4-Tastes Like This Is Goodbye

Camila~

I mean I had always suspected something strange was going on between them. Caleb even made assumptions! I...I just couldn't believe my doubts to be true.

I didn't know how long I'd been waiting but finally, Jaxon came back. Blake was not with him.

"You seem in a rush. How is she?" I said, even though I was still angry, I needed to know that she was okay. He ignored and kept pacing around. "Jaxon, can you hear me? I'm talking to you."

"She could have died if we didn't rush her to the hospital on time, Camilla! Okay? Now leave me alone."

"I don't like your tone. What is important is that she's fine now."

"But my baby might not be!" He roared out. You could see the anger boiling in his eyes.

"Your baby?" The words were heavy and bitter in my mouth.

"If anything goes wrong, I will never forgive you, okay! You'll pay for it.

I wondered why tears weren't flooding from my eyes right now. I was devastated. After all these years of our marriage, he would cheat on me and choose another woman over me?? Over our son!

"Jaxon, you'll do nothing if anything goes wrong. This wasn't my fault and you fucking know it!"

"You think I care who's fault it is right now? All I know is that she must be fine and healthy, and the baby too."

"Can you even hear yourself right now! You cheated on me, on Caleb. And you're still so arrogant like this. You owe us an apology."

He scoffed, then looked me dead in the eyes. I thought I would crumble to the floor with the way his towering stance dominated me. It did nothing but intimidate me. It felt like he would pounce on me with his fist in a heavy punch on my face. Still, I didn't falter.

"If you feel betrayed and sad, then pack your things and get out of my house."

I shivered, now feeling the weight of these words he was spewing. He spoke so cold, my eyes were teary now. I couldn't believe that our years of marriage were coming to an end. I wanted to cry now because I'd always had this imagination but now, it was real.

"You'd risk divorcing me just to be with Vanessa?" I swallowed. Why even bother to ask when I already knew the answer. I cleared my throat, doing everything just not to burst out in tears now. "I don't understand, what did I ever do wrong?"

"You're poor," Aubrey and Savannah stepped in. "You can't have kids, you're from a very low status compared to us. You're arrogant, you never show your gratitude that we took a poor thing like yourself in. Why shouldn't he leave you so he could teach you a lesson???"

"And you disrespect us a lot. It's annoying and you just deserve to leave." Savanna chirped in.

"Oh," I nodded slowly to myself. "It's the whole gang against me."

"You always knew you'd lost since day one. You just were selfish to leave. I'm so glad it's finally come to an end for you." Aubrey said.

"You're not going to say anything? Do you agree with them?" I said to Jaxon who's face was still as stiff as a rock.

There goes my answer.

"I'll pay you off. Just get lost. Caleb can do better without you." He said.

"What? You must be an idiot if you think I'd leave my son with you low life monsters." I said and they gasped. Aubrey stepped forward and slapped me, then moved back a little, smiling to herself.

"That's good. You deserve it," Savannah said. She was closer to me so it did not take more than a second for my palm to meet with her cheeks.

The slap was even louder and immediately, blood stained her lips. Her eyes widened and she cried out. "How dare you!"

Slap!

Another one came down her cheeks and she roared out in a loud cry. Aubrey stepped forward. "Come any closer and your face will be bleeding like hers." I said to her and she stepped back, then went to pat her daughter who was crying now.

"That's enough!" Jaxon's voice was like thunder. With one step forward, his hand gripped my neck tight and I began to struggle for air. "You will never disrespect me or my family ever again." He pushed me so hard I fell and twisted an ankle.

Savannah and Aubrey began to laugh now. "What was that you said about taking my grandchild away from me? Never."

"You can die with your other grandchild for all I care. But nobody's taking Caleb from me!" My breath was rasped and shaky as I spoke.

"Mom," Jaxon said before Aubrey could speak again. "Leave her, let her take the bastard child."

"You don't even care about your own son." I said, then scoffed. "You’re just a heartless monster. Sure, Caleb is better off without you. He's better off without all of you!"

"Sure," Savannah said. "But here's the plot twist. We give you just one month, you'll come back crawling for help from us. Jaxon, don't give her anything! Let her suffer."

"Yea, you don't even deserve our sympathy anymore. You fool! Just bring back my grandson after a month when you die of poverty and hunger." Aubrey spat out.

It was hard not to just collapse right there to the ground. I was exhausted, and afraid of what was to come. But I could die if I kept living with them. Besides, he divorced me and I wasn't going to beg him! Even if I try to, for Caleb's sake, he just called his own son a bastard.

I finally got it. "Then this is goodbye. Go fuck yourselves," I was glad I made it upstairs without collapsing. I gathered the stuff I could. The maids assisted. Caleb came in looking all worried.

"I hope us packing means we're going on a vacation and not what I think it means?" He said. That was when the tears began to escape. It was so painful watching my little boy go through this.

"I know just the perfect place," I said, spreading my arms wide for him to come. "We're going to live on an estate. It's gonna be fine. I promise you, Caleb. Your daddy...he's filed for a divorce."