Chapter 2 Betrayal

“No” Selene asked again thinking she had actually heard wrong.

“I said no” Dante answered,

She suddenly stood up and noticed his eyes weren’t on her but it was rather on Cassandra, she watched him walk away from her and towards Cassandra.

He went down on one knees and pulled out his ring from his pocket,

“Cassandra, I have been meaning to ask you for a long time, will you marry me?” He said loudly.

Selene was completely frozen gazing at them, she couldn’t possibly believe that he had left her to propose to her cousin.

A man she loved with her whole heart had rejected her and proposed to her cousin.

“Dante, what are you doing?” She went to him and pulled him to look at her.

“What does it look like to you?” Dante harshly answered her.

“Yes, I will marry you” Cassandra beamed happily allowing him to put the ring on her finger.

“Dante you cannot do this to me, you cannot propose to her” she yelled at him hurt and broken.

Selene had never expected that he would turn her down or do such a thing.

“He just did” Cassandra answered waving the Diamond ring at her,

“I had told you, you were wasting your time” She added with a smile.

“You bitch, you stole my man from me” Selene grabbed her by the hair but Dante pushed her off Cassandra throwing her to the ground.

“Dante” Selene called his name shocked.

“Don’t you dare touch her again or I will kill you” he strictly warned her, Selene was dumbstruck, she didn’t know what to do or react.

‘Was he really speaking to her that way’ she thought to herself.

“Dante, it’s me Selene” she stated standing up.

She thought maybe he had mistaken her and most have probably been hit in the head.

“I know exactly who you are, do you think I am going to stick with a woman who doesn’t have a name for herself, you are nothing to me Selene but a cheap slut who would give herself for money” he lashed out on her while holding Cassandra’s hand.

Selene didn’t know when a tear drop rolled from her eyes, she doubted if it was her he was referring to as a cheap slut.

“How can you say that to me after all that I have done for you”

“Done for me, more like I have done for you.

I have been taking care of your family for a while now and the least you can do is remain a loyal slut for me to get down with but you had the guts to cheat on me.

Why?

So that your poor and wretched family can be more rich with that business you gave your body to” He said and Selene got hurt the more.

It was true that her family lived off his money and she had quit her job because of him but he didn’t have to act like all her family did was leech off him.

“I would never cheat on you” she broke down.

“You can tell that to yourself you whore” he reworded.

“Dante believe me I would never cheat on you, you know how much I love you and I know you love me too” she pleaded.

“Love you?, do you believe that shit, I can never love a whore like you” he gave his last and final words to her taking Cassandra away from her as she just stood there completely humiliated.

Selene could hear rumors from her guests and friends, no one bothered to help her and none of them pitied her,

“Such a tramp”

“I never knew that was what she was doing”

“She is poor and yet she tried to tie him down to her”

She could hear the gossips they said about her and she felt hurt by it, Selene took to her heels running away from there to hear no more of their words.

There was a heavy downfall that night as she walked down her street but Selene was more occupied by the betrayal she had just witnessed than to care about the rain.

A man she loved with all her heart had rejected her and chosen her cousin over her, she felt a tug in her heart broken from it, her heart was broken to a thousand pieces.

Tonight was supposed to be a perfect night for her but it turned out to be the worst night of her life, every one was talking about her and it wouldn’t take long before the media spreads evil news about her.

Selene walked barefooted on the road until she got to her home.

Once she got to her room, she fell down on her knees crying her heart out, she wished the ground could open up and swallow her, the pain was too much for her to handle.

“Just look at you” a female voice said and Selene raised her head to find her mother staring at her in disdain.

“You are a complete disgrace to us, you have not only brought shame upon us but you have stained our family name” her mother said.

If what Dante did to her wasn’t hurtful enough, here her mother was blaming her for something she had suggested to her in the first place.

“What did you say?” She asked furious,

“I said you are a disappointment to this family, just wait until your father is back then you will feel his wrath” Mary relayed to her.

“I am a disappointment, this was your idea in the first place” She yelled back at her mother blaming her.

If she hadn’t insinuated the marriage proposal then she wouldn’t have been humiliated and betrayed by Dante.

It was all her fault that she was going through so much pain and yet she had to blame her for it.

“Where is that useless thing of a child who couldn’t keep a man.

Do you realize what you have cost me” a man yelled just stepping into the house, he flung her door open and grabbed her by the hair, he didn’t care about her wet body before hitting her head on the wall.

“Dad what are you doing?” She asked in terror of seeing her father act that way for the first time to her.

“You made my business partners mad claiming I had a loose daughter, how could you let such a thing happen, how dare you cheat on Dante” he barked at her.

“Dad, it would never do that” Selene defended herself.

Her father had always relied on the Shedrach family for a business deal and today he tried to use his triumph card on Mr Shedrach but all that went to waste when news of his daughter being called a whore reached Shedrach’s ears.

“Shedrach was so close to signing a deal with me when he heard the news, he withdrew, do you know the amount of money you have cost me.

I am about to go bankrupt” he yelled at her.

“What was I supposed to do, he doesn’t want me” Selene said accepting the fact that Dante had rejected her.

“Shut the hell up, you are going to apologize to your boyfriend and beg him to take you back” he ordered her.

“No, I can never do that” she challenged him.

“What did you just say?” He raised his voice at her.

“I can’t go to him” she said putting her head down to avoid his cold gaze.

“Pack her things Mary, she is leaving this house tonight” He ordered.