Chapter Three: Mother In Law Drama

“So you run around, bring children into the world without marriage and not just one–but five stillborns? Oh the heavens shouldn't stay asleep…I just hope you get your deliverance soon..”

“It's enough!” My father in law, Mike Loren finally intertwined.

“I don't want to hear anymore nonsense from you two ladies, because if I do, I'll be sending you both out till the party is over!” Mr Loren said. His eyes were serious and mean and then he glance turned to me….and I got my part–A flash of disgust in his eyes.

He walked off and Brittney turned to me with a dangerous stare.

“But you need to talk to your son, he needs a wife and not some mistress.” George's mother followed behind her husband..

“It's you to decide. I'm out!” George's father replied..

"Back in the ancient days, a filthy little whore like her would have been drowned in a well or something..," Gerrald’s mother paused and spat, her eyes brimming with disgust.

"She’s nothing compared to a decent and respectfull girl like you, Brittney."

She took Brittney’s hands in hers, a sickeningly fond smile stretching across her face.

"It’s decided then. Gerrald isn’t getting any younger and today, I will make the decision for him. He will marry you into the family."

This wasn’t the first time I had stood in the public or grand hall of the Raymond Family’s estate as I stood, as nothing more than Gerrald’s ‘secretary.’

Back then, he had told me how he feared that his mother would not approve of me because of my background and my father's dreadful deeds that led him to where he is now–Jail…!

But then George had reassured me that he truly loved me and had chosen me as his forever, and I stupidly and naively believed him..

He had also promised me that he would get the marriage certificate first and slowly work on winning his mother over so she would love me and take me as her daughter in law.

I had believed him, but now here she was announcing her new daughter in law..

I had waited…..

Seven years had passed and I was still waiting…..like a fool that I was indeed..

Now, his mother had somehow learnt that I had given birth to five stillborn babies and now she regarded me with nothing but hatred and disgust.

In her eyes, I was a promiscuous woman, a disgraceful stain on their family name, like a stain of grease on a white shirt...

"A whore like her doesn’t deserve to stay another minute in this house. George, get rid of her."

There was a time when George would have defended me, even if only with his heart cut into two.

But now, with Brittney gleaming under the grand chandeliers, there was no space left for me in his gaze.

George sighed and walked away from my side to his mother's,"Alright, since I’m leaving for a business trip abroad the day after tomorrow, I’ll take Brittney with me. We can hold the wedding there. Is that okay, mother?"

With not a moment of hesitation Brittney stylishly said. "But I haven’t even tried on a wedding dress, picked my after wedding outfits, or even pick out my ring yet.”

“It's okay, Brittney all that has been arranged..” Mrs Loren said and some servants immediately rolled in some racks of clothes and a whole row of diamond and gold rings for Brittney to choose from..and I stood there watching like a statue with no meaning..

“Oh my God, they’re all in my size! And twenty two... the year we met! Gerrald, you were thinking of me even back then, weren’t you?"

She pouted childishly and he only smiled with his eyes glimmering with indulgence.

It wasn’t carelessness. It wasn’t forgetfulness….

He just had never truly seen me at all, not even once.

I looked down at my own plain silver ring which was the one he had given me the day he proposed on our marriage registration day. It was too small, cutting into my skin every time I moved my finger. I had tried to take it off before, but I never could. And yet, those diamond rings, each an exact fit for Brittney, which meant that he had never forgotten her size.

Standing myself alone, I felt like the main target to a cruel joke. I turned on my heel and hurried out of the mansion as fast as I could..