Bella has decided to pick up the pieces left of her life, weeks had gone by and she had carefully avoided Daniel, she peeps him when he returns from work but most times, he doesn't even bother to come back home.
She was tired of hiding away from everyone, from her husband and from the world and she decided to brave up and go out, she has to keep earning a living hence she decided to go to the office, she hoped that she wouldn't get fired after being absent from the office for days.
She dressed up and stared at her reflection in the mirror and cringed at how tiny she had become, she also had eye bags under her eyes and her cheeks looked sunken, she applied makeup to savage what she could and went out.
She arrived at the office unscathed, she could hear the whispers and looks as soon as she got in
"The nerve of her"
"How dare she show her face"
"I always knew that she was a slut"
Bella paid deaf ears to all the remarks and quietly went into her cubicle. There was sudden hush and quietness, without looking up, she knew only the presence of one person could cause that
"What the hell are you doing here?" Daniel's voice snarled and Bella's stomach cringed, she had been having stomach cramps all day and the sound of his voice just helped to increase the cramps, she blinked severally to avoid the tears spilling over, when would he ever forgive her and stop talking to her with so much anger in his voice
"I asked you a question"
"I ..I...came to work, please I..."
"You are fired" he interrupted her and Bella could no longer stop the tears from flowing, she had lost everything, her marriage, the man she loved, and now her Job
"Please, Daniel I..."
"Don't you dare" he cuts her off cruelly, "should I call the security to see you out?"
She shook her head and carried her bag, she could remember how loving he was some days back, right here in this office, he had kissed her in front of all the staff and carried her to have some romantic moment together, she wiped her tears and slowly walked away from the office.
She could hear the silent laughter from her colleagues, she could feel the gaze of pity from those who had genuinely liked her, and could see the gaze of triumph from those who had always been envious of her.
Bella was tired of this life, she had just walked a few blocks away from the office when she was suddenly surrounded by the press
"Hello ma'am, please tell us why you cheated on your husband"
I heard that was your ex but you still continued the relationship even after marriage"
"Do you feel any remorse for your action?"
The questions were coming from different people all at once and cameras were flashing
Soon, there was a rancor and everybody was talking all at once
"How dare you treat Mr Nikolai like that?" Someone shouted angrily, the crowd gathered around her and her eyes darted for a means of escape but couldn't find one, she felt like a deer that was caught in the middle of the road, she should not have come out knowing fully well that she was being trolled everywhere
Someone threw something at her and it landed squarely on her shoulder, the stench of rotten egg reached her nose
"You are such a whore, who couldn't be satisfied with a man like Nikolai Klaus" another yelled angrily at her and things were being thrown at her.
These were Nikolai Klaus fans and they were angry that she had betrayed and hurt their idol, just as Nikolai Klaus had many enemies, he also had a lot of fans who would do anything for him because just as he had hit a lot of people the wrong way, he had also helped a lot of people.
Bella closed her eyes and received the harsh words from the people, rotten eggs, tomatoes, and ketchups were being thrown at her, some of it even hit her on the face and she made no move to protect herself either.
The cameramen kept flashing their cameras, having Nikolai Klaus's wife being stoned publicly for betraying her husband would make a juicy news headline and keep the internet buzzing
There was a commotion at the back and two men pushed their way through the crowd. The crowd stopped throwing things at her and she was pulled away by the men whom she recognized as Daniel's men.
They pulled her towards a waiting car and opened it for her to go in, Bella felt numb as she sat in the back seat and the car pulled away.
Bella kept wondering how her life was so messed up, fate had been cruel to her and she felt something was definitely wrong with her destiny, how come her life had always been from one trouble to another? Trouble has always followed her everywhere, it was because of that that she ran away from her hometown to an unknown city, and just when she thought that life would finally be at peace, trouble still found her.
She stared down at her smelly clothes, she reeked of different unpleasant smells, eggs, ketchup, tomatoes, and some of it she could not identify, she stared at her side of the window and noticed that it was raining and she watched idly as it patted down on the window screen
"Serves you right for being a cheating wife" Daniel's voice reached her from the driver's seat and he absently threw a napkin at her, tears brim in her eyes, he sounded so distant that she wondered if the loving Daniel she knew would ever come back.
His unfeeling words hurt more than anything, it hurt more than the humiliation she had just received out there.
Bella suddenly felt she was suffocating inside, her insides were shaky enough, she was drowning in the sea of sorrow and she could not see an end to this
"Stop the car" she murmured softly at first and repeated herself firmly when she got no reply from him
Daniel gritted his teeth and stopped the car, blinded with tears, she opened her side of the door and got out of the car.
Bella was immediately drenched by the heavy downpour but despite its coldness, she felt numb and hot inside, she didn't care about anything else, the only image in her head was Daniel's expressionless face
"He hates me, he would never forgive me" The word kept ringing in her head, she just kept going without having a destination in mind.
Bella was suddenly pulled back roughly and her face met the hard wall of his chest.
"What the hell do you think you are doing? Pulling such an act will not make me have pity on you"
Bella stared up at his cold face, the rain fell on the both of them and they were both soaked to the skin, tears were streaming down her cheeks
"Don't touch me" she whispered and he immediately let go of her as if she burned
"Get back into the car" he ordered and she just stared at his emotionless face, if he had asked her to get back into the car because he was concerned about her, she would have done so but that was not the case, he did not give a damn about her anymore, he wants to see her out of his life
"What do you care?"
He moved back and away from her, "Of course, I don't care, you might as well drop dead and go to your lover in hell for all I care"
Daniel had placed a knife on her heart and with every of his word, he was fiercely piercing the knife deeper into her heart, she choked on a sob and watched as he got back into his car and angrily sped away, only then did she allow her legs to give way under her, she fell in the hard floor and allow the tears to run freely.
The raging downpour pummeled heavily on her.