SWNOVELS Chapter 38
Chapter 38
Her Father Broderick turned to her and watched as she held onto his trouser, “let me go.” “No, you are torturing me. Please, my
children are my reason for living,” she pleaded with tears rushing down her cheek. “No,” he declared, “My reputation matters a lot
and I don’t joke with it. Although I have not announced you to the world as my wife, I still expect for you to honour this marriage,”
Broderick said and withdrew his leg from her grip. As he began to walk away, Amy felt her heart clutch together in bitterness, she
hurriedly stood and followed after him. What can she do convince this man who has a heart as rigid as a stone. He was too big
for her that she felt very insignificant before him. She trailed after him as he walked towards his room. He held the knob of his
door and twisted it, he walked in and turned to the entran
it, he walked in and turned to the entrance then he saw Amy standing with a
weak and pitfyful face. “Please!” Amy pleaded. She knew that once he closes the door, she won’t be able to have access to him
anymore,” I want to see my children. I feel empty without them.” “Did the hickeys dissapear to your neck or did you think I’m a
fool?” He asked. He wasn’t hurt that she had sex with someone else, it was his ego that was hurt. He felt like his pride was
trampled upon. How can a woman whom he regard as a wife for the time being go to another man to have sex with him? “When I
was outside of Mike’s house and was waiting for a cab, someone srcubbed my neck with God knows what, I indeed saw the
person running off but I didn’t see any reason to pursue him or her because I thought it was just an accident or maybe the
person was a psycho,” she said. ‘This woman really thought she can deceive me,’ Broderick finds what she said to be really
ridiculous and then slammed the door.
Amy actually felt as though the door was slammed on her heart, her heart banged heavily like it was being hit with a pestle. She
cried out loud as she fell to the wall beside the door. “How would she see her children?” She thought but couldn’t think of
anything solid. After crying for hours, she felt so exhausted and walked to her room in pain. She went to stand before the mirror
again and examined the hickeys in her neck, whoever drew this to her neck sure had it all planned out. The marks looked exactly
like an hickey. Who could be trying to set her up? First someone shot at her, now someone tried to set he up for cheating. Could
it be that someone was trying to set her up?
She went to the bathroom and washed her face with water, but that didn’t make the headache she was feeling to stop neither did
it reduce the pain in her heart.
She picked up her phone and called Mike, the call was almost coming to an end when Mike answered it. “I’m sorry, Amy. I just
left the bathroom, are you home now?”
“Don’t pretend like you don’t know I’m fine. Why did you draw an hickey in my neck?” She asked. Although she wasn’t sure he
was the one but she really couldn’t think of anyone else. No matter how much Gallan hates her, he wouldn’t try to kill her plus
Callan was still in the prison. She planned on apologizing to Mike after he had refuted her accusation. However, Mike surprisingly
kept quiet. She had to speak,” why are you quiet? Are you surprised I find out?” “I didn’t draw the hickeys to your neck,” he said
but added three seconds later,” but I know who did.”
Amy furrowed her brow in shock, she wasn’t expecting the last statement. She was so shocked that she had to sit upright on her
bed and pressed her phone on her ear so she wouldn’t miss any words of what he was about to say,
“Who is the person?” She asked, trying to hide how overly curious she was.
“Your stepsister,” he answered briefly. “Martha? How did you get to know her?” Amy asked. Wondering why Martha would be
trying to set her up before Brodenck. She was never on good terms with her stepmother and her stepdaughter. They hated her
from the onset and she doesn’t like them neither. Her father was always indifferent of their cruel attitude towards her when she
was living
Her Father with them that was why she left and she has never regarded herself as someone who has a family.
Why would her Stepsister suddenly show up now?
“What I told you about my girlfriend and I almosty breaking up was a lie, my girlfriend and I are in good terms.”
“How does this have anything to do with my question?” Amy asked. “Martha is my girlfriend and...” He paused while Amy
listened keenly, she was shocked at his first statement but then was waiting for what’s next, “Callan is my elder brother.” “The
fuck!” Her head almost blew away with the revelation. Amy knew that Callan has a younger brother who was living abroad but he
didn’t know his name neither did she bothered too. So Mike was his younger brother?
“You do realize that the company we met was our family’s company’s, right? Though Broderick acquired it recently but fifty
percent of workers there are members of our family. I came back from abroad three years ago and started working there. After
you and Broderick sent my brother to prison and even bought off our company, I asked for workers to be paired together, and
that you and I should be paired together so I can take revenge on you and Broderick,” Mike said. Amy’s heart just kept beating
as he heard him speak, she was dumbfounded. Mike looked very gentle and looked like one that can’t even hurt a fly. “I wanted
to hide it from you for long but I thought there was no need for that anymore. But as for your stepsister, she had a different
purpose, when you meet with her, you can ask her,” Mike said. “Were you the one that shot me?” She asked. “The plan is not to
kill you. I wasn’t the one,” Mike answered. “I haven’t even started my revenge yet, Amy.” Then it would probably be her stepsister
who tried to kill her. She can understand why Mike is seeking revenge but what in the world has she done for Martha?
“But you were the one who sent Martha to draw the hickeys in my neck, right?” Amy asked. “I just said I haven’t made any move
yet. And I’ve done a great job by telling you who drew the hickeys to you neck. Like I said, you can contact your stepsister to
know why. Can I hang up?” Mike asked. “What did you plan to do to me?” She asked. “Why don’t you just watch,”; Mike said and
added, “bye, Amy.” He then hung the call. Everything suddenly made sense to Amy but the revelation he delivered now was too
much for her to bear. Callan was wrong and was sent to prison, why was his family coming for her? She has no one to protect
her and the kids, how can she possibly survive? She didn’t have the contact of her stepsister neither did she have that of her
stepmother. The only way to contact them was to go to her father’s house. Her father’s house always remind her of how she was
abused in the past. She have to get to the root of this matter to be able to convince Broderick that she had more enemies than
she thinks and that it was her enemy who was trying to set her up. She walked out of her room and went outside to take a cab,
she chattered it quickly to her father’s house and was soon dropped before her father’s house in no time. She walked into the
house calmly despite raging in anger and burning in pain, she planted a knock on the door and it gave way in no time.
Seeing her Stepsister, Martha, she frowned very deeply and asked,” why are you after my life?” “Excuse me!” Martha feigned
ignorance, “I asked why you are after my life. You tried to shoot me and put an hickey on my neck to frame me up, what did you
want from me? Last I remember, I left this place many years ago hoping not to have anything to do with you and this family
anymore.”
“Who is that?” Someone’s voice sounded from inside as soon Amy finished speaking,
“The bitch is here,” Martha answered the woman that just asked a question. “The bitch? You called me a bitch?” She raised her
hand and sent a resounding slap to her cheek,
Martha fell at once as if she had been waiting for the slap. Steps rushed towards the door and an aged woman appeared,
she was Martha’s mother and Amy’s stepmother.
“You! What did you do to my daughter?” Edith shouted on Amy who just stood still, Edith immediately called on her husband,
Carlton. Carlton appeared in a jiffy and saw Martha lying on the floor, he frowned and said to Amy,” how dare you come over
here to cause trouble? What did you do to her?” “You can rebuke her later, please let’s find a way of taking my daughter to the
hospital,” Martha said and Carlton quickly placed a call across to an ambulance. Carlton squatted before Martha and began to
examine her face, then she saw marks on her cheek that depicts that she was slapped. “Amy, you dared to slap her,” Carlton
was so angry that he stood and sent Amy a resounding slap.