All Chapters of STUBBORN HEARTS - LOVING WRONG: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Ray takes tortoise strides inside after Julie runs upstairs, making me take a few steps back inside. I swallow hard, but I hug my cool so tight, refusing to flinch or blink. Even if he heard it all, I don’t think anything has to change because I made it crystal clear that I was pushing through with my revenge. Nothing to aggravate him. And I don’t think I was that intoxicated with sex when I heard him saying that he would not stand in my way. The only thing he pleaded for was the pardon of her father, which I also remember I did not consent to.“Angel is asleep.” He says finally, his eyes not leaving mine. I don’t know what he is thinking. I honestly cannot tell where his mind has wandered off to, but I hope it is not part of that crap that Julie barfed. That he sees me as a loose woman. Or maybe he now does after learning I only allowed him to fuck me just so to spite his wife? Then again, who cares? At least not me.“I suppose you are leaving. I will see you at the door.” I say, and

Monday morning!Breakfast has always been enjoyable in this house, except for today. The clock is ticking past seven, and there is a sign of Ray. Angel is staring at her breakfast, untouched. Julie has been incommunicado for the past two days. She has not said a word to me and refuses to respond to anything aside from my greetings.I have checked my phone a million times in the hope of seeing his incoming call or even a text, but it has been all in utter vain. Either he was making fake promises just to build his profile with his daughter, or he does not know the uses of a fucking phone, or maybe he missed a digit while saving my phone that day. I do not know which is which, but if he knows what is best for him, he better get here before I lose it. I might forgive him for being late, but failing is something else.Forgiveness is out of bounds, especially when his daughter has started with her tantrums again. She has not touched her breakfast in the name of ‘I am waiting for Daddy. Wors

The cab stops at Mazur’s gate at exactly nine. Perfect.“Here, sir. Thank you,” I say as I hand the cab driver my fare. I jumped right out before he could even say thank you.Standing at the vast gate of Mazur’s flashy neighborhood, I take a moment to arrange my cool. Everything that I went through that day as I left this place is surging in me like a savage river. I wish there was a way to avoid it, but I know there is none. I know it will also not be easy facing these people again after all these years, but I have to.I take in a very deep last breath and breathe out the same amount as I take my first step to confront my past. I knock on the gate gently.The gate opens, and the security man pops his head out without letting go of the door. He probably knows I can’t walk past the giant door, but I can most definitely walk through him. He is a new face that I don't recognize. Five years might be a long time, but I would never miss any of the faces that I was familiar with. This one mu

Ray takes long strides from up the side of the rooms and meets Ana, who is shocked to the core halfway. They both make their way to us, their eyes banked on their mother. Ana is suffocating from disbelief. She is seemingly torn between believing what came out of her mother’s mouth and wondering whether she did not hear it well. She is even slightly shaking.“Ray? You... are you done? How long have you been here?” She asks with a tremor. Ooh, why is she shaking now, huh? She should be all bold and continue howling her threats at me.But no. She still wants to play the saint and cover up her crimes. Stupid woman! She should know that the only person in the darkness here is Ana, who is about to find out what kind of mother she is. And this Tarah, the way she is not talking... It seems to me that she is aware of what happened to me back then. I don’t think she would be this calm if her mother-in-law caught her by surprise.“Mom? What are these threats coming from your mouth, huh? How can

The drive back to my apartment is reticent. There is no sound in this car except silence. Ana has not recovered from the shock of the brainstorm about what kind of monster her mother is. She is far from recouping from that. Anyone can tell. And Ray, this one is a beardown gem, as far as I know. He is all acold, but his demeanor has been clogged by a much more dark ambiance today. He is daunted and hurt by what his mother did. I would love to know what he is thinking right now, but too bad. I don’t have a mental link with him to know that.That aside.So, this witch woman, the devil incarnate, the devil in a saint’s body, thinks I have no way of proofing what she did to me, huh? She had the guts and the audacity to deny doing anything to me, right to my face, and even challenging me. She has some balls acting like a devil and trying to act innocent and victimized. Her boldness as she lied even superseded that of Mahatma Gadhi. Her sinister facial gestures as she dared me merit an emble