CHAPTER FOUR
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Emilia took a deep breath to process the name she just heard in her brain. She had thought that things had ended, Duke was no longer the man she used to know during their love days.
She dashed to the door and pushed it open.
"Can I come in?" Duke asked in a gentle tone
"Sure, you can" Emilia replied affirmatively with yet a surprising look.
"I thought it's over between us, or have you come to mock me? and see how life has been treating me"
"Perhaps, you have come to cause more emotional damage than you have done before now" Emilia curiously rained questions on him in a painful mood.
"I come in peace to right my wrong, I shouldn't have left you for her, there's no day that passes without me thinking about you," Duke said in a calm but alluring voice.
"I'm so sorry for every pain that I have caused you" Duke sounded apologetically
"And you think that I would fall for those words of yours"
She sighed and looked away from him.
Seeing him again just brought back too painful memories that she had neatly tucked away in the farthest corner of her brain. She just couldn't easily forget them, no matter how much she tried to.
Emilia was beginning to get furious, countless times she had thought about how she offended Duke and that possibly would warrant him leaving her. She had virtually sacrificed a lot to make sure that the relationship succeeded, But what happened, she was jilted.
Duke had started to appeal to her conscience, bringing back the memories they shared in his words.
Seeing Duke made her realize something that she thought she already moved on from; She still had feelings for him. And as absurd as it may be, seeing him stirred something that had already been dormant for a long time now. Even after all he had done to her, she still felt some inexplicable emotions towards him. He made her nervous, he made her stomach flutter with butterflies and he made her feel hot all over.
"If you have no other thing to say, I think it's high time you left my house," Emilia said pointing towards the door.
Emilia began to walk towards the door, purposely swinging her hips seductively and pushing her butt back too. She placed her hand on the door and dragged it open.
"You may now leave," she said ordering Duke out of her house
"Please, Emilia just hear me out, I know how you feel." He said with compassion
"And I said NO, Leave my house or I do something we both would regret" Emilia commanded fumed with anger
He rose to his feet and made his way to the door. He left.
After Duke had left, she felt a sudden adrenaline rush. She was angry at the thought of being blackmailed but she was also kind of excited.
Maybe I can get him back and make things right again
"Hold on, where did that crazy thought come from? Was that me?"
"Does it mean that there is still chemistry between us?"
" Yeah, there is but that doesn't mean there is still a chance of us rekindling our relationship" At this point she was soliloquizing.
She was snapped out of her thoughts by obnoxiously loud throat clearing. Just her luck.
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"KYRA" A loud Drunk masculine voice called out.
It was Duke, already aggrieved and drunk coming from a cafe where he took solace in alcohol. He was ready to vent his anger on Kyra.
"Yes, honey" She rushed to the sitting room to meet her husband.
She could tell that Duke wasn't feeling right from the look on his face. Smells Of expensive alcohol erupted from where he sat
"What is the problem, my love?"
"Did someone offend you today at work?"
She asked in a caring tone
"I'm fine, " he replied, slurring his words. Emilia was bothered by how her husband had turned deaf ears to all the questions she had asked. Perhaps, he had a bad day at work that prompted him to drink to stupor, she thought.
"It's Emilia, she threw me out of her house"
Duke replied in a defeated mood
Kyra sighed, "Why did you go to her house?"
"Am I not enough for you, I thought all that transpired between you and her, it's now in the past" Kyra asked in a harsh tone with a jealous look
"You know what?.. I'm so tired of your nagging this Evening" He managed to stand up to leave.
He gets a push from Kyra; "No, you must be here"
"You're tired of me now, right?"
"After, you have used me to secure your inheritance. From the onset, I knew you still had your eyes on her. Now you want to leave me after all that I have done for you" Kyra was getting emotional
"Duke! Listen to me…We are stuck in this relationship, over my dead body Will I allow you out"
Duke was speechless, he rose to his feet and staggered to his room.
Kyra felt she had been used by the Duke to secure his inheritance. Duke's parents had always wanted him to marry Kyra because she graduated with First-Class in Law from the Harvard Law School. They placed it as bait that he must marry her or he would lose his inheritance.
Kyra sat on the couch with tears rolling down her cheeks. She loves Duke and will not live to see herself share him with someone else. Several thoughts ran through her mind
"Could this be Karma at work?"
"Or Emilia has planned out to win back Duke from me?"
Kyra was Emilia's best friend, they were friends ever since their childhood until the course of higher institutions separated them. However, they reunited after they had finished school.
Kyra met Duke on a Saturday morning at Emilia's place. She quickly recalled how she met him.
"Hi, Good morning" She greeted the tall dark-skinned man sitting on the couch
"Good morning"
"You must be Kyra, Emilia's friend" replied Duke
"Yesss", she said biting her lips in awe
"And you, who are you?"
"I'm Duke, her fiance" Duke replied
"Wow! Nice to meet you" They both shook hands.
At this point, Emilia came out of the room to welcome her visitors.
Kyra had already expressed displeasure about Emilia and how their relationship had gone sour. She resolved that Emilia would never win her in this battle.
She stood and hurried to her room to dress up. She had considered going to Emilia's place to warn her.
"Knock! Knock!!" A sound came from the door.
"Who's that person knocking like an uncivilized person?" she asked under her breath.
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