Chapter 3 - Tears Keep Falling
1780 Words
For days, Kate and Ulysses' marriage had turned into one that cohabitant. After two days, Ulysses took another girl into the house. She tried to stop him, he pushed her out of the bedroom. And like before, she hits the door while calling for his name. And like he did before, he never opened the door for her.
The next day, she stood there watching them, him seducing this slut in front of her. And like before, she couldn't stop the tears falling in her eyes.
When he returned to their room, after he kissed that b***h on the door, he picked up all her clothes and dropped them in the living room.
"What are you doing?" She said as she gathered her clothes, "why are you taking my clothes out of our room?"
He dropped her last piece of clothes and said "I don't want to share my room with you. There's a guest room here if you're still not leaving." He then turned around and left her there, with her mouth wide open.
The following day, she woke up finding his luggage in the living room. Kate was alerted. Is he leaving her? Does he finally decide to leave her?
Ulysses walked out of his room, yes, his room, as her things were already moved to the guest room.
"Why is your luggage packed?" She asked, walking to him.
Ulysses just spared her a little glance and then walked to the kitchen to get some coffee. After that, he checked his phone.
Kate follows him to the kitchen and leans on the island to ask him again, "are you leaving?"
And again, he just looked at her and returned to his phone, he made a call. "Phil, get my luggage here and prepare the car". He walked back to his room and got his case.
Kate waited for him in the living room, standing, fidgeting. "Are you leaving me now?" She asked him.
Ulysses put his case on the couch and adjusted his tie. " Why would I leave?" he stared at her, "this is my penthouse, if anyone is leaving, it should be you," he sarcastically said.
Kate looked at him with her mouth wide open, "Ulysses..."
He held his hand up to stop her, "I gave you a chance to get a divorce, you said no." He eyed her, "I said I never love you, ever! This is my revenge."
The front door opened, and Phil, who she remembered as his driver, came in. "Get the luggage down, Phil." Which he obliged. Ulysses took out his phone again and dialed a number, "Richard, call Steve and get the jet ready. I'll be at the airport in thirty minutes," he ordered his assistant.
Kate was just looking at her husband. "Uly," she called to him, and he just turned his head and put his phone back inside the pocket of his suit. "Will you please talk to me? Tell me what's wrong. What revenge are you talking about?"
Ulysses stared at her, "why don't you ask your father?" He said, that made her frown.
"My father?"
"Ask him about Patrick Hemsworth" he smirked, "not that he will tell you the truth, anyway" his face became hard. After that, he turned around and walked to the door without saying goodbye to her.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ulysses had left and left Kate alone. She's been sitting on the couch debating whether she should call her father or not. Looking at her phone, she picked it up and scrolled down the names. She pressed the name she had found. Her call was answered afterward.
"Hello, best friend!" A female voice greeted her on the other line. "How's married life?" Her best friend Jenny asked.
"Jenny," her voice has a sad timbre, "could you come here, please?" She begs "I need you"
Her best friend becomes alerted all of a sudden "Kate, what's wrong? Are you okay?"
She shook her head, "no," she replied, "please come here, I don't know what to do anymore!" Tears started to build up in her eyes.
"Alright, alright," her best friend said, "give me thirty minutes, okay?"
Kate nods, "thank you"
Like she said, after thirty minutes, there was a knock on the door. She opens it, and as soon as it is open, Jenny launches herself to her and hugs her tightly.
"Beshie!" She screamed, and Kate let her, "What's wrong? What happened?" She asked while looking at Kate, and she noticed her eyes were red. "What have you done to yourself?" She noticed her appearance.
Kate walks back to the living with Jenny on her tail. They sit on the couch. Kate holds her hand, and she finally breaks down. Tears started falling down her eyes.
Jenny tried to pacify her, "shhh... what's wrong?" She brushed off the tears on her face "tell me what happened?"
And she did. She told her everything.
"Do you still love him?" Jenny asked her.
She thought for a moment, then she looked Jenny in the eyes and nodded " Yes, I still love him. No matter what."
Jenny smiled, "Then, why don't you make him fall for you again." She grabbed her hand and squeezed it, "and this time, make him fall hard," she said with a smirk.
