The betrayal

 I want a divorce the words rang in my head as my legs weakened.

Ignoring the raging  pain  in my  heart and the burning throat  I pulled myself up as  my eyes met that of my husband.

I cleaned my tears with my right hands as I  looked at him.

“I went to jail for you” I let out slowly.

I loved you, I did all I could so that our little family wouldn’t break  I took all the blame Ethan.

I didn’t care what anyone said of me,I didn’t care what the media said when my name was being dragged to filth. I didn't care about any of that. 

I covered all of that and this is how you repay me.

“Is this how you  repay the woman who had stood with you through thick and thin, is this what I get for loving you” I screamed at him as the tears rolled out again and my voice echoed through the house.

Ethan looked at me, his expression still cold, he didn't seem moved by what I had just said.

“Don’t make this harder than it already Is,I love Leah and not you, I have a family now and all I want is the divorce”

What did you think would happen Raina, you agreed to take the blame and so I should put my life on hold for that.

Did you really think that I would take an Ex-convict as a wife? 

Did you really think that I would let the woman whose name had been run to filth by the media stand by me in front of the whole world? 

Ethan's words hit me like a sharp knife.

This was the sand  man  that knelt on the floor begging that  everything  was going to get ruined if he went to jail.

The same lips that promised  me heaven on earth, but now it all felt distant, cold and ruthless  and he looked at me like I was dirt.

 “Honey, can you please go in with Jayden , I will just have a talk with my sister”Leah  whispered as she  approached us.

I turned to Leah , the lying scheaning bitch that has done literally everything in her  power to ruin my  life.

Before Ethan could  get what was happening , I jumped on Leah as I grabbed her hair and slammed her face against the floor.

“I’m not your sister” I screamed   but what I felt next was me being pulled away roughly   as my back hit the floor, when I raised my head I saw Ethan holding Leah in the most protective manner  as he told how sorry he was.

Ethan turned to  me with the anger evident in his  eyes.

You stupid bitch, how dare you hit my wife? Ethan screamed as he moved  closer to me.

He pulled me up roughly as he pushed me to the floor again and landed a hard smack on my face.

Ethan didn’t stop there he dragged me out of the living room as I struggled  in his hands and once he got out he pushed on the floor roughly.

“I worked for that company Ethan, I got it to where it is today and I deserve a share there” I screamed at him as the tears blurred my vision.

Not Anymore Raina ,everything  you have has been transferred to your sister, my new wife and  you signed this document before you went to jail.

“This should be the last time, I see you here” he screamed and before I could even get my head around what was happening, I felt the security pulling me up roughly, he threw me outside  the gate and shut  it.

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Banging against his gate was useless.

 Holding the last piece of dignity I had left in me  I approached my parents home.

Standing in front of the place I once called home, I pushed the gate open and  walked in.

I  heart  raced at the thought of what they would say. 

I had no one else to turn to and they were the only ones who would help me.

It was almost  nightfall when I approached  my parents just like I predicted they were at the garden sitting out the cool breeze.

“Mom”I called out immediately  as the tears suddenly started coming out  but as I got closer , I felt a hard smack on my face again and this time my lips bursted.

I slowly raised up my head to look at who had slapped me and I met my father's disgusted look.

The  tears  that I had been holding all this time  started flowing out.

“How dare you hit your sister Raina  and how dare  you show you disgusting face to us you are Nothing but a disgrace” my father yelled at me.

I held my cheeks with my palm, “but father, she married my husband” I screamed at him holding my cheeks.

I expected my parents to react but when I looked at them their face was cold, baseless and plain and that was when it all hit me.

“Oh my God,  you knew , you all knew about it” I screamed again as the tears filled my eyes and the pain of heartbreak hitting my heart in ways I never thought it would.

She was pregnant  Raina, what would you have us do?

 Do we let her   have a child out of wedlock ,that’s your little sister and  we had to support her.

The tears hadn’t stopped falling, my parents' revelation hurts  more than death itself.

 I had been a fool all along.

This was their plan all along, they knew about it and they supported her.

“All you have to do is tell your sister sorry for hitting her and maybe your ex husband can consider  employing you  in the company but if you do not and you leave this company I would have no choice but to cut off every  ties  I have with you” my mother yelled at me.

But I couldn’t think, my heart couldn’t stop hitting hard, the betrayal hurt more like death itself.

My husband betrayed me and married   my sister and  not just that my parents were on it too.

I had been betrayed and ruined by the same people I trusted and called my family