💘Unattainable
Perfection💘
©Eliza
Episode 23
***** ALEXA’S POV.
I’m trembling.
I bite down on my l!pha-rd till I taste blood, hoping it’ll help st©p my trembling but it just keeps getting worse.
I blink,trying ha-rd to keep my tears abay.
I stare at William and then at the woman in the wheelchair.
I feel like I’ve met her before, but I can’t recall. I just can’t renember anything especially with the fact that she’s currently howling insults and throwing stones at me.
. I don’t bother to save myself.
Maybe, just maybe I deserve it.
But why? That’s the question I can’t seem to get an answer to.
Why is she accusing me of being the reason for her current condition? I don’t know yet I feel a pang of guilt hit me and I can’t pinpoint exactly what the matter is.
“Do you know her Alexa?”
William questions and I keep my mouth shut.
What am I supposed to tell him? That I don’t know her yet I feel like I know her? It’s like I’m caught between a rock and a ha-rd place.
To stay on safer side, I just keep .my mouth shut.
“Alexa?”
William calls out again,obviously expecting an answer.
An answer that I dont even have.
“What are you still doing here? Get her out of here! Go!!”
The woman continues to scream throwing every object she could pick from the ground at me.
“Mother what’s going on? plea-se st©p hurting her. She’s my boss,I work for her”
William tries to speak
“A witch! She’s a witch! Its all her fault!”
She screams back.
“I don’t un-derstand mother
. What..”
“She’s the one who hit me!”
She yells and my eyes wi-dens in shock.
I didn’t nee-d to look at William to know the look on his face mirrored mine.
“She’s the girl who run me over and left me to bleed and die on that lonely road. It’s her William! Tell her to leave this instant!”
At her outbur-st,William slowly turns to face me while I dre-ad what’s going to happen next.
“Is. That. True?”
His voice was slow,precise and dangerously low ma-king me cower in fear.
I grip my purse ti-ghtly and gulp.
“Is. That. True?!”
He shouts this time and I flin-ch.
I gulp again.
“William… Umm. I.. I don’t know.. I.. Can’t..”
He cuts me off with a sadistic laughter.
“You don’t know? You run my mother over and you don’t know? Wow Alexandra Wallace, you’re such a gem aren’t you?”
He sneers,tears building up his eyes. I reach out to t©uçh him.
“Will I …”.
“Get your fv¢king hands off me you lying bit-ch!”
He growls and I whimper at the insult.
He goes on to say more but was interrupted when Mr Dante walks towards us.
I forgot he was waiting in the car.
“Anything the matter?”
He asks looking between Will and I.
“No. Everything is okay”
I plaster a fake smile on my face.
“Yes. Everything is okay. Perfectly okay”
William repeats and I don’t miss the double meaning behind his words.
“I thought you said you were going to get some clothes?”
“Ugh no. My clothes no longer fit me so I think I’ll just buy new ones on the way”
he lies.
Mr Dante looks suspicious for a minute but then he sighs and decides to let the matter go.
“Very well then. Shall we? We nee-d to arrive before sunrise”
“Sure”
William answers and goes to hvg His mother.
He whispers something into her ear and her eyes fli-cks to meet mine for a split second.
After a while, he pu-lls away.
“I’ll call you mother. I promise”
he says finally and she nods,her eyes still on me.
I turn and follow Mr Dante into the car while William gets into the drivers seat.
I see him grip the steering wheel so ha-rd his knuckles turn pale.
I sigh.
The rest of the days ahead are going to be dark days for me.
I just know it.
****
Following the GPS, the car finally Comes to a halt after ma-king so many st©ps to get some rest.
Its probably one am now.
I look up and realise we’re in front of a beach house.
Though it’s very dark, I can still see it’s magnificent beauty.
Sounds of sea waves fill my ears as the breeze b!ows over my face and I sigh in contentment.
I didn’t even get to say goodbye to Lydia and Sophie.
I hear shuffling behind me and I turn to see William unpacking the luggage, mostly mine.
He doesn’t make eye contact as he brushes past me.
He never even tried to make little conversations with me like how he did when he started working for me.
He comes out later and st©ps.
“Well this is where I leave. I would have stayed but something urgent c@m£ up. So I nee-d to return before sunrise. I’ll come back with more groceries. For now,the food in there is enough to last a day for the both of you. And William, I’ll arrange for your admission tomorrow itself so you can begin the online clas-ses as soon as possible. I’m sorry for dragging you into this mess but at the moment,I trust only you to protect her. It’s only for a short while. I’ll increase your salary in two folds as well and get you a doctor to come check up on you”
Mr Dante briefs us.
“I’m glad to be of help. I knew what I was getting myself into when I applied to work for such a powerful family.”
William answers in a flat tone.
“Good. Get some sleep. I’ll leave with the car and return it. And don’t worry, I’ll take care of Fraser and Marcus”
he tells me as he sli-ps into the car and I nod.
I watch as he drives away leaving William and I alone.
