Chapter 8

“Where’s he?” He heard her cold voice booming into his bedroom, causing him to jolt off his thoughts.

The next that followed was the loud sound that emanated from her heels which made a clicking noise.

As usual, she was not quiet…

“Richard, I kept calling you all through the day but you failed to take my calls!” She barked angrily and barged into the room.

Richard ignored her and picked up his phone which he got busy with.

Most times, he resolved to doing that in order the suppress the urge of yelling back at her, or even, hitting her.

He knew he could never hit a woman, but most times, he wished he could.

“I’m talking to you! You aren’t dumb, are you?” She yelled, making Richard look up to peer into her furious eyes.

It was one of the normal days where she would start up an unnecessary argument. Richard was ready for that, as always…

“I was so busy and couldn’t take your calls. Perhaps, you’re here now and you can tell me whatever you wanted to”, Richard replied nonchalantly after which he returned his gaze to his phone.

Barbara scoffed and gave him a dead glare which he didn’t care about.

After some minutes of not hearing a word from him, she walked towards him and yanked his phone off his hands.

Richard raised his head abruptly, staring at Barbara who seemed to be at the verge of smashing the phone.

“You wouldn’t dare!” He said in a daring manner.

Barbara let out a scoff that was accompanied by a loud and hysteric laughter.

“And if I do it?” She questioned with every bit of courage visible in her voice.

“Barbara, you wouldn’t dare smash my phone for no reason!” Richard said as he clenched his fist angrily.

“Watch me”, Barbara replied and in a split of a second, threw the phone on the floor.

It landed on the floor and immediately, the screen shattered.

Richard turned his eyes to the floor as he looked at the new phone he had just gotten some weeks ago.

The phone cost about five thousand dollars and inasmuch as he was a billionaire, he respected the phone’s worth.

“Barbara!” He yelled angrily as he stood up and clenched his fist in fury.

“Did you just break my phone?” He asked as he took deadly steps towards her.

She moved back in fear, totally frightened and unsure of what next would befall her. She had never seen Richard this raged. The look on his face was able to make her feel extremely scared.

The veins on his forehead were visible, his lips were curled and his fists clenched.

He pulled Barbara on the neck and made to hit her but couldn’t as his hands got stuck on the air.

Barbara yelped in fright and let out a loud scream, waiting for the worst to befall her.

He stopped right in his tracks and pushed her to the floor.

Picking up his phone, he rushed out of the room and into the sitting room where he paced around while trying to catch his breath.