Rafael watched his wife, she was more quiet and calm this week compared to last week, she hasn’t said a bad word to him and hadn’t challenged him either, he didn’t know what to make of her sudden silence, their first week of marriage had been a rollercoaster of different shocking events that he had woke up each day to her display, he could say he expected her to do something or say something to him that will ruin his mood but not recently, in fact, she hardly talked to him.
“Maybe if you were around, she might have spoken to you,”
The voice in his head whispered, it was true, he hasn’t been around much, he kind of felt bad, kind of, not totally, she wasn’t easy to deal with either, yes he hasn’t been around but the few times he was, she never lets him breathe in peace, they always have something to argue about, he had a lot on his plate right now, first on that list is exposing that bastard Leonard Jones who almost tricked him, if those rumors hadn’t started, he won’t have bothered to do a background check and find out that Leonard wasn’t to be trusted, the materials he already supplied to him as their pre-deal turned out to be substandard, all of them, well his cup was full because Rafael plans on making him eating sand, how stupid some businessmen can become sometimes amazed him, why would someone decide to ruin his own company with his hands by getting into gambling and gaming when he knows he can’t win? Well, Leonard made his bed, he has to lay on it, it was easy to indicate him and get him arrested the moron left a hell of clues and evidence behind, he was just stupid for the stunts he played.
Because of him and a few other things, Rafael has been mostly absent and they hadn’t been able to go for their honeymoon like they initially planned, maybe that was why she was mad, and her way of showing it is by giving him the silent treatment.
“Natalie?”
He called but she didn’t respond, okay, she must be really angry.
“Natalie?”
He called a little louder but still no response.
“Natalie!!!!”
He yelled out loud, this time she looked up, she didn’t say anything just stared at him with those beautiful eyes that calls to him, okay his wife was beautiful, he couldn’t deny that.
“Aren’t you going to answer?”
“What do you want?”
“What? What do I want? Is that how you answer?”
“How should I answer?”
“Why are you so, never mind,”
He said, he decided letting her be would be the best, she didn’t want to talk to him, it’s fine, her loss not his.
“Yeah right, says the one who wants something from her,”
“Shut the fuck up,”
He replied to the voice in his head, lately it has become annoyingly frequent for that voice to speak out.
“Why should I shut up when I wasn’t even talking?
Natalie asked, he didn’t even know he had said that out loud.
“Just ignore,”
He answered.
“I am going to,”
“Good,”
He said and silence took over, not like she was doing anything, she just sat there as if she was lost in thoughts and he could only watch her, she was beautiful, daring, he didn’t know about the daring part until their wedding,
“I have a question,”
She suddenly said that was the first time she talked to him first, in nearly three days.
“Yes?”
“Why are trying to ruin Leonard Jones’s life?”
“What do you mean by that? Where did you get that from?”
He asked even though he already knew from where she got it, there have been a lot of articles, Leonard’s family of course won’t just sit and watch him go down so they have been doing a lot of pity parties to those nasty bloggers and paparazzi who wants to see him fall, he didn’t care, a dirty man got to be exposed.
“It’s basically everywhere and people are saying you finally picked a new victim, that they thought you will take a break from ruining other people’s business since you are married now,”
“And you believe I am ruining his life?”
“I don’t know, I don’t know anything about either of you and how you run your business but people aren’t on your side,”
“They don’t have to be, and as for Leonard, I didn’t ruin his life, he did just that by himself,”
“How?”
“Do I need to answer that?”
“Yes, please,”
She said please, wow, he couldn’t believe it, this was the first time she was asking him something nice, maybe the real Natalie is finally back.
“Well, since you asked nicely, if I don’t expose Leonard millions of people would suffer, that include deaths, thousands of deaths,”
“I don’t understand,”
She said, she looked so curious.
“And so pretty,”
The voice in his head whispered, he shut it down.
“He deals in building materials and he sales to big companies, like mine that builds houses hotels, schools, estates, plazas, etc,”
“And how will that lead people to death?”
“If you would let me finish,”
“Sorry, continue,”
She answered she looked really interested in what he was saying.
“Well, he is using substandard and fake materials and using the money he gets from them to gamble, I don’t have a problem with him gambling that’s his personal shit, but he is going to get a lot of people killed, he works with companies that attract crowds, I got materials over one million dollars from him and all, I mean all turned out to be fake material, I aimed high because I wanted the best quality, but he ruined that, now I have to take down a full seven-story building because I used some of his materials, I am not even talking about my loss here but people’s life that he might have put at risk, how many more of those kinds of building are out there? Would you be happy if you hear that a building collapsed killing people, even his family members that are currently doing pity party might even be involved in it, they might be a victim too,”
He paused his ranting, he could go on and on but if she choose to side with the public and make him the bad person, he didn’t care, he didn’t give a fuck about how she feel about him, of course when he ends up taking her property, she might even join the public in bad-mouthing him, he just didn’t care, he has gotten used to it, gotten used to being called names for being the smart and reproductive one, all he did was pick up small failing companies, pay the owner and take over, he has never taken without paying, he wasn’t a thief but people just like spreading shit about him.
“Why don’t you just tell the press there, I didn’t read any of those things you said in the papers, maybe if the world knew just how bad he was they won’t support him over you,”
She said.
“I don’t care what they think, I work with the law, they will find out soon,”
“Good luck,”
She said.
“You believe me?”
“Uh-huh, why shouldn’t I?”
“Well, because you a**”
Rafael’s phone rang, cutting him off, and he picked it up immediately.