Jar Of Hearts

Chapter 5: Sasha Tate

The two women looked at each other.

“Auntie, my reputation is ruined!” Sasha sprung up from the couch and threw herself into Erin’s arms.

“What happened? Why are you crying like this?” Erin asked worriedly as she turned a fierce gaze on me. “Did that guy do something to you?”

Oh, come on! Do I look like “that” bad of a person? I did nothing wrong!

I hurriedly shook my head in defense.

“Oh, yeah, he also said that he was your boyfriend. Is he really? Wait, did you take a shower because you guys had s*x earlier? Is that why?”

What the hell! When did I ever say I was her boyfriend?

Then, I saw the girl turn her head and provocatively raise an eyebrow at me with a little devilish smirk on her face.

“He said he’s my what? No way! I might have bad taste in men, but I still have standards!” Erin roared as if the very thought of being my girlfriend insulted her.

“Ahem…” At that point, I had to interrupt to save my pride from shattering.

Erin turned to me with a slightly irritated gaze and snapped, “Aren’t you done already? Why are you still here?”

Such a heartless woman. However, I could not argue with that fact.

I hastily threw on my clothes and got ready to leave. I was looking around for my phone when Sasha suddenly reached down and pulled it out from between the sofa cushions.

“Huh? Is this your new phone, Auntie? Why’d you pick such a cheap model?”

“Wait, that’s my—” Before I could finish speaking, I saw the girl’s eyes widen in shock. Her gaze was fixed on the phone screen that had lit up.

Fuck! I broke out in a cold sweat.

I had taken several pictures of Erin using that phone. It was obvious what Sasha was looking at. Her breathing became noticeably heavier as her face flushed red.

“So you were doing something dirty!” She shot me an ambiguous look and then started to tease her aunt. “Wow, Auntie, who would’ve thought that you, the woman everyone calls ‘Virgin Mary’, were actually this wild in bed!”

“Give me that phone!” Erin glared daggers at me while she frantically tried to snatch the phone from Sasha’s hands.

“You have such a hot body, Auntie. These photos really don’t do you any justice.”

After a few moments, Erin finally wrestled the phone away from Sasha. She quickly deleted the photos, her fingers tapping aggressively on the screen while she cursed at me.

“Alright, Auntie, spill! When did you hook up with this guy?”

It was not until later on that I learned that the girl’s name was “Sasha Tate” and that she was the daughter of my ex-wife’s new rich husband.

The girl bombarded Erin and me with questions about our “relationship”. It was too late to deny it now, but I did not feel any sort of pressure anyway. As a matter of fact, I was waiting for a good show to unfold.

Erin angrily reached out and pinched Sasha’s ear. “Stop calling me ‘Auntie’ in front of others! I’m not even that much older than you!”

“Okay, okay!” Erin acceded as she covered her ears and grinned widely. “I’ll call you ‘sis’ then?”

She was so playful that she seemed like a completely different person from the gangster-like girl before.

“Alright, let’s stop talking about me. What happened to you earlier? Your nose is all red and runny, why were you crying?”

Upon hearing that, I quickly offered the girl a tissue.

“Thanks,” she said while her expression turned gloomy again as she heard Erin's words.

“It’s because of that b***h again. Today, she told my dad that I got involved with some shady people, and now he’s mad at me. Every time I see him, I either get yelled at or scolded, and he even threatened to freeze my bank accounts. I can’t believe he would do that!”

The girl’s voice was filled with grievance, and by the time she finished talking, her teeth were clenched in anger. I had a sneaking suspicion that the “b***h” she was referring to was my ex-wife… Sure enough, I was right.

“You sure do have great taste, don’t you?” Erin turned to me, a look of ridicule and sarcasm on her face. “My family’s a shitshow, thanks to that annoying ex-wife of yours.”

“Hey now, don’t say that!” I quickly defended myself as my face filled with embarrassment and indignance. “I’m a victim of that woman too! The enemy of an enemy is a friend, right? So, we should work together to get revenge!”

I did not really mean what I said, but to my surprise, Erin nodded in agreement. “Yeah, I guess you’re right. We’re both on the same side.”

“What are you guys talking about? Does your boyfriend know that b***h, too?” Sasha chimed in curiously.

“Sasha! I told you to stop calling him that!” Erin angrily tried to pinch Sasha again. Amid their little scuffle, Erin’s bath towel was yanked off, revealing her fair body and the countless blue and purple marks covering it.

My eyes glazed over from the view. Those were the result of my hard work from last night.

Sasha saw the hickeys and immediately smirked. “Looks like you guys had a lot of fun last night. Your p***y is all swollen, Auntie. It must’ve felt real good, huh?”

“Actually, it wasn’t just last night, but this morning too—” I could not help but add, but before I could finish, a pillow flew over and hit me in the face.

“Shut up, don’t butt in! Who do you think you are?” Erin snapped as she hurriedly wrapped her body with the towel again. Her face was so red that she looked like an apple.

Ignoring me, she turned to Sasha and explained everything to her, then Sasha turned and stared at me.

“So what you’re saying is that you were married to that b***h?” she asked in disbelief. “What’s wrong with you? You married such a shameless and nosy woman, and instead of keeping her under control, you let her loose to f**k with other peoples’ lives too?”

Erin quickly stopped her. “Sasha, that’s enough. He’s a victim too.”

“Yeah,” I agreed weakly. “That woman abandoned our family and ran off with another man.”

As I remembered all the pain and humiliation that she put me through, my heart started aching like it was being stabbed with a knife repeatedly. I always thought I would move on and heal as time went by, but who would have thought that the scars and seeds of hatred in my heart would sprout and grow now?

With that, the three of us formed something like an alliance. The most ridiculous thing was that it all started because of my cheating ex-wife.

“We shouldn’t let her get away with everything. We have to teach her a lesson!” Erin asserted as she turned her attention to me.

I nodded my head. “I agree, I think it’s fate that the three of us met. But what should we do?”

“First things first, we have to drive that b***h out of the family. If it weren’t for my dad, I would’ve already hired some thugs to deal with that whore.” Sasha seethed as she reverted to her rough way of speaking but was immediately scolded by Erin.

“When are you going to stop talking like that? You’re never going to get out of trouble if you don’t stop fighting all day!”

I hurriedly chimed in, “I don’t know how powerful the people you know are, but your stepmother is the mistress of Sean Wright. You need to be careful. He’s not someone you should make an enemy of.”

After saying that, I felt a lump in my throat as a suffocating feeling rose in my chest. I could not continue what I wanted to say.