Phoebe felt lonely tears roll down her eyelids down her cheeks as she stared at the scene in front of her, he looked like another man entirely.
She was staring at her husband, Ace, he was inside a beautiful pinkish barbie doll room while she stood outside the door staring at him unoticed. Ace was sitting next to a beautiful blonde girl who was sleeping on a pink queen sized bed.
Phoebe watched as he squeezed her hands and stared at her softly, lovingly.
It was very heartbreaking to her, it felt like a knife was buried deep into her heart, cutting it into pieces, the man she had shown her love to for more than 7 years always handled her roughly but was so soft to a girl he barely met six months ago, that alone was enough to break phoebe into pieces.
No, she didn't want to see more, she didn't!
She was scared that she would break down in front of him if she saw more.
Phoebe moved back and then she ran without a stop, not even to catch her breathe, immediately she entered her room, she locked the door and let her back slide down the door until she was sitting on the floor.
She tried to stop the tears but they were coming with full force the more she tried to stop it. She used her palm to cover her lips as her sobs increased, she thought that she could control it!.
She wished she could but it hurts more than a knife being slashed deep into her heart.
Suddenly a knock was heard but she ignored it, the knock was heard continuously until her friend amanda's voice boomed from outside the room.
"Phoebe, I know your in there, open up"Amanda yelled and knocked again making phoebe to stand up and unlock the door.
"Phoebe, is Ace again right?"Amanda muttered staring at her only friend with pity, phoebe looked like someone who had given up and her beautiful white wings were now clipped off her body, her eyes were swollen and red.
Phoebe finally let herself fall but before she could reach the cold floor, amanda had already caught phoebe by her arm while using her other palms to clean phoebe's tears.
"Phoebe, phoebe, when will you stop doing this to yourself?, when would you accept the fact that he would never love you, He isn't meant to be with you, he doesn't deserve your love and you know what, that b**ch he loves so much.......
"Amanda, keep it down"phoebe whispered while looking around before pulling amanda inside her room and locking the door.
"Don't cry again, one day he would regret what he had done" Amanda said as she pulled phoebe into a hug while she cried on her chest.
*****
Phoebe managed to stop crying and soon she fell asleep but it didn't take up to three hours she woke up.
Today was Thursday, another day has passed and ace never asked for her, for the past three months since Diana came to the mansion, he never cared about her wellbeing whether she was dead or Alive.
He only came to her only when diana and him had a misunderstanding, Phoebe couldn't understand herself lately, first, she loved when they had a misunderstanding because she saw it as an opportunity to have ace all to herself.
But that was just a fairy tale that could never come true.
Some days ago, Ace had a misunderstanding with diana and had hurt phoebe completely, not only did he roughly take her but he had m*aned diana's name while doing so making phoebe feel like a wh*re.
She felt completely used and dumped into a trashcan like a spoilt cabbage.
A wave of shame ran through her, digging under her skin and filling her veins with acid, but she pushed it away. She pushed it all away – the guilt, the shame, the disappointment, all the pain and despair – and she did things she couldn't take back.
Thinking about that, she felt tears begin to build in her eyeballs but she quickly blinked it away.
Phoebe walked out of her room, this time she followed a different route, the backside of the mansion and that was where the garden was located, she just felt like watching the flowers today.
She hasn't gone deep into the garden when her eyes met a pair of icy grey ones, her heart hammered deep into her ribcage, she feared that she might pass out from a panic attack.
Ace was a handsome tall but brooding man with attractive grey eyes that was no lesser than the word captivating.
Pheobe's eyes were on him that she never noticed dianna who was once her bestie, next to him.
She watched as ace went down on his knees until he was of the same length with dianna's stomach level and then, he placed a long kiss at her stomach.
Witnessing this little act, phoebe felt like her breathe had been snatched away from her, though It've been nearly two to three months since she started ignoring dianna but she never expected......
Phoebe couldn't breathe as she let her hand fly towards her chest, clutching it tightly as her eyeballs lingered around the little bump.
It felt like her chest had been split open, sending tiny cracks of her heart and fissures of her soul in all direction. A single tear slid down her cheek
Some minutes had gone but phoebe stood there staring at the scene in front of her, she had thought that everything was going to be okay!!.
She had thought that everything was going to be fine as long as ace doesn't kick her out but she was damned wrong again!!.
**7 HOURS LATER**
"Phoebe, when would you stop all these!, it hurst to see you like this!, you've been seated there for more than 5 hours now!"Amanda yelled staring at phoebe who was sitting on a stool looking as pathetic as ever.
Her eyes were red and teary, her eyeballs devoid of any emotion at that moment but as phoebe turned to stare at amanda, her chest clutched painfully.
"I....i....can't take this anymore, i wan....
