So, I had only one option and that’s to avoid her and run into the bathroom. If I can get in there, I can shut the door and scream for help from inside there.
“What do you want, Sophia? It doesn’t matter what it might be I’ll give it to you, just let me go… please” I pleaded helplessly, but I’m not sure she was listening to me.
“Your life… at this point, your life and that of your unborn child is all I want. So, will you give it to me?” she asked wickedly as she rested beside the bathroom door.
“Help me! Help me please, somebody!” I yelled at the top of my voice, but no one came.
I suddenly heard a crash on the floor as she pushed everything on my makeup table down to the floor.
“You’re still the same sh’t-face you’ve always been, you’ll never change. You asked me what I wanted and when I told you, all you thought to do was to scream for help? The same fu’king way you promised you’d always protect me, but when the time came for you to do as you said, you fu’king bailed on me. Sorry sis, but nobody will come to save you, not your slutty maids and servants, not your worthless mother, not even your bastard of a husband- Markian.” She cited heartlessly.
“Please let me go Sophia, what have I ever done to you to make you want to hurt my child? I brought you home, I tried to unite you with Markian but you turned out to be a liar. I tried to protect you the best I could but you’ve ever only paid me back with more lies and evil. If you let me go, I promise I’ll not hold these against you and I’ll plead on your behalf to Markian to forgive you. You can start a new live somewhere else and nobody would come looking for you, I promise.” I stated but the response I got told me just how far my sister had gone.
“I don’t need your pity b’tch! (scoff)… you have no fu’king idea how I’ve spent the past 30mins wondering just how deplorably I could present your lifeless body to Arky. I mean, what better parting gift would scream ‘Screw you, Markian’ other than the dead body of his beloved second wife and unborn child?” she questioned ruthlessly and I felt like tearing her apart.
I could almost feel my heart beating out of my chest.
“Help me Please! Somebody, help!” I yelled again with all my strength.
But all I got back was silence, followed by a loud explosion of glass. Sophia threw a bottle of perfume towards me, but she missed and it met with the well beside me.
“You worthless piece of trash! I gave up everything because of you, and now your dickhead of a husband have taken away the last thing that I had. No matter how I look at these, you’ll have to be the punishment I give him, Livy. For me to keep living in this world you’ll have to seize to exist.” She stated angrily as she threw another bottle of perfume towards me, but I blocked it with my arms.
I needed a way to draw her away from the bathroom door so I can go in to seek refuge there.
“Sophia, stop it! You’re talking about murder here, you want to kill me and my baby? If I’ve wronged you and Markian have also wronged you, what have our baby done to you?” I asked panicky and scared for my baby’s life as I slowly moved closer to the bed.
I picked up a pillow and used it as a shield to protect my stomach and chest from whatever she decides to throw at me next.
“That abomination in your belly is the symbol of your betrayal and Markian’s broken promises, and since it’s important to the both of you it’s the only thing I can take away from you two that would destroy all your hopes and dreams.” She plainly answered.
She must have thought about these long enough, but I will never let her hurt my child- never.
“Sophia, I’m listening. You don’t want to do these; you don’t want to end your life this way. I know Markian hurt you, I hurt you too but you don’t have to do whatever you are thinking of. I’ll leave- I’ll go away with my child and never return to Markian’s live ever again if you let me go now. You can live here with Markian and take back what was yours, but you have to first be benevolent and let me go in peace.”
I tried my hardest to say those words as calmly as I could, but all I got was a villainy laughter from Sophia and a cold scoff following.
“Oh sister, you really think I’m doing all these because i want Markian back, don’t you? That bastard means nothing to me at all, never have and never will. The only person I’ve ever loved in my life was the person that that asshole took from me. So, it’s only befitting that I too take away something that he loves dearly too, don’t you agree?” she asked rhetorically with a bitterness that sent shivers down my spine.
I took up courage and moved towards her slowly in hope to get close enough to smack her with the pillow and run into the bathroom. My heart was beating very fast and my breathing was ragged, but I kept moving closer.
“Sophy, I’m your sister. We share the same blood and I love you regardless of what you’ve done in the past. I’m terribly sorry that Markian hurt you so much but it’s not the end. Please, let me help you out of these.” I humbly requested as I got close enough to strike.
But I couldn’t. She stood still as I reached her and I stared into her pain stricken eyes, it was as though my words got to her.
She wants to give me a chance to help her, and I stretched forth my hand slowly towards her requesting for the key not breaking our eye contact.
But in split seconds something in them changed and it dawned on me that my sister was beyond redeeming. She grabbed my hand in a flash and pulled me towards herself, but I smack her with the pillow I held in my other hand as hard as I could, knocking her off balance.
But she was quick on her feet, so before I could open the bathroom door and run in, she grabbed me by the hair and pushed me against the wall with so much force. My head hit the wall with a great thud, and that was the last thing I heard as I forced my eyes open but could only see doubles.
I couldn’t feel much, just the throbbing pain in my head and blood stain on the palm I used in supporting my aching head, which I was also seeing double.
I dropped to the ground disoriented and laid there immobile as I briefly saw the door to my room burst open before I blacked out.