ABANDONED

CHAPTER 5: ABANDONED

[WARNING for 18+: Triggering scenes ahead.]

“Had you learn your lesson already, Raquel?” Geneva Roswell asked her eldest. She was calmly sitting opposite to her, while she sipped her morning tea.

Raquel nodded her head.

“I am, Ma.” Her voice is empty.

She was motionless, while her mother smiled sweetly as if she didn’t do anything wrong.

“Perfect!” Her mother clapped her hands together. “Now that you have, go change yourself, because you really stink! My God, what kind of filth had clings on you on that place, I could never imagine!”

I could also never imagine that you would put me behind bars. Her grudge was unending.

Raquel submissively stood up and went upstairs.

Under the shower, she scrub her skin. Hard. Until it gets reddened, painful enough to made her sobs. It is not because she was scared anymore, but it was directed to another pain cause by somebody else.

Eliot.

“I was coming. Wait for me.”

But he never did.

Raquel waited, but no presence of him showed up until her mother decided to bailed her out from prison before the media find out. It would be a big news, but she knew why nobody knows what happened until now. David paid the authority. He had his power over them, the law is no match against that bastard.

She gritted her teeth.

They are evil. She still wonder how could she bear with everything. But what escape awaits for Raquel? Eliot lied to her just like what everyone does. He wooed her with words and the stupid her believes him.

She was a fool.

Raquel closed her eyes.

She was at that state, when she heard the bathroom door was pushed open.

“W—who is it?” She gulps.

Fear crawled at the back of her nape.

Raquel quickly grab the nearest towel to hide herself, but her anxiety doubled, when David showed up—stark naked.

“Am I not allowed to be here, my dear wife?” His eyes are reddish.

He looks to be high or something.

“D—David.” Raquel was frightened. “W—what are you doing? Aren’t you suppose to be at work?”

David step closer. Raquel instinctively stepped back. She could smell alcohol from his breathe.

“Have you been drinking?” She asked carefully.

His face changes.

“Why? Are you going to stop me after bitching around?” He glowered.

“I—I don’t know what you are talking about…” She trailed off.

The cold tiled wall meet her back. Raquel knew that there wouldn’t be any escape for her.

“I knew what you had been doing behind my back, honey.” His tone was wrathful.

When David finally gotten closer, he grab her neck. Stricken with fear, the first thing that came on her head was to save herself in spite of whatever consequences she might face.

“I’m sorry…” Raquel was trembling.

What David haven’t prepared himself was when she raised her legs, and kicked him [hard] to where his manhood was.

A scream escaped past on his lips.

His hold loosened.

David fell on the floor, groaning.

“Y—you bitch!” He is wailing with so much pain. “I’ll fucking kill you, if I find you!”

But Raquel was no longer there.

She found herself running away.

She meet with her mother, who looked at her rather confused.

“What’s happening, and for Pete’s sake, why are naked, Raquel?!” She was exaggerated. “And where’s David—”

His screams cut her off.

“Oh my god!” Geneva’s orbs widened. “What did you do this time?”

She did not even check on her. Her mother rush to where David was.

“I’m coming, dear!”

Raquel was tired of this bullshit

Before David could recover, Raquel escape. She hailed a taxi, not even minding the curious look from the driver.

“Where to, madam?”

And she can only think one place to go.

“At Eliot Duke’s company.”

His jewelry store—hoping, although he let her down once.

She just couldn’t find herself…hating Eliot for what he had done. Raquel was sure that there might be a reason behind his sudden disappearance.

But Raquel never find him there. Luckily, Justin seems to have remember her and offer her some clothes.

“Can I use your phone?” She asked.

“It’s on the corner, Ma’am.”

“Thank you.”

Raquel dialed Eliot’s number, but she was directed to his voicemail.

“Hi! This is Eliot Duke, I am a busy person, so you can leave your—”

She hangs up.

Raquel tried multiple times, but the result was different.

On her 4^th attempt, a news was playing on the flat screen TV that was placed on the store.

“At 8:30 in the evening, we have just received a report that Mr. Eliot Duke is already recovering from the wounds he got—” Wounds. “—base from his statement, 5 men just came out of nowhere and started beating him—”

Then the encounter with David came back to haunt Raquel.

“I knew what you had been doing behind my back, honey.”

GASP. Does he know what happened in Bali?

Fear crept on her chest. The phone loosened on her hand.

Raquel knew what David is capable of, and she was sure that he had something to do with what happened to David. Now, she could understand why he never came.

Eliot never abandoned her.

“Let go of me! Let me fucking see her!” Eliot was enrage. He keeps trying to tell the doctors that he was okay, but they wouldn’t let him go.

“Sir, calm down!” The nurses tried to hold him back down, but he was more stronger.

He was fed up.

He was mad, but he is more worried. Last night, he never made it up to pick up Raquel from prison. Some men just came out of nowhere. If it is one, and without weapon—Eliot could defense himself, but there were too many. He was caught of guard until they beat the life out of him.

Bleeding outside his penthouse, that’s when Charity found him.

“I fucking told you that I am already okay!” He keeps repeating the words over and over again. “I told you that I needed to see her—”

“You don’t need to do that.” Charity stared at him stern.

“She’s waiting for me—”

“Not anymore.” When she sidestepped, behind Charity appeared the woman who filled his dreams and keep him awake at night.

“Raquel.”

“Eliot.” It was Raquel who looks guilty, but at the same time—Eliot knew he wasn’t dreaming.

He might not be able to come for her, but Raquel… she came for Eliot, and that was enough to made his lovesick heart beat again nonstop.