Chapter 3- choosing myself
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Eliora's POV
“What!”
“You heard me”
“I want a divorce.”
He starts to beg me .
“I'm really sorry, I don't want to loose you ,please”
“I've told you already, I don't like to repeat myself”
“Please, think about this”
“ We don't even have an heir, what could possibly make me stay?”
“ There nothing to think about, I hate you!”
“And what about your parents, do you think they'll allow this, let's just sort ourselves out please”
“ Then I'll disown them before they disown me”
“Please, my love”
His voice starts trembling.
He stretched towards to touch me but I refuse.
Don't even think of it.
“I've told you, I hate you with all my guts”.
“Get out of my life and never come back!”
“You all are being annoying, I'm leaving”.
I start to boil
“Coming from a mistress?”.
She looks at me with disdain and leaves
“Mandy let's go”
“ Mandy help me to beg her”
Gavin interrupts
She refuses to answer him.
“Silence is the best answer for a fool”
She replies abruptly
“Lora let's go home”, she says.
She forces me out of there and we leave.
“Mandy wait, but without my things”
“I'm sick of this place already, let's just leave it.”
“What?”
“Don't worry, we'll get it after the legal settlement”
I let out a deep shaky breath
“You have already thought that far?”
“ Yes”
He answer was solid.
I knew she only meant well for me
But why am I having second thoughts about this?
We are back at mandys house.
Daniel rushes and kisses her.
The kind of kiss that was affectionate
I struggle to look away.
I once had that too, but now it was gone.
Am I really going to become single again?
I say to myself
Well, maybe it's for the better.
I'll go o upstairs now”
“Yeah let's go”
It was Mandy.
She is always there for me when I need her.
She holds my hand all the way up.
We go to the guestroom.
She had prepared the room for me..
As soon as we settle on the bed, my phone rings.
It was my parents.
My mother.
I was so sure Dad was going to be with her.
I stare at the phone battling within myself whether to answer or not.
They had probably heard of what's going on.
Gavin had probably told them.
I answer it.
“Hello mum, what do you want?”
“ Eliora, I haven't heard from you in a while”
“Hi Eliora”, I could hear dads voice from the background too.
“I knew it” I say to myself.
I know where this is going.
“Mother, what do you want”
“ That's quite a way to answer your mother, have you lost your manners too?”
I only ever knew she called me when she needed something.
I sigh.
I'm not enjoying this.
“Too?”.
I reply nervously but firm
“ Yes, a long with your husband”.
“ I'm not ready for this mom”
“Since when did you start talking back, it's all your fault. You're making a fatal mistake”.
“Is that really all you care about?Do you even care about me? You didn't even ask me what happened
I get really pissed.
I could hear dads ask to talk to me but Mom refuses
“She's my daughter, I'll handle her”
“Handle me all right, you don't even care. You only believe what that God forsaken husband of mine has to say, whats your problem mom, Is everything really money?”
“Husband?”, Mandy argues
“What?”
“ Don't you dare talk to me like that Eliora!”
I could hear the anger in her voice
“ I will cause I don't care!”
“I see you've grown guts”
“Oh yeah?I didn't know”
I reply sarcastically.
This time I had lost it.
“You are a selfish child, havent I done enough for you?”
She speaks like she commands remorse .
“Yes mother, you've done enough, infact more than enough!”
I pause.
“Firstly you sell me off to a man I didn't love at first, you knew in fact and I was too young for that, but because of how wonderful and obedient of a daughter I am, I agreed to be sold off. That wasn't all”
Mandy tries to calm me down.
“ Now you claim i should get back to that man who cheated on me and you call yourself a mother? I think the question is what kind of mother are you?
“Oh my!”
Mother is stunned.
She is confused.
I could hear it in her voice.
She pauses before she speaks.
“I dont know what has come over you or what Is coming over you, but I'll take this as emotional stress. Eliora let me warn you”
Her voice becomes stern, the kind that commands discipline.
“ I don't know what you think you're doing but you better go back to him and apologize. Forgive him for what he has done too. Don't you see he keeps apologizing? Don't be so wicked. Marriage is for better or worse, it doesn't have to be all rosy all the time.”
“I'm warning you.i don't want to hear any petty stories from the both of you by next week, better get back together. And as for you, remove that stupid thought of divorce from your mind, infact your entire being.”
“ To divorce your lovely husband? I will never support that”
She hangs up the call.
Mandy who had been watching and listening from the side walks up to me and hugs me.
“ You'll be fine, I promise”, she'd say.
She said that a lot of time
“ Don't let what you're mother said get to you”
“ Look at me! You are worth more than a cheating husband “
“We are going to get that divorce and just know that I'll be with you and I'm on your side all step of the way, no need to be scared, okay.
“Yeah”
My voice was faint but I'm happy she could hear me.
I should get some rest.
“Yes you should”
“Then after that I'll look for a lawyer”
“That's the energy!”
I lay on the bed, gazing on the ceiling for so long.
I couldn't sleep.
I couldn't even close my eyes.
I could only think of my life from this point
Was I going to go back home?
My parents would never accept me back!
I don't even have a job
I was overwhelmed.
Mandy who also lay beside me could not help but pity for me.
She held my hand tight.
I was exhausted
Or even overstimulated.
I didn't even know anymore.
“You can't sleep?”
I get up.
I reach for my phone.
It was the only thing I had on me and some money in my purse.
Every other thing was at home, or maybe not home.
I sigh.
“Let's just look for the lawyers now”
“Okay, but don't you need some rest first?”
“Just forget it”
She frowns.
I knew she wanted to help me anyway she could.
I look through eligible and possible lawyers that could help me.
I find one
He says his name is Daren.
Not like I care
“I like his portfolio, maybe he can help me”
“Yeah sure,send him a text”
“Already done that”
“Oh”,she says in surprise.
“Lora, take it easy though”
“Coming from you”
“Yes?”
“I'm honestly worried about you”
“Oh thanks bestie, im fine, I'll be fine”
“ Okay, you're so pretty okay?”
“Yeah and you're prettier “
“Side eye”
We both laugh.
“Now that I have to move on from him, I don't even have a job”
“I'm just going to end up solely depending on you since you're working”
“That's true, but we can fix that “
“How”
“Let's drop your resume everywhere “
“People would be so lucky to have you especially in an architectural firm”
I look at her then smile.
“Theres actually a firm, an architectural firm that Gavin introduced to me sometimes back.”
“I think he knows the owner”
“It's a new firm”. “They said they'll get back to me once they finish establishing the company”
“I think Atelier In or somewhat.
“That sounds nice”
“Yeah actually”
Just then
I receive a notification from my phone.
I reach out to get it
It's an email.
“You are invited to an interview for the office of a business strategic position in our firm”
“Wow, finally!”, I exclaimed
A job opportunity.
Another chance and at the right timing .
A new beginning
And just maybe, a new life.
- Writer