The door burst open cutting phoebe off, the duo threw their gaze towards the door to see ace who walked in and glared at phoebe, the harshest and most evil glare he had ever given to her.
He walked towards her,with each step he took, his steps were still as flawless as ever.
Immediately he was close enough to her, he raised up his hand and then a hard but painful slap got connected to her cheeks making her to fall on her knees with blood rolling down the side of her lips.
He slapped her!!, the man she loves, her husband ace, had raised up her hand to slap her for an unknown reason.
That was enough to break her heart into million pieces.
"You b**ch!!, why the f*ck did you hurt dianna!!?"Ace yelled landing a hard kick on her stomach making her groan in pain while amanda watched with her mouth agape, unable to do anything.
"W.....what?, I....i never did ...anything"phoebe managed to speak out,she felt pained and it wasn't as a result of the kick but because of the fact that he was hitting her because of diana.
That when she felt harsh reality was really slapping her, ace never had a smidge of live for her, not even a tiny bit.
Ace squat down in front of her while staring at her coldly, wickedly and lastly, with so much hatred. He grabbed her by her hair and began to pull it hard making her head to swing back forcefully and the pain which he was inflicting on her through this action of his wasn't enough, he wanted more,so he wrapped his fist around her neck blocking her air passage while she struggled to breathe.
"A...am sorry, pl...ease...."phoebe pleaded while coughing severely trying to catch her breathe but ace wasn't letting her go just like that.
Finally,he unwrapped his fist around her neck and moved back like she just burnt him, he deeped his fingers into his hair and pulled it frustratedly.
Ace could only watch him, she could see it, he was pained, she could feel it but why was he pained??, she never did anything to hurt diana.
If she had known his love for diana was unshakable, she wouldn't have waited for him to fall for her.
She could have leave but she couldn't do anything at this point, neither can she turn back the hands of time.
Ace reached towards her and grabbed her by the arm before pulling her out of the room to God knows where, his grip on her arms were tight and she knew that a bruise might appear at that same spot he held very soon.
He left her hand then there was silence, cold bloody silence which scared the shit out of phoebe, she knew that ace was like a volcano ready for eruption anytime he was angry, she knew that this was just the calm before the storm.
"Why did you hurt diana, why did you kill our baby!!?"Ace yelled at her in anger making her legs to shiver a little but she managed to stand her ground.
"I didn't kill her!!, i didn't do it!"Phoebe said and he wrapped his fist around her neck blocking air passage to a point that she started gasping for air.
"Stop lying to me!, do you think am daft!?, Were you that envious!!, envious of the fact that she had something you never had!!"Derrick yelled with fire blazing inside his eyes and that pained her, she had loved this man for years but he only loved diana...that pained her more than anything else.
But upon hearing his words, it increased the pain that had threatened to suffocate her, his words had brought back buried memories. He was trying to remind phoebe of her inability to give birth.
"Yes, i...i was envious!, Because she had everything that i couldn't have and could never have, after she came you started avoiding me......"Phoebe paused trying to catch her breathe as tears slid down her cheeks.
"Because of that!!!?, you murdered my child because of that?? "Ace's angry voice boomed around the lonely hallway.
"i would make you feel real pain, i would make you.....beg for death!!!"Ace yelled and pushed her to the floor before walking away.
Phoebe fell to the floor before sitting on the lonely hallway path hugging her knees while her tears rolled down her cheeks soaking her shirt, this was just the beginning, she could feel it, he was going to make her beg for death and right now, all she wanted was death.
*
Two days has passed since ace made that promise to her and she hadn't seen him since then, she overheard his personal guards saying that he locked himself inside his studyroom all day consoling Diana and trying his best to make her happy.
She also found out that a maid had accused her of killing diana's baby by using poison, the maid had also brought out a video of phoebe sneaking into the kitchen to taint diana's lunch with poison which phoebe knew she never did.
Hell!, she never entered the kitchen that day!!
Everyone spoke good about ace and diana day and night while anytime she had pass, she would be called the third wheel.
As Phoebe sat on the dungeon's cold floor contemplating her date, the dungeon cold steel gate was suddenly opened and three guards walked in smirking devilishly.
That smirk alone made her gulp as she moved back in fear, wh...what were they about to do?, To whip her or beat her to death like how they did every smidge of time they got.
Cold shivers ran down her spine as she moved back.
As she was still in deep thoughts, she begin to panick but to her shock, they began to unbuckle their belts making her heart to beat faster than normal, she hugged the wall wishing that the wall wishing she could just disappear into the wall forever.
No, she can't live to see three men r*pe her, no!, She wouldn't live with that.
Three of them walked towards her like a predator walking towards his prey, one of them grabbed her arms, the other grabbed her other arm while the third guy held her two legs.
She struggled, she cried and fought but they were too big and bucky that she almost mistook them to be a huge beast.
