Bad man

" Ah, sweet Ella," Mr Richardson smiled at Ella, displaying his golden teeth, tipping his chin at her, he raised his brow and said, " Aren't you going to welcome me?"

" Mr Richardson, right now——" began Ella but Mr Richardson already brushed past her, the two men behind him also entered their house and stood right behind Ella.

Ella stiffened at once, she couldn't do anything at the moment, her children were at home and the two men with Mr Richardson were too buff for her to take on, at this moment she was feeling really helpless.

She was anxious about her children.

After all, she knew what Mr Richardson was going to do, she tried to move forward and protect her children but she was stopped when one of his men placed his hand on her shoulder and squeezed it so hard that she felt her shoulder almost dislocating.

Mr Richardson with an expression of fake concern looked at the pot which was kept on the floor, before taking a sniff and then turned to Ella with a frantic smile on his face.

"Well, Well, lookie, lookie here, dear old Ella has cooked something tasty tonight for the dinner, will you let me see?" Then without any response from Ella, he picked up the lid of the pot a little bit and peeked inside it. "Let's see, what have you cooked?"

The warm steam of the soup wafted out of the pot.

This time Mr Richardson could sniff the flavour of the soup more clearly.

He tilted his head and jeered inwardly, 'This ungrateful woman doesn't have money to pay back the loan but she does have the money to cook a delicious meal for her children.'

He threw the lid away and said, "Wow Ella it's soup, it smells so good I hope it tastes just as delicious as it smells." Then he snatched away the spoon and bowl from Amelia and had a spoon full of soup.

"Wow! nice soup Ella. Ohh! look you had put so many vegetables in it as well." Mr Richardson stood up and sipped the soup in front of Ella taunting her."Ella you don't have the money to pay back the loan that I have lent to your husband but you have the money to buy yourself and your children good food?"

Ella didn't know what to say in reply to his taunts, in fact, she knew that the second she opened her mouth Mr Richardson will find even more trouble with her, so, she remained silent and stood in the corner with her head down.

Mr Richardson continued. "Ella you are such an ungrateful, shameless woman just like your husband was. You gave me excuses after excuses whenever I came here to take back the money that belongs to me!"

He strolled towards Ella holding the bowl of soup in one hand and clenching the spoon in the other as he yelled, "And you instead of giving BACK MY MONEY! MY MONEY! YOU ARE SPENDING THAT ON EATING GOOD MEALS BEHIND MY BACK!"

Mr Richardson threw the bowl of soup violently onto the surface, and the soup splattered everywhere —— on Ella's foot as well.

Ella and her children were terrified.

Cesar held hands with a trembling Amelia and Ella's was reduced to tears.

She was scared, disappointed and embarrassed, why? Why did her husband have to borrow money from such a heartless man?

"Now this is not a good thing, Ella, That is my money, MY MONEY from which you are buying this food for yourself. If you are that broke that you cannot give back my money then how could you afford..." Mr Richardson was still speaking when he saw the plate with boiled eggs. His eyes glinted evilly as he turned to look at Ella and gave her a smile that will make even a psychopath shiver.

"Oh look! why didn't I see that before? there are eggs in the dinner as well, EGGS hmmm Ella?"

Ella was cursing herself for being stupid, why didn't she look who was outside the door? Why didn't she only ask Cesar to bring the medicine for her daughter, and why did her husband decide to take a loan from Mr Richardson when he already knew he was not a good person?

Mr Richardson picked one of the eggs from that plate and took a bite of it then dropped the rest back on the plate before rubbing the holster on his waist. " You have been giving me excuses but all I can see is that you are having fun with my money, Ella..now tell me what should I do? Shoot you dead or take your children and sell them?"

Ella was terrified and she hurriedly tried to explain to Mr Richardson, "Mr Richardson, please calm down, see I can explain it to you, it's very complicated actually...." before Ella could speak Mr Richardson lashed out at her.

"STOP! I am done with your excuses, but not this time. I won't listen to any of your excuses now, today I will make you regret every single excuse that you made to me." Mr Richardson had long lost his patience with Ella, he could no longer let her have more time.

He signalled his two men to hold Ella from behind, the two men moved at once and held Ella by her arms.

Mr Richardson clenched his fingers into a fist and raised his fist to punch her in the face.

Ella grunted in pain before she started pleading with Mr Richardson to show some mercy. " Please Mr Richardson, just a few days."

Mr Richardson didn't listen to a thing she said and was about to punch her when he heard the sound of someone breathing very heavily.

He turned back to look over his shoulder, he saw Amelia breathing heavily and shivering due to fear and nervousness.

His attention was immediately turned to Amelia he walked towards her and said, "It looks like your daughter is shivering due to cold Ella." Mr Richardson bent down and touched Amelia's cheek and smiled, "Oh! you are so cold, dear! colder than ice."

He glanced at the soup pot, his eyes flashing with wicked intentions.

"Don't worry I will give you some warmth, I promise that you will feel good," Mr Richardson said as he stood up, he crouched down to pick up the pot with hot soup.

Cesar understood his evil intentions, he was already furious after watching this man beat his mother, there was no way he could let him hit his sickly sister too!

Before Richardson could raise the pot Cesar clung on to it, ignoring the scalding heat.

Richardson kicked Cesar at the back of his head ruthlessly but when he saw that he wasn't letting go, he ordered one of his men to hold Cesar.

The man grabbed Cesar and pulled him away physically, Cesar thrashed on the floor as he shouted, " You big bully, stay away from my sister!"

Mr Richardson raised a brow at him but ignored him completely as he approached Amelia who was scared and numb, she tried to get away from Mr Richardson but she couldn't go far as Mr Richardson stepped on her dress and crossing all the limits ——He tilted the pot and poured all the hot soup on Amelia's head and Ella screamed in agony.