199 Say One More Thing, I Dare You!
“Why are you taunting E this way, Yvonne?”
Ivory asked as tears fell down her cheek. She knew that at this point, there was no need to deny E’s pregnancy. Her sister had verifiable proof. Hence, she started looking for a way to plead with Yvonne to keep her mouth shut.
“You call this taunting?” Yvonne chuckled wickedly. “Well, I’m just getting warmed up! By the time I’m done with this gold-digging witch that has had my brother under her evil spell for this long, she will be forced to crawl back to her coven in rags.”
“Yvonne, you’re also a mother and someone else’s sister-inw. Is this how you were treated by your husband’s family.”
More tears rolled down Ivory’s cheeks.
“Oh, baby sister, I have never seen such a degree of foolishness or disloyalty that you are currently disying. Is this gold-digging tramp, who has caused your mother countless heartache, worth all this drama? Grow up already! And don’t you dare drag my wonderful husband’s name into this mess.”
While Ivory kept challenging Yvonne, E concentrated on picking up the berries on the floor.
‘These berries were bought and given to me by Nana Esther,’ Emented as more tears rolled down her cheeks. ‘I will not sit still and watch them go to waste.’
E picked up the bowl lying on the floor and poured all the berries she had been able to gather into them. Then she continued picking up some more until Yvonne came and stood right before her, blocking her part.
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“Tramp, you are yet to answer my question! Does my brother know about that thing in your womb?”
Yvonne maliciously ced her foot on a berry close to E’s hand and slowly squashed it, causing some of the juice to ssh on E’s face.
“Yvonne, that is wicked!” Ivory yelled at the top of her voice.
E on the other hand slowly stood up and dropped the bowl of berries on the couch close by. All her sense of reason flew out of her being and was reced with poisonous rage.
“Oh, did I hurt your feelings, t...”
SMACK!
SMACK!!
SMACK!!!
Yvonne didn’t get the chance to finish her statement when three face-blinding ps struck like a lightning bolt on either side of her cheek.
“Ah!” She screeched, staggered backward, and fell on her butt. She instinctively raised her hands to her reddened cheeks as hot tears fell from her watery eyes.
When she slowly turned her stinging face to see who had dared to raise his or her hands on her, she was terrified to see E already squatting by her side, scowling like a hungry tigress about to devour a juicy prey.
E’s res were dark and icy and her breathing was heavy and sounded dangerous.
“How does it feel to be on the receiving end, sister-inw? Say one more thing, I dare you!”
“Oh my goodness!”
Ivory cupped her mouth with both hands. She took a frightened footstep backward and sank into a single couch while watching E in astonishment.
She had never seen this other side of E and it frightened her greatly. However, she didn’t move a muscle to assist Yvonne. To her, Yvonne had bitten more than she could chew and should therefore dance to the tune of E’s fury.
Yvonne on the other hand shook her head in terror. She was too scared of what E nned on doing to her.
E pointed a finger at Yvonne’s face while spewing out heart-piercing words at her.
“Let this be the first andst time you dare mess with me! I can afford to take bulshit from your mum because she is elderly, but, I won’t take any from you!” E spoke between clenched jaw.
“The only reason I don’t have my hands around your throat right now is because you are my husband’s sister. You had no right, nosing around my business or meddling in my private life. Nevertheless, you can go to hell and rot there with your proof and disgusting theories.”
E moved her face closer to Yvonne while Yvonne moved backward for fear of what E nned on doing to her.
She felt defenseless under E’s dangerous re and she almost screamed out for her mum toe to her rescue.
“Whatever my husband and I do is none of your godamn business!” E yelled into Yvonne’s face, bathing her with sprays of saliva.
Yvonne, whose soul had suddenly abandoned her body and fled for safety, trembled as she listened to E while nodding like an agama lizard.
All the while, she had mistaken E for a fragile weakling who only hid under Leon’s domineering aura. She never knew E had such fierceness and boldness in her.
While E was still speaking to Yvonne, Marissa walked into the sitting room.
She had been sleeping when Yvonne’s screech woke her up. At first, she assumed that maybe she had heard wrongly. However, when she listened hard and heard E’s voice, she decided to check out what was going on in the sitting room.
“My goodness! What is going on here? What are you witch doing to my daughter” Marissa yelled as she ran to rescue Yvonne?
“Stay right there!” E boomed in a terrifying tone.
As if struck by lightning, Marissa halted and froze at E’s fierceness.
“I have had enough! Anyone who messes with me right now will get it back doubled.”
There wasplete silence in the room as E spoke.
Marissa was too horrified by E’s outburst that she remained speechless.
“E... E, p... please!”
Ivory stood up and walked towards E, who was already up on her feet.
“Ivory, not this time!” E stopped Ivory froming close. “I need to be by myself for now!”
“Okay!” Ivory replied and ran out of the sitting room into her bedroom, crying.
When Yvonne noticed that E was no longer focused on her, she quickly stood up and scurried toward her mother for safety.
“She has lost it, mum! She has lost it! The witch pped me! She pped me!” Yvonne started ranting while crying at the same time.
E ignored the scared mother and daughter and focused on picking up the remaining berries from the floor. She put them into the bowl she kept on the couch.
Then she turned to Marissa and Yvonne and stared at them onest time, with tears rolling down her cheeks.
“I hate the both of you with all my heart!”
Immediately E uttered thosest words, a terrifying lightning shed in the sky followed by a loud roaring thunderp. Then all the lights in the bungalow instantly went off.