And her attempt to break free was in vein so they tore her skimpy white shirt open exposing her two round b**bs.
Phoebe let out a loud cry.
But as the three r*ped her one after the other, she cursed Ace, she promised herself never to fall in love again, never to fall for Ace ever again.
Unconsciousness dragged her deeper under, feeling sleepier than usual. Somewhere far away, she heard the iron bars of the dungeon open and then close. Those b@stards must have left but she could barely move a limb. The last thought in her head before she passed out was...
She would never love ace ever again.
*****
Phoebe was naked and unconscious on the cold floor of the dark underground prison for four days, well, she couldn't tell how long because everywhere was so dark.
She wanted to end her life badly but....
There was nothing that was sharp enough to kill herself, the prison was just empty except from the walls and she would never hit her head on the wall....no, it would hurt than anything else.
Phoebe closed her hands into fists,her nails digging into her palm. It stung, like thorns pricking her flesh. She dug her nails deeper, cutting through her skin. She barely winced. The pain started with a pinch, almost unnoticeable, before it flared up. The harder she pushed her nails into the cut she had made, the burning sensation intensified.
Her palm throbbed then she bit her tongue till she tasted blood.
Phoebe hugged her knees trying to spread warmth around her body but it wasn't working at all, infact, she was literally freezing up because ace ordered his guards to lock her up in the cool dungeon which was the most cold and scary underground dungeons she had ever heard about.
She always heard the stories of the underground dungeon but she had never imagined herself to be inside there.
Her life had turned into a joke in just some hours.
She had turned from being a billionaire's wife to a filthy prisoner who was accused of killing her husband baby which wasn't hers.
Phoebe could remember her doctor's words very well, he told her that having a child wasn't impossible.
That she could have one but it'd take time because of the unknown sickness growing and multiplying inside of her, stopping her from having a child of her own.
Phoebe hugged her knees to her chest more tightly than usual, her eyeballs danced around the metalic bar for a moment thinking of a way to escape.....
But why bother?, when it was very impossible to do so.
"Phoebe??"
That alerted her immediately, was it a thief?, An intruder?, Getting curious, she squinted her eyes, trying to catch a glimpse of the person only to see a girly figure dressed in black like a gangster. Her moves were suspicious and she was holding a bunch of key.
Turning around, her eyes met a pair of green eyes.
"Amanda, what are you doing here!?, If your caught walking around here needlessly, you would be imprisoned" Phoebe muttered, panic visible in her warm brown eyes as she looked around, checking whether any guards were approaching this direction.
"I came to get you out, it was a very difficult task but fortunately, i successfully drugged those guards" Amanda said deeping the key into the key hole before twisting it downwards and then, the door was open.
"Amanda, you shouldn't be doing that!!?, If ace catches you, he would......!?" Phoebe said but before she could complete her statement, amanda had already pulled her out of the cold dungeon.
"I came well prepared, even if he was to catch me, i don't give a f**k!!" Amanda said removing the black jacket she wore and using it to wrap around phoebe's chest area, hiding her n*ked chest.
"Put this on as well and no time for explanations or questions,I will show you a secret exit route " Amanda added before pulling out the maid uniform hidden beneath her shirt.
"90% of your escape plan depend on this" Amanda said.
"Amanda, no!, i wouldn't leave, if i do, you would get hurt by ace guards" Phoebe retorted stubbournly, her brown eyeballs had a little gleam of fierce determination in them.
Amanda said nothing but instead, she threw the maid uniform at phoebe who made no effort in catching nor picking it when it fell to the floor.
"Follow me, if you don't want to wear it then they'd catch the both of us and end our god damned lives, am sure that is what you really want than one of us leaving for the best!!!"
Phoebe was a little taken aback by her harsh tune, amanda had never yelled nor spoke to her harshly, this was probably the first.
"If you really want me to be happy then do as i say and wear the bloody uniform!!" Amanda added, successfully keeping her harsh tune at bay.
Phobe complied without saying a word and soon, she had the white and black, too exposive maid uniform on, she knew that this choise of clothes were part of the plan because it clunged to her curves perfectly well.
Next, phoebe put on a purple wig, masking her identity.
Amanda began to walk out of the dungeon while phoebe followed behind.
When they were out of the dungeon, phoebe was a little shocked to see some guard's sleeping frame on the floor whike the few who didn't drink the sleeping juice amanda had gotten for them was too carried away by phoebe's body.
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Amanda pushed the wall with her palm and the wall turned exposing a door, immediately amanda opened it, phoebe peeped and a beautiful but sad smile formed on her face when she saw lots of trees scattered everywhere around the forest. The mansion was situated in the forest so it was normal to see trees.
"Let's go together" phoebe said but amanda shaked her head negatively before pushing phoebe out of the door and locking it.