Kate absorbed everything her best friend said. "Okay," she finally smiled.
Jenny stood up, getting ready to leave. "Call me if anything happens."
"Stay with me, please," Kate begged her best friend, "I don't want to be alone for now."
Jenny caressed her hair and kissed her forehead. "Alright! Let's have some girls' time," she smiled.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kate's POV
It's been three days since Ulysses left for what I've learned to be some business trip in Europe. And I have not yet returned to work since I'm still on my supposed honeymoon leave. I work as a manager at one of my father's branches. He gave me vacation leave to enjoy my new life as a wife.
I opened my car to carry all the groceries I'd bought to stock in the house. I love cooking, especially pastries, so many of the things I bought are for baking that I plan to do to pass these days.
I decided to make my husband fall in love with me through his stomach. Yep, people, I will make him fall hard with my cooking, correction, baking 'coz that's my forte.
And since he was out of the country for a few days, I have enough time to perfect my skills before he returns.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ten days, that's how long Kate has been waiting for Ulysses to return. Since he never told her when he would be back.
So imagine her surprise when the door suddenly opened, and her husband walked in one night.
"You're back!" Delighted about his return, she tried to welcome him, she washed her hand that was full of flour since she was still perfecting her baking skills. "How's your trip?" She asked and tried to help him remove his coat.
But Ulysses shrugs at her and rejects her help. This saddens her more. And she accepted the fact that he still didn't want her there.
But she didn't want to give up yet. "Have you had dinner yet?" She tried to make a conversation. But Ulysses didn't pay her any attention and walked to his room.
Releasing a heavy sigh, she sat on the stool, looking at her mess in the kitchen, and glanced again at her husband's bedroom door.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The next morning, Kate purposely woke up a lot earlier than usual, when she knows that Ulysses is not yet awake. She looked at the clock, it was still just past 6 in the morning. She knew that Ulysses usually woke up a little before 7.
She walked to the kitchen and opened the fridge to look for food that she would cook for him for breakfast. She got the bacon, ham, and egg. She toasts some bread too. As she assembles the food she cooks on the table, Ulysses walks out of his room freshly bathed. He is wearing a black suit with a light blue polo shirt underneath and a white tie.
She was caught off guard as she lusted for her husband. Well, nobody can blame her. It'd been so long since she saw him look deliciously handsome.
Her trance was cut when she saw him walking towards the front door with his case. She hurriedly walked towards him, "I have made breakfast," she said, looking at the table. " Why don't you eat before you go?" She smiled at him with flashing eyes.
"I'm not hungry," he said in his cold voice, without even looking at her efforts. His cold voice killed her bright mood that morning.
She couldn't say anything as she watched him walk out of the house. With a heavy shoulder, she walked back to the dining table and looked at the effort she made that was wasted.
Giving out a heavy sigh, she eats in silence.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's only five in the afternoon, but Kate is already busy in the kitchen. Ulysses had dumped her effort this morning, but she had already promised herself that she would never give up on him. On making him fall for her once again.
And with that, this time she is making him a nice dinner. She will make a steak with a veggie salad which he loves.
By the time she finished, it was nearly six in the evening. She hurriedly went to her room, took a shower, and wore a floral dress just above her knees. She applied some light makeup and lip gloss.
Satisfied with her appearance, she went back to the kitchen. Double-checking her masterpiece. Smiling, looking at the clock, fifteen minutes before seven, she sits and waits for Ulysses to arrive.
Kate was alarmed when she heard a crunching sound. She didn't realize that she had fallen asleep on the table. She quickly looks at the clock. She felt devastated as she read the time, and it was past ten in the evening.
The front door suddenly burst open, and he saw him walking wobbly. She quickly went to his side to help him, but he brushed her off.
"Don't touch me b***h!" He yelled at her. He tried to walk on his own again.
Hurt, she pulled her hands into her chest. Tears once again formed in her eyes as she watched him try to walk straight to his room.
She felt her face water with tears, with gloomy, heavy shoulders, she walked back into the dining room. She sighed as she cleaned up the table.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Writer
