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- “Alex…can it be that Elena is still angry with me? Let me dial her number, maybe she will come if I apologise for that day.”
- “No! She has gone too far this time. How dare she ruin our party?!” Alex gritted hist teeth in fury.
- “Alex you know how Elena is, maybe she is still working night duty at that old restaurant. What if she forgot about our get–together?”
- “I have spoiled her too much! This time I will teach her a proper lesson!” Alex turned around to leave only for Jessica to
- clutch his arm as tears dribbled down her
- eyes.
- “Alex, what if there is any
- misunderstanding, let us come with you too.” Jessica wanted to bring all of Alex‘ s friends to the place where I worked to
- show the difference in our status and insult
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- me.
- “Just do whatever damnit!”
- My husband along with his friends drove to the diner where I used to work as a waitress. Storming inside the place, Alex
- asked for the manager immediately.
- “Where is Elena?! Call her out this
- instant!”
- “Elena? Why would she be here?” The receptionist asked, confused to which Jessica replied with fake tears.
- “I am Elena’s sister, please call her. We will not judge her by this…” A look of disdain passed Jessica‘ s face before she continued.” We will not judge her for working as a waitress here-”
- “Elena left the job yesterday, to think you look so well off when you cannot feed that child a simple meal properly.” Before Jessica could complete her sentence, my manager, Mrs John who was an old lady in her seventies arrived.
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- “Left? What are you talking about?”
- “Just as you heard, that child studied hard so it’s not a surprise that she was offered a job abroad. Previously she rejected the proposal twice already but today she told me that she was finally ready to accept it-”
- “LIES!” Alex banged his fist on the table making it crack.
- “What stupid lies are you sprouting? If she was so afraid of me that she hid in a hole as soon as I arrived then she must have not angered me from the beginning!
- And to even make up that she has gone abroad? A girl who cannot even do anything without my assistance will go away without informing me? Impossible!”
- “Sir, the manager is telling you the truth, ” a waitress said, only to be interrupted.
- “The truth huh? Haha by going abroad is she trying to sever our ties?” Alex threw his head back laughing as if it was a joke but when Mrs John did not speak a word
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- standing calmly Alex‘ s heart trembled in fear.
- “This is the thing she sent me to give it to you if you ever came searching for her.”
- Alex rolled his eyes and would have thrown away the parcel if it wasn‘ t for Jessica‘ s best friend, who laughed sarcastically.
- “God, Is she still throwing a tantrum? Elena is still the same as when we were young.” Fiona, Jessica’s best friend retorted
- “Yesterday she threw her wedding ring away and today this? Alex, your wife is truly troublesome-”
- “Fiona!” Jessica reprimanded sharply, her eyes turning wide in panic, like Fiona said something she should have kept
- hidden.
- “Alex it’s nothing, Fiona had a slip of tongue just now-”
- “What do you mean by Elena throwing her wedding ring away?” Alex, shocked at those words, stared at Fiona demanding an
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- answer.
- “Well….you see, yesterday I found this diamond ring outside Jessica’s bedroom after the party ended. I asked Jess and she said that it belonged to Elena.”
- Alex, who was confident till now faltered.Yesterday the way I looked at him. with broken dead eyes flashed before him. suddenly.
- The possibility that I saw him cheating with Jessica made his entire body numb.
- When he returned yesterday I did not ask any questions, nor did I complain that he treated me with such heartlessness to even push me down in anger. My sudden disappearance made his heart feel heavy.
- “Alex, I will help you search for sister Elena, I–I am worried about her, there seems to be a misunderstanding here.” Jessica accompanied Alex as he rushed home before ripping open the parcel.
- A small videotape along with some
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- documents were kept there, Alex played
- the video after connecting it to the smart
- television.
- “Alex.” I addressed my husband in the
- recording.
- “I once thought that you loved me just as much as I did. But you need not worry anymore, now I am completely aware that I was just a plaything all along while your heart belonged to my sister.”
- “From this onwards I will not be there to
- ruin your mood anymore Alex. It was my stupidity to think a cruel and ruthless man like you could ever love me.” My voice
- cracked at the end before I continued..
- “This time your birthday present is not a
- ‘stupid tie anymore so you can open it now, you both will like it. I am sure you
- You
- and my sister would have a great night in our marital bed just like you planned yesterday.
- Oh! silly me, how could I forget that satin
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- dress you gifted me on our anniversary…it’s there in the wardrobe sister, finally you have everything that you desired. Goodbye.”
- Alex stared at the screen without removing his eyes even for a second, his heart sinking with each passing sentence. All color drained his face when I mentioned
- the satin dress.
- My soon to be ex–husband slowly turned around to see Jessica standing there, watching Jessica with fearful eyes.
- “What the fuck did you say to Elena?! Told her that I was sleeping with you?” Alex‘ s enraged tone made Jessica bite her lip in hesitation, before she stepped closer with tears streaming down her face pitifully.
- “Alex… I can never break you two apart. It’s not me.I didn’t tell Elena a single thing!” Silence engulfed the surroundings. as Alex looked at the screen replacing the video again as if he could not believe it.
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- “Impossible” he muttered. “She loves me so
- much, how can she even think of leaving me?..No this is all a stupid ploy by her to attract my attention.”
- Despite saying this, his stomach twisted as he rummaged through the documents in the parcel in panic. There it was, the silver diamond pendant glinting in the fading light.
- For a moment, all he could do was stare as the pendant slipped through his fingers. falling on the ground with a clink.
- “She left this..” Alex whispered. “This was my gift to her on our wedding night…” With that he left the parcel half unopened
- running upstairs like a maniac with Jessica following him like a lost puppy.
- Rummaging through the wardrobe
- haphazardly he took out the birthday
- present he had thrown at the back without another thought and opened it.
