The Unholy Matrimony - Chapter 10
Phoebe read the whole documents carefully and collapsed, no she haven't been wrong for years. This total bullshit, she angrily pushed her thought. Next Hunter told her his previous relationships and everything she had misjudged him and promised that he never did anything to hurt her.
"But you already destroyed me!
You destroyed us! You destroyed everything!" he sobbed and collapsed to
the floor. People are watching them with cynical view and smirked at them.
"I don't believe this! Tell me
you are lying to me!" Phoebe cried.
"This truth that I always
wanted to show you," Hunter spoke regretfully.
All the people there left after few
moments of hesitation and leaving Phoebe alone in the center of the living
room.
That night, Phoebe approached Hunter
who was sprawling sadly across the couch to sit next to him, and he backed
away, "Stay away from me! You disgusted me. From now on there won't be any
husband-wife relationship between us. We are just strangers."
Phoebe put her hand on his shoulder,
and he slapped it away, “I had enough of your act, you can just leave me
alone!"
Hunter climbed up the stairs
ignoring Phoebe & went inside the master bedroom. Phoebe followed him
slowly and sat on the bed, looking sad. "Can we talk for a minute?"
Phoebe asked slowly.
"I don't have anything to talk
with you," he interrupted. He changed into his robe and pajamas,
continuing to sat on the bed and rolled himself to the side. Phoebe leaned to
him trying to touch his shoulder but he bolt upward with feral eyes gleamed
with anger.
"What's wrong," Phoebe
asked in confusion.
"There is nothing between us
starting now. We may still be married because I won't let you escape easily by
divorcing you but I won't treat you like my wife anymore. Its over between
us!" he gathered his pillow and sheet, then walked away leaving her along
in the empty room.
Following that day, Hunter always
returned home late, drunk and sometimes with lipstick marked on his shirt. They
were living like strangers in the same house where he continued to ignore her
existence. Phoebe had made many attempt to make up with him and worked the
relationship out but he still hard to press. He also made few attempts to make
her jealous by bringing various women into their bedroom. Their relationship
was beyond mending, its severed quite badly and Phoebe regretted all her dumb
actions. She started going to church and confessed to the nun there all about
her actions and how she could mended back her relationship with her husband.
One day, she returned back to the
office where she brought along the press and so on, all that taken part of her
plot to eliminate Hunter and confessed. "Listen everyone, I want you all
to know that all the gossip and tabloid news written about Hunter is totally
wrong. Don't be mad at him, he's nothing like what they mentioned. It’s my fault!
I made it up myself!"
The atmosphere full with anger that
one of the female workers there who worshiped Hunter as their boss flew towards
Phoebe and smacked her across her face hard. She stumbled to the ground.
"Whore!" They screamed.
Hunter who just arrived at the
office was completely shocked to see his wife sitting on the floor with blood
dripping from her lips. "What happened to you?" he asked furiously.
One of the staffs there came
forward, "She deserved it. What kind of lady that had a heart to destroy
her own husband's life?"
Hunter glanced at him, "You had
no right! It’s my choice if I want to punish her or not. Go back to your place
now!" he demanded. They left the spot and went back to their place.
Hunter stood back up and helped her
to her feet, before he walked past her without a backward glance.
It was raining heavy that evening
and Phoebe walked alone by herself, wet. She was cold but nothing could helped
mended her broken heart, the way she broken Hunter's heart. She thought of
letting herself standing in the path of an oncoming bus, but her death would be
for nothing if she did not get his forgiveness. While she lost in her thought,
a fast truck rushed directly on her direction and just in that awkward seconds,
Phoebe could have lost her life but she was pulled somewhere by someone and
both of them stumbled upon each other, she realized it was her husband who
saved her life.
"Are you crazy? Trying to get
yourself killed?" Hunter spat at her. She broke into tears and sobbed. He
was a sucker for crying female. He leaned closer and brought her to his arms.
"I'm sorry. I don't know what
to do. I rather die than having you mad at me." Phoebe tilted her face.
"At least if I died, I won't bother you anymore again."
"Hunter face softened,
"I'm still mad at you but I won't let you died. You still very important
in my life!" he said softly.
He lifted her and carried her to his
car and headed home.
As they reached home, Hunter helped
Phoebe to climb out of the car and carried her inside before slowly dropping
her on the couch. "You don't have to do this." She claimed.
"You still my wife. It is my
responsibility." he responded.
As Hunter turned around to return to
his room, Phoebe stopped him, "Wait, can I ask you something?"
He turned to her, "What is
it?" He knew where this conversation was going.
"What about us? Are we still a
"we"?" she asked shakily.
Hunter let out a sigh, "I don’t
know. It hurt too much. I'm not ready to relive the pain!"
"What are we going to do? I
want to fight for us," she sounded determined.
"I'm not sure. Depends."
he said. Then there was a long pause.
"I still love you. I want the
future that you imagined earlier!" Phoebe approached him and held his
hands. They stared at each other for a long time.
"I still, will and always love
you. But it still hurt," he admitted. Then he turned away to return
upstairs to his room.
Later that night, Phoebe didn't
sleep. She sprawled on the couch with her popcorn and soda watching late night
matinee. She still sobbing and sometimes she glanced back at the stairs to see
if Hunter's awakened.
She stared blankly at the television
before she drifted off to sleep just few minutes later.
Hunter went down for a drink and
caught Phoebe sprawling on the coach, deep asleep. He pulled the sheet to cover
her and kissed her forehead before he headed to the kitchen.
I'm sorry,
he said quietly.
The next morning, Phoebe awakened to
find the kitchen table all being set up and she also noticed a note hanging on
the freezer that said:
Breakfast all
was being set. Have a nice day and get a rest. We'll have a long day ahead
today. Get ready before tea time; I'm taking you somewhere I've been since I'm
a kid.
She poured the hot tea to her cup
and had a sip. Delicious as she expected. Who could find a husband who worked
all day and came back home to cook? She just considered herself lucky. She
smiled the whole way to the living room.
Later that day, her cell phone rang
and she picked it up, "Hello angel, how's your day?" Mommy,
she thought with a relief.
"Yeah, a bit shaken up but I'm
alright...for now," she hinted. Phoebe looked up at the calendar, she
totally forgotten it’s her birthday!
"Happy birthday, honey!"
Patty cheered along with her dad's voice.
Now she knew, Hunter was going to
throw a surprise for her tonight. He still care and love her despite all the
things she done to him. She wished she could made up on her mistakes tonight
with him.
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