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Katerina:
1 screamed at the top of my lungs as he walked out of the room.
Thankfully, the pillow that I placed on my face muffled my voice, and the soundproof walls did their job.
The man couldn’t seriously believe that I would forgive and forget what he did or said simply because he was throwing in such excuses.
For fucks sake, his mother held me accountable for him not touching me, and now, even when I did try, I was left naked in his bed while he resented touching me. That was a feeling that I wouldn’t forget until the end of time.
My heart raced against my ribcage, and my hands shook as I tried. processing, slowing down the conversation in my head as to process what happened, but my anger which was getting the best of me somewhat prevented me from doing so. And at this point, I wasn’t even sure who I was angry with. Was it myself? Was it Nikolay? I didn’t know. All I knew was that I was furious.
My phone rang, and glaring at it, I answered without bothering to check who was calling. I chose to stay quiet for a few seconds only to notice that whoever had answered did not say a word. I frowned, and checking who was calling, my heart dropped when I saw that it was my father. The man was calling me through HIS phone number.
“Father?”
“I will not be taking much of your time, but I do expect you to listen to every single word that I am going to tell you now. I do not care what you may think about it, and I do not care how you may feel about me speaking to you right now. You are my daughter, and if you screw this up, I will be sure that I screw your life up.” He said, cutting to the point. I stayed quiet,
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looking down at my feet as I anticipated the worst. The fear that consumed me was one that I could not describe, and the man was yet to even say a word. Hell, the fact that he called me was intimidating enough. His tone was colder and meaner than even the one he used when he spoke to me when I was talking to mum, and that was something that made me know that he would stop at nothing to break me right now.
“Father, please at least try to listen to me or at least try to understand my own point in this.” I said, begging for him to understand. I knew that he wouldn’t, he never really did. I was not his favorite child, despite being his eldest, and ONLY known child. I didn’t know whether or not he had others, but judging by the hate that both he and mum often showed me, I doubted that I was his only daughter by now.
Surely a man with one child couldn’t hate them so much, right? Especially not their own daughter.
“I do not care what your say in this is. Believe me, Katerina, it is the least of my concern. The fact that you tend to believe that I should have some sympathy toward what you are feeling amazes me, but then again, you were often spoiled by the whole family, and therefore, this was expected from you as a reaction.” He said, and I shook my head. The man has done. nothing more than torment me in every possible way, and if anything, he and everyone that I knew chose to break me and whenever I did stand on my feet, they claimed that I was spoiled.
“I do not think that being beaten, humiliated, and bashed in front of people made me spoiled. If anything, it broke my soul as years went by, and I simply recovered from them on my own.” I said, my tone darkening, turning darker thane even his was. He laughed, not caring about it. I didn’t really expect him to anyway. The man couldn’t care less if I died let alone broke down.
“You are a spoiled brat, and that is something that no one can disagree on. Anyhow, it is not why I called you.” He said calmly. “I believe that you are
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refusing to give Nikolay a child because of his relationship. But I will have you know the future of this. You will resent his touch today, tomorrow, a year later, and one day, he would come having a child from women X, Y, and Z. I believe you even know about X, and you would be nothing but a corner for him to come to. He could either choose to file a divorce, and he can tell them that you are not satisfying him. Believe me, if that happens, then your case is closed. Wife or not, you have not satisfied his needs as a man, and he chose otherwise. Say, you chose to be the one to file for him cheating. You are going to be getting a few hundreds of thousands, then what? Would another man look at you?”
“You are a woman who has been hated by the man you married since day one. None of us in the house want your presence, and I believe that you are well aware of the fact that you coming home to me would be…”
“I did not do anything to be hated by you guys. My husband and I just met and it is only normal for us to not know one another. As for having a child, I am not going to give a child to a man that I do not know. The man could not even be ready for that, have you considered it?” I asked, stopping him, bursting qut.
“I believe that you are growing a new tongue, aren’t you?” He asked, making my heart drop to my stomach. “I can easily cut it off if you want me to. Just let me know, and I will be sure to remind you of the limits that you chose to forget.”
