Shadows of Enigma

A touch on the cheek

She was already pulling me up when she let go mid-air. I landed straight on my ass. The pain wasn’t physical but psychological. “What the hell is going on?”. The thought of what happened kept replaying in my head.

I didn’t know her from anywhere, we’ve never crossed paths before and she dare do this.

A surge of anger came on me and I stood back up. Still maintaining the evil grin, she said “What are you gonna do asshole?!”.

“Who the hell do you think you are to push me?”

“Well, you would know me as your worst nightmare, b***h”.

“I’ll let you off because I take this as a misunderstanding, but if such repeats itself, don’t expect me to keep being nice!”.

At this time, a little crowd had begin to gather. I wanted her to understand that I’m not a pushover and I definitely wasn’t the nicest girl in Valeshire. I was just composing myself due to the environment.

I walked out on her and the next thing I felt was something cold on my dress. I turned and saw her holding an almost empty glass of red wine.

The b***h had stained my clothes with red wine. Anger flowed in me. With the intensity I turned and gave her a clean touch on the cheek.

Pah!. It resounded throughout the hall. A curtain of silence was drawn. All eyes on us….

“What the f*ck!”.. her voice echoed. She ran towards me with murderous intents. I held my horses. I definitely wasn’t the type to resort to violence but when knocked up against the wall, I strike.

She was held back by a group of people right before she landed a hit on me.

“Miss Ella, please compose yourself. We’re in public”. They said

The name replayed in my ears. The name sounded familiar.

“Oh, it’s the daiughter of the chairman of “Elegant group of companies”, I said in my mind. Her father’s company was rival to the company which I worked for.

I knew her background and to admit I was kind of scared, but I couldn’t show it.

She was carefully dragged away. The sound of all sorts of cusses enveloped the air. “You’ll definitely pay for this slut”. That was the last thing heard before the hall quieted down. I could hear whispers of all sort of comments.

“That’s a first, I’m sure Chairman Smith isn’t going to take this lightly”

“Miss Ella keeps surprising me. I knew she was pampered to the skies but I never knew that she’ll have such a wild side”.

“This beautiful young lady is not a woman who is easily trampled on by the way”.

“Who is she to have such audacity though.?”

“She’s with Mr. Alexander”

All sorts of comments flowed in the air. But I turned a deaf ear to them all. I brushed off the incident and tried to regain my composure. The attention of the crowd had shifted elsewhere.

I tried to make my way back to the bar to avoid any wild activities from reoccurring. The thought of why she did such a thing was heavy on me.

“Does she know me from somewhere?”.

“Sharp!, I heard that familiar voice sound. “I’m never expected you to be so proactive” Dr. Ryan said with a laugh.

“Sometimes, those rich spoilt brats got to be taught one or two lessons”.

“Right. By the way what caused the feud?”.

I explained the whole story to him. At the end he said. “Do you don’t know”. “Know what?”, I replied with a confused expression.

“Sigh, Ella’s your husband, Alexander girlfriend”.

I was in a daze, while Dr. Ryan calmed down for me to recover.

I guessed that was what caused the fight. Although I didn’t expect love and care from Alexander, I didn’t expect him to still keep such a relationship after marriage.

I began to have a feeling of disgust towards Alexander.

“Don’t take it to heart okay. Men like that don’t know the worth it what’s with them”. Dr. Ryan consoled.

During the discussion, we turned towards a side where people focused their attention on.

A set of people began to clear the way for a figure to pass through.

Behold, it was the devil himself and his able mistress. Alexander and the b***h Ella.

“Assholes”, I said with disgust rolling my eyes from them.

“Does it seem that they’re making their way towards us or is it my eyes?”, Dr. Ryan asked tapping me.

As I raised my eyes to see what he meant, I was blocked midway with a flesh tearing slap.

“What the actual f*ck!”, Dr. Ryan exclaimed, raising my face up to examine it.

“Satisfied?”, his voice came.

“Yes, thanks baby”, she replied with a smile. She then met his lips with hers. Right in my goddamn presence, these animals were kissing.

“Alexander, what do you think you’re doing?”, Dr. Ryan yelled standing up for me.

“My girlfriend is just paying this woman back in her own coin, shouldn’t I support her?”

“A woman who’s your wife!”, Dr. Ryan yelled.

“Hmph”

“Isabella, are you okay?”, his voice came again.

I was really hurt but I definitely wouldn’t want the two rulers of hell to see my pitiful side.

I mustered up courage and stood up with a smile.

“Well, well, the two lover birds have done it again. Right?. Can we give them a round of applause please?”. I gestured for the guests to clap.

A resounding clap was heard all across the room.

Alexander and Ella were standing trying to figure out what trick I was gonna pull.

“You’ve brought another person who’s going to stand in the way of your one night stand down, isn’t it?”, I said with a laugh. Everybody present were all scared to laugh, so as not to offend the great Alexander.

I’ve gotten them right where I wanted them to be. I wanted the two idiots to know that I wasn’t a walk over. I wasn’t someone they could just trample on.

If stares could kill someone, I would have been a goner judging from their gazes.