Chapter 3: What was our marriage like
"Leave me alone!!!" I yelled at Zane, "don't you dare come close to me."
I stomped towards the room and tried to shut the door, locking him out but he was faster.
He had already slipped through the door and closed it behind him, leaving just the two of us in the room
I was only in the hospital for a number of days and he had already gotten someone else pregnant. He has the guts to call me his wife and he couldn't even stay loyal to me.
"Baby please I can explain." He said in a soft tone in an effort to calm me down but it made me even angrier.
"I don't care about what you have to say, I just want you to leave me alone!!!, get out!!!""
"Baby I'm not leaving, at least hear me out, please."
"Well if you're not going to leave , I might as well do the honours." I said, walking past him towards the door, but before I could open the door I felt him pull my arm, and turned me around, pinning me against the door with both his hands gripping my arms.
"I'm not leaving, and neither are you." He said in a low tone, his eyes staring down at mine.
This time his voice wasn't calm or soothing, it was menacing and all of a sudden I felt a piercing pain in my head and let out a strained whimper. He let me go and I collapsed but he caught me in his arms.
I was getting flashbacks, my own memories unraveling like a cruel reminder. In them, I was in this very room, trapped in the same position I had been in just seconds ago. He had pinned me against the wall, his grip unyielding. And his eyes, I couldn't tell if it was anger that burned in his eyes or was it desire? But I knew in that moment I felt immense fear.
"You're okay, you're okay." Zane's voice pulled me out of my reverie.
He was calmly brushing my hair backwards with his fingers, as he slowly led me to the bed, he sat down and made me sit on his legs, with my head resting sideways on his chest.
I couldn't stop thinking about the flashback I just had and it made me remember the anonymous note I got at the hospital. The words were still stuck in my memory, "Do not believe a word he says, he is not who you think he is, get out while you still can." What if the words in the note were true and he was someone I should be running from.
I was torn between fear and comfort, my heart racing with uncertainty. Terror clawed at my chest, yet the way he held me so gently, so reassuringly, made it impossible not to surrender. His warmth wrapped around me like a silent promise, melting away my fears, drawing me into the safety of his embrace.
"I remembered something." I said with a shaky voice "How was our marriage like before the accident. Were we happy?" I asked
"Baby our marriage was perfect, it still is. Our marriage is the best thing that has ever happened to me." He said, reassuring me.
He pulled me close to himself and gave me a tight hug, we sat there for a minute or two without saying anything and then I broke the silence.
"What happened with Isla, is she really carrying your baby?" I asked him.
He let out a sigh and then started talking.
"When I found out about what happened to you I was so scared and angry, the doctors told me they weren't sure if you were going to make it and the thought of anything happening to you drove me insane."
"I went to the club to get wasted, with the hopes that the loud music and drinks would help clear my head and that was very stupid of me. At the end of the night I could barely even walk in a straight line so I knew driving would be a bad idea. I picked up my phone to call one of my drivers but before I could dial, I heard Isla call out my name. Coincidentally, she was at the club too and she offered to take me home, I didn't have much of a choice so I agreed. We got to the house and I remember falling straight into my bed with everything as well as my shoes still on. And when I woke up the next morning, she was laying down beside me naked."
"Naked???" I asked, surprised at what he said.
"Yes baby." He answered, "she was naked."
"She said we both had sx and we didn't use any protection but she was on birth control so I had nothing to worry about. At first I thought she was joking because I still had on everything I was wearing at the club and she was claiming we had sx. I didn't believe her even though I could barely remember anything from the night before. I asked her to leave and that I never wanted to see her again. She tried to make me change my mind about her leaving but she couldn't, so she ended up leaving."
"And that's it?" I asked.
"I didn't see her again till this morning at the hospital." He answered. "Baby you have to believe me, you have to trust me, Isla is a liar and a manipulator, she might be pregnant but I can swear to you, the baby is not mine."
I couldn't help but believe him, he sounds so genuine, which made me feel like he wasn't lying.
"What are you going to do about this whole situation? something about Isla makes me uncomfortable and I don't want to be around her," I said calmly.
"I'll do everything I can to make sure she leaves, I'm so sorry for putting you through this baby, you should shower and get some rest, everything you need is in the bathroom and your clothes are in the closet so you can change into whatever you like after taking your shower. I'll be right back." He gave me a peck on my cheek and left the room.
I've been out of the shower for more than 15 minutes and he still wasn't back yet, but I didn't want to go outside. I despise Isla with every fibre of my being and I just couldn't stand looking at her, and I know if I step out of the room I would definitely see her, so I wasn't taking any chances.
I turned on the TV just to kill time till Zane comes back but I was only a few seconds into the movie when I heard the door open and he came back into the room.
He was holding a paper in his hand and merely looking at him, I could tell there was bad news.
"What's that you're holding?" I asked him.
"Isla did a DNA test," he blurted out looking down at the paper.
"I'm the father."