Veiled Truths

Chapter 3

“What are you doing here?” he asked me as he pushed her off him, she rushed and hid behind him with her back facing me.

“After everything Zachary! How could you do this to me?!”

There I was with my heart racing, I was anxious to see who the lady was.

“Why the hell are you hiding? You had no shame having s*x with my husband in my matrimonial home and now all of a sudden you have some shame in you?”

I hurriedly went behind him and pulled her by her hair. When she turned her eyes met mine.

My heart sank to my stomach. “Nicole? You? How?” “I stood there not able to lift any part of my body, I just kept staring at them as tears clouded my eyes.

I felt my blood race through my body and my face swelling, everywhere became so hot that sweat dripped from my forehead down to my nose region.

I couldn't believe what I saw, I had no idea what to do next, I sat on the floor crying uncontrollably as I struggled so hard to breathe.

It seemed like the room had no air. All I could think of was where I went wrong for Zachary to do this to me.

“Here, sign these.” He threw some documents at me, I turned and looked at my best friend with my eyes wide open, my hands shaking. “I trusted you, Nicole, is this why you stopped taking my calls?” I asked her as I wiped the tears off my cheeks.

I reached out and picked the document up from the floor, I looked at him and he looked back at me with no atom of remorse, I opened the papers.

“Divorce papers?”

“Hey, sign them immediately, thank God you found out about us today, do you know how long I have been waiting for this day?”

“Sign those papers so we can proceed with our wedding, I wouldn’t want to give birth to our baby out of wedlock.” She said, rubbing her tummy and smiling at Zachary.

“Baby? You got her pregnant?” I heard right but I needed to confirm what I heard. How did I get here? I thought to myself.

“He is so selfish! I murmured as tears ran down my cheeks. “You said you weren't ready to have kids, you forced me to get rid of my baby two weeks ago,” I said as I walked closely to him.

“Look at me! I yelled at him. I grabbed him by his shirt and squeezed his shirt so hard, “I curse the day I married you!.” I screamed with my voice trembling and tears running down my eyes nonstop.

“Oh please, what's all this pretense about? We both knew this sham of a marriage was not going to last.” Nicole said as she smiled, I walked close to her and slapped her, she held her cheek and quickly picked up her phone, and showed Zachary something in it.

“That explains it, so you are cheating on me? How dare you? I’m sure that baby wasn’t even mine and I don't intend to raise someone else's child." This question came as a shock to me, because I have never had eyes for another man.

“I could never do that to you and you know it, I have given you all of me, what more else do you want?”

“Well, you were begging me to let you go two weeks ago and now I have given you the chance. Sign those papers now before I change my mind. You are supposed to be thanking me for everything I did for you, a w***e can't be the mother of my children and can't stay in my home.”

I was trying so hard to hold myself together, my eyes were so red and itchy. His voice kept ringing in my ears and I needed him to shut up.

“You cheated on me with my best friend, Zachary, my best friend! Not only did you cheat, you got her pregnant, and now you want a DIVORCE!!”

I screamed and panted afterward while I looked at him with my heart broken, I couldn’t recognize him, it all looked like a movie, everything was happening so fast.

“Nicole is the one I love, at least she wouldn't let any other man touch her. You disgust me.” his words stung and kept ringing in my ears.

I picked the paper up angrily and signed it with the pen I found on the table. I found it hard to breathe like my heart wasn't getting enough blood flow.

“To be honest with you, you were nothing but a thing of jest for me and I was fed up for a long time,” Zachary said holding my hands, I quickly withdrew my palm from his.

I dropped my box from the wardrobe and started packing. Cheating with my best friend wasn't the height of it, getting her pregnant after he asked me to get an abortion four times even though everyone mocked me and called me barren was something I could not forget easily.

“I never cheated on you and I have no idea how I can prove that to you but if you believe her words over mine then so be it.

“Was he supposed to believe you over the one he loves? You are so pathetic.” Nicole said as she burst into laughter. “You are lucky I'm pregnant, I would have given you the beating of your life for laying your hands on me.” she continued.

The more I thought of what I just witnessed, the more tears dropped from my eyes. At this point, my clothes were soaked, my palms were sweaty and my hands were shaking while I packed.

“Where is she?” I heard someone yell from downstairs, I thought my day was bad but I had no idea it was gonna get worse. I kept on packing my things, ignoring everything that was happening.

“Where’s that barren w***e that doesn't want to leave you alone? I told you not to marry her and you didn't listen.” She was talking to Zachary.

“This is the end, no more,” she said as she got closer to the bedroom I was in. I could hear her footsteps getting closer.

She got into the bedroom, pulled me by my hair, and dragged me out. “You are leaving this house today,” she said as she continued to drag me downstairs.

“Let go of me” I kept on screaming nonstop as my scalp began to hurt.

It was his step-sister, she hated me right from the very first day she saw me so we were never friends.

I tried struggling with her to let me go and suddenly she let go of my hair, I slipped and fell down the stairs while they all watched, including Zachary.

While on the floor, I saw that I was bleeding. I kept on praying and hoping nothing bad would happen to my baby. I grabbed my car keys and left for the hospital. I rushed outside and into my car. “Open the gates and let that w***e out, Jake’s sister screamed from behind.”

“Goodbye Zachary, this is the last time you will see me this weak. If our paths ever crossed again I won’t be the weak little Andrea you know.” I said as I drove out.