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."

submissively. "I’m sorry for that." Still weeping.

shook her head in

and flowers too. Let the past remain in the

victory. "So, will you

little faint, but she needed Athena’s

already agreed with Ewan after all,

herself to fall to a sitting position on the floor,

just say?" She murmured, her

from her

they weren’t false, but

borne out of deep anger and hatred, of frustration and

with a reply, knowing how

She was right.

red at Athena’s

through her so much that she searched the office, with her eyes, for a weapon, any weapon at

her phone rang then,

It was her father.

her mission. She already

the latter was already going

to do with

mused intermittently, as she ignored her father’s call and got up on her feet, as she bowed to Athena and wished her well, as she walked out of the office, feeling lesser than she

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

are you coming to treat my

want." Athena didn’t bother looking

were still shaking. "She might die before the week runs out. You have to come as soon as possible." So that I can put

her treatment goes to another sick

knowing that if her mother died,

I said I will come. Now, go.

wondered then how things had degenerated

to begging for mercy

of Athena’s upcoming death, and walked away from

rested on a pillar, opened her bag, and brought out

Fiona Adams, had knelt for more than twenty minutes,

barked out a sarcastic laugh, before placing the cigarette

make sure Athena went

let herself imagine the different torture techniques she will

face, and an energy for the next phase of

Ewan, she would surely treat her mother

kill the latter now, she will work on sowing more tares

under her shoe, hailed

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