Malevolence

Chapter 16:

Please read the Writer's note before continuing to read this chapter.

Ransom:

I quickly delete the message, making sure I have deleted the entire conversation I had with Evelyn's father – even though the only conversation I had with him was one message.

I hate messaging that man!

I place my phone on my bedside table and I turn over, wrapping my arms around Evelyn, making sure she is safe.

She's not safe from you. You are the reason she saw her father, and the reason she came back to you, crying!

I close my eyes and try to relax myself, but I cannot seem to.

Because you feel guilty!

I know what I did was wrong, but I didn't want Evelyn to be in her own house, even if she was staying there for a few days. I know she offered for me to stay with her, but I am not risking my body being hurt in that bed of hers.

Heck! I would have probably woken up with a sore back or waist the next day. Plus, Evelyn and I would have had our intimate moments if I was staying at her house, and if I am with her in that bed...it would hurt...it would hurt everywhere on my body.

Evelyn needs to consider getting a new bed. Now! Her bed is like a death-trap. I can't believe she's had that bed for years, and she hasn't even thought about purchasing a new bed? I don't care if her father gave her that bed because he was being generous!

It's more like a bed her father oh so graciously gifted her, but out of the goodness of his heart? Oh please!

But I know it makes me look like selfish person, wanting Evelyn to stay with me, but so what? I want Evelyn to be with me in this house, in this bed, otherwise I cannot sleep properly. I will also worry if something bad has happened to Evelyn because she is not sleeping next to me.

Goodness! I'll have nightmares about Evelyn walking out on me if I sleep alone.

Fuck! I will probably still have bad nightmares about anything else if I sleep alone.

Even when I had another woman sleeping next to me, I would still have nightmares or really bad dreams where...No! I can't go there...it's too dark.

The point is, I don't care how selfish I would be because I wanted Evelyn to stay with me, but the problem is, I never knew her father was going to...basically disown his own daughter when she saw him.

What and absolute asshole!

I didn't ask him to be so vile to his daughter! All I asked him to do was to send Evelyn back to me, but he should not be cruel to her.

Well, did you expect him to listen to you?

Argh! Why didn't Evelyn's father just say something along the lines of refusing to leave Evelyn's home, so she would come back here? Why did he have to tell Evelyn that he didn't want her in the first place? He even told Evelyn's mother to give up Evelyn and stick her in an orphanage because he didn't want a child.

Evelyn is his daughter! He should be so lucky to have a daughter like Evelyn. She doesn't party to all hours of the nights, she loves to take care of animals, she is a kind person inside and out...how can he not want her as his daughter?

So what if she wasn't planned? It was still wrong of Evelyn's father to tell his own daughter that she should have been given to an orphanage, or worse...never existed. If Evelyn never existed...

No! I cannot think like that! Evelyn is here! She is here with me! She is alive!

What kind of sick person tells their own child that the child was a big mistake and shouldn't have existed in the first place?