Ivy’s Divine Revenge

Chapter Six

Ivy

I stiffened with one foot in front of the other on the staircase and swallowed a deep fortifying breath to stop my shaky hands before I plastered a smile on my face and turned around towards his voice.

“Sean, why are you home at this time, should you not be at the office?” I asked sweetly, hiding my disappointment at seeing him at home and worrying at his unusual presence.

“How could I go to the office when I did not sleep beside my beautiful pregnant wife...” he said and I watched his perfect well styled hair and even white teeth as he smiled at me and walked to the bottom of the stairs and looked up at me with concern shining through his eyes, if I did not know better I would think the concern was genuine and I had to restrain myself from scoffing in his face, it would not do to get emotional right now, if he even got an inkling that I knew what he was up to he would probably flee afer he killed me to cover up his tracks. “...I had to make sure I saw you before leaving the house.” he finished and walked up to where I stood and wrapped his arms around me, forcing me into a hug I did not want to be in. My skin crawled when I remembered the feeling when I stumbled upon him naked on his office table with Charlene.

“I had to go straight to the ranch to drop off the drugs I bought for the horses and that is why I was not back home earlier than now but you don’t have to stay here and baby me. I am fine, I am just going to lie down for a bit.” I told him after I pulled out of his suffocating hug.

“Are you sure? Maybe we should go and see the doctor so that she can check on you and our baby” He asked me and I nodded yes, looking at him and thinking “sure you want us to go check and see that my baby is dead as you have planned” before I said out loud. “I promise if I feel ill I will go to the doctor immediately.” before he smiled and gave me a kiss on my head and I turned and walked up the rest of the way to the bedroom.

Usually when Sean gave me kisses on my forehead it made me feel loved and secure but now I was filled with disgust and the need to scrub my skin. I had not put into consideration how I would deal with his affectionate gestures and wanting to touch me until now. I remembered how before the revelation i craved his touch and when he started turning nasty after my second miscarriage and stopped touching me and being affectionate as he used to be and I became miserable, it had been what had prompted me to dress sexy in lingerie and go to his office with the hopes that I could seduce him. I was sure glad his true intentions had been revealed to me and i was able to really see the man that I had been married to.

When I was safely in the bedroom I heard the main door to the house shut and a couple of minutes later I heard the garage door open as Sean pulled out and drove away.

I took off my shirt in front of the mirror and studied the slight pouch of my belly where until the day before my child had nestled, I softly rubbed it as I silently mourned for the children I had lost and I started sobbing softly then it progressed into a painful crying then I got on my knees and started wailing in pain for my babies. I had looked forward to being able to raise my own little family and give my babies the motherly love and care that I myself had missed with my own emotionally absent mother.

When my sobbing quieted I got up with determination and washed my face, to keep up with this charade of a marriage that I had found myself in I would have to pretend to still be pregnant to buy me time, Sean would be less likely to want to touch me pregnant and I would not have to endure s*x with him, it would also make me less suspicion plus I would be able to study his next move would be because I was sure he was determined to kill the baby.

Going back into the bedroom I picked up my phone and made a call to one of my former colleagues at the law firm where I had worked and met Sean, after two rings my call was answered and a woman’s voice came through the phone, “hello?”

“Hi Beth, it is Ivy, Ivy Addison.” I answered.

“Oh hi Ivy, it has been so long, it is so nice to hear from you, how are you doing?” She replied.

“I am doing great thank you, how is work, how are you?” I asked.

“Meh. You know how it is climbing the corporate ladder and spending long hours at work plus work had been pretty lonely since you decided to abandon me.”

I chuckled at that, Beth and I had been pretty friendly, we had even contemplated becoming housemates before Sean came into the picture and changed the trajectory of my life. “I need a huge favor Beth and I need you to not tell you anything to anyone.”

Beth kept quiet for a minute and I could imagine what was going through her head, while she and I had been pretty friendly I had been private about my personal thoughts and affairs, she was definitely going to be shocked when she heard what it was that I wanted her to do for me.

“Uhm sure Ivy, what do you need.” I could hear the slight reluctance in her voice and I could not blame her, we had not spoken since I moved from New York back home to Doylestown and here I was calling her out of the blues to ask for a favor, I would be reluctant too but I had already started so so I might as well dive all the way in.

“I need to see the suit that Sean filed when he first got to the firm.” I finally said, this time the silence was longer.

“Sean? You mean your husband Sean? Is everything alright Ivy, you know I could get fired right? This is a huge risk, i i could lose my job.” She stammered.

“I know that Beth...” I hurried to reassure her, “... I would not ask this of you unless it was extremely important please, I can’t tell you what all this is about until I know for sure what it is that I am looking for.”

“You are asking me to risk my job on just a haunch?” She shrieked quietly.

“Pleaseee, I would not ask if I did not think it is important that I have it, please Beth, you are my only hope.” I begged and when she did not say a work I realized that she had capitulated and would help me.

“Okay but if I lose my job you are going to write me a glowing reference.” She said grumpily.

“Thank you thank you so much Beth, you are saving a life and I will forever be in your debt, I will forward my email address to you. Thank you so much.”

Then we base each other farewell and ended the call, phase one had started, I was sure that that was the lose thread I was looking for that would help me unravel the tapestry of his lies, there was no other way to find anything out about him, when he said he was an orphan who had grown up in an orphanage and had no family or friends I had felt such pity for the little boy who had grown up feeling alone, he reminded me of myself but while he had supposedly lost both of his parents in my case I had both my parents alive, my father who loved me very much, my mother had been the negligent parent. I had been deeply in love with him and had taken everything he told me at face value, I cursed myself on my negligence and carelessness but there was nothing that could be done now.

Next I was going to have to find a doctor or a laboratory that could test me to find out if I had been drugged and that was what was causing my miscarriages so that I could have an idea of what to look for, I had never thought to have a toxicology report done on me but in light of everything that I had found out about my husband I needed to be thorough. I would also need to check on the company’s financials, even though my father was still largely in charge, Sean had some level of control over the company’s finances and I feared he had probably been stealing some of the money. I thought of the slew of documents he had me sign over the previous months and I sighed at my stupidity and naïveté, he had seemed so perfect, I never questioned or read the documents he brought me, I definitely brought this upon myself.

I would have to find out where he hid his documents and important papers, I also needed to find out about his own financials, the crime novels I had loved and read always said the key to most crimes lay in finding the money trail and I was sure in this case that was what I needed. I would need to start from the house, after I checked and eliminated it as a potential hiding place.

For a moment i considered the thought that maybe it had just been a bad dream but i remembered what had happened to me when i ignored some dreams in the past because they had seemed implausible. the repercussions had been terrible and i knew in my heart of hearts that this was a warning that i needed to heed.