THE BILLIONAIRE’S PERFECT MATE

“Don’t come close to me”, Ellie yelled, trying to get up from the bed and head to the exit. But before she could get up from the bed, Kevin moved towards her in a swift, and pinned her down on the bed, with no way for her to escape.

“Please, don’t do this”, Ellie begged with tears in her eyes.

“I am sorry, my love. You brought this upon yourself”, Kevin said, leaning in. Ellie fought as hard as she could to stop Kevin but she couldn’t overpower him due to his strength. And right there at that moment, Ellie was raped and molested. Despite Ellie’s plead and cries, Kevin didn’t stop.

“You are still as sweet as you used to”, Kevin said as soon as he got up from the bed, after having raped Ellie. Ellie just laid on the bed, motionless, with tears in her eyes, overwhelmed by the horror of what had just transpired between them. On the day she was getting married and was supposed to be the happiest day of her life, she felt utterly broken. How could she have allowed for this to happen? At that moment, she just felt useless and disgusted. She kept blaming herself for going there that morning. After minutes of lying on the bed with her pretending that the world around didn’t exist, she finally dressed up and made her way to the door.

Kevin who was lounging by the window saw her heading towards the door and asked, “Leaving so soon? Don’t you think we should go for one more?”, Kevin taunted, laughing. Ellie turned around to look at his face and she was disgusted by the smile on it. The anger in her began to build up and as she watched Kevin laughed, she felt like strangling him to death for what he had done to her. Kevin stood up and went to meet her where she was standing.

“I know you enjoyed every bit of it. Stop pretending. If you do not mind, we can meet up tomorrow and make history repeat itself. Be safe on your way to meet your darling lover”, Kevin said, turning around and heading back to his chair with satisfaction on his face. Ellie felt wronged by him and wouldn’t let him go like that without letting him gets punished. When she couldn’t contain her anger anymore, she looked around her and saw a flower vase, beautifully placed on the table. Picking it up, she hit him on the head with it from behind.

Kevin yelled in pain, falling to the ground. He held his head and in no time, he was bleeding profusely. Realizing what she had just done, Ellie dropped the remaining part of the broken vase which she was still holding in her hand with fear.

“What have I done? What have I done?”, Ellie kept on repeating, trembling. She was in a dilemma and she didn’t know what to do. Kevin was lying motionless on the floor, gradually losing his consciousness. At that moment, the only thing Ellie could think of was to flee and which she did, leaving Kevin bleeding on the floor.

Edward on the other hand had gone to the police to report Ellie missing. The police had gone out searching for her. Edward was becoming more worried with no report from neither the police or his search team that she had been spotted. Ellie on the other hand was in a taxi, heading to nowhere in particular. She didn’t want to go home as she just wanted to be alone. She wasn’t sure if Kevin had died.

“What if he is dead? Will I go to jail? What if Edward gets to know about what happened today? I don’t even know how to face him”, she kept on thinking with the thoughts tormenting her. She sobbed with hurt in her heart. At that moment, she was a lost and confused soul, who didn’t know where to go and what to do. After driving around for a while, she finally asked the driver to drop her at the front of a church. It was the church she and Edward were supposedly to be getting married that day. She walked into the church and sat at a corner, weeping, thinking about her life so far. Her life hadn’t been the way she wanted it to since her mother died and she met Kevin. Her father abandoned both her and her mother and she had seen her mother as her only family but the sudden death of her mother changed everything about her life and dreams.

“If mum was alive, this wouldn’t be happening to me. Why is life so unfair to me? Why is it that any time I want to be happy, an event will occur to disrupt that? Am I that unlucky? How do I want to explain things to Edward? I do not even know what will happen to me in the next few minutes!!!! What if Kevin is dead and the police are currently in search of me?”, Ellie had thought over and over again weeping. She sat there for hours, weeping and when she was tired of weeping, she stopped. She sat quietly, looking at the cross in front of her. At that moment, she needed help and prayed to God to ease her pains and send help her way.

Few minutes after her prayer, the church’s door flung opened and there stood at the entrance, policemen. On seeing them, her heart started to beat fast and she had thought that her worst fear was about to become a reality.

“Kevin died and the police are here to arrest me”, she had thought. As the police took each step towards her, she didn’t know what to do and just stood still, closing her eyes and waiting for her worst fear to happen. The hands of someone pulling her in for a hug made her open her eyes and it was no other than Edward.

“How did he find me? What is he doing here with the police?”, those were her thoughts. They remained in that position for quite a while.

“You scared me. Why didn’t you tall me you were going somewhere? I had thought something happened to you”, Edward said, letting go of Ellie and looking at her in the eyes. On looking at her face, he realized something; that she had been crying.

“Did anything happen to you? Have you been crying?”, Edward asked, which got Ellie emotional and she burst into tears instead of responding to Edward’s question. Realizing she was hurt at that moment, he hugged her patting her back.

“Since she is safe, I think we should go now, Mr. Lion”, the head of the police said.

“Thank you for you help. I really appreciate. You are dismissed”, Edward said, with the police showing their respect and leaving. It was after the police had left that Ellie felt at ease. Edward sat on the bench in the church with Ellie’s head on his shoulder. They sat there for quite a while without any of them speaking.

“Do you mind telling me what happened today?”, Edward asked, when he noticed Ellie was calm and had stopped crying. Ellie didn’t respond as she didn’t know whether to say the truth or not. And if she were to say the truth, she didn’t know how to present it, to make Edward believe her. So, she made up her mind to keep quiet.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“It’s fine if you do not want to talk about it but I want you to know that you can always share your burden with me and I will always be ready to listen to you. I promise you in front of this altar, that I will never leave you. I promise to always stand by you no matter what happens and I promise to love you till my last breath. Just know that I will always be for you and never be against you”, Edward said, Those words touched Ellie that she started to tear up again, feeling guilty that she had betrayed the man who was willing to do anything for her.

“It’s okay baby. I know you are going through a lot right now. Just like you walked with me through my pains and healed me, I promise to do the same for you too. I am willing to share your burdens with you as it’s my language of expressing my love for you. I love you, my love”, Edward said, trying to assure Ellie of his undying love for her.

Ellie on the other hand, lifted her head from Edward’s shoulder and looked straight into his eyes. All she could see there were sincerity and true love which she had always yearned for. Now that someone was ready to give her those, she questioned herself if she really deserved that and if she should go for it even if it was at the detriment of Edward’s peace and him getting betrayed and hurt again?