The mafia lord

Betrayal

The shock in my eyes was enough to paralyze someone.

My mouth hung open. I was just standing there like a statue. I couldn't defend myself against the harsh words of my stepmother.

My heart gave a loud jump and it was beating so rapidly that I could almost hear it.

Suddenly my palms became so sweaty and I wondered if they had found out about the pregnancy test and what had already happened.

But even though they found out who could have told them I hadn't gone to the family doctor who would, the information could have reached them that I was already pregnant.

"Don't know what you are talking about.' I said in a small voice and I could see her frown, secretly on several occasions she had warned me never to call her mother.

That was ever since I was 8 years old, ever since my real mother died in childbirth my father's secretary had wrung her way like an earthworm into my father's life also turned him against me, and made him take the love he was supposed to give to me and give it to her daughter.

And now I was almost like a maid to them.

Suffered so many humiliations and insults and now getting pregnant with a heart to it.

"Can't you say something?" Lyla, my step-sister, taunted."Cat got your tongue."

I swallowed hard and twisted my fingers before me trying to think of something to say so as not to sell myself away.

" I went out." I began."I went to the coffee shop down the street."

At that instant I could see eyebrows rise in this belief and I knew I had already messed up

How could I have forgotten I knew it was because of the fear and anxiety I was having that made me lie like a child.

I had forgotten that I was the one who hated coffee with everything in me.

And ever since the coffee shop got started 6 years back I had never set foot in it.

They already knew I was lying and now I have to lie to cover up the one I did before.

"I think you should take your lying classes seriously this summer," Layla said with a smile broadened on her face. "You suck at lying and you should get better."

I looked away trying to avoid it because I knew if I said something else I was only inviting trouble.

I exhaled "I went out to clear my thoughts."

"I think you should do what you deserve." Maria said with an icy tone." You have been forgetting a lot of things lately, behaving like a 90-year-old woman."

"Anyways that is not the reason why we are gathered here."Dad interjected."There's something we have to let you know and you have to accept it you have no option but to do it."

"Something like what?" I asked.

"Do you remember Kelvin Montessori?" Dad asked sharply and I knew that because I had heard of the name once probably when Dad called someone on the phone.

Dad nodded and he didn't do it when he threw the next bomb.

"You will get married to him in 3 days." He said with a note of finality and I almost passed out from the words I just heard

"What?" I stuttered." This can't be happening, how can you ask me to marry a man I barely know? I haven't even seen him."

"But you know his name."

"But that is so absurd, this is the 21st century.'

"I will not watch you argue with me young lady, you will do just as you are told to get ready to meet your husband tomorrow."

I shook my head hoping that someone would pinch me and I would know that all this was just a dream.

"But I and Damian." I started to say remembering that we were engaged.

"Anyways." Dad said, waving my words off like a fly."You just brought this to our notice."Then he turned to Maria.

"I think you are the best person to announce this good news to her."

My eyes were shaking and my head was spinning as I was trying to understand what was going on around me.

There was a huge smile on my face and she sat up.

"You'll be an auntie soon," she said to me, turning to Layla who also smiled and rubbed her stomach.

" Layla is expecting her baby in December, that's eight months from now."

The pounding increased and my lips quivered as I uttered the single words.

"Congratulations." in a very tiny voice that I wonder if I even heard myself.

"And we are getting married too." Layla began."a week after your marriage with Kelvin Montessori. Damian will make a good father."

She said to her mother my legs felt so weak as I heard the last sentence

I blinked rapidly and my hands began to shake.

"What are you both saying?"

"Oh, forgive our short memories."Maria said slapping her temples."Layla wanted to tell you a long time ago but she said it was going to hurt your feelings

She and Damian had been seeing each other for some time and Damian had already professed his love to her not only that he proposed to her just yesterday."

At that very moment, I felt the tiny life I had been holding on to leave my body, I felt a hot knife of betrayal and shock pass through my chest breaking my heart into thousands of irreplaceable pieces.

Suddenly cold rage ran through me as I lunged at Layla.

"You Devil how could you, he was my husband-to-be."I cried as Layla got out of the way and hid behind her mother.

"But he said he never loved you, you're only forcing yourself on him besides I met him first." Layla defended herself as my knees buckled and I fell to the ground as tears rolled down my eyes.

"Why, why could you betray me, what have I ever done to you? I have loved you as a sister." I buried my face in my hands as my body shook with the sob leaving my throat.

" The earlier you stop crying and get prepared to see your husband tomorrow, the better for you," Dad said standing up.

Just then he received a phone call and he pressed his cell phone to his ears.

There was a slight pause before he said.

"Your wife is looking forward to seeing you."

A pause then

" Consider it done."