Chapter 5
Cat Mendoza: –
“The question is not what she is doing over here, Laila. The question is did you betray your best friend by sleeping with her. boyfriend?” Alexander turned the tables on Laila, in a confident and stern tone after stepping away from me and took steps
towards Laila.
“Dad….1…I….” Laila tried to speak, but couldn’t utter a word and looked down at her feet and nodded her head “I love him, Dad. I am in love with Jerry and he loves me.”
“You love him?!” I cried in anger “You are a fucking whore, Laila. If you had loved him, you could have shared it with me. Not betrayed me like this. I loved you more than anything, Laila You were like a sister to me. You knew. You knew how much I loved, Jerry. You knew how long we were together.
I gulped hard taking a deep breath to continue with tears in my eyes and trembling voice asking her.
“How could you do this to me? To us? And was our friendship worth so little to you? I am an orphan, Laila, who grew up at the orphanage and I don’t have anyone in this world, Laila, to call my own, and yet I thought of you as my own.
You and Jerry were my family. You were my sister and I thought of Jerry as my future husband, a man I would have childdren with and a happily ever after, but you ruined it for me You ruined it, Laila.”
Alexander slowly tightened his fist, his words dripping with ice.
You thought wrong. Even if you think he harbored feelings for you, Laila, none of that justifies the lies. Love, friendship, trust and loyalty these are things I always told you were important and you have proven yourself a betrayer. Today you have made me doubt on my parenting because if I had raised you better than you wouldn’t have betrayed your best friend, no matter what.
Tears rolled down her cheeks and she barely spoken to me when she looked back. “Tm so sorry… I didn’t want to hurt you.”
I laughed loudly, the pain and anger of the betrayal coursing through my veins. “Sorry? Sorry doesn’t fix this. It doesn’t alter the reality that I trusted you, never hid anything from you. Why did you have to betray me like how you did?
And with Jerry, of all people? You say you love him? Then you can have him, because I am done with you and Jerry. You both can rot in hell for all I care because you both deserve one another. I looked at Alexander and spoke “I am sorry to take your precious time. I will be on my way now!
“No, wait…” he tried to stop me but I didn’t listen and left in a hurry. Fortunately that elevator was opened as someone was heading down. I pressed the button to the reception where Enrique was sitting, waiting for me. When he saw me, he instantly stood up and reached for me with a worried expression
“Let’s go, Enrique. We are leaving. I spoke, with trembling voice I just want to go home.”
“That’s it? You are done talking with Alexander?” he asked “Tell me what happened? Did you tell him? How did it go? Did he say something? Was he in shock?”
“Enrique, can we just go now, please. I don’t want to be here. I tell him with tears flowing down my cheeks.
He nodded his head, wrapped his arms around me shoulder and took me home. The whole ride was silent and as soon as we reached home and I entered my room, I burst out sobbing. Enrique followed me inside and sat down next to me to comfort.
Enrique sat in silence next to me and put his hand on my shoulder. He was reassuring in his supportiveness, but still the pain of betrayal rose from my heart like a sharp poison. I stopped talking and dropped my face to my hands, tears
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After a while. Enrique whispered. “I know this hurts, Cat. More than words can probably express. But you do not have to go through with this by yourself.”
I inhaled deeply, managing to bring my face level to his worried yes.
“I don’t know what to do with my life anymore, Enriqued feel like all the things that I believed just… dissolved. Laila was family for me, the only one person whom I could tell everything about my past, secrets. And Jerry…”
I tried to swallow that name but it felt like a lead ball had bottomed in my throat at the weight of his treachery.
“I thought that we would have a future with each other, a life. How could they both just throw me away like that? How could they do this to me and now I am pregnant with the baby of a man who could be my father’s age. My life is fucked up. Enrique. It’s a mess.”
After that, Enrique embraced me with great force, allowing me to rest upon him for mental support that I needed.
“It’s not easy, Cat. But once in a while, people reveal their true selves to us at the most undesired times. And perhaps, as bitter as this may sound, it’s better for their truth to set in now rather than later.
You deserve people who are loyal, who love you for who you are. Don’t let their betrayal stop you from living your life. You have to move on and start living again. Not just for you this time, but for this baby to that is dependent on you. You always said that you had no one to call your own, but see, you do have someone. This baby. It’s a part of you. He/She is your baby that will always love and stay with you.”
“You you’re right. I hugged him “Thank you so much, Enrique. You are a nice man.”
“I know I am.” he said with a wink after pulling away “So, are you going to fix an appointment with your OB/GYN anytime soon or not?”
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