Classic Novel
A New Beginning
As the days went by, the love Edward and Ellie have for each other kept on growing putting Sophia in a dilemma. Edward spent most of his times in Ellie’s house, barely going home. And on rare occasions that Edward went home, he never gave the chance for him and Sophia to have a conversation.
On one of the rare occasions that Edward went home, he and Sophia had a hot argument. It was on a Friday night and when Sophia saw Edward come home, she had thought Edward would be spending the night and the weekend with her only for him to pack some of his clothes and heading for the door without deeming it fit to tell Sophia anything about his movement.
‘Where are you headed to? I thought we would be spending the night together?’, Sophia asked, curious of where Edward was headed to although she was already aware and just needed a confirmation.
‘I have some files I need to review at the office. So, I will be spending the night there’, Edward said.
‘So, why do you need so much clothe if you will only be spending a night at the office?’, Sophia asked suspiciously.
‘I never said I would be spending a night at the office. I won’t be home for the weekend too. I have a lot of work pending on my table’, Edward responded, sounding distant and indifferent.
‘I need to get going now, it’s getting late’, Edward responded, moving towards the door.
‘Are you sure you are going to the office or you are going over to her place?’, Sophia asked, making Edward halt in her steps.
‘Her?’, Edward asked surprised, turning around.NôvelDrama.Org owns © this.
‘Yes, her. I meant Ellie. The stripper you confessed your love for at the club’, Sophia responded with a hitch of jealousy in her voice.
‘You were there?’, Edward asked, finding it hard to believe Sophia knew about Ellie’s existence.
‘Yes, I was. I witnessed my husband and the father of my unborn child professing his love for another woman right in front of me. That’s a good thing, right? How can you choose a stripper over me? She is nothing compared to me. She is just a slut who is meant for every man to access’, Sophia responded, rolling her eyes,
‘You won’t dare address her like that again. She belongs to me and nobody else. I love her and nothing can change that fact. She is a stripper but at least, she is way better than you’, Edward said in a firm and hurtful tone, which made Sophia surprised as he had never spoken to her in that manner before.
‘Are you really going to choose her over me? Have you forgotten how you proclaimed your love for me few months again? What now changed? Have you forgotten the fact that I am carrying your child? Do you want him to grow up like you did? Do you want history to repeat itself?’, Sophia said, crying and trying to play the victim card.
‘Fucking stop repeating that statement. It kind of make you look desperate and it doesn’t fit you’, Edward said, shouting angrily at Sophia.
‘Our child? You think I am too gullible to know the child isn’t mine?’, Edward asked with a smirk on his face.
‘What do you mean by not yours? What are you trying to insinuate? Are you trying to deny your child because of that slut?’, Sophia asked, trying to shift Edward’s attention away from the paternity of the fetus growing in her belly.
‘I fucking told you not to call her that!!!!’, Edward shouted, almost becoming aggressive and there, Sophia stood alarmed at the sight of a different version of Edward’s personality which she had never seen before.
‘You can’t keep controlling me by blackmailing me with my childhood trauma. You and my mum are and will never be the same. So, don’t you ever compare yourself with her again’, Edward said walking away.
‘What did I do to deserve this kind of hate from you?’, Sophia asked with hurt in her eyes.
‘You are asking me what you did? You made me regret ever falling in love with you. With you, I had thought I would find the love and peace I had always wanted and had envisioned a love filled future with you until I discovered your dirty secret’, Edward said with disgust.
‘I really wish not to ever see your face again’, Edward said hurt, and walking away leaving Sophia standing hopelessly and confused.
After Edward had left, Sophia kept on thinking about what Edward had found out about her to make him change towards her but she couldn’t place her hand on it.
Edward on the other hand, as he drove down to Ellie’s place, he kept on thinking about the night of betrayal; the night he had found out about Sophia and Richard’s affair. Although his love for Sophia had diminished, he still felt hurt like he was getting stabbed in his heart. As got to his destination and entered Ellie’s apartment, there he saw Ellie standing right in front of him and putting on a widened smile.
Her smile was so beautiful and healing that it brought solace to his hurting mind. Pulling Ellie into a tight embrace, Edward said: ‘Thank you’.
‘For what?’, Ellie who was smiling cheerfully asked.
‘For bringing so much peace to my disturbed mind and for healing my broken heart’, Edward said, still holding Ellie in a tight embrace. As he embraced her, he promised himself to treasure their special moments and to never allow the hurt of his past interfere with the joy and peace he was currently experiencing. He decided to let go of his painful experience and have a new beginning which will be filled with all the love he had been deprived of since childhood with Ellie.
Heaving a sigh of relieve, he kissed Ellie on her forehead and said, ‘Welcome me to a new beginning’. He smiled at Ellie and in which Ellie also returned the favor but what Edward didn’t know was that something was bothering Ellie making her scared and uncertain of their future together.