CHAPTER ONE: DIVORCE

PAMELA’S POINT OF VIEW.

The driver pull up in the compound of the mansion, I opened the door of the backseat where I was seated and step out of the car, draping my backpack over my shoulder.

I look sideways and I realized my husband car, I turn over my wrist to check my wristwatch and it was just 2:00pm.
” Jason is back? I muttered to myself.

I took a step forward and paused again, that is unusual of my husband to return home at this time of the day most especially for the past one month that we have been having issues over me not getting pregnant.

I walked into the mansion and I find my husband sipping a drink with a document beside him on one of the couch.

He was on a call with a business partner and the thought of he being mad at me again just as he had been in few days. It’s been hell with him, he is been acting weird, he screams at me for no reason, calls me barren for not being able to have a child in the space of almost our three years marriage.

I walk to him trying to pull a smile, waiting for him to terminate his video call. when he hangs the call, I greeted him, he look back to me and the way he scan me from head to toe disgustfully and didn’t respond to my greeting made my eyes became teary, i try not to cry by pushing back my tears but it finally dripdown.

A tear escapes my eyes but I quickly dried it with my fingers, I didn’t want him to show my weakness.
” Hi, Jason, you returned so early today, I hope everything is fine? I asked.

He didn’t respond instead he picked the document beside me and stretches it to me.
” What is that? I asked and collected the document.
” Sign it” he says emotionless.
Before opening the document, I stare at him for a while wondering what could be in the file he had just given to me.

I open it and was shocked at what I saw.
” A divorce? I asked.
” Since you couldn’t fulfil your own part of the bargain, there is no point of you remaining here as my wife” he says to me.
“ What do you mean? Jason you know I am trying , I am trying to conceive? I said to him and pull off my backpack.
“And you couldn’t do what another woman did in a month? He says to me.
“ What do you mean? What are you talking about? I asked.
“ You know I am trying to have babies? I am not God, I pray over it everyday,hoping God answers us? I said.
“ For how long do you think I wish to stay? This is supposed to be in a space of two years in our three years contract marriage? I was considering that I will let you keep my last name but you didn’t fulfil that bargain.
“ We still have few months more, God could answer our prayers? I said trying to sound convincing.

Then I heard something being drag down the stairs. They were my luggage. “What’s going on? I asked blinking my eyes. I was still asking questions thinking I have seen it all then a lady climb down the stairs, his PA, Anna, she turn to the maids.
“Please, I don’t want all those trash in my house” I turn to Jason trying not to break down but I did, I broke down in tears.

Anna walks to my husband,She kisses him and she cradle her tummy in my presence.
“ Honey, my baby needs his dad’s presence in the bedroom, she says stealing a look at me.

She flashes her diamond expensive ring to my face then she walks to me, she picks up the divorce paper and hits it on my Chest. “ You better sign this, I and my baby needs to walk down the aisle before he or she is born! I didn’t taken the divorce document from her, I let the document slipped off and fall to the ground.
“ Sign the divorce papers! After all it’s a deal between us” he says to me.
“Everything we share is a deal to you Jason?A deal? I said with my heart broken.
I lower myself and pick the document, I took a pen out of my backpack and sign the divorce.

Then I turn back to leave and he said to me. “ I arranged some things for you already, A house,a car and some money” he says.

I turn back to him and he has a document in his hand. I walk back to him and take the document.
“To you it’s all about the money right? You think I care about your goddam money! I loved you Jason! I loved you! It might have been a contract initially but I grew to love you”I said in between my sobs.
“Gold digger! Anna muttered with so much anger in me, I walk closer to him and I hit her on her face. She held her face while I shred the documents given to me by Jason”

I pick my backpack and rush into my car and I drove off, I was so mad at me that I didn’t care what happen next, I stepped on the Accelerator of the car and increase the speed before I knew it I lost control and that was all I remebered until I woke up in the hospital wining in pain.

I wince in pain as I lay in the hospital bed, tears dripping down my face hoping someone will show up at the hospital to offer me some help.

Tears dripped down my face, I had lost hope when I heard Jason’s uncle, Mr Andrea walk into my hospital room.
” Hi Pamela? He called out my name.

Yes Pamela that’s my name, an Orphan, Divorcee, Jason Curtis ex wife.

My ex husband used to be one of the hottest young billionaire in the country but here I am stuck in the hospital with no penny.

I was involved in a ghastly accident and I need a lot of money for surgery or I will end up having one arm and one leg. I don’t want to have

It’s all Jason’s fault, if he hadn’t thrown a divorce to my face before the end of our baby contract , I wouldn’t have left in anger and ended up in the hospital.

Nothing seems to hurt me more than the pregnancy I just lost. I wish I knew I was pregnant before he threw me out of his house.

I pray I get out of here alive, I am going to make him pay.

My tears dripped down uncontrollably as I think back to my lost pregnancy.

Then I heard the voice that called me previously call me again. I knew that voice.

That Mr Andrea’s voice, My exes uncle voice.What is he doing here? Why is he here? I asked myself.
” How are you feeling right now Pamela? He asked in a mocking tone.

He laughed out so hard. ” You look really awful in your broken arm and broken leg, where is my nephew? He asked in a mocking tone.
” Isn’t he here to be beside you? He asked.

Tears dripped down my face when he asked about my husband, it feels like he had just opened the winded part of my body.
“I heard you guys are now officially divorced” he says and takes his steps one after the other until he stood in front of me.

Out of my pains I managed to tell my ex husband’s uncle.
” Ha…. v… e  you co…. me…. to mock me? I asked in tears and what are you doing here?
” To help you from your horrible situation” he says.
” How did you know I am here? I asked.
” I was driving when you had the accident as a matter of fact I was the one who called the emergency unit” he says.
” How do you plan to help mead you can see I am in a very hard situation right now” I said.
” Of course no, I have come to give you an offer in exchange of your surgery” he says.

I shut my eyes and thought of it, another contract? I didn’t have another contract but I have no choice than to accept for the sake of my health.
” I accept your offer, please help me ” I pleaded.
“You will help me get some documents I’m your ex husband’s house secretly then after that you will be free” Mr Andrea says.
” Alright as long as my legs and hands are saved from getting amputated” I said.
” Of course, your hand and legs are not going to be amputated as long as you agree to work for me” Mr Andrea says.

” I will pay for your surgery right now” he promised.

Immediately he paid for my surgery, I was wheeled to the theatre where my surgery commenced.

Within few hours my surgeries were done. I spent two more months in the hospital.

There was surveillance around the hospital because of me with some of my ex uncle’s guard.

This prove I dare not try to even run. I got better and was lodged in a hotel for my assignment.

I was taken for shopping and after that , I got the list of the documents that I am supposed to search for my ex uncle.

I dressed up looking elegant like never before, I wore a white stylish female suit with a D’Orsay shoe with my hair packed in a high bun. I pick my white clutch purse trying to look as confidence as ever.

I step out of my hotel room, I walk into the elevator after some minutes the elevator stopped and open, I stepped out and walk into the Uber waiting for me.

The Uber took me straight back to my ex husband house.

It’s a private property with residence being restricted so I had to call my ex and tell him, I want to take some of my credentials. Lies.

He screamed at me on the phone. ” What the hell do you want again?! He yelled at me in the phone.
” I forgot my birth certificate and some of my documents, I need to look for work to survive” I said softly.
” No way! There is no way you are entering into my home! He yelled over the phone.
” Please, I promise to just take what I want and take my leave” I said trying to sound convincing.
” Please” I said again.