Esther's POV

Within two weeks, I was strong and back again. Honestly, I thought I would die. But anyways I was free of Hulio. He's the most stupidest ass in the world for killing my father. And to add up,  he killed himself in the end. I think he was ashamed of himself..

I even got to know that he made a deal with Hulio. The deal was that Sillas' brother, Leo, would provide information about me to Hulio and Hulio would pay Leo, the drug addict.

So Hulio's now dead, Leo was arrested. I didn't get surprised when I found out that Karen took a bullet for Silas. But well,  everything was fine and I just hope I would live happily with Terrance forever.

He came out of the bathroom shirtlessly in a pair of jeans and I licked my lips secretly. I got up from the bed and opened the wardrobe.

"Terrance, what the hell? You've messed up everything! Look at how mixed these shirts are! We're you planning to wear my clothes?.." I continued ranting because the wardrobe was jumbled.

When I took out the shirt, I gasped when I turned around because he was too close to me.

"Terrance!"

"Shhh." He shushed. He leaned down, and I stood trembling thinking that he would do something to me but he took the shirt from my hand and went back with amusement on his face whiles I blushed.

"Jerk." I mumbled when he winked at me as I went into the bathroom.

I took a very long time for me to shower, scrubbing off any dirt on my body. When I finnished, I dried myself and wore a pair of undergarments and a blue bra. Later, I sighed and walked out of the bathroom.

I thought Terrance had already left since I spent one year in the bathroom but he was sitting at the end of the bed, his eyes bloodshot as he clasped his palm together.

"Baby, what's wrong?" I asked worriedly. He stood and walked paces towards me. He looked down at me with a blank gaze which made me feel sacred.

"Baby? You're actually calling me that? Maybe you should have thought about it before you did all that." He growled.

"W..What have I done?" I took a step back, feeling really intimidated but he came forward and trapped me to the bathroom door with his hands at the sides of my head.

What if he had found out about my dark past?

"You know, I was really hurt that you lied to me the day I asked you whether you were hiding something from me but when you apologised, I forgot about it, not knowing it was far more than I thought and I should have really stayed away from you." He said lowly, hurt, anger, disappointment and pain very evident in his pale green bloodshot eyes which had a trendil of hair, laying beside his right eye.

"Ter..Terrance, what are you sa..saying?" I asked trembling.

"This.."  He said removing something from his pocket. It was his phone.

"Listen to this recording that fucker to kidnapped you sent." He said and played it. I listened with rapt attention.

Do you really want to live with her? Even though you have no gist about her past? Well if she won't tell you then I will. She was with me all the time, I was even the one who broke her virginity. I kidnapped her because she betrayed me. That whore you live with was with me even though the two of you were married. She loved me rather and was just after your money but since I didn't want that to happen, I tried to take her back but she stabbed me, she wanted to kill me, all for the sake of money. Yes, she was having an affair with me before and after you two got married. Esther Mara is a slutty, whorish bitch. Fuck her.

I didn't move a muscle. I stood where I was, choking in the air because of the heavy lies which was just said. Hulio managed to fucking fabricate these shitty lies. Damnit.

"Terrance..those things were not true." I managed to say.

"Oh so they're just lies?" He snarled. What else could they be?

"Yes Terrance! They're not true at all! I wasn't after your money and-"

"And what? It's not my money that the person claimed you were after that hurts me, what actually hurts me was that you were in a relationship with someone before we got married and even after I married, you were still having an affair with him. Why didn't you tell me you were in a relationship? Why did you have to hurt me so much?!" He demanded gritting his teeth.

"Terrance,  I swear I was never in a relationship with someone my whole life before or after we got married and heck you were the one who broke my vir..virginity. All that Hulio said was a lie-"

"Was it?! Huh? How do you expect me to believe you?!" He yelled.

"Terrance, you're supposed to belive me because I'm your wife." I stated.

"Oh yeah?" He chuckled humourlessly.

"So why did you hide all that from me?" He snarled as his eyes became glassy due to the moisture.

"Terrance, you don't understand-" I started feeling lumpy in my throat.

