In Loving You

Chapter 8

I arrived home and I saw all of our maids outside the gate crying with their bags, "What happened?" I asked them.

"Ma'am please I can't afford to lose my job. I'm the only breadwinner of our family," Tonia pleaded.

"Why? What happened?" I asked again

"Mr. Warren fired all of us. He just came home mad and started shouting at us," Jennie sniffed.

I walked past through them and went inside our house. Everything was a mess. The couch is upside down, our lamp is lying on the floor already broken. A lot of broken glass are scattered across the floor. Warren continued to throw all of our things in the living room making me shriek because of fear.

"Warren! Please stop, please! Just let me explain!" I went towards him and hugged him, trying to calm him down.

He breathed heavily and slowly tears flowed from his eyes. He tried to wipe them away and hid his face away from me. He keeps on removing my arms from his body. I also started to cry at his sight. I have never seen him cry this hard before.

"I still love you, Bella. After all the things you did I still love you," he cried.

"I never cheated Warren. I also love you as much as you do. I can't even imagine a life without you." I sobbed

We just stood there as I hugged him tightly not wanting to remove myself from him. His breathing slowly turned normal and he started to relax in my embrace and then his phone rang interrupting us. I had no choice but to let him go.

Warren tried to fix himself and dried his tears before answering his phone, "Hello, this is Warren talking, " he answered politely at the end of the line.

His mood turned sour after taking the call. I don’t know who he is talking to or what they are talking about. I jumped when he threw his phone across the living room, "W-what's wrong?" I stammered.

"The man I hired before to check if the photos are photoshopped just called. He told me that he was sorry for lying. He said you paid him to lie, to tell me that those pictures were fake." He said in a deep voice and glared at me. I was stunned at what he said.

"They were photoshopped, " I still insisted, not knowing how to defend my innocence, "I didn't even know the person you hired! I never cheated Warren. Please! Believe me." I pleaded, "I was kidn*pped. I tried to call you on your phone but you didn't answer." I sobbed harder.

"Who would kidnap you?" He asked trying to calm himself down. His fists were clenched and his arms were trembling making me feel more scared.

"I-I don't know, maybe it was the person who sent you those pictures. Someone is trying to break our relationship." I told him.

"Ivy told me everything, she said you just married me for money. That the person you really love is Calvin. Not just that, the man I hired to look for those photos just told me that you paid him. How am I supposed to believe you? Tell me, how am I supposed to believe everything you just said when everything tells me that you’re lying to me?" He bellowed.

I covered my heart that is beating rapidly. Warren’s loud voice makes me feel nervous. What is Ivy doing? Is this for real? Why would Ivy lie to Warren? Why did she betray me? I treated her like a sister. I've been her friend since we were in high school. I-I just talked to her yesterday and everything seems cool. What is happening?

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I continued to sob. I don't even know why I was saying sorry. Seeing him in this state makes me feel worthless. I'm his wife, I should be the one to comfort him when he is feeling like this but instead, I only let him feel worse.

"I still love you Bella but I can't stand you. Every time I see your face it only reminds me of how you cheated. I need time to think. I will not come back here for a while and don't you ever come near me." With that, he left with his car while I continued to sob in our house. Our maids went inside after seeing Warren leave. They weren’t surprised when they saw the mess but they were very worried when they saw me crying on the floor. They must have heard everything that had happened. They all tried to comfort me and hugged me as I cry out everything to them. They believed me when I told them the whole story.

“You need to understand Warren, Bella. He doesn’t know the truth and I’m sure he was just blinded by his anger. Just let him cool off his mind and then go and talk to him.” Jennie smiled as she caressed my back.

When I felt okay, I stood up and fixed myself. I don’t know how I will tell them that they were fired. I had no choice but to fire them. Warren wants them gone and I know he'll become angrier at me if I didn't follow his commands.

“You should go upstairs and rest. We’ll take care of all of this.” Tonia volunteered.

“You don’t have to do all of that. I-I’m sorry that all of you lost your job because of me” I gulped and lowered my head.

They all remained silent their face was downcast. I know how much they all needed their money.

“No Bella, It’s okay. You had always been so kind to us and we are grateful for everything you did.” Hannah held my hand.

To help them a bit I took a little money that I have in my bag and gave it to them, “I know it’s not enough but please accept it for all the work you’ve done for us.” Some of them who badly needed the money accepted it while others refused the money. Before they even left they helped me clean and fix the house. They wanted me to rest upstairs but I refused.

We arranged the toppled couch back to its old place. The others took out the furnitures that were broken and useless. I swept the whole floor and accidentally wounded myself with a broken plate. I whimpered in pain, the wound in my middle finger was too deep. It would surely leave a scar.

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Ouch! I whimpered. I accidentally released the glass I was holding and I wanted to catch it before it reached the floor but instead, I caught the broken glass.

"What happened?" Warren hurriedly went to my rescue and saw the mess I made, "Come here, clumsy wife." He chuckled and I just glared at him.

He took my hand and blew my wound, “Ah!” I whimpered again. He took our first aid kit and cleaned my wound first before wrapping it in a bandage.

"Next time don't try to catch it again. You're lucky the wound is not that deep, " he muttered.

"I just thought I could catch it before it touched the floor."

"Still, don't catch it. Whatever the chances might be just don't, I don't want you to get hurt, " he said while cleaning my wound.

"It stings, " I told him and faked a whimper.

He suddenly turned alarmed and started to kiss my wound repeatedly as if it will ease the pain, "Does it still hurt? I told you to be careful.” I continued pretending that I was badly hurt, “Should we call an ambulance? What if you need surgery?" He started to panic. I can't hold it anymore so I laughed at his reaction. I never thought he would overreact. The “surgery” really got me

"Why are you laughing? Do you think that’s funny?" He raised his eyebrows and suddenly turned serious. I think I made him mad. Words can’t come out of my mouth. I was tongue-tied so I gulped.

"Of course it's funny!" He started to laugh so loud and I slapped his arm multiple times. I was double pranked. I can't believe he just outsmarted me.

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I chuckled at the memory I just remembered. Warren was so worried at the small cut I had that time. I wonder if he would also be worried if he saw my deep cut right now.