What happened?
1123 Words
Elena’s POV
I jerk awake. Where am I? I look around and see I am in my old bedroom in my father’s house. Why am I here? Didn’t I die just a few moments ago? I am drenched in sweat. I pick up my mobile phone. I glance at the time, but then I freeze. The mobile in my hand is the one I had five years ago. I quickly checked the date. Can it be? Today is the day I am supposed to get engaged to Rick. Today, I gave him my mother's company as an engagement present! I look at my beautiful handcrafted dress hanging near my bed. Can it be? Were the gods smiling upon me, and are they giving me a second chance at life? I do not believe in rebirth, but how do I explain what happened to me? I have lived a life of unhappiness and died a violent death at the hands of Rick Stevens. Am I going to allow it to happen again? Hell no! My love for Rick died with me last night, or rather, that night in my future. The respect and love I felt for Rick are now dead inside me. I feel numb. However, I have one feeling left inside me: Hate! I want revenge for my previous life, and my revenge starts today!
Oh, I will let him believe that he will get everything. I am going to go through with this engagement. However, I will work slowly but surely on exposing them for who they are! He will want to marry me after a month, but I will not allow it. I'm going to keep him waiting. I want to expose everything he did to my mother's company. Of course, he knows I will give him my mother's company tonight. However, I am going to change the papers he is going to sign tonight. He will think he owns my mother's company, but he will not. He will only be running it for me. I will keep him accountable for every dime that disappears. I know that he will sell the company before it goes bankrupt. He will not be able to do it without my permission. I was sad the day I had to let go of my mother's legacy. I thought Rick was a great businessman. I thought he could run my mother's business. He sold it when it was almost bankrupted by my sister and him stealing from it. I'm not going to allow it to happen again. Rick and Anna, my stepsister, took me for a fool. I believed everything they told me. I thought Rick studied at Oxford, as he was from Europe. It was all lies. Rick never studied for anything. He went to work after school to help his parents.
Oh, and my in-laws! What a bunch of leeches they were. They used me for money and treated me like s**t! Helga and Morris Stevens thought they could walk over me and treat me like their maid. They owed me a debt and let me pay for it. It started before our marriage. When I went crying to Helga about Rick's infidelity with my sister, she told me it is because I treat him like a dog. She said I made him feel inferior because I did not want to give him my family business to run. When I told her I could not do it because he failed at running my mother's company, she slapped me and told me it was because I was the one who ran it before him, and I was the one responsible for the collapse of the company. I am glad I know all of this now. In my previous life, I did not know about it. They pretended to love me. They treated me like a daughter until we got married. They changed. All of a sudden, I was not good enough. I was only good enough to pay their debt. When I got sick of paying it and told them I wasn't going to pay their debt anymore, Rick threatened to divorce me. I was still in love with him, and I didn't want him to divorce me, so I paid. Later on, I was so hurt and bitter that I did what they asked without saying anything.
I will destroy Rick, his parents and my stepsister. I will savour every moment of my revenge. Everybody says revenge is a dish best served cold. Well, they are in for a surprise. I am going to act like I am still the stupid dumb b***h who is in love with him. However, I don't know how I will give him that final blow, but I will figure it out. For now, I will play along. I will play the fool he thinks I am. I called my secretary. I told her to change the documents. I asked her to let the lawyers draw new documents. When my sister comes to pick them up, she will think they are the documents for the company's ownership. She is too stupid to ensure they are the right ones. I have so many plans. I smile. I look in the mirror, surprised at how cold my eyes are. They say the eyes are the window to your soul. Well, my soul is dead and cold inside me. It will not be for long. I will start living my life to the fullest the day I have my revenge.
I sit back in my bed. I'm going to pretend that I am still sleeping. Luckily, in this life, I know who I can trust and who I cannot. I know I can trust my secretary. She never liked Rick. She will not say a word. My lawyers are some of the best in the business, and they will not talk. They have also warned me not to give Rick my mother's company. They always wanted me to let him run it for a while. Well, I will make him sign those documents and make him think he owns the company. I couldn't have done anything about him stealing in my old life. I couldn't do anything about him and my sister bankrupting my mother's company. Even if I could have, I would not have done anything because I thought Rick loved me. Now, I know better. This time, I want to be able to do whatever I want to. I have to remember to call my private detective friend. I like all the dirt on those two. I might have been a fool in my previous life. However, in this life, I will be the predator and not the prey.
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