Chapter 144 - One Hundred And Forty-four

"Co-court room?" She repeated with her eyes wide and full of disbelief. "But I am just trying to help your wife!" She tried to defend herself but truly help was all she was trying to do.

"I am sure that you are trying to help my wife and you have by stopping the bleeding." He appreciated her but immediately after that his eyes turned cold as he spoke his next words, "but the end decision regarding my wife will be mine."

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Alexis woke up with a gasp, her eyes darted around immediately trying to find where she was because the first thing that she saw was a white ceiling on her head and it immediately took her back to the white room. The thought alone had caused shivers running down her spine.

As she glanced around she saw surgical instruments and sighed in relief. She was still in a hospital safe and sound but why?

"Thinking about something?" Her husband's voice made her jump a bit.

"Wh-what?"

He gave a harsh sigh before saying, "You looked quite thoughtful as soon as you woke up. What are you wondering about?" Then, he tapped his finger on his chin in a thinking motion and said, "Ah, maybe it was, 'How am I still alive?' 'Was I not supposed to be dead?'" He taunted.

She blinked and tried to think of what to say. This had not worked out in her favour and her husband was angry, to say the least. She did not like it. He was glaring at her with so much anger in his eyes that she wanted to look away.

She could not handle the gaze in which he said that he was disappointed and angry with the course of action that she had chosen to get out of this situation.

When she chose not to reply, according to him, so he continued further. "It must be so disappointing to you, after all, your plans did not work. Must I apologize, I was the one to find you and make sure that you made it out alive." He spat making her flinch. it was more of a spur of the moment decision and she had not realised what had actions what constitute to.

"I.." as she began to give her explanation in her defence and Alexis realised something. What could she say here that would work in her defence? She had suicided and now she was stuck. 

"You what, huh?" He repeated and asked her in a harsh tone. "Be thankful to me because your ass is going to get discharged tomorrow instead of being tied down in a psychiatric ward with real fucking crazy people!" Coming closer he hissed at her making her flinch again. "do you want to be tied down to a bed with people who want to scratch their face next to you?" He taunted. "Because I can make it happen right now. Instead of being in a luxurious room you will be tied down to a metal bed and be deprived of basic utilities because no one is going to trust you with them!" 

As his harsh voice reached her ears she wondered what exactly she had done. She had tried to take her own life. She did not do that after five years of abuse and neglect from her family, should not do that man in the beginning still not have anything to eat and she did not do that when her father died, so why now?

'How could I do this? I took my own life something someone else would cherish having where is my who held in my hands tries to take it away... What have I become and why?' her eyes glossed over as she thought about this. 'I am strong again this so what happened how could one thought result in me taking such a big step?' 

"What the hell is wrong with you? Why would you even think of taking a step like this?" He continued to yell at her full of where they were at. "the only reason why I was attracted to you was that you had a head and under and you thought before you did anything or you're in restless all your savings day showed me what brain you had and this is what you do! Do you suicide like a coward? "

Coming close, he stood next to her bed and took hold of her cheek gently caressing it as well. "Honey, was it because they violated you?"

This was it, the one chance that she had to be honest with him where everything would make sense and have him understand the mindset that she was trapped in. so she nodded, a barely-there but a visible nod. 

He saw it and nodded back. 

"Then you are weaker than I assumed," he remarked. 

The shock was felt throughout her entire being. What was that supposed to mean, she was weaker than I expected? However she weak in the first place to begin, as this was something that made her weak, this was something that made her feel degraded of herself.

"How can you say that?" She choked out as her sobs were threatening to come out and ruined the way she was going to talk so she had to convey what she felt before she started bawling her eyes out. "I just shared something with you that holds so much of importance to me and that's what you say?" 

Angel sighed at that. "How can I not say that?" Giving her gentle look he continued, "you are a strong woman who showed my grandmother her place in her home. You were not scared of someone who came from a mafia background unlike yours. Teenager are raped and they instead if sitting around, turn there lives around. you're telling me that this is what broke or made you weak? Honey, it will pass." He stressed. "And when we look back at it all you would remember is that you moved past it and now you are stronger than ever."

His words made her cry. Her chest heaved and she got up to hug him. "I am sorry," she apologized. "I am just so scared." She confessed in a breaking voice full of pain and anguish. 

"Don't be love, don't be scared, because no one can harm you ever again."