My dad was right!
I had to push my sentiments aside and put myself, Aidan, and Hazel first.
He never trusted Wesley for a second, so, he made sure to take precautionary measures of entrusting my care to one of his men whom he bought a house for a little distance away from Wesley and ours.
All I had to do was dial the number. But how? Those hawks were watching me closely.
“Hey, you! You can have a sit. Enjoy your last moments alive.” Wesley said as he gestured for Hazel to sit down.
I was still on the floor, unable to get up on my own. It was.
As if to spite me more, Wesley grabbed Mia’s ass and kissed her passionately, both of them moaning shamelessly.
I winced in pain and shame as I tried to look away from them.
I used the opportunity to reach my phone to dial the number.
“No, Alice, you have to watch what it's like to be a woman and make a man feel good,” Wesly sneered as he walked toward me and carried me off the ground, steadying my wheelchair to face him and Mia as he continued kissing her and caressing her breasts.
“Can you just stop? Stop! You want to kill me, go ahead, you don't have to torture me like this!” I screamed at the top of my voice as I sobbed bitterly, but that only gave them more excitement.
“You’re an animal, Wesley! A bloody Animal!” Hazel snapped as she lunged at them, pulling Mia by the hair.
Before Hazel could start beating Mia up, Wesley hit her so hard across the face that she fell to the floor with a nosebleed.
“Hazel!” I cried out as I wheeled myself toward her. I could only pat her back to comfort her.
“I promise I will make you pay, at least have some decency. You owe everything you have and are today to me. I loved you, stood up for you, and this is how you repay me?!” I thundered with the last drop of tears in my eyes that I was willing to let them see.
“Oh, Alice, you give yourself way too much credit,” Mia said as she sat on Wesely’s lap.
“You desperate whore!” I hissed.
“Desperate? That doesn't define me, luv. Wesley is mine. He has always been mine. You came into the picture two years ago, hoping to win him over since you failed to throughout college. You thought cleaning him up and paying off his debts would make him love you?
“I am his wife! I was his wife before you! Now, you are the desperate one, you gave up your position for him, you're a fool, Alice, but a good fool, you know. You played right into our trap. And that heroic act of yours? It's commendable. Because of you, my darling is still alive. So why don't you just complete it, and sign the deed of transfer, you can tell your destiny was to give us a better life,” Mia said with a satisfied smile.
I didn't know what hurt more, the fact that Wesley chose Mia over me or the fact that I had been played all along.
“Enough of the talks, darling. I'll get the injection, they should be dead soon enough,” Wesley said as he stood up and walked inside.
‘Please, please, I need you now,’ I cried to myself as I dialed the number a second time. I just hoped it would work.
Soon, Wesley was back, with two syringes, one for me and the other for Hazel.
I just burst out crying. “I'm sorry, Hazel. I should not have dragged you into this,”
“Your fight is my fight, Alice. It's okay,” Hazel said as she gave me a warm smile.
Mia went and carried Aidan from his crib while he slept peacefully.
Mia collected a syringe from Wesley. My heart skipped, she was holding my baby!
“Sign the documents, or you'll watch your baby die!” Mia said.
“That is your son, Wesley! Are you out of your mind?!” I yelled at him, wondering why he would play such a dangerous game.
“I have my children, Alice, trust me. I don't exactly recognize Aidan as mine. He came out of your groins after all. You don't realize how much I hate you, do you?” Wesley said.
His words cut me deep. How could anyone be so cruel?
“I can't just give you all my year’s hard work. I already made you CEO! Please, I can't do it!” I begged amidst sobs.
“You really don't understand, do you?” Wesley said as he nodded to Mia.
Mia pressed the syringe on Aidan’s skin, almost piercing him. Aidan started crying.
“Please, please, I beg you, don't hurt him. Please,” I begged frantically.
“I will sign it! I will do anything, just spare my boy!”
“Alice, don't!” Hazel cut in.
Mia quickly brought the papers to me along with a pen.
“I can't let them hurt Aidan, I can't,”
Just as quickly, as I signed the papers, my dad had lied to me, there was nobody nearby, and there was nobody he sent to watch over me! This was the end of the road for me and Hazel.
“Now, that's it!” Wesley said as he grinned to himself.
“They’re here!” Mia said in an excited tone as she dropped Aidan on my thighs.
“I guess we will meet in the afterlife,” Wesley said as they both left.
Hazel and I were shocked. What was going on? They weren't going to kill us anymore?
Just then, two hefty men entered the living room, holding ropes. They were three times Hazel and I’s sizes put together.
They grabbed us and bound us in ropes and one of them started pouring alcohol all over the place.
With one matchstick, the whole place started burning!
“Please, save the child!” Hazel cried as she struggled to set herself free.
