ALL Chapters & Episodes of I Wedded My Rival by Preshh - Page 6

The funeral was scheduled to take place a week after his death. Catherine quit her job, my father’s shareholders started selling off their shares of the company and I had lost my will to live.“What was the point of it all?” I kept asking myself. My life had taken a turn for the worse. I had no money, no job, and no family. No family except my husband, but he was no family to me.Three days after my father’s death my depression was at its worst and I could not bear it any longer. I went to my husband’s room and grabbed a whole pack of pills. I took a bottle of water from the fridge and emptied half of the pack on my palm.The little round pills seemed to be calling to me. Each one of them seemed to offer a bit of solace and freedom, but I did not want a bit. I wanted to be completely free of it all. To leave this wicked world behind. Ever since I was a child I always took my water first before I took my pills, so I flooded my mouth with water and threw the pills into my mouth. I had n

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“What are you doing?” I asked. I had not expected this and I was completely surprised. “Get off me this instance.”“Or what?” he asked with a smug look on his face. “Can’t I be with my wife anymore? That doesn’t seem very fair or considerate.” He continued.“I don’t care, just get off me,” I demanded angrily.“NO.” was his sassy reply.“What?” I asked with my face contorted in confusion.“I said no,” he said with the same smug look and sassy expression.“Have you gone mad Joseph?” I was utterly perplexed. This wasn’t my husband. My husband was a crazy and uncaring fellow who derived pleasure from my pain.He adjusted his weight to his elbows and steadied himself, all the while staring me in the eye.I know what he wanted but I wasn’t ready for it. At least not now.“You look so beautiful today.” He said while stroking my hair. I blushed and my face was soon a deep shade of red.“I look the same way I always do, now get off me,” I said with irritation. All though my irritation was now

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“What are you doing?” I asked. I had not expected this and I was completely surprised. “Get off me this instance.”“Or what?” he asked with a smug look on his face. “Can’t I be with my wife anymore? That doesn’t seem very fair or considerate.” He continued.“I don’t care, just get off me,” I demanded angrily.“NO.” was his sassy reply.“What?” I asked with my face contorted in confusion.“I said no,” he said with the same smug look and sassy expression.“Have you gone mad Joseph?” I was utterly perplexed. This wasn’t my husband. My husband was a crazy and uncaring fellow who derived pleasure from my pain.He adjusted his weight to his elbows and steadied himself, all the while staring me in the eye.I know what he wanted but I wasn’t ready for it. At least not now.“You look so beautiful today.” He said while stroking my hair. I blushed and my face was soon a deep shade of red.“I look the same way I always do, now get off me,” I said with irritation. All though my irritation was now

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“What are you doing?” I asked. I had not expected this and I was completely surprised. “Get off me this instance.”“Or what?” he asked with a smug look on his face. “Can’t I be with my wife anymore? That doesn’t seem very fair or considerate.” He continued.“I don’t care, just get off me,” I demanded angrily.“NO.” was his sassy reply.“What?” I asked with my face contorted in confusion.“I said no,” he said with the same smug look and sassy expression.“Have you gone mad Joseph?” I was utterly perplexed. This wasn’t my husband. My husband was a crazy and uncaring fellow who derived pleasure from my pain.He adjusted his weight to his elbows and steadied himself, all the while staring me in the eye.I know what he wanted but I wasn’t ready for it. At least not now.“You look so beautiful today.” He said while stroking my hair. I blushed and my face was soon a deep shade of red.“I look the same way I always do, now get off me,” I said with irritation. All though my irritation was now

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The second course arrived; roasted duck, green vegetable salad and a carrot sauce. I immediately concentrated on my food while Joseph continued his narration“Our companies were rivals but we agreed to one together to promote a product that was on then. We thought that a joint product would record groundbreaking sales and decided to work together for it. I and Felicity were partners and spent a lot of time together and before I knew it..” he held my hand and stared at me. “ … I had already fallen in love.”I looked at him in awe. The story was so fucking good. I even believed it completely, he was such a blessed liar. But the story itself is just me because it reminded me of what could have been. instead of being tortured and abused I could have had a fairy tale love story not a made up lie. I wish I had a genuine story I could tell our children.Children? What was wrong with me? I didn’t want children with him. I looked up from my plate to see Sarah watching me intently. She could s

