HE JUST WANTS TO HURT ME

“How silly you must be to think you have what it would take to harm me, baby girl!” mocked Noah, underestimating me as always. “Bear in mind the consequences you will face upon defying me.”

Now that I had forsaken everything, I feared nothing. I was prepared to go through any of the heartbreaks. I, therefore, didn’t hesitate to declare my true intentions regarding him, “I will not think twice before reporting you to the authorities. If anything, you must prepare your explanations for what you did to me.”

“There wouldn’t be a need for that,” argued Noah, reminding me about my texts from the previous night. “Not only will I show those texts to the authorities in which you begged me to fuck you, but I will also be sending them to your dear sister. Have you wondered how heartbroken she would be once she was to find out about her sister’s plan for wanting to sleep with her husband on her wedding night?”

“No, you can’t do that to her. I might’ve texted you because I was too drunk. I am certain I didn’t mean any of it. If you were to show my texts to my sister, she'd take her own life,” I screamed out, fearful of both being perceived as a home-wrecker and losing my sister.

With his eyes brimming with visible hunger as he scanned my body, he proposed by grabbing my arm, “If you wish for me to stay quiet about everything that happened between us, I would like you to continue to sleep with me and avoid pursuing other romantic partners.”

“But, you’re my sister’s husband!” I felt the ground slip beneath my feet, perplexed about the right decision to make. “Why do you want to have a sexual relationship with me?”

“Didn’t I already tell you how it wouldn’t be easy for you to escape me without facing the repercussions of cheating on me?” asked the lunatic Noah, lacking the necessary sympathy towards me. “You’re in this predicament because of your misdeeds, woman.”

Regretting my decision to guzzle down alcohol the previous night, I couldn’t help but sob. Noah, on the other hand, rid me of my robe and placed his hand behind my head before forcefully claiming my lips, something that filled me with repulsion for the man. I, therefore, pushed him away with all my might and covered myself properly with the bathrobe.

“What do you think you’re trying to do?” I asked Noah, certain that he had bad intentions regarding me. “Don’t you understand that you’re my brother-in-law?”

“It was you who blurred the perimeters of our relationship by inviting me to your bed,” spoke the shameless man, lacking the decency to acknowledge his own error.

Devastated, I demanded, “If you’re as just and upright as you wish for me to believe, why did you accept my advances?”

“You see, a lion won’t spare a prey when it is hungry,” answered the unreasonable man, grabbing my wrist. “If you’re going to invite me to your bed on your own, why would I deny?”

“Since you’re already married to my sister, you should’ve paid no heed to my drunken texts, Noah,” I said, peering into his azure eyes while wiggling my wrist to free it from his grasp.

Devoid of feeling any remorse for what he had done to me, he asked me, “Why do you think I should be at fault here?”

“Since you took the oath to love and respect my sister in all the circumstances, I find it pretty bizarre for you to accept the sexual advances of her younger sister,” I remarked, succeeding in releasing my wrist from him.

“What makes you think I want to invest my loyalty in this marriage?” asked Noah, revealing his true intentions behind the marriage. “I only married your sister to give you a taste of your own medicine. I do not love her.”

“Are you out of your mind, Noah?” I lashed out, disgusted by the man before him. “How could you do that to someone as innocent as Anna?”

“Just how you could cheat on a man who devoted himself to you,” responded Noah, blaming me for my sister’s predicament. “If only you hadn’t betrayed me, this wouldn’t have happened to your sister.”

“I didn't cheat on you. Even if I were to have cheated on you with anybody, I don’t think it would still be justifiable for you to punish my sister for it,” I spoke, clearly failing to comprehend his reasons for involving my sister in all of this. “As you’ve already confessed to marrying my sister out of the desire to hurt me, I want you to release her from this sham marriage by divorcing her.”

“If I were to do that, how would I hurt you, Christie?” asked the vindictive one. “Since I wish for you to go through the same pain that tormented me when I saw your pictures with another man, I plan on keeping your sister married to me while I make you bear my children.”

“You bastard!” I screamed, threatening to reveal the reasons behind his marriage to my sister and my parents. “If you won't leave her, then I’ll tell her the truth about what happened last night and make sure that she left the marriage before you ruin her life as well.”

The manner in which he had the most bizarre response to my threats, I knew it wouldn't be easy to bring him down. The villain, instead of fearing being exposed, laughed to his heart's content, something that helped me recognize that the man I had once loved was dead.