Chapter 2: Betrayal

George couldn't move any part of his body. Realising that, he was still stunned, Vanessa flips her hair back.

 "You don't even have what it takes to be a man, Where did I meet you, George? Why can't you be like Damon or a little like him, he is more of a man than you will ever be in your entire miserable life"

"Vanessa" 

George whispered as his heart squeezed, he stared at the mop stick lying on the ground for so long, a thought crossed his mind to pick it up and use it on anyone or maybe himself so he won't have to hear anymore of it.

"Don't even call my name, You have offered me nothing all through our marriage, I don't even want to talk about the times we lived together" 

Fury consumed her. 

"You are not a match for Damon, not today, not tomorrow or ever!" 

Vanessa compared her to Damon, her new lover. 

George blinked his eyes, that was all he could do as he couldn't form the right words at the moment, he wanted to scream so she could stop but the words were trapped in his throat, his heart was heavy.

"With Damon is paradise on Earth, he is a prince charming you know, every woman's dream of a happily ever after, but with you it is just tears, pain, and agony, we never had a honeymoon, it was a bitter moon for us"

"You betrayed me" 

George only whispered as he saw the intimacy between them, the way Damon looked at her was something else, he was marking his territory. There was some sort of connection he never noticed. 

"You betrayed me a long time ago, didn't you?" 

He was furious and the thought to smash Damon's face crossed his mind crossed his mind once again.

She smirked.

 "Poor you"

Though George had never been intimate with her before, he felt his heart being ripped right out of his chest. 

"I remember when we first got married"

Vanessa rolled her eyes, she didn't want to do this. 

"I don't want to walk down the damn memory lane with you, not with you involved" 

"Your Grandfather was the one who appointed me to get married to you, do you remember?"

"And so? You are not up to my caliber, from the very crown of your head to the sole of your feet can't be compared to Damon's. My Grandfather must have felt pity for you since you are the one who saved him. However, that is ancient history since he is dead and no cares about the frail old man who obviously doesn't have better taste in men which is why he picked you" 

George was taken aback by her sharp words, he never thought a day would come by when he would get to see her like this. At that moment, he wished he could disappear, he was so unlucky, everything was weighing him down as the words echoes in his ear, he stares at the pen in Margaret's hand and thought about rushing over to her and grabbing it, he would jab it right into his chest to put himself out of this misery. However, he couldn't, he had to control his emotions.

"Now sign the damn papers so I can get away from you" 

Vanessa's lips were firm. This time he realised she was not bluffing and meant every word that she said when she walked into the office. 

"Vanessa" 

  George runs his hand through his hair. A lot of things ran through his mind as he gawked at her.

"Even if I have to break every bone in your body just to sign these documents, I will get it done today! " 

Her voice was venomous.

"Do you really want this to end?" He asked once again, his heart was in despair, his eyes was now red  he was being ripped apart.

George held the divorce agreement papers and stared at them for a moment as though he was trying to read through them but wasn't. He took a moment to sink everything in and lowered his hand to the papers. 

"I will sign it"

He gawked at the ball pen in his hand for a long time, his grip tight and once again, he thought of driving the pen through him.

"Quit wasting time and sign it!" Vanessa snapped.

"Listen George or whatever your name is, just sign the papers and quit wasting our time, Vanessa and I have plans tonight in a five star hotel, have you been to a five star hotel? I bet fools like you cannot even be hired as a janitor there, do what she says or I will be forced to put an end to your pathetic job here and make sure you won't get another job in this city"

Damon was arrogant, he had it all while George was a peasant. he watched him with tease as George signed the papers, Vanessa took the papers

However, when George attempted to say something, his eyes fell on Mr. Andrew, that was his Boss, it was Mr. Andrew who had hired him as a janitor in the company.

"Sir… I mean Mr. Andrew" 

George whispered, his eyes not parting from the grumpy old man. 

"What brings you here?"

Andrew moved closer to you. 

"Do I need to seek your permission before coming to you?"

"No sir, that's not what I mean"

"What do you mean then, you sorry ass of a man, listen George, I don't care what you mean, you ruined important documents I spent hours working on with my secretary, it is bad that you are not good at your job, I don't like you as a person and now you have to ruin my work and make me loose a million dollars, have you no shame?" 

"I'm sorry, Mr. Andrew, it wont happen again, just give me another chance"

"I dont want your apology, you piece of shit, what good is your apology when I could have closed another deal with that multinantional company today. I told you that i don't give peasants like you another chance in this company, you don't even deserve to work here let alone get a second chance to life"

"I can fix it, I just have to dry it with my dryer at home"

Everyone laughed at him, he looked stupid, no one will give him any documents, they bet he doesn't even own a dryer. it must belong to his wife. They thought.

