Chapter Four: Caught cheating

Dione's POV

"Lily?" The name fell out.

His secretary, was his mistress all along?

How?

I was very good to her.

My lips parted and quavered but no words came.

Lily started to kneel, "Ma'am I'm really sorry, it's a misunderstanding I promise, I love him and I can't live without him." Lily's sickening voice made my head swirl in anger as she pleaded.

What does she mean she loved my husband? With the ring around my finger?

Has she suddenly gone blind? Or the ecstasy they had took her sight?

My eyes formed moisture.

"Babe you don't need to do that," Aldric seethed, stopping her from kneeling, and then turned to me, "You should apologize for invading on us, you..."

I closed the space between us and with all the might I could use, sent a slap across Aldric's face, cutting through whatever the hell he had down his throat.

He doesn't even hide it?

He had the damn balls to bring in another lady, and a lower secretary into our home. The house that bore my name?

"You bitch," Aldric panted, hitting me back, so hard that I hit my stomach over the table.

Pain bursted in my side.

I wriggled in pain.

It felt like my head had been hit with a sledge hammer.

"Are you fine?" I watched him reach for Lily and scanned her like she was the one that had been hit.

My eyes blurred in tears.

I've been loyal to him for fifteen years.

And he still throws me aside for some new comer who's been here for barely two months.

My side twisted and churned in pain. I gasped trying to control my breath.

"Nothing good ever came from you," Aldric raised his voice. His eyes bulged with anger. "The only thing you are good at is being a housewife and pretending to be sick for attention.”

Attention?

Taking my near death painful episodes for granted and calling it acting for attention?

I wouldn't know if my system was strong enough to give out my kidney because I didn't process it in my head twice to try to save someone I thought would appreciate, or the least—love me back.

I watched him pant like he was one push to slap me again, “It was Lily who donated her kidney for me not you! You broke my trust for you when you turned a liar about such a thing.”

Lily?

My pulse seized.

What is he saying?

Heat blazed behind my ribs and my eyes traced the room till it stopped on her.

And there she curled, her hand palmed on her stomach, eyes filmy with tears like she was feeling a pain there.

She bloody wasn't.

"Aldric I did that because I couldn't watch you be in pain." Lily cried, curling over and wincing in pain.

My lips fell wide apart in confusion.

He ran his hand through his black hair, vividly losing his nuts. “You have the audacity, the nerve, to fake a document and take credit for her generosity, you lying piece of shame.”

“What are you spitting??” I asked, tears warm down my cheeks, “No! Aldric, I'm…I'm not lying. She's the lair. I really gave you my kidney,” I tried to explain, my whole world threatened to break and fall apart like a glass house.

And as much as I promised not to cry for Aldric again…I was doing it, all over again, for the one hundredth and countless time.

"All you ever do is lie. You lied about everything, Dione. I don't even believe any word you say anymore. Five years ago you promised to help me start up this company, but I found out you lied about that too and guess who the anonymous investor that supported me all the way was. She." He said, pointing at Lily.

A frown creased my face.

And as much as I wanted to guffaw at his dumbness because I am that secret investor he mentioned and I have all the evidence.

“I guess Lily is being truthful, right?” I asked, swiping the tears off.

“Lily?? You don't even compare. She's nothing like you.” He shook his head and his hair disheveled, “No, no, she's kind, she's innocent. Not a manipulative leech, hanging money over my head like you.”

“This is really happening.” I whispered to myself.

His words were like burning coal wrapped in my palm.

Aldric has really chosen Lily over me, throwing all my love and sacrifice to the dust.

Heat surged in my chest too big to hold.

“So that's how you see me?” I asked, voice faint as he nodded, nonchalantly.

"Baby you need to be treated, go to the hotel, I'll meet you there." He worried over Lily, his voice falling faint to my ears.

As he picked Lily's stuff around the room, Lily watched me with scorn, a knowing smile helmed across her cheeks.

Yet, she didn't fail to flash me another dangerous glance as I watched them share a last kiss before she left.

I tousled, trying to stand up.

If only Aldric knew the truth about everything.

My vision blurred into a dark mist.

That excruciating pain hit me by my side again.

It hit me so hard, I almost let out a scream.

My legs grew numb from the much pain that electrified them, even my toes tingled.

I gritted my teeth tightly and even held my breath many times to numb all the pain. It didn't work. Not like it ever did.

My eyes watered and my stomach hurt like a knife turned inside it.

My hands shook as I reached for my bag.

I took out my medicine. And just then my legs wobbled and gave off.

Aldric towered over me as I curled in pain. His smudgy face watched me like some thriller movie.

My body hit the floor with a hard impact and the pill bottle fell all over the floor.

He picked the bottle and turned to me in shock. His eyes flashed in what I can't fathom.

“Dione,” he called, stepping closer, “Are you really serious??”