HIS SWEET REVENGE

Celine’s POV

The sound of the door opening makes me open my eyes and sit upright to see Camilla and Jason coming into my room.

I gasp with relief and watch as she approaches with a smile on her face. It’s been two days. Two hard days without my son. It’s been two days of nothing but regrets and tears.

I have been alone in Jason’s room for two days and the only good thing about this is the fact that I have the bed to myself.

I missed my boy so much. I cried so hard and now he is here. My punishment is supposed to last for a week and I am surprised to see him with Camilla. I still have 4 days to go.

Today is the 3rd day and I have pleaded with Camilla on several occasions for her to let me see my son. I know Bryan doesn’t stay at home all the time, he usually goes to work in the morning and comes back late at night but even with that Camilla always refused my request.

She was following her boss’s instructions and I tried hard not to dislike her for it. I just thought it won’t be a big deal to take me to Jason or bring Jason to me while Bryan will be away at work. Bryan would never know except one of the maids tell him.

But Camilla has been loyal. It actually annoyed me because I know if I was in her shoes, I would defy Bryan and let Jason’s mother see him.

“Mommy!” Jason’s excited voice jerks me out of my reverie and I open my arms to welcome him.

He embraces me too, playing with my dishevelled hair which I haven’t washed in days before he sits on my lap and begins to munch on the chocolate cake in his hands.

I watch him in amazement. I was expecting Jason to cry the same day I was forbidden to see him, so Bryan will change his mind and ask Camila to bring him to me. After all, it was his consistent cries that brought me here and that was why Bryan made me his nanny since Jason can’t live without me.

But I never heard his cries for two days. I never saw him and never heard anything about him.

Now that he is seeing me after two days, he is just behaving as though we saw each other only two hours ago and I wonder what changed.

As I continue to watch him, I realize my son is growing and he has gotten used to his father’s presence. He didn’t notice my absence too early and I feel bad.

Jason is gradually becoming independent of me. He doesn’t need me anymore. And Bryan can decide to get rid of me now without any problem.

I wish I could tell Jason everything. I wish I could tell him what to do. I wish I could tell him that his dependence on me will make his father keep me here but I can not.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

He is still a child. He can not understand any of my grievances.

He only knows that he has a mother and a father. I am his mother and Bryan is his father. He only knows that we both stay in the same house but he doesn’t know that there is more to it.

I wonder what he would do when he gets to understand everything happening. And what he would do when he realizes that his father made his mother his nanny.

“Boss asked me to bring him to you today. Your days of punishment are over now”, Camila is already seated on the sofa in front of the bed. She flashes me a smile and I nod without smiling.

I wonder why Bryan decided to cut off my punishment. It is unlike him to forgive so easily. If only he was someone who forgives easily, then I wouldn’t be here. Jason won’t be here either. Bryan won’t be punishing him for every little mistake that I do.

He won’t despise me. He won’t take my running away so my son can be safe as an offense. In fact, things won’t be the way they are now if only Bryan has a forgiving spirit.

Maybe his ex-fiancee and child wouldn’t have died too if he had a forgiving spirit and he had forgiven all those who offended him without having the thought of taking his revenge on them.

The revenge he wanted on all the people who have done wrong to him made him lose the most precious people in his life.

Now I am suffering the same fate. Camilla once told me that he doesn’t want to lose Jason just like he did with his first fruit which is why he is doing this.

But I think he is taking his revenge on me for not informing him about Jason. This is the only thing I did to offend Bryan yet he still does not like me.

“How have you been?” Camilla asks me, as though we didn’t see each other yesterday and I didn’t plead with her to let me see my son with tears in my eyes.

She brought me breakfast yesterday and left almost immediately. I was heartbroken and disappointed but I guess this is my fate.

I also offended Camilla. I didn’t trust her enough to tell her about my plans. She was hurt too. If only I had told her, maybe she would have tried to stop me and this wouldn’t have happened.

I wonder how Bryan will take care of the man who died. Will the police come for him? I wonder how Paxton is faring too.

I have been trying to call him all to no avail. I am dead worried even after Camilla assured me that he was still alive and Bryan asked one of his men to take him to our apartment.

He ought to be taken to the hospital, not the apartment. What if something happened to him there? What if he commits suicide?

A cold chill runs down my spine and I realize Camilla has touched me.

“Are you ok?” She looks worried so I nod.

Jason is still on my lap, munching on the cake which is as big as my hand. Camilla must have given that to him. I hope they haven’t been bribing him with too many chocolates.

Maybe they have been bribing him with that which is why he didn’t know that I have been absent for two days. Today will be the third day.

“I’m sorry but your punishment is not completely over”, Camilla says, a look of concern replacing the smile on her face. I turn to her with curiosity.

I knew it!

I know Bryan so well. I know him in and out. I know he won’t give up so easily.

“You can be with Jason but you can’t still go out and I am afraid that will be for a long time”, she announces, searching my face for disapproval.

I won’t be worried about not going out if only Paxton is fine. Now I don’t know if he is fine and I really need to see him to be rest assured that he is.

“Don’t try to go against his words, Celine”, Camilla tells me, as if she can read my mind.

I am thinking of how to sneak out and meet with Paxton. I just want to be sure that he is fine. Afterwards, I can begin to dwell on the fact that he is a bad man in disguise.

I still find it hard to believe. Paxton was there for Jason and me, even when Bryan wasn’t. He is a kind man and even if he is in disguise, that doesn’t make him bad.

“Don’t go and see that man, it is dangerous for you and your child. Boss will be in danger too.”

“Are you more concerned about your boss?” I retort sharply, feeling my anger rising gradually.

I need to let it out. I don’t care who I let it out on.

I have let off the cries and now anger is left.

“Of course not”, she furrows her brows. “I care about you too and Jason. This is why you need to listen to him. He means well and he wants you to be safe.”

I scoff. “He means well? Yet he locked me up on here like a slave. I know my rights Camilla, the only thing stopping me from reporting this bullshit to the authorities is because I don’t have money. Money for it all and if only I am financially capable, I would have done that a long time ago but I am not. The court won’t let me have Jason because I am not capable of taking care of a billionaire’s son. That is the only thing stopping me from going ahead with my plans.”

I don’t know how I did this but I feel relieved after letting it out. I am not done expressing myself or letting out my anger but this is just a tip of the iceberg.

I am done taking shits from Bryan.