THE BILLIONAIRE’S PERFECT MATE

“Carry on with the plan as we had discussed. Make sure to report to the police tonight”, Sophia said, instructing Jack on the phone that night, after she had hung up Ellie.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“This is just the beginning of your torment. I will make sure you spend the rest of your life in prison. That’s the only way I can keep Edward and make him mine forever”, Sophia said smiling, after she had finished her discussion with Jack.

With her grief overtaking her, Ellie sat immobile on the side of her bed, the room around her a haze. Her once brilliant eyes, now bloodshot and dull, gazed off into the distance as though trying to catch a glimpse of the life she had known. Her face was gentle and delicate, the traces of grief deep in it, her cheeks tarnished by innumerable tears.

Her disheveled and twisted hair, which she used to take great pride in, now hung limply around her face, representing the turmoil inside her thoughts. She appeared to have lost the vivid energy that formerly radiated from her, leaving behind a pale, spectral version of herself. Her lips, parched and parched from hours of crying, quivered violently as she tried to contain another flood of tears.

She was alone in the room, and the only sound disturbing the eerie calm was her occasional trembling breath. With pain and treachery weighing her down, her shoulders sagged forward. Her formerly expressive and beautiful hands were now lifeless in her lap, fingers twitching uncomfortably as though trying to grasp something solid. Her emotions were boiling so fiercely that she appeared nearly too weak to handle them. Her broken dreams and the love that eluded her were painfully brought back to memory with every heartbeat.

Her spirit seemed irreversibly damaged; it had previously been so strong and full of optimism. Her world’s brilliant hues had faded to a dull gray, and the future she had previously looked forward to felt like a far-off dream. Alone to navigate the rubble of her broken existence, she was a woman adrift in a sea of grief, abandoned by the one person she had trusted with her heart.

“He promised to stay with me no matter what. He promised to share my burdens with me. How could he have told me to abort our child? How could he?”, Ellie yelled with the little strength left in her. She remembered the day she and Edward had gotten married, she remembered his vows as it kept on ringing in her head.

“Ellie, I knew you were the one who would bring my life to completion the moment I laid eyes on you. I’m not just standing here taking your hand in marriage; I’m also promising you my undying love. I promise to be your best friend, your steadfast ally, and your constant companion. I pledge to support you at your highs and lows, to rejoice in every victory, no matter how tiny, and to share in your pleasures and sorrows. I promise to love you unconditionally, to always treat you with dignity and respect, and to treasure each day that we have together. I promise to be a constant source of support, a shoulder to weep on, and a rock you can rely on. I give you my heart, my soul, and everything I am, Ellie, with this ring, both now and forever”, these were his promises that day, Ellie had thought.

“He promised to love me unconditionally. He promised me forever. He promised to share in my pleasures and sorrows and always be a constant source of support to me. Why has he forsaken me now?’, Ellie said, crying with no one to console her. She looked at their wedding ring lying beautifully on her finger and it seemed to be mocking her for being so dumb. She had thought her life would change for better after meeting with Edward but she never knew the reverse would be the case.

That night, she had thought there was no reason for her to live anymore and had wanted to poison herself. As she held the poison in her hand, she couldn’t bring herself to force it down her throat after thinking about her child. And with that, she dropped the bottle on the floor, holding her belly and crying her heart out. She laid on the floor in a devastating state, not knowing what awaited her. Sophia had told her she had been reported to the police. She didn’t know whether to take to her heels before the police arrives or to just sit still, without doing anything. Eventually, she went for the latter and decided to face squarely, what was coming for her the next day.

Her mind trailed back to her past and she was so full of regrets for the steps she had taken in the past.

“If I hadn’t saved him that night, this wouldn’t be happening to me. If I had left him to die and ignored him that night, I will be with Edward right now, living happily. Why did I save him? Just why?”, Ellie said with regrets, crying herself to stupor. She thought about the night she met Kevin and she had thought he was an angel not knowing he was a devil in disguise of an angel. He had pretended to be a nice fellow and had lured her into getting married to him. It was after their wedding she realized how devilish he was.

She remembered the day he had shoved her head in a bucket full of icy water, the surface bubbled violently as she struggled to break free. How he had extort her of her money and how he had made her sleep with different men just in exchange for money.

She recounted the day she said “I do” to Kevin. The day which was, is and will forever be the worst day of her life. The day she became a shadow of herself and her life was thrown into a turmoil.