Ruby
Life was complex, so was Vexon.
I was completely unable to understand what his problem was.
When I first thought he was bipolar, I had my doubts. But now, I had no doubts; he was indeed bipolar.
Firstly, I thought we settled everything in the car, then he went somewhere, leaving me alone, without bothering to inform. I was afraid, I didn't know why. Fear crept into my heart as if I was never going to get to be with him, even though I knew he would come back to me.
I didn't expect Vexon to get angry at me for River, nor did I expect him asking me to stay away from River when I clearly knew nothing was wrong with him.
Actually, the problem was in Vexon's mind. I didn't see him for the whole day since he was very busy. He didn't come home, nor did he call me once. Therefore, I didn't try to contact him, either.
He was infuriating me and I felt like strangling him. Ugh.
But you will melt seeing him, said my subconscious.
I puffed my cheeks, straddling myself aimlessly on the bed. I was bored out of my mind.
My day didn't even function without him. I depended on him that much, yet he dared to leave me alone. I smacked myself for being such a parasite.
I was going crazy in love.
Love.
I never thought I would ever fall in love, but life was peculiar. It brought a simple girl like me and the Mafia king together, and now, I was in love with that stupid king.
One thing I was always afraid of was to get married to a person in the Mafia, and I happened to get married to the king himself. Not to mention, I was the queen myself.
Loving the Mafia king was not half bad, rather the feeling was enticing.
My worst nightmare turned into a sweet dream; a dream I never wanted to end. I wanted 'us' to never end.
That reminded me, I should confess my feelings to him. I was such an idiot for not confessing before. What was I waiting for?
My life wasn't a daily soap that I was waiting for something bad to occur while I confess. Or worse, I couldn't even confess, and the villains would ruin everything before things started.
I sighed.
I should have stopped watching the daily soaps with Mom on Sunday evenings, then I wouldn't be thinking of these kinds of stuff in the first place.
I shouldn't wait for the right time. The time is right when you say it. Time and tide wait for none.
Who knew when the right time would slip away? Or life might end while waiting for the right chance? If I did, then one would probably find a skeleton of Ruby Bevine who couldn't confess her love to her dear husband.
I will confess my love to him tonight. I'm just over-thinking. What could possibly go wrong?
I was going to make arrangements. I was ready for it��to spend my entire life with him��to give my soul to him��to be united forever.
Our wedding night never happened. And our honeymoon?��that was like a tour with a new friend.
I was ready to make love with him. It was finally the time he was waiting for so eagerly. Vexon waited for five and a half years to have me, but not anymore.
"Your wait is over, my dear husband," I mumbled to myself, a grin emerging on my face.
Grinning, as soon as I called him, he picked it up on the first ring, which was very sweet of him.
He always made me his first priority. Why did I not ever value him? Did I hit my head with a brick?
Everyone had a flaw. Vexon was my dream husband, but his only fault was him being in the Mafia, which was the only thing I was seeing in him until recently.
But then again, love was about accepting all the flaws and still caring for that person. Along with the time, I had come to love his flaws as well.
"Hello?" his voice made me snap out of my trance.
"Hey, Vexon," I greeted.
"What's wrong?"
A smile evolved on my face, hearing his voice. "When are you coming home?"
He sounded confused. "Midnight, probably. Why do you ask?"
It was eight in the evening, so at least I had four hours more to decorate our bedroom.
I suppressed my excitement and replied in a casual tone, "Nothing. I just didn't see you for the whole day, so you know, I was��"
"Missing me?" I could feel the amusement in his voice. Vexon probably thought it wasn't true and was trying to tease me. Little did he know, it was true.
"What else?" I chuckled. Just as expected, he fell quiet after hearing my response. "Did you have lunch, snacks, and dinner?" I inquired since I didn't speak to him the whole day.
I knew he didn't have breakfast 'cause he left before I opened my eyes in the morning.
"Yeah." Vexon sighed. "How could I not? You put Beckham in charge of giving me food timely. How did you even get his number?"
I giggled. "I am the queen. I have my ways."
"I won't ask you, cause I know you always have food on time," he said as if reminding himself. "Anyways, I need to go. I have some important work tonight."
"Is it anything related to killing?" I asked as my heartbeat accelerated.
"No, calm down. Tonight, I will fix everything. Everything will be alright," he sounded as though he was convincing himself.
I hoped everything went as per my plan as well, so I hummed in response and said, "Me too."
"What?"
I bit my tongue at my stupidity. "Nothing. Bye!" I hung up the call and engaged myself in decorating our bedroom.
While I was beautifying our room, I realized I didn't have something I needed. I knew the right person who would have it, therefore, I made my way to their bedroom.
"Hey, Newana?" I peeked my head through the door after knocking on Newana's door lightly.
"Stop peeping like a thief, and get lost," she retorted. She was working on her laptop, sitting on the couch.
I stepped into her room with a smile. "Thanks for inviting me in."