“Father, please give me a chance to at least run my marriage right. I cannot have you controlling my life, breaking my heart with everything that you are doing. I was not born to be controlled by you.” I said, shaking my head as my voice broke. I sat on the floor, wanting to get off from the bed as I felt like my world was spinning. My whole ground felt like it was shaking, and the pain that I felt was one like no other.
I didn’t have anyone to lean on if my walls broke, and at this point, I really did believe that I was alone. I just didn’t understand how I was going to do
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anything right now. My heart ached, and I wrapped my arms around myself, allowing my tears to fall as I waited for what he had to say.
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“You are going to listen to every word that I am saying, until the day that you die. I am the one who is in charge. A woman like you does not know how to handle putting on her right set of knickers let alone satisfy a man…”
“I am married to another man, and he has the right to be the one to make my decisions for me. Please back off and leave me alone.” I said, snapping, stopping him. The man was breaking my soul enough for one day, and the last thing I needed right now was for him to be another person who tried to control this marriage. Nikolay’s mother was enough pressure as it was.
“I will show you what it is to leave you alone, Katerina.”
“Dad…”
“Look out your window.” He said, and I frowned in confusion, finding him by the house’s door. My heart throbbed, and the fact that he was here to begin with scared the life out of me. The man was supposed to be at England, and the last thing that I–expected was to find him standing in front of me.
I rushed downstairs, my heart racing at the fact that he could, and would end up causing a scene. The last thing I needed right now was for the family to see him breaking me right now. It was bad enough that I was dealing with the amount of pressure that I was dealing with. This was not something that I wanted to handle too.
I opened the house’s door, and a slap landed on my right cheek before I could even walk out. My heart throbbed, and my cheek ached as the slap’s area pumped. My hands shook as I held on the knob, and it wasn’t until he wrapped his hands around my shirt’s collar, pulling me out, that I processed that my grip tightened around the doorknob.
Another slap landed on my cheek, and I cried out. The man put his hand
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on my mouth, stopping me from speaking before kicking my stomach, making my eyes widen as a cry of pain escaped my lips. I sobbed, and watched as he banged me against the wall behind me, hoping that someone would at least hear my voice or the banging’s sound.
“Did you think that you were being clever on me?” He asked, kicking me again. I cried out in pain before I could stop myself, and slap after the other started being thrown on my face, making the world around me blur.
“Where is that tongue of yours now?” He asked, raising me off the ground as he forced me to look at him. “Where is the attitude that you acquired…?”
My father was pulled away from my body before I dropped to the ground. as I cried, wrapping my hand around my stomach. My eyes widened in surprise as I saw him being punched in the face by Nikolay, and it wasn’t until his mother pulled him away from my father that the man stopped.
But that wasn’t the only surprise that I had tonight.
“You need to sit still, Katerina. You could be having bad injuries.” She said, snapping me out of my shocked daze. There by my side sat the woman. who was not only in charge of nearly breaking my marriage and life, holding my hand in a protective manner as she looked at me with wide.
eyes.
“You…”
“Who the fuck do you think you are?” I heard dad ask, breaking my train of thoughts. He went to approach me again making my heart race only for Anastasia, the last person who I expected to do so, to stand in front of him, facing him, challenging him to even approach.
“One wrong word and you would be reported to the cops. The woman is married to another man, and as an ADULT, she does not even fall under your name of control. Therefore, unless you want me, as her new lawyer,
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to file an abuse case on you, I do suggest that you get the fuck out of here.” She said, glaring at him. The man laughed, my own father, laughed at what she said, shaking his head at her.
“Yes, the same restriction order she filed on Nikolay’s mother only to return to this house a while later, right? Who the fuck are you kidding? This bitch is only capable of talk. A spoiled little…” Nikolay banged his head against the wall behind him, taking us all off guard as he glared at
him.
“Nikolay!” His mother yelled, wrapping her arm around him as she pulled her son away from my dad. “You are going to kill the man, stop it.”
“Nikolay?” I called, letting my tears fall from my eyes. My eyes rolled to the back of my head as my vision blurred, and it wasn’t until I saw Anastasia beside me, wrapping her arm around me that I felt like my whole world was collapsing.
“What are you doing here?” I asked her, shaking my head in question.
“We will talk about that later. For now, we have to get you to the hospital, okay?”
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