“There is nothing much, we were in battle, and I and Ben were fighting side by side. They had ambushed us in our secret hide-out and outnumbered us. That was how I got crippled,” he narrated briefly, “what is it?”
I let out an exasperated gasp.
“I found out from my sister that they planned with the night howlers to kill you and Ben had connived with them,”
I could see the shock expressed all over his eyes and anger and fury rushing down his veins.
“Fuck!!!”
“Fuck!” he exclaimed,
“What is it?” I asked as I could see a shocking light of realization hit him.
“Now I know why they want you as a settlement deal.”
Alexander’s POV…
“Pack our clothes now. We are going back,” I yelled at Edwina, who was perplexed by my sudden change in reaction.
“Why, what happened?” She asked.
“I said pack our clothes now! We are going back.” This time, I commanded her.
“I need to know why you are cutting our honeymoon and why was I the settlement deal?”
Fuck!!! I exclaimed, scratching my hair. I always do that when I am agitated. Why can’t this woman just listen to me and understand we don’t have time for a long explanation? We were running out of time.
“Did you demand an explanation when you decided to keep such a crucial piece of information to yourself?” I blurted out and regretted it as soon as the words were out. She didn’t utter a word and moved immediately to the room and began throwing the clothes in the bag. We had not gotten much time to unpack when we came in here.
“I am sorry, I didn’t mean it that way,” I called after her.
“Yes, you did, ” she replied back briefly and started zipping the bags. She didn’t fold the clothes, so she was finding it quite hard to zip the baggage and was struggling with it.
“But you can’t blame me for thinking in such a way, why do you have to wait for us to come all the way here before you tell me?” I should probably just shut up, we’re getting better, and now I have just ruined it again with my quick words of assumptions.
“First of all, I waited because I just found out recently, during my last visit to my sister, you know the one you went to also visit her and we had that big fight that night,”
“We have had conversations after that,” I should probably shut up now because I was making things worse, not better.
Edwina continued. “Secondly, I was skeptical about telling you__.”
“Why? Because you are still trying to save Ben’s cheating ass???” I yelled at her. At this point, I was way beyond micro-managing the situation.
“Because it involves my sister, and I know the penalty for treason,” she yelled back at me this time, for the first time she yelled back at me. And that act alone made me calm. I couldn’t say a word.
There was a creeping silence that overshadowed the room. It was a silence that we both knew too well.
“I think Ben wants you back,” I said calmly.
She glared at me with confusion, and I could understand that she needed further explanation.
“There is no reason why the sizzlers would need you. It has been strange to me till now. Only Ben could make such a request, and if truly he worked with them, it means that he is most likely still working with them,” I gazed at her, hoping we would have reached some sort of clarity, but I saw that she was still looking so perplexed.
“What is it?” I asked again.
“I am about to tell you something, but please don’t get angry at me,” the fact she needed to say that for me not to react broke me down. What have I become? I wasn’t a man they were conscious of making certain statements around.
“I am sorry, if you ever feel like I am not approachable, you can tell me anything,” I muttered to her before I reached towards her and grabbed her hands.
“When I went to visit Ben, I asked him what he plans to do with the child, and he told me that Sonia has not been picking up his call. According to what he said, he might end up escaping just to be with his child. So I don’t know why Ben will ask for me. It isn’t me he wants. He wants his child and its mother.”
At this moment, my head was already singing red, and I couldn’t imagine why she could hide such crucial information from me. How can she claim she is doing this for Sonia when this only benefits Ben? Even since he said Sonia doesn’t want him anywhere near the kid?
But I promised her not to react even though every inch of me wanted to react to the fullest.
“Let’s get going. If Ben is working with the sizzlers and plans to escape, this would be the perfect time for him to bust out, knowing I am not around and there is a limited chain of command,” I told her, still trying to contain my anger, she nodded and quickly zipped the bag, we rushed out to the car, and I could see how puzzled the driver who had ridden us out here for three hours on the road became confused when we told him we were heading back.
Throughout the ride back home, my mind flickered around to that night I became crippled and how I couldn’t put it together. That day alone had a lot of things to do regarding that.
He was the only one that knew the secret plan. He was the only one that knew the exit plan.
We were still far. I tried reaching Caleb so that he could head down to the penitentiary before we reached there.
“Fuck!!!” I exclaimed out loud.
“What is it?” She asked
“I am trying to reach Caleb but this damn network isn’t going through, it only works in the Night howlers territory.”
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