#11 :: Double Standards

Chapter 34.

Sasha

I've been cooped up in Camillas house for two weeks now and I was this close to needing the men in white jackets to come and get me.

Other than to my parents house once, I hadn't been nowhere. Was working from Camillas house. Luckily Delilah was aware of Troy and his antics. So when I told her she said I could work from Camillas until I was fit enough to come back.

Camilla would bring whatever relevant information I needed so it worked out for me. I just wanted to hurry up and get better. I ended up having to go hospital because my eye was constantly watering and my lip seemed to have got infected.

The doctors confirmed that I would need glasses as my left eye had been damaged so would need help to focus my sight. They hoped it wouldn't be permanent but couldn't be certain. My lip would be fine, it's gone down a lot; the antibiotics helped with that. My ribs were very bruised and I was lucky they didn't break.

When the doctor told me everything and looked at me with pity I was so angry. Angry with myself. The day he pushed me down the stairs I should have left him. Because that's the day I died. I married him because I was pregnant. I was no longer pregnant. So why did I stay? A question I ask myself all the time.

I missed Orlando, but I didn't want him to know. I didn't know how to talk to him and tell him. I wasn't sure if he would understand. So after a while of him calling and texting me over and over again I just turned off my personal phone and used my business phone.

I had just finished some paperwork when I realised a document that I needed was at the nursery. I called Camilla.

"Hey babe, you okay?" She asks as she answered the phone.

"Yeah. I need a document. Any chance you could bring it back with you?"

"Yeah, it will be later though. Me and Warren are going to eat and then cinema."

"Oh okay. Nevermind I'll come and get it myself."

"You sure?"

"Yeah yeah yeah. I need some fresh air. Feel I'm going insane."

"But your face." she said trying to whisper.

"I'll come once everyone has gone. So tell them I'll come for 7 so not to lock up. I'll lock up."

"Okay okay. I'll be calling and checking on you like every 5 minutes."

"No need. I'll text you every now and then to let you know I'm okay. Besides, if Troy tries coming near me again; I'll taser him for much longer this time." I said making Camilla laugh.

"Okay I feel a bit better. I still want them texts though."

"Yes ma'am!" I said before coming off the phone.

It was half past 5. I had a hour or so before having to leave. I went and had a nice hot bath and relaxed. I ended up falling asleep in the bath. It was half 6 when I woke up. I jumped up and got ready.

I wasn't scared of Troy. So I wasn't scared to leave the house. I was however very alert. Any noise that I wasn't used to hearing I would be aware.

When I pulled up to the nursery I just saw Terry closing the nursery but not locking it. Once he walked away I got out and went up into my office. I got the document I needed and looked around the nursery. I know nothing had changed but just not being here it looked and felt different. I couldn't wait to get back here. I missed this place so much.

I locked up and made my way to my car.

"Sasha..?" I heard a male voice say.

I jumped. I turned around and it was Orlando.

"Fuck sake Orlando!"

"Sorry. I didn't mean to startle you."

"What are you even doing here?"

"As I was leaving I heard someone say you would be back later. I hadn't heard from you or seen you. You haven't been working. I wondered if everything was okay."

See. So sweet.

"Yeah. I'm not well. I just came for something. Now I'm going back home." I said hoping this hat and glasses were enough to hide my bruised face.

"Not well? Really? I'm not blind. What happened to your lip?"

Damn lip!

"Nothing nothing. Look. I have to go." I said attempting to unlock my car door.

Orlando walked up to me and touched my arm. I flinched.

Fuck!

"Sasha...?"

"Just go away. Please." I said in what came out as a whisper.

"No. Look at me."

I kept my head down. He cupped my chin and made me look at him. He removed my cap and my glasses.

"What the FUCK??!! Sasha?!"

"I was mugged." I said quickly.

"Where? When? By who?"

"I.. I.. I..." I couldn't get no words out.

I was a stuttering mess!

"Yeah. That's what I thought. I'm not gonna stop until I get the truth."

"Okay, but not here."

"My cousin is at my house with Mya."

"Okay. Follow behind me." I said as I got in my car.

I drove to Camillas house. I knew she wouldn't be back for a few hours.

"This is my best friends house. She's out with her boyfriend. This is where I've been staying."

"Why?"

"Because... this is what happens when you tell your husband you want a divorce."