CHAPTER TWO

Victoria?"

"Why...why are you...?" Her hands trembling with rage,she strode to the bed

"What's going on? What the hell are you doing in my husband's bed dressed like that?!"

Her fist clenched so tightly,bloody moons appeared in her palms,as she glared at the woman on the bed.

"What do you mean?" Victoria stared straight at Ava mischievously,her wide mouth lifting on a smirk "Could it be that this situation is confusing you? Ah ,I understand, it must be because you've never been in it, you know...as Ethan has never touched you?"

A playful smile on her face, Victoria replied,playing with the tassels on her lingerie.

Ava wished that she could backhand that smirk off her face,but she couldn't refute her.

Blinking back tears of anger,she forced her gaze around the room properly,scoffing in disbelief.

The room was dimly lit from the chandelier above,which cast a faint glow around the room,Victoria's dark tresses looked disheveled and telltale marks were on her exposed neck and shoulders.

Coupled with the strewn clothes across the floor of the room and the faint misty smell of sex that lingered.

"Seen enough?"

Victoria's mocking voice reached her ears and before she could respond, Ethan walked in from the shower,his chest bare and a towel wrapped low on his waist, rubbing his jet black hair dry with a small towel,some hair strands sticking to his forehead.

Stopping when he saw Ava and his face grew rigid with a frown.

"How the hell are you here?" Ethan growled and flung the towel in his hands at Ava's feet.

Victoria on hearing Ethan's voice,her eyes grew red and she had an expression of a bullied victim,she called out "Ethan,thank God you're here! She's scaring me".

Ethan rushed to her side and she immediately scurried into his arms trembling and hiding like a bullied rabbit.

'What the hell? why's she acting that way' Ava thought incredulously looking at the scene, watching as Ethan took a stance in front of Victoria,he held her face in his hands, kissed the top of her head and mumbled softly to her.

"It's okay, I'm here,you're safe,She can't hurt you" Ethan looked at Ava over the top of Victoria's head, the smile disappeared from his face as he glared icily at her.

He failed to see the triumphant smile on Victoria's lips as she rubbed her cheeks against his hard chest.

"Ethan,can you tell me what's going on here?" Ava closed her eyes and controlled her breathing to calm down,but her voice still shook when she spoke.

"Why's Miss Victoria here?" 'And why does she act so scared of me' Ava thought puzzles by Victoria's act, 'What was the snake up to this time?'

"That shouldn't concern you woman,Why are you in the capital? No, don't answer that,get out of my room this instant!"

Ethan still stood protectively in front of Victoria as though protecting her from a rabid beast.

Puzzled by his question Ava shot back "It's my business,I'm your wife and I want her out of my house now!" Her voice shaken with emotion,she took a decisive step forward "I will not be disrespected like this under my own roof"

The words had barely left her lips as she reached out to grab Victoria from behind Ethan when she felt something hard hit her across the face.

"Thwack"

"Ah!" Ava stumbled back from the force of the slap, landing on the floor stunned she stared in shock at Ethan,who looked equally shocked, holding her swelling cheeks with trembling hands,her eyes stinging with unshed tears as she looked up at the man she loved

"Huhuuuu" A sobbing sound was heard in the brief silence and Ava looked up shocked, Victoria was crying...

She was the one slapped,why was this woman crying?!

Ethan was glaring at her,while comforting Victoria, his chest heaving as he tried to calm down.

He squatted down to face her and poked at her forehead with one finger.

"Disrespect? Your own roof? In what way are you deserving of that respect? You're just a conniving little bitch who I took pity on and married" his eyes reddened in rage as he pointed a finger at her.

"I've had enough of you,you think because everyone calls you Madam and Mrs. McQueen you can do whatever you want? You're nothing without me and the faster you realize that the better"

"Don't you dare put on airs with me!" Ethan said through gritted teeth, running his hands roughly through his hair.

"Scheming bitch,you disgust me Ava,just go to hell"

Reeling in shock from the slap and the stabbing words,Ava could see Victoria standing behind him,her hands over her mouth,she was sobbing but her eyes were dancing with glee.

Her expression was definitely one of enjoying the show,that look angered Ava so much that she stood up shaking in anger, determined never to back down in front of them.

"Go to hell?,the only one going to hell is you and your shameless mistress, get that bitch out of my house" she fired back,firm although her body shock with suppressed rage.

Ethan smirked and his beautiful green eyes flickered in disdain.

"Or else? What are you going to do?" He walked back to Victoria and gently led her back to the bed,she continued hugging him, even though they were sitting.

"Run to my grandfather and feed him more lies? Too bad he's out of the country, at least he won't see your conniving and hateful face"

"What have you even been going on about?" Ava asked her voice shaking in anger and puzzlement.

Kenneth McQueen, the patriarch of the McQueen Empire,and the only one who treated her like a human in this family.

She glared at the two in front of her,with Victoria snuggled in Ethan's arms caressing her husband's chest.

Her eyes saw red "I said, get out of my house immediately!"

At this,Ethan stood up,walked to the desk in the room,pressed a button,in seconds, a uniformed guard appeared.

"Escort the madam out" Ethan said coldly staring at Ava.

"Madam please,come with me" The guard started and with reluctance held Ava's arm trying to steer her out of the room,but she struggled out of his grip.

"Don't touch me and drag that woman out instead!" She rushed madly to the bed,attempting to pull out Victoria.

Victoria gave a short scream of terror and immediately pushed Ava to the floor off the high bed and rushed to Ethan,who caught her,cradling her protectively in his arms.

Ava fell to the floor on her back,her waist hit the side table and a sharp pain shot up her abdomen.

'Shit my baby!' Ava clutched her stomach and gasped loudly as pain racked through her.

"Get her out of my house now!,I do not want to see her face" Ethan yelled at the reluctant guard who immediately sprang into action and roughly dragged Ava outside.

Ava was panting with the pain and when the guard unceremoniously dropped her in front of the house,she called for her driver immediately.

"Andrew...to the hospital,quick" groaning from the pain,she laid limply against the car as the driver immediately helped her into the car and hurrying to start the engine.

'God please,I hope my baby is okay' Ava prayed silently as sweat rolled down her temples and pain surges through her, but it was not like the burning ache in her heart.

Her eyes stung as tears spilled over and rolled down her cheeks.

She sobbed loudly ,not caring about her image,Andrew was distressed and worried.

"Ma'am, please don't cry everything will be ok..oh my God!!" Andrew yelled suddenly as a car suddenly crossed out in front of theirs from a side road.

He swerved sharply to avoid colliding with the car and after screeching and spinning dangerously, it veered into a tree at the side of the road.

A deafening silence ensued.

In the car ,Ava lay unconscious,her head on the headrest in front of her.

A patch of bright red slowly spread on her white dress,a trickle ran down her legs, staining the seat she sat on.