Bab 295: Chapter 292 THE DEVIL'S DEAL 1
"It doesn't make her less mine, she's still my woman, she's always been before we got married, and still is even after our separation." He declared nonchalantly.
I was too shocked to counter his words at that moment, even if we just notified the previous night that we were officially over and both decided to move on. Just where did all of these talks come from? I sat next to him without another word as I spoon-fed him, it irked me to see the mocking smile on his lips. Besides, it was not right to argue before Chan, our issues should be settled between us.
"Are you okay now brother Alex?" Chan wrapped her arms around his shoulder, sitting on the bed next to him. I couldn't define the sudden emotion I felt at her action, I gritted my teeth to avoid my tongue saying unnecessary things. My anger dissipated when Alex unwrapped her arms around him. "I'm immobilized don't let your hands add to my misery." Came his reply. I felt so relieved by his action, people like Chan should be kept in their niches. "Oh, I'm so sorry for making you uncomfortable, I was super delighted and forgot myself." She said.
"By the way, Phil and father talked about your immobility, but according to him you'd recover in no time." She added with a smile. "Hazel was so worried about you, out of everyone she cried the most." Chan chuckled, she just had to use me to start up a conversation.
"She did?" Came Alex's short reply to her words before opening his mouth to receive a spoonful of chicken soup I just blew.
Chan left the room once her phone rang, that was the perfect opportunity to put Alex in his place. "I'm not yours Alex, don't forget we're divorced now." I vetoed what he said earlier just to make things clear while still feeding him. "You seem to like the embarrassments that come after a divorce, you should be grateful to me."
"There's nothing to be grateful about, what you just did is you displaying your boneheadedness. Chan is another nonentity I shouldn't be bothered about." "You're mine to the grave and whatever world is thereafter death Hazel, I should have welcomed you fully into my world long ago. Hell. I'll kill whoever you're found with don't tempt me." He said calmly.
"You didn't introduce me and now I'm out of that hell, you would do no such Alexander, I can be with whom I want to be with..." "Don't think you can mess up my life and just leave..."
"YOU ASKED FOR A DIVORCE NOT ME! My voice was a bit raised as I placed the half-filled soup bowl on the bedside locker, which I didn't hear when the door opened...
"Daddy yyyy," Leah screamed dressed like a little fairy along with her brothers who look nothing less than princes, Mother has finally seen cute models for her lame fashion show. She stretched out her little hands showing her cute incomplete teeth as she jumped off Mother's arms and ran towards Alex's bed struggling to climb on.
Alex stretched his hands and picked her up and my baby didn't hesitate to kiss all over his face. Her fondness for her father surprises me to this day, maybe cause he's mostly the one who took care of them till they were two.
So did the boys, they all got on their fathers' bed smiling and staring at him, "Are you still hurting anywhere daddy." Little Alex touched his ribs area, the part he always stared at while Alex was still injured. "I'm fine junior." Junior chuckled smiling sheepishly at his father's reply, there again, I lost the only child I thought would have loved me.
We were quick to compose ourselves before the kids, even if they didn't understand what they saw, mother did. And from her expression I could tell she wasn't pleased, they all didn't see me and Alex belonging to a completely different world. I could say at some point we were both attracted to each other and both made terrible mistakes, that resulted in our adorable cuties. But that doesn't mean I could condone his bullshits, or could I??
"Daddy, did you forget our wedding?" Leah asked, "No my love how can I forget such an important thing?" He smiled. "I don't want to marry you anymore daddy, I'm sorry." She sobbed. "Baby, you can't break your father's heart." "And I... I can't break mums either." She met my gaze, "Can we go back to the mansion now mummy, daddy's back, I promise not to marry him if it gets you upset?"
For the first time ever I was short of words, but there was no way I was going back to Alex, we had a lot to resolve else we're over for real. "Things don't work that way mama, you..." "Yes, we're going back to the mansion to live together." Alex cut in wiping her tears with his thumb. He met my gaze and I did the same making sure my eyes stays pinned on his.
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He would do anything for his kids even if it meant making things work between him and Hazel for their sake. Hazel knew about his stupid thoughts and hated what he had just done. There was no point hurting his children with an imaginary lie when they were separated already.
He still didn't know how to go about convincing her to agree to his plans. Hazel's the most stubborn woman he's met, her stubbornness can only be measured or tamed with violence and that's the last thing he'd do to her. He just realized he made a grave mistake letting her go, she's right, if he had told her about himself in time maybe things wouldn't be this way. Or would it?
He wondered how he allowed anger to take over his senses, a man should not be allowed to make decisions while angry or sad cause that's when they make stupid decisions. Alex knew one way or another, that he'd get this stubborn woman to comply with his demands, she loves her children more than anything in this world cause of everything she went through while pregnant for them.
He was discharged from the hospital the same day and everyone got back to the mansion to celebrate his recovery. It didn't take long for the news to get across NYC and slowly other parts of the world. The entire Wilson's, Viotto's, Huxley's, and more families gathered in Alex's mansion to see him. Not everyone was chanced to see him in the hospital, but now he's out, they couldn't be more merrier.
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Alex didn't party with us for long as he needed rest, Phil already told him he needed enough rest and happiness to recover fully. "You should take good care of him now, he needs you now more than ever. I know beneath that cold face is the son I raised years ago even if he turned out to be cold and empty." Mother said as we both started at the man sleeping on the bed.
"The maids will handle him, mother, I'm no longer in the position of doing that.
"And the kids?" She asked.
"They'll learn about our separation with time," I stated. "You should think about your children more, don't steal the love of a father from them Hazel, any sin can be forgiven."
"I cannot be with a murderer mother I know they'd understand." "When he dealt with your stepfather, was he a murderer too?" She patted my shoulder tenderly before stepping out of the room. I quickly caught my tears with my hands, up until now I thought Father's death was an accident.
I darted my gaze around the room before heading for the door, "Let's make a deal Hazel." Alex said once my hands got to the doorknob. Somehow I felt he's been listening to our conversation all this while, "What a snitch." I rolled my eyes turning around to meet his gaze.
"Three years should be enough to settle things with the kids, then they'll be older and will understand." "You must think I'm a fool, it's not been done anywhere Alex, no one gets into a contract marriage after divorce."
"Then we'd change that, just three years in exchange for your freedom. After those years we'd be separated for good, I will not bother you ever again..."
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