere turned dark, my head wallowing in pain, and my hand let go of the glass, and I raised my head to see, who had dared to anger me. who dared to slap me.

“I'm sorry Erica, I didn't mean to hurt you but you were going to hurt yourself”, she said with tears in her eyes, and she bent down to my level on the floor and started coaxing me.

“shush. don't cry, don't cry, you don't have to cry anymore, because we are going to make that wretched b! tch cry, we are going to make her cry to an extent where she'll do wish to be dead than alive”

“Rachel hurry up and get the first aid kit”.

“we would make her pay for snatching Michael away from me, right?”

“she will pay with everything she has,”  I said with a tone full of determination.

“we will surely make her pay for every single tear that you had to shed, I promise”.

after getting her cleaned up, I gave her some sleeping pills to help her with a good night's sleep. I know it going to be very difficult to get to sleep with everything she had to witness today, I mean she has always wanted to get the love and attention of Michael but that girl keeps interfering in their life.  she keeps getting all the love and attention that Erica deserves and all that Erica gets in return for her true love and devotion is heartbreak and pain.

“we've had enough of that girl, it's high time we do something about it,” Arabella said with full determination and obvious hatred glaring through her eyes.