A love like yours

Well well...

What Maggie just said has meaning awe. I have no other option but to sit her down and listen to what she has to say. I'm interested now in knowing what the issue was and where I went I wrong, not because I want to fix anything but because that'd the least the least I can do, hear her out because I haven't been doing a good job at that, I'll admit.

Me: What went wrong, huh? You sold your own daughter and got ready to leave with someone you barely know, tell me what wrong I did to you, that will help me do better for my next wife.

Maggie: You never give yourself the chance to listen to me, my dreams, ambitions, passion, goals; She draws a deep breath in, she wants to cry now. You want to shove every opinion of yours down my throat without listening to my viewpoint! I went through the darkest period in my life and you couldn't care less. Not only did you dismiss it when I told you that I was not feeling well, you laughed straight to my face and walked away. The tears are threatening to leave her eyes now. It happens when she gets overwhelmed. I'm a disgrace. She wasn't asking for much, she was just asking to be lent an ear.

Oh, okay, I respond as soon as I gather myself. All I wanted was for you to sign these papers anyway. Then I'll let poverty deal with you accordingly.

Maggie: Oh, hand me a pen, I'd be more than glad to sign all your assets over to you and start on a clean slate. No attachments, nothing.

She bends over and signs the divorce papers, automatically signing everything over to me. Bye then! she says like the bad b***h she is.

I call Samkelo over so we can leave but I honestly am still confuzzled over what just happened. What does this mean? S

Do I need to have my guard up? What's her game plan? Where will she go from here? Has Samkelo been feeding her this information? Did he teach how exactly she should get to me? is she harmless? Samkelo... What do I do to Samkelo if he has indeed been filing her head with nonsense.

Accepting defeat is knew of the hardest things I've ever had to do. Especially when it comes to Maggie because before, I used to have the upper hans, I'd speak once and she'd now her head down, a sign of respect t and walk away with her eyes still pinned to the floor. Today she looked at me straight in my eyes, a sign that she has lost all respect for me.

~Maggie~

That's the way the game is played. Never let anyone your tears fall. I feel so betrayed by Samkelo that if I saw him another day, at some other place, I wouldn't give him the time of day no matter how much he begged for it.

As for Reece, he's got it all wrong if he thinks he's left me high and dry without no one to turn to. I whip my phone out of my pocket and grin as I make the call. No answer. Hell it did t even ring! Okay.. let me try again.Still! My heart is now racing because I trusted this man with my daughter's life! Strong as I am, I break down and cry as the "What ifs" run through my mind. What if he kills her and sells her body parts to some evil man who sells organs in the black market? What if my granddaughter grows up to be his slave? I'm such a fool! I don't know how I expect to be forgiven for such atrocity! I haven't done right by family and I hope that Amber will come out of this in one piece. I hope that Amber's comes back to me, dead or alive. I have to get her back. It feels as if the whole room is spinning as I try to find balance. It feels like the walls are caving in on me, like the ceiling is getting closer and closer to me and that the more I shout for help, is the more people ignore my outcry. I messed up... Big time.

Reece

Leave me, I command Samkelo. I need to be alone to process what just happened and try to push my love for her away. I might act all tough but inside, I'm not too bad a guy. I fall hard for people and that's the reason why it's so hard to get through to me. I try to mask these emotions with this facade so that no one ever suspects it and so that I can have respect from everyone. Even if that respect is derived from fear. All that doesn't matter now because I'm sitting here moping over someone who didn't give one damn about me. She never loved me, she just tolerated me and I can't complain because I pushed her to it. I couldn't keep the vows I made in the alter, that I'd have and hold her, nourish and protect her. Instead, it's me that she ended up needing saving from.

I pick up the phone and contemplate calling her. Maybe things wouldn't be as bad if humbled myself before her and apologised. Maybe if I made another promise to her, one that I'll keep this time around, maybe she'd come back to me and not leave.

Maybe it's time that this hard layer I've put around me broke. Maybe it's time to lower the fences guarding my heart because if there's one thing, one thing that I'm certain of, is that I love Maggie. Her heartwarming smile is the joy of my day and the joyous melody she hums on those happy days completes me. I know his what I must do... I have to go back to the house and bring her back to me. There might be a bit of love left. I'd never know. We share a bond, it's undeniable. I have to get her love back.