It's a Sacrifice

It was absolutely disgusting and terrible!

Which man treats his own wife like that?

As if she is just but an animal!

It was unbelievable and unacceptable too!

All in all, I took my phone, ready to leave, though I wondered why Clark never even bothered to call me and at least inquire if I was doing good.

I left the room and sauntered downstairs where all and sundry had assembled for breakfast.

The minute Felicity set her eyes on me,she stood on her feet and walked away.

No one called her back. I guess they were already used to her mood swings.

"Wow!" exclaimed Rex,"you look marvelous!"

I grinned and secured myself a seat beside him.

"Good morning everyone!" I said.

"We are all doing good. Hope you had a good night,*uttered Hugo.

" Yeah."

" Feel free to serve whatever you want,"said Mrs. Salvador.

They were all incredible actors and actresses.

Devils disguised as Angels!

I had a piece of sausage hurriedly as I was already suffocating for being around them and also to avoid a questions which might screw up everything.

"Thankyou for the tantalizing meal. I regret to say this but I have to go now."

"You are welcome Mrs. Charves. Feel free to pay us a visit anytime; the doors will always be open for you,"said Mrs. Salvador, the biggest hypocrite I have ever met.

"Thankyou."

"I'll accompany you Violet," suggested Rex.

" No need. I will be fine,"I swiftly declined the offer. I wasn't ready to let them know where I was living yet.

" Who will drive you home?"

" I will give my brother a call. Bye to you all. I hope we will meet soon."

I took my purse and sashayed away.

Surprisingly, the minute, I got outside, Clark was already.

Without uttering a word or even looking at me,he opened the door, got inside and we zoomed off at a supersonic speed.

Owing to the manner he was driving, I concluded there was something disturbing him.

Not once did Clark drive at such a speed.

To add to it,he had not even uttered a single word since he saw me.

"Babe,is something wrong?"

"What kinda question is that Bethany? Huh! You expect me to laugh to the fact that you are now flirting with Rex?"

"What! How dare you! Is that an insult?"

"No, it's reality. Have you forgotten the way you were cuddling him yesterday like a baby? Answer me!" he lashed out and stopped the car.

I could hardly believe it was Clark. He had never lashed out at me, before, not even once.

"I'm not going to tolerate this insults," I declared, opened the car's door and stepped outside.

He didn't even mind going after me, rather he zoomed off in his car like a thunder bolt.

I was left petrified, shuttered and broken.

Not once did Clark ever lash out at me.

His hurtful words pierced my heart like a knife.

What had transpired left me with second thoughts of implementing the idea I had in mind.

If a cuddle drove him that crazy, what of a kiss?

I couldn't go home in order to offer him some space alone, at least for him to cool down.

I was still feeling a little under the weather, therefore, I trudged to a nearby restaurant, where I could at least get myself a lodging and kip to get rid of the hangover I was feeling.

I booked a room upstairs, grabbed some snacks and took a bottle of mango juice with me upstairs.

Scarcely had I unlocked the door, when I spotted Felicity,who had a butter knife with her.

I watched her as she drove the knife in the lock, trying to unlock the door.

Just then, the door was wide open and she tip toed inside, closing the door behind her.

She remained there for about five minutes and then came outside.

She quickly walked away.

That was strange!

What was the ordeal!

Out of curiosity that killed a cat,I creeped into the same room, which was some metres away.

A restriction note was what welcomed me.

What was the room being restricted?

Making sure no one had spotted me,I shut the door.

What was special about that room?

Myriads of questions bubbled in my mind.

In order to keep off trouble,I thought of leaving.

Barely had I taken a step outside, when I spotted a locket under the cosy bed there.

I walked back,bent and took it.

It was beautiful and seemed screaming expensive.

I carefully opened it and what my eyes came across left me bewildered!

I took a deep breathe, rubbed my eyes to make sure I wasn't dreaming, and took a glance at the locket again.

"Dad," I mumbled.

The locket had a picture of dad and a certain woman,whom I had never seen before, along with a baby she held in her arms.

Who was that? How was she related to dad and who was that baby?

Those are some of the questions that lingered in my mind.

I put the locket in my purse and left to avoid trouble.

I wasn't even interested in spending some time there as planned; I was in need of showing Clark what I had seen.

Third Person's POV;

Perplexed beyond description, Bethany took a taxi to home.

Felicity who was busy taking some selfies there unfortunately spotted her and concluded that Violet was stalking her.

She hurriedly got into her porsche marque, bringing the engine back to life and zoomed off at a supersonic speed, closely tailing Bethany.

"So this moron is now stalking me!" exclaimed Felicity, biting her lower lip.

Not long after, Bethany arrived at home.

She hurriedly, scramed out of the taxi towards their house, right after fulfilling the driver's right.

There, she found Clark basking under the hot soon, while having a drink.

Bethany wearily walked towards him and snatched the goblet he was holding.

"What the f*ck! Are you out of your mind?"he roared.

"Clark,you need to take care of yourself. Dear, you shouldn't be drinking like this."

"Oh,wow! Trying to act concerned?"

"I am concerned about you Clark. I'm not putting up an act."

"How could that be so, when you aren't even concerned about my own feelings! Huh!"

"Baby, please calm down. You know that I love you. Clark,I love you so much and it crushes my heart to pieces when we are fighting like this. This is a Sacrifice I am making!"cried Bethany, unable to control herself.

Clark,arose from the sittee and abruptly kissed her deeply.

Felicity,who was busy watching them from far was baffled as her chin dropped and her eyes popped out, though she couldn't clearly get a view of Clark's face.

" I love you so much Bethany."

" Thanks for understanding. Let's go inside,I badly need to show you something."

The two into the house and shut the door.

Having no other option, Felicity left.

Clark glared at Bethany as she fished out the shinny golden locket from her purse.

"This!" she exclaimed.

"Whose is it?"

"Clark, take a look. This is my dad, Domingo!" declared Bethany.

Clark swiftly grabbed the locket from Bethany's hand.

He stood rooted to the floor as he stared at the picture that he was hardly blinking.

"Who is this woman?"

"I have no idea, and that baby too!"

"Okay, where did you get this from?"

"A certain restaurant. It's a long story. I'll tell you later. Let's try finding out the mystery behind this first."

"I think I got a way. We can try searching the identity of the person whose name is written here. Alyssa Charm."

"Oh, nice. I hadn't seen that. Come on!"

Bethany took her laptop and swiftly keyed in the name.

There were multiple people who shared that name though, which forced her to go through each one of them,in search of the woman in the picture,who she fortunately found.

The first information on her profile was that she had recently committed suicide by stabbing herself multiple times.

Bethany scrolled downwards and saw her parents who were Robert Charm and Alaine Charm.

Furthermore, which was now the interesting part of it all,was she was in a relationship with Domingo Bruno,who was Bethany's father.

"Hell no! How could this be!" shouted Bethany.

"So dad was cheating on mom with another woman?" Bethany queried in disbelief.

" Unbelievable!"exclaimed Clark.

"I also find it hard to believe. So this is his child,I bet so."

"Gosh! We have to get to the bottom of this."

" I concur."

Just then, Bethany received a call from Rex,who was inquiring whether she had arrived safely as well as inviting her out for dinner that night.

"Babe, let's go out and have some fun together?" suggested Bethany.

"Sure thing! It's been quite some time since we last did that."

"Yeah. And we'll then go to Enrolys. I trust things are running smoothly there. I had informed Zoe, I would be taking a day off today. Now go and have a shower. You look horrible, trust me. Drinking doesn't suit you one bit." Bethany chuckled.

"Duh, whatever," grumbled Clark.