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Joseph turned and gave me the craziest look ever. “What's wrong?” Sarah turned to look at me as well. She was confused too and did not understand why I made the remark.I threw my hands to my lips and held my mouth. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that.” I gasped. Joseph gave me the strange look for a while before turning away.“Thank you so much MR Dale. I didn’t expect this amount of generosity from you.“Don’t mention it. It’s the least I could do for my business partner.” Joseph replied with a smile.I turned to see Sarah smiling at me with a wicked grin on her face. She was obviously enjoying herself and I felt like everything that was happening was all planned out.“Well you guys must be so tired, allow me to show you your room.” Joseph said with a smile. We all walked upstairs and I discovered Joseph had prepared the best room for Sarah and Marcus.The cottons were a beautiful blood red and so was the carpet. The bed was a deluxe king sized bed, probably imported from overseas.I was

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Joseph pushed the door open suddenly, I was unable to protest at his intrusion before he stepped in.“What are you doing?” I demanded. Our contract marriage terms that had given him the rights to things like that were no longer of any consequence to me. The only reason I listened to him earlier was because of Sarah.“I have something for you.” He said with a smile. He held up a slutty nightgown. The red gown was completely transparent and very short. It also looked extremely small.I scoffed at it. “I am noy putting that on.” I barked.“OK.” He said. That was easy I thought. He walked out of the bathroom and I was so shocked by his submission that I followed him.He unlocked the door and walked out of the room with me following closely behind. Where was he going? I thought. Would the drama never end? He walked to Sarah’s room and was about to knock on her door but I quickly grabbed his hand.“What are you doing?” I whispered hotly. He looked at me as if he had not seen me following hi

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The first ray of sunshine hit my eyes and my lids flew open. I lying in front of the window and the full glare of the sun was directed on me. I tried to get up but something held me down to the bed. I looked down to see Joseph’s hand wrapped around me, his forearm directly on my naked breasts. The events of the past night came rushing back and my disorientation was swatted away.The jackass had been so gentle with me the whole time. I had been so angry that he was using my emotions as a leverage to get to me but he had turned it all around. We had made love and it had been the best night of my life. I had screamed all night, Sarah and Marcus completely forgotten.The night dress was discarded carelessly in a corner. The sunlight reflected on my bare skin and the dried sweat on my body shone. I quickly put on the dress and walked to the door. I turned back to look at Joseph before leaving. The sunlight reflected beautifully on his face, his new stubble scattered across his jaw and his

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I had been in my room for several hours crying my soul out. My eyes were sore and red and my voice was gone. A knock came on my door and I turned to face it. Who the hell was that.The knock came again and this time it came on harder. “Leave me alone!!” I yelled.“Open the door Ma’am. I just want to talk.” He said. I looked at the time. It was already three minutes past five in the evening and I had not had anything all day.“Go away Marcus.” I said once again. My door was pushed open and I turned around swiftly to see the intruder.“I told you to…” the word caught in my mouth because the person in front of me was not Marcus, it was my cruel husband, Joseph.“Get up and get dressed now. We’re going to see Marcus off.” He ordered. He was acting like his old self now. The old self that didn’t give a damn about me or my emotions. I had been thrown of balance in the morning and the euphoria of what we had shared the night before still played in my head but now I was clear headed and ready

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Joseph pulled away from her and stared at her. I stood at the samespot and I could not still believe my eyes. What the hell did I justwitness. Sarah held my husband and stared into his eyes, she held hishand and said something to him. He nodded and he held the dooropen and Sarah got into the car. After he shut the door behind her,he stood and looked at the end of the garage, directly where I wasstanding. He stared at the figure in front of him but could not tellwho it was.I quickly turned and walked towards the exit. I wanted to turn andwatch them but I could still sense his eyes on me so I continueddown the way to the exit.The rev of an engine told me that Joseph had gotten into his car, thecar soon drove past me and I took to the time to glimpse inside thecar. Sarah was smiling to herself inside the car, she looked so pleasedwith herself after stealing my husband. Joseph on the other handlooked lost and tired. He looked like he did not want to be there. Butif he was