As soon as he was out of sight, William turns and marches into the house.
I follow him to the kitchen to find him drinking a glas-s of milk.
We have to talk.. I know he nee-ds answers. I too nee-d some answers. Taking slow steps,I close the distance between us.
“William, can we talk?”
I whisper.
All I get in return is silence..
“William,plea-se. Hear me out”
I try again. I notice his grip on the glas-s ti-ght£ñ as he keeps drinking.. I know he’s this close to snapping.
“William..”
I was cut off this time by a thun-derous growl as william pushes me away harshly and smashes the glas-s onto the kitchen wall.. I fall.
I whimper as the glas-s shatters and crawl away from him as he advances towards me.
His eyes, dark and lethal. Without a word, William reaches for his moustache and tugs on it f0rç£fully until it comes off,revea-ling his face.
I g@sp.
I watch on as he opens his eyes wi-de enough and insers his f!ngerson the pupil.
To my horror, he pu-lls out something from his eyes revea-ling his brown eyes.
That’s when I realise.
He was wearing fake moustache and contact lenses to change his original eye color all this while. Those eyes.
Mr cutie.
William. William Wilson. Fear grips me.
“Remember me Alexa?”
He finally pu-lls off his beard revea-ling his clean shaven face and I g@sp again.
“Wi..William… Y..you..”
I stutter.
Shock paralysing Me completely.
It was William Wilson.
Mr cutie.
My driver.
William Wilson and William Gordon are the same person.
“W..William”
“You bit-ch!”
He growls and grips my hair.
I yell in pain.
“You singlehandedly destroyed me! You imprisoned me for something I didn’t do ma-king me lose my admission! Because of you I’ll forever be known as the ex convict who attem-pted to r*pe a rich man’s daughter. Because of you, I was stabbe-d in prison and left to die! And now it turns out, it’s because of you my mother has been confined to a wheelchair and without a surgery she’ll remain a cripple!”
He shouts in my face and I whimper.
Tears building up in my eyes.
“William. I… I swear I can’t remember.. I’m..I’m.sorry.. Your.. Mother…”
I stutter hopelessly
“Don’t you mention her name with your filthy mouth! I told you didn’t I? I told you to watch your back and that the day I get re-leased I’ll come haunting for you? You thought I was bluffing yet here I am. You’ve done so many things to me Alexandra. The most unforgivable was hitting my mother and leaving her to bleed to death! You’re a heartless br@t! You disgust me! I fv¢king hate you! I curse the day I met you!”
He spits in my face gripping my hair ti-ghtly.. I try desperately to crawl away from him but he drags me back harshly.
I gr0@nwhen a broken glas-s pierces my th!gh drawing out blood.
I fearfully look up at him, re-ady to plead for forgiveness,for my life but all I could see was a different person.
He looked Like a monster re-ady to devour me.
He gr-abs my chin and f0rç£s me look him in the eye.
“It’s just you and I now Alexa, in a beach house, in a deserted place, far away from everyone. I swear to God I’ll hurt you. I’ll hurt you so badly you’ll beg for your life. For as long as we remain here I’ll make your life a living hell!”
A lone tear Cascades down my cheeks and he wipes it.
“Tsk tsk tsk baby doll. Don’t cry. Trust me, you’ll nee-d a lot of tears to shed later. You’ll pay. You’ll pay for falsely accusing me. You’ll pay for trying to get me killed…”
What?. Me? Get him killed?
“William what are you…”
He cuts me off again, gr-abbing my arm. I wince
“And lastly, you’ll pay for what you did to my mother. I swear you will”
“Y. You’re hurting me Will… plea-se”
I sob.
He just laughs.
A narcissistic and sadistic laughter.
“I just started baby doll”
he says and begins to t©uçh me.
“Remember how you accused me of attem-pted r*pe? How about I commit the crime for real this time hmm?”
Instinctively, I beguyn to kick him repeatedly, crawling away from him.
No,no,no! He pins me to the floor, gr-abs my dress and rips it ap@rt.
Leaving Me in just my br@ and un-derwear.
I cover my che-st with my arms as I shake with fear and sobs.
You can’t let him r*pe me God.
plea-se let me prove my innocence.
. Don’t let him hurt me dear Lord.
“William plea-se. Don’t hurt me. Not this. Don’t do this,plea-se. Have mercy”
I plead but his eyes held no mercy.. Only anger.
Fury.
“For months I nursed this hatred I have for you. I did. But the final b!ow was me finding out what you did to my mother. You’ll pay! How dare you hit her and run away! Don’t you know she’s the most important person in my life? Huh!”
He sneers, hovering over me.
I curl myself into a ball, trying to get out of his grip, yet I gsil miserably.
I’m too weak.
I’m just a psier compared to his strong build.
“Today I’ll make you scream. I’ll commit the crime you accused me of. For real this time!”
William gr-abs me f0rç£fully, gr-abs and then rips my br@ open.
“Nooooo!!!”