A bondage Marriage

Alice's Pov

To think my mind kept blurring to the scene of him applying the paste on my ankle. Honestly I was beyond taken by his action, to me he didn't present himself as the caring type and after our days argument I was having the worst about him.

But then , my cheeks were blazing in hit from his apology. I felt my lips raising for a warm word or two but the mind shut them down.

I just couldn't accept it, he apologised not only that he got Beth back to school and had her proven innocent, not only that he stood in my defense.

I hate to admit it but those acts brought the fire flies to spark in my belly.

“My God, the snitch has been found” Linda cupped her cheeks, while I laughed the hell of her reaction. More than anyone she was the one person praying for her to be found.

With feet dragged behind the firm brick

she touched a button of the machine then stood in watch of the brown warm water poured in the cup she had place beneath it. It never stopped to amaze her everytime, she used the words like 'while growing these things weren't that advance. You wanted a coffee then make one yourself, but these days the advance technologies has make life easy and lazy. Well who am I to complain I love it too'.

“ So, has she told you who the culprit is ?“ She asked, her hand lending a sniff to the nose of the auto made coffee.

“Hmm, this is pure talent, God bless the soul of whoever invented a coffee maker”

“She hasn't” I said drowning over the days of her stall to tell me the names. Lately I'd been busy with the company works and Beth's adamant refusal to host with me. She clearly stated her displeased in my husband and went to mom, that I was relieved to.

And Peter dumb mouth to finish his words was bugging me through out, what did he meant Dave can't be trusted and what secret?.

He was just one confuse person I knew little about.

“How're you and Abdul doing”

Her eyes sprint in cheers with his name measured, her body laid peace on the stool while her hand hanged to her lips with the warm breath dark chocolate coffee.

“He's fine, I mean we both are doing fine. “

I could clearly see it from her smiles and lost mind to a point of slipping the coffee on her lap.

That must have come harsh, luckily she had the dress to take most the hit.

“ Wow…now am feeling left out” I dragged in with pouted lips.

“Oh darling you've no reason to feel left out, you have a whole cold CEO and goffy ex that wants you back. Hon your story is set “

“Huh” I scoffed taking a troll of eyes to the exist soon to capture the kids rouging their hands to the entrance.

“ Alex , Melody that's enough” the woman behind scolded , getting the kids to straighten their body and forwarded in with eyes battlethat kept disappearing each time they caught their mom's gaze.

“Hi” the woman proceed with a calm smile.

“Can I have the usual please, the kids won't rest or hand me one till the have your cake” the mother rant out a dull sigh.

Linda pace her way to the cake section and got strawberry and vanilla thin size cake .

“Thank you” she snuck the cakes to her kids, who were drumming the table with their hands.

The silence patch was stolen by the steps that stalked in. The two cuties rushed their legs to the figure ,compelling the hands to wrap his body. He took the girl in his arms while the boy got a ruff on the nice boy cut style.

“Daddy” the girl cheerful voice spiked Linda cheeks to tomato up as she dreams over a day like that with her own family.

“Dad Mon got us our favorite pastry” the boy informed , the man led the girl on the seat. Taking a clear view of him only to recognize his damn face, my feet rouse to the hitting flame in my chest.

Grouching my last despise on him, I front his eyes that he felt no guilt to bow or evade, instead held much pride and ownership.

“ Liam” his eyes responded to his name, with calm mind he laid a kiss on the woman's cheek, irgnoring my presence.

“ Who're they?. Are you cheating on my sister?“

The lady hand dropped the fork she held in direction to her little one's mouth, stoning her mix eyes on me then sent on Liam that showed no reaction.

“You're Grace's sister?“ She asked

'Huh!'

The nerves of her, she knew of her existence then still went ahead of having an affair with her husband.

“ Liam, is this the promise you made to my father to protect and love Grace?. You have an illigitimate family” my voice lashed out, taking the poor little ones at surprise.

“Please not here, not infront of the kids” she said winging the girl under her hands.

“ Kelly take the kids to the car, I'll meet you there” he ordered, to which she followed.

“Are you going to start taking or should I call Grace”

“Be my guest. What do you think, I'll get scare of measuring your sister's name?“

Honestly that was the goal, to scare the hell of him and have him confess and show a bit of regrets and remorse. Perhaps a plead to silence my lips, which I definitely wouldn't have stayed to. Cause the seconds I was out there I was telling Grace everything.

“ You must be really stupid if you think your sister isn't aware of my affairs and other family. Go ask her”

' That's impossible, Grace wouldn't stay put with such knowledge. She eod definitely devorce this bastard.the minute she knows of it '

The poor brain convinced.

“ I mean what can she do, she just an empty sack, a stone that refuse to have me any child”

The sound of my hand registering on his wooden jaw echoed in the room of no customer. Linda quickly intervain on sight of his hand wanting to turn the debt.

“That's enough not in my cafe” she said fronting a firm barrier between us.

“That's for insulting my sister, you bastard. How dare you disrespect her love, you low life, cheap and ungrateful man whore” I dared him to lay a hand on me, at that moment I was cursing him only to have him irritated to the point of hitting me, so I can have him rot in jail.

“ You can count your lucky stars this aunt is here”

“Hey who're you calling aunt?“ Linda scolded to his comment, giving him a second fill with glares.

“ Your sister will pay for your insults”

At that time I didn't take much meaning to those words. I could only think of what to do or how to get the hell in him, his disgustful face held no guilts which spiked much dispise in me.

I remember calling Grace's line several times but was to no avail, I later called her home line to which her governess responded to her not being home. She said something of her going to the hospital.

I left the second I got the information, probably that time I though she went to visit dad at the hospital and nothing much of it.

“ Grace “

She pulled on her shirt the second she took saw me at the ward door.

I was taken by her appearance, it looked like I was seeing a different person and not my beloved sister. Her pure skin was set on dark red bruises that laid on her arms, to which even the over lap medicine couldn't cover.

I walked to her, felt her face which was swallon on one cheek and split at the upper right eyebrow .

“ Who did this to you?, It him, it Liam “ I was definitely sure it was his doings, after what I encountered. I knew just how cheap he is and at what length he can go to get his damn ego full filled.

“No, it not him. I fell” her voice couldn't even keep up with her words.

“ How dare he lay his dirty fingers on you”

“I said it not him, stop blaming him. Besides am okay” she scolded barely.

“Stop covering his acts, I know he did this to you. How you could you take this all these years, I saw him with his mistress and illigitimate kids”

Her body let cold with hands on the other, settling her gaze on the nurse that was dressing her wounds.

“ You can leave” I said to the nurse who gladly took the offer.

“Why Grace?. If he was hurting you then why didn't you let out?“

“ Because I can't” she broke down with tears. “ You think I didn't think of it, I wanted to devorce him but couldn't and why?. Because dad wouldn't let me, he said whatever happens settle it and have it dress's but no member of the Black family will undergo devorce “

I didn't want to believe her, my dad…no, not him. Dad would never tell any of his daughters that he loved to stay quite and bare with the I'll treatment being served to her, he sure wouldn't. But again, it wasn't in her nature to lie or cook things up.

“Alice, I've lived my years in a bondage marriage. One with no respect or peace, he's never happy and the days he is he treat me like his little slut.

I cried but no one heard me, and the worse was when dad got the fraud case and the family loosing it wealth. I became nothing but trash to him”

I wrapped my arm on his shoulders,warming her cold broken heart.

“I'm sorry, I didn't know you went through so much. I'll make things right, I promise you he'll pay for everything “

That I wasn't going back on, he was going to pay, his life was gonna be ruin by me.