Chapter 2

CHAPTER TWO.

Speechless 

Katherine's POV 

My handbag dropped from my hand without my permission, my hands were under pressure and they needed to hold a neck and strangle it to death.

Many things were coming through my head and I wished I could make the wish in my heart “kill a soul” 

My eyes swelled up in tears as I tried to control them. I didn’t want to believe what I just saw, but it was so clear and evident. 

It's a thing to talk about my mind whispers, I had to calm myself down for a moment to see if I would get some explanation.

At the spot where I was standing, my clothes were dripping with excess water from the rain because I had observed the apartment before finally coming in.

I wasn't bothered about the rain when I was coming, I just wanted to see him, but as it stands, there is already an end if I don't get an explanation.

Both of them saw me but there was no real sign of feeling remorseful.

I moved closer to my step-sister, Diana, and looked into her eyes. I couldn't maintain eye contact so much. My eyes were already dripping water, not from the rain but from tears of my broken heart.

Diana was still sitting so pretty on the bed as if nothing had happened and Felix shifted back and tried to adjust his shirt

I could sense a feeling of remorse from him, but not a bit of remorse was coming from Diana.

“How could you do this to me?” I finally altered my words as I was shivering, and at the same time, my teeth were gnashing. I lost my total composure, and it wasn't the right time to confront them.

Felix kept on saying, “Katherine, I can explain to you, you need to calm down, the deed has been done…” I looked at him and wished I could give him a sound slap on his face, but I love him so much that I could only stare at him for a while, my hands voluntarily ended on his cheeks. 

I couldn’t believe I could slap him. 

“And it won't go in a reverse way anymore.” Diana completed the statement he started and I was guessing what was going on.

I saw it was a very serious thing, and all of a sudden, Diana laughed sarcastically. I stared in surprise at her. 

But I felt a little peace in my heart because I thought they were pretending but I couldn't believe that Diana was seriously making fun of me because I was shaking like a jellyfish.

“I think I can have him now, your time has expired,” Diana said, and I was so confused and, at the same time, extremely bitter in my heart.

I pointed a finger at Diana and said, “You know the gravity of this thing you have done, right? You know how much trouble it can cause you if Mom and Dad get to hear this…” 

She didn't allow me to make my speech before she interrupted me. She stood up slowly and rested on Felix. 

“As it stands now, I am the heir and the one able to control if anything happens to the family. I think you should ask more about your identity in the family.” She spoke back to me.

Those words got to me but at the same time, I do not understand what the identity issue means. Does it have anything to do with you betraying your blood? 

I was broken down and I had no other option but to sit on the floor of the room because my veins and muscles had already lost their strength.

The rain continued so heavily and I knew if I could go out of the compound angrily, I wouldn't see a car to take me to my parents.

This time, the shame of staying where I have been cheated can't be measured. I just wanted peace but it seems that I can't get it here.

I picked up my bag and summoned the courage to run out, with the intention of going to mom and dad to report to them what had happened.

If I am not accepted in the life of the man I love and betrayed by my step-sister, my mom, and dad should accept me wholeheartedly.

I ran out of the room. I didn't stop as tears were flowing down my cheeks, and the rain gave me the best beating of my life.

I am so fragile and I have always avoided rain because I didn’t always want to be beaten by it.

My clothes were already wet, including my phone, and today of all days, I didn't hold my shower cap that would have helped save my phone from rain.

I continued my running in the rain as a punishment for myself for not noticing the actions all this time, I have always been a workaholic who would go to work and come back to her boyfriend’s house in the evening.

That wasn't a bad idea, but I think I chose the wrong person to fall in love with.

After a long time of trekking, the rain began to stop, and I was approaching my parents’ house.

Now I see how Diana has been in this act for a while. It's not hard for her to get to Felix's place.

 I managed to enter the gate as if I was about to collapse.

I never knew Dad was looking at me from the corridor until I entered and I finally sat on the floor.

I was in a safe place to express my emotions, and I began to cry without saying a word.

Mom was all over me, saying, “Why the tears?” I knew she cared, and I wanted to tell her, but I did not want to get Diana in trouble.

When there was a lot of pestering, I finally spoke out, “I met Diana and Felix were having sex in his house, they both claimed to love each other.” I wept bitterly.

The next thing Mom said was, “Would you like to have a hot tea and a hot bath? You're really wet already, you need to avoid a cold.”

I was so surprised that she wasn't concerned about what I just said.

I had to repeat myself as I said, “Mom, Diana, and Felix were having an affair when I got to his house.”

She took a deep breath and said, “It's not a new thing, you will get over it.”