CHAPTER THIRTY TWO: CRUEL HUSBAND.

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I'm not quite sure if it was my plan that worked but I doubt it. I was already back to work. There was not much to do really. Carolina had employed more workers and it wasn't am issue to supervise them as the older or more senior workers were taking them through it.
   Getting to work, I spent most of my time in the kitchen, baking, cooking. It was way better than staying in my office doing nothing. This was satisfactory. Except the nauseating feeling I get whenever I'm handling eggs, everything else was pretty much perfect.
     The Cafe has been more busy recently. Carolina's marketing ideas are always topnotch, she was trying to call more attention to our Cafe before we open our new branch. She's been pretty busy recently and it feels like a while since we talked or hung out. We were no longer living together and I was married and pregnant. Things has changed and it feels like we were living out own lives. I buried the feeling of worry that was starting to deep through my mind. I wasn't very worried. I and Carolina's friendship had gone through it's own rough patch, we'll survive this one too. I hope.

"I got it from here Katherine." Danny, one of the older bakers here said. I nodded my head accepting his help. I was happy because I was already tired of staying on my feet.

As I came out of the kitchen, Mara, a pretty young girl of asian decent smiled at me and gestured to my office upstairs.

"The rainbow girl is back." I smiled at her choice of words as I immediately understood what she meant by the giggly girl is back.

She was talking about Bianca. The first time Mara had met Bianca she had scrunched up her nose in distaste. Bianca's attitude, mode of dressing and her whole personality didn't appeal to Mara who had a more realistic view to life. Mara has been through a lot. She didn't believe in nice people or people with an overly optimistic attitude like Bianca.

"Hey B." I greeted the lady who was dressed in a colorful flowery gown that stopped at her mid thigh with purple heels, sitting elegantly on my couch.

"Hey sis. I had nothing to do so I decided to come check in on you."

Bianca checks in on me three to four times in a week out of the five week days. I suspected that she had no friends and with everything she could ever want within her grasp she didn't ever have to work.

"I'm almost done. Do you want to go for lunch together after I'm done with this paperwork?"

"Always." She said cheerfully.

The next fifteen to thirty minutes went with me signing some papers and checking some account and cross checking the paperwork that came heavily with the new branch we were working on.
  A thought that had settled at the back of my mind began to sprut out again. I raised my head to see Bianca scrolling through her baby pink pouched latest phone.
  He wasn't going to tell me and I'm curious.

"Bianca?" I called. That drew her attention away from her phone to me as she looked at me curiously with a smile on her face.

"Umm. Can you do me a favor?"

"Sure, what is it?" She said enthusiastically, more than ready to help.

"Do you know what happened with Dawn and her mother?"

The previously look on her face was gone and replaced with a nervous smile.

"Umm. I-i-i. Caspian-"

"He wouldn't tell me anything. And I need the know the truth." I asked pleadingly. I could see the look in her. She was having an ongoing battle with herself if she should tell me or not.

"Please." I pushed further and that seemed to break her resolve as she sighed and looked at me again.

"They're gone."

"G-Gone?" I asked confused. "What do you mean by their gone?" I asked as anxiety started settling in my chest.

"They offended my cousin, that's what I mean Katherine." She said as she tried to explain to me a situation which only seemed to me more and more ambiguous.

" I don't understand."

"My cousin have always had low tolerance for the people that dares to mess with him. Dawn's mom almost hurt you and your babies. There is no way he'd have ever let them go."

"What did he do to them Bianca?" And when she didn't answer I raised me voice again." Bianca!"

"He dug up more about Dawn's dad enough to keep him in jail for a long time, he's left the entire Clarkson family penniless including those who are related to them to Dawn's older brother who was aspiring for the post of the chief of surgery and even Mrs Clarkson's make-up line that she had spent her life building is gone."

My eyes stung with hot tears as I proceeds what Bianca had just told me. I've heard of Caspian's cruelty, the myth around what he does to the people who messes with him. But hearing it now, even I was a victim.
  The feeling of guilt settled heavily inside of me, all Mrs Clarkson wanted  was to save her husband. Yes, I was angry that my kids could have been hurt because of her. But to completely and totally ruin a family was pure cruelty. 

