THE BILLIONAIRE’S PERFECT MATE

Ellie had managed to get herself into the house after she felt a sharp pain in her heart that night and she had collapsed on the floor. She managed to make her way to her couch and laid on it in a helpless and devastating state. She had become a shadow of herself. Her eyelids had become dark and her eyes were swollen. She laid helplessly on the couch, looking at the ceiling with a blank mind. She was too weak to the extent that she was unable to think and when she finally thought, she had thought about where Edward was and in what state he was.

She was worried that Edward might be somewhere hurting himself while at the same time, blaming herself for hurting him so badly. She was extremely worried and restless and when she couldn’t bear the thought of Edward hurting himself, she decided to check up on him by calling his line. As soon as she unlocked her phone, she had seen several missed calls from Edward and which made her heart skipped. She wondered why Edward had called.

“Has he forgiven me already? Is he in danger? Is anything wrong with him?”, these question were running through Ellie’s mind with no one to answer them. To get the answers to her questions, she decided to call Edward and which she did. As she dialed the line and it began to ring, she silently prayed to God for Edward to pick her calls but it seems like God didn’t listen to her prayers as Edward didn’t answer her calls. What Ellie didn’t know was that, Edward’s phone was in Sophia’s hands. After Edward had been placed in the private room, his possessions recovered from his wrecked car were handed over to Sophia, part of which, included Edward’s phone.

“Bitch!!!! You are still after him after making him go into coma? Wow, your confidence is top-notch”, Sophia had said, clenching her fist upon seeing Edward’s phone rung and it was no other than Ellie on the line. She decided to ignore her calls and when Ellie wouldn’t stop calling, she decided to pick. Ellie on the other hand was happy that Edward had picked her call and immediately, started to speak.

“Hi, Edward. Where are you? I am so sorry I have hurt you so badly. I didn’t mean to. I wanted to tell you about my past but I was scared of how you would react. I didn’t want to lose you. I never knew it would come to this. I didn’t mean to sleep with him. He lured me to the hotel and raped me. Believe me, this child is yours. I know I have betrayed your trust, but for the sake of our child, please forgive me”, Ellie said, with tears rolling down her cheeks and her holding her hurting heart, pleading for Edward’s forgiveness. She expected a response but she never got any and when she didn’t get any, she decided to carry on with her pleading, thinking Edward was still angry with her, hence, the reason he didn’t respond.

“I know you are really angry with me but please talk to me. Your silence is killing me. My heart is bleeding and hurting right now. I am on my knees pleading with you to forgive me. For the sake of our child, please forgive me this once”, Ellie said amidst her tears, trying to make Edward feel her pains. Sophia who was on the other end was enjoying the moment. as she derived pleasure from hearing that Ellie’s heart was hurting and that she was in pain. When she couldn’t contain her joy of seeing Ellie in agony, she burst into laughter.

“Your heart is aching? You are in pains? Do you now understand what I went through and the pains I had felt seeing my husband in another woman’s arms?”, Sophia asked in a mockery voice.

“Why are you with his phone?”, Ellie, who was surprised on hearing Sophia’s voice. managed to ask in a voice which was that of agony.

“Why am I with his phone? Are you really that dumb to process what is currently going on? Since you claim not to know why I am with his phone, I will gladly tell you. I have his phone in my hands because he is right here with me, in the shower to be precise, after having a nice time together”, Sophia said, with the main aim of tormenting Ellie.Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

“No, that can’t be. He can never do that to me. He is not that type of man”, Ellie responded, shaking her head, finding it hard to believe what Sophia had said.

“My darling, stop being in denial. You know that’s the truth and it is the pure truth. You do not have to be clingy. Just let him go of him as he has already let go of you. You need to wake up to reality. He had already stopped our divorce process and he has promised to renew our wedding vows. If you like, you can attend. Oh my bad!!! I don’t think you will be able to do that as you will be in prison by then. You have been reported to the police for the murder of Kevin and guess who did? My darling husband and your dear lover did. The police will be at your doorstep tomorrow morning. You still have few hours before then to run away if you want to. Forget you ever met Edward as he already has. He told me you were just his sex toy and now that he is done using you, he is ready to trash you out”, Sophia said, laughing hysterically.

“No, no, no!! He … he can’t say that. He can never call me that. He loves me. He told me he loves me. He can’t do that to our child”, Ellie said, gasping for breath, finding it difficult to breathe as she felt she was in a dark and enclosed place, with no air to breath in.

“I know it is hard to believe but you just have to do so and let go. Sometimes, you have to let go of the person you love the most. I know you are finding it difficult to believe that we are together. I will send a picture of him taking a shower and send it to you. Do take heart. Till then”, Sophia said, ready to hang up on Ellie.

“Wait. Can you give him the phone and let him say all these things to me? I need to hear it directly from him”, Ellie said in a very low and weak voice, pleading for Sophia to pass the phone onto Edward.

“You still do not get it? He fucking doesn’t want to speak with you!!!!!”, Sophia said in an enraged voice, hanging up on Ellie. Even after hanging up, Ellie never believed Sophia as she wanted to hear it directly from Edward. Since he wouldn’t speak with him, she decided to find out if he was actually the one who told Sophia all that she had said. She messaged Edward, waiting for him to respond. Edward had a special way of responding to her texts. He do call her “Mon Coeur” which is a French word that means “My Heart”. He do start his texts to her my writing, “Mon Coeur”.

Ellie kept on waiting for a response and when the response finally came, it was just as she had expected.

“I will like for you not to get in touch with me again. Just like you had heard from Sophia, our divorce has been cancelled and I will be renewing my marital vows with her. You are just my sex toy which I am tired of using. I hope you get lost and never appear in front of me again. As for the baby, abort it. I do not need a child from a stripper!!!!!”, this was the content of the message. Upon checking the content of the text well, she realized that the sender had not put “Mon Coeur”, which was unlike Edward. This made Ellie ascertain the fact that it was Sophia that was behind everything.

When she had relaxed her mind that everything would be fine and that Edward would come back to her, another message came in from Edward and it was after reading this message she realized that, her fear had become a reality.

“I intentionally did not put “Mon Coeur” because you do not have any place in my heart again and I do not want to have anything to do with you and your child”, Ellie read, making her world came crashing around her. Tears streamed across her face as she remembered what had just transpired. She couldn’t believe any of what she had read. She felt like she was dreaming and she silently prayed to wake up from her dream. The future she had envisioned with Edward felt blank, and she felt like she was at the end of the road. Just as she was still grieving, her phone chimed and it was a message from Sophia. She had sent a picture of her in Edward’s arms, making Ellie’s heart, ached the more.

Sophia on the other hand was happy that she had successfully made Ellie believe that it was Edward she was chatting with. She had sent the first message before she realized Edward had a way of replying her texts, after having gone through their chats. To cover up for her lapses, she had sent the second text, leaving Elle with no doubt that the texts were from Edward. To add to her pain, she had sent a former picture of her and Edward together to Ellie, thereby adding to her wound.