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“Madam, should I prepare the meals now?” Miss Chloe asked.

She had been the chef for the Wilson family for almost two years now.

“Don’t worry Miss Chloe, you can rest for today. I want to cook for my husband today.” Rita said while smiling.

“But madam…” Miss Chloe was trying to say, but was cut short by Rita.

“ I insist please.”

“Okay if you say so. By the way, young master Liam is so lucky to have a wife like you, I can only pray you grew old together in love.” Miss Chloe said as she smiled, patted Rita’s shoulders and walked away.

Rita stared at the old lady and paused for a moment, allowing what the lady said to sink inside of her.

‘Grow old tougher in love! Was that ever going to happen?

She doubted so. It’s been eight years now since her marriage to Liam Wilson, but she could never win his heart. She did everything a wife could have done, hence putting her aspiration aside to become his full wife but non of her sacrifices could move him to love her.

He was an heartless psychopath who only cared about himself, and even though Rita knew he wouldn’t change his attitude for her, she still had high hopes that he could change one day.

Soon afterward , she put on the kitchen apron and began cooking.

After making three different meals including Liam’s Favorite, she placed them on the table and went to the bar to get the drinks.

As she got to the bar, her eyes caught sight of the wedding picture of her and Liam. She was smiling happily while Liam who was behind her was with an angry expression. Judging by this, she knew he was not happy about the marriage.

She should have know from the start that this was going to be a loveless marriage, but she was too blinded by her love for him to realize so.

Back then, her family and that of Liam’s were close friends so in other for their friendship to continue, her father and Liam’s father decided that it was right for the two of them to get married, and Rita did not hesitate to say yes to the marriage because she had always loved Liam.

But how could she not see from the beginning that his heart was with someone else. Had she known from the beginning that this was how her life was going to be after the marriage, she would have hesitated back then.

She broke out of her thought as she took the drink and headed back to the table where she had kept the food.

After placing the drinks, she finally removed her apron and went upstairs to take her bath while waiting for Liam’s return.

It was already nine o’clock and he would return any time soon.

She was very excited because today was their wedding anniversary of eight years, so she thought it would be a good idea for both of them to celebrate it because they have never celebrated it before.

“Young master Wilson, is back.” Rita heard the voice of miss Chloe from downstairs and quickly put on her earrings.

After packing her hair in bun, she glanced at herself in the mirror, seeing how pretty she looked which was up to her satisfaction and finally made it downstairs.

Liam was already sited on the sofa relaxing when Rita got down.

She smiled and made her way to him but he could only give her an angry look, which she was already used to after this eight years of their marriage.

“Welcome..” Rita said still smiling.

Irritated by the way she was smiling at him, he asked, “What is all this preparations for huh?”

“Well, you know today is our eight years anniversary, so I thought it was a good idea for us to celebrate it. I made all this. What do you think? Don’t you like it?” She asked.

“I….” As he was trying to respond, he got a call.

Liam brought out this phone from his pocket and picked the call. It was an unknown number.

“Hello, who is this?…. What!.” His scream made Rita to be at alarm.

Before she could ask him what the matter was, he had already walked away, hurrying out.

Out of disappointment, Rita went upstairs. There was nothing she could do rather than to wait for him to come back, if he will ever do.

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Two hours later, the door was pushed open.

Rita was already asleep when she heard someone screaming her name angrily. When she opened her eyes it was Liam.

Before she could stand up from the bed , he had already gotten upstairs. The next thing she knew was being forcefully dragged from the bed by Liam.

“This is all your fault Rita, I should have known from the beginning that you hated Joey Nash so much, how could you go as far as killing? You are so heartless.” Liam was screaming.

Too stunned to speak, Rita was confused.

What did he mean that she killed Joey?

“What, cats caught your tongue, you can’t speak?” Liam was saying.

“Am sorry, but you are confusing me Liam, how can you say I killed Joey. Surely you must be mistaking.” Rita said, still confused.

“Really? Then take a look.” Liam gave her Joey’s phone which was stained with blood.

“Listen to the recording.” He said.

Rita played the voice recoding and began to listen to it. It happened to be an argument she had with Joey over Liam, but that had been a long time ago, so why did Joey bring it up now?.

Before Rita could listen to the full voice recording, Liam snatched the phone from her.

“This must be a mistake, please believe me Liam. I…” Rita was trying to explain.

“Enough, you are a liar and a deceit and I won’t listen to any thing you tell me. Now that you have succeeded in killing Joey, do you think you can still become my wife? No way, that with never happen.” Liam screamed.

Rita could not believe what she had just heard, shock shot up her body as though she was struck by lightening.

She was innocent, and whoever was trying to frame her for Joey’s death was someone who knew her. But how could she explain to Liam that she was actually innocent.

“Since you’ve killed the love of my life, I’ll put an end to your life too.” Liam said.

Sensing danger, it was the unsettling realization that hit her that Liam was not joking about ending her own life. Quickly she turned back and made her way downstairs.

“Rita!” Liam reached out, and it seems as though he wanted to hold unto Rita. Instead, however, he gave her a harsh push.

“Ahh!”

Rita was caught off guard and her body fell off the stairs. Her hair which she had tied in a bun previously loosened and scattered over the pool of blood oozing out of her head, and her body rammed against the wall.

Warm blood ooze between her legs.

“You asked for this yourself Rita.” With a barbaric look, Liam walked down from the stairs towards the unconscious Rita. He then gave her a hard kick on the face.

While still in her pool of blood, she felt an unbearable pain that tore through her body.

This was the man she had gotten married to out of love eight years ago, she had left everything behind including her aspirations to become his full wife, yet this was all she could get in return after her sacrifice?

How could he believed she was the one behind Joey’s death.., how could he be so cruel to her?!

She loathed this! She hated the day she ever met Liam Wilson.

More and more blood stained her blue dress as her vision began to turn dark.

With her last breath, she prayed in her mind, that if she could get one more chance back to life, she would amend all her mistakes. That she would never be so crazy in love with Liam ever again.

It was not long after, Rita still in her unbearable pain gave her last breath while hearing the voice of Liam saying she deserved it all.