CHAPTER TWO

Fredrick came back from seeing his close friend at the neck of the woods. Fiona couldn't hold her patience any longer.

“Fredrick, so you have secret babies outside our marital home?” Fiona inquired, her voice erupted like a volcanic eruption.

She fling the documents at him. Fiona felt betrayed and humiliated. It was crystal clear in the documents that Fredrick has secret babies.

Fiona never knew about this. “Fiona, come on, hear me out first. I know you have every reason to be mad at me,” Fredrick pleaded, he try getting close to Fiona, but she resisted her badly.

“What else Fredrick did you have to tell me except your fat lies and flimsy excuses?” Fiona inquired with expectancy. Tears were dripping down her cheeks.

Fredrick took over, “the documents was given to me by the law court when I coincidentally impregnated the lady whose name is the documents,” Frederick retorted, his voice were cracking.

“What happened?”, Fiona asked, her mood was sombre. .

Fredrick was sweating profusely at this time. “she charged me to court after putting birth twins. I legally signed to be paying some certain amount of money to her every month for the children up,” Fredrick narrated.

The aura of the current atmosphere wasn't friendly. Even Fredrick herself sense that Fiona wasn't impressed with what has happened.

“Where are they now?” Fiona queried, her voice was feeble and sapless.

“Australia,” Fredrick mumbled icily.

Anger and rage was troping in her veins like a fiery furnace. Fiona couldn't hold back her anger, she tender a strike on Fredrick's jaw with her hands.

Fredrick touched his jaw with his right hand to mitigate the effects of the pains. “I hate you Fredrick,” Fiona screamed, anger and hatred thrumming in her veins....

This was another event in Fiona's relationship which broken her heart more than ever before. Fiona couldn't eat or sleep. She lost appetite even for her best delicacy.

ATLANTIC MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC, NEW YORK

Fiona was a medical staff at the Atlantic Medical Diagnostic in New York. She resumed from her monthly leave. Getting back to work wasn't a bed of roses for her.

She couldn't even concerntrate at work any more. In the afternoon she supposed to represent the CEO of the company in a conference. But all to no avail, she couldn't made it there.

“Sir, I won't be able to make it,” Fiona uttered dejected. The current status of her marital home was so detrimental to her emotional, social, and mental well being.

Even her co workers figured her out as a topic sentence everyday to discuss about her marrying a disgraceful and poor husband......

“Her husband is such a lunatic. He can't even treat her with care?” A receptionist said.

Meanwhile she wasn't cognizant of Fiona approaching her from the foyers ...

Fiona couldn't hold back her rage. She confronted her verbally, but the words she pointed out at Fiona's marital weakened Fiona's morale.

She quickly walked back to her office in tears. Every workers in various departments would gossiped about Fiona's matrimonial home.

Nelly could always come around at her leisure time to keep her busy. In some occasions she took her out to recreational center.

“Fiona, you gotta be strong. Don't succumb to the current situation you find yourself. It will definitely be off at the appointed time,” Nelly encouraged, her words were season with flavor of happiness.

Fiona would alway feel loved and cherished again, “thank you Nelly. You're such indeed a good friend. I'm glad having you around always,” Fiona applauded, her spirit was flying.

FIONA'S MANSION, NEW YORK

Darkness deluged the entire face of the earth. Frederick was yet to return from a movie audition. Fiona felt so worried about her husband, and was voracious to know her whereabouts.

She called him a million times, but he solemnly rejected her calls. Fredrick preferred spending time with actors and actresses around New York than his wife and child.

He drank himself to stupor that very night. Frederick was drunk.

“What hampered you from coming home on time?” Fiona inquired.

Fredrick flared at her wife's question, “when did you become my time keeper?” Fredrick asked, his voice snarled with tension. Fiona was frightened and trembling with fears.

He locked her up in the kitchen that very night. Fiona screamed through out that night, but Fredrick got her mind made up.

The next morning, he managed to open the door for her. Frederick apologize to his wife for what he did to her. Fiona didn't hesitate accepting his apology, because she really loves him.

Fredrick took it upon himself to prepare to prepare breakfast for his wife and child that very morning.

“I don't want you to stress yourself this morning. Go get ready for work, while I will handle the breakfast,” Fredrick giggled, adding surprise to their faces.

Fiona doubted her husband's generosity. For the past eleven years of their abusive marriage, he has never for once boil even hot water.

“I strongly believe you're not up to something fishy?” Fiona doubted, her premonitions were negative.

Fredrick chuckled, “I dare not try such,” his voice trembling slightly. Fiona and David left him in the kitchen to make breakfast for them, as he insisted.

Fredrick aimed was to poison his wife and child to dead. In other for him to claim all her wealth. So, he make it looks like an accident or tragic mistake.

After he prepared the breakfast and poisoned the food. He brought it to the dinning room and invited them to come and eat.

Fiona's hands trembled as she takes the breakfast, her mind racing with doubts. But it was too late now. The food was on the table, and David was already taking his first bite.

Fredrick smiled, his eyes gleaming with a sinister light. “Bon appétit, my dear,” he said, his voice dripping with malice. Fiona's heart froze as she watched her son chew, her mind screaming in terror...

He definitely knew that the poison will soon act immediately.