199 Say One More Thing, I Dare You!

“Why are you taunting Ella this way, Yvonne?”

Ivory asked as tears fell down her cheek. She knew that at this point, there was no need to deny Ella’s pregnancy. Her sister had verifiable proof. Hence, she started looking for a way to plead with Yvonne to keep her mouth shut.

“You call this taunting?” Yvonne chuckled wickedly. “Well, I’m just getting warmed up! By the time I’m done with this gold-digging witch that has had my brother under her evil spell for this long, she will be forced to crawl back to her coven in rags.”

“Yvonne, you’re also a mother and someone else’s sister-in-law. Is this how you were treated by your husband’s family.”

More tears rolled down Ivory’s cheeks.

“Oh, baby sister, I have never seen such a degree of foolishness or disloyalty that you are currently displaying. Is this gold-digging tramp, who has caused your mother countless heartache, worth all this drama? Grow up already! And don’t you dare drag my wonderful husband’s name into this mess.”

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While Ivory kept challenging Yvonne, Ella concentrated on picking up the berries on the floor.

‘These berries were bought and given to me by Nana Esther,’ Ella lamented as more tears rolled down her cheeks. ‘I will not sit still and watch them go to waste.’

Ella picked up the bowl lying on the floor and poured all the berries she had been able to gather into them. Then she continued picking up some more until Yvonne came and stood right before her, blocking her part.

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“Tramp, you are yet to answer my question! Does my brother know about that thing in your womb?”

Yvonne maliciously placed her foot on a berry close to Ella’s hand and slowly squashed it, causing some of the juice to splash on Ella’s face.

“Yvonne, that is wicked!” Ivory yelled at the top of her voice.

Ella on the other hand slowly stood up and dropped the bowl of berries on the couch close by. All her sense of reason flew out of her being and was replaced with poisonous rage.

“Oh, did I hurt your feelings, t...”

SMACK!

SMACK!!

SMACK!!!

Yvonne didn’t get the chance to finish her statement when three face-blinding slaps struck like a lightning bolt on either side of her cheek.

“Ah!” She screeched, staggered backward, and fell on her butt. She instinctively raised her hands to her reddened cheeks as hot tears fell from her watery eyes.

When she slowly turned her stinging face to see who had dared to raise his or her hands on her, she was terrified to see Ella already squatting by her side, scowling like a hungry tigress about to devour a juicy prey.

Ella’s glares were dark and icy and her breathing was heavy and sounded dangerous.

“How does it feel to be on the receiving end, sister-in-law? Say one more thing, I dare you!”

“Oh my goodness!”

Ivory cupped her mouth with both hands. She took a frightened footstep backward and sank into a single couch while watching Ella in astonishment.

She had never seen this other side of Ella and it frightened her greatly. However, she didn’t move a muscle to assist Yvonne. To her, Yvonne had bitten more than she could chew and should therefore dance to the tune of Ella’s fury.

Yvonne on the other hand shook her head in terror. She was too scared of what Ella planned on doing to her.

Ella pointed a finger at Yvonne’s face while spewing out heart-piercing words at her.

“Let this be the first and last time you dare mess with me! I can afford to take bulshit from your mum because she is elderly, but, I won’t take any from you!” Ella spoke between clenched jaw.

“The only reason I don’t have my hands around your throat right now is because you are my husband’s sister. You had no right, nosing around my business or meddling in my private life. Nevertheless, you can go to hell and rot there with your proof and disgusting theories.”

Ella moved her face closer to Yvonne while Yvonne moved backward for fear of what Ella planned on doing to her.

She felt defenseless under Ella’s dangerous glare and she almost screamed out for her mum to come to her rescue.

“Whatever my husband and I do is none of your godamn business!” Ella yelled into Yvonne’s face, bathing her with sprays of saliva.

Yvonne, whose soul had suddenly abandoned her body and fled for safety, trembled as she listened to Ella while nodding like an agama lizard.

All the while, she had mistaken Ella for a fragile weakling who only hid under Leon’s domineering aura. She never knew Ella had such fierceness and boldness in her.

While Ella was still speaking to Yvonne, Marissa walked into the sitting room.

She had been sleeping when Yvonne’s screech woke her up. At first, she assumed that maybe she had heard wrongly. However, when she listened hard and heard Ella’s voice, she decided to check out what was going on in the sitting room.

“My goodness! What is going on here? What are you witch doing to my daughter” Marissa yelled as she ran to rescue Yvonne?

“Stay right there!” Ella boomed in a terrifying tone.

As if struck by lightning, Marissa halted and froze at Ella’s fierceness.

“I have had enough! Anyone who messes with me right now will get it back doubled.”

There was complete silence in the room as Ella spoke.

Marissa was too horrified by Ella’s outburst that she remained speechless.

“E... Ella, p... please!”

Ivory stood up and walked towards Ella, who was already up on her feet.

“Ivory, not this time!” Ella stopped Ivory from coming close. “I need to be by myself for now!”

“Okay!” Ivory replied and ran out of the sitting room into her bedroom, crying.

When Yvonne noticed that Ella was no longer focused on her, she quickly stood up and scurried toward her mother for safety.

“She has lost it, mum! She has lost it! The witch slapped me! She slapped me!” Yvonne started ranting while crying at the same time.

Ella ignored the scared mother and daughter and focused on picking up the remaining berries from the floor. She put them into the bowl she kept on the couch.

Then she turned to Marissa and Yvonne and stared at them one last time, with tears rolling down her cheeks.

“I hate the both of you with all my heart!”

Immediately Ella uttered those last words, a terrifying lightning flashed in the sky followed by a loud roaring thunderclap. Then all the lights in the bungalow instantly went off.