I couldn't settle the feeling that it was because of me. Bianca on seeing my silence started speaking again.

"The only reason why he didn't tell you was so that he won't upset you." I couldn't care if he told me or not but what he had done.

"My cousin cares about you a lot Katherine, more than he has anyone. It is his way of protecting you."

"By ruining others?"

Bianca had a sympathtic and understanding look in her eyes but I could still see the words in her eyes that plagued her mind, that she shouldn't have told me.

The rest of my day went in a blur. My day at work, lunch with Bianca even till I got home. I was aware of these actions but I couldn't seem to place my hand on them.

The Clarksons had lost everything. The wife had to pay for the crimes of her husband and the children had to pay for the crimes of their father, even their family had to pay for the crimes of their Mr Clarkson.

Mrs Clarkson should not have pushed me but she was a desperate woman begging my husband to spare her husband. Mr Clarkson should go to jail for the crimes he had committed but his kids and families had nothing to do with it but they had lost everything just because they offended Caspian.

I was so engroased in my thoughts that I didn't notice Caspian's eyes follow me around the room. I had come upstairs to our bedroom not taking dinner not because I was upset but because I wasn't feeling like it, but I'm sure I would wake up in the middle of the night to eat something as they is probably when I'll get my appetite.

I felt a strong hand around my elbow pulling me back into a chest. The very familiar scent floated around me basking me in it's warmth. I looked up to see Caspian looking down at me with worry in his eyes.

"What?" I asked confused by his sudden action.

"You almost hit the door."

I looked back to my front to see that  I was indeed going to the closet but I had forgotten to open the door. I almost cringe at my stupidity. But in all honesty my mind was somewhere else. What exactly my husband did to the Clarkson who has I've heard were once close to the Montgomerys.

"What did you do to Mrs Clarkson and Dawn?" I shouldn't ask. I should just keep quiet but that's just me, i couldn't.

"That's what you've been thinking of." He said matter of factly.

I hated how he knew and could assert the things around him.

"If you are asking again then it means you know." He pulled away from me pushing both his hand into the pocket of his pants.

I turned to him.

"You should I've kept his family out of it."

"Why should I ?" He asked rhetorically. He casually walked towards the bed like I wasn't talking about him ruining people's life.

"It was because of her pushed me right? Is that it?"

"Clarkson got what they deserve. I gave them the chance to leave they didn't. I don't give many chances Katherine."

"What about their son? And Dawn? And the rest of their family? They did nothing wrong?!" The volume of my voice increased.

He turned his head to me. Clearly angry that I was challenging him.

"You don't teach me how to deal with the people that crosses me tiny." He stood up from the bed and headed towards me.

"The people that crosses you? You are not a god Caspian. You don't get to do whatever pleases you or discharge what you deem is your justice against those you take as for."

"Actually I do. I have been for a very long time. They should ha known better than to cross me."

I took a step back, then two back.

"That's what you do, isn't it? You always have to get what you want. You always have to do what you deem right?" I could hear my voice crack at the end of my sentence. I could see Caspian's eyes lighten a little.

"Tiny-" he began to call.

"No!" I interrupted. " My name is not Tiny, it's Katherine. You always have to get what you want. You always have to do what you think is right in respective of the discomfort and misery of others. I would know, you did it to me too Caspian. I had to marry you out of fear that you would take my children away from me." Now I could feel the tears streaming down my face.

"It's unfair because you have the power to get what you want and those who doesn't have to bend to your will. You didn't think of Clarkson's innocent family or me as long as you get rhe result you want,the message you want to get across." Now I was full on sobbing.

"Tiny." He pulled me by my hand to him but before our bodies could collide, I pulled my hand out of his own.

I walked to the bed, getting in it and burying myself in the duvet. I closed my eyes trying to loll myself to sleep with my husband watching me in the background.

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