Dear Laura 2

Chapter 19

After an hour of sobbing on the floor, I went to take a shower so that I can go to work. I needed to distract myself from the pain. I was not strong enough to sit and let the thoughts in. I had to drown my sorrows in work before they drowned me.

I had my car so I could drive to work. I got there and apologised for being late. I got pardoned. And like I had planned, I drowned myself in my work.

And when it was time to leave, I packed everything then took the elevator to go downstairs. That's when I heard the whispers of the gossip mongers of the company. It was the receptionist, Sindy and two other girls that I did not recognise. I swear I was not listening in; they were just doing a bad job at keeping their voices down.

"Girl, that man was too good in bed. In fact, I am supposed to meet him tonight. This morning was just too good that I had to tell him to come over again tonight." Sindy gushed to her friends.

"Girl! He's rich and he does you good? I see why you are obsessed with him." Her brunette friends responded.

"Abdul blew my mind y'all. I cannot wait to see him again." Did she just say? I choked on air. I hoped they were not talking about my Abdul.

"Hi, sorry to interrupt. Which Abdul are you talking about?" I gently approached them, hoping that they didnt label me as nosy.

"The big boss. Girl, what he did to me this morning. Hm! What a man!" Lucky enough, Sindy did not mind blurting her business out to the world.

Jealousy immediately spiked through me as I listened to her talk about her time with my man. My heart broke once more as I thought about the fact that while I was getting assaulted, my fiancé was busy with some other girl from my workplace. I thought he was done with that kind of bullshit. I thought he loved me and wanted to be with me.

It was like everything Abdul had ever done to hurt me impaled me all at once. I wanted to scream. I wanted to get out of there to not suffer further embarrassment and disrespect. As hurt as I was, I could not show those girls. I had to keep it together until I got home.

"Sindy!" Her brunette friend nudged Sindy at her side and whispered, "that's her. Her." She made weird gestures as she attempted to whisper. Sindy's eyes widened in shock when the realization hit her, and I smirked in her direction. She eyed my ring and gave me an awkward smile.

"The fiancé?" Sindy whispered back to her friend.

"Yes." I responded instead. I tried to sound intimidating.

I was shocked that she slept with Abdul knowing that he was engaged to someone. Where was the human decency? And before my conscience mocked me, I told it that Hope and Abdul were not engaged so it was not the same.

"Girl don't give me those eyes. Learn to keep your man on a leash, I am not the problem here. He's the one that involved a third party in your special covenant, not me." She did have a point.

"How long has this been happening?"

"Please leave me alone. Ask him those questions. I do not have to answer to you."

Instead of unleashing my wrath on her, I took a deep breath then turned on my heel then left to go to the car. I broke down in tears before I even got to the house. How could he do that to me? I knew he had a lot of baggage and that he had a lot of flaws, but I did not expect him to go out and cheat on me. Especially not after telling me that he wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. That was definitely my karma for doing what I did to Hope. Maybe I deserved it.

How did a man fly you out to so far to meet his family, engage you, buy you two houses and a car then still cheat on you? When did he get the time to cheat? I don't know why I thought I could trust him. Especially after everything he put me through in the last few months. I was convinced that he hated me. He did everything to hurt me. He did not care about me. Not the way I thought he did. Because if he did, he would think ten times before causing me pain. But Abdul did it without even giving it a thought, he did not care. He just did whatever pleased him.