All Chapters of Trophy Wife : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

Once in a few months, Mister Jackson makes everyone come to dinner at his place for what he calls "family time." He claims that it's a long-aged tradition that he has kept in his family and that helps everyone to build a strong relationship and to love each other. It's rather perplexing because his sons have been doing it since forever and if anything, they hate each other. Edna has been added to the list of family members since the day she got married to Keith and that means that she has to attend the meetings too now that she is family. She is dressed up already, waiting for Dimore to come and pick her up, but as she waits, she texts Keith for the hundredth time. Keith has disappeared on her again and this is in fact not new to her. She is very used to him vanishing for as long as a month and only for him to return later on. The first time that he did this she panicked and called her father-in-law. The police were contacted and Keith was beginning to be searched for and like a

" This is the wildest that the competition has gotten between Jackson's companies and another.""I can't believe that Mister Jackson can go that far to get what he wants. ""The man is way on the extreme side. How could he temper drugs meant for public consumption?!"" The Tide pharmaceutical company has been shut down, but Mister Jackson is yet to address the company..""It's his doing, I am telling you this...."It's hard to concentrate when these debating voices keep coming from the television. The Jackson company is in trouble and this time around, it seems that Mister Jackson has bitten more than he can chew. "Concentrate, people. Concentrate. " Mister Jackson shouts from where he is seated. He is being prepared for the impromptu press conference that is going to be held in a few minutes. Edna is being prepared too. Her face is being powdered and her hair is being retouched. Even though she looks very cool on the outside, Edna is freaking the hell out. This press conference

Edna feels like she is in a state of unconsciousness that is separated from death by a thin line. A kind of nothingness that makes one question one's existence. She was lost in her head and yet she thought she was in another different world. Not heaven or hell. he finally blinks and when she opens her eyes, she sees herself in a hospital room. She is so weak that for the first minute that she wakes up, she just breathes in and out calmly. She gathers her strength and turns her neck. She feels someone holding her and when she turns around, it's Malik. He is slanted on his chair and his head is resting in his free hand as he sleeps. The fact that he can sleep in such an odd position only shows that he is so tired. " Malik.." That voice is hardly hers. It's so small and weak. She has to call him again and again, stopping after everyone tries to gather her strength and then calls him again. He is so deeply asleep. He finally stirs and rubs his eyes before opening them. They set on

Edna feels all the pain in wounded body parts go away as she sits up on the bed. Her heart is jamming against her chest and she feels her head getting lighter. Dimore has been arrested? Mister Jackson found out. Oh, no. Edna doesn't even know what to think right now. She looks at the ceiling and out of the window, her mind has never been more blank like this. Kim is wiping her tears and blowing her nose. She has never been more irritated by Mister Jackson's irrational thinking this much. The man chose to listen to his idiot of a son, not bothering that he almost killed her, and went on like a little boy to tell his father that her bodyguard stopped him from killing her. Thank God for Dimore, she would have been in a worse situation now. "What did the doctor say?" Edna asks. "Nothing. " Kim answers. " He recognized you and he didn't ask anything, he just treated us. "Edna is thinking of her next line of action. She doesn't have a phone, she doesn't have Malik's number and he is

Now Edna has peace. Dimore is out of jail, she has told Kim not to come to the house anymore - she will try her best to manage, and somehow Keith has disappeared again. Nobody is happier with being alone than Edna. That feeling of going to bed without the anticipation of her drunken abuser walking in, or the yearning to burst her eardrums because she can hear the moans of the housekeeper as her husband shags her. Peace is when she prepares her small meal even though it's so hard and peace is when she goes to bed knowing that she won't wake up to pushes and punches.Peace is what's healing her wounds now. The fact that no one is going to come and punch them back to soreness, isn't that wonderful?That's the feeling she went to bed with and there was also a broad smile on her face when she slept off. She wakes up before the breaking of dawn with a strange feeling. It's not a bad feeling, but it's not a good one either. She has this feeling that someone is in the room with her and she