I Am Done
1018 Words
As soon as I was discharged from the hospital, I didn’t wait for Nathan to send anyone to pick me. I went home by myself. When I heard Nathan and Julie betraying me while I lay sick and weak in the same room with them, something in me struck a nerve.
I felt a cold chill run down my spine, a feeling that I as not familiar with at all.
I noticed that I wasn’t angry, and I wasn’t sad about anything. I just felt nothing. Cold. I looked at Nathan as he intertwined with Julie, and I felt nothing but distance between us. A sudden distance that I could not explain.
When I entered the house from the hospital, Nathan’s mother glared at me as if she had seen a ghost. Maybe she was not expecting me to make it out alive from the transfusion since I was very sick.
‘’Thank goodness you are back. I need soup. I have not eaten anything all day.’’ I ignored Mrs. Cane as she made her unreasonable request. ‘’Can’t you hear me? You are so lazy. First, you made an excuse that you were sick so that you won’t give Julie blood, now that you are back from the hospital, won’t you continue your duties? I want my soup.’’
Mrs. Cane walked quietly towards me, nagging and reminding me that the hospital was the only place I could have peace. Certainly not in her son's house.
I was digging out a reply for Mrs. Cane from my wardrobe while she nagged behind me concerning her soup. Mrs. Cane was shocked when I suddenly turned around and said, ‘’please give this to Nathan. I am done with him. I’ll expect him to wire 500 million dollars to me as compensation since I helped build his business.’’
Slamming a stack of documents on the table, I informed Nathan’s mother concerning my decision to divorce her son.
Mrs. Cane slowly took the documents and looked at it's content. The more she understood the contents of the document, the wider her eyes shone.
She was too surprised to say anything for the first few minutes. Suddenly, as if something in her snapped, she raised her chin disdainfully. ‘’Fine. I am sure Nathan would want this. You will get your 500 million and after that don’t blame me for whatever happens to you if I ever see you close to Nathan or my family.’’
I smiled, ‘’deal.’’
Mrs. Cane flashed the familiar squint she made whenever she was trash talking someone whom she considered inferior to her. With a show of signs, she asked her assistant to get her a pen. The urgency with which the assistant of Mrs. Cane brought a pen for her was evidence of how Mrs. Cane treated everyone below her.
Like dirt.
Rudely snatching the pen from the assistant, she signed the documents of behalf of Nathan, and I signed too. What I felt at that moment was a satisfaction so intense, I wished it would last forever. I recalled while I attached Mrs. Cane sign the document, how she humiliated me just because she felt that I wanted to marry Nathan to escape poverty.
Mrs. Cane would always remind me how I was privileged to marry Nathan. Whenever we were in public, she would make sure I appeared like a maid, running errands that actual maids might decline. I remember one time; the media were interviewing Nathan in the house. Mrs. Cane made me serve refreshments to the media team right in front of the world.
On live broadcast, I could be seen humbly serving fruits to the media while Mrs. Cane would say; ‘’these mangoes are not washed properly. Go back and wash them again.’’ Now, the tables had turned. I told Mrs. Cane what I wanted her to do, and she did it.
Looking at Mrs. Cane obeying my command was also a new feeling that I would have to get used to. She was under my control, no matter hos short-lived, I loved every moment of her squirming while she signed 500million dollars to my name from the Cane Group.
‘’Get lost immediately.’’ Mrs. Cane could not hide her anger and resentment for me as she handed me the papers. On a brighter note, she considered it a victory lap to have finally gotten rid of me.
‘’You will no longer bear the Cane family name. All the benefits that you enjoyed as a Cane family member has been stripped from you. From now on, you will keep everything you earned and received as a gift while in the Cane family...’’
‘’I don’t want anything that belongs to the Cane family. Not their name, not their wealth, and not their favors. I am done.’’
Mrs. Cane thought that I will break as a result of losing all my benefits of being a Cane, little did she know that I had reconnected with my original family. Days before I gave Julie my blood this time, I received a call from the family I had grown up with.
They informed me that my original family had found me and contacted them to release me to them. The family I was originally from were such a wealthy, powerful and influential family that not even the Cane family could stand them.
I was returning to my family. I certainly did not need to be a Cane anymore. Mrs. Cane had opened her mouth to say something else to me when Nathan suddenly rushed in screaming, ‘’Jennifer! Jennifer, are you okay? Why did you leave the hospital without informing me? Thank God you are alright.’’
Then he looked up at his mother; ‘’Jennifer is my wife, mom. I have told you to stop bothering her so much. She just left the hospital; how can you stress her like this?’’
''The doctor said that she should be taken care of closely since she was sick while donating her blood for Julie. Jeniffer, have you rested? Eat something, you look like death.''
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