Divorce By All Means

Chapter 5: Help!, Daddy is cruel

Ashley

I had a nagging feeling in my chest that I could not just push away as much as I tried to, there was something about how my stepdaughter was behaving that really troubled me like she was trying to send me a signal I couldn't quite catch.

But every time I thought about it I would also think about my husband Oliver.

This brought me to another Dead end in thought, why would she need to put a tracking app on my phone if I already knew what she was going to be doing.

That nagin feeling came back again stronger than ever refusing to be ignored.

I did a little digging and saw that the time that the app had been installed in my phone and when she left almost perfectly coincided, meaning that she wanted me to know her location.

Alice and I might not be related by blood but I took her as my own.

I decided at that moment that I had hesitated more than enough, quickly changed into the first thing I could grab for my wardrobe and was out the door the next minute.

1001 thoughts spiraled through my mind as I drove faster and faster nearly going beyond to the speed limit, I'm surprised that I wasn't ticketed by the time I reached the location that had been beeping from my phone.

Crown Star Hotel.

I had been dying to come here for forever, dropping hints here and therefore Oliver to take me because this place was a big hit amongst couples and I had several other women in my circle that boosted about its wonderful couple programs.

Why would Oliver bring Alice here?

There was an explanation that lingered in the darkest corner of my mind but I suppressed it.

There was no way.

Simply impossible, he wouldn't.

This echoed in my mind over and over again until I was passed the lovely and standing anxiously in front of the receptionist.

I explained what I could to the receptionist and for the first few seconds she looked at me with a dumbfounded stare.

"Can I see something your driver's license for anything really that I can use to identify you,"

Something told me that I was running out of time I fished out my phone from my purse and looked through for pictures of me and Oliver, something that I noticed in person was that I was the only one smiling in those pictures. It was a brief observation but it was saddening to think that I had never noticed I was the only one smiling and all over our pictures together while he looked like he couldn't wait to be done with it.

I went into the folder for our wedding pictures noting that it was exactly the same back then.

I was the i***t grinning from ear to ear, how did I not see this before?

I pushed my worry some thoughts to the back of my mind right now that was not the most important thing.

The receptionist looked even more confused than me.

"Mrs Gale I don't know what to say, your husband came a few minutes earlier and there was this rather short woman with him who he claimed was you,"

"Please," I begged, "Take me to his room,"

Turns out he had paid for a couple suite, my stomach turned in ways I didn't think was possible and I nearly threw up as I opened the door and carefully made my way over to the bedroom I heard the screaming and cries that broke my heart into two.

"Dad! please stop!"

That was it no more hesitation I threw the door open so fast that it's nearly fell off it's hinges smacking against the wall and making the framed paintings to rattle.

There was the man that I had loved for years.

I was even ashamed to admit it.

He stood at the foot of the bed, his shirt already thrown to the floor forgotten while he was handling his belt.

As for Alice, she had changed into a nightgown that nearly brought me to hot tears.

Oliver snapped his head towards my direction when he heard the impact of the door being open, I didn't even approach him first. I went towards Alice covering her with the duvet tossing off the rose flower petals that were on top of it.

"There is a hotel employee waiting in the other room, wait there I'll be right back outside..."Alice clung to me for a second and then stared at her father, eyes swollen with fresh tears before she ran out.

"Alice!" He still had the audacity to call out her name with that sickenly sweet tone.

I stood between him and Alice and he seem to have recalled at that moment that I was in the room.

"Ashley baby I know what it looks like but I swear that I*�"

I slapped him so hard across the face that by the time he looked up at me his lips were stained with blood and my palm stung but nothing compared to the gut wrenching pain inside of me right now.

Then before I could let out anymore of my anger.

The b*sterd passed out.