I looked badly at Lileth who was sleeping peacefully. The bruises on her arm and other parts of her body were obvious. She also had black eye, a cracked lip, and swollen whole face. Even the wounds on her forehead. I pay the hospital not to let out what happened to her.
If you look at her she obviously went through a lot of beatings. She even overcame the past with hazing. You could hardly recognize her face because of the beating. She is strong and still alive.
Her child fell before we got to the hospital. The doctor said the baby was more than two months old. If you count, this is the week I was in Thailand and came home just a few days ago.
Lileth insisted that I am the father. That maybe that time she have a menstruation and I claimed her was the time she is pregnant. She said it was possible to happen. What does she think of me, a fool like her? She won’t fool me, she can’t fool me this time.
How dare she get pregnant again? How many more times will she cheat on me? Does she keep doing it again and again? Is Dylan really her man? Because no one else can approach her but him. He is the only one who can approach her freely.
I wanted to take her home to be beaten again and let her confess but the doctor would not agree. I was just wasting money on her and the fruit of her flirtation. The thickness of her face tells me that I am the father. Fuck her. I will really kill her.
The door slammed open and slammed shut. Dylan came in and continued to my seat.
“Motherfucker!” I shouted then wiped my lip that immediately bled. I bled from her punch. He grabbed my clothes and punched me.
“What did you do?” he asked calmly. But instead of answering I just smiled at him. “Tell me what you did?!”
“What am I doing? Take a look so you can see what she looks like.” There is no use in denying now that he’s here. He turned to Lileth and tearfully looked at me.
“What have you done to her?” He holding back his anger. His hand was shaking as well as his lip. His face was very red and his eyes were teary but I just smiled at him.
“I killed her child,” I whispered, and then the smile widened even more. “I kill her child.”
“What?” Astonishment registers on his face “What did you say?”
“Are you Lileth’s man, Dylan? Do you have a relationship with my wife? Because if so, I have killed your son.”
“What are you saying?!”
“She is pregnant and I am not the father. So I killed his child.”
“Are you stupid, huh?” He released me and stood in front of me. “You’re out of your fucking mind.” Dylan looked angry as I calmly just smiled at him.
“Why, do you think my wife is good? No Dylan, my wife is itchy because she got someone else pregnant before we got married.” I saw the surprise on his face so I smiled. “She made others pregnant and married me to save her shame. And now she repeated it again. I just left for Tuguegarao and got pregnant a few months later and is still forcing her child on me.”
I really won’t believe she is pregnant when I went to Thailand because I was menstruating when I arrived. I’m sure she got pregnant when I headed to Tuguegarao and I would insist on mine.
“Lileth can’t do it.”
“I am telling the truth.”
“Liar.”
“Maybe I’m different from all Dy because I lie when it comes to my own welfare and I always cover up my mistakes instead of correcting them first. But I don’t makeup stories to hurt others. I lied in a way that didn’t hurt other people. You know me that when I’m wrong I admit when I’m overwhelmed and there’s nothing to escape. And now that you have seen that my wife had bruised, I will admit to you the truth. Since the day of our honeymoon, I have been physically hurting and insulting Lileth.”
“Everything you said is not true. Lileth can’t fool you.”
“I won’t force you to believe me. I don’t care what your reaction and opinion are.”
“How can you say you are not the father of her child? You are her husband.”
“I haven’t touched her since I left for Thailand. Because I have Erika again.”
“What?” His face looked shocked and wanted to punch me.
“I hooked up with Erika in simple words and Lileth knew. And I will insist that Lileth’s child is not my child. Ah! Maybe you are the father because while I was away you were there with and you both of you locked in our room. How many times have you had sex when I’m not around. Is your brother’s wife good?”
“Shut up, we’re just talking because I want her to admit that you hurt her. We didn’t do anything.”
“Okay,”
“What’s really going on, Dave?”
“I answered you, my wife was flirty, itchy, and made others pregnant.”
“I do not believe you. Unless they come out of Lileth’s mouth, I won’t believe you. Everyone has a reason, something you don’t know, or your wife is hiding something. Because she’s not that kind of woman, you know that.”
“No matter what you say, I will never forget that woman is a cheater.”
“She’s not like that.”
“Don’t cover-up. She was different than and different now. She is no longer the Lileth we know because she is hiding a secret.”
“In that case, give her to me.” He said calmly. “I’ll take her from you.”
“Well, take her and she’s yours if you want. I totally don’t need her anymore because Erika and I are together again. Honestly, I already file an annulment but she doesn’t want to sign.”
“You’re not on your mind, Dave. I don’t know what happens to you.”
“I don’t know what happened to me either. I’m going crazy Dylan. All I knew was that I wanted to hurt her for what she did to me. I am angry with her, I am angry with what she did and now she is repeating it. She fools me over and over again.”
“You don’t even think right.”
“I don’t want to think because she herself admitted. Take her and I don’t care about her anymore. Take it anywhere, marry her if you want to make your dream come true.”
“I will be back here the day she comes out. And do not touch her or approach her or else I will kill you.”
“You can stay because I’m leaving. I will meet Erika cause I miss her so much.”
“Are you really stupid?”
“Isn’t it obvious?”
“What is happening to you! Why do you indulge in anger without thinking?!”
“I was thinking, Dylan. That’s why I’m crazy because I wonder why she did that to me. Because I wonder why she cheated on me and I can’t get the answer that’s why I’m like this.”
“Because you preceded her with anger and judgment. You did not know the truth first and you did not listen to her. You immediately sent out anger so she was afraid to speak.”
“If she really loves me, she won’t get to the point where she’ll get someone else pregnant.”
“If she was pregnant before, what did you do to her child?” I just smiled at him. “What?!”
“I killed it.”
“What?”
“I gave her an abortion pill without her —-” I didn’t finish what I was about to say after the blows that Dylan unleashed on me.
“Fuck you! Why did you do that to a child?” He keeps on punching me and I am avoiding it because I know that even if I fight him I won’t win either. “Fuck you!”
“Stop!” When I found an opportunity I pushed him. “Even if you kill me, her child I killed will never come back and neither will her child now that I killed.”
“Fuck you, when she’s with me I won’t bring her back to you and I hope you don’t regret what you did.”
“I will not regret it and I have no intention of taking her back from you. I will be even happier if you can force her to sign the annulment.”
“I hope the outcome of your stupidity won’t be a nightmare for you, Dave. Remember, anger —-driven action does not sleep. Because instead of thinking properly, it just drowns you. You never learned from what happened to Dale and me. You are even making it worse.”
“What happened to us is different from yours so don’t compare. You two are more stupid than I am. And I will not regret what I did. And I will have no regrets when the day comes.”
“Fuck you.”
“Fuck you, too.”
We stared until the door opened and the doctor who stopped us entered. ‘I’m not afraid of you, Dylan. You can have my wife if you want.’