Chapter 37

Emma's POV

I continued flipping through the channels trying to find something that would distract me, but I found nothing. I looked at the strawberry shake that was on the table and it made me think about lucius. He sure was acting weird. I had a feeling that they were both hiding something from me but I didn't know what it was but I was determined to find it. I was going to ask Maynard about it, maybe he would tell me but I wasn't sure if he was going to because he was just too hard headed. If lucius and Maynard won't tell me then it would be better to ask Maynard's parents considering how nice they are to me they wouldn't want to leave me in the dark, right?

I unlocked my phone and I called Maynard's mother. "Hello." She said in her usual cheerful voice. Sometimes I wondered if she had ever had a bad day in her life.

"Hello mommy, how are you?" I asked.

"I am doing great dear, i just miss you a lot. When are you going to visit us?" She asked.

"As soon as I heal." I said knowing full well that she did not know about my injuries and Maynard told me not to tell her no matter how happy or sad I was,but I didn't care about how he feels anymore since he didn't care about how I feel.

"Heal? From what?" She asked. I knew that this was my chance to tell her, maybe she could save me from him and convince him to divorce me,but again what am I going to do without him and where am I going to go? But it didn't matter anymore what mattered the most was my happiness and safety maybe his parents would consider helping me.

"Well the thing is..." Before I could finish my sentence someone grabbed my phone I looked up to see who it was and I saw Maynard. He didn't look too happy, he looked like he wanted to beat me up pretty badly. He put the phone over his ear.

"Mother can you guys talk later I need to have a serious talk with my wife." He said. "Alright bye." He said hanging up the phone. I extended my hand out to him waiting for him to give me my phone back but instead he put the phone in his pocket.

"Hey give me back my phone!" I shouted. Too bad I could not stand up straight.

"Why should I do that?" He asked. I could tell that he was pissed off, but I couldn't care less.

"Because it's my phone." I said.

"It's yours but you don't seem to know what and what not to do with it." He said.

"But that phone is mine, not ours or yours, so what I do and what I don't do with it, it is non of your business, so give it back." I said.

"Emma you are really something aren't you. If you ever, I mean ever tell my parents about this then trust me you'll soon be attending your friend lizzy's funeral." He said. I looked at him in disbelief, was he really going to do it.

"You can't be serious, right?" I asked him. I could feel my body shaking.

"If I could do what I did to you as my wife just imagine what I could do to someone who I have no relationship with." He said. I could see his eyes turning darker by the second. He looked scary, but I tried to not show him that I was afraid of him.

"This has nothing to do with lizzy." I said.

"Then what does it have to do with my parents?" He asked. He did have a point, but hey don't blame me I just wanted to save my ass from this asshole.

"You are right it has nothing to do with your parents but it has something to do with my safety and happiness." I said.

"Safety and happiness? Tell me what is it that will make you feel happy and safe."He said.

"If I had married someone who cared about my feelings and made me happy then I would feel happy. If I had married someone who didn't make me kneel on a hot pavement and locked me up in a dark and cold basement I would feel safe. So tell me, do you think that I feel happy and safe with you? "I asked.

"You would have been happy and safe if you weren't such an idiot." He said.

"An idiot, really? I might be an idiot but at least I do care about other people's feelings." I said.

"You see that's the problem. In this world carrying about other people's feelings too much will only hurt yours. Because trust me when I say this, you might give a person gold but in return they will just give you trash." He said. From the look in his eyes it felt like he had experienced something like this before.

"You are you and I am me. So you can't expect something that has happened to you to happen to someone else. Yes I get not everyone loves me the way I think they do I've already learned that from my parents' betrayal." I said. Talking about them still made feel sad.

"So you think that what your parents did to you is the worst thing in life? Trust me kiddo there are things that are a lot worse than that. You haven't seen nothing yet." He said. His words made me rember the day I heard him arguing on the phone with someone. I was still curious, I wanted to know what it was all about and who this 'mother' was that had died a long time ago.

"Does it have something to do with Mabol?" I asked. I didn't know why I asked that question, and I knew that I shouldn't have because the moment I mentioned that Jane he shot me a look. I thought that he was going to bury me alive this time.