She rolled her eyes and asked, "What do you want?"
I giggled sheepishly and answered, "Some scented candles and seducing tips."
"What am I, a stripper?" she deadpanned.
"Please. Look, today I will confess my love to Vexon and��"
Her head snapped towards me, a rarely surprised expression on her usually emotionless face. Newana asked, "You are in love with him?"
I felt cheeks heat up. Looking down shyly, I nodded my head.
"That's..." I raised my head to get a glimpse of her face. To say I was surprised was an understatement. Newana was smiling softly as she said, "That's great."
I should have taken a picture to blackmail her when she acted arrogantly again, but unfortunately, Newana covered it up nicely.
"Um," I felt extremely bashful, saying things like that to Newana��the last person I thought I would come for advice. "I decorated the room with rose petals, although I'm not a fan of it, it's lovey-dovey, I guess. I plucked them from the garden. No, actually, I had Maya pluck them for me," I started blabbering, telling all my plans.
All I needed were scented candles. I even had lingerie. After all, Vexon shopped everything for me, even those. I never imagined I would use it one day. Every dog had its day, and now I even needed seducing advice.
"So if you could give me some seducing ti��" Newana handed me a box before I could complete.
"Scented candles," her lips twitched at that. "I thought I would use them one day, but the day never came," she mumbled, a distant look in her green eyes.
I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion, wondering what she meant by that
"Okay, now get lost. Shoo." She shoved me out of her room. "I don't know how to seduce. Use Youtube or Google."
"But," I tried to protest.
"Why do you need to seduce him anyway? One wink from you, and the next thing you know, his nose is bleeding," Newana said.
I blushed and mumbled a small 'thank you' for all the help before she shut the door on my face.
Tonight, everything will be perfect.
I was smiling to myself at the thought as I walked through the hallway.
"Yes, it's true. I heard Vexon will try to lure the traitor. Don't worry. I will try to stay very careful."
I gasped at the words I heard all of a sudden and slowly peeked through the door. My eyes widened in shock; I couldn't believe it.
Is he the traitor that Vexon is worrying about?
I took out my phone and started video recording him. No matter how much daily soaps I watched, I had some brains, unlike their protagonists.
"Who could guess I, out of all the people, would deceive him?" He chuckled, a sinister smirk on his face. "I hate him and everyone. What do they think of themselves?" he spat out.
I could have never guessed, either. He always acted friendly and cheerful.
"Anyways, don't worry, I will continue sending you the details. I promise to do everything until you keep supplying my cure to me. Betray me, I'll make sure you die a death of a pathetic dog. Love, you say? What a joke! I hate my family. They are assholes."
It's better not to have a family member, rather having a vermin like him. How could one's own flesh deceive another?
"They all care about themselves and kill other people for their selfish reasoning. Mafia King and Queen? Bullshit!" I couldn't believe I was hearing that from him, who was always so supportive of that concept.
"They never did anything for me and pressured me with their stupid Mafia ideologies. When I asked for money, they refused. I needed money for my drugs. They knew I would die without my babies. It's like they left me for dying." I never would have guessed he was a drug addict. "Therefore, they deserve to die too."
I continued recording as he kept speaking, "Oh, don't worry. I will never ever betray you, Blossom. You saved my life. You granted me my babies. Thank you for everything."
I put my hand on my mouth, preventing myself from gasping out loud. He was Blossom's accomplice from the beginning.
Holy shit! I better walk away before he notices me.
I tried to tiptoe my way out, but my sandal clicked.
My first mistake.
"Who��" before he could find me, I made a run for it, not caring about my sandals clicking anymore, and hid inside the closest bedroom, which happened to be Nafeesa's room.
My second mistake.
I saw the most horrifying and disgusting scenario in front of me. I was too shocked to scream as my jaw went slack and my eyes as wide as saucepans. I was dumbfounded. In front of my eyes was live porn.
Nafeesa and Kace were fully naked, barely covered by the bedsheets, aggressively having sex with each other, the sounds of their moans filled the room.
They didn't notice my presence as they were too busy fucking.
I waited until I heard the footsteps outside the room fade away completely. When I was sure that my perpetrator was gone, I ran out of that cursed room without another thought.
I was panting hard by the time I reached my bedroom.
What the hell was going on?
Kace was cheating on Newana, and another of Vexon's brothers was the traitor of the Gladiolus?
I needed to tell Vexon about it as soon as possible.
"I should call him right now," I muttered and took my phone from the nightstand after placing the candles on the desk.
I was feeling scared. Something was about to go wrong. I pushed down that feeling and was about to call Vexon when my phone beeped with an incoming message from River.
River:
Ruby! Help me, please. It's an emergency! I��
The text was incomplete, and I noticed he had sent a location along with the message. I started feeling anxious, sweat forming on my palms. What had happened to River?
He was in danger. River was a good friend of mine. I had to go and save him. I could call Vexon on the way.
But I never realized it was going to be my third mistake.
