Twisted Fate

“Nicolas, this isn’t right, you can’t be using our daughter to achieve your mischievous aim. Let this stop Nicolas” Jackie Anderson pleaded.

Lisa arrived home and almost tripped her over the stairs as she ascended the stairs. And the worst of it, is that she didn’t even turn to say a word of sorry to her but stumbled off.

Lisa is their daughter. It’s not right that Nicolas should send her on an assignment that is demeaning and shameless.

“You won’t tell me what to do and not to do. I haven’t sent her a suicidal assignment, it’s a simple assignment that demands concentration and wisdom”Nicolas Anderson replied flippantly and looked away.

He climbed into the bed and covered himself with a quilt. He turned his back to his wife.

They had tolerated each other all these years. Jackie wasn’t the woman that Nicolas loved. She was just his companion and wife in body but not in soul.

That fact was what Jackie knew and endured. She knew the man she married is in love with another woman.

She had tried to know who that woman was but never got to know a thing. Nicolas is too deep minded. He never said, utter or mistakenly let down his guide, each time she asked him.

“Is Alex Foster somehow related to the woman you loved?” Jackie asked. Her husband was too obsessed with Alex Foster.

Was his late mother the woman that Nicolas loved all these years? Is she the one?

Nicolas started laughing out loud. He sat up and glared at Jackie. Then pinned her jaw as he looked into her eyes in fury.

“Then I would have loved Alex Foster. If he was the son of the woman I love, then I would have protected him and loved him like I did to his mother. Is that clear?”

Nicolas yelled into her face and pushed her off. Jackie lost her balance and tumbled over from the bed.

She doesn’t believe Nicolas. If what she suspected was wrong, then what is it about Alex Foster that he wants to ruin him?

“Then tell me why you want to destroy that Young Man. What has he ever done to you? What Nicolas, what?” Jackie stuttered.

She crawled back to the bedside and stood up. She looked furious at her husband who had so much hatred visible on his face at what she just asked.

“It is none of your business. The Foster owes me and I must get what I want from them back with interest” Nicolas bellowed. His eyes were spitting fire.

“Then do it alone and all by yourself. Why drag Lisa into it, why use her as the bait to get what you want?

Where is your humanness Nicolas? Why are you doing this to your own daughter? Why Nicolas?” Jackie declared.

Nicolas was quiet and she used that as an advantage as she continued “I am begging you Nicolas, leave my daughter out of this.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

Settle your tussle with the Foster but not use my daughter as a bait. It will be detrimental to her self esteem. I am begging you Nicolas.

They owe you right? Go get back whatever they took from you. They do not owe Lisa, she doesn’t have to be involved in this whole mess.

Now, I am pleading with you to keep my daughter out of your evil plots. But if you insist, and won’t leave Lisa out, don’t blame me if I…” Jackie was not done when Nicolas pulled her to the bed and started choking her.

“If you do what? Huh, tell me what you can do?… I will kill you long before you have the chance to say a word” Nicolas bellowed.

Jackie was struggling with her life. She was trying to push Nicolas off but she couldn’t. Her entire body was beginning to be stretched.

She was getting to the limit of her life and her eyes were already closed, she would die now but she wasn’t going to witness Nicolas’ evilness to the Foster family.

She was beginning to see the faces of her late parents in the distance, they were beckoning to her with their hands but their looks were like they were sad.

The last bit of line, holding her soul to her body had been stretched, it was already losing its elasticity and it would break in a few seconds.

Just when Jackie’s body was going to slumb, she perceived a strong force pulling Nicolas hands off her throat…

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Ella couldn’t sleep. She was scared of what Alex would do when she discovered she went to his study.

She had returned from her mother’s place in a bad mood. They had argued and though she felt bad to argue with her mother and refuse to carry out her instructions, she couldn’t help it.

She couldn’t divorce Alex. The guy hasn’t done anything bad to her since they were married. He was trying to do his best, to the limits she gives him the chance.

Now, to suddenly tell him she was ending the marriage and paying him off is a symbol of ungratefulness.

She agreed to the one year contract. She can’t end it less than three months into the marriage simply because she can refund his money.

That’s unfair on her part. He had fulfilled his part of the contract. She must do her own part of the agreement.

He did this to the fullest, she must complete her own to the end. Once it’s one year, they will part ways and go their separate paths.

He still pays her salary. Even double her salary. He didn’t touch her, nor has he brought any of his women home to humiliate her.

He kept chasing his women outside and he would return home clean. That’s enough for her. She shouldn’t be asking for anything more than what she was already getting.

Her mother claimed she had fallen in love with him, that’s why she doesn’t want to end the marriage.

But she knew it had nothing to do with love. It’s mutual understanding, it’s agreement, it’s purely based on contract and nothing more.

She had returned to Alex Mansion with that mood. She completely forgot to take her computer from her mother’s place. She left in a hurry and forgot it there.

That day was the last day to submit her thesis. She doesn’t know what to do hence she decided to use Alex’s computer if he has one at home.

Ms Cooker had said yes. Mr Foster had a computer in his study, several of them. She has to be careful and not temper with any of his documents.

She had shown her where his study was located. It has two entrances. One from the outside and the other through his bedroom.

She succeeded in sending the email to her professor with her thesis but mistakenly clicked a button. It brought up information that was not right for her to see.

Now she was restless. Mr Foster will definitely know she went to his study. What had she gotten herself into?

She doesn’t want to implicate Ms Cooker at all. What is she going to do when Alex arrives?

There’s something he likes her doing whenever she wrongs him; her apologies.

She would show her sincere apologies to him and tell him she wasn’t going to cross her limits again.

It wasn’t long, Ella heard the honk of the car outside and her heart beat almost skipped.