2025-02-19 01:46:42Let me go!
Scarlet never showed up at the hospital.
Kai sat up on the third day after he was admitted.
His back and ribs hurt so badly.
“How do you feel, Mr. Kai?” The nurse in duty asked, pulling the curtains down.
Her smile warmed Kai's heart. It had been so long since he experienced the softness from a woman and it caused his heart to wade.
“No family members showed up for you. Is there anyone you would like us to call?”
Kai shook his head gently, a feeling of sadness clamping him down.
“Also, we would like to let you know that it is standard procedure for us to invite the police over for cases such as yours.”
Kai shook his head hastily.
“I do not need the police please,” he pleaded, licking his lower lip. “This was just a nasty family fight. I will be fine.”
The nurse twitched her lips and nodded softly to his instruction.
“I will let you be then while I prepare your bill and send it to you in a while.”
Her gentle demeanour caught Kai off guard and was breaking through the walls of his masculine energy.
“Wait a minute,” he called out to her, “can I know your name? The way you took care of me was so touching and life changing.”
The nurse smiled up at him and nodded gently.
“My name is Sandra.”
Kai thanked her and watched her walk away, his eyes following her beautiful frame.
In that moment, he decided within himself that Scarlet was not worth it.
“I have to put an end to this sham I call a Marriage,” he whispered to himself.
***
The Ross mansion was filled with guests. Once Kai walked through the door, he felt a strange feeling engulf him.
It was a feeling that he was in a strange gathering surrounded by strange people.
“I do not belong here anymore,” he thought to himself.
He managed to navigate himself through the crowd that was in every corner of the living room.
From where he was standing, he saw Scarlet and her mother in the company of two other elites.
The elites were facing him but Scarlet and her mother were having a friendly conversation.
“Isn't that your husband, Kai?” One of the guests asked and Scarlet turned around and her horrid gaze met him.
“Oh… my darling husband,” she cooed , reaching out to take hold of his hand to put up a show for the outside world to assume that things were so rosy between them.
“Oh, they are such a lovely couple,” the other guest added.
“You can say that again,” Valentina whispered through gritted teeth but her gaze was insidious and filled with contempt for Kai.
“We need to talk now,” Kai whispered to Scarlet and pulled her along through the hallway, trying to do so as gently as possible.
“This has better be important!” She squealed at him as they walked across the guests.
Once they were away from the view of everyone, Kai left her and turned to her with pain and depression etched on his face.
“Out with it,” she said, looking at the purple patch in his face. A bruise he had sustained from the attack against him by Henry.
“Being away at the hospital made me see that I am not fit for this kind of life with you.”
Scarlet gazed at him with anger welling up inside of her.
“Where is this conversation headed?” She asked impatiently, tugging at her dress.
Kai rubbed his palms together with fervency, trying to wear off the tension that was building up inside of him.
“I want a divorce!”
“You what?” Scarlet asked, her eyes widening with shock at his braveness to make such a request.
“I want a divorce! I am tired of being your husband because you do not care about me. You do not want me!”
Scarlet smiled wryly and before Kai could say another word, Scarlet slapped him across his face so hard that his cheeks turned red.
“I married you, Kai. So, I will say when it is over between us. Do not ever make this silly request again or I will do worse to you than Henry did.”
She brushed him aside and stormed out of the corridor back into the party.
Kai could hear the music blasting in the halls and the loud chatters of the crowd.
It tore his heart that he had wasted some months of his life chasing after shadows.
He walked back to his bedroom, determined to figure out a way to walk away from his wife without being stopped by her and her family.
The day Henry beat him, he had heard Henry and his wife chatting about him and he was suggesting that they put an end to his life.
What intrigued him the most was the fact that from that conversation, he could deduce that Henry was married.
“That is why she needs me,” he thought out loud. “Now, it is game on, people.”
***
The night air was filled with mist and ice. The weather was chilly and hardly anyone was outside because it was quite dangerous to be out in that cold.
The Ross mansion was quiet because everyone had retired to bed. In the middle of that cold night, One man was awake, wheeling his luggage out of the mansion as fast as his feet could carry him.
His phone beeped. A message dropped into his phone.
Kai read through the message and tiptoed faster with his boxes .
The driver is outside the mansion.
An executive car was waiting to pick him up and take him back to where he truly belonged.
When he has moved the last of his bega outside, he turned back to the living room that used to be a hellhole for him and whispered, “the worst experience of my damn life,” his face showed how excited he was to be finally leaving that behind and then he shut the door gently, not willing to awaken the Ross souls.
“It is best that they release a search party for me in the morning by which time I will have flown back to California.”
Once he got to the car that was waiting for him, the driver got down and ran towards him.
“It feels good to have you back, boss. We have missed your presence in California.”
The driver's face was beaming with smiles and admiration as he moved Kai's bags into the trunk and opened the door for Kai to get into the car at once.
“Thank you Chez. I missed you too.”
Chez gazed at his boss with curiosity.
“Your face? Are those bruises?” He seemed concerned. “Your father will hate to see you like that, Mr Kai.”
“Leave that to me to bother about , Chez. Just do what you have to do and get me home. I will face my father in my own way.”
“So, we are headed home, right?” The driver asked, adjusting the volume of the stereo.
“Yes Chez!Take me home to my father. I am now ready to be his heir and the son he always wanted.”
He let out a sigh of relief as the dr
iver veered out of the street and onto the main road, going in the direction of the airport “finally, I am going home!”
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