LOVING A COP

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

HAILEY’S POV

“I don’t want to involve you in this sir,” I scoffed despite tears forming at the slit ends of my eyes.

“NO. I have to find justice for you Hailey. The man did assault you,” He grumbled speeding the car as we headed back to William’s mansion after he unlocked my handcuffs and set me free once again.

“But please, he doesn’t want to see me. If I go there, I might offend him further and he will not forgive me.” I gasped lightly.

“Hailey, please. The man has just hit you. Get that to your head. You know he can be jailed for that if you file a case, right?” His tone was sharp and a bit enraged.

“I still love the man Raphael. I can’t lie. We have dated for over seven years and it is natural for me to be afraid of breaking up with him.” I stated in a non-chalant voice.

“I will tell you something. Right now, let me go and do my job,” He grumbled

“What about the broken windows?” I implored. I was still job hunting and I didn’t have so much cash to pay for the broken window panes.

“Trust me, everything will be fine. Allow me to handle this.” He retorted.

The silence in the car was deafening but the tension was hard to miss. How was I going to face him?

We parked and Raphael asked me to get outside.  There was a relentless ramming of my heart against my own rib-cage. My palms were very sweaty and I couldn’t completely mask the fact that I was afraid of what was going to transpire between the confrontations we were going to have.

“Don’t worry,” There was determination in Rafael’s voice.

“Sure,” I nodded and kept walking behind him.

Raphael rang the doorbell and we waited. Jenny was the one who answered the door. Seeing her let alone talking to her made my lips tremble in anger. God knows how much I hate this girl. She is the reason why I am in this place in my relationship.

“Baby, they are back,” She chuckled walking away.

A sweaty William come and he was shocked to see me there.

“She should be in jail. She f*****g has to pay for my f*****g window panes!” He cussed non-stop.

“She is not going to pay anything,” Rafael countered.

“What the hell!” He was totally baffled.

“You slapped her and assaulted her. Just drop the case or you will be the one ending up in jail.” Raphael shot him an intense irritated look.

“You are f*****g crazy!” William was totally pissed.

“Watch me!” Raphael warned.

“I have filed a restraining order against you b***h. Don’t you dare come near me. I have never loved you.” He shrugged and shut the door on our faces.

For a moment, I felt like I could not breath like someone had stuffed stones in my airways blocking any passage of air. My lips parted then closed. For someone, I probably looked like a fish in water but I could not help it.

How could he say something like that yet I was the only one who was constant with her for the last seven years? I helped him with my savings to start a business but now that he has it all, he is seeing me as a piece of garbage.

I think I would have dropped to the ground to probably die but Raphael held me and walked me to the car. Tears formed at the slit ends of my eyes and flowed from there through my cheeks like water from a faulty tap.

“You will be okay,” Raphael tried to comfort me but I couldn’t even listen to what he was saying. My mind was miles away and my heart was suddenly too heavy or me to carry. I felt pain in pulses and the pain flew all over my body making me feel like I am going to die in the next second. My soul was bleeding.

Raphael ensured I got well to the car before he took the driver’s seat.  Crying alone was not going to take the pain away so I started sobbing and trying to hurt myself by hitting my hand hard on the car seat and that is when Raphael knew things were in a mess.

He started hugging me ignoring the blows of letting the pain go that I was giving him. In the end, he managed to hug me tightly and I cried on his shoulders.

The feeling that somebody had spread gasoline over my heart and then set fire to it bringing me lots of pain did not stop despite me crying. I struggled for air. Breaking up with him was something I don’t know if I will move on from.

The shrill ringing of Raphael’s phone is what broke our hug.

“911, what is the emergency?” He asked.

“I am coming right away,” His tone was flat.

I knew that I had to let him go so as not to drag me into my personal problems.

“I will just walk home,” Despite my shaky voice, I made him aware that I am not going to interfere with his job.

“Hailey, don’t say that. I will drop you home,” He sounded so concerned.

“I don’t want to interrupt your work sir,” I countered.

“You are my work too.” He answered with half a smile.

I gave him my address and he was so willing to drive me there. He kept telling me that everything would be okay and I hoped that was going to work since at the moment I felt like my life did not have a meaning without my William.

I hugged Raphael for the last time before I walked into the apartment that I was sharing with my best friend Sandra.

I felt so weak. Good thing, Sandra was not in when I arrived. I was not in the mood to explain my situation to her. I unlocked the door and dragged myself to bed. I fished some sleeping pills from my bedside table and took them before I threw myself to bed. I covered myself with my Cozy duvets hoping to sleep and never wake up again.

**

The laughter of my friend Sandra is what woke me up.

“Hey, what time is it?” I mumbled without opening my eyes.

“Around six in the evening you sleepy head,” She jested.

“What!” I remember having the confrontation in the morning and getting back home before lunch. I must have slept for a long time.

She was still looking at her phone when I dragged myself out of the bed. She didn’t see my face as I went straight to the kitchen. My stomach couldn’t stop grumbling because I was really starving. Hunger never cared to know that I was nursing a break up or not.

Sandra and I were not fond of cooking therefore I reached for my cereal box, poured some Weetabix on a bowl and added some milk after which I munched on them with massive appetite.

I went back to my room to get my phone and I was careful to hide from Sandra’s preying eyes. I expected to find some missed calls for William but my phone was dry. There were no even text messages from him. My heart knew and I knew that if he asked for forgiveness and promises to change, maybe I will forgive him. I couldn’t let a single day break the seven years that we have been happy together.

I swallowed my ego and decided to text him but after twenty minutes of waiting, I did not get a reply from him. It really did hurt. I tried calling him after minutes of convincing myself that he would pick up but he also proved me wrong.

His phone rang at first but he did not pick up. The next time I called, I was sent to his voice mail. It was clear that he never wanted anything to do with me in his life. He blocked me.

I know it is wrong to stalk someone when you have just had a break up but I couldn’t help it. I found myself in his ** page.

His last post was a minute ago and a picture of Jenny graced her timeline. He had captioned it that, with the right woman, you can achieve anything you want in life.

That statement pierced my heart more than a sword could do. How could he say that yet Jenny was the woman he was just cheating with? I had built him up for the past years. To make matters worse, he had never posted me before, he kept saying that posting is for kids.

I wanted to pretend that all is well but the same pain I felt when he said that he never loved me resurfaced. I started sobbing and Sandra got to hear me.

“Hailey, what is wrong?” She was alarmed and come to my side of the bed.

“I don’t want to talk about it,” I could not seem to control tears streaming down my face.

“Hey, I am here for you. Please talk to me. You are making me worry,” She convinced me to confide in her with what I was going through.

“Sandy, William dumped me today. He has been cheating on me,” I dropped the bombshell.

“What!”