"Don't understand what? The fact that you love someone else? How do you expect me to understand? Huh? Because not very long ago you told me you love me while you loved someone else why Esther?! Why?!" He gritted growling and his eyes brimmed with the tears.

"Terrance, I never loved anyone apart from you." I sad truthfully.

"Oh really?" He asked disbelievingly. "So what does all those recording mean?!" He yelled and I got annoyed.

"Terrance, instead of you to belive me, you're beliving some recording that guy sent you. Instead of asking for the real thing, you're just jumping to conclusions huh?!" I yelled to match his tone as a tear decided to slip.

"So what's the real thing Esher?!" He interrobanged and gripped my upper arms.

I pushed him away and smacked him really hard on his cheek with my hand and even my palm prickled of pain as his hand moved to  lay on his cheek, which had his head tilted as locks on his hair fell onto his face.

Whiles I had red marks on my upper arm, he had the shape of my palm outlined on his cheek I slapped, indicating that I really hit him too hard. He grazed his fingers on his cheeks as I bit back a wince.

"You wanna know the real thing right?" I asked in a cracked voice with my body trembling because I slapped him.

I looked up my gaze to meet his shocked expressioned eyes with managed to be blank. My heart had already planned to jump out of my chest.

"That bastard Hulio was my father's cousin's friend's son who usually came to visit us often. He was always complementing and flirting me but I didn't pay a heed to him. He was also trying to fondle me most of the time but I always prevented him until one day he tried to rape me in a drunken state. I stabbed him in his stomach with a broken bottle and ran out of that room. Ever since then, I never heard of him..I didn't even tell anyone." I paused and started to sob.

More tears rolled down my cheeks and he looked at me with a softened look.

"Fi..five years later, my dad abandoned me and I really stru..struggled with my mother not knowing that dad only did that because Hulio threatened him to leave me." I sniffed. He used his thumb to wipe under my eyes but I swat his hand away.

"Don't touch me..Terrance." I growled stressing on his name.

"Have you even forgotten that when we got married I was with you all the time?! Didn't we go to México together? Didn't you make love to me there? Didn't..Didn't you tell me you love me the following day in the shower?! Terrance don't you remember?!" I reminded sniffing again.

"But you..you wouldn't even ask me for the real thing send you're just believing the recording of a guy who wanted to kill me...not that I want your trust but Terrance at least consider me, I'm your wife for God's sake!" I yelled and his face contorted in guilt.

All of a sudden, I felt different, like really really different. I had been feeling this way for a while when we came back from Mexico but I thought it was because of stress. But after all this, I still feel like this.

"Esther I'm really-" He started but bolus rushed to my throat and I rushed into the bathroom and puked out my guts into the water closet.

Terrance came in with both guilt and worry in his eyes. "Es-" his words cut off again when I vomited again. I flushed the toilet, walked to the sink and washed my mouth.

Later I brushed my teeth to reduce the nauseous sensation I felt. I then stripped out of my towel, still in my undergarments and bra and wiped my mouth.

I leaned my front on the wall with a flushed face as I breathed heavily that I barely noticed I was half naked. I ran my fingers through my hair and closed my eyes as I felt Terrance's presence nearing me, increasing my heart's pace.

He was about to rub my back but I didn't allow him because I pushed past him and entered our room. I felt so exhausted and wondered what the hell was wrong with me.

"Esther-"

"Terrance..not..now." I countered breathlessly feeling really dizzy and with a drowsy gaze, I also felt my body fall onto the ground with a thud.

"Esther!'' I heard Terrance gasp as he bent by me and I felt so weak to even get up or move.

"What's wrong with you?" He asked holding me with his arm around my back and my hand in his other hand.

"Terrance..I..can't..I can't." I breathed feeling really not good as everything under my gaze got blurry and suddenly void.

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Sorry if you weren't comfortable with Esther slapping Terrance.

This chapter was not all that easy to write but I really hope it makes maximum sense to you.

Like I said, I might not update again because of my exam but don't worry, you don't know my mind or my moves😏 but stay alert! You have an unpredictable writer!

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