Chapter 84: The Mistress
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She spared him a glance before turning back to face the phone and she fisted her hand in anger when the emcee mentioned Ruby's name. Anyone could have gotten the award, why did it have to be Ruby? Why did everything revolve around the Conrad family?
Oliver, who was ignored by Heather, was pissed too. He hates it when he is trying to have a serious conversation but he is ignored. He snatched the phone from her and threw it on the floor. She had been watching the damn show since they entered the car.
'What the hell?!" She snapped and he stared at her in disbelief.
'What?"
'Why the fuck would you smash my phone on the ground?"
'That is your only concern right now?" He asked and Heather tilted her head at him.
'Am I supposed to have any other worries?"
'What?"
'You deserve everything happening to you, I hope SJAY does more than collapse, I hope this damage would reach Sparkle too, I hope it would give you a lot of problems…" She said but her words were cut off when Oliver slapped her with the back of his hand.
Her head whipped to the side and she stared at the floor with eyes wide in disbelief, she couldn't believe that Oliver just slapped her.
'Oliver… You just slapped me," She said and the man scoffed.
'What? I just slapped you? I should do more than that but after everything you are a woman. You caused all these damn things that are happening, who told you to post that damn video of Sapphire? Who asked you to do that?!"
'You told me to take care of her! You asked me to.."
'I didn't tell you to ruin everything all over again, you wanted to take care of her? You should have done it in a mature way, didn't your damn brain tell you that Alexander would come after us and what the hell did you tell Mike to keep that video for?"
'What video?"
'Don't play dumb Heather,"
'Use your damn sense of reasoning Oliver, I didn't tell him to shoot any video why would I do that? If I told him to do that, why would I show my face?"
'You have only a few hours to get that video of yours away from the internet or you are dead, I don't know why I dated someone as idiotic as you in the first place," He said and Heather's eyes widened, she started shaking her head, she is familiar with this routine.
Five to four years ago, Oliver never mentioned how proud and rude he thought of Sapphire, no matter how many times Heather tried to make him agree with her and it was the day he said it himself that he left the woman.
'I…I would take it away, I am sorry Oliver, I would start being smart, I won't be stupid," She begged desperately, but the man only glanced at her before removing his phone from his pocket, Heather could see that it was Luci calling and Oliver had this relieved expression, the man had found assurance with Ellucianda Carter.
'Don't go to her Oliver, I am sorry, I would just make the adjustment you want, how about we both sit and try to solve this issue?" She asked to hold his hand but the man only glanced at her face and tried to remove his hand but she held on tight.
'Let go!" Oliver said but Heather shook her head, she had the look of a crazed woman.
'No, don't go to her, you said that the only place you would find comfort is with me, don't go to Luci, I have heard the things she says, she want to ruin you, she is Sapphire's friend," Heather said hysterically and Oliver wondered if she just became crazy or if she had always been nuts.
'Leave me the fuck alone!" He yelled at her and snatched his hand from her, the impact making her fall to the ground, she hit her head on the edge of the coffee table but Oliver was already walking away, he had reached the door and hadn't turned not even once.
She wondered if this was the way Sapphire felt that day, on the floor, abandoned by the man you love and losing the admiration they had for you, the feeling is horrible, this is a nightmare.
Oliver turned once he was at the door and his eyes skimmed over the woman, her hair was getting wet from the blood that was sipping from her head, her eyes met his and she felt like she was staring at the devil's eyes and she had lost favor in those eyes.
She felt the wet liquid that stained her forehead and knew that it was blood, her fiancé must have seen it and still went away, she should be strong like Sapphire had been and get her ass up and move to any nearby hospital but she isn't a strong, that is why she had clung unto Oliver all these while.
'The Danavivie's award for the most loyal goes to Mrs. Sapphire Conrad." She heard in the semi daze she was in, her ears were able to make out those words and at that moment she had to admit to herself that she did loose, after all she did, she still lost.
Sapphire became an Aldine, she didn't become a Gray, Sapphire got the loyal woman award and was applauded with genuine applause that had never been given to her, she had kids while she didn't and lastly she found a man who loved her for who she is, she had to get the fact that Oliver would never love her for who she is, not in this life, not in the next.
Would she change? Is this a chance for her to remodel her own self? Of course not!
Even though she knows that Sapphire still won, knowing herself, she won't accept the fact that Sapphire won, she won't let her have the last laugh, it just wasn't in her own self to do that.
