Chapter 32: Bruised Ego

The phone call took fifteen minutes.

Athena made sure of that.

She smiled when she saw Fiona’s red scrunched face and hard eyes, when she noticed Fiona’s quaking limbs.

She wondered if she should fake a call, maybe stretch it for twenty minutes, to see how long Fiona’s facade would last.

Fifteen minutes didn’t seem long enough again.

After all, hadn’t she knelt for hours in the rain, under the strict orders of Fiona and her mother?

So, she had the right to make another long call!

However, she had some work to do. She also had to pick her children from school.

"How are you feeling, Fiona?"

Fiona stamped down the urge to flare and cuss. She rather sighed, as if she was near the gates of death.

"Athena, I feel sick, to be honest. I’m sorry for kneeling in the first place. I should have asked for your permission. Can I stand? I think I will die if I stay in this position longer."

She placed her shaking hands on Athena’s table as she spoke.

When Athena glared at her, she took it down.

"Please, Athena, I’m sorry. Have mercy on me, please. Forgive me of my wrong behaviors. I had only been an overzealous youth then..."

"So, you are a mature woman now?"

Fiona bobbed her head.

"So why did you cause a ruckus the last time you were here?"

Fiona stayed silent, having no defense anymore.

Instead, she started sobbing very loudly, a few seconds later.

Athena was mildly startled at the swift change of events.

She snickered when a knock sounded on her door, and Ciara popped her head in.

"The doctors complain that the woman is noisy."

"Did you hear her, Fiona? You are noisy. You shouldn’t be that, especially when you are seeking a favor."

"I’m sorry for that." Still

head in derision, and closed the

I have heard you. I have received your gifts and flowers too. Let the past remain in the past." Athena finally spoke, tired of the charade. She had work to

back a smile of victory. "So, will you treat my

faint, but she needed Athena’s

I already agreed with Ewan after all,

herself to fall to a sitting position on the

say?" She

from

weren’t

were tears borne out of deep anger and

a reply, knowing how crazy that would make

She was right.

at Athena’s

with her eyes, for a weapon, any weapon at all, to end Athena’s

her phone rang

It was her father.

her mission. She already knew why

the latter was already going

know what to

call and got up on her feet, as she bowed to Athena

she turned to look at Athena. Her nemesis was still poring over her

you coming to treat my

I want." Athena

runs out. You have to come as

to another sick person. Go away,

promised..." Fiona tried again, through gritted teeth, knowing that if her mother died, her father would be too grieved to partake

will come. Now, go. Don’t make

then how things

to begging for mercy from the

of Athena’s upcoming death, and walked away from the

pillar, opened her bag, and brought out a

knelt for more

a sarcastic laugh, before placing the cigarette on

went through worse,

different torture

fantasy brought a smile to her face, and an energy for the next phase of a plan that just

Ewan, she

couldn’t kill the latter now, she will work

cigarette under her shoe, hailed a cab and headed to Ewan’s

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