Chapter 8

Chapter 8

"Hello Darling you seem too happy enjoying your life? Your love heart's driver beat me black and blue and you did not even call to enquire about my health." Fredrick accused Aliza. "It...it is not something like you...you think, I was busy unpacking the luggage, I...I was supposed to call you tomorrow." Aliza replied, stammering in fear. "Oh yeah keep your false sympathy with you Aliza, I know your true colors, you are too happy to reach for your new toy. You are a fucking whore." He spat his last words with venom.

"But I'm not a mum to keep my hands folded. Remember we are engaged? How could you dare leave your fiance in his helpless state while you enjoy bonking that man there?" He roared at her nursing his injured leg.

"Fredrick please do not accuse me of something I haven't ever done." Aliza cried claiming her innocence. "Do not show me your crocodile tears and listen to me good, you whore." He catapulted Aliza by his Accenture. "My sister pleaded with me to marry you. I cannot see my sister unhappy. That is why I had accepted her request even though I know you are a shameless prostitute." Aliza broke to a wail at the atrocious accusation. "Please Fredrick do not call me that." She cried.

But Fredrick was a demon with no heart. He ignored Aliza's plea and continued in his command. "I have discussed our marriage with my sister and brother-in-law. Before you join me at the aisle with a huge bump of one of your retinoid clients I am supposed to be cautious." He spilled the heart wrecking statement of blaming Aliza on infidelity with zero regret. "I'm a very noble person that is why I'm still talking instead of killing you and accepting you in spite of your adultery."

Aliza had no psychological strength to counter. She had already succumbed to isolation with the insensitive baseless allegations of her heartless fiancé but Fredrick wasn't the person who cared.  "Two days later I am going to the church to speak to Father Thompson and fix the date of our marriage. I do not think I will have the ability to move even for tomorrow. That is why I planned my visit two days later and the courtesy is your Lothario's driver." He grunted on his last words.

"The marriage will most probably be next Wednesday, a week from today. Do not try to act smart by framing something with your sexy billionaire rake because I'm not going to spare you anymore. I will kill you in the most brutal way so that you will remember your hazardous death even for your next hundred births to come."

Aliza fell speechless in fear. Her lips trembled with hatred. She despised herself, detested her existence and cursed her fate. A heavy stone weighed on her heart. What is she going to do? How is she going to escape this sinful wedlock? Just one week of time left with her. Is her life going to terminate in the hands of a rogue with no trace of retrieval? Mom and dad, why did you leave me so early? She mewled in pain.

The words of Fredrick rang in Aliza's ears bringing her back to the present. "If you have even the minimum of decency you will ask permission from your boss and accompany me to the church to speak to Father Thompson." Aliza cried hysterically like someone stabbed her chest. Death was much a better version to suffer than getting tied to the scum bag. But did she have a choice? If she tried to escape, her aunt would pick her up even from the grave.

As a child Aliza remembered running away from her uncle's home unable to bear the torture of her aunt. Stella caught her back within a few hours using all her public relations and beat her like a mad sorceress. She did not give Aliza food for five days until Aliza was on the verge of dying. It would have been better if she had left her to die but again she pulled her back from the clutches of death to make her suffer for more.

"You damn bitch speak before you cry like a dying pauper." Fredrick yelled on the phone. "Yes..yes Fredrick, I will speak to my boss and join you to the church." She spoke meekly. "Good." He sounded an evil grin and cut the call. That night Aliza couldn't sleep after the talk with her fiancé. Before she could cheer for her good days to start they had already ended. She had no idea what she was going to say to her boss.

Charles had been very kind to Aliza since the beginning. He employed her even when she was under qualified and underage for the job. He gave her a rent free accommodation in one of his staff quarters and also sent a doctor when he understood she had health constraints. Could there be a better humane person than Charles Rodriguez?

In the morning two days later Aliza rejoined for work and arrived at the CEO's room with her usual cup of coffee.  "Good Morning sir," she greeted him. Charles gave a nod to Aliza with his eyes still stapled to the laptop in front of him. "Sit down, I'm going to dictate you a letter. You need to immediately draft it and send it to the respective address specified in the envelope." He forwarded a post to Aliza from one of the drawers of his office desk. "Make the format of the letter on your own. I'm just dictating to you the contents."

"Yes sir" Aliza gave a soft reply and Charles started dictating the letter.

We haven't received the proceeds of  sales for our consumable supplies within the last three months. The grace period which Richmond Industries had awarded you is also over. In the next two days if we do not receive the bill payments from you, then we are forced to sue you and take the matter to the court.

"Draft this letter immediately Ms Stelwart and connect me to the lawyer." He ordered and continued typing on his laptop. Aliza stood there plastered to the ground. She felt her stance going jittery and she mumbled weakly. "Si...sir..can..can I speak to you for two minutes?" Charles raised her eyes from the laptop to her and Aliza felt a sudden rush of heat in her body with anxiety. His eyes were sharp steel like the tip of a knife staring at her damn serious.

Aliza was immensely intimidated by her boss' roost aura and felt like she was going to pass out at any moment. But before the uncontrollable could happen she had forced herself to be cautious and blurted out the words. "Sir, I need to resign."

"Excuse me?" Charles snapped standing from his seat pushing his coat behind and hands inserted into his pant pockets.  He circled around the table walking predacious and looked at Aliza ravening. Aliza prayed if earth could swallow her assimilating the deathly tenor of her boss. "Sir, my fiancé..... my fiancé wants me to resign from the job?" Aliza's eyes were stapled to the floor as she spilled the words unable to meet the eyes of her boss.

"My fiancé or my abusive fiancé, Ms Stelwart?" Aliza looked at Charles in a shock turning as red as a tomato. "Do you think I do not keep a record of the personal details about my staff?" He asked her, irritated, squinting his eyes. "Your output affects the turnover of my company." He hurled in anger poking on the table beside him with his forefinger.

"Do you still wish to continue your life with such a wolf even after suffering the consequences of his attack?" Charles pointed with his eyes to Aliza's almost broken leg a couple of days ago and examined her for a second with strictness in his demeanor. "I know about everything you suffered...." Aliza did not wish for her boss to continue on with her sad story. Before he could speak further she broke to whimpers. "Sir, he threatened to kill me if I did not abide by this marriage. He called me a slut and accused me of holding illicit relations with other men when I'm actually a virgin."

"What?" Charles was taken aback by the novel revelation of Aliza. "Yes" she replied to him weakly, almost unheard. "This is the heck of it, bloody bastard..." Charles bit down the curse. Aliza snorted with her eyes still directed to the floor. She was heaving in agony. "In an hour he is going to reach here and pick me to the church to speak to Father Thompson to fix our marriage date."

"Aliza" was the first time Charles called her by the first name. Aliza heard her name more beautiful than ever before. Goosebumps crawled in Aliza's nerves even in this disastrous situation as soon as her primary name rolled out of her boss's lips for the first time. It was the magic of him and the power he held on her....Aliza instantly leaped her eyes on him. . "Do you wish to marry him? Answer me prudent exploring yourself because this is the question of your life." Aliza inhaled a shaky breath, her eyes still directed to the floor but she looked back in Charles eyes with a blaze of determination. "No sir."

Charles placed the notepad in Aliza's hands in which she had previously taken down his dictation.  "Okay, then leave the matter to me. Forget that you were ever engaged. You will not see your fiancé abusive again." Aliza stared at her boss dumb struck. 

And what she saw coming next snatched away the living lights in her body.