Infatuation Of Darkness

The door slammed shut and she immediately sat straighter in her chair. Somehow keeping her back straight and holding her chin up high make her feel more confident. Because confidence was everything at this moment.

"You are back," was the first thing she said as he entered the dining room and kept his coat in front of her, covering the papers. "I was not expecting you tonight."

He gave her glance and then pulled the chair out to sit in. "Yet you sit here and wait for me."

"I had to." She answered. "how else were we supposed to talk? All for I know is that you have a house hidden somewhere where you have everything that you ever want or need."

"Still taunting me, I see." He smiled. "Have you eaten?"

She huffed and muttered. "My hunger died."

He waited for a bit still looking at her but then smiled, "well I for one, am hungry."

"Please, have your fill." She muttered. "I believe you must be tired and want to replenish that energy." Which he ignored.

Agatha came in and served him food Alexis all this while Alexis sat straight without looking in his direction.

"I did not do it." He confessed as he ate a bit. "I want to tell you that I am a loyal man and I intend to continue to keep that word. You are my wife and you are the only woman that I would ever sleep with."

She looked towards him and once again her eyes felt as if burning. Tears were building up and she could not bear to cry again. "Angelo? that is what you say to me 5 hours after the conversation we have had?" She leaned forward on the table. "This is what you do? I sat here feeling every ounce of unhappiness that this relationship has given me. Then you come here five hours after I asked you if this was true or not and now you come and tell me that it isn't."

He kept his fork and knife down and looked into her eyes with the utmost sincere expression. "And I apologize for that. I had no idea of what you must be feeling but I had to take care of something that should have been done a long time ago."

"Yes, something else had to be taken care." She muttered as she got up from her chair. "why is it to you taking care of everything else except for me is most important?"

"It is only important to me because it concerns you." He answered.

"Oh does it? Does it concern me?" She repeated with a hint of a smile which, for quite some time, was not out of happiness. "Then tell me if my being happy concerns about me being free would you... free me of this relationship?" Her body language gave away everything that she felt. 

His eyes which held a soft look in them went blank immediately after hearing those words. Staring at her for a few seconds he went back to picking up his knife and fork and then dug into this his meal.

Confused at what just happened and Alexis stared at him for any kind of explanation offered. He continued to eat and that's when Alexa decided to ask, "I asked you something, Angelo."

"I know." Said he.

"Then why are you not answering me?" She asked with a frown.

After swallowing his bite he answered, "because I do not have an answer for that question so I just ignored you asking it."

She scoffed. "Well isn't that convenient? If only we could ignore the questions that we do not have answers to or do not want to answer at all."

He glanced at her, looking her up and down. "Yes, I believe it would be very convenient." He gave her a quick smile and then returned to his eating.

She gaped at him, open-mouthed and wide-eyed. The bastard's audacity.

"Angelo I meant what I asked." She stated in all seriousness. "I am not joking. I cannot be with a man who is cheating on me after he vowed to be mine forever."

He placed his cutlery down once more. "and once again I am assuring you that I did not cheat on you. She was lying, she is lying, to be honest. She has my child to backup which she knows that I cannot kill her for but that does not mean that I would tolerate her trying to undermine you and your authority which surpasses any or whatever that she has and I made it a priority to make her understand that she shall never be able to repeat it."

Somehow his words made her feel touched inside, that he cared enough to make sure that no one ever tried to undermine her authority.

But one thing didn't settle well with her. He said that she shall never be able to repeat it but should not it be that she won't repeat it?

His choice of words couldn't be wrong and somehow it left an ominous feeling in her mind.

"What do you mean by she shall never be able to do it again?" She asked. "It's her mouth, she could do anything with that."

He shrugged. "Yes I suppose, she could but once again I make sure that she could not." he looked up to her with a prideful expression on his face. "I made show that she would never disrespect my wife again. No one would ever think of this disrespecting you. What I have done with her would act as a lesson for everyone."

Something was crawling up her spine and giving her goosebumps throughout her body. He had done something bad and she knew it. His words gave that away.

"What did..you do?" she asked about with hesitance, not sure of what the answer was going to be or rather how scary it could be for her.

"Check my jacket pocket." He took a bite. "The inner left one."

She slowly moved ahead, nodding to his words and moving her hand inside his jacket pocket taking out something squishy in nature.

She looked at it, closely inspecting it. "What's the-AH!" She yelled as she dropped the bag on to the floor. Horrified she looked at him, who ate away without any care. "Angelo.." she whispered scared out of her mind, her hands shook wildly." Wh-what.."

He gave her a bright smile as he looked at her. "It's her tongue honey. She spoke disrespectfully towards you, so I made show that she would never be able to talk.. Period."