"You see George I have always known you were a sole loser, I just didn't realise you were worthless and a failure as a man, a future father, and more especially as a husband, you don't deserve to work here anymore, we don't need you, do we?"

"No, we don't" 

His colleagues looks at him with contempt.

"You have no future Ambition George, and for that, you cannot work in our company again, In other words, you are dismissed, and expelled with immediate effect, I hope to never see your wretched face ever again" 

Mr. Andrew groaned. 

"If I were you George, I would never show my face to the rest of the world ever again, I might even take my own life" 

"Why? Why should I do that? Is it wrong if i want to live and work?"

He wipes his tears.

"I am not going anywhere, all I want to do is work so that I can wear fancy clothes as well, what you are doing is not right at all. what wrong did I do? I was not even the one who ruined those danm documents"

He rushed towards Mr. Andrew and tried to hold him but he moves away from him like some plague.

"I made a mistake letting you work in this company for long, you should have been fired a long time ago, wortheless man"

He kickes the empty bucket. Mr. Andrew shook his head, and turned around to leave when George burst into laughter, he was frustrated, completely in a state of despair.

"I am not going anywhere, I won't let you fire me when I can fix this, just give me a chance, give me a chance!"

He yelled, tears brimmed down his cheeks. Mr Andrew was livid, he gestured for one of is colleagues to send for them.

"I won't give you another chance, You better leave when I'm still nice to you"

"Nice? You have never been nice to me?"

He lowered to his knees and wipes the tears on his cheeks, when he attempst to speak up, two strong arms grabbed him and jacked him up, He struggles to break away from their hold seeing it was security.

"Let me go! Let me go! Mr. Andrew, Mr Andrew, please, I need this job. I will do whatever it takes to have my job back"

He pleaded, at this point, his throat has started itching him from having to shout.

"Throw him out now!"

Mr. Andrew ordered.

They security dragged him away as his collegues watched.

"What a loser" one of his colleagues taunted him

"What a failure" 

Another added, taunting him as George was been dragged out, everyone in the building was watching the scene.

"Loser!!" 

The words echoed in his ear. 

"I hate losers, No wonder his wife found someone better" 

His colleagues laughed, mocking him.

As they reached the floor of the building, they security men threw him out and spat at him, disgusted by such filth, he was an embarrassment to himself and the company's image. He attempts to get back into the building but fails, his collegues laughs at him.

"Get out of here, George, you are obviously jinxed"

Realising that he was embarrassing himself, he turned around and left, ashamed to be the one who gets to be the humiliated and once again the company clown, it was always him and no one else.

"Why me? Why do I have to exist? Why do I get to live? Why should I get betrayed and fired from work on the same day? What offence did I commit? Why am I always the unlucky fellow? Why me?"

He screams and lowers to the ground, the memory of Vanessa and Damon holding each other, crossed his mind, he held her so protectively. He still couldn't believe that she was with him all along.

As George walks down the streets, he could hear everyone's voice in his head, moving him to tear. Fury consumed him as he stares at his reflection in the mirror, he throws a punch at the mirror shattering it, George picked up a piece, he stares at it for too long and was almost almost about to cut his wrist when a truck suddenly horns pulling him out of his thought.

A heavy storm suddenly began to pour into the city. 

Could this day not get any worse? He thought as he walked on the street, the words played in his head, and he became drenched in the rain in no distant time.

It was all too much, he couldn't take it any longer and so he turned to the wall and began punching the wall till blood starts dropping from his wrists.

The heavy rain covered his glasses and he only heard the sound of tires rubbing against the ground in front of him as the word 'loser' echoed in his head. 

George wiped his glasses when his eyes caught sight of two neat rows of Black Rolls Royce parked in of him, maybach in the middle and beside each car well-trained bodyguard in Black suits standing in the rain.

He assumed he was dreaming for a moment but the men looked too real to be just a dream.

He looked up and saw that the bodyguards were under the rain just like him but the look on their faces was different. 

While he had a pitiful look on his face, the men had a solemn expression on their faces. He was bewildered as they stood upright not bothering to say a word to him. His blatant stare didn't waver from them. 

As George exhaled, unsure what was happening, a heavy foot stuck out, and an old man stepped out of the maybach and took an umbrella and began moving towards George.

When George stared into his eyes, he could tell he was nothing like his boss who just expelled him from his company, he was a dominant old man. With every step he took closer to George, he was uncertain what to do as the old man approached him and quickly held up an umbrella for him.

"What in the name is going on?" George mumbled under his breath.

The closeness was something that George never expected, his eyes widened a little as he held up an umbrella for him, shielding him from the rain, he shot a smile at him. His eyes grow soft as he looks at George.

"How have you been all these while?"

"Huh!" 

"It is good we finally found you, the young master of us all" 

He stated, leaving George stunned.