Hera
"Okay." My husband paused on doing his cufflinks to stare at me surprised that I had agreed so calmly to the divorce.Well I could no longer keep a man that doesn't want to be kept.His jaw ticked.Something flickered in his dark brown eyes—Was that annoyance? perhaps it was because he thought I would put up more and more resistance because I love him.Screw him.Shame is still reeling in my head over the scene I acted when he first mentioned the divorce to me days ago.I had thrashed and held a knife to my throat saying that I would kill myself if he divorced me.
But he told me to go ahead and kill myself.And that it would be easier to get rid of me that way.That was when I realized, I have been delusional all this while.Kyle Louis Dillion would never love me.
"The paperwork will be ready by next week.Be sure to sign them." He coldly declared.
"Sure I will.You don't have to worry about that." I flashed him a fake sweet smile that I was sure would confuse him and sure enough,his usual poker expression falters a little bit.
His phone rang, breaking the moment of peaceful tension we had.
I heard a woman's syrupy voice.
"Of course sweetie,I wouldn't miss your play for anything in the world." He said to her in an appealing voice that was far from the cold and tone he uses with me.
Kyle was on the phone with Alyssa Larson.A beautiful world-renowned pianist.Kyle's hearthrob and my cousin.
Kyle did not miss Alyssa's play even when I was suffering a miscarriage that had almost took my life.He was there with her but left me and his foetus alone.Thinking about that now,I feel pathetic like a drenched rat.Why do I still continue to love him despite his uncaring attitude towards me? Why did I love him so foolishly? Why? Just why? I have nothing else but love to blame.
"I am on my way right now sweetie,love you." I felt a sharp pain in my heart when he said that.It is like a knife was being stabbed into my heart and it is being twisted cutting deep into my soul.I had married Kyle with genuine love and the expectation of happiness.I never once expected to be unloved by Kyle and cheated on—not with my cousin at least!
"Why does it have to be her?" I said as he was about to leave the room.My voice came out shaky.Evidence that I was crying within.
"Do you need to ask? I thought I have made it crystal clear enough for you to know."
"Tell me Kyle.I want to hear it." It will hurt me but also give me the closure I needed to let walk out of this marriage and let him go.
"Well if that is what you want.I love her.I would never be happy with anyone else." He answered and walked out of the living room.
My tears flowed out freely as I watched him leave.I could no longer hold them in.He loves her but gives no shit about me.I wept until I had no more tears to cry.I did not know how long i have been crying until my phone beeps.I wanted to ignore but it went on.I looked and it was texts from the strange number that I had blocked countless times already.
"Quit crying over that jackass, princess."
I froze and looked around for a hidden camera around the living room.If I were to keep count,this would be the one thousandth creepy text I had received from this strange, perverted stalker.I could no longer take a shower in my own bedroom out of fear of being watched.It started after I got a text as I took my clothes off ready to take a bath.
"You've got a sexy body." It read.Because of that,I now take showers at bath houses and hotels.Never at home anymore.The stalker was the one who first gave me countless proof about Kyle and Alyssa's affair long before it came to light.I had paid several private investigators to look into my exes and everyone around me.But none of them could pick a lead let alone identify him.It sure wasn't my exes, because two were already married with kids and the other one was long dead.I had brushed it off before as merely obsessed male fans and crushes but this is going too far.
I typed "Who are you? What's your deal?"
"Soon you'll know,my princess."
The person texted back.And afterwards,it disappeared from my text list like it always does.The texts all vanishes like magic leaving me unable to trace and present it as proof to the police and to anyone.I frustratedly flung my phone on the couch.Whoever this person is, he or she made me forget about Kyle for a while.Now my mind was fully occupied by the stalker.
—You call it obsession,I call it devotion—Dark love quotes.