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Edna feels all the pain in wounded body parts go away as she sits up on the bed. Her heart is jamming against her chest and she feels her head getting lighter. Dimore has been arrested? Mister Jackson found out. Oh, no. Edna doesn't even know what to think right now. She looks at the ceiling and out of the window, her mind has never been more blank like this. Kim is wiping her tears and blowing her nose. She has never been more irritated by Mister Jackson's irrational thinking this much. The man chose to listen to his idiot of a son, not bothering that he almost killed her, and went on like a little boy to tell his father that her bodyguard stopped him from killing her. Thank God for Dimore, she would have been in a worse situation now. "What did the doctor say?" Edna asks. "Nothing. " Kim answers. " He recognized you and he didn't ask anything, he just treated us. "Edna is thinking of her next line of action. She doesn't have a phone, she doesn't have Malik's number and he is
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She gets to the office within the shortest time and when she steps out of the car, she notices that the eyes of the employees are on her. From the securities to the clerks, everyone. She is wondering why then she realizes just how fast she is going and how her left hand is pressing against her abdomen, she probably concludes that they know that something isn't right with her. She walks into the building and the whole place comes to a standstill. She doesn't mind, doesn't pay any of them much attention as she keeps walking forward. They have probably never seen Edna Jackson in a hoodie and jeans with simple sandals, so maybe it's justified that they are staring too much. She gets to the elevator and makes her way to the floor of her father-in-law's office. The place is not as crowded as the rest of the building and that's because not everyone is allowed to be here, she only comes here when it's absolutely necessary and Dimore being in prison is an absolute reason. She gets to th
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Now Edna has peace. Dimore is out of jail, she has told Kim not to come to the house anymore - she will try her best to manage, and somehow Keith has disappeared again. Nobody is happier with being alone than Edna. That feeling of going to bed without the anticipation of her drunken abuser walking in, or the yearning to burst her eardrums because she can hear the moans of the housekeeper as her husband shags her. Peace is when she prepares her small meal even though it's so hard and peace is when she goes to bed knowing that she won't wake up to pushes and punches.Peace is what's healing her wounds now. The fact that no one is going to come and punch them back to soreness, isn't that wonderful?That's the feeling she went to bed with and there was also a broad smile on her face when she slept off. She wakes up before the breaking of dawn with a strange feeling. It's not a bad feeling, but it's not a good one either. She has this feeling that someone is in the room with her and she
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Edna feels a hot chill slowly engulfing her before completely taking over her. She feels an emptiness in her heart as she just processes the fact that Dimore won't be here every morning to pick her up to take her to work. He won't be in the car to crack jokes with her or compliment her new hairstyle. She is so stilled from the shock that she has to get a stronger grip around her phone because it is threatening to slip out of her grasp. "What?" She manages to say. " It has been three weeks now and I'm sorry because none of us have been bold enough to tell you. "Edna looks down at her feet. Not that her sharp red heels are interesting today, but she doesn't know where else to place them. "Who did that?" She asked. " Dimore works for me and me alone, why would anyone fire him without my consent? "She is silent for a while and it's because she knows that they both know the answer to this question of hers. " It was Mister Jackson himself, ma'am. " Kim informs her. " He came into t
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Edna feels a tightening in her tummy and she sucks on and bites her tongue. Keith being back means trouble for her and she doesn't have the energy for that right now. The last time he was here he beat the living hell out of her, literally, and she has just recovered from that. Is she ready for whole new bullshit from him? Whatever he is going to do to her this time around, is she going to be able to survive it?She has this serious thought of turning back right now and going to spend the night in a hotel because it's going to be more peaceful for her. Hopefully, he should be gone by morning with all of her things again, but that's what she cares for, she wants peace that's all. She remembers Malik's words to her and how she told him that she is going to be fine, how she is going to " handle " Keith. Now she doesn't trust herself, Keith is just one lunatic that is dangerously out of control. With a little hope left in her heart, she holds her bag tighter and walks through the front
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"I'm really close. " He tells her. "I'm waiting. " She bites into her lips until she tastes the faint taste of blood. Keith is no longer hitting the door but she knows that he is not gone, he has probably gone off to find something to break the door. " Be careful when you get here. " She sighs. " He might be armed. "" Well, so will i. " He says. She has hardly finished the conversation when a loud sound that is similar to an explosion leaves her ears ringing with pain. Splatters of wood fall over her and that's when she scrabbles away from the door. To find a safer place to hide in. Keith has a fucking gun and he is trying to use it to get the door open. Edna's teeth are chattering with fear, she knows that the moment he gets in here, he won't hesitate to put a bullet in her head. She scrabbles to the wardrobe and locks herself in it as she desperately tries to stop crying. "Edna, are you okay?" " He has a gun, he has a gun. " She cries. "I'm almost there. You're good. " He
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Malik can't believe his ears. It seems that she has misinterpreted his silence because she starts to fold and refold her hands and begin to sigh, doubting what she has said. " You want to leave, Keith?" He asks. " You don't think it's a good idea?""What do you mean? " He moves closer to her. " Remember when I was mad at you because you were choosing not to leave him? If anything, I am proud of you that you have chosen to take this bold decision. "She nods and he notices how dry her voice sounds and how shaken she is. Poor Edna. She has gone through many terrible things and the last one was the worst of them all. What would have happened if he wasn't in town? What would have happened if he chose to travel?He doesn't want to think about what the consequences would have been. She would have been cold dead in a pool of her own blood and he knows that nothing would have happened to his brother. His father would probably bribe through it and it would be ruled as suicide. She is cryi
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Edna is shaking like a fish that has been thrown out of the comfort of the waters. She walks right into the company with a copy of the divorce papers sealed in a brown envelope. She had a dream last night and it's the most terrifying yet. In her dream, it was exactly like this. She was heading to her father-in-law's office and when she handed him the divorce papers, he took them. He took it and looked over it before tearing it into pieces. The doors flung open and the men took her away even though she tried to scream her way out of their grip. They took her to this basement and had her chained like a dog. Keith came through and did several unspeakable things to her and she is still shivering from remembering it. It was a very vivid and terrible dream. She tries to keep a straight face as she walks by employees who won't stop staring at her. She hasn't been to work for some time now and she knows that rumors must have been flying around. She doesn't care about what they think th
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